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Thanks, I’ll have to wait until next week to have a look. Don’t much want to take the roof off again…

My Open Sky is a unit previously refurbished by A2 Cars, and has worked without issue for the last five or six years - cleaned and re-greased once a year, and always opened regularly whenever the car’s being used. Yesterday I opened the roof to the first position and there was a loud clunk; I...

There was a very tidy blue Colour Storm at Classics over Sands in Grange last year.

Standard screw-on, it’s a bit of a pain to get to.

Back ones, think I’ll buy both to cover all bases.

Have a small fluid weep - can anyone confirm they are the usual M10 size?

That makes sense - I meant does the purple locking bit sit above the orange seal (which it should as per the photo).

@rotifer Useful. Should the purple collar be visible inside the connector, or does the orange seal cover it?

Yes - I know how the VW connectors work, and no issues with pin alignment - just a resistance to either new or old sensor sliding far enough into the female connector to click under the tab. Not sure if the internal purple plastic ring should be visible or not, can only assume the original...

I haven’t changed one before, but after (easily) disconnecting the original sensor, neither that or the new one would then click home into the connector. There’s a squashy orange seal with a purple plastic ring around the internal female connector - not sure if the purple plastic piece should be...

Fitted a new ABS sensor, problem solved. Everything came apart very easily, but getting the sensor to click into the connector was a nightmare - think the old sensor may have been stuck to the seal and dislodged it.

Thanks, car’s very clean underneath, so hopefully it doesn’t put up too much of a fight.

Yes, got it wound back in fine (and out, and in, a few more times just to make sure) - boot is fine, caliper cleaned up pretty well.

OK - VCDS says “Mechanical Failure - Intermittent”. Will try to get it out and give it a clean, there’s quite a lot of ground metal dust from the disc under there.

Haven’t checked with VCDS - from memory that distinguishes between mechanical and electrical faults.

As per my other thread, I had an inside rear brake pad split from its backing plate. Before I had looked to see what had happened, the ABS exclamation mark made an appearance, and is still doing so after replacing the pads and disc. It resets with the engine off and appears again above about...

Had a look today - with the caliper off, and after a lot of toing and froing with a caliper piston cube, it goes in and out very easily. Can only assume that the reset tool’s thread pitch meant that it was putting too much pressure on before the piston thread engaged. Put half a litre of fluid...

Boot is fine, nothing looks untoward. I’ll whip it off next week and report back.

Not with the car at the moment. Agreed that one fully worn pad is the same as two half-worn pads in terms of travel - the piston is just proud of the extended boot. The piston appears to be working (ie pressing the brake pedal presses the pads against the disc, and it isn’t binding when the...

Definitely not the handbrake, the pads aren’t being pressed against the disc with it off and everything rotates freely.