mk2

Mmmmm. Lovely little motor. may I ask what you paid, only to see where the market is going?

Welcome to club lupo! Lots of pics of before and after please. Good satisfying stuff restoring a Lupo back to mint...

Unless you've got deadlocking, put your door buttons back to standard... stops your car being nicked.

Shiny! Welcome to club lupo

A long pipe- I use 25mm black electrical conduit. It looks like it is part of the original car. The end is under the driver seat.

Yes, i put a new pipe in place to divert oil breather fumes down to the road. Then no oil gets sucked into the engine. Also, you might want to remove and clean the throttle body. Then lubricate it well.

SVO... not good for micro hole nozzle injectors (but ok for old skool spray types though). Boiling acidic glyerols festering inside the pump and injectors every time you park. Eurgh.

I have to be honest and say I do cheat. On my SDIs, I've deleted EGR, dumped the oil breather fumes to the road and gas flowed the inlet ducts (filled in the egr holes). Now I get a real resonance at about 2200 revs. It just sings at that speed, but to be super eco, I'd need to do about 60 on a long run. I don't have the patience. Ideally a longer gearing in fifth.

Holy thread ressurection! But yes, on one of my SDIs, both front and rear subframes need changing. Had to weld both already.

Main reason i have them. Cheaper to run day to day than just about any other car. Fox, up, smart, aygo, i10 etc... And being nearly 20 years old now, rock bottom parts prices.

All of the above please

No intermittant faults recorded either. Hmmm. It will return....

The OBD2 is in the ashtray. You need to lift out the insert (that fills with ash). What were the symptoms?

That'd be awesome. How to pair the ID44/ID48 chip and how to pair the wireless entry. Two of my Lupos still only have one key...

Yeah, read things here and there. But they are the exact same engine... Polo, A2 and Lupo. I wish vdub would bring back the AHU 1.9 TDI lump (and derivatives). Such a good engine. Clean burning, efficient and low emissions too. Better than the new 2L thing.

A2 forum has some interesting stuff... https://www.a2oc.net/community/index.php?threads/1-4-tdi-oil-pump-balance-shaft-chain-and-chain-tensioner-replacement.35539/ https://www.a2oc.net/community/index.php?threads/hydraulic-timing-belt-tensioner.37613/ https://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/603491-TB-WP-question My SDIs all still fine on around 110k each. But I've rebuilt injectors, gearboxes and starter motors (they get noisy). And reupholstered one driver's seat (imported the fabric from a passenger seat in Germany). I think @danno has done his Tdi tensioner. @Rich , is "koop" northern speak for road salt?

Still on original chain tensioner? They normally go around 160k miles.

Oops. Wall? So you'll need a new door and someone good at getting dents out. Fixable, but a fair bit of work. Maybe 20h work and about £250 in bits.

Wierd. Pic?

Wow, still looking...?! mind you, good (unmolested) ones are hard to find now. And you don't want a jap import...

Is the bolt in the centre of the flange, that holds the diff together still tight? Something doesn't sound right. Personally, I'd pull it. You gotta check the flange bolts anyway, so they need to come out. Then just the other side, clutch and gear linkages, engine bolts and out. Worth it for peace of mind, as new boxes are beginning to get hard to find. Cheaper to fix/refurb a good box... Just thought- does your diff have that 'limited slip' friction sleeve thing in? You know, the little cone shaped brass ring thing that sits on one of the output shafts, pushed by a compressed spring. If it does, it may have broken and dropped out? I've always thought that they're a waste of time. High powered cornering and all that...

Still pretty active these days on here. Mainly enthusiasts now, as becoming too expensive to get cheap cars fixed by pros. Pic of your car and we'll tell you which rims are perfect...

Have you got access to all the internal vw data @Rich ?

@rich if you can get it to him in Durham. Or, for a pint or something he might be persuaded to come out and swap it for a good one