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Funnily enough I was just thinking yesterday about this and realised that I have not been aware of the sound recently. It's either gone away of it's own accord or I'm going deaf... So can't help I'm afraid...

OK, found a few threads that seem to point to a low back up battery within the siren housing. I attempted to get to it this morning but foiled by a wiper arm reluctant to come off. Soaked in wd 40. Will try again tomorrow. A New unit costs £200 + !!! Used one might be just as old, so battery swap looks favourite at moment. Fats

It happened twice through the night. Just unlocked and locked car and it switched off. 1st time I've had this. No obvious signs. I'd done a VCDS scan a week or so ago and this was the only fault found: Address 09: Cent. Elect. (J519) Labels:. 1K0-937-08x-09.clb Part No SW: 1K0 937 087 R HW: 1K0 937 087 R Component: BCM PQ35 H+ 110 0651 Revision: 00110 AC Coding: 46010AB8A85BF1C00010008031008164437000AE536D81605C8040200040 Shop #: WSC 12047 008 00002 VCID: 40D9436D5A87C73A4FB-8014 Subsystem 1 - Part No: 3T2 955 119 A Labels: 1KX-955-119.CLB Component: Wischer 05011 26 0602 Coding: 00D7B7 Subsystem 2 - Part No: 1K0 955 559 AH Labels: 1K0-955-559-AG.CLB Component: RLS 090112 05 54 0403 Coding: 2730ED Subsystem 3 - Part No: 7N0 951 171 A Component: DWA-Sensor 00 002 0206 Subsystem 4 - Part No: 1K8 951 605 B Component: LIN BACKUP HO H11 9005 1 Fault Found: 01134 - Alarm Horn (H12) 002 - Lower Limit Exceeded - Intermittent Freeze Frame: Fault Status: 00100010 Fault Priority: 4 Fault Frequency: 3 Reset counter: 83 Mileage: 95669 km Time Indication: 0 Date: 2018.03.28 Time: 10:36:19 Freeze Frame: Term 15 Off Voltage: 14.35 V OFF ON Term 50 Off OFF ON It's the original alarm. Has anybody any ideas what I should check for? Thanks.

Cheers for ideas... The A/C was charged during the summer. I will turn off a/c and see if Darth takes a break. Thanks.

Not all the time, but when he is he's breathing in every 2 or 3 seconds....... Anybody got any clues? Thanks.

I agree with DEL8OY - I replaced mine (what a chew on) with a cheapo ebay one and it failed pretty quickly. Got a local VAG specialist to do it again with proper kit. Worth it. Don't want to do it again in a hurry.

Maybe needs Dsg oil and filter change?

Just to update you all. Springs were fitted yesterday, car drives and pulls caravan fine, drove about 120 miles yesterday. In the end the bill was 312 euros. 63 plus vat for labour ( hour and half). Each spring was 98.80 plus vat. They fitted Febi Bilstein 46925 which is Specced as 1K0511115BH, as original. They are advertised on Autodoc France at under 30 euros Inc vat!!!! Daylight robbery... Onward and southward. Fats

Thanks Chimaera, I found your pdf and had in fact showed it to the garages to explain the requirement for a stronger spring, but they did not budge. I will revisit the whole thing once back at home and will by then have towed probably 2000 miles so will know how they have done. Fats

Aye, fingers crossed it's sorted on Thursday morning without any other issues and I'm on my way. The original springs pulled the van up and down to Spain, through the Pyranees and all over France so they did the job OK....until... Thanks Fats

Hi Carlston and thanks again for your time in helping. The garage just look up the VIN of the car and will only order and fit items that exactly match the original spec items. 3 places proposed just this. It is difficult with the language barrier and just a different way (and rules) to get through it. I have accepted the situation (painful as it is), and hope on Thursday I can drive off with the caravan on the rest of our trip. I do wonder why though, that Skoda fitted to a large estate a spring with a weight rating of only 4 when the consensus on here is that a rating of 6 is barely adequate. Have you any thoughts on that? Thanks again, I've much appreciated everyone's input. Fats

Thought about it. Tried a couple of tyre/suspension places and one is doing it Thursday for 347 euros, so a good saving on 500. They will still only fit the BH suffix, would not fit the stronger spring. I believe he said they they not allowed to fit 'modified' parts. Anyway leaving it at that. I will email the VW dealer and cancel. Fats

Thanks for your help Carleton. And thank you J.R. for your offer, but we will be travelling back to UK up the Eastern side of France. I went in this morning. He point blank refused to fit anything other than the BH suffix springs. Would not entertain it. So I will just have to accept it. The good news is they are doing it Wednesday morning, need the car 3 hours. The bad news is it will cost about 500 euros! Unbelievable.... I priced up the springs on Autodoc yesterday and 50-70 euros each. He would not entertain them, got to be his (factory?) supplier. My daughter used to work for a Vag group independent so she is going to get them to send over an itemised 'quote' so at least I have something to go in and argue about with him. I won't hold my breath though... If only one spring had gone a couple of weeks ago.... Turning into a much more expensive holiday. Thanks all.

