What did you do to your Mk5 today?

[asa572]

Couple of days on the tools..
Got around to fitting some coilovers I bought on the 10/09/2014 off antihero300.
Also fitted some r32 brakes.
Worst thing is I did the left side first and when I moved to the right side found the outer cv boot had just let go.
So that will be next.

So,
2 years and 9 months after fitting the Bilstein B14s to the TDI the strut top snapped off.
So from now on today is VAGMAS Day for me.
Nice and quite at work replacing the B14s for some nice barely used B8s that thank f@#k I didn't sell.
So have a very VAGMAS DAY everyone!

[feenix74]

Merry VAGMAS to you too!

Sounds like you had a VAGMAS like my wife's VAGMAS eve. She spent it stuck on the side of the road for a couple of hours on the way home from work until NRMA rescued her and towed her Mk5 TDI home. She managed to dodge some idiot in a 4WD that was coming down wrong way on the highway on-ramp. However in doing her emergency maneuvering she appears to have blown the turbo - car is blowing white smoke when revving. Will have to wait until 07 Jan 2019 for CVWC to re-open after the holidays to get a proper diagnosis and find out how bad the bill is.

[asa572]

That's no good.
At least she is ok.

[feenix74]

Yep, she was bloody lucky that her reflexes, skills and experience saved her from a head on collision. Hopefully, she is just damaged an turbo-intercooler hose or something else that is cheap to fix and that we are not up for the cost of a new turbo or replacement motor.

[asa572]

Everything went good putting in the struts and then I go to test drive the car and the power steering no longer works.
So either it has blown a fuse (doubt it) or the rack has packed it in.

[asa572]

So after a few tests the rack was cactus.
Luckily we had an almost new rack from an R32 at work so this afternoon was spent fitting it.

out with the old

in with the (like) new

[feenix74]

Glad to read that you are having some luck with the sourcing of parts but remember bad luck comes in threes . . .

[Mk3 AAA]

Cleaned!

[feenix74]

Beautiful.

Looks a lot better since you removed all that old timber off it

[Cheezel]

I had success last week with replacing the valve in the A/C compressor. A fridgy mate de-gassed the system, and I pulled out the old valve and replaced it with a new one from eBay, and we gassed it up. Now, the cool comes on straight away rather than 5-10 minutes delay. Pretty happy with that.