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Evening all, We've just acquired a 2017 Citigo Colour for my daughter and, following guidance on here I've ordered wheel arch liners and fittings from Autodoc. They've just arrived and on unpacking them I've noticed that there are no holes in the arch liners for the fitting screws etc. that would allow me to find the hidden holes in the chassis... Hence is anyone able / willing to do some quick measurements for me to give me a fighting chance of finding them? I can go off the pictures in various threads on here but measurements would also help tremendously! Thanks in advance!

That's a very short consist. Is that the usual?

Last year i insured my EV with Admiral and Multicar. No NCD as that was 20 years and on my old Suzuki. Also insured house contents. Then February the Suzuki was insured from Fdbruary when due till September, too expensive but was looking forward to cheep renewal in September. May i got a pickup so van insurance till september. Not cheap, no NCD to use. Renewal came in last night. £1.880. So auto renewal cancled. Tried Confused, Compare and Moneysuper market for 3 vehicles. CONFUSED.com each time lowest quotes. Agias for the 2 cars. 9 years and 1 year NCD. Legal, ncd protection, RAC breakdown. SWIFT cover for pickup, legal and full breakdown and recovery. They MIRRORED the NCD. Total cost just under £900. ADMIRAL CALL HANDLER asked when i asked fof proof if NCD by post if they coukd look at reducing price. They hsvd emailed, called and txt,d to ask why not renewing. So much for MULTICAR. Renewal said that my past 12 months paid excluding house contents was £1,550 and sorry for the increase.

Right - I've just managed to look at the stuff from AutoDoc and have noticed there are no holes in the arch liners that would allow me to find the holes in the chassis... Hence is anyone able / willing to do some quick measurements for me to give me a fighting chance of finding them? I can go off the pictures in the threads linked above but measurements would also help tremendously! Thanks in advance!

Run me through what yours is doing and what youve done? In the end i started looking at live data for the HPFP and noticed it was overfueling. I tested the rail sensor data and voltages and all seemed ok. I then tested the HPFP resistance and it was out of spec and so i concluded that was at fault. As soon as i fitted the new one, all the misfires went away and the jerkiness went away.. now... after some time the hesitstions and jerkiness have come back, but nowhere to the point they were. Misfires are generally 0 but when the hiccups occur, so do the misfires.. it is much better than it was, but when cold, it is a bit jumpy.. I have heard our cars are a little charachteristic of being jerky but theres a line between charachtetistic and having a fault. My next port of call is to check the data again and to check out the low pressure pump to make sure thats in spec and to check out the injectors and intake manifold.

I personally favour dropping percentage targets and moving to lower vat on EVs which is what it can partly viewed as. So I "pay" £3750 vat but just get a £1500 EV grant. Better just to make EVs 10% VAT rather than 20% to encourage EVs but as we see the technology sells itself ie much lower running costs with both energy and servicing.

So Mr an announcement a day PM is opening a consultation on how many EV,s will need to be first registered and by when. Let's see him and every MP receiving transportation from the public purse be in an EV, even if it is an Armoured one. And the mileage allowance for using their own vehicles set at 15 pence a mile. That's enough for their home charging or at grace and favour homes or public funded accomodation.

You could try this link to see if yours is a recall https://recallactions.skoda-auto.com/448/en-MT or get your local dealer to check for you. You will need your VIN for both Alasdair

Hi Did you get a solution to this I've acquired a 2020 Superb IV with exactly the same issue? Thanks

Didn't bother with the eclipse, decided to continue with a series of shots of the ECML

Interesting video, I did notice that most of the examples shown seem to be arrays for the farmers' own use rather than what we currently see here in the UK where they are a commercial producer of electricity, as shown in the screenshots taken from Google Maps. Also the panels used for the agri use all appear to be mounted at some height above the ground. Quick observation also suggests many obstacles to the use of mechanised machines with the need to avoid all the panel structures and the electrical wiring and connections. But I can see how, subject to the right considerations and the mechanical construction of the system, to withstand high winds etc they could be used in the right conditions. When we had high winds recently, the 2-panel-wide solar farm I showed, panels mounted low to the ground, suffered considerable damage, with many panels being ripped away from the system. So does that mean that we have stronger winds than Australia, I wonder, or inadequate construction strength?

Mine went in for 4 update 2 major 2 minor now on latest 2768 problem still there even i asked for the module change thay went for another failed update am waiting for a call with customer service manager to tell my why thay didn't change. Hopefully that's the next step as this has been going on since December.

