Engine cover!

[Ceefeesh]

Great research Exonian. It must merit a distinction! I did watch that clip soon after Veewizard released it but got bored and gave up, so thanks for the time stamp. Reminds me of what the Golf cover used to look like. ‘Ooh, young fellow, I remember the days when the GTIs had them’.

If you’d never guessed it VW’s disdain for us really pees me off. We should all, seriously, ring our VW dealers and demand a replacement, or the return of our property and let them sweat over potential liability. We are collectively being too demure. We need to protest.

‘What do we want? Engine covers. When do we want them? Now. And repeat.

I need to go dream about this. Now. And so to sleep.   

I knew I had seen a reference to an engine pillow somewhere.

[Carlosfandango]

Do you think the cover off a S3 would fit a GTI?  Ignore the Audi rings, it’s got flashes of red so it could fit in. Maybe they could share the design with VW.

https://youtu.be/wron8AFpijM

20 mins in - tried and doesn’t quite fit

Well, I hope he was just being a bit clumsy in his attempt! As i purchased a second hand S3 cover but have yet to try and fit it, from pictures I have seen, the pegs are in the same places on both the GTI and the S3, no great loss though if it doesn’t as it was only £40.

[Exonian]

Making a guess, the VW engine sponge looked to be the same part for GTI, Clubby, R and a few EA888 stablemates, so we can bear in mind there are detail differences between these engines, but the cover still fitted (or didn’t fit as the case may be - hence the recall) all those slight varieties. Therefore the EA888 in the Audi S3 should be pretty similar to the VW models, in fact it looks physically identical to the Clubsport engine with the washer fluid bottle on the same side unlike the Golf R which has the bottle on the opposite side to those cars despite sharing the same turbo etc.

Only one sure fire way to find out Carlosfandango.
And with a username like that - what could possibly go wrong?!! 😁

[Ceefeesh]

We should buy carbon fibre covers and send VW the bill. Collectively, how much have we spent buying their expensive cars? They should be ashamed to have taken this long and still not have issued replacements for our property but we let them, without complaint.

[Carlosfandango]

Making a guess, the VW engine sponge looked to be the same part for GTI, Clubby, R and a few EA888 stablemates, so we can bear in mind there are detail differences between these engines, but the cover still fitted (or didn’t fit as the case may be - hence the recall) all those slight varieties. Therefore the EA888 in the Audi S3 should be pretty similar to the VW models, in fact it looks physically identical to the Clubsport engine with the washer fluid bottle on the same side unlike the Golf R which has the bottle on the opposite side to those cars despite sharing the same turbo etc.

Only one sure fire way to find out Carlosfandango.
And with a username like that - what could possibly go wrong?!! 😁

I will certainly try the cover as soon as I can, I don’t actually have the car at the moment, as it is at the dealership having a minor water ingress problem test done on the right rear speaker seal, and the engine cover is at another location entirely! As a side note though, I have a 72 plate T-ROC R-line as a loaner, it has an EA888 2ltr engine, there is an engine cover on that engine, it’s the updated version with the improved white plastic moulded mounting points, so I’d like to think that a replacement for those removed in the recall will be on their way soon!, I’ll definitely post an update as soon as I try the S3 cover👍.

[Exonian]

The T-Roc cover hasn’t accidentally fallen off and vanished into your garage yet then… 

[Carlosfandango]

The T-Roc cover hasn’t accidentally fallen off and vanished into your garage yet then… 

It did briefly cross my mind I must say, In the interests of safety of course!, we wouldn’t want it accidentally catching fire would we……!

[Carlosfandango]

So, the GTI is back from the dealership, they could not find any points of water ingress even though they tested for a whole week, I’m undecided as to whether that is a good or bad result considering there was (only once) a small amount of water on the inner rear door sill! 🤷🏼, however, the S3 engine cover 100% fits!,
I also asked the dealership to take a look at the fact that the heated seats appeared to switch on and off at various levels completely randomly, they have diagnosed it to be a faulty operating unit (J685), which is in fact the touchscreen, this will be replaced as and when under warranty at a cost of approximately £2000😳, it is currently on back order 

[BillSan]

The cost of putting things right instead of getting them right in the first time are ridiculous.  VW shareholders should sack the board for allowing a product release with so many faults.

[Carlosfandango]

The cost of putting things right instead of getting them right in the first time are ridiculous.  VW shareholders should sack the board for allowing a product release with so many faults.

To be honest, I’ve had very little trouble with the car, the heated seat thing is a non issue in reality, as it happens so infrequently, and can just be switched off, I only mentioned it as it was with them already, the water ingress is a strange one, as it only happened once just after the car had been covered in approximately 6 inches of snow, I noticed it just after it had melted, I took it to them to see it for themselves, which prompted them to book it in, I’m wondering if the ice worked a rubber seal open, and the melting snow caused the melt water to pool somewhere it normally wouldn’t, a faulty touchscreen isn’t too unusual these days, the new 1series BMW was presenting similar problems for some if I remember correctly.