Inoffski

As far as I know - he gets all his parts from the local TPS place

Can't help you with the dog guard other to recommend having a look at Lintran dog crates. We have one in our Superb, and being solid other than mesh doors an a mesh panel at the front of the crate,it helps protect the whole interior of the car. We have 3 Springer Spaniel mud magnets that travel in there Our car is nearly 5 years old now, and when I take the crate out of the car it is still like new in the boot. Learned that lesson the hard way - our previous Superb was only 3 hours old when one of our old springers left a nice ring of fox poo around the boot of the car after an unseen rolling session and subsequent shake in the boot!!

Had the self same light come on on mine - took it to my local independent VAG specialist and sure enough it was a glow plug that had gone - all done for just over £100

Could be that you have had a glow plug go down

The mechanic did mention that hey are a 'variable' pump fitted, which only starts to operate once the coolant gets up to a certain temperature, which would fit in with this. I do think I have found a very reasonable and more importantly trustworthy place to have my car done though - just this week had a diagnostics and glow plug replaced for £107!

No no mention at all about an 'electronic' pump