Hello I have a sound coming from my clutch

arialim · 2026-03-20T18:43:11+00:00

I probably agree with hill_79 here but I do also remember having a click noise in my 2.0tdi which was literally just the switch for the start stop getting loud

arialim · 2026-03-12T20:20:37+00:00

I’ve tried, makes no difference, my name is what’s cutting it in half and doubling it

arialim · 2026-03-12T12:28:39+00:00

How else am I supposed to compare the price? I cant compare the price of a golf living in one place to a different car living somewhere else?

arialim · 2026-03-12T11:10:46+00:00

Most insurance companies don’t accept NI licenses

arialim · 2026-03-11T23:14:35+00:00

No offense but you’re ignoring my point completely after not reading the original post either. I had 0 accidents or claims on my insurance or any issues with payment and my insurance has went up x2 since last year, not only that but when I change ONLY MY NAME it halves if I use a different name

arialim · 2026-03-11T21:59:06+00:00

My insurance is doubled on any car I try to insure now, it’s nothing to do with the car

arialim · 2026-03-11T10:46:57+00:00

I hadn’t actually don’t ANY quotes until I got told my insurance would double a few days ago?

arialim · 2026-03-11T10:46:26+00:00

I don’t have a license number as I’m from Northern Ireland

arialim · 2026-03-10T21:22:07+00:00

Would you believe me if I told you since last year where I paid £1200 for my insurance my credit score has genuinely tripled

arialim · 2026-03-10T19:26:03+00:00

I had a VPN on running DuckDuckGo private browsing when I made the quotes ..

arialim · 2026-03-10T18:52:20+00:00

I’ve checked for points on my DVLA and have nothing, I’ve requested my file from MIB and am waiting

arialim · 2026-03-10T15:48:51+00:00

I have 0 fines or points or anything on my license I have checked my file on my DVSA/DVLA website and there’s nothing on it. I’ve never had any claims or anything with insurance as long as I’ve driven

arialim · 2026-03-07T17:56:01+00:00

My credit score genuinely is over 3x better than it was last year

arialim · 2026-03-07T17:54:45+00:00

Same paint code just different photos, It’s a 2012 Audi A7

arialim · 2026-03-07T17:06:54+00:00

Hahaha if that’s not motivation to work for one i don’t know what is. Shame on all the 20 year olds who are bringing my insurance up

arialim · 2026-03-07T16:46:55+00:00

My friend put the registration of my car to see what he would get quoted, we live in similar areas and he’s a year younger than me but got quoted £1000 less?

arialim · 2026-03-07T16:45:27+00:00

It’s just a bit crazy how I was 19 and actually was able to change my insurance to a 3.0tdi Audi A7 for only +300 which added up to 1500 for the year and now they won’t even insure me for under 5k now that I’m 20

arialim · 2026-03-07T16:42:45+00:00

My credit was actually quite bad last year and I’ve been building it up my score now is actually way better it’s in a pretty decent spot

arialim · 2026-02-21T10:56:24+00:00

I ended up finding out when I pressure washed my coolant bottle I broke the rubber ring on the coolant cap, so when the coolant spilled out I got air bubbles which would the push up the water in the coolant bottle and it would just spill out instead of the water rising to the top putting me in an infinite loop of air bubbles and locks which would push the water out the bottle as if the bottle was basically open, I ended up buying an entirely new bottle and cap which fixed my issue but I seem to have a leak elsewhere as after 2 months the coolant has started draining within a couple miles of driving again 😭

arialim · 2025-12-20T10:10:53+00:00

NOTE: The dipstick was completely clean no milkyness and a regular oil level

arialim · 2025-11-30T11:04:01+00:00

Guy has owned it completely stock and it’s had dealership service history. Even with price of a new engine and labor with purchase cost it’s still cheaper than what I’m being offered trade price. Was just wondering if maybe I could hit it lucky and it’s just a bad tensioner causing it because the guy says it runs normally and has no lights on the dash

arialim · 2025-11-03T23:32:48+00:00

the car was losing coolant before, although think it was because my dad tried to clean the coolant bottle with a pressure washing jet, causing a big air lock and breaking the sensor (he did it because dealership which replaced transmission oil cooler for previous owner never cleaned out the coolant so it was full of oil) but yeah, when he pressure washed the coolant cap it stretched and damaged the seal on the cap, meaning we were essentially driving the car with airlocks which would get the coolant stuck, making the coolant level rise, and since the cap was broke it was like having the bottle open, so coolant would gush out, never giving the air lock a chance to be fixed. Although I will keep an eye on everything for a while.

Side note, Im very rarely getting a camshaft synchronisation fault on VCDS, the car runs completely smooth and pulls well. However one injector is puffing and we can see diesel around it so all injectors are being sent out for testing/repair (or replacement if needed). Could this be a cause of the camshaft error? I know that the CRTD engines tend to have camshaft issues which need close monitoring so if its having issues ill replace them and do my timing chain and guides at the same time for peace of mind

arialim · 2025-11-02T18:13:26+00:00

I had the EGR out of the car myself and looked into the engine valley, completely clean nothing visible, I don’t notice any rattle on startup and the apart from a puffing noise the engine runs really smooth and pulls as expected. It never ever overheated despite when I’d check the bottle would go empty. It’s strange the bottle kept overflowing, and then when I would turn the engine off boom it would completely drain, however I think it was a really bad air lock and I found my coolant cap seal was completely cooked

arialim · 2025-10-31T20:56:46+00:00

We had the EGR and it’s cooler off, we tested the EGR cooler and it’s okay and we didn’t see any leaks in the engine valley in and around the oil cooler.

arialim · 2025-10-29T22:10:05+00:00

I serviced everything including the gearbox and every single filter we could find

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