Ant0889
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I may source one before the kids completely muller it, but the car is so old and worth nothing its not very wise to do. Don't suppose you know the box code? (curious now)
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Long time no see!
I forgot i made this thread, but the GDPR emails reminded me.
I have good and bad new about Rosa.
Shes still alive.. 198,761 miles later!
However not for much longer. Her diff has given up and now shuddering under all load and all speeds. I've ruled out all other avenues and after draining the oil and having a look, you can see the movement and hear it in the diff.
Its a shame really, as shes been a brilliant car, no electrical faults (apart from the bloody window regs), cheap as chips to fuel (400 miles to £35) and fun to drive, so nimble and torquey.
She will be laid to rest at my work, where students will spend a few years taking her apart and putting her back together.
Finally she'll be turned into baked bean cans and live on in our cupboards.
I did promise her, i'll get her to 200,000 miles. which will happen, even if i have to put her on the ramp in 5th with a brick on the accelerator.
I will report back about funeral arrangements.
Cheers.
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just to let you know, if you didnt, the motors/regulators fit from the older arosa/lupos, thats what i used on mine.
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that is awesome!
whered you get the lenses?
does that have a led 'halo' too?
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check battery voltage should be 12-14, any less as your batteries duff.
rule out what the garage has changed but recheck everything is connected as it should with no loose connections or splits in the HT leads.
Jgee could be onto a winner with the coolant temperature switch, remove the connection from the sensor and with a multimeter check its resistance, theres two prongs from the sensor on the rounded side (4 in total), touch the red and black leads from youre multimeter to these with it set to 20k ohms, depending on the specs of the sensor you should have a reading between 1.5k to 2.5k Ohms (when the engines cold). if its reading say a higher reading its duff.
Another one to check is the crank position sensor or cam position sensor as these can cause non-start issues. depending (or both) on which your car uses, this is hard to test without a Oscilloscope but will come up if you have access to a code reader.
Edit- just re-ead your post, ignore the bit about Cranki/cam position sensor as you say it starts eventually.
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i believe.. and don't quote me, the factory stuff is controlled by the CCM. so it may be easier to wire in an aftermarket kit. not entirely sure thou
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that's Awesome! visibility improved?
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Yeah i will do no bother
Yeah I have it getting booked in for some paint soon and I can't decide if i want to paint the lower part of front bumper or not...
and wheels will be getting a refurb
new brakes set up going on too, bit of a waste as these ones have done maybe 3k!
Can anyone help me source gti sideskirts?
if you sell your old brake set up, let me know! mine are getting shagged
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oooh... very interested in the exhaust changes, can you post a video up when its done! love to hear how it sounds
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- this persons breaking a white lupo on ebay, message them for other bits.
otherwise type 'lupo breaking' in ebay.
hope that helps
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I own the TDI version Arosa, cleaning the EGR got rid of my hesitance in 5 gear at 35-40mph and has improved my mpg. I also chucked in some Redex diesel, some will say it doesn't work, but from my personal experience it improved my mpg.
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shame id love to see how you did it
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Because I can really. No sensible reason available
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Its a standard 52mm round gauge, i'm going to get a universal dash mount pod to locate it. Tell me more about a scangauge?
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I was given a free boost gauge by a friend who upgraded, and I wanted to fit it to my Arosa
As all the pipes on the TDI seem to run vacuum I'm not too sure how to plumb it in.
I did a search and found this link but all the pictures are dead
http://forums.clublupo.co.uk/index.php?/topic/10111-14-tdi-boost-gauge/page-2?hl=+boost+gauge
I then followed the link from that threas and found this ...
http://www.a2oc.net/forum/showthread.php?10298-TDI-Boost-Gauge
which suggested the use of this Revotec self installing nipple...
http://www.revotec.com/acatalog/Push-On_Tail.html
has anyone used this before or got any idea how/where to install it?
cheers
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lovely car mate! these are brilliant daily cars, what's the interior like?
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its fully sandable but I didn't see the point as its not seen, waiting until tomorrow to drive it as I want to give it as long as possible to cure.
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so today I finally got round to doing my air box repair.
I was told when buying the car it had been in a light front end shunt, so I replaced the headlights etc,etc, however when I did I noticed the gaping hole in the air box where the headlight had punched through on impact.
so today I finally repaired the hole, as Seat dealers wanted £50+ for the box, which couldn't justify seeing as I could repair it.
I also cleaned out the MAF and MAF housing screen/filter as it was coated in dead insects
pics...
The hole
Dremeling the edges and cracks
I then plastic repaired the hole using a bumper repair kit from work, I didn't get any pictures as its filth work; didn't want to damage my camera but here's an after shot.
and the filthy MAF before cleaning
cheers
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Hi, i havnt been on here since selling my lupo last year. i still have the wheels/adaptors etc as have been lazy and havnt made much of an effort to sell them!
Although 7 months later im sure your now sorted.
I dont really want to let the adaptors go seperately because i had them made specially for the wheels!
hey don't suppose you have any bits left over from the car?
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type CREE or SMD followed by the bulb type you want e.g. festoon, 501
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ebay is your friend, you want any form of SMD or CREE with at least 5000k
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do these have an ICV?
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TDI owners...... Clean your EGR!!
what a change!
I can now pull happily in 5 from 35-40mph, whereas before it wouldn't have any of it.
drives so much smoother, no judder or unusual behaviour!
only negative I can say about doing this is the time it takes to do it and how filthy you can get cleaning it!
also the steering wobble has gone after rebalancing the wheels... happy chappy!
Rosa the TDI Daily
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cardaft?