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This is how i did mine if i remember correctly.

First check too see if you can get the fill bung undone.

Remove drain plug and remove oil and then pump, 2 x 10mm bolts, clean filter, I took mine off but be super careful as the filters aren't available separately.

Replace o rings on the pump if you want, I didn't nor did Paul70 iirc, there about £20 from VW.

Clean round where the pump fits in the diff housing.

Smear a bit off diff oil on the o rings and fit the pump back.

Refit drain plug and fill until oil drips out of fill plug, nip up plug, then run the pump relearn with VCDS, run up for a couple of mins, temp of diff oil has to reach a specific temp I can't remember off hand, before checking.

Remove fill plug and top up if needed just until oil just seeps out..

Stand back, light your pipe and admire your handywork.

If the pump filter is clean a relearn is not strictly necessary, but if its dirty and made up I would do a relearn.
The pump measures the current required needed to reach max pressure and this will be much more if the pump is blocked.

Thanks for the replies

Sod it I will get the 2 seals for the pump

When you remove the pump you lose some oil;The pump when removed loses some oil, therefore you will be required to undertake the pump relearn process using your diagnostic tool. This will prime the pump and therefore allow the evacuated space to be filled with fresh oil.

I assume you need to top up again once this is done?

Clean filter = no worries.

Brands such as Tesco whose main business activity isn’t insurance use a panel of insurance companies and the premium quote of the cheapest insurance company on the panel is put forward to the customer. Tesco will be managing the panel and acting as a broker - not the underwriter - and the panel business model encourages the individual panel insurers to improve their competitiveness - they won’t acquire business on the panel if they’re not the cheapest.

However, a couple of potential downsides of this business model for the customer are;

• they may end up being insured by an insurance company you’ve not heard of / you know little or nothing about.
• insurance companies on the panel need to have low prices to increase their competitive position. To have competitive prices, they may reduce costs in other areas such as their claims service. Hopefully, all panels will have service level agreements covering key areas such as customer service and claims handling that individual panel insurances have to sign up to provide a high quality, consistent service to customers.

Panel arrangements such as the above are used by many of the ‘big names’ in the insurance market where insurance isn’t their primary product - e.g. AA, RAC, high street retailers such as John Lewis, M&S, Sainsbury’s, high street banks, along with some of the traditional large insurance broker names such as Budget, Hastings (there will be others too).

I don’t know if the name of the specific insurance company providing the cheapest price on a panel is disclosed to a customer at the time of the initial quotation; IMHO it’s certainly something that’s worth checking out as it might influence a customer’s decision on whether or not to accept the quote (e.g. if a customer’s had a bad experience using that insurance company in the past).

Always do your homework when buying insurance, and don’t always go for the cheapest…………..