So many of you guys have been asking about TDI stuff. Hopefully this video is helpful and does well. That is the biggest motivator LOL

Lots of steps involved but now that you have explained the process I believe many people could do this themselves and save lots of money. Great job Charles.

Glad to see a Tdi video where the fix isn't just deleting the emissions stuff. I mean there is a reason why it's there. In a time when we are moving to electric or hydrogen cars, I think it is important that we keep emotions down so that we still can drive gas and diesel cars

I completed this repair today with the help of your video. Thank you for saving me thou$and$. Trickiest part was separating some of the wiring connectors. Took about four hours working slowly and carefully. Cheers

Was able to swap it out within a couple hours thanks to this detailed tutorial. You're the man. Love the Touareg content

We have a ‘14 TDI Touareg. Nice to see these TDI Vids.

Always something to learn from this channel. I'm not even that big a VW fan but the information is worth the watch regardless. Keep it up!

Thanks for posting this video. I just changed my Adblue heater tonight, took about 2.5 hours, by myself, with just putting the rear of my Touareg on ramps.

Great video Charles, thanks! Would love to see more TDI content. Especially CKRA or CVCA repairs if you come across them.

those fuel pump tools are amazing for not smashing the plastic up i have the two bar one (bar either side with a 1/2 in the middle to rotate) makes it tons more efficient!

I worked for Citroen/Peugeot as I'm from the UK and being French the urea systems constantly broke so did a lot of diagnoses and tsb bulletin work on them..... sometimes replacing the full tank as in their infinite wisdom made the pump integral to the tank! At least VAG group made this pump separate.... I reckon I will one day work on one of these so this video has educated me for this.... Thank you sir. As a tech still always learning and done it 20 years now

Hello there very nice video. As here in Europe we have a lot of those diesels it's nice to check a video of this kind.

I have a 2014 diesel passat sel with 64,680 miles and the check engine light just came on with p205b this video helped me understand the system and as soon as I get it fixed I'm selling this car and I'm going back to my Japanese cars because I know how to work on them. This volkswagens evething is a pain in the knee to work on

My top tip is to buy the 1L AdBlue bottle from VW/Audi and cut the bottom off. Use that as your funnel. It has a check valve built into the head that screws on so you can't overflow your tank.

Back at it again. keep up the good work..

Got code P208A on my wife’s Cayenne, Porshe was going to charge 3 hours to drop and check what’s faulty, thanks to your video I dropped the tank in 45 minutes, now the fun part, I need to check wiring pump and heater… full of cristallisation everywhere…

The warranty saved me 9.5k with a crazy repair on my wife’s Q7. Dieselgate was the best thing that ever happened to us lol

This is awesome. Got a 2015 TDI that I bought from Copart, so it's not under warranty. But doing it myself also means they won't neuter my car with the ECM mod that they're supposed to do.

Would be great to see something on repairing the keyless access system.

Humble, thank you for taking time to post all of these great vids, im not mechanically inclined and don't have your skills & knowledge appreciate seeing all the technical stuff. I have a 2015 Sportwagen 2.0 TDI sitting at a VW dealership one year still waiting on the def tank, lucky me im still under warranty, pretty frustrating. Are there after market companies marking this tank for future problems when im out of warranty ? Do I stay with TDI or do I go ? Thanks for your time man, subscribed ✌

I have a 02 1.9 tdi golf with 322k miles. Would love to see some videos on that. Great job!

I enjoyed the video. I love that Volkswagen technical service bulletin. Replace the whole thing. Thank goodness for factory info

If you haven't done it yet, could you go through cleaning the soot out of your intake, throttle body, egr pipe? I've cleaned the throttle body a couple of times, but haven't gone as far as removing the intake manifold on my Touareg. Would be interesting to see the whole process by a pro.

Charles, the one VW owner that looks forward to any new check engine lights on his cars: "A new video opportunity!"

Great video again Charles 👌. Always informative and fun to watch. I always take away a new word from each of your videos, “glurble” was the pick from this one 😄. Good work my dude 🤙

As a farmer and a farm machinery mechanic theese AdBlue systems can be very expensive and annoying. New harvesters have AdBlue and regularly fail because harvesters sit over the winter, here in Finland we regularly see -30°c temps so freezing is common.

Awesome video! Thanks!! The dealer just told us on our 2011 Toureg that we had till 128k, or end of 2024. We're at 119k, so they're going to do it this time! (I hope...)

Great video, thank you. Was the exact same for my 2014 Cayenne

amazing content as always Charles! can't wait to see more

Love the torque spec.. GuudNtight !!

MORE TOUAREG TDI CONTENT PLZ!!!

That spare is insane looking!!!!

