The DSG gearbox ion the Octavia was very nice in many ways but (I guess) because it had clutches rather than a torque converter the engine could not build up revs before engaging the auto clutch. It was fine on the flat but pulled away really...

When my daughter bought her first car she wanted a Mazda 2/Demio. The 3rd gen version about 2010. They were all 1.3 autos and were terrible piles of pooh. She had been driving our 90's 1.3 manual Toyota Starlet and even she was devastated at...

It's not perfect, but I quite like it. i think that maybe the gearbox assumes that the engine has more torque than it does, so it does take a fair bit of accelerator depression before it "kicks down", but I actually quite like that. I can...

This is the one I'm thinking of... https://landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/baffling-to-me-front-half-shaft-axle-length-mystery-too-short-twice.394540/

Do you still have the old drive shaft? When you get the one in question off, and the new one - compare to the old one. It appears there are some being distributed that are not the exact same dimensions - they are a few mm difference in some...

You have no excuses for dirty smalls now! Hope the job works out.