Evening gents,
I need some help identifying something under the bonnet. It's round and located by the battery, think it may have a motor is it.

Mine seems to squeal on startup and a burn like smell, both symptoms both disappear after 30 secs or so.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

 

are you missing your timing cover? what you describe sounds like one of the cam pulleys

 

take a picture of it.... could be feul filter or your horn

 

 

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There we go, its the round thing under my hand.

 

Thats the Secondary Air Pump. As far as I know you don't need it - its just to help the emissions on cold start-up. You can unplug it but the ECU my throw an error code
(?) so can stick a resistor across the plug to keep it happy. A very common thing on Golfs (what I'm more familiar with).