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Are you still on the FJ at the moment? If so and your bike is black... were you on the 701 Monday morning? I think I passed you on my way to the lakes. The roads were stupid slippy.. I was driving a works passat and was all over the place.. cold too at that time..

1st: i would check the fat pipes from intercooler to the turbocharger if they are split, 2nd: check tthe bottom corners of h radiattr for corosion, if no crusty deposits present, then it could be a leaky water pump, cyl.. head flange(check the seal) or even a craked head- if some smart ass topped up with cold fluid on a hot engine ! 3rd: see if the aircon works by pressing the snowflake button on...

Hi mate, thermostats are quite a common failure on the v6 tdi engine and as you know, its a belt off job. I would check first the electrical issue you have with the temp. sensor and replace the thermostat when funds allow. If the car its high milleage, i suggest you replace the hydraulic damper next to the cambelt tensioner, bit pricey but they fail with high mileage. If you are not that far away...

A thumbs up from me.

Since picking up a nice S plate with 95k (now 103k) I have managed to ground out and have to replace both the auto gearbox sump and the crankcase sump. Both these items looked pre damaged and neither occurred during Dukes of Hazard driving, just landing after a humback bridge jump and later hitting a sleeping policeman. So it's ground clearance rather than anything I'm doing. The whole car is a ...

Try dieselbob, he is based in preston, Lancashire and he does top quality jobs ! I had replied to some of your other posts...dont listen these companies that say they can repair the ecu's, they are similar to ABS controllers and sometimes there is not much you can do to fix as they are very delicate inside. Diesel bobs fits brand new genuine Bosch controllers wich are set up on the bench (to ...

Quote: Originally Posted by owdgit I am finally taking the plunge and going for a Remap on Saturday, I am going to use Pendle Performance as they are fairly local and seem to have good comments about them on here and seem to know their stuff as they are also going to map the gearbox to suit the ecu remap. I am mainly having the remap...

If it`s the PD140 engine it a design flaw that many PD140 engines do. If you find it annoying you can raise the rev limit by a few hundred RPM to cure it.