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Dazza's Maintenance Thread
dazza:
Had the airbag light on for a few months. The kids often kick the connectors but VCDS clears it up. This time it kept coming back.
Had a fiddle about with the connectors under the passenger seat. Before i got the soldering iron out i decided to pull the centre vent and as i suspected i did not reconnect the light for the passenger side airbag. Muppet! :stupid:
dazza:
The drivers side (LHD) inner CV boot has been ripped for ages. For some reason just kept putting it off. Having already changed both outer CV boots this should be an easy one.
Took about 40 mins to get the drive shaft out most of this time was putting the car on axle stands and getting the centre cap out of the wheel without damaging it.
Probably not the recommended way to get the 6 bolts holding it on to the gear box but it worked.
Think the stealers have given me the wrong boot 1K0 498 201 D???
dazza:
After another trip to the stealers got the correct boot kit. Unlike the outer joint i couldn't manage to get the bearings out of the cage so couldn't clean it 100% did the best i could and got it all back together.
It was not as straight forward as i thought. I struggled getting the 6 bolts into the gearbox. Two bolts got to 70nm but were not applying pressure to the drive shaft so i ended up using two of the old bolts.
I think the new cap at the end of the shaft may have been catching the bolts although i put the bolts in the drive shaft to make sure everything lined up ok.
In one year i've now changed 3 of the 4 boots knowing my luck the other one will go now.
dazza:
Changed the valve cover gasket today. Hopefully i've done a better job than last time. :confused:
rich83:
:smiley:
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