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What causes it ?

The Specsavers lenses will be Pentax.

None of my nearby family have this anti-reflection etc treatment on their lenses so can't compare.

Good response guys, although it took you a shameful 25 posts to mention KY jelly ! The outer door rubbers tops and top sides have that felt like material that I think holds water like a sponge, hense the freezing shut. I now remember somewhere in the VW manual its says to use silicone to recondition...

gortex wrote:I have this but only with the rear doors and only the very top of the door.

Same.

So Vaso, wd or silicone grease then.

What can I apply to the rubbers to prevent this ?

dubber36 wrote:I never said it was a tenner.

Lines crossed again

Thats right, you didnt give a price for your genuine Golf mk5 arm, cap and blade.

But on fleabay they're less than a tenner delivered, non genuine of course.

Any others got 1 from fleabay ?

I do love and believe you guys

dubber, I doubt, not that I've tried TPS that a genuine mk5 golf, arm, blade and cap will come to a tenner.

Fleabay has a good few to upgrade our estates, however they come in different sizes. So which one ? Most abundant is a 26 cm arm with a 33.4 cm blade. Others a 26/41 and one 16/33.4 I feel a 16 cm arm is too short and a possibly a typo. Also depends on how they measure their arm. My stock set up mea...

Yes, the ecp QX 5w 40pd oil is the spec, or a more expensive 5w 30 longlife vw specific.

Opinions on Guttmann filters?

Same problem here, the water is pissing out the back of motor from those black plastic 10am and 2pm angled holes.

Im looking at fleabay Bosch new motors delivered for sub £53.

Curves could be better, torque peak rounder and power tails off at 4k, other maps 4700 rpm.

Yes, stationary also.

Hard to describe, its through the gears at this rpm range. Louder and more evident at low gear cruising speeds.

Not bad enough for me to worry about. Havent drven another to compare, so is it a character of the car ?

03 tdi sport estate.

Fibreglass also

What's your suspension set up, how low ? What did it catch on ?

Cheers yogi,

04FA Recirculation flap servo motor

Won't be fixing that one, but nice to know.

Same problem here. Neither pollen filter housing seal or plenum drains have been investigated yet. Carpets are dry but havent taken up yet to look. Just replaced a filthy pollen filter, the retaining clip has broken off and missing, do I need it ? Cant see it going anywhere though. The recirc flap d...

Much beautifulness.

How does it differ from a Touran one ?

I presume a Touran one parks on the right also ?

My estate is a early 03 so parks to the left, so I need to get a right park motor as on later 1's ?

Repair kits are £40+ and new Bosch motors £50 so Id go new motor.

Yep its moving with it thanks.

Got any pics of the Touran arm, Golf blade combo ?

Does your squirter follow the sweep of the wiper, or shoot straight up all the time? It should not move. If it does, the chances are it has seised and the copper pipe that carries the screen wash through the motor will have twisted and snapped. That's what happed to mine and I fixed it using a repa...

Sometimes a green can take numerous coats to build up to the right colour.

Had a boost gauge fitted in my 1.8t and was wondering how much boost I should see after a remap. Mine makes 15psi and then drops to about 13 psi. Just wondered if that was about right as the guy that did it said I should see about 190bhp but I think the car feels quite slow What exhaust have you go...

On fleabay the repair kits are £40+ and a complete new Bosch motor at £50 !

Will also try my local motorfactors too. Best check also that the arm hasnt welded itself, possibly a Touran version is on the cards

Difficult and pointless.

Unless its a show car, cant see the vinyl lasting as long as a bonnet or roof wrap due to brake dust and wet poo that gets thrown at wheels, if you scuffed them how would you touch up ? Stick a patch over it, its not going look good for long.