As spectacular massage seats in non-luxury cars are, it is quite easy to build some. You have to reinvent the wheel, because there is already massage mats for cars to be placed on the seats. Exactly such mats I've just installed in my seat and the control electronics integrated in the seat console. On Sense and nonsense of a massage seat, one could argue, but I think it's just great, if you take a longer route tired to drive.

These mats are individually encapsulated in the interior of 5-6 vibration motors, like cell phone, but mingled with a bit larger. The control electronics, which has been so designed natively for the 12V cigarette lighter is in me from a simple on-off switch and 4 sliders. 3 sliders each controlling 2 motors for thighs, upper and lower back. The fourth slider controls the speed and intensity of all the engines. On the market there are many of these mats, which have a real wide range of programs with many, many buttons. But I have deliberately chosen this simple version, the number of switches to keep my seat low. Read the full post ...

Also, I was overtaken at some point the lot of the broken-G200 sensor, which pretty much breaks down in all cars of model year 99 up to 2006. Both in my Bora, and certainly the Golf IV, like the Audi A3 and even a smart one I've already repaired. Because the problem is quite simple: As only a small chip, which measures the lateral acceleration forces, the solder joints themselves wiggle loose over time. The only problem is that the little box is sealed with resin.

So if you too for the ESP light signals and one of the following errors in the control device is present, then you should read on.
Transverse acceleration sensor - Electrical fault in circuit G200
Transverse acceleration sensor - G200 implausible signal
Transverse acceleration sensor - no signal G200
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If you replaced the bulbs on his car with LEDs, it is inevitably faced with the problem that automatically doubles the blink rate. The LEDs are namely much less load than a light bulb. So keep the electronic "Oh! because a bulb is broken, "and shows the driver of this defect by the blink rate. If you want to go then that is not with LEDs and a hyperactive indicators over the place, so what you have to change, especially as prescribed by law and that the flashing rate 1.5 Hz ± 0.5 Hz (= 90 light phenomena per minute ± 30) must be.

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Perhaps you know that and you've often been asked whether there is a solution for it. In almost every bend and shear loading of the seat audible crack a tiny millimeter back and forth. Sensitive people feel that in the course buttometer . At least that often in the Golf IV and Bora or experienced the big brother, the Passat. I think I know that some Audi models equipped with the same type of support. At fault are certainly the two camps of the height adjustment consisting only of stamped steel and depending on the manufacturing tolerances of the assembly-line worker and spirits are compressed more or less. The solution is so obvious: Brute Force! But please, at the right place -. Read the full post ...