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Unfortunately that data does not tell you the battery is OK. Get it tested professionally as Steve suggested, though I would not classify Halfords as professionals.

. The £160 was the cost of the remanufactured strut. When you purchase a purportedly good remanufactured strut you have to put a certain amount of faith in who is doing the remanufacturing. In my case for £80, I now have the chance to try and find out what the problem is. In my view if I can find out and fix the problem I'm up a perfectly good strut. I can't lose really as the old strut with a new olive solved the problem anyway because now the suspension is fine.

If anyone is interested. It turns out I can post it for £7.99 I thought it was too large

Hi to be honest you can't tell what a batteries condition is with a multimeter, best go to Halfords and get it tested under load I.E, everything switched on lights, blower, heated screens, if the battery is remotely the original its knackered, you say the ABS pump was recoded with what?, was it your unit repaired or a new unit. Steve.

Hi should be able to do it in basic settings, but I will look at my VCDS Monday and try and work this out for you but in saying this I have not heard many glowing reports of aftermarket manifolds. Steve.

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£160 equates to about an hour and a half of labour by a skilled mechanic. Somehow that does not seem nearly enough time to strip, clean, repair, and re-assemble a strut. If that £160 price also included packing and posting then corners must surely have been cut in the work.

Hi, The second row is perm live, the bottom row is switched live / accessory. Not sure if yours has parking mode, so you may only need one positive connection but depends what your Garmin model is / says in the manual If you are using piggy back connections then the 2nd fuse covers the amperage for your device.

Thanks a lot. This is very helpful. Which ones are the cigarette lighters? Is it the one called Sockets in 4(black).6? The Garmin cam came only with a micro-usb cable and a usb adapter for the lighter port. I bought a hardwiring kit off Amazon with a micro-usb to connect to the camera.

Thanks again for the info Peter 👍

Result in the end.

Right lads an update on the remanufactured strut. The garage I used took off the old strut and put on the new one. It didn't work. They call me to say the compressor was heating up and the strut was failing to rise. This garage services range rovers and other air suspension cars so they know all about jacking modes etc. Result was good and bad. The bad was that the strut wouldnt work so to check, they put the old one back on remembering that it only had a minute leak. The good news is that now the old strut functions 100% correctly. I can only assume that the air pipe within the olive had a small crack and when they replaced it with a new olive and cutting the pipe back it sealed itself effectively. That's not the end. I informed the company I bought the strut from and they offered me my money back. I thought for what I'd paid for it I'd prefer another strut. They didn't gave another one so they offered me half the money £80 and keep the strut. I have agreed to this and will take the remanufactured strut apart and see if I can find out what the problem was and hopefully, solve it then I might end up with a good relatively new strut.

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I paid Halfords to do mine then had to rewire it myself as they got it wrong by connecting the switched live and constant live wires both to constant live. This meant the parking mode did not kick in as the unit did not sense power off. Be aware when testing for switched live these circuits do not power down straight away. I used the fuse box in the footwell near side not the higher panel, this picture should sort for you.

Hi all, I'm trying to hardwire a dashcam and looking for help from someone who has done this before. I'm not familiar with car wiring or any kind of car installation. I bought a garmin dashcam, a hardwiring kit and a circuit tester and trying to figure out how to install this on my Audi A6 C8. I found the fuse box diagram and opened my car's passenger fusebox (see attached). As I dont know how these fuses work or what amperage I should use I'm not sure where to plug the dashcam. I understand the fuse tap needs to be plugged onto an existing fuse with the current fuse and the camera's fuse on it. Can someone guide me where/how to install this?

Any update Robert?

Thanks James, but if it were mine, I would still be getting the battery efficiency checked, along with the alternator output, to be better equipped to know what is likely to be ahead of you, rather than experience issues in the future. Kind regards, Gareth.

all good now, since coming back on from holiday, no warnings, so must of been cold weather

when there is a leak in the foot-wells i always look at wiring plugs that go into the engine bay. common on some cars is where people ran amps via a hole and water from the bay drops down them get some bottles of water, get someone to sit in the car and start to pull water around places to see where it coming from

wont be doing on drivers side, as seat then can go up and down

if it doesn't have the button like below, then you have not got it. I know on my s1 they have been retro fitted

i have to say i read this out to 6 people in my office and one girl nearly chocked on her gum lol, glad sorted