Recent content by F6HAD

I’ve had a few customers convert to solid flywheel, it’s definitely available. It ruins the car in my opinion, you lose the smoothness and it can become snatchy on gear changes.

Yeah you need a proper lambda socket removal tool otherwise you’ll damage the lambda and/or the heat shield. Like I said previously, easiest way to tell is to just smell around the battery area with the engine idling. If you can’t smell anything it’s most likely fine.

Yep that’s the one.

The pipe is under the front exhaust heatshield, connected to the manifold and runs along the passenger side of the block back to the egr at the rear of the engine. With the engine running, have a sniff around the battery area. If you can smell fumes it’s likely that. The other thing to check for...

Even a quick google search will tell you the same thing I did. If you can remove your eps module and get the part number off it, I would find a used one or send yours off for repair to any ecu repair company...

True, although it’s had many many hours spent on it, paint, mechanical and electrical with quite a few parts. It’s been a fun rescue project. Just need to get to the bottom of this weird cruise control not working in 6th gear issue now.

It had the classic vibration on acceleration, which is nearly always the driveshafts so we just did both for good measure. Thankfully it solved it. The car is actually pretty incredible, it’s become my daily and I’m thoroughly enjoying it.

I’ve personally never heard of that happening and not seen any rack failures, but have seen failed modules like I said previously. Worth asking for a copy of the actual codes they retrieved.

How have they diagnosed it to be the rack and not just the module?

Sounds ok to me I would say.

Drop me a line Bertie, let’s see what we can do to help.

Sounds like your flywheel is a little out of balance, pretty common and nothing to really worry about until it develops into a knocking at idle.

Thanks for the replies guys, this was always going to be a bit of a rescue project and most of the issues were small or just a bit tricky so I’ve been happy to spend the time fixing them, especially as it’s a facelift tourer Type S, kind of the holy grail in the 8th gen series. I believe the...

Yep, and I’ve also replaced the gearbox speed sensor with a brand new item (went through 2 of them before realising why the little washer/spacer was so important) #facepalm But fundamentally the VSS is working perfectly, I’ve replaced both clutch pedal switches (A and B) and triple checked...

Each to their own mate. I would agree, sounds like a petrol or pre dpf diesel car would be better for you.