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Yeah for full functionality, Rosstec is the only way. OBDeleven is actually legit too with many functions already mapped out - Select the change from the drop down list, select and DO IT.

It's been well swept during the day, probably by every cunt flying down the hill and around the bend into the zone while ignoring the signs...

Thanks lads, I have kero and I'll grab a can of the CRC stuff while I'm out on Friday.

What does the OS hive-mind recommend for removing a shitload of tar from alloys/lower door sections that won't root the paint? Road works crew went overboard on a couple of km yesterday, laying down a good 75mm of extra chip above the tarred surface which has left me with a few extra kg of wheel weights and the black shitty mess everywhere.

Impressive that the bottle opener is still present! They were frequently pinched while cars were on the dealer's yards, much like the umbrellas tucked into the rear doors on Mk2 Superbs.

Is it actually K-jet, or Digifant? There's not much to a K-jet system, and even less that's able to be fucked around with by stray fingers.

That pedal offset is similar to the S100/120L Skodas and Alfa 33s. In the porker, they'll keep you nice and relaxed when you provoke a bit of slip in one direction, and a bit sweaty/feeling like a hero when it goes the opposite way... You do get used to it soon enough, much like the gearchange - It all comes down to muscle memory and after a short while you don't notice it, while anyone else that snags a trip in the hot-seat moans and struggles with the travel/slop/notchiness.

Yeah, you can ramp the clamping pressure up to some incredible numbers with uprated clutch packs, as well as altering the shift points.

Nice! If they're not sagging, they've either been done previously or you have some sagging to look forward to. Also, remember a DSG shifts faster than the Fezza F1 box, so thats something in your favour. Get a TCU tune done when you get the remap and it'll sharpen things up real nice.

Keep the resonator - That seems to be the key to stopping the obnoxious drone with these, then do as you please with the rear boxes.

Helmholtz resonance chamber thing - My Gti-6 had one too. Noise + pressure waves to maximize intake runner pressure/flow/magic.

Manifold off and in the oven for a bit? Used to do two Skoda alloy blocks, side by side in a double width oven for installing plugs and main seals.

Fair question, but no. Sky geezer arriving this morning for an install, so I'll ask while he's shagging about too.

TV/Stereo question here - Old house was running a regular UHF aerial, direct to the TV and TV audio through optical output to the amp. New house has a dish, and have got that dialed in with the same setup. What we're finding however, is the volume is needing to be approximately double what it was in the old house, to achieve the same sound at our ears... Is this purely down to the quality of the broadcast/reception via dish vs UHF? Sound being played ex-dvd or via phone inputs requires only the same volume setting as at the old house.

Old mate's mum had one of these, forever ago. Another mate had the other turbo model - A bit shorter in length than a Tomcat, but just as quick.

Excellent ta! Are they worth anything? The tops of the throats are filled with assorted detritus, but the butterflies move well enough.

Would one of you more wise and clued up chaps be able to ID this carb I found in a box while performing scorched earth tactics in the garage?

3k was probably so they had something to post about. Factory intervals (10 or 15k) for everything I've owned and never had an issue, including lunar orbit spec mileage on a few of them.

What's the battery like? Lots of modern stuff gets the whole random Christmas tree of dash warnings/everything goes dead intermittently when the battery is on the way out. Also, likely the immo is part of the cluster and would need recoding.

This reminds me I must go and retrieve the ones I have on display at Classic Flyers, since those ungrateful arseholes haven't met their end of the bargain for those of us who pitched in a lot of time and effort to get that place from a pipe dream, to a working, functional museum.

Very! When it was in getting a DSG service I said "What do you know about DPFs?", knowing that mine's getting tired. His reply was that they'd never fitted a replacement one in 10 years due to the price - Near on $4k. They remove the unit, which appears to be about 4" diameter and cut it open. Gut it and then weld in a section of 2.5" pipe between the inlet and outlet flange, then zap the unit back up and reinstall. Once the heat shield is back in place, there's no way to see their work.

14 - No, they won't be able to tell there's no DPF in there short of complete disassembly.

Wagon's getting EGR and DPF delete later in the year - 15hp gain straight off the bat from the DPF delete, gets combined with a mild re-map since they're already going to be coding the sensors for soot loading and regen out. All up $1200 and 2hrs for a 40hp increase.

I'd say your battery is rooted. Throw a known-good one at it from another car if you have one handy - if it works, that'll be the problem.