(17-07-2012, 11:58 AM)Midnightclub Wrote: Tom, i fail to see how it's easier to replace a VAG TDi turbo over a HDi one.. considering AFAIK the VAG TDi units have the turbo/manifold in one complete unit?
Only the decent VAGs lol, the low end 110s and stuff are separate.
But yes much easier, you must have to move the whole block for the HDi one due to where it's situated, theres no space at all! Mine was so easy in comparison, I made a fist of it as it was my first time, but putting it back together was so simple when I knew what I was doing.
Plus what makes the golf so much easier to work on than a pug is that nothings rusty or seized!! Im not sure if its due to the undertray, better fixings being used, or something they put on when they're built, but theres only been one rusty bolt on the entire car that I couldn't shift manually, the one on the exhaust joining sleeve, but even that was fine with the impact wrench. Things on pugs would be so much simpler if they werent seized and rusty as the time goes trying to get those bits off in my experience.