tomshep

The good people at UK Polos know everything between them and the surprisingly costly housing 4A0 972 883A is on its way together with some crimp pins to splice in the wires. The harness will be made to link up the power, Canbus and buzzer once it arrives.

The Up! has a radio system with an input that can see a camera - allegedly! I have been looking at what the Octavia enthusiasts do to fit OPC because it isn't just set a bit in the radio to get a camera up on screen, no, Sir! Firstly it is necessary to fit parking sensors, then the gateway needs to be told it has a new travelling companion in the form of a 1S0 919 475 PDC control box (but whether that is an A or B suffix, I don't yet know,) drill the bumper, find a back loom and a central one, physically wire into the CAN BUS and then get the whole lot to work. Once the OPS system is operational, I intend to fit a camera. First though, I need to know the part number of the sixteen way connector housing that plugs into the control module... This might take a while but having already retrofitted cruise, I am happy to give it a go.

In any endeavour the last 5% requires 95% of the effort.

I bought a protection pack for the Up! and the rear mudflaps won't fit one so I have a pair of new 2017 model Citigo mudflaps free to good home. One condition - I am too lazy to post them so You will need to collect them. I am located in Poole. Dunno if i can be messaged, as I am a newbie so contact me by emailing tomattomshepdotcodotuk.

Thank you for the digging, That is very useful.

Has irritated me from day one. I took it to be a build fault. I think, having looked underneath it whilst changing the oil that the ARB sits very close to the rack and I am guessing that the two touch once the car has sat and settled but I am glad I am not the only one.

I buy the service consumables at the main dealer, keep the receipts and take a dated photograph of the car being worked on (by me,) clearly showing the registration number. I am quite prepared to be my own expert witness if it should go bang during the warranty period and the manufacturer disowns me for not allowing myself to be robbed.

Hip Hooray! I have beaten the wind noise. You need a lolly stick, a scalpel blade and a roll of rayon loom tape. I bought the loom tape for £6 online in order to wrap the cruise control harness I had retrofitted. it is a lightly sticky and furry tape 9mm wide and just the thing for this job. The wind noise is there because the top of the door seal doesn't sit flush at the back. The big gap makes the car noisy. Open the door and, holding the lolly stick against the outside of the rubber as a support, cut a wedge out of the top of the seal starting 3 cm from the back and ending 4mm from the top at the back of the seal. Cut slowly. Rubber can't be rushed. Check to see that the gap has reduced. Keep cutting until the back corner is JUST touching the bottom of the door aperture. It will not fully conform to the side window, there will still be a small gap. Now cut a length of tape about 15mm long and stick it to the top of the door seal on the vertical edge. Cut another 2.5 cm long and stick it to the horizontal edge. then cut one cm long and fit it to the vertical edge and keep cutting and fitting longer lengths to the vertical edge until you have built up a wedge that is 7.5cm long. When you have done this to both sides, take the car for a test run and revel in the relative silence at 80 MPH. I was amazed. Half an hour well spent. A square foot of 4mm adhesive neoprene foam cut into 3" squares stuck in the spare wheel well and around its vertical edges and in the holes in the boot floor shelf uprights has made a similar difference to the road noise. It is a different car!

That is a good tweak. I'll be having one of those. Thank you.

Achieved 93.4 MPG in my Up TSI between the Hague and the French border. If you fill them s l o w l y enough, you can get about 47 litres into one which should get 800 comfortably.

I have the Citigo's cousin, an Up. I considered the Citigo but needed the extra horsepower because I do a lot of miles. I have learned a fair bit about the car and hope some of my tips will be useful.