christophertr6

Did you get the pics? Any interest?

I think so. Took some in the summer. Can you pm with your e-mail (if that's allowed?)

I have a cloth GTi interior (with side air bags). From a 2005 car. I fitted a leather interior so original is just taking up space.

Left over from my works I have 2 GTI bonnets (aluminium). One is a standard silver & the other is a non standard orange. Both in physically good condition. Also have a cloth GTI interior (with side air bags). 07973 334424

I have the lower section of a silver GTI bumper. 07973 334424

Have a Raven Blue N/S door shell. 07973 334424

Got the lower half of a silver one. Not perfect but ok.

Possible but unlikely. It the stat is open then the water will be fully cooled by rad & fan etc all the time. The stat shuts water off from the rad and allows the engine to heat the water quickly - stat then opens only when water gets hot allowing cooling. Stat opens & closes to keep the temp steady (at about 87deg). So if stat is open then you'd have to do some serious driving to get the water fully hot.

If the temp gauge is not rising this may indicate the thermostat has failed open so the water is not able to get to temperature hence the heater does not deliver any warmth. Changing it is not a huge job & not expensive so its a good start. The temperature sensor could also be faulty & that could also explain the temp gauge not working.

Got a lower part of a silver bumper spare. In Twickenham. Cheers

If you are still interested I have 2 bonnets available. One silver & one orange (non standard colour) both ding free. In Twickenham. Cheers.

Ok, got this sorted. It is a 2.7 ohm resistor that is needed in the under seat air bag harness plug to put the air bag light out (well thats to one that worked for me). Mistake I made was buying 2.7 Kohm resistors to start with - 1000 times too much resistance! The tails of the resistor should be connected to the white cable and the blue or green cable depending on which side seat we are talking about, and not to the brown wire. Then using VCDS lite, I cleared the codes & the airbag light behaved as it should - i.e. came on then went out again. Now all I have to do is wire in the heating elements. Got a Kufatec loom in but need to know where to connect the 12v ignition feed.......any advice?

Not bad. Give that a try.

Thanks for that, but to test the resistance with a meter involves putting a current through the system which has the capability of firing the air bag igniters which I rather like to avoid! But I do agree that measuring the original resistance would be the fool proof way forward. Anybody know to do this "passively"?

I have removed the cloth interior from my GTI and fitted a leather one. Yet to wire the heating elements in but thats another storey. The leather seats do not have shoulder airbags where as the originals did. Under the seat are the yellow airbag connections with 3 wires. A brown, a white, and a blue or green depending on which side of the car. I have tried inserting resistors bridging the white and blue & white and green. I have tried 2.2 ohm, 2.4 ohm & 2.7 ohm. I have done both sides at once and cleared the fault codes using vcds lite between each attempt. But the dash light refuses to stay out. I have not tried bridging the resistor between the brown wire & either white or blue and green. Can anyone clarify for me which connections should the resistor be connected to?