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little red devil

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  1. common one is water pump failing and not pumping water round system .remove return pipe to top of coolant bottle start and rev engine up if no water spurts out of pipe it will mean pumps broken
  2. I'm here for the good people not the idiots

  3. like you have you tweezers just push a paper clip in one side at a time and it pushes the clips down then pull wire out of the back
  4. thing is i live out side Sheffield between Rotherham ,Sheffield and Chesterfield in a small village new cars in the area get noticed very quickly by the old gossips
  5. Woke up this morning to find thieving trolls have stolen the heko wind deflectors of my car , A silver or white lupo with roof bars and a roof box was seen hanging round my house last night with 2 other cars .So if you live near Sheffield or Chesterfield keep a look out I'd like them back
  6. got a seat cupra cloth trim black-grey full set £70ono
  7. my ladys arosa 1.4 on an s reg when i find a ibiza tdi she likes
  8. check haw long your wheel bolts are if you have drum brakes not discs on rear bolts can catch brake parts inside drum
  9. if any problem comes up with cat efficiency it will be probe after cat as this is the one used to check if cat is working
  10. no as there coded to dash for immobilizer so would need new ecu +coding and theres prob no difference as they do a single cam and twin cam 1.2
  11. it was a standard v10 with v6 diffs fitted for lower pulling power full leather and between 1 to 4 tons of sand bags in the rear including on the seats for extra grip as it was at the vw training center when i went before going back to Germany to be scraped
  12. try changing your clutch cable
  13. if the airbag light is on it will need resetting with vag com as they dont self reset
  14. i had same problem with a idiot a few years ago had a lad interested in my impretza wrx ra wanted to px new beetle so he came had look and said ok but wanted his wheels back of beetle (18"alloys) so i said sory your wheels out and let me know any way i ended up driving car to him in Manchester over snake gave him car sorted every thing out drove beetle back next day he rings me saying engine blown up and i owe him his car back gets a mechanic friend to ring him and he gets it out of him that he was showing off to his mate and down changed the gearbox form 5th to 2nd and it all went bang so told him to go !!!! himself never herd a thing after that ring the garage your self and ask them if its true but i'd tell him were to go
  15. the electric fuel pumps in the fuel tank are packing up and vw are having supply problems keeping up with car production and replacing all the faulty units at the same time so they are on back order till further notice
  16. go arosa i have ,better spec ,cheaper to buy most of the bits interchange save the money and build a cool car
  17. yep very easy to do as I've done it my self at work .you remove steering coulomb to replace pedal box and you turn steering wheel while putting it down out of the way then you come to refit it by accident you turn it a bit more on refitting bolt every thing back up then when you turn full lock for the first time and you snap the wiring and the light comes on .get them to pay for it
  18. thing is it happens every were .last year three kids racing round wrong way on roundabouts smoking drugs overtakes his mate on left hand down hill bend pulls in to early clip his mate shoots left hits old style cast iron lamp post next to large bank and dies 2 mates in car seriously injured car had space saver on o/s rear of car and police estimate car traveling over 60mph lamp post covered in flowers and three large joints .he'd been racing round our estate all week before he died at weekend and i reported him three times to police for speeding past my house (i have a little lad 6 at the time )and they did nothing
  19. over wound wiring on steering coulomb needs new clock spring as they will have snapped wiring bringing fault on and unit costs about £100
  20. sdi are such a noisy slow engine compared with tdis i would go tdi every time
  21. boot catch faulty see it before sorry but you need a new catch to cure it
  22. i think you mean can i change to rod oil seal from out side of the gearbox with out taking it from the car YES
  23. its about 49.95 +vat to code key at vw
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