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yep is a common one this. Keep your eyes peeled for when your rear washer doesn't work because I've had leaks from the main pipe popping off the pump and also where there is a 90deg elbow as the pipe turns up to the tailgate. Could be any one of them.

I've had intermittant faults spring up for the steering angle sensor, usually after going over a pot hole too hard or something. Always goes with a reset.

I looked into replacing the part and it does seem quite a big job, plus pricey part!

My new golf estate is arriving soon, but can anyone advise on how to protect the paintwork and keep it gleaming?

Any dos or don'ts appreciated!

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i got a hand held scanner for about £30 and it's been great in finding codes for me. Gotta be better than paying per scan

well it seemed much better on the drive in this morning, no noises.

Cheers for input all!

Chances are it'll gum up your MAF so you'll ned to fork out for a new one of those too.


Having said that, mine works well on my 1.8t (after the MAF issue was sorted)

yeah I gave it a good scrub with the wire brush before fitting. I thought that may have been the problem and re-seated the disc tonight.

My wind in tool was bought for a renault, and the nobs on the end plate fitted perfectly inside the piston to keep it true when pressing it back in.

doubt it dude, it's only 2 days old!

stripped it down again tonight, re lubed the carriers and re-assembled. All seems ok, if not a bit 'tight'. There's a particular spot when you rotate the wheel which contacts the pad, but I suppose this will go as the pads bed in.

The noise has been much less today, only heard it a couple of times.

when I say wind, I meant I used my winder tool but the piston didn't rotate with it, pretty sure the seals were as they should be.

yes no binding at all before the swap. The pads fitted well, no persuasion needed or any need to clearance anything to make it fit. I wound the calipers back too, to give the necessary space to fit the new pads. They work absolutely fine, no pulling to either side, just a bit tight if you get me. A ...

Hi all, just fitted new front discs and pads to my 1.8t wagon, but they're clearly binding and squealing at low speeds, not to mention getting bloody hot. The pads have a red 'bed in' coating (they're EBC heavy duty pads btw) could this be the reason? There's oh fiddlesticks! all to get wrong when f...

at least you can clean your oil pick up tube.

(Still bitter about mine blocking up)

I disagree, I have a K&N panel filter, and at £30 it's a load cheaper long term than disposable filters.

Sounds nice too. Check it's not over oiled when installing though cos it'll knacker your maf sensor.

Price for front brake pads and discs please, 2002 passat 1.8t, awt engine.

Ok, resolved now. All is well except my bank balancce.

The last prob was a simple wiring issue on the switch.

The old pick up tube was proper bunged up.

Update on this, the car is still not fixed. The mechanic fitted a mech oil press gauge which read 20psi at idle cold when it went in. Swapped the oil pick up, pump and pressure switch and the gauge reads 60psi at idle cold. He stripped off the gauge for a road test but the light on the dash came on ...

I got stopped in my bay van a few times from peeps thinking the rear suspension had broke, it had mega neg camber

Nice advice there dude, useful to know this stuff.

BTW my local GSF stopped selling the titan, it's carlube now.

well a days labour plus genuine vw oil pump and pickup tube all comes to £587.50.

poo the bed as they say!

ok had a cost estimate for £500 + VAT to drop the sump and de sludge, does that sound ok??

well have done the oil change and the problem remains, off to the garage tomorrow then I suppose.

i have had the same problem so i did an oil change and used an engine flush and i have not had any problems since and that was about 6-7 months ago and my passat has 165550 miles on the clock yep thats the plan today, plus read on the net some bloke made up some wire brushes to scrub the oil pick u...

I've been pretty religious on 5k oil changes for the past 30k miles, using genuine large VAG oil filters as well. Gonna have a good old flush out tomorrow and see what comes out of the sump. I think I may have caught this at an early stage so nothing terminal has happened and hopefully a good cleano...