J.R.

What a K-rap article, coasting in neutral with the clutch depressed 😯 tells me all I need to know about the author, the "potential fine" of £1000 is pure fantasy and they don't cite the law which is no surprise as it doesn't exist. What "difficult driving situation" could there be when you are coasting downhill where you would need to "quickly accelerate out of the problem"? What if your car does not quickly accelerate?

I have finally allowed one of the myriad French companies desperate to persuade clients to get free or close to free energy improvements so they can hoover up more of the governments billions allocated to subventions. I was working with this guy anyway (I used his guys to do my taping and jointing). What I will be getting free or perhaps with a small contribution is. A reversible heat pump air conditioning unit supplied and installed by my neighbour who I was going to buy mine from anyway to install myself. A Ballon Thermodynamique which I think you call a heat pump hot water cylinder. 360mm of blown insulation across the loft area (71m2) 80 mm (I think) if extruded polystyrene insulation on the sous-sol ceiling (71m2 again) to stop heat losses from the floor above. I think there might be a new triple glazed window to replace the only one that is not double glazed and maybe something towards a new front door, it was spoken of but I wont know until I get the devis. Extruded polystyrene insulation (thickness unknown but the equivalent to 150mm of fibre glass) to all the outside walls on both levels with aluminium window reveals and window cill extenders covered with a mesh textile mesh and then spray rendered in the colour of my choice. The latter I will have to make some contribution to but as my house is a wreck at present I was going to render the outside myself which would involve buying the machinery and scaffold towers etc to sell on afterwards, this external finish will be the one thing which will make my property 100 times more desirable than it currently looks. I could have had the internal insulation including the steel stud frame and dry lining for free, no contribution and whilst I would have done all that work anyway like the outside rendering I would have lost room space and at 71m2 it would become pokey, also I really like plasterboarding and can do it at my own pace. I can also have free solar panels but I'm going to leave that a year or so in the hope that by then they will pay for the pergola on the side of the building to put them on. The government has allocated billions towards these energy saving initiatives but only a fraction of it is being taken up which they probably knew so they could make up whatever figure would please the electorate, its too much disruption for many people but has come at a good time for me. And the crazy thing is although I am living here full time and intend to see out my retirement here it is classified as a second home because I am maintaining the Hôtel in Picardie as my principal residence to avoid CGT when I sell it. So the free or subsidised (dependant on income) energy saving measures are available for second homes and also to renters which does make sense.

I was fairly certain of that but I always like to give the fantasists the opportunity to disabuse me. Its one of my myriad failings, not being able to just smile and keep quiet when someone trots out the old "it's illegal", not good when you live in a country where people never think for themselves and challenge what they are being told (the education system makes them like that) and love to tell others that they risk (not) honky tonk years in prison for whatever it is they are doing.

Would you mind quoting said law and the penalties please. Your definition of the alleged illegal coasting is somewhat lacking, what you say in brackets I do everytime I leave my car. I think you need to add "whilst the vehicle is in motion" but I'm sure the law if it exists will have the definitive definition.

I hope that doesn't mean what I think it does, do you not mean the upper part of the flat measuring area where it transitions to the round section?

How inconvenient.

Are you a Beatle?

Bumping the thread on behalf of the new French contributor, if anyone can help him with this please do as infotainment is beyond my skill set. @ld31

Cant you be OCD but also insouciant and a risk taker? Or am I something else?

Allowing for my involuntary exaggeration mine might be the same, I dont have VAG-DPF and being partially sighted would not want to look at a phone screen while driving so I rely on VCDS to tell me how many kms since the last regen and I look at the calculated figure compared to the threshold limit, the measured figure was always next to nothing which was what really peeved me off. So it could have regenned twice on the journey and then again at the end, my 180kms estimated fits with yours but that was far too frequent given the measured values never ever got above 3 units compared to the estimated of 25. My journeys at this end are either less than 10km each way or once or twice a week 20km = 20 minutes, the engine was only ready for the regen after say 12 minutes meaning they would not complete unless I did extra miles, 10 minutes of the proper conditions was always enough for a completed regen.

Pretty accurate methinks, when the belt snaps the engine self destructs and most of the vehicles are scrapped due to the high repair costs, the belts lasted the entire life of the vehicles.

