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Most aging engines jump at idle, please try and ignore the MFA fuel consumption reading, particularly at idle, it is uselessly inaccurate. There's nothing wrong with your car, it's just getting older.

Thanks, but I don't recall ever seeing the button or the module you describe, the system uses the cars horn as the sounder so I think if it's disconnected it should stay off.

Ok thanks, that's great, I'll try that tomorrow during daylight.

I think all 2.0 MPI are 2001/2002 models which hung around for a long time in showrooms, mine is a 54 plate but it's a much earlier build year, there was only a short run of RHD cars before the factory stopped making them.

So after all these years my car has finally gone wrong, the alarm system has started going off randomly and I'd like to permanently disable it without affecting the central locking or the immobiliser, can I just pull a fuse or is it more complicated than that?

Trying to make a turbo diesel sound like a turbo petrol is the problem, without a straight through exhaust you won't hear the stupid noises so it's completely pointless.

Oh my god, will you just DRIVE the bloody thing and stop buying it stuff, it'll never sleep with you no matter how nice you are to it!

A bit over the top on a 15 year old car, it'll be another 15 years before it needs to come off again by which time the tinworm will have eaten it.

Use lazy tongs, the rivets are too big and hard for a conventional riveter, you can buy the correct rivets from your dealer.

You could also tell us what it's doing, the 1.4 16V is so well known to some of us that simply telling us what the symptoms are may get you the answers you seek.

That small black cylinder is a solenoid valve, it has vacuum in from the pump, controlled vacuum out and a vent to the airbox so it can add small amounts of clean air to vary its vacuum output.

I think this unit may fit but it depends on the parking brake gear, there is another one for the later DSG box also used in the Mark 6 Golf: https://shop.quaife.co.uk/shop/differentials/quaife-atb-differentials/qdf19r/

Tell her it's ok to mix spirits but to stay away from the whine.

They all do the same thing, my preference is for the Quaife ATB differential, but others here have fitted the Wavetrac unit with similarly good results, it comes down to cost ultimately since they're all alike. You won't believe the difference in traction.

Wow, you make it all sound so interesting. I bet you drive an extra 10 miles to save a quid on a tankfull. My 2.0 may be thirsty but it more than makes up for it by literally costing f**kall in repairs over the last five years, it's just SO reliable.

I assumed you were already microdosing...

It's hopeless, the ECU really has no idea how much fuel is in the tank, it uses an algorithm to approximate how much fuel is being injected, but since the mileage measurement isn't accurate either it really can't be trusted.

The only cure is a LSD, even then you'll need to put your lead foot away and use more delicate throttle control.

That readout is not accurate and can be safely ignored.

Don't laugh, it's not funny, most mechanics are useless these days.

Sounds like the job got botched, the pipework may have been damaged during refitting.

When I tested the blue wire at the back of my radio it didn't stay live so I just spliced straight into the yellow or red switched live, I can't remember which, it was a long time ago.

It's not, it's for a slaved amplifier, without wanting to repeat myself I had to connect it to the switched live using a scotchblock.

You should connect it to the switched live at the back of the radio.

No, you're being a tart. Grab a cassock and go and join the vicars in the kitchen.