Recent content by Nuje

If it was completely drained / empty before, doesn't it need some PAG oil and a replacement drier as well? (Also AC ignorant, but trying to figure it out on my own car, too.)

Not sure which MIB is in the car you're looking at, but MIB-high (Discover Pro) has LOTS of things industrious home user can do, including updating maps. https://www.golfmk7.com/forums/index.php?threads/mib2-high-discover-pro-toolbox.367798/

I assume @Mike_04GolfTDI meant that it's had VW's Phase 1 and Phase 2 emissions fixes done to it.

Serpentine belt is not something that typically "blows up", particularly on a car that's only 7yrs old; replacement spec is...non-existent(?): "check ribbed belt" at every 40K miles is all the maintenance schedule says. Typically, it'd be replaced every timing belt change, which is 130K miles...

Yeah - of all the mods I've done on my car, ACC is the new "every car I own forever after will have this feature" for me.

I just saw a new iOS app - Motorist - that actually looks pretty good, but then again, they all typically do out of the box. I get that developers want to get some return on their investment, and it's really not a huge amount of money in the grand scheme of car ownership, but at $25/yr...

Ok - definitely staying tuned for this. As I read, I mentally was coming up with ideas to suggest, and then you'd knock it down in the next paragraph. Genuinely curious.

That'd actually be a bigger concern for me - forget the cheap flimsy belly pan....meh, whatever. Probably find one off a wreck if I needed to. But if they keep that AllTrack pan that cost me $500+.....not gonna be happy. (Also, it'd never happen because I'm the only one who works on my cars. :D)

Yeah - that's the one that would concern me. If you don't stock a VW filter, do you stock VW-spec oil? (Granted, the 507.00/504.00 is used on a LOT of the VW cars - pretty much anything that has a turbo in the last decade, so maybe they do have that, but with the CRUA TDI being a one-and-done...

Got a link for that battery cover? I asked at the dealer and when even the parts guy laughs at how expensive it is (over $100CAD)....you take a pass on that.

Doesn't need to be *the* VIN of the car that the radio came from, just *a* VIN. Used to be pretty easy, but chatting with the local VW techs, they can only get it now by going through VW's dealer internet portal. They actually need to connect to a car, run their diagnostics (assuming it's...

Parking brake is another easy one (assuming the brake callipers are moving freely). $15 cable on each side. Remove centre armrest to gain access to the cable stops there. Remove the cables under the car. Replace with new. Button everything back up. Downpipe similarly is not overly complicated...

The connector itself will have numbers stamped or embossed on the connector housing itself. Somewhere.

Why not just remove the camshaft until you have the IP and transmission installed? That'd probably be what I'd do - totally removes the "valves getting in the way of the pistons" problem from the equation while you things apart.

Of course, the force of it hitting the ground should it come off is going to increase exponentially, but like you said, 7" or 70" - the weight on the supporting system is the same. :D