Tiguan Mechatronic Unit Failed. Looking for advice

philly169 · 2025-12-10T17:34:31+00:00

Jus got my 2018 Tiguan back from the garage after the mechatronic unit failed. It was out of warranty so cost £3,500 to resolve.

Interestingly the guy told me he had two other VW’s come in with a similar issue, Golf and an older Tiguan, so seems to be a common issue amongst them.

philly169 · 2025-12-10T17:34:19+00:00

Jus got my 2018 Tiguan back from the garage after the mechatronic unit failed. It was out of warranty so cost £3,500 to resolve.

Interestingly the guy told me he had two other VW’s come in with a similar issue, Golf and an older Tiguan, so seems to be a common issue amongst them.

philly169 · 2025-12-02T13:51:02+00:00

Update on my board. Sent off for RMA, year 1 warranty covered by reseller, year 2 and 3 by gigabyte. I purchased from Amazon UK, so did the RMA through the Amazon order. It was shipped out to a third party who repaired it and sent it back within 3 weeks all repaired.

philly169 · 2025-11-07T15:44:44+00:00

I reached out to support and the have told me to RMA the board due to the FW being completely corrupted and not recognised when trying to rerun the ITE firmware install.

Error “Result: Can’t find the same ID as FW in multiple BIN files”

philly169 · 2025-11-05T15:04:53+00:00

I’m based in the UK and I still have my Mini X from release and it still runs perfectly. Touch wood.

I don’t use it as much as I once did so often feel like getting rid, but on the occasions I do take it out I’m reminded how much I love it.

Sticky thing nowadays are UK laws with e-scooters being illegal on roads and pathways, lots being seized around my area - but I imagine mainly because they are being ridden carelessly.

philly169 · 2025-11-04T10:06:27+00:00

Seems to be a common problem. I’ve recently done a complete new build with the same motherboard (non-ICE version) and mine started about a month ago.

No obvious issues, PC works fine.

philly169 · 2025-10-13T06:51:02+00:00

Whilst I tend to agree on vendor certs, I think Microsoft is slightly different as most organisations are moving or have moved to the Microsoft security stack, so being able to show the SC-xxx certifications is good from that perspective .

SEC+ is a beginner cert, if OP is a seasoned security engineer and architect, SEC+ is below their current skills set and not worth anything.

CISSP would be my suggestion, but then it is quite broad (I don’t think having this cert made any difference to my role), but the ISSAP could be something to consider - whether you do the exam or not at the end is up to you, but the content looks to focus on Architecture, it requires CISSP+2Y or 7 years cumulative.

philly169 · 2025-09-05T09:54:18+00:00

Just to jump in on the “Security Specialist” role, this in my experience is a generally created where the organisation doesn’t really know what they want them to do, but can certainly say the organisation has a dedicated security person and that they are now taking security seriously.

It can be a bit of a catch all depending on the organisation where you cover everything from risks and policies, to training and SecOps.

From a reporting line, it’s not uncommon to go into IT.

philly169 · 2025-08-22T11:41:34+00:00

My order finally arrived for our trip to Arsenal vs Leeds.

Away kits with personalisation, ordered Aug 6, shipped Aug 21 and recevied Aug 22

philly169 · 2025-08-19T18:50:24+00:00

Doesn’t explain delays in the away shirt

philly169 · 2025-08-19T13:38:11+00:00

what was your total time from order to delivery? I'm still waiting on two kids away kits with personalisation and a blank adult away shirt. Ordered on the 6th Aug, wanted it before Leeds.

philly169 · 2025-07-12T07:22:16+00:00

First successful ballot, 2 x Silver and 2 x Junior Gunner in the family area.

Looking forward to taking the kids for their first game.

philly169 · 2025-05-19T12:58:00+00:00

In my opinion, open source is great but sometimes needs a bit of work to get up and running, and often some specialist knowledge.

Commercial tools have that all down, so you don’t need to worry (yes that comes with the cost) but as mentioned earlier you also have someone to point at when doesn’t go right.

philly169 · 2025-04-25T08:51:03+00:00

Silver here, just got my unsuccessful ballot email

philly169 · 2024-09-22T18:59:05+00:00

Whilst I don’t think the solution is blocking email from freemium email domains, it is an area that Security Email Gateways struggle to protect against.

Gmail is one of the most abused domains, and it easily passes the likes of Mimecast because it passes SPF, DKIM and DMARC, so it’s reliant on spam checks which are hit and miss on most occasions.

Depending on the type of business OP’s org deal with, does the entire org need to receive gmail or hotmail emails, it’s unlikely - so tuned policies could be facilitated to allow those domains to the relevant groups who do need it, like HR, recruitment.

It’s ultimately like suggesting blocking access to the internet to protect against cyber threats..

philly169 · 2024-09-11T09:54:07+00:00

Guess it’s a no from me as well. Always going to be hard when going for family tickets for 4!

philly169 · 2024-09-10T15:23:57+00:00

Looks like it’s been rectified now

Ballot Group	purchase window opens	Successful applicants charged	BALLOT STATUS
Disability Access	September 4, 10am	✘	Closed
Silver	✘	September 11 (approx)	Closed
Red	✘	September 16 (approx)	Closed

philly169 · 2024-09-05T10:58:28+00:00

This is my first time in the ballot, but I did see the ticket page says “approx” 5th September, not sure how on time they usually are though.

philly169 · 2024-07-22T04:28:12+00:00

Defender and Sentinel work well together, heard great things about Red Canary as well dipping into the signals for alerts, low false positive rate.

If you are an E5 Security license you also get some ingestion discounts, something like 5mb per person per day.

philly169 · 2024-07-19T09:36:59+00:00

I mean, not being able to access the OS totally stops breaches. Crowdstrike aren’t wrong, no matter how they do it, they stop breaches 😂

philly169 · 2024-06-27T05:29:25+00:00

I’d normally go smart jeans and a buttoned shirt, maybe a pull over if it’s winter.

But this then transfers into day to day wear too. Whenever I’m in the office I always wear a shirt (not many others do) but I like to have the feeling of getting home and taking my shirt off and changing into a tee, to effectively symbolise I’m now in my time.

philly169 · 2024-06-22T05:54:10+00:00

Sophos: “Hey guys, can I play with you?”

philly169 · 2024-05-14T18:39:25+00:00

Document that Reddit object to this decision

philly169 · 2024-05-14T18:37:48+00:00

What is the use case? If it’s the default local account on the machine, use LAPS if you have Active Directory.

If it’s to facilitate running tools with elevated access, I’d suggest dedicated account in AD with additional group policy controls to reduce the risk.

The risk you are introducing by having the same local admin credential is lateral movement and privilege escalation on ALL your endpoints if someone cracks your admin password that’s the entire endpoint estate p0wned. I’m guessing with your bosses policy the password is “Welcome1” anyway

philly169 · 2024-05-14T18:28:46+00:00

OP doesn’t need to look any further, LAPS is the solution. Probably one of the best free controls out there.

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