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yea I know long shot.. I know it wont be a straight swap and I know ill need to put a lift pump in the tank but this is the swap im toying with doing.. the cars being used for this is a 2004 130 sport donor car and the car its hopefully going to give life to is a 1998 A4 1.9tdi quattro If I can pull...

out of interest how much is the blacksmoke ecu as my dads getting an AFN passat at the weekend?

I bought the wife one a few years back as she wanted a 2nd car for buzzing about the doors in that was cheap to run, cheap to tax and insure. was a cracking wee car http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss150/jbh325i/polo/polo2_zpstwqj4zti.jpg I talked it down as the ABS light was on and the synchromes...

Gazwould wrote:Incorrect .

yea thought as much.. garage just looking for big money..

is there any guides on how to do it? I might just do it in the drive for him.

so my mates bought himself a 2.0tdi b6 and hes been told its an engine out job to do the DPF..
is this true?
theirs a few places local that will map it out but im wondering can it be a DIY job to remove the DPF gut it out and refit it?

so yesterday I finally got round to fitting my FL S4 rear calipers I also fitted my rear braided hoses. im still wanting to give everything in behind a lick of black paint but had none at hand and I needed the car mobile again. I got the front 312mm brakes fitted today but never got the braided hose...

aks1989 wrote:anyone with proper calipers for a b5.5 4motion 1.9tdi please message me in deep doo doo here

ill get a look in the garage tomorrow I have a set off an A4 I broke last year.
you would need to use your own hard lines from your calipers though as I used them on a car.

Ok thanks Any idea what size thread? Or what trim level golf had these calipers, would a brake line hose for a mk4 golf work? no ideas on the size but you would need a banjo fitment for them to seal properly you could use the mk4 golf front flexi pipes but you would need to check the lenth of the h...

yea Im sure the mk4 golf has a banjo fitting on the front caliper hence its a bigger hole.

aks1989 wrote:Found out new calipers are off mk4golf if that helps at all...

mk4 golf have a smaller piston on the caliper you really need either passat or A4 calipers
I bought a new pair for £91 delivered

Could do with a spot of advice guys. got a 2003 1.9tdi 4motion just brought 312mm calipers carriers disks and pads. Now that as far as I was aware would be pukka (on another note the cv boot I had fitted 3 weeks ago has shredded so I've had to leave the car with them to be sorted) BUT the brake lin...

so I spent Thursday with a grinder with a wire wheel attachment on it cleaning up the rear calipers and all the carriers and was going to fit new seals and dust covers to the rear calipers. got them stripped and all ready to start rebuilding them to discover I had been supplied the wrong seal kit :c...

well all my bits are finally here for my rear brakes.. so ill hopefully be starting my car this weekend. the rears will be getting done first ( ive got a rear caliper thats decided it doesnt like holding brake fluid ) so once the rears are done ill be moving onto the fronts.. ill post some before an...

its not just MOT garages.. A few years back my wife took her E30 convertible in to ATS in Alloa to get the down pipe sealed as it had a blow. I would normally have done it but was ill at the time. the boy in the garage refused to touch it unless she bought a complete exhaust!! he tried to say the sy...

A friend took her wee fiesta in for an mot and it failed on front pads / discs and a noisy rear wheel bearing.. I ordered all the bits then started the work to it the following day. whipped the front wheel off and the pads I took off had only a few mm shy of the new ones!! the discs also looked fine...

A tuning box will not give you 30bhp on an AHU and a remap will struggle as well, bigger nozzles without doing anything will give you more than a tuning box and then add a remap on top of that and you could see 130bhp plus. Nozzles would be the first thing to do, forget the tuning box. Im with you ...

dave_1 wrote:maf sensors and cts wont always log faults and cause major power drop

very true. I had a drop in power and I had no codes. changed the MAF to a spare one I had and away she went again like a scolded cat..

ohh and my Audi was chipped by more-bhp.com they might be worth looking at for youre passat.
my car was noticeably quicker and better on fuel

I had a 2002 330d msport sitting in the drive with 115k and a wrecked engine.... it got weighed in on Friday...

ive got a 1997 Audi A4 1.9tdi quattro thats about 600 miles shy of 200k and its better on fuel and more reliable than the BMW ever was!!!

I had a tuning box on an old AFN passat when I got it and had nothing but trouble. as previously said the turbo went. my current car ( audi A4 quattro ) has the AFN lump and has a chip from more-bhp.com and its like night and day. ive also got a set of 0.216 nozzles sitting plus a 130 turbo and inle...

Just done the 312mm conversion to mine last weekend. Managed to get the front calipers, carriers and new front discs and pads from a V6 which was being broken locally. Paid the grand sum of £80 for the lot, result :-bd Ive been a bit more than that.... :sad: £90 2 new calipers ( more through choi...

Critical_Mass wrote:Anyone else fitted mintex discs AND mintex pads? If so, anyone else suffering with brake pad rattle?

has youre outer pad not got the peel off sticky pad thing? mines has.

new discs were picked up Friday, new calipers arrived today. Im still waiting on my pads coming once the pads are here it will be spanner time

so these just arrived at my door today... http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss150/jbh325i/A4/20150216_141414_zpse4d631c5.jpg wee compassion pic from a standard A4/passat carrier.. http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss150/jbh325i/A4/20150216_141451_zps32326592.jpg I just need to get them cleaned up ...

fingers crossed Bill