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No, The 3.0TDI does not have a timing belt, it has timing chains. Early chains ~2004 had a problem and would rattle on cold starts, but production was revised with a better design in 2005 so they should be fine. By 2008 almost every niggle was ironed out. Check DPF with VCDS if possible. Inside...

For an accident repair - no. For warranty rectification - possibly.

Hello, it is not available as a seperate part. There is no way to code it with VCDS. People do sell used ones and people have had luck replacing them, but you would need a Turbo rebuilder to remove your turbo and put it on a calibration rig to do a proper job. I would say just fit a decent...

Cheers chap. Thanks for the fast reply. I have sacrificed the said pipe with the red arrow. Yes lots move movement now. Very stuck at the opposite end. I cut that pipe too just to get a better view. I assumed he metal union stay captive in the bracket and pulls out of the engine so used a crow...

Thanks for the great instructions and photos B5NUT and others. I have been stripping off my intakes to clean the EGR, but I too can't lift the EGR & Cooler off and so after googling came upon your thread. If I cut the pipe that is denoted with the red arrow and buy a new one I am worried that I...

Thanks for the information. I am now certain you are correct and people on other forums and sellers on ebay are incorrect. I have augmented your list of injector nozzles and then done a lot of cross-referencing to find which fuel pressure regulator they are sold with on vehicles and then looked...

Thanks for the useful thread. I too seem to need new injectors on my A8 3.0TDI ASB due to grey smoke at idle. Mine are 'AB' suffix from early 2006. They are the original ones with 190,000 miles, so have not done bad. I have been searching ebay etc... and there are so many suffix versions. Some...

Some details?

You can jump start it (or charge it for a while) from another car using jump leads, but the -ve lead must be connected to the buzz bar above the battery, not the -ve terminal on he battery. I usually start the donor car and them connected for a few minutes to get a 'surface charge in your...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1273965/A8%20general%20tech.pdf Page 20 suggests under the headlights.

I don't think they were never sold separately by Honeywell (who make them). You can sometimes pick them up on ebay, especially german ebay (try "vw turbolader 2.5 tdi". I don't think they are new, maybe just shot blasted.

Autoscan scans all modules one by one. Not trying to hijack thread but it is a useful question for buyers, are all front wings and bonnets supposed to be aluminium? The A6 2006 brochure suggests so, but a few I have looked at are obviously steel as they have a bit of brown rust on chips or...

Autoscan scans all modules one by one. Not trying to hijack thread but it is a useful question for buyers, are all front wings and bonnets supposed to be aluminium? The A6 2006 brochure suggests so, but a few I have looked at are obviously steel as they have a bit of brown rust on chips or on...

I have had a look, seems the price of what i have is $349 now :note: Ouch. Back in the day I had the free version 4.19 (before VCDS Lite) and most labels were blank and things in the channels were not labelled. There was a warning not to scan the airbag as it could go off on some models and one...

Good point about the availability of cheaper VACOM clones, I wanted to use later versions of the software which requires the genuine lead to act as a licence key.