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Or use your eyes and a tapemeasure, use a bent coathanger or similar to make a caliper gauge to avoid removing the wheel. On a scale of 1 to 10 your own eyes are 10, what some random person on the internet reckons a 2 or 3, VAG build codes should be 8 or 9 but the sticker only lists one axle (cant recall if its front or rear) and Eurocarparts minus 10! Unless there is only a choice of 2 then you can confidently choose the other one from what ECP say will fit your car.

The same size that you have fitted to your vehicle, measure it because nobody on here can.

"Young male car drivers aged 17-24 are four times as likely to be killed or seriously injured compared with all car drivers aged 25 or over." Looking back its a miracle that I survived the period.

Sorry, I had to bail while watching the trailer, the dramatic music was too much for me at breakfast!

And yet you write them well.

It does indeed look better in the photos, before you showed them I thought my car already had black pillars, to late/dark/cold to go out and look but I'm sure they are body coloured. They have never bothered me before but now I won't be able to unsee them in black so can you give the Ebay listing please, econd thoughts don't bother, I have been locked out of Ebay for a year now (not recieving the text code for security) and they are uncontactable if you cannot log in. On the subject of stickers, the clear one that goes over the rear door where it forms the front of the wheelarch, I had a coming together with someone trying to undertake me while I was straight lining a roundabout 'at lunchtime Frenchmen are manic!) they made contact with that part of the door when aborting the manoevre then my trailer shredded their car from front to rear, I was left with a reasonable size dent through the sticker, paint and primer down to the bare metal, a fair exchange I decided! Or so I thought when I finally decided to tidy up the damage a couple of days ago, the damage had never rusted and what I thought was bare galvanised metal was the damaged sticker being ground opaque, I carefully cut a horizontal line through it beneath the damage and peeled it off, after compounding the scratches there is still a reasonable dent but zero paintwork damage, the sticker did a fantastic job at protecting the paintwork from damage and the paint is incredibly flexible and stuck on like glue. I have several dents that I have carefully beaten out or done PDR the paint has never cracked on any of them, the wheelarch damage is beyond PDR and will remain as a battle scar, I'm really pleased the paintwork is undamaged.

It sounds exactly right if you look at what the law requires, the winter tyres although homologated are narrower and lower profile so the 8% error is understandable as they are intended for limited use. A GPS whilst not having the variations due to tyre sizes and the legal obligation to never under-read should not be taken as an accurate measure or used for calibration, any inclineup or down will result in an incorrect reading. Not sure how you claim your speedo was checked by radar but if you mean one of the pédagogique speed displays they are all over the place and display the approximate speed you were doing some seconds before if it was even your vehicle.

An analogy would be to compare the rear diff with the front diff on a FWD car which does not even use differential oil and shares the gearbox oil, that diff transmits 100% of the drive torque 100% of the time that the vehicle is operated and never needs the oil changing although given what it does it would not be a bad idea. The rear diff transmits 50% of the drive torque maybe 10% of the time so being generous endures say 5% of what the front one does and it has its own independant correct grade oil not being sheared and heated by transmission gearing.

It wont make any difference at all unless you have stupidly run the diff dry like I did by mixing up the Haldex and differential drain plugs, in which case the diff will need all the help it can get and I am soon changing mine again. VAG are correct, the rear diff has such an easy life, is so well built and the modern oils so good that it never needs changing, and I can attest to this as when I mistakenly drained the diff oil that had done 79K miles with abusive fleet drivers (the clutch bore witness to that) the oil that came out was indistinguishable from new oil, that should have rung alarm bells for me but didn't.

I recently changed my tyres manually the old school way so had time to compare them, I had bought the exact same Hankook Ventus Prime 3 but chose 95H rating (the homologated load & speed) over the 99H that was fitted to save a few Euros, the old 99H rated tyres were marked XL not the new 95H ones, other than that they were identical. On close inspection the number of plies and their construction was also identical, same tyres, identical moulds the first made in Malaysia the second in Hungary. On the road they drive identical, ride, comfort, handling all the same, I think they produce one tyre at the highest rating then create price points for the other identical tyres with different ratings.

That is true of any vehicle that never moves a wheel. It would help if you were to specify what wheel and tyre size you have and what was the homologated size or factory fitment.

That is the spring which retracts the belt when the airbag is deployed, it too is pyrotechnic activation, did the loom connector look discoloured through heat? It could be that the pretensioner you fitted is not compatible having a different resistance, was it the same part number? All the time the fault remains you error code will return straight away after you delete it, you do not need to concern yourself with crash data, simply with getting the right resistance in the ignitor circuit, try measuring the resistance of the other known good pretensioner and comparing it to the one you have fitted and also the one you removed.

