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Today when I got into the car after it had been sitting for more than 24 hours, I turned the ignition on (with driving lights OFF) and I got the warning light in the dash immediately, without any delay. I turned the driving lights on, and saw that the left rear light did not light up. I lightly ...

Hi cheba, good to know you still have your WRC.😎
Hopefully we will have luck with the bulb change before thinking about other possible causes due to the diagnosis made by your BCM (which is correct).

Filament bulbs sometimes last a little longer than they should before dying (like me 😁).


I got ...

are you still using the original lights? might be a bad bulb. happens a lot.


I am, actually. Haven't had to change a single bulb on this car apart from the xenons (after one of the original xenons started turning off intermittently after only 3 years or so).

But yeah, changing the bulb is ...

Been a long time since I've posted here, but I still have my Polo!

I've recently run into some strange issues after removing and reinstalling the rear lights to do some cleaning behind the lights. I have done this a couple of times before while owning this car. Every time that I do this it has ...

As was mentioned above, this socket is commonly called "triple square" but the correct name is "XZN".

You'll need an XZN bit of the correct size to remove it.

So for a budget of about £100 I guess, a cheap thing just so I can keep eye for leaks or problems. That's not going to just break and cause me problems.



What i was thinking was getting 1 of these https://www.awesomegti.com/shop-by-brand/forge/forge-sensor-adaptor-to-allow-fitting-of-boost ...

Be careful! The antena can leak! You can replace only the gasket. You can get OEM from the dealer or from aliexpress. The base has a amplifier build i to it.


Are you sure? I think the OEM gasket isn't sold separately, only as part of the antenna base, but I may be wrong.

In terms of the ...

The aerial can be a tricky one, depending on whether or not you have the original part and can check the exact part number. Is it the antenna base or the antenna rod you need? Regardless, there are many versions of each (often with identical part numbers except different last number) depending on ...

Another higher-budget option is the P3 digital gauge which installs in the air vent: https://www.p3cars.com/volkswagen/p3-v3 ... 2009-2018/

No OEM ones. For the Beetle and Scirocco, an OEM gauge panel was available that featured a boost gauge, oil temperature gauge and stop watch. Is is probably possible to get it to work in a Polo, but it isn't straightforward, plus you will have to cut out a hole in the top of the dashboard to fit it ...

Simple stuff aggressive pad ( yellowstuff) will wear the rotor faster than a standard pad.


Yeah, that was my thought too.

The funny thing is, on countless forums it is stated that Cosworth Streetmaster pads are made by EBC (may well be true). It is also assumed by many that they are just ...

I found an interesting matching chart (in German): https://www.at-rs.de/bremsen_beratung-nach-mass.html

I wonder what they are basing the recommendation on. Perhaps the hardness of the pads versus the rotors?

Interstingly, when it comes to the Yellowstuff pads it seems to be quite a difficult pad ...

I Googled the parts number that were given but unfortunately they didn't appear to return any results - so I'm not quite sure what I'm looking for however the post said that these parts may have been removed already.


These are the parts in question, I found lots of pictures of them when googling ...

Dixcel pads, slotted rotors dont crack, drilled ones do. Ate great quality, also is Zimmerman and TRW they dont bend.


I must say I had never heard of Dixcel. I tried looking them up on the web and though I don't doubt they are good, it seems that not many sell them in Europe, especially for non ...

I am up for an overhaul of the front brakes on my WRC. The car is a road car but since I do the occasional track day (1-2 times per year), I'm after a performance pad that won't fade away completely after a couple of laps.

I've been peeking around in different forums and there seem to be many that ...