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  1. GrumpyEngineer

    Facelift Calling all TDI owners.

    Mine is the complete opposite to that. It rattles in neutral with the clutch up and it's silent with the clutch pedal down. Rattle goes away after 20 mins of driving. Have had gearbox, clutch, dual mass flywheel and turbo replaced and it still does it....got bored taking it back and will get rid...
  2. GrumpyEngineer

    Winter Tyres

    Had a set of Michelin Cross Climate fitted last week, not specifically because its getting colder but the fronts were down to about 3mm and they were never very good in the wet anyway. I'm very impressed with them as they're gripping in the wet in places where the old tyres were spinning in the...
  3. GrumpyEngineer

    A3 8v sat nav sd card

    card seems to be encrypted with a combination of chassis number and serial number of the card....cant use the card in another car, nor make a backup to use in the original vehicle. yet.
  4. GrumpyEngineer

    Tyre pressures. Eek...

    53psi is 3.6 bar(ish). Perhaps they were going for 36psi and read the wrong scale on the pressure gauge?
  5. GrumpyEngineer

    Which options are worth the premium?

    interior led light pack, reversing camera, one of the updated sound systems. led light pack gives you puddle lights which you can swap out for a version that project audi rings on the ground, cant imagine having a car without a reversing camera now..you can do crazy parking and scare people with...
  6. GrumpyEngineer

    SD card help...

    tag&rename lets you edit some of the tags but wont embed the artwork. (because the wav standard doesn't support the embedding of artwork it seems) http://www.audi-sport.net/xf/threads/a3-mmi-plays-wav-files-lossless-format-and-possible-for-album-artwork-to-display.184771/ there is enough info on...
  7. GrumpyEngineer

    SD card help...

    Doesn't iTunes embed all that stuff for you? I've not got any apple products or used iTunes; I use a prog called tag&rename which let's you edit all these tags...... never tried it with a wav though.
  8. GrumpyEngineer

    SD card help...

    Can you even embed meta data like that in a wav at all? If you can, does the mmi understand it?
  9. GrumpyEngineer

    Audi Beam

    Can't do that I'm afraid, the led units are marked left and right so you could go diagonal corners :-)
  10. GrumpyEngineer

    VAG Admit Cheating Diesel Emmissions...

    oh come on, you don't want to let facts get in the way of a good story.....
  11. GrumpyEngineer

    Aluminium Roof Rails

    No longer an option on the S3 but still available for regular A3s according to the configurator. Perhaps people have caused damage to their roof by driving too enthusiastically with push bikes up top?
  12. GrumpyEngineer

    Audi Beam

    hmm, might be 4G0052133A - rings 4G0052133 - quattro
  13. GrumpyEngineer

    Audi Beam

    4G0052130A - rings 4G0052130 - quattro These are some Audi puddle lights, whether or not they are for the A3 requires more Google skills than I can manage this morning.
  14. GrumpyEngineer

    VAG Admit Cheating Diesel Emmissions...

    "Volkswagen confirms today that no software constituting an improper defeat device as defined in law is installed in vehicles with EA 288 EU5 as well as EU6-engines in the European Union" so it has got a defeat device then but due to some ambiguity in the definition of 'defeat device' it...
  15. GrumpyEngineer

    VAG Admit Cheating Diesel Emmissions...

    .....and there was me thinking I'd escaped all this**. Note use of 'could', 'suspected' and 'likely'..... http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/vw-emissions-scandal-ea288-engine-also-being-investigated "Current versions of the EA288 - those compatible with EU6 emissions regulations - are...
  16. GrumpyEngineer

    "Transport Mode" to conserve battery

    left mine for 4 weeks over xmas last year and it started straight away. diesels do have a slightly bigger/heavier duty battery though....
  17. GrumpyEngineer

    VAG Admit Cheating Diesel Emmissions...

    What compensation package? I missed VW announcing that one.
  18. GrumpyEngineer

    Collection day reactions..

    I'd check the car was fitted with all the options you actually ordered..... There are a few of us on here who've had options missed out had the wrong finish on bits of trim etc....
  19. GrumpyEngineer

    2.0 tdi Mods

    If you're in the UK won't a dpf delete make it fail its mot? https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-rules-for-mot-to-test-for-diesel-particulate-filter
  20. GrumpyEngineer

    VAG Admit Cheating Diesel Emmissions...

    <tongue firmly in cheek> till you need to do a journey over 31 miles and it reverts to running on the 1.4tfsi cod engine...except its emissions will be higher than a regular 1.4tfsi because it has to carry round the weight of the batteries and electric motor(s). the 2.0tdi has better mpg than...