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  1. It isn't a speed limiter it is a speed warning. You set a max speed (default will be your current speed when you set it) and if that is exceeded you get a warning bong. It stays sett until you cancel or change it.
  2. If only everything was as reliable as a VW... Hmmm... In 45 years driving I have only ever had 3 cars (all 2-5yrs old at the time) that broke down and left me by the roadside : 1981 VW Polo that let me down twice - first with a blocked jet in the carb, second with a failed oil pump 1988 VW Polo that let me down once - failed fuel pump 2000 Renault Megane - pulley sheared off the alternator Those are the only 2 VW's I ever had! From memory I've had Morris, Hillman, 4 Fords, Chrysler, Citroen, 2 VWs, Fiat, Renault, 2 Nissans, Toyota, 3 Skodas plus various Honda and Kawasaki motorcycles. Most or all had minor niggles but none except the 2 VWs and the Renault left me by the roadside. So, if everything was as reliable as my VW's I would have been left by the roadside not 4 times but around 30 times.
  3. Had to laugh at that one! I haven't played a CD in car since my 2006 Octavia with in-boot CD autochanger went in 2010. The replacement had an MDI interface that I plugged an HDD with 100's of my CDs ripped to MP3. It had an inbuilt CD autochanger that was used precisely once - to play a National Trust audio guide CD as we followed the long drive to Calke Abbey. When I specified my Roomster I ordered the Amundsen, not for the sat nav, but because it had an SD card slot. Again all the downloads and ripped CD's fit on 3x32GB SD cards. I never played a CD in 7 years. For the record, however, I do cling to some old technology. I still have 4 35mm film cameras that get occasional use, a load of LPs, 45's and cassettes and even a few 78's
  4. Your cost calculation is way off the mark. I use nowhere near a tankful per week! A tankful per week would take me over 30k miles per year! I do 9k miles per year. At an average of 54.5mpg I use 750 litres of fuel per year. Around 20% or 150 litres of that is Premium. My records show an average price per litre of £1.21 for standard and £1.38 for premium over the last 7 years. That difference of 17p per litre is a cost of £25.50 per year. That cost reduces slightly because I get a small payback through marginally better MPG when using premium fuel. Even without the payback it is less than the cost of 2 bottles of Cataclean. Key thing though: does it do the job? I've had the car from new for 7 years, done 67k miles, never seen the DPF warning light come on in anger and have passed every MOT. In addition, over the first 3 years I didn't risk voiding my warranty by using fuel additives against the manufacturers recommendation. All that said, the best way to keep a diesel engine running sweet is to warm it up then drive like you rented it for 20-30 miles every month or so. I do that as well!
  5. You have completely misunderstood my post. I am most certainly not advocating the 100% use of premium diesel. The 52k on standard and the 15k on premium were NOT consecutive. Occasional fills of premium, 2 or 3 at a time, have been spread across the whole 67k. That rules out engine loosening up as a reason for the slightly improved mpg, that I fully agree does not alone justify the extra cost. An unknown factor is how much the cleaning effect of periodic fills of premium have on the subsequent fills of standard so the effect could be greater. And as I said in my caveat, I also can't rule out driving that little bit more economically when I had a tank of Premium. Your bottles of Cataclean at £23 a pair? Add a bottle every 3 months or so? You are spending much more on your engine cleaner than I do, and I have a a strong indication that I get a partial payback on my expenditure. Also, in my user manual Skoda recommend that you do not use fuel additives... As you say, You pays your money and you takes your choice!
  6. I am an MPG geek! Here are some of my "real world" figures. I give my 1.6Tdi the occasional few fills of premium diesel on the basis that it won't harm anything but my wallet and it may help keep things clean. I have done 67k miles from new. 52k miles on standard diesel at 54.1mpg and 15k miles on premium at 55.5mpg. All data is from brim-to-brim not from the trip computer. Now clearly I don't completely drain the tank between fills so there will always be around 10 litres of t'other type of fuel when I fill up. I usually fill up when the gauge drops below 1/4 so in general my fill-ups are 45-52 litres into a "55" litre tank that I reckon holds 58 litres at a squeeze. Can't say I've noticed any performance difference and DPF regeneration is every 200-350 miles irrespective of fuel. Oh, and my car has NOT had the dreaded emissions "fix". Caveat! Whenever you do fuel comparisons you have to be very careful of unconscious bias causing skew of results. One such could be "I've paid an extra £8 for that fill of premium to see if I get better MPG and/or better performance" and then subconsciously drive that little bit more gently to prove your point and convince yourself that the engine really is running quieter and smoother than it does on that supermarket crap. You know, the same as people taking a rat-run short cut always drive that bit faster to prove their route really is quicker! That is why the pro's do blind testing! It may also contribute to the extra 1.4 mpg I get from premium fuel.
