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Sounds like the slave cylinder, my dad had the same on his Leon 184 (same engine/box) and they found fluid in the bell housing where the slave had leaked

Definitely worth going to another garage for inspection etc, no way water in the brake lines would corrode the discs! They didn’t mention anything about the left phalange did they?

Shame the end is controversial, although not surprising given the season we’ve watched. The last championship I remember being that close on the final lap was Hamilton passing Glock in 2008 for the championship in Brazil!

Mine was about 10,000 short but 5 years when I bought it so got the cambelt and water pump done, I would get it changed as I imagine age comes into a factor with the belt. But personally I probably wouldn’t worry if it goes a few months over the 5 years either

That’s interesting to hear as I’ve experienced this delay in the wet on the motorway, a bit scary but giving the pedal a second pump sorted it out

I’ve been surprised at having to top up my 2015 vrs, it’s used approx 1 litre over the 7000 miles I owned it, not excessive but I had a 2010 Leon fr with the 170cr, over 2 years I did 55000 hard miles (it was already on 65000 when I bought it) and I topped the oil up once the whole time, otherwise I never had to touch it between services.

How many miles has it done? Did you have to top up the oil much before the last service? I’d be tempted to give it another oil and filer change to see if that makes any difference

Glad you got it sorted in the end, I had a Golf Gti with the gen1 engine, ended up replacing 2 water pumps (second one within 8k miles under warranty fortunately) and a week after 2 injectors stuck open and had to have them done. Loved the engine but had enough of it being repaired so got rid of it by that point

As far as I know your not going to get extra power from an induction kit on the 2.0 cr engine. There’s a YouTube video Darkside developments did on a Golf GTD with bigger turbo etc and they used the standard air box as they said it was the best option for the engine

I rate Falken azenzis FK510, seem to be rated on some of the tyre tests I’ve watched. Had a set on my old Clio 197, and just replaced the fronts on my Vrs last week with a pair of falkens instantly loads more grip around wet roundabouts than the P zero’s they replaced

Was the car doing this before the manifold and injectors where changed? Maybe worth checking the pipe on the front of the pcv is correctly connected, I had my injectors done and one the way home it started misfiring with erratic idle, when I checked the pipe at the front from the inlet to the pcv it was disconnected, as it’s a bit of a dodgy plastic clip fitting I think it must have not been fully pushed on and had worked loose with the vibrations driving

Oil smelling of petrol isn’t a good thing, I’d be looking at the high pressure fuel pump and injectors to make sure. I had a Mk6 golf gti with the TSI engine and normal oil temp was always 90 plus. I’d be worried petrol is diluting the oil. It was high mileage but had to have the injectors done as 2 got stuck open

My old golf gti did the same, I think generally it’s a trait of the dsg box, I was told one of the signs the mechatronic is failing was a Clunk when stopping and it shifts from 2nd down to 1st gear.

Had my 2015 vrs tdi since august, long distance I get about 50-55mpg, most I’ve seen is about 58mpg but that was really going steady due to slow moving traffic. Reliability wise I had to replace a glow plug. I previously had a 2010 Leon cr170 so similar engine, that was on 66k and I did 50k miles over 2 years in it, only reliability issue I had was the secondary coolant pump failed other that that it gave me no problems

Mine has a slight noise when cold which sounds like a belt turning, no where near as loud as that first video on yours. Cambelt and water pump were changed when I bought the car 5000 miles ago. The 2nd video I can’t hear anything that doesn’t sound the same as mine does. I must admit I don’t think the engine is as refined as my previous 1.6 Honda dtec that was much quieter