Some unscheduled "Late Night Mechanics" tonight!
After work I headed over to my local Audi/Seat to collect a LCR front splitter and a Xenon adjuster arm that i'd ordered last week. As I neared the stealers I pressed the clutch pedal in and it never came back up. Coasted round the corner and pulled up to inspect.
I found the following bits in my footwell:
So I went into the stealers and collected my parts. I took the 2 above pieces and asked them what I need to order. I ended up ordering just some small piece of plastic thinking that's all I'll need but it appears i need a whole new pedal. Anyway they had none of the parts in so I started to work out how to get the car home.
Got my mate Paul to come over in his work van and he said he could drive it home with no clutch. He drove my car home about 15 miles and I followed in his van.
Even though the old girl had just let me down, following her made me realise how much of a good looking car the 8L S3 is and it was a pleasure to be in a van behind following.
Anyway, got the car home and into my garage. A common sight for some late night action
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I whiped out the dedicated Late Night Mechanics laptop, and got the tunes pumping:
Lower dash trim off:
Unscrew pedal:
Pedal out:
This is where the metal has snapped:
But not too sure where this black piece of plastic goes?:
So with that lot off and in my bag to take to Audi tomorrow I decided to get on with some other jobs as the tools were out.
First up I replaced the xenon arm that sits on the passenger side suspension arm and looks like this:
I removed the old one as the bottom ball joint part had come away:
Then fitted the new shiny one:
I turned on the ignition and fired up the xenons, the adjuster motor mad a load of noise then stopped, sorted.
Next up was to re-route my boost guage T-piece. Welly mentioned the other day in another thread that any kind of leak in the FPR hose is bad news for fueling and that running the boost gueage off the FPR was just increasing a chance of a leak. So I re-routed from the DV hose like so:
I was meant to be dropping the car off with 4Rings tomorrow night ready for my service and turbo refurb but this little pedal problem looks like it might delay me a day or 2.