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A very small update for all. Ive been super busy recently buying a house so the car is on the back burners. I have developed a small water leak from the water pump housing - parts are now with me but once the weather warms up, ill do an update as i replace it. With this extreme cold spell of -4 degrees for almost a week, its been AMAZING every morning using the parking heater and going out to a fully defrosted and toasty 25 degree interior car with no hassle! By far the most useful mod ive ever done and its beyond words how much time its saved me when leaving for work at 5am. Look forward to the opposite weather and using the ventilated seats and ventilation heating mode in the summer!

Very nicely done! Why did you do it out of interest, purely styling? Or did you not want to buy new mirror glass at £500 per side! Update on me: Sorry that ive almost fallen off the face of the earth recently all! Currently in the process of buying a house so all attention has been diverted to that ❤️ The Skoda is still going strong except for a leaky water pump which I will update on as it is replaced.

If you kill either of these circuits when the car doesnt expect them to be, chance are youll throw a lot of fault codes into the system and possibly bring an EML light on. Everything is done by networking now and it is not like an old car where the start button is linked to the starter motor. The starter motor is controlled by the engine ECU via multiple other modules. Your best bet is to go for a ghost immobilizer - tried and tested by many and these modify the network signals sent around the car to prevent fuel/starter/spark or a combination of the above, almost undetectable by anyone looking to quickly steal a car as they can be hidden anywhere with a canbus link (that is the entire car).

The power is supplied from the BCM. Check the pin output from the BCM to see if its there. If not, check the BCM fuses. If all are good and the BCM has power on that bank - then there is a good chance the BCM output has failed internally.

My guess is the mib2.5 hasn’t had the correct climate control adaptations turned on? have you got a photo of what your current setup looks like? As I assume the second photo isn’t yours if it has the fan speeds option. who fitted and coded the unit?

How sure are you that this is the cause? And that it’s not possibly the gearbox cooler or head gasket?

Sorry I’m not offering this at the moment as I don’t have the time anymore to do it for people! sorry!

Pre facelift have only rear cameras as an option post facelift has rear camera or areaview as an option. the cameras are in the rear usual place, under both wing mirrors and in the front grill. officially for the front it’s meant to be in the trim covering the radar but to fit this id have to replace the front end with the FL superb headlights, bumper, grill, radar and didn’t want to. so made my own OEM look bracket and fitted it that way instead. This thread has a lot more detail for you:

Everyone is making this overly complicated. In the 09 BCM module set up a new Leuchte pin to do what you require, then pin this out from the BCM to a relay to control the light bar. pdfcoffee.com_vw-mqb-golf-mk7-lighting-explanation-pdf-free.pdf

Finally got the areaview calibrated fully. Was a bit of a pain but managed to do it with the mats tight to the wheels, other than that it wouldnt pick up the front corners of the mat. Now its just a job of getting rid of the black box around the centre of the car screen. This can be done with modified datasets which I now have to hunt for!

Finally managed to get the areaview calibrated! Now to just find the correct dataset to remove the black box from around the car. Sadly I can only find Tiguan and Passat datasets. Would help if someone had a VIN of a superb with factory fitted areaview.

The MTEC discs take about 100 miles to wear the coating off the discs themselves, during this time they are very noisy but after this they will be quiet. mine are only very noisy when very hard braking. Id get them discs swapped asap though, not good of them

Sorry but parts like that dont come as a individual, it would be the entire vent assembly complete. If you can repair it or refit it, that would be best. If not, find a matching cheap one on ebay and take the part from it or just use that. Replacing the complete vent unit is roughly £170

Thought id give the intake runners a walnut blast. Surprisingly not terrible for 65,000 miles Before: After: Regarding tools used: A 3D printed manifold cover An air compressor and sand blasting gun 20kg of walnuts.... I used about 1kg at a push so if anyone wants to buy some, please let me know A vacuum So all it really cost me is crushed walnuts and some plastic for the 3d printer, everything else I already had!

Them discs are fitted backwards. MTEC have instructions in the box with each disc and also on their website. Who fitted them? This is how they should be https://www.mtecbrakes.com/brake_disc_fitting_bedding_in