Interesting on the HIDs - my MoT guy has been a stickler for that for years. I saw a Metro with blinding drop-in HIDs this morning - the bulbs must be worth more than the car
Bummer about the EGR stuff though - I bin all that on my TDIs since all it does is clog the intake manifold with tar just like the FSI engines. Still, there are invisible ways to deal with that