Excellent video, thanks! My 2014 Sharan has the "P205B Reductant tank temp sensor - implausible signal code 9688" error message on VCDS. My question is: Can the sensor be replaced on its own, or do I have to replace the whole AdBlue tank heater unit like in your video? Thanks

how about golf 7 tdi adblue injector leaking common issue on these thanks! love the TDI content

I miss my '15 but traded it when I needed space for 3 car seats. It also coincided with the odometer hitting 119,000 miles. I ended up with a crew cab 5.0 f150 and thought I would miss the mpg but now it's actually cheaper to fill a 36 gallon tank with gas than the 26 gallon diesel tank and has the same 600+ mile range.

I use Blue driver code reader scanner, have been getting that code past 6 months, I just keep resetting it lol. Problem is winter is here and well I am not really sure if the adblue heater works, or if it was just a sensor glitch, so I i will order the part on Amazon found it for 96.00 the main heater part. Mine is a 2014 Passat TDI.

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I foresee a lot of these dieselgate TDI’s becoming “off-road” vehicles once they’re out of warranty

More diesel Audi and Volkswagen please 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Great video as usual, however according to my local Volkswagen dealer in Salt Lake City you can not use any other AdBlue but the original one they sell. A very close friend of mine got a bad experience with that. He was buying the fluid at "Costco" thinking all fluids are the same. Then he got a check engine light on for bad quality of the DEF and not ODIS, vcds or any other tools were able to turn off the check engine light. My friend went to the dealership since it's under warranty and apparently they have a way to test the fluid and told him they won't cover this repair. He ended up draining the non original fluid out and filled with the original AdBlue fluid and the error actually cleared itself immediately after. Since then I only buy the original one and keep the receipts so if that happens to me, they can not play the same game. I know I can get free refills until the extended warranty expires, but they told me 1.5-2 hours wait time, so I just buy it. They will use any little thing to deny warranty work and I am not giving them any chance to win. Just my opinion (experience) and hopefully more people will be aware of this now. Keep up the good work mang!

I’m glad you posted this video. It only pays 2 hours and I’d rather not do all that!!

Great video! I love the content!

The only fluid that's in my spare tire well is rain water 😅

My Q7 has this problem right now.

Yes.. I as well would never delete my DEF, DPF or EGR and then tune it for better milage. Nope, no sir! 🤔

That tool is awesome

Asalamaleikum. Greetings from Kosoves.Thankyou USA.

This video gave me PTSD from doing the fuel pump on my old MKIII Jetta. Trying to get the ring off was 🤬🤬, but getting the main section of that fuel pump to lock into the bottom of the tank was 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬. All done with the tank still in the car because removing it looked like way more work, lol.

Got a reductant heater code on a diesel Transit 250. Same repair, but only takes 1.7 hours, because big-ass work van.

Thanks for posting this video! I have a 2016 TDI Touareg and one morning, I notice my exhaust tips are cloudy followed by a check engine light. I ran a scan with VCDS and there were two codes, P229F & P20EE. I pulled the DEF injector and noticed right away that the nozzle had dried DEF. I cleaned the injector, reinstalled, cleared codes and have not seen the light again. But I still get some cloudy exhaust tips, but no check engine lightMy suspicion was since the crust on the injector was disrupting the spray pattern, it kept spraying continuously while at the same time a sensor was not detecting for the correct amount of spray that it was looking for. Also, while I had the DEF injector pulled, I looked inside of the exhaust hole, It has tons of buildup inside. Have you ran into this issue? Thank you for all that you do.

I would like more touarer videos, but I have a 2014 gas, not TDI.

Instead of bolted back up, maybe “nutted back up”?!? Lol hahaha

Humble… the picture for this video!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I have changed thouse on porsches many times.

4:08 if only i can have many Charles working on my Mk7R during mods and servicing.

Dear Volkswagen, why couldn't you just add a top access point in the trunk above the ad blue tank 🙄. Digging into mine this weekend

Wow😳 nice Work

I don't suppose you know if the TPMS module has any wiring associated with the connectors you highlight @ 5:20 - have intermittent power to the module and have discounted fuses so now musing high resistance or dislocated pin in a plug but can't think where to start looking...

so glad the sportwagens dont have to deal with this crap

Haha. Love it…you had me laughing in the first 10 seconds.

Thank god i have an old tdi with non of that emmissions crap

Pretty sure the regular mechanic and home owner cannot buy a dealer level computer that can work on any Def system on American vehicles and trucks. Pretty sweet that we can service our own VW’s and keep them going.

notification squad!🔥🔥🔥

Boy this all sounds like classic VW engineering. Little or no thought for maintenance process.

