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rum4mo

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    B8 S4 3.0TFSI + 6R C0 Polo 1.2TSI 110
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    2015

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  1. My wife had a 2002 VW Polo with that engine (and rear disc brakes), its brakes, from new, never felt adequate, then she bought a new VW Polo 1.2TSI 110PS and it has 288mm front discs (and rear disc brakes), the brakes in that 2015 Polo feel adequate! Incidentally, my 2000 VW Passat 4Motion had these same 288mm front brakes, and they never felt adequate in that car, the facelifted version of that Passat, I think, got bigger front brakes - not before time!
  2. I always change the brake fluid on our family’s cars, but tend to use the “plastic slave/secondary cylinder” as a good enough reason not to bother with the clutch leg fluid. Obviously there will be a slight equalising of moisture content between the.fresh fluid and the old fluid in the clutch fluid leg - so the clutch leg fluid will very slightly hand over some of its moisture, which is good enough for me. One day/year,I will draw some out of the clutch legs and see what it looks like - maybe.
  3. I think that all the interior lights get switched off when the associated controller "goes to sleep" maybe 20 minutes (or less) after the ignition has been switched off - certainly the normal interior lights get switched off after a short time, even if a door is left open. I would make a lot of sense if the map lights get switched off after the doors are closed and the car gets locked - like the normal interior lights. Just something to nag you while you are away!
  4. One thing to always include in your "looking around" when faced with an electrical issue concerning a issue with the rear hatch, will be the area of wring within the conduit between the body and the rear hatch. I'm still waiting for any of our VW Group cars from 2000 onwards to hit me with that sort of issue, I've had it with Ford Fiestas in the past and my mate's SAAB 900s, hopefully I'll stay lucky!
  5. @FabiaDrive125, now your next task will be to understand or "get to grip" with finding your way around this manual - it will be worth it though. I still get a bit confused and annoyed when I need to use any of the VW Group official workshop manuals, it is their description of the "area" that you need to move across to at times. All good stuff though, it is just the "VW Group" way - maybe the Skoda manuals are easier to use than the Audi or VW or SEAT ones - but I'd doubt it. Edit:- I seem to remember that once I had saved it on an external drive, I then saved another copy and removed as much of the "not for my car" sections including all covering earlier versions of my cars or later versions where relevant.
  6. I'm old enough to have started working on cars at home before these "fancy" brake callipers appeared requiring the user to have a 7mm allen key to remove them, typical "home use" allen key kits had 6mm and 8mm - 7mm did not regularly exist in basic allen key sets. So, it was a case of "it's not a 6mm" grabbed the 8mm "its not an 8mm"! Followed the next day to a lunchtime trip to a very local to my workplace, welding supplies shop, that solved that tool problem. A 7mm allen key or hex bit would fit these bolts perfectly once the car is quite a few years old, but once you had applied a bit of effort the accumulated rust curd would break and the 7mm allen key or hex bit would rotate freely! Edit:- I'll be happy enough if I can get the discs out>in without removing these bolts, I've never found that to be the case in the past on other cars, but many people do find it possible to do - even my mate had to take them out on his son's old 2011 Audi A3 1.6 - and he is not a person to freely remove bolts just to make life easier - so I live in hope for this 2015 Polo!
  7. easymanuals.co.uk works for me, they just probably grab manuals from the VW Group source, ie erWin and sell them on, or you could reg with erWin and buy an hour to download the latest version for your car, a bit more work, but you'd end up with the latest version for your car. From memory, easymanuals sells you a copy in 2 or 3 forms, so that means, a download or a USB stick with the same on it, or maybe even on a DVD - though I'm not sure if the 3rd option exists.
  8. I've had and used a Disklok for over 10 years, I'd rather not need to mess around with that sort of thing, but as long as there are nasty people willing to take your car away, I'll continue to feel the need to use it when away from "home territory", my own car is a 2011 Audi S4 and it seems even now some people like to grab them even ones of that age, which is a bit annoying and surprising. One really good thing about using my wife's 2015 Polo 1.2TSI is that it tends to get overlooked, well so far, so parking it in town is easier and causes less worry than using my car, and if taken it would be easier to replace. If you are concerned about having a keyless system in your car, buying and using a Disklok is a good plan, none of our cars have keyless system, I've also fitted a physical OBD2 barrier/blocker to avoid someone reaching in and plugging in a bit of kit to generate a new key, although you can also just remove a fuse that provides a 12V supply to that OBD2 port, which nasty people to power up their kit when generating a new key - it seems. Doing that works best on cars that have fuseboxes at the ends of the dash area as these get protected by the dead locked side doors. Really, I suppose all I'm trying to do, at least with my own car, is to hope the Disklok is spotted and they move onto some other poor sucker's less protected car, I have sort of missed a trick when buying that Disklok as I opted for the standard sliver painted version - at one time there was the option to buy a bright yellow version, logic to me suggests that that version would have been the smarter buy, but I think now that lack of interest in the bright yellow one means that only the silver painted version gets made and sold.
