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Oh yea, if anyone is at all interested. Had cambelt and water pump done. The water pump was actually seizing apparently, so caught it just in time. If you hear the same god awful squeak, get yourself a new waterpump etc!

Hello! Think I've got myself some golf MK4 heated leather seats I'm going to fit to my Octavia boggo spec. I've seen people buying looms from kupetc or somewhere... Not too interested in that. Also don't fancy spending £20+ on some second hand switches which may or may not work. I was thinking of using a potentiometer fed by inline fused ignition live. Then from there to the seat. I think I can get my head around the wiring using this handy diagram I found. But I'm wondering if a potentiometer will work as the switch, and if so, what size will I need? The potentiometers I've played with before click off when turned right down which is ideal.

Pulled cover off. Started her up and silent. Put cover on, silent. Left it running and the noise came back. Took it off again and sprayed clutch cleaner (I know probably not the best on the belt) on the tooth side, flat side and all the pulleys I could get too whilst it was running. It's now quieter and sometimes goes altogether. Will be ringing to get some quotes tomorrow for cam belt and water pump. Oh yea, definitely have a coolant leak, topped it up to max a few days back, it was between max and Min today and I haven't drove it!

Alright! This is good, I'll have a go today if I get some time! Many thanks

I'm really torn to be honest. It needs a couple other bits and bobs for the mot. I'll be £600+ down and even then it may fail on something else.

https://youtu.be/zR5JrrezR5JrreBDww And video

Well if anyone is still following this. 100% the timing belt. Unclipped the timing belt cover. Ran the car, chirp chirp. Squeezed a bit of water onto the timing belt and no more chirp. Chirp comes back when it warms up and the water goes!

I have an alternator pulley removal tool on the way, and actually have a spare alternator sat in my shed somewhere, so may aswell swap the pulleys over and see if it cures it I suppose!

Ah fair enough. I'm a little concerned that I could throw £500 at it and it's actually the crank gone or something.

Yea! Fair point. Do you know the best place to get timing belt kit and water pump? Or how much I should expect to pay a garage?

Hello, Had this chirp on cold for pretty much ever. The old AUX tensioner shock had spat it's innards out, so assumed it was that. The chirp has stayed on constantly recently, so I changed the tensioner. No change. I then looked into the alternator pulley, that seems ok, it doesn't seem to flap about like other videos I've seen. Also the noise is alot louder / clearer nearer the crankshaft pulley :/. I noticed my coolant was on minimum. This isn't unusual as I have a known leak fixed with rad weld (yes I know), but that got me thinking if it could be the water pump leaking onto a pulley / bearing that could cause this? I can't seem to find any other videos with the same noise, if you make it to the end, you can see it's louder when directed at the crankshaft. https://youtu.be/1pWJ09iTzCE Please note, the car is on 233k miles. Haven't the foggiest when the timing belt or water pump was last changed. Aux belt changed about 3 years ago. Aux tensioner 2 days ago.