What did you do to your van today?

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My new to me 2018 1.0 TSi Trendline

Finally got correct builds for my Sidelights/DRLs

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Pic for comparison

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and laughed at how small the 1.0 engine is.

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Had the dreaded call from the garage, yep it's another injector, that's 3 in the last 5 months. Really starting to hate the cost of these things to be fitted.

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Managed to fix my bonnet catch with help from the forum thanks people
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Jca730 wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2024 11:17 am Had the dreaded call from the garage, yep it's another injector, that's 3 in the last 5 months. Really starting to hate the cost of these things to be fitted.

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@Poffe I'd had a good run as it's been 6 years since I'd last had to have one replaced

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Slowly getting there with my anthracite front part of the interior idea. Yesterday, I wired in the ergoActive seat electronics (admittedly, I do enjoy the massage with back heating) and mk7 airbag plugs. Interesting to note that the heating on the passenger seat works fully (backrest and buns) with my old wiring loom yet that's not the case with the driver's seat which just has the back heat up.

Today, I fitted a black leather Touran passenger door card with a warning light. Not fun cutting it up with a mini angle grinder to fit the Caddy, but the result is worth it. Working on the driver's side door card now and praying for some non-terrible weather and daylight to fit it.
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raitis wrote:Image
Yesterday, I wired in the ergoActive seat electronics (admittedly, I do enjoy the massage with back heating) and mk7 airbag plugs. Interesting to note that the heating on the passenger seat works fully (backrest and buns) with my old wiring loom yet that's not the case with the driver's seat which just has the back heat up.
Nice work! Looks really good!
How easy were they to wire in?
I was offered a pair of ergoComfort seats from Passat today for a reasonable price. They are quite tempting. But only if I can get them to work as intended.


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Thanks. Relatively easy as mine is a manual seat with electric lumbar support. The module under driver's seat just needed 12V (pin no. 1 in a 2015 Golf mk7 floor connector) and a ground (pin no. 5). I ran a 1.0 mm thick wire to a free slot in the interior fuse box and the ground to the grounding point at the door sill. AFAIK, many ErgoComfort seats are fully electric with a memory function so they have to talk to the BCM which is much more complicated. If you have prior experience adding pins to the CECM/BCM and fuse box, coding in VCDS, then you should be fine.
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Finally got round to fitting a hand brake cover and a new button as they were missing when I got the van.

Been on the to do list forever.
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I had a woman reverse of her drive and didn’t listen to the parking sensors 😂

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Finally got round to fitting my Touran Xenon’s…



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Need to run them for a bit with some silica gel sachets to dry out the moisture from storage

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Waiting on darkness to go for a drive and see if there’s any difference from the old halogen lamps.


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To be fair
A Tilly lamps an improvement on caddy lights
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:lol: yeah, I've also got one of them in the garage too...
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Sound proofing/insulation continues… have I gone overboard?

Found some Touran carpets and centre console on the local scrap yard. It was really freezing when I stood there in the yard and disassembled the parts Image hope it will be worth it in the end.


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@Poffe Nice. Looks much more insulated than Caddy Life from the factory. I hope you got the recycled material OEM insulation under the Touran carpets as well. I wonder if there will be any centre console fitment issues with the extra layer added. The carpets have to hook onto the central air vents and the console also screws into them.

And my interior transformation is complete. I hit the jackpot and found a black leather adjustable armrest at a local breakers' yard. They sold it to me separately which is rare because most ask you to buy the whole Touran interior.
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