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The storms passed us by sadly, but it's a lovely evening now👍

This all sounds like a right ball-ache!

Short answer, yes. Here supply the raw map data to VAG many months before VAG release the maps because it takes them time to convert the raw data into the correct format for their sat nav systems. On the older VAG sat navs (e.g. RNS-D, RNS-E, etc) the map data freeze was August of the preceding year, so October is an improvement!

Hi guys just wanted to hello. My names Dom I'm currently a Master Technician for Skoda, I have joined Briskoda to research modifying and learn more about my up and coming project, as its a classic and we don't really see any at work anymore I currently drive: 2013 Skoda Yeti 2.0 CR TDI 110bhp with a few modifications, I'm running: Skoda Octavia 1z Stance plus street coilovers, Replica Lamborghini Gallardo 18" alloys I'll keep you posted if the new project happens and the Yeti as it develops. Enjoy a few photos of the Yeti in its current state. Peace Out

You simply have to use a spanner on the pulley nut to take the tension off the pin so you can slide it out using a pair of needle nose pliers.

Day 3 - home. All went well on the run home until about 10km away on Transmission Gully in heavy rain and spray I started having boost issues over 3000RPM. One to investigate once I have time. Wookies itself was awesome - just a weekend driving around, hanging out with car people, eating and drinking and just having a chill time.

Day 2 - the main event! Rusty ran really well. The clutch and gear shift feel much better, handling and steering are massively improved too. The car sounds great, and had no real issues. Patrizia started telling me "Brake system defective" but everything felt right, no actual brake issues, so I temporarily unplugged the sensor on the brake bomb to shut her up. https://i.imgur.com/uAtQMYY.jpg https://i.imgur.com/o2mRenm.jpg https://i.imgur.com/x3eJe3Z.jpg https://i.imgur.com/kMrpKnX.jpg https://i.imgur.com/FxctYip.jpg

Soo the Wookies weekend! The Christchurch and Wellington crews met at Mana BP - which was a financially painful hour or so - it took me about 30 mins to get 71 litres in - I need to look at the tank vents again. I've checked everything over but either something's still blocked or kinked, or there's a design flaw here! And I ended up being last-minute transport for a set of 19" BBS wheels from a Golf. Next stop Bulls, then Taihape, then Ohakune. On the way to Taihape my speedo was playing up, only reading when pressing the accelerator, going to zero when coasting. It made keeping to the speed limit down hills a bit tricky. I did a bit of soldering in the BP car park and it was better on the next leg but not perfect. Bit more soldering later on and things improved, though it still occasionally read whatever it wanted occasionally

The initial estimated delivery date was way too optimistic imho.

I could not drive and sit charging comfortably for hours in a Zoe or Niro, Soul, MG of other cars I could get from motability. So range is not always the most important thing 9.30 am and 73 miles and that was free electric. 46% and 62 miles showing. So out of 5 rapids 2 were available. Got 2 nd one started. 35 pence a kWh. I will have to come off and move chargers in 30 mins and charge some more. So what charge I get to 95% will do me til the next charger in 100 miles. That and the next 2 charges after that should be on FREE to charge 50 kW chargers. PS, at 81% and moved chargers. 111 mile range showing. On an old original charger now. Last 3 times here I have not yet been charged for the charges. I will see today. FREE is my favourite cost. PPS. So another 30 mins charging took it to 93% and 124 miles showing. OK but not plugged in now so windows open to stop then steaming up. I am soaked messing about getting chargers started and stopped. Peeing down and just waiting on flight arriving then hitting the high road. Saving money on fuel is a lifestyle thing and can be a bit of an effort. But it looks like the charging has been free today so far.

So relieved to see at least one cygnet survived the recent mink attack🙏

Oh and I got an award !

@DieselMonte is yer man.

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Many thanks - message sent, fingers crossed!

Lovely sky after the sun had set this evening

Saw £1.99 a litre on the motorway which some will be buying.

If the glass is jammed you'll need to remove the window carrier from the door first, this means drilling out all the rivets including the four that hold the regulator guides, you must also remove the window motor.

Try messaging Rustynuts on here. He repairs Columbus unit so should be able to point you in the right direction.

