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Spec for a Golf is circa 0.5

The small, 2-pin sensor at the rear of the autobox. Please can someone tell me what job it does, and the consequence of it not being plugged in?

I’ve heard it called a “speed sensor” but I’m guessing that relates to sending the speed of the gearbox shaft to the TCM for shifting purposes, as I’m pretty sure the speedo is fed from the ABS system?

Finally - does anyone have or please know where I’m could buy a plug for the speed sensor and a short length of wiring? Maybe someone has an old loom in the shed? I can’t find one anyone and the plug on my loom is damaged.

Thanks chaps

Many thanks

Have you checked that the slider pins on the front calipers are free to move? From your description it might be that one side is seized. If so, buff the pins and rubber boots and re-grease. Or replace with new pins and rubber boots. And clean the bores.

The rear caliper will be ATE, Ø42mm pistons for vented rear discs and Ø40mm for solid rear discs.
The fronts with Ø296mm discs are TRW which is now a subsidiary of ZF. Seem to have been manufactured by Lucas Girling under license. Piston Ø57mm.

also .... 1 deg of neg camber doesnt sound too bad  anyway. what is the reccomended spec ( and what is the other side ? )

Meanwhile............Wee Jimmy Krankies husband has now been charged with pocketing a very large sum of SNP donations. 
I imagine she is already plotting to divorce him and then reinvent herself as a "survivor" of a coercive cruel husband, and then take her rightful place on the throne of Scotland in a couple of years or so. 

£600,000, I believe.

unless the camber issue / damage happened a while back and toe has been subsequently reset .
does it drive fine ?  does it wear tyres ?   ( a certain amount of neg camber on drivers side compared to other side would actually help the car drive straight on our cambered roads )

Yes springs will be worn. Yes I think the OEM shocks are sachs.

The negative camber is just one side so something bent or damaged on drivers side I suspect.

Measure the ride height both sides, I bet the drivers side is lower

There is pretty much nothing you can bend which will impact camber and not toe 

Dicky Betts, founding member of the Allman brothers band. Its his guitar playing you hear on the Top Gear theme tune.

Alan Minshaw. Ex racing driver and founder of Demon Tweeks.

Meanwhile............Wee Jimmy Krankies husband has now been charged with pocketing a very large sum of SNP donations. 
I imagine she is already plotting to divorce him and then reinvent herself as a "survivor" of a coercive cruel husband, and then take her rightful place on the throne of Scotland in a couple of years or so. 

....
Just give a good hard shove, the desirable Signum will think it's having a colonoscopy. 

Oooooer!