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No answers? 7 years of TDI torque may well have simply taken its toll on the gears and/or pinion bearing.
A slight whine isn't cause for much concern.

Check the little blue wire ring terminal at the alternator, this is for the charge warning. It connects inside the engine bay junction box.

Has the battery done a a lot of starts without the running time to fully recharge it?
One start usually requires at least 10 miles driving to replace what you have taken out.
Check the earths, starter cable terminal, alternator stud etc for tight & bright connections

Yeah that would do it!

They usually respond well to a hammer if the trembler contacts get dirty...but since a carb wbx engine has a perfectly good mechanical pump integrated into the design, why reinvent the wheel?

Must be the season for it! Sounds like no fuel delivery to that side or - assuming twin carb - the linkage isn't opening the throttle to the LH side so nothing is getting through to be ignited.

What brand and parts supplier? Rotor arms have a resistor in them, they can fail although I have yet to experience that.

Green, corroded injector earths on top of the LH head behind the waterpump? That would do it.
Or...a faulty inhibitor switch on the auto ox but I'm no slushmatic expert.

Garage have royally FU imho. LM grease is the stuff, high load/ high temperature rated for wheel bearings and the like. Replace all bearings in their entirety, that means the outer tracks too. Spindles will need inspecting for damage, lucky that one didn't glow red and then have a wheel fall off. Ke...

hhhm I had the garage do it so can only assume so...  Classic car type old school garage? If they gave the job to the apprentice who has only ever seen a fwd car he could have just done the nut up tight. Best to ask the garage as its a red flag for me. The grease shouldn't be black if its got new w...

Usually comes as part & parcel of the Mozaik type copy poptop kits?

Did you set the wheel bearing end float correctly?

Electrical instruments are as good as their earth returns. High resistance at the terminals can upset the warning system and give false alarms, not forgetting that there are 40 year old electronic components such as capacators that will now be well beyond their design life.

Do you want it to start again? Looks more like bodyshop dust than anything else. I'd get an airline and/or vacuum & brush to it rather than get it wet and risk turning it into paint dust sludge.

Early is 070 part, late is 025...

Late is stronger with extra webs and has lugs exhaust brackets, otherwise interchangeable.