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i dunno Ryan, the furby is old but i dont think its win 98 compatible. you may struggle to find.... drivers...

Ah here lads, unless this is your racing rig, are you even really trying to make it feel more realistic? not mine

if you have the maxidot, go into the vehicle status and it will tell you (along with when you start up) which bulb is showing a fault. i had mine at me intermittently for aaaages about a rear light, but none gone, and then it just went away again.

https://www.volkswagenforum.co.uk/threads/exhaust-gas-temperature-sensor-3-g495-part-number-and-replacement.35810/ part number is here, dont have a layout on it though. different vehicle (T4) but gonna be the same places... https://www.vwt4forum.co.uk/threads/t5-1-p242a-exhaust-gas-temperature-sensor-circuit-bank-1-sensor-3.939313/#:~:text=Sensor 1 is the post,just after the flexible joint.

5k per uear is pretty low mileage too, so im guessing it wasnt ever really "stressed", but then you have the other argument of "not miles for a diesel" so its hard to know really current used car market is a wreck. over here we have the new car issue, but also - the big B word and the new complications around importing 2nd hand vehicles from the UK. the prices are gone as is the duty and vrt etc so less people are doing it now, so theres less second hand stock available too further pushing up prices. i bought my 2013 mk2 octy in 2019. last approx valuation i got for it 6 wks ago online pegs as the same value i paid for it nearly 3yrs ago... great, except that means all the other stuff i couldnt afford then i still cant...

definitely not stuck to the side of the spare wheel well??

i learned the basics of driving in my dads 1993 525i on the driveway at home in about 1997. i was 14/15... my first actual lesson was in a 1.6 civic instructors car. first insurance was on a 2000 1.0 saxo (awful in every way, even as a learner!) then did and passed my test in a 2003 1.1 Getz cdx - electric windows AND sunroof and a cd player! loved that car, was written off by my girlfriend now wifes insurance after she (deeply ironically) low speed crashed into the rear bash beam of an artic lorry full of laptops at a roundabout, on her way home from our rental to sit her driving test the following day... she had to do it in her mothers 07 corsa and failed - unsurprisingly as she had never driven that thing and everything was different - gearbox layout, control stalks backwards, light switches in different place... desperate 😞

dry solder joints on the instrument cluster pcb has been an issue for some in the past, so its not unheard of, but from memory it usually took out the whole dash. that said, it may be it. or it could be the fuel level sender is dying or a short on that circuit. i dont k ow if that would affect starting though 🤔

audio would be ver y good, at least we will know the type of sound properly then

have you checked the brake rotors and pads for any uneven wear? if it is a bearing that wasnt changed then heres a test - it will resonate at harmonics of certain speeds. so, if its loud at 15mph, it should be loud again at 30, and 60 20 would be 40 and 80.

CV joint? check the boots for any holes or signs of leaking grease.

yes, but, my experience of my front wipers coming on one morning and not turning off was solved by pulling the fuse for the rear unit. a very strange electrical gremlin, but thats what happened. i pulled the front fuse to stop them as they were going to wreck themselves dragging on the glass otherwise. then when i put it back in , off they went again. i chanced pulling the rear one (i may have read someone here having the same issue already) and it stopped the constant front wiper movement but i could still use them normally. i left it like that for 2 yrs until i traded it in.

okay, the fuse pulling was what cured mine as it was internal corrosion in the rear unit causing a short that made the front ones come on and stay on. i didnt have time to write that out at the time last night. if the relay is okay, then it may be just be years of gack built up in the steering stalk switch. get a can of contact cleaner and go to town on the stalk switches as a first easy try out. then if no joy open it up and look for damage. if all okay with the switch contacts then its a shorted out wire somewhere along the way

i read your post about the sweating and found it very interesting... in my younger fitter martial arts days i would break a sweat but nothing like the rivers that flow out of me these days. and its not just when running, i mean its like my body says "oh your doing a thing, we better keep you cool". doing stuff isnt even a smidge challenging physically, and yet im gettin sweaty. my diet is quite low in salt overall. i tend to not use much of it when when cooking, barely any tbh. its partially down to that idea that too much salt is bad for your heart and theres a not great heart history on my mothers side, so ive always been aware of my intake and cut it down as much as i could.. so, yeah, my sodium levels may actually be low thus the sweating issue. may have to look at that 🤔

