Rybrook

My A3 actually does this, but I know it's been abused and not been looked after, (it's 9 owner village bike) The dq250 in the Passat is flawless but again it's the 6 speed wet clutch. Does the car roll back when facing uphill?

I can't really comment on the tfsi as I have a 3.2 vr6. With mine it's secondary air injection to warm the cats, I get raised idle and slightly more vibration. If it behaves with the maf disconnected then there is a problem with it.

If I might, this is similar to my Passat well the engine I have a CRLB 148hp so a 35 in Audi language. I have the 6 speed dq250. So not the same but the final drive should be. What mode are you driving in? I find it's not a rapid thing TBH, it will happily overtake a couple of cars quite easily on the motorway. When you say stutter into reverse, is that when you select R and it hesitate before you move?

Is that not normal for a cold start? My 3.2 has a lumpy raised idle of first cold start. I don't move off until the revs drop down.

Today I fitted the sound pipe from a MK2 TT 3.2. I had to shave the mounting brackets off the main pipe because of the A3 not having the same size bay. Now it sounds like having TB's but in the cabin. Might not be for some but if you have a standard vr6 with no mods it makes it slightly throatier.

There is a shaped lip in the seat of the shock, I've built them with the oval end down in the shock and the bearing on the flatter round end facing up. I actually replaced the front shocks on my Passat this morning, and indeed it's upside down with the flat round end upward to seat against the bearing.

The 100w bulbs will either melt the wires or the bulb itself will melt the housing. They are for off road only and are not e marked to use safely on the road. I did this years ago in my MK4 astra, had to replace the bulb holders. TBH if no one has replied then they either don't know or haven't tried,

Hi guys, Getting ready to replace the front knuckles, struts and was wondering which way up the coils go. I watched two YouTubes, remove and replace that say the oval shaped end sits in the shock seat and the round end up top that nicely fits the bearing. (This way the stamped KYB and code is upside down) I watched a couple of Mk5/6/7 golf vids also from autodoc and they have the oval end up with the bearing and round in the shock seat. (The stamps are correct) Then looking at pictures of removed shocks from scrapers, the oval end is up top difficult to see fully but you can make out the round bearing and an elongated end of the coil. This has me stumped, can anyone enlighten me please?

You need to get the non Bose loom, this will allow the head unit to activate the amp in the sub and you get rear speakers working too.

Best thing to do is get a sniffer for the coolant header tank, it will detect any exhaust gases in the coolant. I once bought a Volvo 850 that a bubbly dipstick tube, I changed the oil pcv pipes and it never showed up again. It could just be the short runs that are being done.

As a follow up, I have replaced the OSF shaft with an Apec, also replaced the NSF outer CV and kept original shaft. The bolts on the output flange on the NSF all sheared off and nearly ruined the car, luckily I wasn't on the motorway, had just moved off on a slightly busy roundabout. Took a day to do

I'll get the new ones, it's actually quite hard to find the correct ones.

It's not wise but will keep it on the road longer. I will probably get the pair of new ones, I had issues with the offside inner boot on the last MOT, the garage put a bigger boot on and it just popped off as it scrapped on the sump edge.

The top display will stay blank for radio use, will still flash up self test errors on start up.

Yes it means second hand, I'll have to check the inner cup joints, there's a different between manual and dsg, and also differs between years as to which cups are used. I've heard stories about J&R coming up short but I had no issues when I had a new shaft for my import Mazda. I have found new Golf r32 shafts, both manual and dsg so may end up getting them. I did have one found in Germany, but let it go on eBay.