KenONeill
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Probably, but I suggest we both back out since the OP isn't sufficiently interested to give us all the relevant information about his problem.
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It needs a full manual inspection, not just a quick look at the readily visible areas. As @HeavyMetalRich suggests, with the additional note that fabric armoured hoses are known to collapse internally whilst remaining visually fine.
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I thought it might be; in which case the most likely diagnosis is bad glow plugs.
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Well, the tray for my Octavia nominally looks identical, but sits like the photo inside a 16x6.5ET42 wheel. I doubt it would fit anything smaller.
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Maybe, since you're not telling whether the engine is hot or cold, or what fuel it uses I don't know if they're valid!
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And neither does a petrol turbo. Do you have an actual point based in gas dynamics?
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No, and I won't be until I have a clear explanation of how it has been implemented on that vehicle. Even then, if it has a proper handbrake rather than an e-handbrake I won't rely on it to hold the car. If you want further explanation, go and count the actual number of "software error" threads there are for cars since 2010.
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@DaveMiller - Yeah, but that explains all my reasons for disliking autohold:- It's using stored energy to "hold the car on the brakes". It's using a computer to do something that should be done by the driver. It's doing something inconsiderate. Exactly what it does has never been properly explained to car owners anyway.
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Well, it may be heat soak (particularly if you have a remap). Try Swiss cheesing the right hand wheel arch liner behind the intercooler if a standard SMIC.
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That could well be your answer with plasma discharge units.
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No; this is pretty much instantaneous when you turn the charger on. It is a chemical reaction after all.
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@briscaF1 Well, apparently a failed HLBL is only an advisory at your MoT station; go there again!! Try this; foot brake on as hard as you can push it with the engine running. Now apply the hand brake and it should be several clicks lower.
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@GUESTY - A tattoo parlour?
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That is correct on the 1.2tsi but misleading in that the water pump on the 1.8T and 1.9TDi engines, whilst driven by the cambelt, is not part of the cambelt kit.
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Well, Grant Shapps actually. Specifically GS appearing on the BBC and denying that there is a fuel shortage (where the fuel needs to be) "because it only takes 10 week to get an LGV test (well, he actually said "HGV" but that's wrong). I can think of 3 specific issues with this:- You don't just need an LGV licence to drive fuel tankers, you need a trailer licence as well, which is a second test. You need a Driver CPC, and that applies to anything over 7.5T GVW, not just tankers and/or trailers, which is another week. You need a Petrol Regulations certificate to drive fuel tankers. You need an LGV licence to even do your PetRegs course. Now, unless you can get in the queues for all of these in consecutive weeks, I make that more like 22 weeks. And yes, I would have expected the Minister for Transport to know this before being interviewed about "the driver shortage". Actually, I would also have expected a journalist who was interviewing him to know this.
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Well, for me the best thing about W8 is that I've never had to use it
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Maybe an upholsterer's tape or real Tank Tape (brand name).
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There is this device called a "handbrake"...
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Or you could ask them if they think it's necessary. There are formal tests of rock amplitude, but they're not part of the MoT.
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That should do it; the one time I saw this the battery was clear-sided and you could both see and hear the gas being evolved when we applied current from a 3AH trickle charger.
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Well, after wasting 2 minutes of my life, he'd not even spoken once.
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Well, that tells me that your knowledge of storing volatile liquids is less than zero!
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This has me wondering if this battery has a bad cell. Is there any sign of one of the cells "boiling" when it's on charge?