Yes Pete, that is how I read it as well, but as he said it was not running before the new ECU I speculated that there was and is a fuelling problem that is now compounded by an immobiliser problem. I just tried mine with the non RFID key, started and ran for a couple of seconds then stopped with flashing glowplug light amongst others, 2nd and subsequent attempts had the flashing glowplug light and no start up, Maxidot displayed "Key not found"

No doubt your car has had the emissions fix, mine was regenning every 180kms if not less, I could do an 800km motorway journey pulling a massive air brake of a heavily overloaded trailer, large throttle opening, WOT on all inclines, a non stop 800km passive regen yet it did 4 or 5 active regens during the journey and started another one the very next day which did not conclude and it was trying again on every journey, the software engineers who did the programming for the emissions fix recall were clowns, I have paid to go back to the software revision programmed by cheats! I have been aware of 2 interrupted regens in 18 months and 25K miles since the roll back and they successfully concluded on the next short journey, its basically unnoticable as it was intended and as my old neighbours car which has never had the update is.

Mine became bad when Imoved to my present location because the journeys were long enough to start a regen but not long enough to complete it, when one was interrupted it would restart again the next day within a couple of miles, well before the oil temperature was at the threshold. I either did an unecessary journey extension to allow it to complete or put up with it constantly retrying, my fuel consumption went way up but thankfully the oil was not yet getting diluted. I had had enough so I paid for the emissions fix to be rolled back, in the 18 months and probably 25K miles since I have only heard the fans running twice at journeys end.

No harmonic damper at the other end but there is a centre bearing in a rubber mount, worth checking this while you are there but again do not be fooled by some degree of relatively free movement, like the Guibo coupling it is that way by design, it has to be to function.

They are irregular to a casual glance especially when covered in road dirt but they are actually a sinusoidal waveform. My coupling cost €80 but I had to shop around. If you can really pull it off with your hands as opposed to misinterpreting the necessary decoupling of an NVH damper then pull it away and disc cut it off, the car will still drive perfectly, the outer ring plays no part in the power transmission and I bet you my house there is no deterioration of the inner drive coupling. If the ring really is going to seperate you dont want that to happen when you are driving, it will sound like Notre Dame!!!

You dont need to do the motorway run, the DPF will sucessfully regen on the next journey meeting the requirements, after several failed attempts you will get a DPF warning light and maybe a MAxidot message telling you to go for the drive, do not ignore this. I am guessing that most of your journeys are short urban ones say less than 15 miles?

The following description as as definitive as you could get 🤣 At the risk of sounding like the dear departed "Battery Man" you will find the above mentioned in the owners handbook including the recommendation to take it for a run at high revs.

He was referring to ECU failure Pete. The one on my burnt out Galaxy looked like it had been deep fat fried then put on a bonfire for a few hours, under the soot were all the tempering colours of heat treated steel, there was a mass of bare copper strands going into a molten blob of plastic where it had been cut from the loom. By carefull cutting and prising I manged to seperate the melted blow and wires from the inner connector, I did all this in the hope that I could dress it up enough to PX it against a (not) refurbished one, nobody would accept it considering it to be completely destroyed inside, I opened it and the PCB was charred and discoloured by the heat and decided I had nothing to lose by trying it. Once the new loom was fitted I plugged it in and the engine fired up straight away, granted I had no end of other problems to resolve, it wouldnt idle (bypass valve siezed) and there was weeks of faultfinding to get all the other circuitry functioning but the ECU survived intact and was still working well 2 years and 60K miles later. They are pretty bullet proof and probably would even survive a lightning strike on the vehicle, we used to build that protection into military vehicles a 15 years before at considerable cost but the technology becomes very cheap quickly and adopted in the mass market, an EMP pulse would take out an ECU but there would be no humans left around to complain about it!

Through the cam action it will either push the pedal towards the floor or raise it to the upper position so it is not a pedal return (only) spring but it is the only spring acting on the pedal.

Probably in perfect health.

What you believe to be deterioration is most likely the moulded in "decoupling" slots, you should be able to move the outer annulus fore and aft with some effort and also twist it diagonally but not be able to rotate it more than a couple of degrees. The new one is likely to be exactly the same, mine is still on the garage shelf

Why did you not replace the cable only?

No it's me that was missing many brain cells lots of sleep or any rest when I posted.

Yup, I cant help any more if the OP is determined to go down this path, I understand where he is coming from and was like that myself with the first electronic problem on my MK1 Octavia, now as a VCDS owner I know better, had I bought it then the vehicle would not have been scrapped and I would not have wasted hours of my time going down false tracks. When I use a non recognised key like the one I keep hidden as an emergency spare (will get a thief in the car but not start it) it starts and runs for about 1 second but does not show up an immobiliser light on the dashboard, indeed is there even an immobiliser light on mine or more importantly the OP's dashboard? VCDS or the equivalent will reveal all and will be cheaper than the parts cannon in either the short or medium turn, it will pay for itself many times over.