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So insurance wasn't an issue for me; my company covered after supplying all details. Only difference is side airbags, as the front will still work due occupancy sensors being fitted to the Recaro's.

Yes, the gloss black rears were machine polished!

Cheers.

 

I must commend you for the shine on the back of those seats - outstanding!

They do look awesome but I’m guessing no kids in the back seats?

Update: New injector harness fitted. No dice. Master tech took the car home for overnight road test last week, but the fault maintained. Radio silence until today, when I phoned them for an update. Told that a new ECU is now required, as it's "blown" - as they do ECU is on backorder, so won't know until Friday when this will be available. Been without the car for 5 weeks now. Fault reported coming close to 5 months ago. I guess I'm just super lucky

What is a little worrying, is that VW UK are supposedly remotely diagnosing the car at this point, and they clearly don't know what's wrong with it. I suppose it's possible that a component failure in the ECU could be reporting false readings elsewhere in the car, which is why this feels a bit like a trial and error diagnosis. If a new ECU doesn't fix it, then I think I'm just going to ask for a replacement car.

Cannot recommend this experience.

The seats are now sold - absolutely no regrets completing the project!

They don't make 1500 though and the contract with the parts suppliers (vw are basically assemblers of parts) is agreed at a maximum volume that they may or may not reach. There is no extending.

It's fairly normal tbh in JIT manufacturing of small runs of complex stuff.

The balance either gets cancelled or continues into the spare parts inventory over several years.