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AGM stop start batteries are generally more expensive 😠. My Mk4 doesn’t have start stop but it has a smart charging system so has an AGM battery.

Mk1 & Mk2’s were common for the rear light cluster to get crap behind the seal don’t know if Mk3’s suffer the same… worth checking/cleaning. Door seals? Windscreen? My Meganes door pockets would fill with water and I never worked out how until I had a new windsofitted and the bloke basically...

Inside of the glass means it’s condensation, so the water is getting in somewhere (not necessarily the roof)… are all the carpets dry?

An auto Fiat 500… 🤮

Check whether it stays solid when you crank it… Take the tdc sensor off and give it a good clean or try a new one.

What does the immobiliser light do?

Which car have you got?

I beg to differ on that, the Topdon one I use is pretty shite. Not a patch on the Autel one it replaced.

Welcome to the club!

so its a hard one to put a definite finger on as some days the car feels like someone has left the stable door open and all but a few horses have bolted. Others it feels great and pulls like it should. My gut feeling is there’s more to to that simply clutch contamination, I think there’s an...

it would appear so…

This sounds very much like my car and has been doing this for years (I always assumed it was the car being over sensitive and pulling the power).

I was confused as to why you wanted to in the first instance…

I first put a blink camera up, was ok and did the job but the app is laggy, slow to load and highly annoying that it won’t continuously play unless you keep hitting the ‘continue’ button when it pops up. Put up a 2nd Gen Ring camera and immediately the difference in picture and sound quality...

Just another electrical quirk 😉

I’ll aim to get there about 9:30 ish, gotta be back in Braintree for 11:15 👍🏼

My pupils often confuse the headlights and the stalk will be on full beam position but just the dipped headlights are on. When this happens you can’t turn them off or anything until the car is turned off and the drivers door opened. Also something I’ve had recently is my dash cam not powering...

Might be able to pop in for 5 mins..

I changed the waterpump because it was screaming its head off not because it was leaking or anything! Yes, 3 batteries because that seemed to ‘fix’ the issue. That’s when I started looking deeper into the issues and started taking note of when the issue would flare up. It became apparent it...

I use mine for teaching people to drive so I do 80% stop start driving. I’ve just got a standard battery, nothing special apart from it being an AGM. Mine doesn’t have start stop as it’s an early ph1. I’ve changed the water pump but touch wood not had any issues with thermostat. Modern cars...

The TCM doesn’t require the gearbox to be removed, it’s on the outside of the gearbox casing as are the motors. I do agree with you that these cars do suffer from an electrical issue but what or where that issue is I’m not exactly sure and unfortunately don’t have the time to spare to trace...

Depending on where the OP lives (I’m guessing Australia) $4k is about £2k. £2k for the TCM + programming at a dealer probably isn’t too far fetched.

Am I the only one who likes the new R5? Has anyone bought an R-pass?

I’d go with Adeys suggestion tbh!

Hi and welcome! Nice to see another Mk4 owner join!

Can you take a picture of the battery? Any other symptoms?

Yep! Been there done that got the Tshirt. Mine would throw up check auto gearbox when the ambient temperature was high. A new TCM solved my issues with the gearbox.

More than likely. I’d put a tenner that if you change the battery your problem will disappear…

Are you sure it’s transmission fluid?

Press either of these, if you’ve got RS monitor it’ll come up.