Originally Posted by Shings
Originally Posted by paulpalmer
Originally Posted by Shings
THe wheel sensors are between 50-70 quid - ecu is £££'s and people can spend a lot of money tracing faults. My own car had an intermitant problem- the light just stayed on when it wanted.
Wheel sensors are £18.50 from German and Swedish. My wife had a mark 3 VR6 and although it was thirsty it's a good cruiser and all round nice car. On a reasonable run you'll the mpg in the high 20s and she used to get low 30s sometimes
Golf VR6s are now very cheap to pick up but beware that the early ones without coil packs had problems with the heads so only look at something on an L plate or newer. Also beware that at 100k the timing chains can fail and because VW put the chain on the gearbox end of the engine getting them replaced isn't cheap
Corrados still fetch £5k for a decent one.
Ahhh they wern't when I had mine- but my main point was it can be a problem with the ABS and all the research I did said it was an issue.
Corrado's are loadsa money
I just got my mate to plug it in to the diagnostic port and it told me which sensor was down. Changing it was an arse though and I obliterated the old one into about 50 bits before it'd come out