@Titanium_Man It is, but saving spending money is appealing. It all went smooth after the crap that comes with Edinburgh City Council having not a clue, and i never paid for more than 8 gallons of go go juice just the £6.16 and that was worth the 3 hours charging instead of maybe £61.60. I passed filling station charging 182.9 pence a litre for diesel.

Surprisingly the 115PS engine came first, and was then replaced by the 110PS engine. I'm not sure of the details but the later one may well have a better fuel consumption. Chris

Seem to recall, a new set of from pads fitted last year also had wear indicator wires and plug or socket, nothing to connect to so I cut 'em off

Heres a short video of new SportLine.

I ordered at the very start of October 2021 and was initially told that they were provisionally saying March '22 delivery, however to expect delays. Not long afterwards I got an email from them saying it had now been pushed back to expected September '22 delivery. My dealer has been pretty rubbish at responding to emails, however on 27th April they emailed me out of the blue to say that they have had news that my car was now expected to arrive to them in mid-may. I've taken it with a pinch of salt, but I can't help but think it'd be a pretty stupid move to adjust my expectations forward 5 months if there wasn't really some news. I haven't heard anything else since.

See my post on 7 May, many say I am not ordinary in many ways. 🙃

‒ → Set camshaft sprocket to mark -arrow A-. ‒ Set crankshaft to TDC No. 1 cylinder. The ground tooth on the crankshaft toothed belt pulley must align with the marking -2V- on the sealing flange -arrow B-.

Yes I took the exhaust tips off and painted them Gloss Black. So now there is no chrome left on the outside of the car, not even any on the wheel centre caps.

I had the same problem. It came back on when I banged the headlight lens. It happened on both sides intermittently. The problem was the bulbs themselves. Change the bulb and it will sort it.

Still alive - nothing new with my order, except the date is nov shoving end of June....Not confirmed!

On the first just one character out can lead to the map upload being aborted. Keka and CleanMyDrive are the two techniques for a Mac, Keka unzips, CleanMydrive deletes all the Mac characters it puts in, that's run on the SD card. The SLA1 signatures check is carried to ensure the files have not been tampered with. A VAG master key (primary key) is used construct the signature based on the contents of the file. A user key is built into the unit. Examination of the contents with the signature and if it says, "yes" it get passed for import. What must have happened the cleaning process whatever you used didn't clean as expected. Whilst I don't have a Mac it always works when I tell people to use those two pieces of software as VW recommends. For the hell of it I once ran the SLA1 authorisation algorithm with the set of user published keys. I found that the master key, whatever that is, is the same across the firmware and map files since the same user key would work. A few years back you needed a month's Cray super computer time to crack the master key, why the industry was telling people to get off 1024 SLA1. They study this subject at University now.... branch of applied mathematics coming from pure... once you get the master key you can manufacture source files that appear as real ones. The mib2 firmware exploits have been done by avoiding the signature key check. The family of mib tool / toolkit software and firmware presented in such a way plus developer tools left in the firmware, clever. On your second MartiniB's attention to detail he publishes when the files were processed within them, in this case Files inside: 2021.10.14 The process is Here Maps will generate the master file and it goes off to whoever turns these files into the VW map files. Thus your 2022Q1 is outside of the date. The Here Maps app Here WeGo is suppose to be the first view of the production files and if that is wrong, that's when you tell them since they have duff data in their master file. Co Pilot also gets updates more frequently so you can check there as well to see whether their master database reflects what it is suppose to be. The Mapcreator app seems to use artificial intelligence to pull parts of maps apart and falls foul of rounding error !. Sure it does, so it decides points you placed together get pulled apart, duplicates included etc. To combat that you have to visit the same location on the map daily say and run across the bottom right horizontal bar validation tool clicking on each item to see what it's revealing. Where the automated validation system has introduced errors they can be seen there plus joins in roads left open. They are only geographers that run these systems bless them 😉. MapCreator you are working with the development database, not the production database. You also get pestered with mapping fantasists that place farm tracks on maps as highways. Builders roads on development sites that should never be digitised and the rest of the nonsense. Here Maps process do study other digital maps and flag up what they have "missing" against others. So nonsense from those maps can get into HereMaps if not correctly validated. They use probes generated from mobile file track data as well as a tool. In the UK OS planning maps used by local authorities can be used as the gold standard for what is on the ground. They are part of the Land Registry maps done by proper surveyors, next level up is the developers plans on new builds which they sell the houses against. The aeriel image can be compared with them. Street View is useful but also shows how Google bounces their cars down private farm tracks and they get put in as public roads. The speed that is digitised against minor roads will also effect the cars routing algorithm, where some of the rubbish routing comes from.

