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Mk5 General Area / Re: K04 Conversion - Do you ever regret it? How is it for daily driving?

« Last post by ZoliWorks on Today at 08:59:27 pm »

What were the symptoms of yours when it was sticking, like what did it do exactly? Revs falling slow? Uneven idle? Car randomly dying when coming off-gas? Revs jumping up-down as if it had a vacuum leak?

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Mk5 General Area / Re: DSG woes!

« Last post by GVK on Today at 08:21:28 pm »

Sticker in the boot or service book should show gearbox code. It should be on the box on the top of it, but might be hard to see what with all the wires and sh*t.

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Mk5 General Area / DSG woes!

« Last post by Lewo on Today at 06:09:27 pm »

Driving home last night and bit of a pop from the dsg gearbox car came to a stop, display flashing. Managed the short drive home at 20mph in 1st gear I presume.
Parked car up and this morning it started with no display flashing.
Scanned with Carista and got the code.
Is it cream crackered?
56 plate gti.
Where is the gearbox code so I can see which one I need?
Cheers.

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Mk5 General Area / Rear wiper arm part number

« Last post by richtung on Today at 05:56:59 pm »

Hi guys,

Need to replace the rear wiper arm (not the blade). Does anyone have the part number to the latest revision please?

Thanks

Rich

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Mk5 General Area / Tackling my right-turn sticky clutch issue, where to start?

« Last post by OllieVRS on Today at 02:28:58 pm »

previous post from 2023 here: https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,133694.0.html

Have decided it's time to tackle this b*stard, as the stickiness is getting worse and worse, even after slow right-turns it's sticking now. Still no clutch slip though.

We confirmed in the previous post that it's not crankwalk. A gearbox end-cap shim wasn't the solution either.

Also now when reversing up a slight incline it sounds a lot louder and more grindy, which is another cause for concern and I hope not the gears themselves.

Where do I start, is it worth investigating the clutch pedal assembly first before dropping the gearbox? I heard there's a 'clutch-spring' that can fail, is this part of the pedal mechanism or part of the clutch itself?

Cheers

EDIT: Just adding that I have tried pumping the clutch pedal while coasting before a right turn to build up some pressure, didn't reduce the stickiness after the turn

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Mk5 General Area / Re: K04 Conversion - Do you ever regret it? How is it for daily driving?

« Last post by mjmallia on Today at 09:16:21 am »

I bought a low mile one off eBay for £30.......Continental revised version off a Mk7 GTI or R, as my VDO one was randomly sticking, but smooth on testing.

2018 manufacture year and the P/N is 06F133062T

VCDS to recalibrate it and all has been fine since.

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Mk5 General Area / Re: K04 Conversion - Do you ever regret it? How is it for daily driving?

« Last post by ZoliWorks on Today at 08:22:24 am »

Is your throttle body a VDO one? If so, I would swap it for the newer Continental one. I had surging and throttle valve flutter issues with the gen 1 VDO throttle after it was tuned.

Alright I've checked, it is indeed VDO. Do you happen to have a part number for the Continental one, or do they use the same one just different manufacturer/time?

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Mk5 General Area / NQS BBK Question/Guidance.

« Last post by WinnowTO on Today at 05:55:44 am »

Hi all,

I was wondering if the NSQ BBK mod was achievable using 17z rear calipers from a Cayenne/Touareg/Q7. a pair of them managed to find their way into my possession and I've gone as far as seeing if they'll bolt up to my current knuckle on my GTI (which they will).

Once I saw that they'll bold up, I ran into an issue with them not lining up with where my stock rotor is, no matter if they're bolted on the inside or outside side of the knuckle. Honestly, it looks like if I were to cut a slot down the middle of the mounts of the caliper, they'd actually fit with the stock rotor.

All that being said, does anyone have any experience with making this work or at least know sizing up to the 330mm Mercedes ML350 rotor would work for this? It seems like it'd be a great alternative to the Porsche setup for those who cant get their hands on them.

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Mk5 General Area / Re: 62% insurance increase anyone?

« Last post by ahsan82 on Yesterday at 11:45:28 pm »

got my renewal went up from £635 last year to £760 for this year...... called them up... managed to get for same price as last year.....all very strange..... im 42 with 3 points

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Mk5 General Area / Re: Volant Intake System for TFSI

« Last post by ROH ECHT on Yesterday at 11:18:07 pm »

Just because this is old and to post a couple of things I'm not sure are included in the previous pages;
They did upgrade the intake for the mk6 Golf R with the DV relocation...


.....and the Volant did result in low fuel trims, on average, when they had MK6 Golf R people report their fuel trims with various intakes; on another forum. This averages were posted once ten people reported for each of these intakes. So some didn't make their list if less than ten users reported their trims;


I may have posted this all before, on those previous pages, but I'm old now (62 next month), and I just don't remember.