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Timely message Gazz. I've had noisy timing chain on cold starts for years now on our 118tsi. Rolled the dice on it not wanting to sink the amount of money that VW informed it would cost a few years...

Thanks. I will keep an ear/eye on it. If there is any persistent noise that could be timing chain related I will take it back to VW for their thoughts (in the interest of potentially following up on...

Thanks for posting that Idaho, gives me some confidence that the immediate issues will be resolved with the supercharger clutch/water pump.

I suspect there is still an issue with the timing chain...

Spoke to the service centre and got the full story.

When the car came in after going into "limp home mode" it had two historic alerts, one for the supercharger clutch and the other suggesting a...

I'm not sure that they suggested that it failed. The reason for the engine light was either not fully disclosed or not fully known - they would know exactly what the code was, but I guess not exactly...

Recently there has been some noise during startup on our 2010 118tsi. Yesterday when my wife was driving the engine light came on and the car went into limp home mode/limp mode. She was able to drive...

Dead battery after going away for just over a week. Managed to jump start it, but after a 40 minute drive it wouldn't turn over again. Jump started a second time and took it back home.

Called...

Still got the plastic surround for the driver side door pin (with the red led)? If so how much sent to Sydney.

...and when you're done check out the car. Be very wary of a crack in the bush...

....and I'll get my coat.

Mine is far from flush unfortunately.. and because of this it makes quite a lot of noise when driving particularly on hot days. sticks out 2 or 3mm also.. plus the radio reception is very poor...

There's no rubber tray liners in mine.

This picture would indicate that they don't come with them:

http://cdn.caradvice.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/pologti-console.jpg

The mirror glass on mine just fell off of its own accord!

Happy to report that the ebay replacement was pretty straightforward though the prongs connecting the heated element were a little...

I cut up a credit card style card and fashinoned it into what I figured were the right shaped 'hooks'. Took about 10 or so minutes of cutting and re-cutting, got there in the end. Job done.

The mirror/glass from my driver side mirror fell off and smashed today! Driving out of the driveway and heard a smash, didn't realise what it was for way too long (figured it was a bottle or some...

There was a little slip of paper that showed where the clips were to go. It was one on the front edge and one on the back with none across the long side.

This is what I would do in your circumstance if worried about the continual short drives.

Has anyone who has had the clutch pack replaced had a recurrence of the shuddering?

No recurrence here as yet, but it has been less than 6 months. I know others had theirs done quite some time in...

That is quite pricey, I paid less than $500 for the 30k on the 118tsi with DSG.

At my last service they put in Liqui Moly Top Tec 4100 5 W-40

http://www.liqui-moly.de/liquimoly/mediendb.nsf/gfx2/3700_200_100.jpg/$file/3700_200_100.jpg

Prior to that it had Castrol Edge...

If only they still did. Long, straight and pretty dull.

Agains, awesome pics. Thanks for sharing.

That's what I thought looking at the pictures.. made me wonder. Any driving off sealed roads?

Great pics Blitzen.. did much of the red dust find it's way into the cabin?

Nice figures. What sort of trips does that consist of mainly?

Averager consumption for me is 9.16. Hit 10 trips to the bowser with the following as the consumptions along the way:

9.46 l/100 km
8.72 l/100 km
9.21 l/100 km
9.12 l/100 km
8.87 l/100 km...

Another Sydney to Gold Coast run in the 118tsi. 5.7 l/100km on the way there car fully loaded with 3 people and lots of luggage etc.

On the way back one less person and slightly less luggage 5.6...