briskycat

Speaking of impatient sods...

Yes, AFAIK, Audi's 2.0TFSI engines were the first to exhibit this issue. Then VAG made several unsuccessful attempts to rectify it until they finally introduced a trouble-free revision of pistons in autumn of 2011.

I sneaked it from this thread on a Russian forum. It describes several other common problems of this engine in addition to the one you have. Apparently, VAG has issued a bulletin on this, but I have never seen it.

If the engine number is less than CDA_221245 then the original pistons (06H 107 065 BS) must be replaced (together with connecting rods) with 06H 107 065 BK.

In my experience, such exercises never go without losses. And they did damage the front bumper...

Did this mod yesterday on my new Yeti and it worked. I want to stress that I don’t have electric seats. But it did take me time to enable this mod because many conditions have to be met for it to work: - Passenger door coding (52 - Door Elect, Pass.) must be changed: lower eight bits of Byte 4 must be set to hexadecimal C (or 4 in some cases), in my case I had to change byte 4 from 50 to 5C; - 09 - Cent Elec coding must also be changed as mentioned in the quote; - after that, it is essential to go into Settings in Maxidot and tick the mark against “Mirror down” in the Convenience settings; - then do not forget to set the mirror adjustment knob to “L” or “R” (the opposite to the side on which the steering wheel is). Only when all the above is met will the passenger mirror tilt after engaging reverse gear.

Most of the EA888 engines manufactured until circa October-November 2011 have this thirst for oil. It is a design issue. VW wanted to make an engine that would burn as little oil as possible. So they employed very thin piston rings, but that made the rings overloaded and led to the opposite of what they had hoped for. After several revisions of pistons and piston rings, they ended up with more or less classical design. And as far as I know, Skoda customers were not the ones that suffered most. These engines come from Audi, so Audi customers were the first to make this unpleasant discovery.

Isn't it spam? Looks strange when officials advertise a commercial product.

Came across this curious footage the other day:

I am not sure which way would have been better (I saw videos on youtube where both parties decided to hit the verge in such situation) but what really annoyed me was the fact that he didn't even seem to think of stopping.

I have managed to enable switching off ESP on a 2016 model year Yeti with a 1K0 907 379 CB ABS module. It has 20 bytes long coding instead of 19 bytes for the previous ABS modules. For such a module the last byte is responsible for controlling the behavior of the ASR OFF button (or whatever the button with a car leaving zigzag traces is called). In my case the original coding was 91 3F 40 0E 09 22 01 FC 89 12 02 EC 90 22 80 49 A0 00 00 23. To enable switching ESP off I had to set bits 6 and 4 in the last byte to 1 giving the 91 3F 40 0E 09 22 01 FC 89 12 02 EC 90 22 80 49 A0 00 00 73 coding (bit values in the last byte are 01110011). Setting only the bit 6 results in switching ESP to a “sports mode” on a short press and disabling it completely on a long one. Setting only bit 4 results in an invalid coding. Thanks to LasseTheDude for discovering this.

Not-so-new Seat Tiguan, indeed...

Does it look too profound to you?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-find-a-link-between-low-intelligence-and-acceptance-of-pseudo-profound-bulls-a6757731.html They also scientifically define the concept of BS there