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No idea what a "Style" model is, but even the base SE model has voice control. To be sure, download the digital certificate from the My Skoda app. It can be manually initiated by the button on the top left of the steering wheel. Initiation by the wake command "OK Laura" is a setting in the infotainment. I leave voice activation off as even when travelling alone, the radio can trigger it.

By the looks of things I would probably be looking at doing the bearing housing (knuckle), bearing, sensor, splash guard and associated bits all at the same time.

Never meet your heroes. Was at the Hawthorns, as oft am, and Frank Skinner was walking around talking to various in the crowd, he was miserable. Managed to shout to him his tv series, which he wrote appeared is SH1TE which is how the public reacted to it too. Like his stand up, but Shane was bad.

PS Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon lead the SNP and filled their own pockets and advanced Independence not one little bit. Like Cuckoos. There are plenty Champagne Socialists that earn well from the public purse and were happy for true supporters money to fund their lifestyles.

I assume you have factored the lower cost of petrol against the higher MPG of a TDI? Four passengers with suitcases would suggest a Combi as opposed to a Hatch - If going down the TSI route, suggest looking for a 1.0TSI 110 or 115PS engined version.

There is another story. My mum went to school with him & worked at St.Cuthberts Bakery & Tam Connery at the Milk at the Coop. They were the same age but somehow all his life after body building and boxing and being an artists model he had a DOB making him younger. He said he lost his virginity to an older women. well considering he tried them all on and an 18 year old was older than his supposed 15 year old. Once at Downfield golf course in Dundee my pal shouted and asked for an Autograph and he told him to get to ****.

Pic of tyre and excuse the dirty wheel, needs a wash. Similar tread pattern to the premium Michelin CC. Ive also removed the locking bolt, as I do with all my cars, as I dislike them.

He does, genuinely seems to speak up for the poor. Chalk and cheese compared to Sean Connery who seemed exactly as a Scot abroad with so much to stay on Scottish independence. I like Brian Cox the actor and he seems to appear on UK tv ie Question time a few times. I like SNP actions on green issue, they appear more socialist than Labour.

SNP Supporters that do not live in Scotland and pay taxes or even in the UK can say and do as they like, but not even having 1 vote is something, but their 1 voice might impress some but really it counts for nowt. Good that he impresses you @lol-lol

I'm the opposite of most people on here as I like the coasting. Maybe because I experienced it in the late 1960s/early 1970s with two-strokes that had a lockable flywheel to prevent fuel starvation when you lift off the accelerator, which it turn starves the engine of lubrication. I previously lived in Brecon and I could easily coast for a couple of miles downhill when crossing the Brecon Beacons, but now I'm in Lincoln, which is the opposite of Brecon and is very flat!

Brian big SNP supporter of course. Some of in England belief Scotland will only be properly free when it gets total political autonomy and we would be fascinated how it does. Hope to see it in my life time. If you love someone let them go.

We used to buy single fire lighters for a wee sit around at a fire at the beach from his brother at his shop in Monifieth & we got single fag there. He was a real character that knew the price of everything and the cost of everything and the value of giving tick and being generous. No shop lifting from Charlie's. As to his brother i could not care less what he promotes or supports. I lived on Ferry Road and worked on the pumps at the Milton Garage when i was 15 and earned to buy my Moped. (My mum was Neil Forsyth,s baby sitter. He wrote the books and the screen play for the part Brian Cox played as the Burger Seller in Broughty Ferry. Neil Forsyth credits my mum with letting him read comics as his parents both doctors did not allow him to.)

Hopefully some good deals like with Boxt boilers, ie £12 a month when they were saving more than that. One of Scotland's greatest sons, IMO, actor Brian Cox, not the astrophysics guy, was promoting and I have lots of respect for him. Hopefully some freebies from counculs, Octopus forcthe needy. I actually only use about 200w during the day time and electricty bit cheaper after 1900 usually. Also Octopus will be doing batteries next year which can be a big saving. Also would lije to see Octopus and others doing long term repayment so people using the saving to buy over 3 years or so. All doable and a chance this will happen much more than the previous governments.

That’s interesting - why would they be available via Seat but not Skoda? The workings of VAG are sometimes quite mysterious, and I thought they all used ETKA? Anyway, I’m currently waiting for some parts to arrive from Slovakia…

Yes Millions of people if this is true about balcony solar will be the haves not the have not.s getting it. People need money up-front to purchase. Or on tick, Klarna, credit, buy now pay later and default later and be deeper in the sh!7.

