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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

what is this

nteresting

any fix on this plse. having same problem

Hi all so I’ve had my mk 2 vrs for around 4 weeks now and I have got a whirring sound from underneath somewhere whilst driving I have it going into a vag specialist on Wednesday for diagnosis which will cost me £100 up front before any repair work. The sound comes at all speeds as soon as the car is moving and it is there in gear and when the car free wheels out of gear. The sound doesn’t go away or change at all it just sound louder obviously if I take my foot off the gas. Weaving side to side it doesn’t change either making me think it may not be a bearing and something more sinister a mechanic that I know said maybe gearbox bearings. What are people’s thoughts on this and are there any other common faults that the mk 2 has that could cause this. Any help is appreciated 🙏🏻

We went for a test drive with Diags running, all timing parameters were good. Cylinder 4 is cutting out occasionally under load. I will fit new plugs and see if its fixed. Bizarre coincidence it started immediately after fitting timing chain kit. Thanks to all who contributed.

@pab567 i cant contact you on dm, but im interested in a skoda fabia carplay unit

did you find the cause of these error msgs. im having same issue after having new alternator fitted. im getting headlight range error, esc error, stop/start error park pilot error. driving me mad. no faults according to diagnostic

Getting worse in France reported and now up to 15% of pumps out.....

2014 Octavia scout Recently flashing glow plug light / engine management light + limp mode Showing codes p048a / p048f exhaust pressure valve How are they to get off and clean / free off

I've read somewhere that it remembers progress and continues each time you drive. First day i've tried a "trick" to keep infotainment turned on while car is parked (open and close drivers door every 15 minutes), and using this method I've updated 23.11 to 26.2 in 1 hour I think. Tried two days in a row for at least two hours. Each day I have at least 1 hour of driving, and today my last drive was 45 minutes.

Alasdair has a point - could also be the play in the driveshaft as you accelerate and engine-brake.