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I was aware that it is not operated by the UK. However, the fact still exists that the UK issues the licences to drill and extract the oil. So how is that possible that we issue licenses and collect tax on it unless we have a legal claim on it?

probably without, if it looks like this, you dont have connection for water sensor.

The oil and gas in the British sectors of the North Sea is not Britain's or the UK,s to have. The licences to explore and to extract have been issued to others. The treasury does tax it though. Norwegian and Israeli companies, and Canadian and Americans own the product. It was Russians and they sold them on because they had to. Natural gas from the North sea sold to the UK and arriving into the UK does not come via pipes owned by the UK. Eg, Centrica / British Gas. And as far as the Forties pipeline for oil pushed along by gas. INEOS sir Jim boy Ratcliffe and Petroineos (PetroChina) own it. And it's damn old. Below FYI & a quick read , best check things out & know what is what as things stand now.

If they were changing the chain at the service, they had to remove the spark plug wires. These wires eventually get burnt, and mechanics often pull them by the wire itself instead of the metal connector, which irreversibly damages the inner core of the wire. Also, the third wire (on the 3rd cylinder) runs close to the turbine and suffers from overheating at the factory and often breaks.

We have a location in China where, just like our location, they manufactured the differential for the HAA450 axle. Different versions, that is.

Hello everyone, I have a problem with my infotainment system. Sometimes it restarts by itself, or it fails to load the Android Auto/CarPlay adapter. I would like to know whether a firmware update could potentially fix these issues. On the other hand, could the update cause the same or other problems to get worse? In short, is it worth doing the update at all? My car is a 2019 Škoda Octavia 3 L&K. I would also appreciate it if you could send me links to the firmware and GPS map updates, and recommend what size SD card I should buy for this purpose. Thank you in advance! @pab567

I thought all the Haldex AWD stuff was made in Sweden, Hungary (and Mexico)? There are lots of things I would buy Chinese-copies of. Body panels, exhaust components and other such things. There are only one or two factories that make carbon Golf bonnets, for example, so whether you pay £300 on AliExpress or £3000 from ECS, it'll be the same item. A safety critical, mechanical item, with no background, such as a differential though... The only such item I've seen with any success are the BONOSS bolts @travs uses. They're actually a pretty nice item, with rolled threads and (some) proof of being TUV tested.

That depends how you do it… Check YouTube for methods to safely unclipping and reconnecting. Alternatively - as it’s an electrical gremlin…when was your battery last changed?

All good. You can have B8 but then DCC slider mod isn’t applicable.

Ive just been checking various sites to price up some service items, but have no idea what fuel filter i need to get,, all the sites ive checked on seem to list filters "with connection for water sensor," and also "without connection for water sensor," is it someting i can verify easily?? my car is a 2017 150bhp 2L TDI DSG L&K ( too many letters )

Its the cost of extraction from ever deeper water. The Jackdaw gas field is already ready to go. Gas us much cleaner than crude / diesel etc. The government know that wrong decesions, as greens, liberals etc would see it, means losing bielections hence a delay in even switching on Jackdaw. Giving licences to companies to drill deep North Sea is risky with the uk government potentially have to pickup many millions of pounds ilkf clean up costs. If these two bit oil companies suddenly fold when oim drips below $70 a barrel, deckare bankruptcy, then the uk could be on the hook for massive cleanup cost. I think only if the hundreds of millions of clean up is insured ir money put on deposit only then should more rigs be allowed to be out in place. On the other hand renewabke projects just get better and better. When wind turbines finish their useful life after a few decades the mounts are reused, an even better turbine is out in its place with several times the generating capacity as is currently happening, 1000 ft tall, even better ones. Power which can ve generated for centuries to come. Sokar panels being replaced with ones significantly more efficient and when perovksite panels come with improved will be staggering in good and poor light. Battery tech also improving exponentially with cost dropping like a stone with LFP and Na chemistry. Compare that to the mess of oil extraction at sea. Miles more expensive than land based rigs. UK must be very careful how it controls any continental shelf oil extraction and ensure full life cycle of costs are obtained upfront.

With the current global situation and its stability, that will come back to haunt them. If you have natural resources that are useful, then each country having them has a duty first and foremost to its own citizens, and once they have the stocks that will secure their future for a while, should they release some of the resources to others?

I dont have DCC on my model. So presuming this is not applicable. I still want a nice family car just one that doesnt feel link im jetting off to Mars.

As j said anything to do with oil is a massive finan ial rusk and one the last governments and this one have not been willing to take and even the big oil companies are leaving the North Sea leaving it to the smaller companies who are more suited to picking thd bones of the not much over 1B barrels that are left. Yes there is a strategic dimension as we do need diesel for a few more years until it is replaced entirely as a traction use and kept as it should be just for chemicals etc use.

@pab567 i dont have carplay activated on my fabia, someone told me that i need new headunit with usb cable. can i buy this and install it myself? i cant dm you

Yes, Brent crude oil is ideal for producing diesel, so with the amount of diesel and petrol currently being used in the UK, it is indefensible to the UK government not to be exploiting the oil and gas under the North Sea. How on God's green earth can it be right or green that we import such fuels from Norway when Norway extracts its crude oil from the Brent field and then produces the petrol and diesel that we then buy from them and ship across the sea to the UK again? If you ask me what the government is doing, it is virtual signalling that we are single-handedly saving the planet. We are not; all we are doing is to move as much manufacturing from our shores as is possible, along with jobs, all in the name of being green. When in reality all we are doing is moving the pollution that we would be making here to somewhere remote far from the UK, and thus making their pollution worse than it would be, and at the same time destroying communities here by the removal of well-paid jobs and increasing the unemployment figures. The fact Brent Crude is known as a sweet oil just means that it is easier and more cost-effective to refine the fossil fuels, petrol, diesel and jet fuel than it is with other crudes, which is a direct result of it having a lower sulphur content, so it is considered to be of a higher quality and thus is more expensive and needs far less energy to refine and less processing to extract the fuels. So it would kind of suggest that once again we are being sold the facts incorrectly, so in other words, more misconceptions? Here is a link to the fact that Brent Crude is perfectly capable of producing petrol, diesel and all of the byproducts that crude oil is used for. Brent Crude Oil: The mesmerising world of this black gold bonanza! | XTB What is Brent crude? Global oil benchmark explained | CMC Markets

how can i get one? i cant dm you as im new here

Interesting about the conversion to a different pump, I’m defo going to look into that. Thanks

Steve that is brilliant, thank you. I’ve not played with diesel much but these few things you’ve pointed out will keep me busy for a while. My only question is where/what is the stop valve is?

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I have this exact issue now booked in next week with a vag specialist it’s driving me around the bend hoping it’s a bearing and nothing more serious.

interesting

aha hope you get help soon

hope you get it

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