UL (University of Limerick) built a 50m pool as part of a massive sport development complex probably 20yrs ago now (writing that down makes me feel old, i was in school when it was being built). the story put out afterwards was that the site crew "forgot to allow for the thickness of the tiles and adhesive when setting out the concrete shuttering" as it was discovered that it fell approx 30mm short of the competition tolerance... it was absolutely done on purpose as it would have made it only the second full Olympic size race pool in Ireland and so there would have been an expectation of holding competitions there which wasnt part of the university plan - they just wanted to be able to draw in elite level training activities (the sports campus is huge) that they could control and the prestige of having the pool in their prospectus...

your still knocking the door a full km after a month. thats good going and solid progress 💪

thanks @Gerrycan Went out last night and did a 10k in just over 52mins. legs are feeling it this morning, the stiffness is setting in. yeah im not a fan of the evenings either for the same reason. i reckon my prime running time is most likely about 3pm. but i wont get to run at that time of the day until im retired

cool, thats a significant difference then as most pools over here are only 25m in LA pools, a "long" private pool (gym/hotel etc) are typically only 18 to 20) so i have 0 experience of a proper 50m pool (even a 49.8m one )

how long is the pool?

pull the fuse to rear wiper

yeah, see my edit - i missed something! (bit of a theme on this thread )

meh, i dont think the posts needed to be removed, i wasnt taking any offence by it, but... i thought everyone knew if you posted at the weekend you have a much lower chance of a response than mid week - we are all either doing family stuff or working on our own cars then. so, (i had a look) if you ask a question on a saturday, then ask again on Sunday. follow that by posting in a different thread on Monday get a response and reply on Tuesday i dont see that as begging for help... esp when it then takes 2 weeks to come back and finish moaning about getting no help.. edit.. i didnt realise there was clearly other posts today i didnt see...

i knew i was missing (at least) one off my probable sources list.

So.... today is a Sunday.. it is night time. i should be drinking.. instead i went for a run, as swmbo finally admitted on Thursday night that shes sick of waking up at 615am with me and then only dozing until its time to get up, and being tired enough as it is with the migraine etc etc... I had to take that on board and have to accommodate her needs too, so... im back to nights. ooooooh it felt weird. there was more people around and yet it felt as quiet as it does in the mornings. that will change as the evenings stretch out and the clocks change, but for now it is as it is. the running though.. well, thats odd too, but not unexpected. I ran faster! i set off feeling lighter than when im only up 15mins, legs didnt feel like they were still under the duvet gwtting some extra REM sleep weighing me down. so much so after 2k i could feel the cold damp air starting to hurt my airway from sucking harder at the faster rate. mornings this wasnt happening as the lungs were able but legs were not. did my 8k route, and by luck decided to check the distance covered at a "waypoint" marker i use - the turning point on the 6k route, return leg of the 8k - to see how close it actually adds on to do the 8k. it should be about the 5k and it is 4.8km, yeah pretty bang on. but i notice i was only in my 23rd minute... so i pushed a bit and cracked the 25min wall for 5k! i then manged to keep that going and checked again after a few mins... keep it going, keep it going... BAM! sub 30mins for 6k! and finally - 8k in just over 40mins. absolutely nothing award winning about it, but i am feckin buzzed after it. setting a couple of 3rd fastest whatevers and 3 new segment PRs really helped it too probably wont sleep until 2am now though 🙄

what engine code is it though? as there are a couple of them - eg CAYC. its on the chassis sticker under boot carpet and in the service book