  9. These rear calliper bracket bolts should get replaced as they are first torqued to a set figure then an additional angle of extra tightening applied. I'm guessing that @nta16 accidentally said "H7" for the rear calliper bracket as it is "H7" for the front guide pins, I agree with you that these rear calliper carrier bolts are in deed "H8" ie 8mm hex bit required, I have this job to do very soon on my wife's August 2015 Polo 1.2TSI 110 as sadly I ignored my own advice about cleaning up the brakes every year after a car's 6th birthday (every 2 years is good enough up to and including the 6 year point where I live and use a car), so at the 18 month since the last brake clean up, the offside rear has started to stick/seize a bit and has reduced the friction material down to 4mm where the other side is still 6>8mm. So it is time to fit new pads and also the heavily ridged discs after 8.5 years 48,000 miles. Strangely, maybe, there was absolutely no evidence of the ceramic brake grease that I use, left after 18 months, so maybe that brand of ceramic brake grease has poor adhesion or "water/wash resistance" - I didn't expect that! The offside rear brake that was slightly gripping took quite a bit of levering to remove, the still free running nearside was as easy as usual to remove. One other thing that I had forgotten, again after advising my mate about this is, if you tend to buy your car service bits from ECP, before doing that, check up on the Halfords website as I could have saved roughly £10 when buying the exact same Pagid parts - the only issue for someone that has taken the brakes apart before sourcing parts can be with Halfords, needing to wait a couple of day until the discs and/or callipers arrived at your local branch - I've added the callipers into this, just in case I need to replace that one if I find that it is seized, ie corroded piston - the saving for "same brand" rear callipers from Halfords is even better when compared with ECP - but if the car is already in bits and is needed back on the road ASAP, then ECP at least for me would work out as being where to drive to that day and return with the new calliper. This is just intended as maybe useful info for anyone that is about to do this job.
  10. @nta16, you need to edit your previous posting - your first part of covering coin cell dimensions, before the "hounds" come at/for you!
  11. Just a bit of additional (unnecessary) info on fuse types, the fuse type that can get called "standard" and also named ATO by Littelfuse, who first brought them to the market, the "O" means "open" as in the fuse element is exposed, there is another version of "standard" fuses called ATC and the "C" means "closed" as in the fuse element is covered- I only found that out when I Googled "ATO" to make sure that I had quoted the correct term - so that explains why some of these "standard" fuses, in VW Group cars anyway, are either "open" or "closed" with probably no logic as to why both can exist in a new car from the factory - a supplier related issue maybe.
  12. Yes, I tend to either roll the car forward "half a wheel rotation" then get the areas missed during the initial washing - or hope to park it after being out in it, with the front wheels in a different position - the first option works best! Edit:- removed an "out" !
  13. If the battery is an EFB, why don’t you run the “reconditioning” charging program. I’ve done that once a year on the original EFB in my wife’s 2015 Polo 1.2TSI and and it does improve the battery’s health - ie its CCA as measured using a CTek battery tester. To be honest, I’m almost annoyed how well this original, ie factory fitted Exide EFB is behaving 49k miles and 8.5 years from new, but in reality, a car’s battery life tends to be linked to how a car gets used - not intended as a criticism, just the way it is.
  14. Maybe a better plan would be to check the fuse boxes and see which sizes of each fuse are being used on that car, both of the sizes you mentioned will be in there as well as another version, ie ATO, MINI and JCASE I've found Halfords and many other car parts outlets stock supplies of car fuses. In my wife's August 2015 VW Polo 1.2TSI 110PS 6MT, the "12V Power Outlet" fuse is a 20amp ATO.
  15. My wife's 2015 VW Polo 1.2TSI 110PS uses 15" 6R, ie slightly earlier than her 6C Polo, VW alloys in winter and they clear the 288mm front brakes, I think that your 2017 1.0TSI 110PS Fabia will have 288mm front brake discs, or even the newer slightly smaller front discs, so that means that if you buy a genuine VW Group alloy, it will clear the brakes on your car.
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