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Does seem like it’s been played with. My caddy I bought recently had both speakers unplugged in the doors....no idea why!

Ouch! 6 - wire - brown/red #2 - wire - red #7 - wire- brown/green #3 - wire- red/green On the above the brown/ wire is the negative speaker terminal If you have no sound after wiring 6/2 to one side and 7/3 to the other, you may want to look to see if someone has kindly played with the door speakers...

5W30 in an older engine such as this can cause a variety of issues as its too thin such as piston blow by, seepage via the valve stem seals etc.

10W40 is best, 5W40 if fully synth is your flavour, but semi synthetic is more than adequate

Oh no, you've made a bit of a mess there!! You need a quad lock to ISO adapter loom - what you've done splitting the plugs won't help you at all https://www.halfords.com/technology/car-audio/stereo-fittings/volkswagen-audi%2Fseat%2Fskoda-iso-harness-adaptor---ct20vw02-581915.html This will sort your...

Totally get you. A decent auto electrician will be able to do it with the harness no trouble

These copy cables are often junk quality too and can die after a single connection. As RUM says, genuine is best

Even a VCDS lite cable and license is not that expensive.

Yup thats the same harness, you just wouldn't use the aerial bit

You'd need a multimeter, then you'd need to splice the cables. How comfortable are you with car electrics?

The first link should be plug and play

So the RCN210 is an older style ISO plug, and your 08 polo has a quad lock connector No major beef however it will require some electrical knowledge to fit as you'll need to fit an adapter, but then you can have issues around the illumination The easy option is to pick up one of these https://www.eb...

I see

You can order these from your local VW dealer. You'll need details from ETKA to get the plug part numbers and associated pins however

Ciclo on here may be able to assist you

I had a 2006 1.4 TDI and chucked 50k miles on it

Burned hardly any oil and still returned over 50mpg - great little car

You just want to make sure its been looked after, so service history, cambelt, diesel filter etc.

Conversion pins? The plugs are the same. Literally just change the headlight unit

Cylinders are left to right from the timing belt so when looking at the engine with it in front of you

I would check for vacuum leaks, check your air filter is clean, clean the throttle body to start with

From the breather to the air box?