I'd held off updating not to tempt fate last two weeks. Back then i checked with my dealer as i do every monday and we had our build week moved from week 39 to week 19! i checked every day last week (19) and it got to friday with it still at stage 20 not 30 so thought i would be screwed again. They build all week and it takes one day so dealer said could happen sat or sun. I checked this morning and its been built! i had feared as last year we had a confirmed build week in nov it got to that week it finsihed but the car never went into build to which skoda wouldnt say why and the order got taken off all together. I handed my lease car back two weeks also so this has come as great news. Those who havent been as lucky as me (i've still suffered more than most) keep pestering. I pestered and explained to my dealer my lease situation and other factors so he spoke to skoda uk and asked for a priority next available build week which seemed to work.

@sickzoid you have firmware download link on PM. For maps download use Volkswagen Map Updates make sure to unlock the file directly to SD root. @Pantersencheck your PM for download link

Hence I mentioned "Octavia NXs on the 18xx software" 😉 Some Octavias on 16xx sofware do get the 1896 update, but all 16xx that are eligible must go to the dealer for the update.

Driver seat memory stopped working at some point, OBDEleven scan threw up basic setting missing from all driver seat motors. Ran basic settings routine via OBDEleven and all working again.

I can even go one step further and tell you that Durham NHS are actually trialling the at-home INR testing, which is why I hope I can convince North Bristol NHS Trust to do the same, but ain’t holding my breath 😞

Cam timing, possibly quite a way out. Go back to old school, turn the engine to TDC with number 1 cylinder on the firing stroke, both cams should be facing away from the valve buckets (I'm assuming its an OHC) and an equally angle to the other, then check the cam lobes on number 4 cylinder both valves should be partially open and moving the crankshaft backwards and forwards until the valves just close should be more or less an equal amount of degrees in both directions. I am not advocating this method to time the cams but for checking, in the absence of timing marks it will suffice and at worst would be one tooth out, I have had many an engine where component tolerances and perhaps a head skim has meant that the timing marks were imprecise, mark is misaligned between 2 tooth pitches, I have always found the correct one by going old school. I have also bought cars that just seemed a little flat, if I was told or could see the cam belt had been changed I would do the old school check and it would usually reveal incorrect cam timing. It comes from the even older school method of correctly aligning the helical rotor shaft drive of a mechanical distributor on a pushrod engine - "rocking on 1 = firing on 4"

I’ll write from a bit different angle. I’m daily driving with Superb II Greenline with 105hp 1.6TDI engine and with 5 speed manual transmission. In my opinion this is the best car ever: - reasonably slow, gives you a smooth ride - fuel efficency is very good with that size of the car - NO dual-mass flywheel - very low maintanance cost - unique passenger side dimming mirror - lots of space front, back and in trunk - accesories retrofitable from Passat B7 (HBA etc) There is no similar car with that fuel consumtion, space, simplicity and features like Superb II Greenline.

A couple of visitors to the garden

Superb 2 is heavier than the Octavia 2, so will be slower with the same engine. If you're looking at 2015, you are getting into early Superb 3 territory as an option too which has slightly different engine options. As suggested further up, test drive a few and see what you like/don't like. Ignore any advice to buy a plug-in tuning box, they're a bad job. If you really want more power, start by buying the engine that matches your performance expectations. In NI, you still have the option to buy in GB without getting fleeced for customs (Brexit has destroyed the import market into RoI from GB as we now have to pay VAT & customs on imports), so don't be afraid to cast your net wider there.

2.0 170 4x4 and chip / remap it either for power or economy chipping gives you the option to switch between maps - remapping is one or the other. Remember to inform your insurance company.

Mine is generally around 35mpg. I can get to 40mpg if I'm being careful. However why on earth would you buy a petrol vrs if fuel economy was a high priority.

