mac11irl
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i am so sleep deprived... i really need to retrain myself to go to sleep earlier. anyway, up and out just after 640, but needed to be back for 730, swmbo had to go to pick up school uniforms but also be back for a zoom training course ahead of back to work. so, i tackled Long Hill, but stopped at the top of the horrible climb to be back in time. i also figured out on Frid how to make segments from your logged route. so i made one from the gate to the top of the long hill climb. that average gradient thing is annoying. part of the climb is over 25%! but its not obvious. anyway, its nice to be able to log better sections now that i have done, and will keep doing. that top loop bit on my woodland route is a lap which id like to be able to look at oroperly, and now i can, once i pull it out later.
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replace the temp sensor id imagine.. it may look fine but, but could be damaged anyway. even try unplugging it. the ecu will assume a default value and work to that.
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i just learned a LOT in this thread..
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if you look at the build sticker in the boot or service book, it clearly says what engine code you have in the car, then your not assuming anything...
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yup, mechanism is the same for all of them. middle, push in, twist, pullout
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hi @Charlyss are you definitely sure its the motors? if neither window is working, if say theres a good chance its the switches or wiring loom is damaged.
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see my progress thread... im matching you nasty hill climb gradients in a couple of spots
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update... i just discovered i xan access my strava account on my work laptop and look at the route in much better detail. this the climb. . any wonder i had to get off for minute... edit.. another little adjustment if the cursor and its 26.3%. going up there again over the weekend, ill get a photo of it
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well after an evening where i found out my 3yr old niece tested positive for covid on Tuesday, 8 days after she was hacking and coughing when we met up over the BH wkend, for the first time since Spud Jr was born!!! and spud sr complaining of a scratchy throat the last 2 days.... i slept... sporadically. but i dragged my sorry arse out of the bed and went for a pedal. tackled long hill for the first time on the Sentier. wind kept knocking it over trying have it on the rock stack for the photo. i set the worlds 6th fastest time (on strava) for pedalling up there so pretty chuffed its a horrible ascent though, lost traction on the steepest bit and had to push up about 100m of it to get level enough ground to get going again. total time to get there, and trip total... the west to east dogleg in the middle is the uphill rote, the straight line is the faster way back from the holy year cross. cant pedal up that yet. the long hill climb starts at about the 5km point and peakes at about 6.5km its a dirty dirtyhill, because the top bit is reasonably flat, so the segment gradient appears kinda shallow at around 7.5%... but that climb is definitely more like 15+ percent
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is everyrhing tightened up priperly at the back end after the work being done and have you the tracking done after all that suspension work?
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okay, a slightly better couple of nights sleep, and i got up and out this morning. slightly chopped the route as i was about 20mins late leaving the house, and the tree cutting operation has expanded to now occupy a fairly sizeable chunk of the forest with "no unauthorised access" signs. so im gonna have to go somewhere else for my next ride out. i shall tackle the "long hill" climb instead a few times i think. means nor forestry fun, but a fairly tooth rattling descent from the top that havnt tried yet on the new bike. todays ride was also slow... the bloody headwind was strong enough to make me need to drop back a gear on the flat section before i even started climbing! i also got blown a good foot to the right while mid air off a pretty small jump (bump in the ground) on the firs short drop between 2 hills, maybe 18inches off the ground and landed on a totally different line to where i was plannning! it overall meant i was 4mins slower than PB to the peak of the main climbing section.... anyway, tomorrow or friday is another day. probably friday, ive site meetings to go to tomorrow, so i cant be faffing around in the morning.
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Belfast seems small from up there, @UndertheRadar
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Dia dhuit @jakeandrewmccabe tá mé thios í Tiobraid Árainn. you made me break more gaeilge there than i think ive used since me LC in 2002
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mmmm..... yeah, its hard to know to be honest, as i have a fuel card for place and tend to buy mostly diesel and "regular unleaded" for swmbo's car im not sure what the super availability is like, though CirceK do have a premium petrol and diesel options. .. will have a better look around over the next couple of weeks and report back
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so last night was an utterly beyond terrible nights sleep, but i needed to get out and clear my head this morning before the first day back in work after holidays. dont let the avg speed fool you, it wasnt a good trip. glad i did it, but just unhappy over all. not a good night or day today.
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aaaaand..... another night of interrupted sleep means another morning i physically couldnt get out of the bed. back to work tomorrow too, after my 2 wks off, so i really need some decent sleep tonight
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got a clear spell between the weather rainfall warnings yesterday morning, standard 16.5k route. nothing spectacular time wise but it was good to be out, esp as id spent from 3-430am half asleep on the floor beside spud jr's cot after he woke up roaring 🤦♂️ bloody rain woke me this morning at 4am, and i got back asleep around 5. alarm went off and i just stopped it, lay on my back and fell asleep again.. shouldve gotten up. wish id gotten up.
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nice one, glad you found an answer! its an unusual one alright though, i never realised theres a valce in the oil filter🤷♂️ never mind one that could cause that amount of noise
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Patrick, from Galway, but Cork in your username.... you can take the man of the Peoples Republic, but cant take the Republic out of the man? im in Clonmel by the way, welcome to Brisky
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its what the passat should be
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whats the engine behave like over 3k? does it settle down again? is it worse in some gears than others?
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hi, whats the engine code of your car? that will help the diagnosis milage, age, when was last service, timing belt/ water pump replacement etc. any other symptoms? do the revs stay stable when idling?
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is it the actual light switch you have to jiggle or the steering wheel stalk? i presume the main light switch. take out the switch unit and check all the contacts for corrosion and frayed wires. give the plug connectors a good clean with the electric contact cleaner and a cloth. put it back in a see if it makes any difference.
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meh, depending on the weather and where the car is parked up it could easily still be "half hot" after a couple of hours. when my insignia was losinh coolant i could watch it steaming out from the bonnet shut lines when i was sitting in traffic sometimes. i always kept it topped up until we found the source and it was grand. that engine was just terrible in a hundred ways anyway, but had no bad incidents during the hunting... driving around with 2 gallons of coolant in the boot at all times for a couple of weeks was nerve racking though...
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theres a list of members with vcds in the diagnostics section iirc. should be someone around though
