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Hi, even if you have to pay to get it sent to the mainland there are a good few transmission specialist that would be capable of fixing it, google it and make a few phone calls, my friend got the brainwave of doing it himself after getting a quote from numerous garages that were eye watering, between four of us putting in the odd ten hour Sunday it took two months and that was an old A3 never mind the minuses on his bank statement. Steve.

Hi be aware that it will need to be coded to the car to work properly if it is full Matrix. Steve.

Hi it was another cheap way of lowering emissions along with a load of others, all endorsed by the Californian Air Resources Board who were the architects of OBD standardisation and everything new had to have fuel injection to even get a look in at being imported into the U.S. Steve.

Now your talking, five gauge steel floor that would take a hole cutting in it, brave man though you only got it wrong once. Steve.

Hi there is a process for resetting on YouTube, it might be a different model but the process is the same for most of them. Steve.

Hi where to begin, a manual conversion is both labour and parts mega consumption, you would have to love it more than the wife to go to that sort of expense, change the following, pedal box, brake master cylinder, new clutch and flywheel, centre console gear change mechanism with associated cables, new manual adapter plate to mount flywheel, the list is endless, much better idea get the old unit fixed or go for a recon unit. Steve.

Hi lovely clear picture, have you per chance shown it to the dealer along with a log of the frequency of the sign appearing. Steve.

Hi its probably the runners for the swirl flaps inside the manifold have seized in theory the flaps are a good idea as they help to cause vortex effect on the incoming air that aids combustion as well as reducing emissions, the big problem is all the cr@p from the EGR gets fed in to the manifold as well, this serves to gunge up the flaps and once stuck will terminate the potentiometer, so best practise is to get another manifold, or fit a delete kit to your existing manifold, either way it will have to come off the engine. Steve.

Hi Gareth thats the most hysterical description of these things I have ever heard, thanks for making my day, anything remotely solid going in a fuel tank sounds very steer clear, everybody else uses liquid additives. Steve.

Hi if you can post a picture that would help rather than trying to guess which one from a multitude of coolant pipes in that area. Steve.

Hi you can just replace the lens but its a bit of a faf, headlight out and getting the old lens and sealant off, plenty of how to do it on YouTube

Hi try Belkin I have a lot of their cables, they are not cheap but last forever. Steve.

Hi VCDS or the much cheaper option is OBD Eleven Pro, just make sure you buy the token bundle, this will allow you to do many other functions such as rear brakes and coding modules that fail as well as DTC information and DTC clearing, coding your battery is easy with that tool. Steve.

Hi if you attach another battery to the jump posts under the bonnet that will preserve the entertainment settings while you change the battery, you will need to buy a cheap pair of rubber gloves to wrap round the terminals once they have been taken off of the original battery to stop them shorting out. new battery must be coded to the car, otherwise as Gareth said it will kill the new battery in record time, Lion batteries are absolute garbage, I am not as polite as Gareth. Steve.

Hi the movement you feel is the travel for the self levelling part of the unit, I.E. when you start the car from cold and turn the lights on the light beam automatically dips and then comes back up to the lighting range module assigned position the only reason I mentioned another headlight is because just to inspect the shutter means a pretty radical strip down, also when you have done the dismantling you may find that there is mechanical breakage and spare parts for the units are rarer than rocking horse manure. Steve.

Hi Gareth, they dont use gaskets anymore just grey sealant cr@p and trust me it leaks, I had my one done twice the second time was with an upgraded racing sealant from Loctite at over £30 for a small tube that was just enough to do the job, the sump will be alloy and they dont normally give trouble unless they have had an impact. Steve.

Hi are the lights projector lenses, if so the clicking you hear is the solenoid that raises [for dipped beam] and lowers for full beam the cut off plate, it sounds like the shutter plate is stuck on the offside, not uncommon sometimes a light tap with a rubber mallet will loosen the plate but if that wont work its a total mechanical failure whereby its more cost effective to replace it with a second hand unit. Steve.

Hi Gareth, I think I may have the answer he said that the old spring was 10mm shorter, possibly snapped?, either way there is a vey thin veneer of detailed information and no point in trying to guess camber angles which you can't adjust without a laser. Steve.

Hi are you sure its the correct spring, I assume that the new spring is 10mm shorter, thats a hell of a difference, have come across this before on my previous cars like when they gave me the sports springs for the front of my Mondeo the thing looked like an eighties custom car, the back in the air and the front on the floor, just get a matching spring for the other side and then get it tracked if the old lower arm is ok it is not worth changing it. Steve.

Hi Golden rule always replace shocks and springs as a pair.

Hi there are no sensors that control the start up its all controlled by the ECU, so any adjustments to the fuelling and air/injection cycles are monitored and fine tuned from there, its all to do with emissions in the old days when there was an enrichment device [choke] the engine would run at higher rpm because the airflow was restricted and the fuel increased, this also increased Hydrocarbon output, these days with the advent of Piezo injectors which can inject or decline to inject up to five times in one cylinder cycle the fuel air ratio is precise and the Hydrocarbons drastically reduced, therefore there is no need to have higher idle at start up, the way its all structured means the engine gets up to running temperature in double time with out the added pollutants. Steve.

If its what I think you are talking about it is under the back seat it sits in the tank, absent any detail as to why that is my educated assessment.

Hi it may well be the tail shaft mount at the back of the gearbox they are a bit prone to going soft, I replaced mine a couple of times the auto and manual use the same mount. Steve.

Hi Cliff think I will join you, lights are on but no one at home.

Hi its yellow so its not life threatening, best solution is get it scanned for faults cold be a selector switch is dodgy. Steve.