I had the NOx sensor and reductant tank sensor replaced by VW service (Under warranty) on a CKRA Passat 2013. Got the car back from the shop and as we left, the ABS system started barking. took it back to VW and they said the pump needs to be replaced ($4500). ABS was working just fine before. I've seen a video where you run out of AdPiss and it locks the system down, the ABS starts going off, even after resetting the SCR lock. Something is going on here and i've tried to trouble shoot the issue (wheel speed sensors are working as I see them thru VCDS). Don't knmow what to do other than replace ABS pump and control module and recode it.

Awesome vid. I didn’t get the check engine light but the “low ad blue” message. After adding this time around the message didn’t clear on the dash. Would this mean a sensor in the tank went bad? And if so can that be replaced or better off replacing the whole tank? Thanks in advance to anyone with some insight.

Great detailed explanation on this job! I did tackle this last weekend and went very well however I now have an add Adblue message that started and stated 160kms till no engine start. I don’t have VCDS however would a scr reset fix this issue?

Forgot to give the car Gods some exhaust free praise! 😂

QUESTION. Adblue light came on at 1500 miles. Check engine light come on 2 days later and I figured the adblue was the reason for the code. Filled DEF at 1000 miles with 2.5 gallons and figured this would also clear the code. Adblue still says to refuel and check engine light still on does this mean I need to replace the entire unit?

4:07 This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!

I had 2 of these fail in a 5 year period on my 2012 TDI Touareg.....there was a RECALL FYI and they should replace.

If I were to delete this would I need a tune? Wouldn’t it be better overall … off-road of course

That is super clean I’m jealous

New subscriber! Thanks for the video content you add! Quick 2022 Golf R question for you...do you know the location of the Harmon Kardon factor amp in the new Golf R?

My Cayenne has the same issue. Will anything bad happen if I just live with the CEL?

There few vw in uk first time you refill it the sensors dies . It not to occur if garage dose it but at home user seem to set it of. Has put me off upgrading. Far im concerned you only need air con dsg and upgrade alpine media player. Every thing else on offer is a waste of time

Would LOVE to see thoughts on v12 TDI

dumb question time! why the WD before disconnecting the cables?

I have a Tiguan MKII 2.0 TDI Engine EA-288 2019 with AdBlue tank, I was told that AdBlue should NOT be in the tank more than 2 years, if that was the case the tank should be drained. Can I drain the tank by myself or should I take it to the dealer (there’s a discharge valve that I can use)?

spreading lube on connectors - need a note, what kind of lube, otherwise people may damage wires/pins

Will it hurt to drive my Passat before I get it fixed I have a P205B lighting up just now

I had no idea this technology existed in tdi's, very interesting. What is your opinion on sencond hand vw's, tdi vs tsi models, from a reliability and longevity point of view? Are there any partcular models/engines in the last 5-8 years that you would especially recommend from a reliability point of view etc. Particularly interested in the golf, jetta and tiguan models. Thanks again for you videos Charles.

hi very informative videos can release advise my mk1 hold when rev down the engine seems to vibrate meaning once i Lev the trottel the engine vibrates had guys check it out one say valve bounce one say fueling not returning very fast one said to much of fueling on the map thats one what will ur input say thanks

I'm assuming you get this constantly, but I have an 09 Jetta TDI just off warranty. I'd love to see a video of you doing a delete. For off-road use only, of course!

Would this same fix potentially also address a P204B code?

HB= is it worth rebuilding a 957 cayenne VR6? I think its the 32v option. I would like more HP out of it if possible. Cayenne is paid off, just wondering what you advise?

Where did you purchase the temp. sensor kit? Thank you

Any chance you have any info on the Passat TDI, with the same code?

I have a 2011 Q7 TDI with the CATA engine is there anything I should keep in mind, I had two injectors replaced under warranty a few months back.

TDI Hype

lol everything always comes off so easy it's like it already was apart before

Has your Touareg needed the manual regen? My 2012 Touareg tdi was in limp mode and the only resolution the dealer had was the manual regen covered under the warranty.

Imagine those spares on a Fahrenheit golf 😩

Hey . I have a 2107 vw amarok pick up truck . Some times the fuel gauge stop working and the needle goes all the way down , and the low fuel light doesn't turn on , distance to empty says - - - instead of 0 . I turn the key off and then turn on and the gauge works again and the distance to empty says the number . No fault code showing. Do you have any idea what can it be ? Thanks !!! Great vids !!!

My vw touareg tdi just failed but is it hard to delete

Is this the same process as a 13 Porsche cayenne?

came here for VW stuff, stayed for the vocabularies...

Next question, is this header on national backorder like it is for heavy duty vehicles.

How much would this job cost at the dealership?

I made sure my TDI doesn’t use DEF.