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Halfrauds 🙂 Yeah, our local council closed the main road down the road from our local car accessory shop, and built a new road which eventually lead past Halfrauds! Hence the passing traffic dried up, and it closed, which was a shame because although it was a very small shop it had 4 guys working in it as it was popular for spares and was very helpful. A second local shop has closed too 😞

looks good value!

https://www.temu.com/goods.html?_bg_fs=1&goods_id=601099520300992&_x_msgid=210-20240418-02-B-722880903952879617-506-BVKSSzYX&_x_src=mail&_x_sessn_id=dxdauc18dq&refer_page_name=bgt_order_detail&refer_page_id=10045_1713548630903_svrmd17jhe&refer_page_sn=10045 Always handy to have these in stock.... And cheap too

Pah! They can do one!!

Hope the insurance police aren’t watching. 🥸

Nice one Thanks

The mats (the cup holder double one doesn't quite work as is but if you cut the straight bit out and separate them, it does for each cup holder) The caps If you get the caps, you need to use an alcohol wipe and make sure all the areas of the panel are squeaky clean before you offer it up. Line it up properly with the protective tapes removed and then use a LOT of downward pressure to make sure it sticks. (check they fit before removing the tapes)

Hi all, I got my manometer and took a reading where all seemed fine. Low pressure was 0.6kpa and high was 0.62kpa rising to 3.2kpa low, 7.5kpa high at at 3000rpm. Certainly nowhere near the figures Launch was giving me. I tried running car with DPF sensor disconnected and it immediately threw up the DPF Full on the dash board, so clearly working ok. Reconnected and left it at that. Been for a 40 mile drive and no codes appeared. Last Regen was reported as 90,000m (90km) ago so fairly recent. Fingers crossed the old car is sorted now. Glad this thread has helped a few folk out including me.

Isn't it annoying how easy things look in the videos, rarely like that in real life in my experience. So which horn/s did you use?

So... at 105 k, do you have any idea of your oil consumption ? I don't want to drive any car revving it to 6000 rpm. I am simply not enjoying it. That's also why I don't want the cvt. Will have to go back to the turbo powered engines again in some time. I wouldn't mind the revving if real power came in exchange for it. But with the aygoX cvt and auris 1.8 hsd, I didn't get any power for the noise it makes.

That little mat looks useful. Do you have a link to it at all? Damned if I can find it on AliExpress Thanks

Troop.

Great comment, I've been on a motorway trip to Leicestershire today, and with a couple of points on the M1 being reduced to 50mph due to roadworks, nobody was going faster than me anyway.

Ah, the good ole days, I remember buying Duckhams QXR back in the day, but as you say it disappeared, bit like the car accessory shops that sold it, shame cos then just got stuck with boring Halfrauds.

Has anyone located the speaker location that emits the bong?

They used to say duckhams fu##@hms,

Forgot to mention: My friend says that the internals of the DPF was removed when they did the DPF delete.

Completed some cosmetic stuff today, courtesy of AliExpress (lol!) Piano black caps for all the doors to complete the look started(!) by Toyota! (cheapskates that they are!) (just noticed that I took that photo before I'd wiped it off properly!) Plus a full set of appropriately blue piped non-slip mats for all the various orifices that could generate rattling noises if objects are left in them! ...and yes, I know I've covered the wireless charger with a mat but since I was able to re-install my phone bracket to almost the same place as in the Red Baron, it will only get used rarely anyway... The mats work really well especially the one in front of the passenger seat where SWMBO tends to dump her house keys! 🤣

Hi all! I have an Avensis T27 2009, 126 hp D-4D. The car has served me well for 15 years now, and there is still a lot of car left. However, I have this issue: It all started with a lot of grey smoke from the exhaust a while back. A friend of a friend of mine (who is a mechanic), did a DPF and EGR delete in the ECU. The smoke is gone now, but I have a strange problem: When I start the engine, I am able to activate the electronic speed limiter. However, after approx. half a minute, the speed limiter function is disabled, together with the gear shift indicators. If I stop the engine for a few minutes, the electronic speed limiter, cruise control, and gear shift indicators are back.....but only for another 30 seconds. In addition, when I drive "long haul", the car goes into a limp mode without showing any dashboard lights. When this happens, I am not able to keep more than 50-60 kph in moderately steep uphills (flat out in 3rd gear). If I stop the engine for some minutes, the power is back...but only for a while. This only happens when driving long stretches. When driving short trips, the power is there....albeit with the electronic speed limiter, cruise control and gear shift indicators being disabled after 30 seconds. Fun fact: During winter, when the tempartures were low, I could drive for more than 30 seconds before the car disables the speed limiter and the gear shift indicators.....maybe up to 5-10 minutes. The car has been diagnosed by another tuning company. They found fault code P0488 (EGR), P2002 (DPF) and C1249 (ABS/VSC/TRC). They have flashed the ECU with new software twice now, but the symptoms are the same.....No electronic speed limiter, no cruise control and no gear shift indicator after 30 seconds...and limp mode without dashboard lights when driving long stretches. In a desperate attempt, I took off the EGR valve, discovering there was no blanking plates there. I installed blanking plates for both sides of the EGR valve and checked/cleaned the terminals for the EGR plug....but this did not fix the issue. I am about to give up now.... Any help is very much appreciated

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I am a member of the VWROC and we allow members from Oz as they basically get the same vehicles as the UK. One benefit has been the number of MK8 Golf owners who have been able to reject their cars due to software issues because the consumer laws are so much stronger in Oz than here. Anyway I digress...enjoy your new car.

That's a matter for that particular forum. Not relevant to here.

Hi, need to tow a friends Corolla a short distance. I had a look under the the front and can see a large D shaped closed hook under the engine, and some other hooking points on either end of the front underside. Is the one under the engine designed/suitable to be used for towing? Thanks!

I have actually joined the VW UK forum in March this year and its been very helpful but the only irritating feature is members from Australia and other far flung countries seem to comment on issues that don't relate to UK vehicles very odd. I could have sworn the Forum is for UK VAG vehicle owners only.

Thanks again CPN that’s really helpful Mine is 2017 but I’m guessing nothing too much is different from the later Mk 4’s