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Cool thank you, one less thing to worry about.

So as long as nothing’s changed and it’s just the outer casing then it’s not a problem? I’ve not seen it myself, can’t remember when it happened but remember the garage I used to use telling me they’d put the cable tie on & that must’ve been a few years ago now (had a lot going on since!) Taking the casing off & cleaning it up isn’t something I can tackle, is it fine to leave it as is (treat it to a new cable tie) or should it be removed? Or (baring in mind I haven’t seen it just thinking out loud) can it be welded back together?

Could someone please help me find a replacement exhaust for my car? Technically I could probably get away with only replacing the back box as the outer casing is currently being held on by a cable tie but given my car’s age and the amount of corrosion I thought it might be easier (and more cost effective in the long run) to replace the whole thing as I’ll be keeping my car for at least another 4 or 5 years. I’ve been told genuine replacement part (back box) is on back order, no date for when it’ll be in stock (aka due to age they won’t be), haven’t had any luck finding an exhaust but then I don’t really know what I’m looking for; I just know it’s got to fit because once mines off it probably won’t go back on. I’ve got a neighbour who will fit it for me and the last time it was looked at it wasn’t blowing but it might be now, (thought I heard something last night but not sure) MOT due in 2 weeks so trying to get exhaust done for that. If anyone can help I’d really appreciate it cause I’m at a loss. 2004 MK1 Fabia VRS Think it’s 6Y9 if that’s relevant?

Is that a company name MichelDever or should I Google the hunter alignment rig? Anything tyres is just giving me local tyre companies F1 Autocentre being the top result.

Cant say I’ve ever heard of them, I’m near Gatwick Airport.

Just remembered someone side swiped me on New Years Eve and that would’ve been right rear, would that have been enough to knock something out of alignment? They switched lane on a roundabout whilst I was still in the lane and caught the back end of my car, got some lovely scratches in my paintwork but they didn’t stop just drove off.

It’s not that big just a small parking area but I do need to go out, trying to think if there’s anywhere with space where I can do this other than a car park tonight once somewhere is closed. Top of the road is a roundabout I can go round that a few times for clockwise turns, doesn’t help for anti-clockwise though.

It’s raining again and it’s not that I mind getting wet but the car park is flooded, would rather not get my phone wet taking photos. He had the car up on the ramp on Saturday and I did notice there is shed loads of rust all around the springs/coils (didn’t specifically look at the caliper), he disconnected the pin connector to the sensor and showed that to me and there was no rust on the ends and that’s when he said there was continuity and started saying that that wire is super tough and virtually indestructible (unless you’ve got scissors or a knife or wire cutters) I’m female not 5.

None taken. I do get the feeling I’m being fobbed off by the garage because of my gender they keep telling me I’m free to get a 2nd opinion but they don’t like it that I have sourced a 2nd opinion and they don’t like where that source is coming from i.e. the internet I haven’t been specific. I don’t care if they don’t like it I gave them my car to diagnose and fix it and they didn’t, I’m not forking out £460 when they’re not entirely sure what’s wrong. They didn’t exactly convince me on Saturday when they didn’t know what a DFM wire was, why they would check it or where it was located, so I showed them the picture you posted. Honestly I shouldn’t be going to those kind of lengths.

No nothing like that but just looking at my MOT last year and I had 2 advisories: service brake binding but not excessively Offside and Nearside Rear (preventing full inspection of wheel bearing) and it’s the offside rear speed sensor that’s playing up/they’ve replaced. Theres also a comment: Front and Rear discs in poor condition on inner edges and front and rear brake pads 50% left that’s on my invoice from the 16/09/2019. I seem to go through discs, pads and tyres at a shocking rate considering I’ve only done 37k miles & only do about 2,000 miles a month. My Coil springs are corroded.

Such as?? Just so I know what I’m looking for on invoices and by recent, how recent do you mean, around the time of the fault? Just so that I don’t give you a load of Irrelevant info. Basically I don’t do anything to the car myself except drive it, MOT it and service it once a year, I do DIY indoors but don’t have the strength for the car.

Immediately.

Only the ABS light.

Is this my problem?

Not been able to get under the car in daylight thanks to the constant rain but been back to the garage & questioned their electrician, the problem is I’ve got a speed sensor fault but it’s intermittent they changed the sensor but that didn’t fix it, one minute the sensor is sending a signal and the lights go out the next minute the sensor stops sending a signal and the lights come back on, there’s continuity at the connector pin so it’s talking to the ECU and he said there’s a regulator in or on the ABS pump that fails that causes this problem, VW used to sell a rebuild kit but they don’t anymore. He did give me one other option though, buy a second hand ABS pump & he can connect that to the car to test it, if it comes up with a different fault then it’s the electrics on my car if they suspect the new second hand pump is faulty it’ll be under warranty being an electrical item (he means buy it from eBay using PayPal) and if it’s faulty I can send it back, he thought a second hand pump would be around £100 but looking on eBay they are between £40 and £400. For £40 if it’s faulty I’ve got the option of sending that one off to be repaired and not losing the use of my car for 6/7 days. He said one thing that’s now got me concerned, is this an MOT failure? MOT due soon so have got to do something if so. Have you guys heard of an issue with a regulator on the ABS pump causing this problem before? He drove around the car park and the lights went out and he showed me the display on Vagcom and the signal from that sensor compared to the others was very up and down.