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Personally I'd grab a steel rule and check for myself before ordering.

Are you getting any fault codes, it should be logging a code if it's shutting down a cylinder. Intuition suggests you have a hot piston crown on number 1, a blocked oil squirter jet is possible after a bottom end rebuild, the jets lubricate the little end and cool the piston crown and are VERY important.

It doesn't need anything, the mechanic was 'trying it on' to see if you'd wear it. Avoid.

So is that yes manual or no manual available on Polo 9N platform with twincharger engine?

Gotta keep that pointless post count up, been learning from e-roottoot, pretty soon I'm gonna graduate to just repeating what other posters have already said or correcting irrelevant spelling mistakes and typos.

I'm wondering if the cooling fans are coming on once the stat opens and staying on until the car is stopped, it would explain the overcooling. Try disconnecting the fans and taking the car for a run out.

Obviously if there's no pressure in the cooling system and you can remove the cap without a pop then there's a mechanical problem with the system somewhere. Are the radiator fans running at all?

Manual gearboxes for Golf platforms are often larger because there is more room, unless there was a manual option listed this maybe why the Fabia was only available with a DSG.

OMG OCD much!

It will be leaking, that tape is flapping about and the adhesive liquifies at under-bonnet temperatures, the only stuff that's airtight is self-amalgamating tape and that doesn't really like the heat either.

Dude, that hose is covered in elec-chickens tape! It's bound to be split to hell under there. Fix it.

Garages are mongs, they just change whatever the reader says is wrong, they play parts bingo with your money, next it would be the throttle body, then the pedal assembly, then the ECU. I know how their primitive reptile brains work, they don't do the job to fix your car, they do it to get paid, fixing your car is incidental.

Be aware that an OBD reader may indicate a problem with the MAP sensor since that’s the only sensor it can use to detect a leak. Needless to say it won't be the MAP sensor that's at fault.

The cluster has lost it's locale from the battery disconnection and needs to be told it's living in the UK.

It's tricky to find leaks, you need to know where to look and if you don't know what anything is and it just looks like a confusing jumble of wires and pipes under the bonnet with a metal box nestling in the middle of it all then you stand little chance. On countless occasions we've told people where to look for the problem and they just come back and say that everything looks fine. So it can be an exercise in frustration coaching non-technical minds to fault find something they don't understand.

I would be amazed if it hasn't already been changed on the basis of age rather than mileage.

If you use words this is commonly described as surging at idle and it's usually caused by a leak in the vacuum pipework or the intake system.

Why would you want to introduce more lag?

It's a 1.2 petrol so solid.

I doubt replacing the alternator will improve the oil consumption.

The light is flashing because you've removed the fuse, far better to simply short out that half of the switch which tells the ECU you're pressing the brake pedal.

They don't make many RHD, it's a very small market, and once they're all sold that's your lot.

I used to keep big Silica packets under the front seats in my 1.4, that thing had its own microclimate, the 2.0 doesn't seem as bad.

Cranked over means cornering hard, it's biker slang.

The backroads are so bad that an accident is possible if you hit a pothole hard with forty profile tyres while cranked over.