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Good advice. When you're experienced and comfortable in dealing with electrical and electronic gizmos it's too easy to forget that others may be less so I have a variable current limiting 12v power supply which I use in such circumstances.

Here is the wiring diagram for the passenger door, you can see the two motors and the wire colours/connector pin numbers which feed them. Hopefully applying 12v to one or both will result in an unlocking!

Different car but I've been wrestling with this for some time now, column control not MFW. I've got to the point where with OBDEleven I can see the cruise control commands working, On/Off, Up/Down etc. but still need some additional programming to make it actually work. Ostensibly OBDEleven does it but in practice doesn't! Unfortunately, apart from the main dealer who doesn't want to know, I haven't found anyone with VCDS to do it and I can't justify buying it myself just for this.

If you read your policy carefully you'll likely find that you have a duty to inform the insurer of any ANY accident regardless of fault or lack of apparent damage to your own vehicle. Who's to say that whomever ran into you doesn't suddenly decide to say that you reversed into them?

No, that was the 2 door Equipe, unless you knew the difference the 1750 Sport looked more or less like any other Allegro. Front grille and wheel trims were the main clues unless It was in front in which case the 1750 Sport decal gave the game away. Many boy racers got to see that! Talking of Equipe's though my best mate back in the late 60's had one of these, a Bond Equipe. Poor sod took an early death but I still remember the number ADX 630B!

I had TWO, both 1750 Sport versions, wife wrote the first one off so I went and bought another, that alone must make me unique!!!!!! I covered around 200,000 miles in the pair of with no significant issues, certainly no rear wheels falling off. In mid range acceleration they were something of a q car and gave many a boy racer a surprise! Regular problems were rear subframe rubber bushes and clutch release bearings but both were easy enough to replace and their failure more a result of loony driving and habitual double declutching gear changes. I remember one time having 4 new tyres fitted but went back to the outlet to complain about them, the manager took a ride with me and his only comment was that I had the wrong car not the wrong tyres I'll get me coat too......................

Judging by owner loyalty, strong demand, and residuals I think Skoda made a big bobo when they dropped the Yeti. IMO the replacement is totally characterless blob and at a glance very easily mistaken for a VW or Seat. Few cars of it's time stood out from the crowd like a Yeti!

I agree with JR. I too had a MK1 Octavia, a 2003 1.9 tdi, and in 275,000km driven (~150k miles and 182k miles total since new and with much abuse) I had precious few problems with it and certainly I never once saw an ECU light! On my current much younger and lower mileage Yeti, still only 124k km/67k miles, I've already had to replace the clutch master cylinder and had a number of electrical problems including broken wires in both door looms and a faulty rear hatch lock. Sure it's petrol not diesel and I probably won't live long enough to put the sort of miles on it I did the Octy but I cannot imagine it getting anywhere near 180k miles without major trauma.

CAB BUS works on two wires, CAN H(igh) band CAN (L)ow and if one breaks most stuff will continue to work, it's when the 2nd one breaks it all goes tits up - and they do! Had to repair both my door looms. Front passenger door went completely first and a scan with Carista showed a fault on the drivers door where one wire was found broken. They were very skinny wires, considerably smaller gauge than the other wires in the loom, almost designed to fail!

Don't know where in Europe you are but if it's Spain then 8000€ is right in the ballpark for the car. It's what I paid for my 2011 with 99k km just about 2 years ago and was cheap at the time because there was no service history and a tiny bit of rippling on one rear passenger door. Similar cars but with up to double the km are on offer for that much, and more, on online sales sites. e.g. Milanuncios.com Clutches are extremely light BTW. Fuel consumption has averaged 7.1l/100km or 39mpg in mixed driving.

So very J.R. FWIW although not directly equivalent (surprise surprise there are no EU standards) the French Yellow 2 Crit-Air sticker is recognised in Spain as 'equivalent' to the Spanish green C sticker where LEZ's are already in place in Madrid and Barcelona and due to come in in many other towns and cities in the near future. The reverse however does not apply! Unlike France, where it's perfectly possible to apply for a sticker for a non French registered vehicle, currently in Spain no such facility exists and it's unclear how foreign motorists are supposed to proceed without risk of penalty. It's suggested that they get a free pass presumably on the basis that the vast majority of foreign cars likely to be circulating in Spain will be of an age where they would qualify for a sticker anyway. Broadly the benchmarks are post Jan. 2006 for petrol cars (Euro 4 and above) and post Sept. 2015 for diesel (Euro 6).

Regassing without checking for leaks is a waste of time and money but a great earner for the cowboys who offer such 'services'. If that's the road you want to go down then you can buy a DIY kit. Properly the system should be evacuated of gas, with the quantity of recovered gas being recorded, then both vacuum and pressure tests performed, Only if they reveal no leaks should the system be refilled and payment made only for any additional gas required over and above that which was recovered. I had a system regassed a couple of years ago and IIRC what with the testing etc. it took about an hour and cost me €70 (£60), much of which was for the additional gas.

I recall changing the alternator on my MK1 1.9tdI Octy - twice! What a pig of a job. If I recall correctly after struggling to get it out from above no way could I get the replacement in the same way and from underneath it wasn't much easier, just a TIGHT fit both ways. Without a doubt the worst job I ever had to do on the car in 10 years and 300,000 km! Why twice, the first replacement I bought packed in after a couple of weeks! JR, you have a message.

Slightly tongue in cheek perhaps but in jest, absolutely not. Were I looking for a Yeti replacement, which I'm not, then both would definitely be on my list of possible candidates. If the quirkiness of the Yeti is one of it's appeals then the Toyota outdoes it in spades. I wonder do you say the same about the Kia Soul which has previously been mentioned?