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Hi to be honest they all do that after about a year as the coating from the factory is only about two microns thick unfortunately if you want better you will have to take the wheels off and purchase some VHT paint and using a good quality paint brush do it your self on a nice hot day where you can give them a nice thick coating it will last the life of the disc. Steve.

Hi if you go to an ordinary garage and they have the later Snap on or Autocom system that should flush out the relevant info. Steve.

Hi have you had a look at the tyres as the budget versions tend to be noisy when worn. Steve.

Hi good find and thanks for publishing it, if the people who have the problem can be bothered to look its a great piece of information, well done. Steve.

Hi who came up with the immaculate diagnosis that the battery is fine, the times I have seen this and when the car is plugged and scanned it throws up a load of non communication faults caused by low voltage, you really do have to have it plugged in and check the date on the battery, the electronic steering uses a lot of voltage. Steve.

Hi the most common place for wiring to break is where the door loom travels into the bodywork as for the headlights its normally corrosion in the connection socket that plugs into the back of the unit, bad earthing is the most likely culprit that causes no end of weired problems especially with the shutter system that controls high beam and low beam. Steve.

Hi Steve is right its normally is the font passenger seat where it gets moved back and forth try disconnecting it and give the terminals a good soak with electrical cleaner, gets rid of years of crud build up, the only sign of a bad ballast is flickering of the light or no light at all. Steve.

Hi Tony the indicators work ok and at £13.00 as you say its worth a punt, they also do a conversion for the existing headlights but from memory it involves taking them apart, dunno about you but I think I can find a better use for twelve hours and having to build a sweat box to get the lense glue to soften up.

Hi Tony I did think about it with mine when I got it but when I looked at the retrofit headlight units for around £600 per pair at the bottom end of the market it suddenly made me think, do I really want this that badly, then there is my American brother in laws favourite saying, if it aint broke don't fix it. Steve.

Hi have you checked the turbo pipes as boost leak would cause similar symptoms . Steve.

Hi I am pretty sure you can't do it without retrofitting the headlights and tail lights with the pulsing LEDs fitted in them already, these come with some sort of heath Robinson control units for the rears and the fronts will be built in to the headlight unit, all available from some very exotic parts of the world with no known track record of ever building these items for O.E. Steve.

Hi if you read the full thread according to matey there was nothing wrong with anything you suggested checking and despite requesting milage and any codes that may be present he still held the health check line and claimed to have never driven the car hard despite claiming it went like a rocket with the remap, Cliff and Gareth gave it a more than fair go, unfortunately it would appear that you to are wasting your breath, all good suggestions made by yourself which I would endorse, and as they say, what we have here is failure to communicate, there are some men you just can't reach......... Steve.

Hi thats not the part number thats a manufacturer number, and yes it detaches from the fan pack it is either one or two torx screws and a couple of wiring clips to each fan they do a replacement unit on line for about £70. Steve.

Hi I think if his doing this on a 2022 model it would lead you to believe it works.

Just looked on youtube there is guy on there showing you how to use OBD Eleven on his 2022 RS3 and one of the things available on the activation list was high beam assist.

Best place to look is Youtube, they have a lot about the Gen 2 capability.

Hi its the fan control unit which Sits on the fan shroud its a silver box you can't miss it as it has cables running to each fan motor these normally go stupid at some point and are plug in and play. Steve.

Hi, by the look of the milage on the cars you are looking at I very much doubt they would need that sort of process as long as the car is run on decent fuel it should never need it I have looked at the process in depth and for what it actually removes its more of a placebo effect, save your money for a decent fuel additive which does the same thing and costs less. Steve.

HI the best thing to do is get it plugged in and scanned for faults, other than that it could be any of the following, throttle body, plugs, coil packs, low fuel pressure, if you see what I am driving at I guarantee there will be a dtc or two in there which will identify the problem. Steve.

Yeah I see your logic as most modern car owners haven't even got a basic socket set but seem to be tech savvy which is a shame really as if you purchase something like OBD Eleven Pro for about £140 that has the same level as VCDS when it comes to coding and activation, bit like a starter kit and if you don't want to go any further so be it. Steve.

Hi I wish you luck as it is not for want of trying and I think your analysis may well be correct, thats the problem with the later cars and yours every thing is daisy chained together so if one part fails it might be caused by the next part down the line beginning to fail, bit like MAF and MAP sensors they communicate but 9/10 times you just get a code for the MAF so if you replace it the problem reoccurs as its really the MAP that was failing. Steve.

Hi Ken, totally correct as unfortunately this seems to be an ongoing problem with VAG engines from late 2007-2014 they really should have done a recall but were just content to keep selling the new and improved tensioner, I am going to see the garage I use for cam belts and clutches he has over forty years knowledge of dealing with this type of thing and will no doubt give me his honest no nonsense opinion on what happened in your case. Steve.

Hi it looks like the ECU has locked itself out because it thinks it is being stolen which I think may be the immobiliser which is mounted in the cluster, just try this before you hurl the unit back to ECU Testing, disconnect both battery terminals and touch them together for thirty seconds and then reconnect the battery if that won't work its probably the cluster in which case give them a ring and email the diagnostic scan to them its guaranteed which is a plus but if you explain what happened after the refit I am sure they will be able to help you, at least you know its not the ECU. Steve.

Yep but what I was trying to point out was why pay them when you can do it yourself without going through the British Embassy is all you need is VCDS.

Hi oil pressure is virtually instant it has to be or the big ends will knock, I don't know what milage you have done but if you have never changed the chain/tensioner it is of the old variety, most hydraulic tensioners have a spring inside which holds the position of the piston against the chain for a couple of seconds until the pressure from the oil arrives, VAG in their infinite wisdom chose to use another design which uses a ratchet system similar to a rack on steering, the idea is that the ridges on the piston when the oil pressure drops engage with a small male ridged pawl that sits above it and stop the piston moving back maintaining the pistons position against the chain mechanically, my guess is the pawl on your unit has failed and stripped its teeth away allowing the piston absent oil pressure to go further into the tensioner housing therefore making the distance to engaging with the chain far greater than normal and allowing it to jump, apparently this is quite a common problem and guess what VAG now do an upgraded version with a spring in it. Steve.