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This topic is no longer relevant I'm afraid...

Certainly works

Did the repair actually hold air?

This is an old post been resurrected by someone...

VCDS can do the pump relearn. As regards haldexrepairs, I was talking to him at length about my problem, in fact some of the pictures he's using on his guide are ones I screen shot while I was fault finding for him. He's a good lad.

Holy moly...

If you lock your keys in the car, the only way to unlock it is with the spare key or retrieve the first key. Easiest way is smash the rear quarterlight, hook the key, unlock the car, drive home. New window is £65 plus a bit of labour (only slightly more than the Autoaid subscription). Gorilla turns up and uses steel bars and pry tools to force the rear door open enough to gain access to the rear hatch area. Except he bent the door out of shape, mullered the top of the window frame, bent and dented the roof above the door inquestion, damaged all the trim on the rear hath sliding cover, the rear seat mechanism, the rubber door seals (both bonded to the door frame & window and also removable ones round the door). Autoaid were useless in any way with ansqwering the questions as to how and why it happened and their insurers just informed me that because my wife had signed a blank form on completion that they accepted that as evidence she was happy with the work done. The fact that the disclaimer was supposed to be signed BEFORE any work was done or damage caused was lost to them. Absolutely useless. Wife was okay.

They phoned me and asked if I was going to renew. I asked if they were recording the call and she confirmed they were, so I let rip. I told her in no uncertain terms that the gorilla they sent out to help when my wife locked the keys in the car caused £2200 of damage to my car. I asked if she could give me any reasonable grounds for spending money on their service again, and she (apparently) knew nothing about it because it wasn't noted on their system. So I said "Make a f**kin note of it then, and in big letters next to it make a note that anyone else who rings me up will get a complete bollocking!"

What make of tyres are fitted? And do they meet the minimum load and speed rating for the car? I wouldn't be surprised if someone put some cheaper, lesser load rated tyres on at somepoint.

I always find the manufacturers recommended pressures too low, and I up mine by a bit. Tyres always wear evenly for me, but I'm not sure what the wear would be if I stuck to OEM. Currently running the Yeti at 3bar all round, and the Tiguan at 2.8bar. if you think they look sift and are wearing oddly then nothing to lose by upping them.

Reads to me like it's an accident damaged car which has been parked up. MOT expired in 2015 and is declared SORN. Certainly looks like it's been there for some time.

Toasters don't work in a power cut, but gas rings do.

On a Golf R the rear axle is centre diff & driveshafts as it's 4x4.

Nice advert.

It'll actually be less confusing than at present. Currently there's no standard for fuel nozzle / pump labelling. Manufacturers and suppliers can pretty much use whatever colour they want for the nozzles, and generally it's green for unleaded petrol and black for diesel. But green is used for standard unleaded and also super unleaded and people fill up with high octane fuel by mistake all the time, while diesel is sometimes yellow but mostly black, and again the same colour is used for high cetane diesel with the same results.

The fuel hasn't changed, only the labelling system. E5 is still 5% biofuel petrol and B7 is still 7% biofuel diesel. As it has been for about 10 years or more.

Yep, had the pumps restickered today at the wife's place of work. Not much more confusing is it... Circles for petrol, squares for diesel. Yet the pump nozzles are both still round. Make diesel a square pump nozzle and a square hole in the filler and it'd make sense.

It's a redesign of the Renault Vel Satis from about 20 years ago

Jaguar didn't make the hearse, they're built by a custom coach builders in the aftermarket.

Who's asked you to get involved Tony?

Until the finance is cleared (including the final balon payment) then the car doesn't being to him, it still belongs to the finance company. Ultimately, it wasn't his car to modify.

That's for the right to climb. Take in guide fees, Sherpa wages etc. And the cost is in the region of $45000...

Someone owns the piece of land I live on (me). I guess you also own the piece of land your house is built on, or if not then someone else will do. Just because it's a hill or a mountain it doesn't mean it's free access. Edit $11000 for the climbing pass. They call it a royalty fee.

I think the money they pay for a pass to climb Everest covers the eventualities.

It's more to do with time spent at the top. Used to be that people climbed to the top then came back down. Now they can't get down because so many are still coming up and blocking the only route. They suffer with cold and exhaustion as a result, or they get caught out by the weather when they should really be well on the way back down.