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    Strange goings on in the coolant header tank

    I wonder if any of you kind chaps could throw any light on this. Okey doke. Background information first. The car is a 2.0TFSI 190, just - just - three years old and with a measly 14,000 miles on the clock. It had a service yesterday. The coolant was tested and its level checked as part of...
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    Another rear DRL question. Does anybody know how this should work?

    Partly because of an irresistible desire to tinker and partly because I think rear DRLs are generally a Good Thing, I tried enabling them using the alternative method in the current beta version of Carista. Before I explain what happened, the car is a 2017 MY 2.0TFSI Sportback in Sport trim...
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    Alternator output voltage

    The car is a 2017 2.0TFSI 190 with 11,500 on the clock. What would you expect the alternator's output voltage at idle to be after a cold start, and are there any normal circumstances under which it might vary? Measuring at the battery - which may well not be holding charge as it should - I got...
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    Glovebox fuses

    I feel as if I ought to apologise before even asking this question, because you could quite rightly say, 'Why don't you get outside with a multitester and work it out for yourself, you lazy git?' And if you are inclined to say that, then I'll take it squarely on the chin. So I apologise in...
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    Tinkering for tinkering's sake - LED indicator bulbs

    I decided to change my front indicator bulbs. Now I appreciate that this is very small beer indeed in the context of stage 3 tuning, a bigger turbocharger, coilovers, spacers, beefy anti-roll bars and stretched tyres on 20" 10J alloys , but it is what it is. For months and months the way the...
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    Missing subwoofer adjustment control

    Firstly, I apologise for starting a new thread when there are already at least two which have been running for some time... This here 2017 2.0TFSI Sportback - which I've had since December 2016 - was ordered with the Audi Sound System, but came without the subwoofer control it should have had...