  7. Sounds like a sticking brake. After driving a few miles stop the car and put your hand near to each wheel in turn (don't touch they may be very hot!!) if you can feel heat coming from the wheel then you have a seized brake on that wheel.
  8. There is a firm of undertakers in this neck of the woods with a fleet of cars that are all Hnn EAT. They are clearly not Monty Python fans or alternatively have a very sick sense of humour. Google "Monty Python undertaker sketch" if you are younger than or have a shorter memory than me!
  9. You can also slide them back and forward from inside the boot using the pull straps - easier to pull them back than move them forward though. The varioflex seats are, for my money, the most useful feature of the Roomster and the Yeti. Shame they have been dropped in the K-----q models.
  10. I have an elderly relative with limited mobility who reckons the Roomster is the best car she has ever experienced for getting in and out. That is only for the back seats though. Combination of higher roof line and higher seat. Only issue she has is fastening the seat belt. She won't be reading this so... She is rather broad in the beam and struggles to find the buckle to plug the belt in! When we take her for extended journeys I remove the centre seat and move the outer 2 towards the middle. That makes a lot of difference! The high back seat also makes for much increased leg room even when the rear seats are moved forward to increase the already enormous boot. I have done this on a couple of occasions when carrying 4 adults and luggage to allow larger wheeled suitcases to be stowed "north-south" making it easier to pack it all in. Here's another great advantage of the Roomster... The high roof line means that you can tip back and drain the last drops from a 500ml Coke bottle without doing contortions with your neck. 😄 Try doing that in a Polo!!
  11. You have Maxidot - reset is an absolute doddle!! No contortions or fiddly multiple button presses and you most certainly do not need VCDS! Switch on the ignition and wait until the maxidot initialises. Press and hold the rocker switch on the right hand stalk - either up or down position - either will work. You will get a menu Not 100% sure where the reset is from memory but I am pretty sure it is in "Settings" Scroll using the rocker switch and select "settings" using the button under the stalk. In the next menu scroll down and select "service" Reset is an option in there.
  12. That is 20 hours of driving, not 20 hours from the last reset. I have a Roomster but it has the same dash as the Fabia. Those figures I quoted are from the User Manual though to be pedantic it actually resets after 19hrs 59min.
  13. To add to the other 2 replies... Memory #1 is for your current journey. It resets if the engine is off for more than 2 hrs. Memory #2 is the cumulative memory. If you have the standard LCD type dash it resets at 20hrs or 1999 miles. If you have the maxidot dash it resets at 100hrs or 9999miles. In reality it hits the time limit long before the miles unless you average 100mph for the whole time! A short press on the button under the right hand stalk switches between memory #1 and #2. A long press manually resets the currently selected memory.
  14. Stopping the engine during a regen shouldn't cause a problem. I do it frequently. What is NOT right is that you are getting the shaking and white smoke on restart. After an interruption my 65k mile old 1.6TDi doesn't restart the process until the engine is warm - after 4 or 5 miles, I never get any smoke and the engine never shakes. The signs I get when a regen is in progress are: tickover rises to 1000rpm oil temperature (maxidot) climbs very quickly to 10-20 degrees above where it is in normal running a change in engine note on gentle acceleration - sounds a little as though the exhaust is blowing across the top of a bottle the exhaust smells like the smell of burning aviation fuel you get around airports there is a smell of hot rubber, only noticeable if you get out of the car immediately after interrupting the regen. very occasionally, the cooling fan runs on after the engine has stopped and key removed.
  15. That doesn't sound right to me! Dealers do NOT service and MOT their stock until it is sold. Reason being, they don't know how long it is going to sit on their forecourt. If it doesn't sell and they move it on through the trade why would they take a loss on the cost of the test and service? I would walk away from this one! Could be that someone else was on the verge of buying and backed out, maybe due to the water leak or maybe because they discovered how much it was going to cost to repair.
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