Recent content by lfowers

You might be better putting this thread in the dedicated B8 sub forum.

Looking good so far! How hard was the interior trim wrap to do?

Could be anything really, sometimes door seals can make this type of noise. Could also be pulleys, wheel bearings, try and pinpoint it more if you can.

Hi all, Looking for a bit of advice on lowering springs. Ive seen some H&R for about £145 and these lower the car 35mm. Ive also seen some ST(by KW) for about £135 that lower the car 40mm. Anyone know which will be best? Car is currently on 16's. I only want to lower it slightly without...

I couldn't tell you mate, cant see it being to much

Perhaps get the timing checked again then if the cam belt has just been done?

Last taxi i was in was an Avensis and every time he changed gear there was quite a loud dump valve sound from the turbo! I enjoyed it anyway even if he had no idea what i was talking about haha

Had a problem with mine where it was jerky when coming off the throttle but this was a manual. Mine turned out to be a vacuum leak on the two pipes coming off the cam cover. Made rubber pipes to replace the broken plastic pipes and the jerky problem stopped.

Good build thread, interested to see what else you do to it!

Sorry bud forgot about this! Not had the time to do anything at the moment, where abouts in Heysham are you located?

Hi all, Im having a bit of trouble finding someone in the Preston area to do a scan of my car. Ive emailed a few people off the VCDS map around my area but haven't had many replies. There was a very kind chap who offered to do it in manchester but id rather not travel that far unless i have to...

Hi im based in Lancashire, vcds help would be great!

I need to get that done soon to keep the costs down. The car seems okay, plugging in a basic code reader brings up P0420 Catalyst system efficiency below threshold (bank 1)

Cheers anyway bud! Ive heard of this VCDS diagnostics tool, is it expensive? The emissions light keeps coming on despite resetting it with a basic code reader so really need something proper to find out what the problem with it is.

Thanks for replying dude, cant seem to find anything like that on mine, i'll upload some pictures now. Apologies if the images are to big!