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Texa

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    Lupo 1.4 2001

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  1. Hi! Rich, do you mean any gearbox from 6n2 polo will fit? I have a 1.4 16v Lupo and I had mine replaced with a Polo 1.0 gearbox. Slightly different ratio, but I can't feel any actual difference while driving. But I was told it has a lot to do with gearbox codes. If I remember correctly, mine was an ETD and not all Polo boxes fit in as replacement. I couldn't find an etd box, but with google I was able to find a matching code, I think it was DXK or somthing like that... There are codes like DXJ, DXM, DXP, DSP, DKF, DQW, ERD, DQF and CWX Don't know if all will fit though...
  2. Hi! I had exactly same problem with my 1.4 75bhp Lupo... It took a looong time to find out the problem. Engine is either running too rich or too lean, which causes the "fuel bank sensor" to give the error code. A new lambda sensor costs about 300EUR(in Finland) so it was not the first thing I wanted to try. And don't buy an aftermarket part(lambda), but use a genuine vw part for that... I was told by several technicians that it might brake after a very short while or not work at all in the first place, if not the original vw part. My problem was solved with a new spark plug lead and eventually a new lambda sensor. But like Skezza told before, it can be faulty 02 sensor, mass air flow sensor, lambda sensor, spark plug lead, or a simple air leak. I found this link helpful: http://www.obd-codes.com/p0170
  3. Yes, I know. That's why I wrote I wouldn't know what's it like driving a diesel car and trying to keep it warm since I don't have one I can only speak for petrol engine Lupos that they make a fairly good winter car, and do need a grill block as well, but only if it gets really low temperatures.
  4. Glad I could help Happy holidays to you as well!
  5. I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but... Ignore those arrows there. This is not from a lupo but it looks similar. I know cause I took it off some time ago to fix the micro switch for interior light. If you can get that cable off without taking off this whole thing from the door, you are lucky. But taking the module off is relatively easy as well. First you need to take the lock off: And then this door lock module in the picture comes out when you undo I think two or three XZN bolts from the door. Lot's of videos in youtube about that as well
  6. Oh yes, I forgot about that... Well my point was that the car is warm, but I haven't tested temperature with anything, since I did trust the thing my car has It does bring hot air to the cabin when I ask for it ...unlike my 95 Corolla i used to have... in the city everything went well, but when driving at 80km/h, I was seriously freezing inside. But that's a different story i guess but what I read is that most of you have diesel engines? Mine runs with petrol, so I wouldn't know what's it like. So far I've driven two winters here at the arctic circle and I have no complaints, it does make a good winter car. So far it has always started up, even at about -30, and it's warm. Grill blocking helps with that. Today I blocked the upper half of the grill. BTW, how exactly are you doing the grill block? sometimes I see ridiculous wrappings when people don't care about the looks and they just put something to cover holes. Hope nobody does that to any Lupos I did at least mine so that it can't be seen from outside
  7. Well, at -7°c today, after 5-7 min of driving at about 90 km/h it sits nicely at 90°c I'm soon gonna find out what's it like when it's colder, since it was promised -26° for next week. So I don't have a grill block as yet, but I'm planning to do that as soon as I have time.
  8. Hi all! I just can't help myself but I have to ask you guys how cold does it get there where you live? I'm asking cause I live at the arctic circle and last winter it went down to -30 degrees some days. Usually it was between -25 and -10. Yes, I did block the grill in my Lupo, but the idea is mainly to stop the wind from blowing straight to the engine, not to block the whole thing completely since air is needed anyways. So it's not really blocking, but directing the wind upwards? Hard to explain without pics but I hope you get the idea. I haven't done it yet for this winter, because it has not gone lower than -10 yet. When I do I can post some pictures.
  9. Hi! I had a similar issue a while ago. Luckily it turned out to be many different problems all coming at the same time. To start with, my lupo was drinking a lot of coolant liquid. Also it was pretty dark looking, so I was sure it was mixed with oil... Engine sounded quite nice for a diesel, but unfortunately it happens to be petrol. It gave an engine fault code as well. When cleared, it would come again after a while. I had the compression thing done you mentioned, and it did tell me that there is a problem with the third cylinder. Slightly weaker pressure and misfire. It was also leaking oil, not so that I would find marks on the ground, but when I lifted the engine up, there was oil all around the place. And it was drinking fuel like crazy. Solutions: Drinking coolant; a new cap for the expansion tank. (Vw problem they say, it might start losing coolant somehow through the cap) Third cylinder problem was fixed with a new lead... After that no problems. Engine fault code turned out to be a faulty lambda sensor. Changing that sensor fixed the fuel drinking problem as well. Oil was leaking through a stefa(oil seal) in the gearbox. Eventually the whole gearbox had to be changed, since it couldn't take long driving with not enough oil in it. The engine still sounds like it was diesel, but I've been told that it's not a fault, it's a common thing at least with many Polo's I wrote this down, because I would have been really pissed if I would have opened the engine to fix a failed head gasket(i was really close to do that actually) just to find out that there's nothing wrong with it and that the problem is somewhere else. Yes, the compressing thing works and it gives the idea if there's something fishy in one of the cylinders, but don't draw too heavy conclusions only based on that Some of the experts here said that he has never heard of head gasket failure when it comes to lupo's.
  10. Sorry... Meant to say that I changed one of the leads, not spark plugs. I noticed the problem while changing spark plugs though.
  11. Don't know if you were able to figure this one out already, but I had the same problem with my 1.4... For me it turned out to be one of the spark plugs. Bought a new one, replaced it and problem solved
  12. Mine is quite hard to notice if the radio is not on.. Turned off... Turned on... Didn't wanna waste any valuable space there
  13. Finally I got some pictures of my sub install. So here it is if the radio is not on... And once the radio is turned on it looks like this..
  14. Sorry mate :/ I checked my phone and apparently I have no pictures at all... At the moment I'm so far away from my car that I can't even take new ones for a week or so. But I'll send them later. In the meantime I can just explain what I did so you get at least some idea of what it is like. Most people would probably build a box for the sub, but I thought that it would just take too much valuable space I used the spare wheel space itself as a box. The biggest challenge is to get it totally air proof. I used a tube of silicone sealant and some rubber sheet I found to close all the small holes.. Also the place where the plastic starts, I stuffed that with some rubber and silicone sealant. I marked that in the picture below with that red line and those arrows When all the holes were filled, I covered the whole space with soundproofing mat.. After that I made out of wood the top for the box, with the hole for the 12" sub in the middle of it. One challenge was to figure out how to fasten it. In front, there are those two overhangs which you can use, and at the back you can easily drill holes and fasten it there There is a terrible picture of that below.. And again, it had to be made air proof, so lots of silicone to make sure of that Then just make a decent hole for the sub in the original boot floor. After that it was pretty much done, just the speaker and amplifier needed to be installed. I almost forgot to mention that before closing the box completely, wires need to be added as well for the speaker After a while I made a fake floor to protect the speaker and to hide the amplifier. The idea of that is similar to this.. Idea similar, but ending a bit different. I'll post pictures here as soon as I can. All in all this whole thing works really well and it sounds great! I hope you got some new ideas. At least I found out that it's not so easy to try to explain what you did without decent pictures :/ I did my best anyways
  15. I made a boot build using the spare wheel space. I think I might have some pictures in my old phone, if you're still interested in getting new ideas.
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