Crasher

The first time I did a code read on this platform, a Golf 8, I went in and got a "security warning" or something along those lines and I thought WTF is that? Then I found you have to open the bonnet! This is to stop someone hacking your car whilst driving as you wouldn't drive with the bonnet open, hopefully!

To do the rear pads on the Octavia NX, you need GEKO security clearance, ODIS on a laptop with a 61XX dongle (mine is a 6154), be registered with the VW Group Retail Portal and an authenticator app to generate a one time only 30 second valid login code using TOTP (Two Factor Authentication) to generate a one time access code to log into ODIS under SFD (Security For Diagnose), no, I kid you not!

Yes, shared bathing.

I say never top up, always establish why. Brake fluid level drops due to a leak or pad/disc wear and nothing else unless it was incorrectly set in the past.

What is the VIN?

I have struggled to get VCDS to dial in the clearances and had to use ODIS but the function has reportedly been upgraded.

A few years ago I showed Mrs Crasher some YouTube runaway video’s as we had a car come in that had suffered such an event and the engine quite literally fragged itself. A few weeks later she called and said a neighbour had been driving by in her 3 series when it ran away. She dumped it outside our house and then did one up the road, Mrs Crasher grabbed the cat and hid in the kitchen at the back of the house.

3Q0 513 049 JD £407.72, nothing listed aftermarket.

Don’t do it, the DPF will not like it.

They snap their turbine spindle with makes the compressor wheel fall off and allow oil from the turbo into the charge air system and they run away. Only experienced it once, new underwear required.

I hadn’t noticed you had included the reg as I could have used that. Rear dampers 3Q0 513 049 FN £119.00 Also Use According to Repair Instructions N 106 283 01 Hex collared bolt £5.05 N 101 064 02 Hexagon collar nut self-locking £2.30 WHT 007 127 hexagon nut, self-locking £2.05 N 906 484 02 hexagon head bolt (combi) £3.30 x 2 The Monroe 376246SP is an easily available top quality alternative. Front discs 5Q0 615 301 F 312x25 £87.10 but lots of excellent aftermarket choices, Pagid for us but you will need to be quick, ECP only have 11029 left… Front pads 5Q0 698 151 AH £87.20 Rear discs 3Q0 615 601 A 300x12 £76.20 Rear pads 3Q0 698 451 L £75.30 All prices are VAG retail plus VAT.

Certainly, post or PM the VIN.

There is no way I would get rid of my 1U5 VRS for a 5E or anything else for that matter, well maybe an Arnarge T but that’s about it!

I tried the repair kit, money down the drain; we only fit genuine new mechs to the DQ200 now.

What is the VIN? I have to admit to being a 1U5 fanatic, I did a full recon on an ASV in a very loved L&K last Xmas and thoroughly enjoyed it even though I lost thousands of £’s doing it.

Did you fit Bilstein B4’s at the back and was the noise there before? Springs for yours are hard to find, which make did you use? Yes Eicach Sportline’s with Koni’s and full Powerflex on 18’s is harsh.

Also standard 4M rear springs are very prone to subtlety snapping at the bottom and clanking their coil together.

Awesome project, I seriously considered converting my 1U VRS to AWD but the chassis work involved put me off. It really needs it though as a stage 2 APR remap alone has it scrabbling for grip. The PQ34 4Motion rear end is prone to damper knocking and we have had great results across all PQ34 cars using the KONI Active. My car has them all round with Eibach springs.

The immobiliser reader coil is the ring around the top of the barrel at the opposite end to the switch. You can’t buy these on their own, they come with a new barrels and to keep your single key operation these are a VIN dependent special order Vehicle Intelligent Part and take about two weeks to come through. However, if you buy a barrel with new unmatched key off the shelf, it is possible to VERY carefully push the reader coil off the new barrel and fit it to the original barrel once you have removed the old one.

The Yuasa 3000 is OK, the 5000 and 9000 are absolutely dire, the 5000 is THE most unreliable battery we have ever fitted, every single one we sold failed. @TonyNew the genuine number for yours is 000 915 105 DE and using TecDoc this cross references to a Yuasa YBX 3027 therefore using the old British Battery Manufactures Association system it is a 027

ALL modern batteries are ****, Varta has gone to the dogs as has Bosch, I have no idea what to recommend, as for the size, I need the VIN.

I have been a VAG mechanic for 42 years, in that time I think I have replaced less than 100 ECU's and most of those have been EDC 16 and 17 Diesel units suffering from water damage BUT there is always a first time. Your car is actually a 2011 model year and the ECU 03C 906 027 CE retails at £1182.60 inc. VAT BUT there is no UK stock and it is likely to go obsolete if ordered.

ECU failure is extremely rare and a new one is not plug and go, start by getting the car somewhere a fault code read can be carried out and post the result.

If the front section includes the cat, we stainless steel weld in a new flexi (known as an iLok) but if it is just a pipe, we fit a standard aftermarket front pipe, unfortunately the choice of quality exhaust parts in the UK is zero.

Mother of Crasher bought a brand new Festa in 1979 to replace the 78 which was falling to bits just out of warranty. These were both Dagenham built 1300S models, all others were Spanish. In early 1981 I started learning to drive, in a Golf 1 1.5 which was like a tank compared to a tin can with the Festa. Later that year I passed and started to use the car to go to college, one day when closing the tailgate the rear window popped out at the bottom as the lower flange had rotted away without a sign externally. It was just 2 years old and the Ford dealer didn’t want to know. We got shot and bought a 1970 Beetle which was immaculate… and then a 1972 which was a bit rusty as post 1970 bugs tended to go. My friend’s mother bought a 1979 Golf 1 and by 1981 when we went to the same college, it had holes in the wings and sills, how times have changed.