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Ok thanks - that's useful! I'll have a feel around based on the photos I've seen and hopefully that will be enough to find them, expose them and then transfer the positions to the liners so I can drill the liners. Just slightly annoyed as it's more faffing around! (and the prices of them appear to have dropped again!)

When I fitted mine I found that you could just feel where the holes are. The undercoat would push in further where the holes were in the inner bodywork. I used a small round screwdriver to start the hole and finished it off with a 1/4 inch extension bar male end. Give us a shout if this is not enough detail for you. Thanks. AG Falco

Brill - thanks:

Four years on, cheeky revive of this thread - it seems this fault has just occurred on my 2017 sportline 280. I'm near North London (Herts) I'll drop you a DM if that's ok. Full disclosure I'm very sadly now preparing the car for sale. It's been such a pleasure drive the last almost decade, I'm quite sad to be parting. And i guess it is too as it's chosen this week for the powered seat module to fail, and also a flat battery (perhaps related) I'm fairly sure it's the module, as the fuse is fine and the infotainment system is saying not currently available in all the seat preferences menus I should put the OBD scanner on it too, but I've not had a lot of success getting much out of that in the past

Sadly for manufacturers the benefits of EV,s are not meaning enough are bought new and first registerd to people buying or leasing for private use and all the pounds out of their pocket after they are already taxed. Maybe taxed on pensions even. Truth is Public Charging all times needed by much more than even 60% of drivers. Real world UK wide. PS, discounts on new EV,s all over the place and still the vast majority of drivers buying their new vehicle is swerving an EV.

Also I have the annoying issue with the radio after owning the car for 3 years. Started after one hot warm day in April this year. So now and then the volume keeps increasing (you know..), this now already for some months. Some days more, other days less. Its my wife’s daily’s car, so I have to come up with something.. Also read topics on the internet, informed the dealer.. Opening the device to clean was my last option. I have the hardware h56 version (software 1668). For me, now after 3 weeks of hot sun on vacation it looks solved. Could the issue with some cars also be static electricity in the device/plastic due to the heat, sun, airco and so on.. (Think most of us don’t use the bar..) With one hand I touch the touchpad, other hand some mass of the car (underneath seat or something) for approx 10 seconds, and the issue is not appearing anymore. Hope it stays this way.. 🙃

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!