Recent content by 46lukasz

I'd say if you want one for reasonable money your best bet is Aliexpress. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003700206696.html I got a replacement grill from there for my B8.5 A5 because the gloss black paint was peeling off due to a pressure washer mistake. The quality is good, not OEM but...

Hello, I have 1200km until oil change/service, but I am not getting a reminder on the dash when I turn the ignition on. When I first started to service the car myself, I set the oil interval and inspection to 10k km, so a reminder should come up when I have 1500km left, but it doesn't. In...

Hi guys, I recently noticed that my A/C started making a hissing noise almost immediately after turning it on, the hissing also stops right after turning it off. When ON, the air coming out of the vents is also just slightly colder than ambient air outside the car, so it works, but just...

So after driving for 4k km since replacing the front pads with Ferodo set, here is what they look like. They have bedded in enough that the rings on the left wheel are gone. Things are looking a lot better but both sides are still bedding in, as the outer edges where the pad should touch the...

Yes i did that procedure, maybe not exactly down to the seconds between each brake application but i found a road with 2 roundabouts and did a few laps with medium breaking before turning around. Yeah i realise i probably can just let the pad bed in all the way, or in other words get worn down...

in desperation i got some 800 grit sand paper and cleaned off the face of the rotor. After a quick drive here is how it looks. visible lines are still there, where the pad doesn't contact the rotor, which would mean there is a low spot on the pad - possibly caused by the surface rust or...

I gave in and replaced the front pads with Ferodo Eco-Friction FDB4045 about 1000km ago. I can say right away that the initial bite and brake modulation is better with them. And they also clear all the surface rust off the rotor right away. Even though Zimmermann pads work OK on the rear, I will...

sounds to me like something metallic is rubbing while spinning, and continues to spin after shutting the engine off, so the turbo would be the perfect candidate. Perhaps it does it only after shutting the engine off, because oil pressure drops of and allows some play on the turbo shaft that its...

I had my clutch replaced together with the dual mass flywheel at 160k km, i am only realising now, 30k km later, that when I slightly press the clutch pedal at motorway speeds, i can feel some vibration through it. It doesn't vibrate when i change gears, just when i only slightly press the...

I removed the door handle from the outside like shown in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPDw7859uxo I then put a few drops of oil around the rotating metal cylinder that the end of the handle pulls on and the handle started springing back into its place. It doesn't feel brand new...

Hello, My outside door handle on the front driver side recently began sticking and has some slop compared to other handles, like on the video attached. Has anyone come across this issue and fixed it? I tried to lube surfaces that I can reach without any disassembly but no luck...

I have no idea what video it was but it was in Polish so it would be no use to you. Yes the dealer legally can't revert the map so you'd have to go somewhere else. I think the person in the video I mentioned was using a piece of software called autotuner, which is able to identify the ECU...

i heard about this too, on a youtube video of a certain mechanic i follow car had less power and much worse MPG after it was taken into the dealer so that they could install an updated map (something to do with the dieselgate emissions scandal) the mechanic flashed the map one version before...

Hello, I finally got around to recording a video to showcase all the features, I have added small descriptions in the video. Hopefully it shows everything nicely. I hope at least someone enjoyed this write-up, I really like the outcome of this project. I think it looks like it came with it from...

it crossed my mind that the caliper is at fault but I'm positive that its working OK everything was cleaned and lubricated when I was putting these brakes on, as i took a lot of care at every step I pulled back the dust cover slightly to check the piston, and there was absolutely no corrosion...