GVKs Scirocco GT TDi

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2009 Scirocco 2.0 TDI once in a blue moon I get a beep and ESP fault on centre dash. Only does it on initial start up over night like I say very random. No ESP/ABS lights stay on when it does it. No fault codes (checked on VCDS and OBD eleven. Weird one. Any ideas?

Since the weather has changed car has also been struggling on cranking especially if i've not driven the car for a day, so I've fitted new battery, hopefully that will stop the ESP warning! Yuasa 096 from Halfords £109.99 FFS!

TBF - Halford do a good warranty on their battery ....just don't loose the receipt

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Yes, 5 years on mine 

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So,went to Cadwell park on Sunday to watch the racing, it was a wash out and car parks were water logged! When I went to leave got stuck on the wet grass and tried turning ESP off to help traction. No beuno! No matter what I did with the button it wouldn't turn off.

Had a look on eBay for a button and it was a minefield, from a Chineseum special for £8.95 to  Lithuanian seller advertising them for over £60! So I went to local VW dealer Crowsons of Spalding and got a genuine VW one for £35. The design has been replaced to one with a skidding car rather than the ESP OFF text, replaced in 2011.

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MOT today, passed but had advisories for 3 tyres , rear brake pads low and an inner cv joint gaiter deteriorated.
Went and got a pair of tyres on the way home (Falken) ordered rear tyres for tomorrow and may have got caught speeding for good measure! Bugger! 

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Got a few bits to do on the annual service on the car. Had advisories on the MOT for rear pads low, and os inner CV gaiter deteriorated. Also advisories for 3 tyres. Had a set of Falken FK520 fitted.
Going to fit rear discs as old ones are lipped and corroded.
Gone for cheapy Apec (£45 for discs and pads!) . Got a ball joints kit for when fitting the driveshaft gaiter as the 3 studs have a habit of snapping.

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Noice    I have a similar pile of stuff awaiting fitment to the ol' Bimmer.

Our MK6 TDI also had an MOT advisory on a failing CV boot, and one of the console bushes has gone.  Luckily I kept a load of parts back from my ED30, so had all that and more in stock ready to go on   Still going like a trooper that thing    Very reliable and fun car.

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Been and seen my mate who's Dad's got a ramp today to get the above bits fitted, everything went ok apart from one of the rear calipers was tight to wind in.

Left there and no sooner got to 20mph or so and the ABS/TCS lights came on. Went back and had a look on OBDeleven and the left rear ABS sensor showing mechanical malfunction. We wipped the rear disc off and could see the ABS ring part of it flapping about. Rear hub needed! Bloody cars.   

We had to undo the disc screw with hammer and punch so I think a bit of rust off the back of the disc has got in the gap of the rear hub and caused the failure on the ABS ring....

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New NSR hub assembly fitted to fix ABS/TCS lights coming on and mechanical malfunction code.  Clocked over to 149000 today 

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Having issues on hot days with seat belt warning going off even with seat belt connected.

Must be a micro-switch in the buckle playing up? Just had a quick look on VCDS adaptions to disable it - Only options were variant 1 to Variant 4. It was on 2 changed it to 3 as 1 and 4 had an error message.

If that hasn't solved it I have seen some You Tube vids about changing the coding. Coding scares me , don't want to f##k it up.

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Sorted it by using OBDelelven, the long coding is easier to understand on there than VCDS  - literally an on/off menu!

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Had a long running issue where car would randomly go into limp mode with glo plug light flashing and eventually depending on how many re-starts the engine light would appear.

Code read showed P2564 turbo position sensor fault - this is part of the actuator on the turbo and from VW was £250 for replacement actuator, it has to be calibrated on diagnostics to a certain voltage level which I couldn't find any concrete info how to do and asking around friends no one wanted to tackle it.

Obviously garages won't often install or warrant jobs with customer's supplied parts. Eventually found a VAG specialist in March, Cambs. who were happy to fit it, but understandably won't /can't warranty it.

So left it with them today and got a phone call confirming that is the fault and the actuator was giving out incorrect voltages, so they're fitting the actuator and calibrating it, carrying out basic settings tomorrow.  Fingers crossed it's sorted as was a pain with having to restart it numerous times so it was out of limp mode, doing about 50mph flat out!

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Car was picked up this afternoon after being repaired, they've given it a much needed clean inside and out to so was impressed by that.
Cost was £251.70 to diagnose, and fit my supplied actuator including setting up actuator on VCDS and carrying out basic settings as per ELSA.

Thanks to https://adsutton.co.uk/