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Mine lived in the garage every night, so they just came earlier. We were due to go out for a meal later so I had left it on the drive, for all of two hours after returning from work. God knows how many times they had been around previously, they only have to get lucky once! Mine turned up after the insurance paid out and I went for a look at the recovery garage. It seems they found the pedal box controller in the little cubby hole, presumably thought it was a tracker and ragged it out with enough force to disconnect it, thus rendering the accelerator pedal redundant and inadvertently immobilsing the car.

Tal, sorry can't PM you I haven't made enough posts. However my insurance companies have been OK Quotemehappy and ALA gap, main insurance paid out in just over a week and paid top book price. I had the return to invoice GAP and they were a lot more demanding in terms of required documentation, and proof of burglary (photos of damage, cctv of offenders etc) but luckily I had everything required so they were unable to quibble... My only worry is how much my insurance will be next time having suffered a total loss.

Sorry to hear this, mine went from St Helens 3 weeks ago. They came in the house whilst we were all in at 18:50. My replacement will be getting ghost autowatch.

Perfect, thank you for your help. 👍

Hi there about to take delivery of my mk7.5 estate, looking to fit the sunshades. I have the shades and the fiddly little clips but no instructions.. Can anyone please help out with a copy of the fitting instructions of what clip goes where. Many thanks Phil

For me in my circumstances it's a must. My R estate needs perform multiple roles. Fast fun car for when the fancy takes. Family cruiser for driving holidays on the continent. Fishing wagon to drive down country lanes, unmade tracks and very light off roading. DCC means it handles all of the above with aplomb!

Is there not a wheel freindly way of removing the lead weights your self before taking the car in for new tyres, and thus remove one potential cause of damage. Or am I missing something here?

Had a good root around the exhaust on my Mk 7 pre-face lift estate today, and can confirm that all four are connected - of sorts. The exhaust system comes out of the silencer part directly into the outer of the two pipes, the inner pipe then branches off from the outer pipe. The exhaust gasses are taking the path of least resistance and primarily exiting straight out of the outer pipe, but a lesser proportion also come out of the inner pipe (my inners get dirty too but significantly less so) I finally satisfied my curiosity regarding this by spraying some cleaning foam up the inner pipe - it ended up coming out of the outer pipe also demonstrating that the two are connected. That said, it is clearly a form over function thing..

Before I joined this forum I didn't know such things existed, but thanks to members on here I not only discovered I needed a box but also learned how to fit it and got a discount to boot! Fitted mine yesterday and what a difference! I'm almost glad I waited 3 months​ and 2500 miles into ownership because just as I was getting used to the R's acceleration and the initial excitement was wearing off, this wonder gadget has given me that grin factor for a second time over. If you haven't got one buy one, go hungry to afford one if you have to!

Yes I have it, detuned radio is the best description I can think of, almost a quiet scratchy noise. Manifests itself between high 2000 and low 3000 revs in every gear. It's so quiet i have to actively listen out for it, music on at almost any volume and i don't hear it. But I know it's there which what annoys, almost wish it was substantially louder so i could take the car back and get them to listen, as it is I'm sure they'd pretend just not to hear it!

Whilst using that ACC in heavy motorway traffic this morning. I began to wonder how the car reduces speed. Is it via engine braking, application of the brakes, or a combination of both? Which then made me wonder if my brake lights are constantly flashing on and off whilst it operates??

It was not available for the pre-facelift estate, Annoying as I would have thought that those with estates might want to not advertise what ever they might be carrying to thieves.

20 years in law enforcement, and personally locking up some of those responsible. 😉

20 years in law enforcement, and personally locking up some of those responsible. 😉

Often these teams cruise supermarket and out of town shopping center carparks looking for makes and models of cars that have pre ordered by criminal gangs. They then attach a GPS tracker, then in the early hours locate where the cars live and break in for the keys.