Taliska

Just went outside and tried it.... Well - I failed the first time using just the remote, then reread your post and tried it with the key in the door lock - and it worked. Blow me down. Wasn't brave enough to see if the global down function worked in case I couldn't get the driver's window back up again - would have been embarrassing or what! I've never come across this feature - primarily because I never stick the key in the door... I recall saying that in the first few months of having the car that I was discovering new features all the time, and here we are 9 years later and another one pops up! :-) Cheers - will test the global up and down ... after I've fixed the wiring!! I'll then know what to try when the next wiring fault appears. (Think that one of the wires to the speakers in the back door has also gone - will look at that one too, I guess.) Cheers, Taliska

'Global closing' - I can guess what this is, but I guess you might be about to teach me something I don't know about my car that I've had for over 9 years... So how do you make all the windows go up at once? Thanks, Taliska

Seems that I have the same problem now. Windows can go down, but won't go up from the driver's door controls.The other three windows will go up using their own switches. Decided to do a bit of advanced fault finding this evening: using the driver's controls I wound passenger window down and up again, then really wiggled the driver's door wires quite hard, now the passenger's doesn't go up except by its own switch. (Have now put tape over the controls on the driver's door so that I can't wind mine down and not get it back up again.) Has to be the wires in the door hinge, doesn't it? Taliska

Ok, so the old gal (2003 115 TDI vintage) is now 150+ and has just had the injector wiring loom replaced as a cylinder occasionally dropped out. I've recently noticed this tendency for her to wobble sideways at the front end when accelerating with heavy loads or up steep hills (i.e. when the engine needs to work a bit harder than usual). Any ideas anyone? Thanks, Taliska

Hi, Just did the same thing myself accidentally not so long ago. You can get VAG-COM lead from eBay for about

Hi, Could anyone point me in the direction of the speed sender on a 1.9 TDI 115 Galaxy MkII, please... Have the bonnet up at the moment. Cheers! Taliska

Thanks guys for the info! Pretty sure the garage (not Ford) have damaged it while trying to get to the Speed Sender. Taliska

While looking under the bonnet I noticed that the aircon hose between the compressor and the condenser was snapped in half near the condenser end. How on earth that happened I cannot imagine - it's a metal pipe at that point! Question is: what else might that have taken out with it as there's absolutely no gas in the system now. Taliska

Well that didn't help, but filling it up with fuel shut it up nicely. Now to follow the instrument removal cluster instructions... Taliska

Just done the easy thing first - disconnected the battery for 30 seconds, and then reattached it... The battery's reading 12.5 volts so I guess that's still okay. Will go on a drive to see if it's working - possibly by the petrol station as it was showing 547 miles on the tank. Taliska

Aarrgghh! Mine's just started to do this this morning! At first it was slightly amusing, but now it's simply boring. Fuel light coming on and off every few seconds, and the speedo sometimes not working. Average consumption reading about the 6 MPG mark. Dull, dull, dull... Looks like time to get a replacement instrument cluster. Taliska

It's a MkII - 53 plate. I've never quite got round to getting a VAG-COM unit...

Flipping heck, nearly engulfed the whole village in clouds of smoke this morning... Figured it had to be the Auxiliary Heater, so pulled the fuse and did another run around whilst the morning was cold, and no more smoke... Any ideas as to which bits of the Auxiliary Heater to change? Also, I don't recall hearing the jet engine noise at all. Thanks in advance, Taliska

Now that is quite a mileage indeed! Do you buy drop-links in bulk? The question is: do you still enjoy driving the car? Taliska

Fixed the dratted rattle by the glovebox - knew the Araldite would come in useful again sometime. Case of overfilled glovebox bening slammed too hard and breaking the plastic round the lower screwhole on the left side. Couldn't figure out what was wrong with the wipers after taking the front part of the car apart... still work after fiddling, so not all bad news. Taliska