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Couple' warm days recently so finally swapped in a new ac compressor. Booked into Halfords Autocentre for full ac service (£49) which includes the regass. Went through the vac & leak test. Charged. Leak tested again. I'm sat in reception and hear a car cranking, trying to start. Thought it may...

Hi all, I'm losing around 0.5l every few hundred miles. I've been adding back and no I'm not adding G12 each time! Had a nose today found a puddle resting at the rear of the engine. The coolant temp sensor all appears to be bone dry so I'm at the conclusion, sadly, that the problem is the rear...

My air con compressor has seized up and the pulley is just free wheeling. However it makes the car (1.8T BEX -petrol) sound like a bag of spanners and since we don't really have summers in this country, I want to put a shorter serp belt on, cutting out the compressor pulley all together (rather...

Investigating a noisy auxiliary belt to find this lodged into the radiator fan housing. It seemed to also be lodged from one of the central pulleys, underneath the tensioner. It pulled out very easily. Wasn't stuck. Most of it was in the pulley/belt area. Seems it used to be circular though has...

Hi, I got myself one of these simple tools: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/390793195286?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT I'm trying to compress the piston, with the handbrake off, though my piston is so far out there's no room to fit the tool with the shim in it's groove...

Does anybody have the part numbers to hand for each of the hoses running from the oil cooler, please? Both are leaking the good old pink stuff down onto the filter from their connections on the cooler. Was too slow to worry about though I've noticed things are proper wet now (not just pink &...

B6's are maturing now. The latest ones are 10 years old. The B6 Vs. bus crash post (-1 on the B6 count) got me thinking: I wonder how many are left from those that were sold into the UK market? These loved B6's of ours that are now the last bastion of the marque. Are we in the last 50%? The...

Hello, I'm looking at some 18" RS4 alloys for my 2004 S-Line saloon. They are specced at 5 X 100 PCD. The 5 stud arrangement of course I'm comfortable with, though I think standard 18" Ronal alloys are 5 X 112 PCD. First time I've ever replaced alloys so maybe a stupid question, is 112...

Hello, I'm doing my weeping injector seals sometime soon, so I thought I'd do a VCDS boost test to see if I had any vac leaks either from there or anywhere else, with a view to doing another test after the seals are done. Commenced in 4th gear and floored it up to around 4500rpm. How does...

I own a 1.8T BEX which isn't throwing any codes or reporting anything in VCDS. Around 9 months ago I had it stage 1 Revo tuned and I was very happy with the results. I have however slowly realised that now and again the car seems to forget that fact. From cold (though I am careful until the...

Last night somebody nicked the chrome trim that sits on top of the rear bumper, which the boot lid closes down onto (not the boot lid spoiler). They just jimmied it off I suppose and slid it out from the closed boot lid. Luckily didn't really do any damage or break in. I'm not even mad I'm just...

Does anyone have the correct label file for a 1.8T BEX? My B6 A4 S-line's engine controller is reported as: 8E0 909 518 AS -though I'm getting a redirection fail. I understand it's possible to edit the 8E-01 redirection file in the VCDS labels folder, but looking at it I see there is already...

I understand not all Steering Wheel Control Modules can be applied to a retro cruise install. This from a previous post by amz: There are 3 types of steering column control modules, only 2 of them support cruise control. Lowline Supported Steering Wheels: Standard Steering Wheel (4-Spoke)...

Went to get a stage 1 uploaded this morning. I scanned the car a few weeks ago and was error free, but wouldn't you know it the car threw a code today during the pre-check. The tuner won't progress until I get it fixed as it might aggregate the fault. I don't have any CEL or symptoms other than...

Had my A4 S-Line up on ramps this morning to do an oil change. I removed the belly pan to be greeted with this; I'm a novice(!) but I think that appears to be a pretty unhealthy engine mount. It seemed to have a red liquid seeping out of it (not dripping yet). This was on the drivers side...

Hiya, A3 Airbag light is lit, code thrown up is: 00589 - Airbag Igniter 1; Passenger Side (N131) 32-10 - Resistance too High - Intermittent From searching it seems to me this is an issue with the yellow connector under the passenger seat. I've had a look under there already and it all looks...

I have one of these Dension ice-link's in my B6 installed by a previous owner. Rather than just use AUX the unit goes through radio, so I tune the Symphony II to 88.3 on the FM dial and I get music from my iPod. This is fine but I'm looking to understand if there is any way I can fool the...

I'm not sure my aircon is blowing as cold as it should. Driving along at 70mph yesterday for a few hours, outside temp at 28 I had to have the climate control on at LO to keep close to comfortable, me and my passenger. Two things make me think it needs regassing; i.) The drivers side steering...

Hi all, My G85 sensor has gone kapput. It's part of the clock spring / slip ring behind the steering wheel. Usually when people replace these, they're upgrading to a B7 MFSW so the write-up's I have seen always swap out everything to get the B7 MFSW working. I'm not interested in upgrading the...