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Why muck about, just change the whole car! Older ones were better.

Quick question: have you actually seen any evidence of this spacing and animals / crops using the space created? I personally have not; there are loads of solar farms near me, and they all seem to cram in as many panels into a field as they can, along with all the controllers and grid connections. I'm puzzled just as to how having solar farms is protecting the waterways. The farmers are saying that they are being encouraged to take land out of production, and this is leading to ever more importation of food crops that they could be growing. Isn't that just shifting the CO₂ problem onto other countries when they produce extra food for the UK and also the same with the road transportation of those foods to the docks, shipping them across the seas, and then further transportation here in the UK?

Did you ever figure out the real source for this sound?

Probably to do with embedding of the nut's mating face (and that of the balljoint if textured) being different on the two types of wishbone, together with the fact that when a fastener is tensioned by torque alone, a very high proportion of that torque is used in overcoming friction, rather than actually extending the screw. There's a lot of techy stuff about pre-tensioning threaded fasteners, and the general trend towards using a lower torque followed by an angle tightening stage is mostly about reducing the variability impact of this friction.

The new T pylons are some much less obtrusive. Shorter, squat. Saw a row of them from the M5 which are in place to take power from Hinkley C to the high voltage national grid. If tol many complaints then bury them like in Snowdonia. I gather Belgium is burying electricity lines as a national policy now.

Loads of stupid radio phone in,s in Scotland over pylons and the £250 a year for the some. People seem to not understand about the substations and objections. Michael Shanks MP is a waste of space IMHO. Secretary of State for Energy Security. & Chris Stark Climate Expert is a plonker IMO. He spins some real crackers. Him and others are so keen for new nuclear in Scotland. Some how missing the point that there will still be those peed off about mega pylons. There is no Labour or Tory UK Prime Minister that will be able to force new nuclear on Scotland it needs to be the will of the people. So ask them if they want Nuclear power stations in Scotland. They might vote yes. But ask everyone who pays taxes in Scotland not just those on the voters roll.

It's not giving up it is help protecting both the land and the waterways. Just leave gaps between the solar arrays and crops will grow better and animals have some. shade. Over waterways the panels vastly reduce evaporation and preserve water for the dry periods. The power generated can be used to help with the irrigation needed to counter act climate change in part being brought about by the increased levels of CO2 furthering the Greenhouse effect we are increasingly suffering from.

Currently in the garage for repair.

Always the worry and especially during half times on big football matches which is where Dinorwig would be in standby to go from tickler to full 1.8 GW in about 20 seconds. Something powerstations with either gad or steam turbines cannot do due to thermal stresses. Hopefully the Gren Glen hydro will be on stream early in the next decade. If not brownout could become a thing.

well I`m going to admit defeat on this one. Can`t see any way round it unless Skoda do the decent thing and re evaluate doing map upgrades for older models.

I apologise for the fact that this subject has likely been covered numerous times, but I'll ask anyway. My 2018 Superb estate has an Amundsen MIB2 unit by all accounts (touchscreen with 2 rotating knobs) and I have entered my VIN number into the Skoda portal for the latest maps. The download has 1 folder called Maps and a labelled md5sum.txt file. According to the manual on the portal, there should be 2 folders - MiB1 / MiB2 and an info2.txt file. How do I go about updating the SD card with just a Maps folder or is my system too old to update now? Thanks in advance.

Rear wheel bearing scrubbed off the magnetic reluctor ring?

Thats brilliant - thank you. I'll pass that on to my dad and see if it helps.

The spec for the three nuts that secure the ball joint to lower control arm is 60Nm if the arm is cast steel, but 100Nm is the arm is steel sheet. Can anyone explain this? 100Nm seems like a crazy torque for a M10 thread. I have the pressed sheet steel control arms.

So i should replace whole system 😂 Ive replaced heater matrix core three times now, im seeking good method of flushing it at least, then i would clean the core and install it again.

The problem with flushing heater matrix or radiator is that there are many small pathways in parallel once you go a little way insde. Pushing water through unless at very high pressure will always tend to choose the least blocked pathways to flow through. So crud can remain in the more blocked ones only to emerge later in different temperature/pressure conditions. Replacement should work though!

When I say greyed out, I mean to say that the buttons are not green indicating they are active. When they are green you can press them to do something, when they are not you cannot. I`m going to try disabling the AUX setting and see if that makes any difference.

Would you please list your AA settings here? I have the exact same issue now, plug the phone in and minimum 50% of the time it instantly disconnects AA and only offers up MirrorLink. The only fix I have is to hold down the infotainment power button to do a reset. Annoyingly MirrorLink is long since discontinued on mobile phones, so Skoda should really issue an update to remove it entirely.

No not yet. I had a small operation and could not walk for 2 weeks. Now I'm back on feet again. I'll give it a shot. It feels like it's mounted pretty firmly though. Like if I'm missing something.

Presuming you have the DQ200 seven speed dry clutch DSG, this doesn’t sound good I’m sorry to say. Impossible to diagnose on a car forum, but it sounds to me like a mechatronic issue, or the accumulator failure (cracked casting) that’s quite common on the DQ200’s from this era. Better to take to a DSG knowledgeable workshop IMO, but a VAG dealer if needs must. No signs of leaking transmission fluid? Just to cover the simple stuff. Sorry to hear of your predicament - good luck with getting it fixed. Gaz

Mileage: approx 76000 miles (approx: 122000km) Will check later, eclipse to photo!

The trouble I have with Kwikfit etc is all the tyres I look at (including the ones I already have) have rim protection listed in their features. I guess it's how much protection as the vrs alloys do stick out a bit! Could you post a picture of the tyres on your car, so I can get an idea?

I've heard elsewhere that the GY asymmetric 6 is supposed to be pretty good, so I'll probably go with that. The other tyre I had in mind was a Pirelli P zero PZ5 - a Porsche down the road has the, they look really chunky round the rim. It does have bigger wheels though!

One thing that you should add in by edit'ng, is, the current car "mileage" as that could help. M25 - what more can you say, horrible place to need to be both for vehicles and people in them! This might be the start of a failure of the oil separator efficiency and it is now, or sometimes, letting too much oil enter the inlet ducting. One thing that might assist you is, check the inside of the exhaust tail pipe, if you rub the inside of it with your finger, you should only get a slight mark of "soot" on your finger. My wife's 2015 VW Polo 1.2TSI 110PS 6MT is now at 60,000miles run from new, and initially when I ended up shining an inspection light up into the exhaust (accidentally), I was amazed that it looked "shiny" - I had considered that at that age and mileage, the inside of the end of the tail pipe would be coated in black "stuff" and that only cars with GPF or DPF end up with clean looking exhausts.

Latest heater matrix core and sensors.