A daft claim because if there was a closed throttle butterfly the effective compression ratio would be less (induction stoke at less than atmospheric pressure) giving less engine braking. If you want "real" engine braking from a diesel block the exhaust like lorry and coach exhaust brakes do in other continents.

No.

You are talking about something else entirely and misleading the OP, they are asking about "crash data" not how to reset an airbag error code. @Barnabasz1a Had the airbags deployed during the accident the vehicle suffered? If yes then there will be crash data registered and the module will either need replacing or sending away to have it removed. You say that you have changed the seatbelt but did you replace the explosive pyrotechnic charge with one that had not been deployed? What was the code and the description? The description on a decent system like VCDS would have been more than just "seatbelt", it might be a wiring or connector problem, the heat from the pyrotechnic can melt the loom connector.

£7.5K for a 14 year old car, 'kin ell!!!!!🤯 Yet Autotrader says its cheap! What does Great price mean? A ‘great price’ label means this car is priced slightly lower than most other cars of a similar type in the UK right now. In other words, you’re getting a great deal for this car’s age and mileage. I feel like I have woken up after a world pandemic and found myself in a parallel universe, I have only ever paid £3k or so for 3-5 year old cars, when I bought my MK2 Estate (a 2006) which was in 2018 I was the highest bidder at £750, it seemed cheap to me by French standards but pals in the trade said that as soon as something was over 10 years old or over 100K miles (it was both) nobody in their right mind would pay over £1K for them. Back then traders would not even want to give a PX price on something as old as this MK2, rather than lose the deal they might have offered something low and if they ended up with it they would have sold it on to another trader, a buyer like myself or sent it to the block.

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You have been to two garages whose idea of how to diagnose a fault described as "my car has lost power" is to reach for their fault code readers. I agree that you need a proper/better diagnosis just as long as you dont have Battery Man as a neighbour 😄 It is a possibility that the engine may run in Limited Operating Strategy if the cooling pump is mission critical but as we dont know what engine you have............................

It surely does, I have had amazing results with my Bosch 18v 1/2" drive one (not a small wrench) on completeky rusted trailer fasteners that I never had before when using an air dugga-dugga.

Which had not been mentioned even once in this discussion. They are all rubber bands compared to what used to be classed as normal tyres, I remember 185/60/13's as being really sporty and exotic when fitted to MK1 Escorts. I have 30+ year old Avon reinforced X plys on my tipping trailer and I have never seen such a tall profile, I think it is 100%, the way the size is expressed is really weird and the speed rating is something like 45km/h for use on sites. Original Ifor Williams fitment, the tallest modern tyres that would fit the rims would leave the hitch far too low and it would need refitting above the chassis rails.

I didn't start until I was 9 years older than you are, before that I had never managed to run more than a few yards each time I tried, up until the confinement I was as regular and committed runner as you are and then everything went to pot and not just the running. I started again with a local social group last year, I'm 5 years older at an age when that really counts, 14kg heavier but on the positive side mentally I know what I am capable of even if I am no longer nor never will be again 😄, sounds like a joke but that counts for a lot confidence wise compared to when I started. My problem at present is finding the time against urgent priorities (getting a roof above my head) so I know its going to take a couple of years to get to my best form but I am on the way, 10k tomorrow morning then back to working on the building.

Gone where? Joking aside who says it has gone? From your description it will most likely be the bearing which is a seperate part from the strut mount although often sold together.

Centre buckle might be different, is the OP perhaps incorrectly trying to use the centre locking receiver for a passenger on either side? It's easy to do if you are leaning over someone to buckle them in or of they are corpulent and trying to secure themselves as they may be sitting on the reciever they require. Apologies for no longer recalling the name of the seatbelt fixed part.

What a crock of s***e, its a bloomin car, a means of getting from A to B and not a games console That wasn't aimed at you by the way but at the stupidity of these new vehicles and their complications. Why should who is driving the vehicle matter to a tyre pressure monitoring system? If a tyre deflates it should bring up a warning, what is the point of any new or unidentified driver resetting the system?

Nope, the 215/60/16 has a significantly higher sidewall, I changed from the former (winter rims) to the latter (new tyres) yesterday. To Clairebelle, I much prefer the ride and comfort on the 215/60 tyres, they are fine on 7" wide rims, that is the homologated factory fitment, I'm confused as to why Carlston would say the 7" rim is too wide for the 215 tyre yet he says it is OK for the narrower 205 tyre.