Scirocco Central

I had noise on my old A1, ordered a new motor, dropped the old one, found a carrier bag wrapped in amongst it. Similar thing Id assume.

Guys, looking for some help. This issue doesn’t affect the car when cold, and usually will start when hot if you don’t touch the throttle but sometimes even that makes no difference. It will crank and not start, then after maybe 8 or 10 tries it’ll go. If you give it throttle it sounds like a bag of...

:vibes: I’ve seemingly sorted all my issues, aside from the lack of AC as the rad is disconnected from the alloy pipe. I’m assuming it’s had a smack? It’ll wait till the summer. I found my SB24 fuse issue and smoke in the engine bay. Turns out the auxiliary/additional coolant pump had seized. Lookin...

Cheers buddy. Getting there slowly.
Got a pic with my daughters 16MY this week.

Checking a fault code on the front fans it appears I have a fuse24 issue in the engine bay fuse panel. Popped in a 10A fuse which glowed brightly before popping and a pungent smoke emanated up from behind the radpack. Disconnected the EGR throttle flap and replaced a smaller fuse and it still popped...

Just driven to Norwich from South Wales, 60-75mph variable for almost 300 miles and got 63mpg from a 2Litre

Thanks Kris, so happy with where she is. I also found the when they PO did the egr cooler delete due to water in the exhaust that he hasn’t tightened the V-band clamp which was why my cabin was stinking of diesel exhaust when not on recirc! :rolleyes: Today I fitted the second of my handbrake cables...

That’s better.

Just got a message from my coaters, he sent me this pic of my freshly coated spare wheels in Ghost Chrome.
Can’t wait to fit them.

Just finished repairing my wiring. Soldered my new plug into the rear accel sensor loom and my DCC is now operational. Erwin indicated wiring to the plug was 1-Brown, 2-Black, 3-Blue but eBay used parts showed the wiring to be different with wire 1&2 swapped. I was gonna ask here for actual conf...

New (to me) used rear NS caliper fitted this evening by my lad as the original was sticking and causing a hot rear disc. Also changed out a rusty rear handbrake cable on the OS at the same time.

VWs up to a certain year suffer from can gateway caused battery drain after swapping stereos to aftermarket ones. Usually a can gateway upgrade cures this. Not saying yours has that issue but disconnect the head unit for a couple of days to see if the drain stops. Had an issue with my old Transporte...

Then it’s just the plug removal and fish out the loom and feed back in the new loom in reverse order of removal.

Here are the pics of the headlight loom removal from a damaged light. Loom may come in handy for someone with a problematic or burned up headlight loom. There’s a plastic clip holding the loom as indicated by the screwdriver, one small tiewrap to cut, twist the sidelight module until you can pry out...

Well, yesterday I stripped the OS door assy to get at the window regulator/mounts to square up the glass where the PO had changed the reg but not aligned it. Wind noise at speed or in a RH bend was terrible. Removed the door card and the inner panel, but before commencing I defeated the latch so the...

If anyone has smashed headlights, the inner looms from them are great to repair corroded wiring issues. Easy enough to strip out too.👍 May be handy for members with issues. I’ve ordered an aftermarket headlight anyway as mine has damaged brackets, once I fit it, I’ll get some pics as I remove the su...

Will do mate. Thanks for the advice once again.

Was this actually a comfort module after all? I’ve found if your ignition barrel is sticking when you pull out the key and you don’t hear the steering lock being applied, I cannot lock the vehicle nor get into the boot. If I push the key back into the ignition and turn it on then sort of make an exa...

Cheers Kris, still not sorted the alloys, however, been driving the Scirocco today and I have a couple of extra issues to sort. Brakes and suspension now all sorted, rear shocks, brakes all round, drop links front and rear, and I visited a breakers earlier looking for a OS headlight and wiring plug ...

No offence taken matey. Appreciate your comments. I would normally have swapped both, but they were done a matter of months before I got it, however. Due to the stuck caliper, one disc had warped. That caliper has since been replaced. I will take the comment and keep an eye on the pads. The previous...