Back on the smoke tester, no leaks. Garage reset the ECU and it's still doing it. Usually after continued light acceleration (after a mile or so) before giving it slightly more. Also getting this code when I tap into the ABS electronics.

Many of these are national choices. Lots of people in the 26 counties of Southern Ireland go to the 6 northern counties on the island of Ireland to buy children's cloths as zero rated in the 6 counties but a positive VAT in the 26. The tampax VAT was a good example where is was EU requirement to have some VAT on the product, so wrong. The common customs tariff is one area the UK got some freedom ie many items duty is 6% and not 6.5%, wow. The UK does maintain dynamic alignment, mainly due to the mess of the arrangement with the two parts of Ireland. Love the complexity. As I said before we have to be raising a good trillion pounds of indirect taxes to support the direct tax take to buy our national bills. The margins on cloths can be truly staggering. the import duties and VAT are a small part of the elements from manufacture in CN, VN or wherever to the price in the shops I have seen looking at the buy prices on import invoices to declare. JRM is a tw*t.

Ok... It's hire car time again... Group D Menorca from a local outfit SWMBO found (not my preference this time a they seemed expensive but I did what I was told...)

Had another thought could be the coolant temp sensor thats failing when hot and sending wrong info to ecu etc? Alasdair

6 months sounds fair to me, in the April to September period normally we would be expecting to use less electricity and therefore the VAT makes less different. What even the more aware of us did not expect was the high prices of electricity due to the very high summer temperatures taking out so many European power station, so expensive or non existent inter European interconnector prices and our own UK power stations operating less efficiently, and therefore more expensive dure to the high UK temperature reduce our power station efficiency. Added to the above I expect millions of people in the UK to be be benefiting from balcony solar so this will clip the amount of power being used so could drive up prices for those not having balcony solar as electricity suppliers try to maintain profits on reduced sales of electricity. I think many will not by their balcony setup until next spring to wait until our sun, Sol, returns to the northern hemisphere. Octopus doing a 500w kit for £450, pay back time about 4 years I would mount the single 450w panel on one of my solar arrays to increase harvesting by about 40% to track the sun. This would relate some of my 120 w panels to fence based, couple perhaps East facing to collect morning sun and couple on West facing to collect evening sun. VAT can be reviewed and set to collect some many to pay down the massive UK debt and fund policy whilst not being too onerous to consumers.

If fuel pressure is good then maybe its the DV+ as you suspect as I assume the garage found no fault codes. Maybe run it and see if it gets worse. Alasdair

Don't you remember the likes of JRM appearing on TV and stating we couldn't reduce or remove VAT as long as we remained in the EU, claiming the EU would not allow it? All kinds of promises were made: clothing, shoes, and food would come down, thus reducing the cost of living- all big fat lies.

I would like many things, but have to take what comes my way because I am not Putin or Trump. Plans for a new Data Centre at Black Dog as a neighbour for Trump's Aberdeen golf courses and powered from the wind turbines just offshore. So regardless of his wishes they are staying. Even he can not stop the Data Centre if planning is approved. As it is he is supposed to be a fan of such things. Some can be beautifully according to him.

OK, thanks again for your help. Yes, the chugging/stumbling startup noise happened before the injector replacement. First noticed it towards the end of May (first day of really warm weather), then the injectors were replaced at the end of June, along with the carbon clean/walnut blasting. The DV+ was fitted around mid-September last year, shortly after the stage 1 remap. So... it'd been installed for around 8-9 months before the problems started. Given the unusually warm summer we've had, maybe that timescale fits with the time it likely needs a bit more oil? Or maybe they are generally supposed to last a lot longer before needing any additional maintenance. No idea.

I think we could have zero rated electricity before but coukd be wrong, what you cannot have is too many different rates ie you can have zero, super sensitive, sensitive, standard and high. I would like to see a 10% rate for public charging perhaps and other goods and maybe other rates, 15, 25 etc. I recall rates of 8, 10 12.5, 15, 17.5% we have had in the UK. In my tax collectors roll one gad to learn new fractions to work out tge tax base from the retail price. Currently 20/21 ths, but previous interestingly feactions like 40 / 47 ths. The fun never ended !