Glad it got sorted man! Just in time for the glorious sunshine we are getting dude

I have been to dealers in the UK and quite literally shown them how to find parts for my cars on EKTA/VCDS! You know there is something wrong when the guy in the parts dept tries selling you a part for the wrong car and insists they are right. The most fun i had was when i had my mk2 golf with a 2.0l mk3 engine in it. The parts guy would insist i gave him the chassis number for the car when ordering engine bits and i kept telling them that the chassis isnt going to help as it has a newer ABF engine.

One time a guy asked me what car I wanted a part for and I said Corrado... he told me VW didn't make the Corrado, Toyota did. I told him I didn't mean Corolla, I meant Corrado...to which he replied "sorry never heard of it". At which point I left...

If you think about the time and effort we put into our cars (trawling through forum posts, reading articles, trying things ourselves and trying to learn how our car works)... a "tech" working for a dealer will never have the same commitment to investigate issues on older cars...If there isn't a quick fix or a step by step fault finding manual then you can pretty much guarantee they will just give up any proper investigation and blindly suggest replacing part x y z with the hope you will just accept AND the chance it actually fixes your problem!

DIY FTW!!!

/rantover