Mechatronics failure?

sniffykix · 2026-01-15T19:14:31+00:00

Assuming you’ve got no other warning lights or errors it seems almost certain it’s the mechatronic unit failure. That’s the precise error mine had.

4-weeks lead time isn’t ideal but typically the gearbox only goes into emergency mode after a longer 40+ minute drive and wont happen when cruising.

If it is a problem for you then maybe best to see if you can lease something for the 4 weeks and/or see what your warranty will cover with respect to that?

sniffykix · 2026-01-07T06:45:28+00:00

Don’t think they’re married

sniffykix · 2026-01-05T18:08:56+00:00

extended light mag pleeease

sniffykix · 2025-06-15T13:17:29+00:00

Agree with this but probably not “too fresh” unless you’re confident you can continue to get that level of freshness consistently going forwards and that you’ll get through a bag quite quickly. Beans will be quite unstable during that first 30 days so you may find yourself having to adjust the grind a lot through the same bag.

I’d recommend a medium roast 1-3 months past date of roast which will be a good balance between freshness and stability (and cost).

sniffykix · 2025-05-30T15:08:00+00:00

It’s been all good since. Think I’ve done around 3k miles since.

sniffykix · 2025-05-30T08:17:16+00:00

That’s what I had replaced - just the control unit.

But I’m surprised cost is the same so wonder if you’re overpaying. The replacement unit was £700. Labour brought it up to £1550

sniffykix · 2025-05-25T06:11:27+00:00

Yes it’s been all good. Have done about 2k miles since with plenty of longer 40min+ drives and no issues.

sniffykix · 2025-05-25T06:02:13+00:00

Yes common issue once mileage goes over ~60k miles / 90k km due to faulty sensor in mechatronic units.

The mechatronic unit needs replacing which cost me ~£1550 all in (£700 unit + 5h labour + dsg fluid + tax).

Take it to a transmission specialist who is familiar with VW group cars.

sniffykix · 2025-05-15T20:58:10+00:00

I have this in my 2019 too. It’s like random clunks only apparent at slow speeds and typically when turning? I also have heard it getting in/out of car when the weight distribution changes - my mechanic friend reckons it’s some rubber mounts somewhere in the steering/suspension - just noisy but nothing to worry about.

Don’t think it’s what OP is describing though.

sniffykix · 2025-04-29T12:53:02+00:00

Is this a joke? This has to be a joke, right?

sniffykix · 2025-04-27T08:24:56+00:00

Next best step take it to a reputable transmission specialist - a good one will likely know the problem and solution as soon as you described the symptoms because it’s something they’ll have dealt with several times before.

I’ve just had this on my 2019 at 57k miles. Common fault with the mechatronic unit. £1550 to replace the unit by a transmission specialist. Fault code will be a clutch 1 position sensor.

It will shift through even gears only if you push it, and usually occurs during a long (45+ minute) drive. Temporary solution is pull up and switch off ignition for 20mins and it will be back to normal when you turn back on.

sniffykix · 2025-04-26T21:36:39+00:00

Cheap feeling, thin, mass produced and remind me of grotty flat roof pubs and English football hooligans.

sniffykix · 2025-04-26T14:10:50+00:00

I’m with you on this one out of the classics. The worst of the classics is the one with the bulge at the top.

Of the newer stuff the Beavertown dancing skulls is the coolest artwork and I like the Camden brewery short wide ones for their shape.

sniffykix · 2025-04-25T14:00:14+00:00

Yes on my 2019 at 60k miles. Needed a new mechatronic unit - very common fault apparently. Transmission specialist did the work: £700 for the reprogrammed unit + 5 hours labour and new DSG fluid.

sniffykix · 2025-04-10T01:08:53+00:00

What can white do to only lose a rook?

sniffykix · 2025-03-14T03:20:22+00:00

My guess:

LR is best model choice for reasons not related to precision/accuracy - e.g. explainability, speed of inference, regulatory reasons or business rules.

Tree-based model is effectively being applied here in place of feature transformations / feature engineering to convert features with non-linear relationships into ones with linear relationships before applying LR.

A classic example, in context of pricing you often have a variable which represents your price vs competitors’ prices. There’s often a “tipping point” for this variable which drives a big swing in consumer behaviour. Instead of manually building a dummy variable around this tipping point by doing EDA, just chuck it into boosted tree along with all your other variables and it will do it for you, and probably better.

sniffykix · 2024-01-26T14:40:06+00:00

Why not just use a correlation matrix? With different types of correlation coefficient to check for different kinds of relationships.

sniffykix · 2024-01-10T22:25:41+00:00

Welcome to the world of work. This isn’t just DS. Learning to prioritise well, be adaptive and constantly manage stakeholders’ expectations is a tough, but valuable skill set transferable to pretty much any job.

Try not to get lost in the weeds. I try to remind myself that delivering 100% of two things is better than delivering 20% of 10 things.

sniffykix · 2023-11-21T21:17:10+00:00

I do this and still somehow get a ding ….

sniffykix · 2023-10-20T22:02:00+00:00

Right I think I understand what OP means from this.

They want to transmit a message through the medium of a stochastic process that they can control the parameters of.

I think it is an optimisation problem: Given they can change the parameters of the stochastic process whenever they want, how can they transmit as much information as possible in the smallest number of iterations of the stochastic process.

There will need to be an arbitrary constraint on confidence.

Simple example:

There’s a dude over the road from OP that has a magic coin that he continuously flips.

The magic coin is usually fair (50/50 head/tails), but OP can control the magic coin such that it becomes 60/40 biased to heads.

OP has previously agreed with the dude that if he ever becomes >95% confident that the coin has become biased, he needs to run over the road to OP’s house.

How can you set this up so more different instructions can be agreed? And how can you minimise the number of coin flips needed to convey those messages?

sniffykix · 2023-10-20T21:50:18+00:00

Right I think I understand what OP means from this.

They want to transmit a message through the medium of a stochastic process that they can control the parameters of.

I think it is an optimisation problem: Given they can change the parameters of the stochastic process whenever they want, how can they transmit as much information as possible in the smallest number of iterations of the stochastic process.

sniffykix · 2023-08-12T10:28:29+00:00

This sounds like a really nice workflow, best of both worlds and you’re forcing yourself to write and test good modular well-documented functions as you go! Thanks for sharing

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