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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.

Hi only way to find out is by having a diagnostic scan which should throw up the fault. Steve.

Hi why do you think all car manufacturers refer to the UK as Treasure Island, because they can sell us basic models for a premium rate without telling you what else is available as I said before a lot of extras are built into the cars but have to be activated, take a look at youtube thats how I got the key fob activated opening and closing going as well as the auto mirror tilting when reversing, all done with VCDS. It was all there just needed waking up. Steve.

Hi the item in the previous post looks just about right, I at first baulked at the idea of paying for a diagnostic device until my wife pointed out how many evenings I had come home stressed to the eyeballs about a light on the dash or it wasn't running right keeps missing and then we had the day off afterwards to go book it in to the garage I use, then driving round with the problem for a couple of days before it went in. My Wife and Daughter forced the issue seventeen years ago by making me choose a unit and that was my birthday present, I have never looked back since as I have built my unit up with different generic softwares and cables the latest being VCDS which has paid for itself ten times over, I had only had my car two years and it started what I would term as misfire , plugged it in and got a code for oxygen sensor bank 1, bearing in mind I had no light on the dash I bought another sensor for £60 and changed it in twenty min, saved myself a ton of labour and the garages mark up on the part, I can change my own rear pads as I have the parking brake service mode facility I even changed the throttle body on my daughters Q3 and readapted that, should you wish get the basic unit but I guarantee you will be looking to upgrade sooner than you think as if you work out what you save on garage bills its a no brainer. Steve

Its not a leaking valve problem they all do it if you let them sit for to long the oil in the valve syphons back.

Hi OBD Eleven is a good shout especially if you get the Pro version as this has most of the functions that VCDS has, part of the problem lies with not retrieving codes which will tell you whats going on inside the cars Can Bus system, loss of communication etc, I do not believe for one second that the ECU has gone west but if you get the correct manufacturer specific software platform you can code new parts to the car I.E.new battery, make adjustments, read live data whilst running, perform readapting of new parts, without the DTC reading facilities its like going to your doctor and telling him your nose hurts he will certainly want to look up it and pull it about a bit and have a blood test done. If as you say you have worked with Can Gateway systems before this should be a piece of Pixx for a man of your calibre and enable you to erase all the one time two years ago codes that are probably taking up valuable storage space in the various control modules on the car, I get it on my cab and once a month I have a clear out of all the random codes like the boot motor implausible signals where some Wassoc has tried to shut it by hand rather than use the button to close it, there are NO fuses in the instrument cluster and if you get a diagnostic unit you won't be flying blind anymore or relying on garages to tell you whats wrong and OBD Eleven is about a third of the price of VCDS. Steve.

Hi if you are going for new discs all round just buy the high carbon drilled discs as if you get drilled and grooved they are very noisy when having to stop about half way through the pad life and if you look at most standard performance brakes on say Merc/Porsche they are drilled only, apart from which grooved discs annihilate the pads in record time. Steve.

Hi good skills, you have saved another future classic from knackers yard, top choice, no other feeling in the world like blasting down the motorway during the summer, windows down soaking up that wonderful howl. Steve.