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Moosegirl wrote:Love the sunglasses holder!!

It was an amazing little buy and naturally the colour coded glasses had to fill the spot

On the way to essex Harlow now but not in my car unfortunately in the misses standard 9n3 :-/ it's quite a nice drive though just doesnt handle as good isn't as comfortable and looks no where near as good ha !

interior is lookin wicked !!!

M54 SINGH wrote:interior is lookin wicked !!!

thanks man, quick question how is your bumper smoothed ? is it plastic welded or fillered ? such a shame i hope your on the road to recovery and the insurance are being ok about it

so as you are all at UD this weekend...

i brought myself a little treat slightly discounted from a guy i know at an audio shop



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so im going to move my current fronts with inbuilt tweeters to the rear as currently my rears are the standard paper cone speakers and they blow worse than a playboy bunny then il put these in the front with the tweeters in the correct place,

Guys I need urgent help my radiator fan isn't kicking in resulting in this...



Anyone have any suggestions ?. I'm currently sat in a coop car park not wanting to move till it cools down.

Think there's a rad fan fuse on the top of the battery, might be worth checking?

If not, I'm not sure off hand. Think someone else had the same issue a while ago, ill have a quick search.

http://www.uk-polos.net/view ... an#p431775

That's what I was thinking of. Does the heater blow warm?

TriggerFish wrote:Think there's a rad fan fuse on the top of the battery, might be worth checking?

If not, I'm not sure off hand. Think someone else had the same issue a while ago, ill have a quick search.

Appreciate the help dude, theres 4 fuses on top
Of the. Battery, not clearly marked and not easy to tell
If blown,

Il take a look at that thread as I'm still stuck in the car which is pissing out coolant from the overflow in the tank, but I can't search the forum as I'm only using tapatalk. Il update in the next 10
Mins.

The issues sound very similar is this the temp sensor (the green part) ?.





Also just seen what street I'm parked on...



And as I left her as a mate rescued me,



Anyway if it is that green sensor
I changed it 2 years ago so is possible that its gone again, but again peoples thoughts are appreciated,

Only 4 fuses? There's 8 on mine I think - 4 blade style ones, and 4 strips about 4-5cm long. It's on of the stripped ones that controls the rad fan (I think).

Did you use a proper VAG sensor? I had to change it on my Golf, and people said avoid 3rd party ones as they break/don't last.

Pretty sure that is the sensor though, if you can get hold of VCDS it might tell you if/why it's playing up/let you get readings from the sensors.

If I understand it, that sensor is working alright though, as it's giving an accurate (ie hot) reading to the dashboard, which ties in with it spewing coolant out, so I think the issue is elsewhere.

If you can, try (carefully!) touching the hoses coming into/out of the radiator. They should both be hot, if only one is (I think the top is the inlet) then I'd say it's the thermostat. Watch out though, as they do get hot as I'm sure you can guess!

Got the car home, friends dad had the same problem with his 16v turned out to be the thermostat housing so hopefully have that sorted ASAP !.

Currently doing my speakers, turns out crossovers aren't the easiest thing to do in a 6n2 due to there being no connection from the door into the car so gonna bridge it to speaker wires behind the head unit turning out quite expensive all this speaker cable etc !

Is replacing the thermostat housing the same as just replacing the green thing In this image ?.






Please someone reply I need this fixed tomorrow !.

Thanks in advance JB.

Thermostats are a mechanical thing that open/close to allow water to pass. (Think they use wax which metls/solidifies depending upon temp of the water, and then lets the spring retract to open it.) That's just a sensor to get the temperature of the coolant.

I think the 'stat itself was about £12 when I got one for my Golf.

I'd expect you'd need something like this: http://www.eurocarparts.com/ecp/c/Volks ... f64&000325

Although I got one from ECP and it didn't fit, so had to return it. Went to VW in the end and it's fine now. They tend to carry a couple in stock too.

I'd check with your mates dad, but I'd expect that's what he had to change.

Good luck!

Ecu temp sensor? Dash temp is still working, or fan relay, or just motor burnt out, get stuck in with the multi meter on the ecu temp, usually in the pipework not on the rad....

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il collect it from vw then and prob drop it off at the only garage that i trust to do work on my car as to be honest i have no idea where the thermostat actually is or how to change it,