That's what I did, but got the message......

OK. Finally managed to register with erwin, to find out what springs were originally fitted. Entered the VIN and it said ' This vehicle has outstanding field measures! Please visit an authorised dealer'. I cannot progress further in erwin. Argggggg. Any ideas? I just want to be able to go to the VW dealer at 8.00 tomorrow and convince him that I need at least weight 6 ( or better 7 or 😎 rated springs fitting. Not the currently fitted weight 4. Thanks, Fats

JR - We lived in Charente Maritime for 16 years before moving back to UK last year (family reasons), so am well conversant with the vagaries of French garages.. Picked up the van from storage near where we lived and are taking it back to the UK after this 'holiday'. Don't think I can tow it back 1500kms on two broken springs.. My springs are colour coded white, orange, orange which seems to indicate weight range 4. From what I have read most UK cars were fitted range 6, so would not be strong enough anyway? I tried to find the PR code for original fitted but can't make any sense of the codes on the sticker in the boot. Can anybody decifer it for me? Thanks.

OK thanks for help. I pulled onto a car park and took the wheels off. Both springs broken, one at top, one at bottom. At least I know exactly what to tell the dealer to replace. They are marked white, orange, orange. Should I ask for a stronger pair to be fitted?

Morning, in a bit of a pickle down in France. Sorry for long post. 2012 estate cr140. Drove down 800 miles into France to collect caravan from storage, then towed a couple of hours to a two night stop. Everything seemed fine, car pulled the van no issues as it has before. Then set off south on a planned 6 or 7 hour run to Millau on route to the coast. After a few hours on motorway there was a loud bang, thought maybe I had run over something, but we both saw nothing. I pulled over and had a look around underneath the car and van but nothing was obvious. Continued to Millau but could hear infrequent banging noises all the way. Checked several times again. Made sure it wasn't stuff moving in the van locker or boot. Car pulled van fine, no obvious difference. Anyway arrived late pm Thursday into Millau and parked up on site. The next morning I was sitting next to the car at 11.00 having a coffee when there was a loud clang from it, like something under tension giving up... Decided it need looking at so found a VW main dealer, close by. He managed to have a look at it at 5.00pm Friday. Only had it 10 mins, wheels not off. Said it was not serious (pas grave), just a spring settling into the socket. (At least that's what I thought, he had no English and my French is not great). He managed to get the same sound. Nothing to do. When I got back to the site the car bottomed out on the fairly level track. We took the car out Saturday morning but experienced no clanging/banging noises. (Caravan not attached). I then thought maybe it looks low on the rear, so checked the centre of wheel to wheel arch measurement and got 350mm - I believe it should be 394.... This was no load on the boot and 1/2 tank of fuel. Fronts are 380 against 391, so they seem fine. So what do we think? Could both springs have broken? The car is sitting 45mm lower than it should. I really don't think I can load up 40 kgs of stuff in the boot, 40 kg of dog on the back seat and 75 kg noseweight on the hitch and continue. The garage is open tomorrow, I am thinking of just telling them to fit replacement springs......dampers too? The caravan is only 1200 kg, so not a heavy van.. I keep having to extend out 'overnight' stay here. Thanks Fats

Received my replacement regulator a few days ago and plan to do the job this coming week. Will try and post a few photos of the swap out.

Today, window went down with a 'clunk', then rough noises and juddering getting it closed. Any idea's, easy home fix? How do I get the door card off to have a look? Thanks, fats

Air and fuel filters changed just over a year ago, only 10k miles on since then. I will check the battery, it is just 3 years old.

Hello all. Superb mark2 140 tdi cffb. I got VCDS a couple of years ago and scans have always shown that 2 glow plugs circuits give the 4985/P0672 fault in the circuit. It has never been a problem starting the car, until this winter as the temps have dropped to -3 or -4 overnight. Yesterday it took 3 attempts to get it going - and this was early afternoon after it had been sitting in full sunshine all morning. I am going to get 4 new plugs and change them, but is there anything else that may be causing this starting issue? Thanks, Fats

I have a 2012 140cr and they would not work as bought - gave the bulb out warning. I had to fit resistors. I think it depends on your car's exact spec.

In some perverse way some of you have managed to take an article that clearly states the reasons for the proposed job losses (and Brexit is not mentioned) and that the job losses will likely be in the USA and Europe ( not UK) and 'reverse engineer' a dig at remainers.... Beggars belief....

There you go again..... In fact my wife does pay tax in the UK on Government pension income and we're coming back to the UK to allow us to vote in person.