Its called Agrivoltaic farming and has been happening for many years. Grapes seem to be a favourite crop to work with but I have seen others. Below Youtube vid is a specific example. Dozens of others throughout thew world and 15 commercial ones running in the UK as per the link at the bottom... 4 million Euro investment with 6,000 solar panels to protect and enhance his grape crop which are for Cognac production. The Times of IndiaA French winemaker spent €4 million on 6,000 solar panels...A cognac grower in western France has voluntarily given up the right to call his wine cognac, all so he could build a solar canopy over his vineyard. David Moreau planted four hectares of ugni blanc gSolarPanelsForFarms.ukAgrivoltaics UK 2026 | Solar Grazing, Crops + SFI ExplainedAgrivoltaics in the UK — solar panels plus sheep grazing, pollinator strips or crops. ~15 commercial projects operate today.Agrivoltaics — also called solar sharing or dual-use solar — is the practice of designing a solar PV installation so the land beneath the panels remains productive for grazing, pollinator habitat or even compatible crop cultivation. It is the most credible answer to the food-vs-energy land debate that has politicised large UK solar farms since 2023, and it has become commercially attractive for UK farmers in 2026 thanks to Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) payments that stack on top of solar generation income. Is agrivoltaics actually used in the UK?Yes — and the evidence base is now solid rather than speculative. A CMS Law expert guide (2025) reported around 15 commercial operational agrivoltaic projects in the UK, most of them small at roughly 1–5 MW. Sheep grazing under panels is the most-evidenced use-case: a 2025 Applied Energy study (Neesham-McTiernan et al.) treats UK solar grazing as already deployed and models national land potential for dual-use solar. The national-scale picture is just as supportive. University of Sheffield research (February 2025) found agrivoltaics could help the UK hit its solar PV targets without sacrificing farmland, naming East and South-East England (Cambridgeshire, Essex, Lincolnshire) as optimal regions. The gov.uk Solar Roadmap (June 2025) explicitly recognises dual-use and agrivoltaic solar as part of the route to the UK's 2030 solar ambition.

are these still for sale?

Long time, no see - the last one is still for sale - if someone is interested.

Hello, I need some help with VCDS/OBD11 Pro please, I just got my Skoda and am ironing out the issues to be the best car it can be. I am based in Belcoo, Fermanagh so preferably not too far away, I need a neutral position sensor relearning, shouldn't take more than a couple minutes and I will bring some cash or alcohol for the trouble, your choice. My car is a 2017 Skoda Octavia SE L 1.4tsi manual, if there's any more information I can provide please let me know, Thanks.

There are quite a few former airfields now being converted to solar farms here as well. However, farmers are complaining about not being allowed to grow food on their own land, leading to more imports, which seems counterproductive in reducing emissions.

awaiting delivery of my elroq SEL60. any tips??

Thanks for sharing the file!

Everything is an issue. Everything needs thought about and blue sky thinking. OUT OF THE BOX. Places are planting trees to cool rivers because of the loss of fish. Lots of Old Coal Mines and Bings about, lots of derelict Runways and lots of land where there was nuclear plants and will be decades before ever built on.

Now that's an idea, although that would possibly also create additional issues of maintenance and damage through moisture-laden air playing havoc with the connections etc? Wouldn't the rainwater make its way back into the storage pond naturally?

Climate Change. Maybe time in the UK that there are areas of solar panels providing shade on river banks, canals and water reservoirs etc. Protect the water from the sun and protect land from flooding by collecting rain with a channel like on roofs and take the water to the storage pond, lake or whatever covered by solar panels.

Yes, we have sheep farms down here as well, still not seen sheep and solar together California is not the UK. There are over 25 complete fields near me that have become solar farms, with many more being constructed, and the lion's share of them are made up of rows of panels, 2 panels wide with a single panel gap between rows, which get more shade on the ground than would be ideal for growing, etc. That being said, there is one solar farm (covering many fields) where the rows are 4 panels wide, with some better spacing between them, but here again, there are fields laid out as 3 panels wide and a 1-panel gap. As you will see in the 3-panel photo, that one is still being built and so happens to be on the same farm, adjacent field to the 4-panel, but again with that very narrow gap between rows. The construction frames for the panels are clearly visible, awaiting the arrival of new panels. The aerial shots show these.

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Not on a fabia but a Seat. The grommet that you mentioned thats too tight on mine had enough rubber at edge to push a length of fencewire through to engine bay and then taped cable to it and pulled it back through. You could also try snipping end off arrow marked and feed cable through there if it has one. Use vaseline etc to make cable slide easier or as I did stiffer wire first so you can pull it through.