Recent content by george-92

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    DIY SIM 2012 S seat retrofit

    Hi all, I am in the early stages of designing a sim pit, mixed gaming and sim use. One of my stage 2 plans is ideally to take a 2012-2016 S3 seat, and retrofit the motor electronics into the sim pit. Initially, is anyone able to confirm If the S3 was ever fitter with full electric motor...
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    Xenon headlight body

    Hi all, I am trying to source genuine headlight body’s for a 2012 bitdi xenon. Stone chips have done their magic on the front lens, all the internals are perfectly fine and just need empty bodies to swap over the parts. Typically audi doesn’t sell such things so need some help save the planet...
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    Oem vs Gen heater core

    Hi all, The time has come to weigh up my choices for a replacement heater core. I generally go genuine on most parts, however I nearly fell off my chair when mr audi told me a new heater core in my 3.0 bitdi was £425!! Scouting out the web shows plenty of oems at a fraction of the cost...
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    Blue Smoke on start up 3.0bitdi

    Well there are a few reasons that spring to my mind. If you have already ruled out the turbo not leaking. Try compression test, rules out oil passing the head gasket. Check oil level isn’t too high. Enough oil and it will make its way through the crank breather and back into the cylinders...
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    Dual zone, one vent no heat

    Cheers raf, I have already scanned with vcds and also ran basic outputs with no sign or issues. I’m no fan of ripping mad amounts of things out but it does bug me just a little [emoji23] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Dual zone, one vent no heat

    Hi all, I have a odd one on my 2012 c7 dual zone ac. The drivers side right hand vent blows only cool air or ac cool. It never blows warm air. No other vent in the whole vehicle has this issue. Further clarification is the drivers left and footwell blows warm air when requested. many thoughts...
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    How many exhaust gas temp sensor does 3.0 tdi got?

    Hi all, I recently bought a 2012 A6 C7 3.0 Bitdi, and have found similar things. 13812 - Exhaust Gas Temperature Sensor 4 Bank 1 P246F 00 [237] - Implausible Signal This is random however has been cleared a few times. Running logs i found that sensor 2 also always shows 222c...