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Its easy to remove and either unstick if its stuck, clean up the potentiometer track & tweak some preload on the wiper if its that or simply replace if thats your way. Simply remove the rear seats & lift the trim panel & all will be revealed.

It will be the keyswitch to disable the passenger airbag having been disconnected with the ignition turned on. I'm not sure if a basic OBDII reader will be able to reset the fault code, VCDS will.

I meant that it would continue to run so well considering the handicap, clearly its unwell but its so gradual you really are not aware of it. I ran mine on all sorts of crap including ClamC which could be bought utra cheap from a filling station pump right in the middle of the city of Arras!

£55 delivered for my Yeti. Who did the regas? They should have pulled and monitored a vacuum for 30 minutes to indicate any leaks before regassing, that yours has failed so quickly means the leak would have been very apparent. If anyone may have removed/replaced the pump recently I would suspect the O rings on the connections, they are very easy to pinch & damage.

My Octavia 2 Estate was attacked by a bunch of motorcyclists (long story) they had seen that I had photographed the rodéo (which later on resulted in 2 serious injuries) and had blocked the road wanting to drag me out and steal or smash my phone camera, I had to drive slowly through them and they were battering the roof, windows etc. The only dent was to that panel so whilst it is not thick I cant accept any audible resonance, not when you have the wobble board roof panel beside it which booms with any window partially open. I totally understand closing off any hollow member that can channel road noise, the C pillar leads down to the cabin ventilators behind the bumper. When I was rewiring a Galaxy I had my hand up the rear of the front wing and pulled out a squishy plastic bag from the A pillar, I thought it had been a smugglers vehicle & I had found a stash but it was the Automotive Europa assembly plant that had used a gel inside a plastic bag for preventing noise coming into the cabin via that hollow section.

A panel with that many folds so close together and a highly stressed gas strut attachment point is very resonant? Are you kidding?

That is the sweetest engine ever when the intake tract and turbocharger vanes are not clagged up, like you I had lost the whistle that I once had. I can think of worse things to be the weak point but its problem is that it runs so relatively well when anything newer would die of asthma except fault code city and limp mode stops them from ever getting that far.

Has the art of throttle modulation been lost to the world?

Put a nut over it and arc weld the centre, the heat will pretty much ensure it will back out easily with a spanner.

To add insult to injury the lobbyists in my country got implemented into law and have sucessfully resisted the repeal of legislation that makes it illegal to sell pattern parts for any safety related parts, only the manufacturers OE parts can be legaly sold and this is a god fearing country. Sounds reasonable until you find that they allow the sale of Chinese brake pads & discs but any bodywork including mirrors, indicators, bumpers, door handles etc have to be manufacturers parts Add on the stupid labour and body shop charges and its cheaper to drive the length of France into Belgium to have a ready painted wing, bumper or door mirror fitted than to buy a plain unpainted one from Ford or VAG to fit yourself, not just cheaper but less than half the price including painting and fitting.

Make a priority of tracing and fixing the water leak before replacing the module!

Before the nanny electronics prevented it operating the three pedals simultaneously with 2 feet was a way to get traction when a vehicle was bogged down or on an incline in snow or ice, now you have to pay extra for a 3 letter acronym which does not do such a good job and gives no driver feedback. It was also the way (only 2 pedals) for me to drive across the myriad speed bumps in London with my fully loaded people carrier at a reasonable speed without massive suspension travel but I had to shunt the 2nd brake pedal switch to do so, after a few months it threw up a fault code of "brake switch implausible signal" It was a harbinger of the future

A scissor lift being a separate thing to use elsewhere in the garage (assuming its big enough) or to lift the car over the pit? I'm not quite sure what animal you are speaking of, a photo or a link would clear that up. Its all just dreaming & future planning for the moment, inspection pits had all but been forgotten by me, its only having a clutch job to do here & not being able to return to my UK workshop that made me recall a friend here has one, having got in it I believe that a combination of the right sized pit and the right lifting equipment will render a 2 post vehicle lift, my previous preferred scheme unnecessary. Plenty of properties I had been considering had sous-sols = drive in basements, they are a great compliment to a house & dont add to the property taxes but the headroom is low, usually 2.2m and no good for a vehicle lift. So I had been looking for a sous sol and a barn, a sous sol makes a much better workshop, warmer, sheltered, closer to all the services and you can just walk up the stairs to the property, barns are usually remote, no services and uninsulated. Going for a pit instead of a vehicle lift brings in lots of properties that would otherwise have been disregarded.

Probably but I wont be buying new, they are at least a grand in the UK & would be much more here. I should also add that we have the stupid situation where none of them will deal with the public or even give general advice on their products, nothing stopping them other than the closed mentality.

Thanks to you both, an Ebay.uk search confirms your findings, most seem to be adjustable width. Can't find any on Ebay.fr which is not unusual, most stuff of interest is from UK exporters, it could be that I have yet to find the correct term in French. Every search brings up the motorcycle platform lifts.

Although a lower (low on refrigerant) pressure (dependant on ambient temperature) could exhibit the same symptoms but would show a low pressure shut down code low pressure fault code in VCDS.

I will be using my friends inspection pit to remove my gearbox and will probably construct one myself at my next property. I had been thinking about systems for raising the vehicle wheels or the body when someone suggested that I use a jacking beam that the MOT testers have that roll between the platforms of their 4 post ramps, the ones where you can slide the lifting points in and out to pick up on the chassis or wishbones etc, one of those would be perfect. My question is, is there a standard dimension between the horizontal rails that these jacks run on? that is to say are they standardised and one make will fit another ramp? Also what is the correct name for them to aid me searching or is there something similar made intended for an inspection pit? Many thanks!

Correct, a typo, I will go back and edit it, thanks for pointing it out!

If I have said it once I have said it a million times - stop exaggerating!

Removing them is extreme but would pretty much guarantee that the rear wheels will never be punctured on the road.

Before jacking up loosen all 5 nuts, roll or drive the car forward about one metre, that should be enough to break the bond.

I was shocked to find that there was not a dimmer on my 2015 Yeti. To be fair the LED illumination never becomes intrusive but I found on a long night drive having dimmed panel lights was relaxing, not a good thing if you are tired though.

I always have in the past, I left it this time in the hope that the posting glitch might be noted and put right one day if indeed it is possible.

Give it a brake test, if ABS does not cut in then you can be sure its a fault in that system, probably a wheel sensor. Then you can make an informed decision whether to carry on driving or seek a repair, only you can decide that.

Sorry for the repetition, this always happens when I quote something from a page before the current one, nothing happens so you click "submit" again, and again, & then I remember what happened the last time