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A few years back, when I was the production electrical engineer for Halliburton's based in Haverhill, I had the chance of moving to their Aberdeen operation, as they were closing the factory in Haverhill. I declined and also declined to emigrate to their plant in Duncan, because of mums poor health.

Fabiamk4man (who originated this topic) owns a Fabia Mk4 "Style" model built in December 2022 that he purchased (in Greece) in September 2025 when the vehicle had covered 28,000km. The car has a TSI 1.0litre motor producing 110PS and, although the "Style" trim designator was not used in the UK, the motor's capacity and power-output of his car are the same as those of my own similar-age UK-marketed Fabia Mk4 SE L model. Photos of the engine compartment of Fabia Mk4 cars fitted with that motor show the position (and yellow colour) of the dipstick 'handle' (arrowed on this image). As I said earlier, the angled design of the yellow handle means that the dipstick can only be pushed fully home when the handle is leaning towards the car's front. However, it is possible to establish that the dipstick's tube is straight (rather than curved) as the dipstick can be turned through 90° and still be easily inserted until the angled handle prevents it going any further. Online photos/adverts indicate that the dipstick normally has a 'dotted' oil-level marking section towards its end that matches the drawing in Fabia Mk4 Owner's Manuals. Just for the record (and assuming that my own Fabia's dipstick is the correct one!!!) I've measured my car's dipstick and its critical dimensions are shown on the image below. To make that abundantly clear - the distance from the underside of the yellow handle to the dipstick's end is 525mm - the distance from the underside of the yellow handle to the start of the dotted oil-level marking section is 493mm - the overall length of the dotted oil-level marking is 19mm, meaning that the dotted oil-level marking section stops 13mm from the end of the dipstick.

If the DATA centres or large retail and communications corporations in the USA are building their own SMR,s then that is maybe who should do it in the UK. Again it is public money in the UK thrown at the already huge & wealthy corporations and shareholders.

'Warm' was the term Skoda used, while VW, SEAT & Audi for the same engine used in owners manual 'Hot' or 'Normal operating temperature. That is Germans for you and lost in Translation from Czech, Spanish, German, to English or US English. Lost in translation.

i never checked warm oil because i cant pull out dipstick, affraid to brake it.

Could also be a connector thats come loose or intercooler/vaccum pipe thats not been fitted securely (Intercooler pipe is from past experience. They have to be fully home before clip is pushed in) Alasdair

Good morning everyone. I just bought an OBD11 and wanted to ask if someone could explain to a novice like me how to program Travel Assist and Emergency Brake Assist, and also how to delay the Lane Assist warning to 60 seconds—otherwise, it starts beeping every 10 seconds, even on straight roads. Thanks everyone

Correct me if I am wrong but the only 2 SMRs running are in China and Russia ? It is important the SMRs use the right coolant for the current and future environment for its location. Hinkley and Sizewell seem to have it right. Need to look more closely at Anglesey site. Love to visit power stations, Dinorwig, Hinkley etc. Sad to hear the glacier collapse in Nepal killing over a thousand people. We need to factor in climate change when planning future power stations.

@D1oni Thank you for sharing your experience.

Hello again. I now have a video in which you can clearly hear the sound, what could it be possibly be ? fabia-mk3-spring-brake-sound.mp4

I had exactly the same, there's was no onscreen prompt like there had been, it was in notifications waiting for the install to be started. It took ages, and then this morning there was confirmations the installs had completed, when normally the infotainment page would have been empty! Like I said, not holding my breath!!

Thank you in advance.

The update didn't trigger immediately when you start the car. You need to come to a stop for some seconds (like at a traffic light) and probably the previous days I didn't need to stop on my journey to work...

I hear your pain!! It definitely getting very frustrating now!!

I’m off to Hereford tomorrow afternoon via M4 and M5. Hopefully I’ll get the same sort of result 🤞

I spoke too soon...... 😪 This morning I had another update & it put the same version of the shop application....

Touch and hold to the on/off button under the screen for several seconds to reset the system.

Support for Rolls-Royce's small nuclear reactors much the same as far as supporters, Boris, IDS, Andrew Bowie etc.

JCB major Tory donors and were go to place for Boris etc photo shoots. JCB tax history in many areas make interesting reading.

@imart143 & Is it in the same place when you check the level as per the cars Owners Manual?

Forgot to add that but, yes, I did the same on mine, although the original was still in pretty good Knick at 140k.

There is still the drive for Small Modular Nuclear & that was a wee back pocket earner for some Tories when in power and now some Labour party elected or non elected members will do OK out of that, same as happened with Hydrogen and JCB or family members connected to JCB.

I would not go to Aberdeen either. Westminster government i think choose Aberdeen to fit in with transition from oil and gas to renewable hoping it would go down well. Mind you Crown transfer terms can be quite nice i recall. Not sure they are today compared to when I got mine in the nineties. Not sure where the staff would be moving from, London, Liverpool, Manchester or Newcastle area which tend to be tge big Civil Service centres, all for moving staff out of London to save London weighting costs.

with a oil sump out, oil pump belt which is in oil bath should also be replaced.

on my 1.5 tsi DPCA is capacitiy 4.3 L with a filter (Manual), when i put that amount of oil, when it cools out completely, almost touches maximum line. 1 mm lower.