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If it's different to engine speed then look for something loose like exhaust heat shielding.

I'm not suggesting replacing the parts, simply paying the necessary labour to get them cleaned so they are as good as new. Clogging and blockages only happen to old dirty parts.

Why do you think that spending a few hundred quid constitutes a huge repair bill? You'll spend a vast amount more changing cars, thousands of pounds which will just slide off in depreciation. If you're worried about the EGR and DPF then get them properly cleaned before they go wrong, prevention is always better (and cheaper) than cure.

Set up for LHD.

Get the original tensioner, it'll outlast the rest of the car.

Drums give you a much stronger handbrake, discs are better at scrubbing off speed, faster cars have rear discs because there is far less weight transfer when braking at high speed. Drums are always cheaper for the manufacturer.

Stage 3 They're tugging at your waistband, go elsewhere. There'll be a stock map for a 1752 available from someone for half the price, shop around.

Looks like a good deal, I'm guessing that price is exchange without surcharge.

I know, you have like a ginormous thingy, you may have mentioned it in passing once or twice. I doubt anyone else noticed, but I have an eye for these things from being in the tuning trade for so long. So an electronic actuator that pulls needs a completely different map to one that pushes?

You keep saying this but I don't understand why you think it makes any difference. Obviously you need to use the appropriate actuator with the applicable turbo but if you're swapping out the entire turbo assembly it makes no difference whatsoever.

They both do exactly the same job and fit the same, they're simple devices and from a technical perspective are almost identical. The manufacturers have both been around for donkeys years except Borg Warner used to be KKK, I guess they got rebranded because of the negative connotations with white supremacy.

The actuator comes with the turbo, VAG only sell them as a complete assembly.

It is humour, just wry and dry is all.

Yes, the SRS box contains an accelerometer which cuts the pump and sets off the airbags and pretensioners. Since you haven't had a full deployment it can't be this. You must have damaged the pump or the relay.

Yes it can. A lot.

Yes.

Yes and yes.

Do try and keep up, I realised my mistake three hours after that post, not three days.

Haha, so it is, I'm not really a 'visual' person.

It's a huge crack and another smaller one, that caliper needs replacing urgently. Some idiot has smashed hell out of it with a lump hammer.

Power Assisted Steering.

Massive current drain sounds like the PAS pump might be running when it shouldn't. That would affect the idle and the voltage.

If this is your first three cylinder car then you'll notice it's not as smooth as a four cylinder engine, it's perfectly normal and nothing to worry about.

I think Darkside give customers what they want and relieve them of their money in return, anyone who wants a popcorn limiter is an idiot anyway and deserves whatever they get.

An exhaust swap alone will not increase power, babies like to go BWAAAAHHHHHH. It's basically impossible to improve on the standard system so if you can afford it replace like with like.