So, this rollercoaster of a few days I’ve been on has challenged my positivity, my ability to bite my tongue and tested my patients to the very limits, but ultimately ended with the best possible outcome; being at home with my amazing rock of a wife, Zee 🥰 I should have actually been sent home on Wednesday, but when I moved over to the recovery ward from high dependency ward on Tuesday morning a nurse practitioner took the decision not to put me back on a drip machine that was designed to get my INR to where they wanted it. I also found out at this point that I was given some medication that I am essentially allergic too; gentamicin. This drug is the very reason why I now wear hearing aids. Despite having a conversation the night before the op and whilst waiting to be put under the next morning with the anaesthetist about this, it was used during the 8 hour operation There’s been a whole host of other issues, including promises being made by the surgeon that were not carried out by the first nurse to look after me in intensive care, that I won’t go in to. Suffice to say that I’ve had a very frank conversation with my surgeon about everything. He went a funny shade of red when I told him about the gentamicin! Anyway, finally got put back on the drip early Wednesday evening and woke Thursday morning and could see the drip wasn’t running. I knew that meant my INR was where he should be and I could go home! Having been in hospital for 20 days at this point and with it being so beautifully sunny that day, all I wanted to do was not be enclosed within four walls, feel the sun on my face and breath in some fresh air, so headed to my local pub This has been my local for the best part of 10 years and we are officially in their top three customers apparently 😇 so I got an amazing welcome from the staff that were in duty. Made me feel amazing. After about 3 hours of chilling in the sun, we headed home for a dirty KFC I’ve had a few wobbles, a couple of times where I’ve broken down in to tears over what is coming next, but I’ve still not dealt with the many, many changes to my life that have been forced upon me 😞 The big one being the need to be on Warfarin for the rest of my life, and all that entails. Won’t go into too much detail about this yet as I need to have a conversation with someone first. But it’s a biggie. I have been referred for counselling, which starts in July to try and help with the PTSD that I have had since op #2, but the biggest challenge is financials. I’m not being paid, coupled with spending the last 3 years on less than minimum wage whilst completing my apprenticeship has put us in a really challenging situation. Bless my baby bro, he’s set up a Go Fund me account, which was a very hard thing for me to agree to as in a massively proud man and have gotten to where I am in life all on my own, but we simply cannot survive with a little bell this time round.

It is my understanding that the DSG clutches are disengaged when the electronic hand brake is applied when stopped in "Drive". There certainly doesn't appear to be any sign of a "crawl/creep" effect and with a slight touch of the throttle the EHB is automatically released and the clutches re-engage allowing you to drive away. I use it in preference to the "auto brake hold" function.

A leisure battery is useless, as you've found out it has no cold cranking capacity whatsoever. It is perfectly safe to jump start a car from another vehicle with the engine running, I've been doing it for forty years and never had a problem, in fact it's better if you connect them up and use your mates alternator to boost charge your battery for a good few minutes before actually trying to start it.

Been absent for a bit and sadly this part of the forum seems to have gone into hibernation too 😴 I was bike shopping for a good few months leaning towards a new / ex demo GSX S1000, also a great priced Katana at a Suzuki dealers tempting me (but too far removed from the GSX S1000 in spec tbh. Then randomly picked up a wee 2013 ER-6F bit of a garage find with 845 miles on it and never been MOT'd, but had been in use the last 2 years very occasionally (under weird MOT exemption rules that pre-dated COVID in NI). Hired a van and got up to see it a few weeks ago and took it home, ordered bits n bobs booked the next MOT at my local test centre, 5 months wait, but checked constantly for cancellation slots nationwide and travelled for one within the week it was on the road all. Service stuff didn't arrive until 45 minutes after I got back from MOT and a new exhaust system too so did those bits there and then. Not entirely sure what I've bought it for, other than it was a steal and pretty much a new bike. Be a good long termer / commuting hack / poor weather warrior. Nice enough sound from it with the new exhaust on, fun enough for what it is and by far the least powerful bike I've ever owned, quite surprised at how nippy it is. Bits it had: R&G crash bungs Yoshi rear bobbins HyperPro progressive rear spring (not fitted the way round I'd have done it, may ditch it tbh) DATA Tag Additional front lowering saddle Bits I've added: Tail tidy New flat aluminium MOT plate Oxford LED sweeping indicators GR Moto titanium exhaust with carbon tip (mid priced but pretty bang tidy quality for price) Genuine tank knee pads Genuine rim decals (never bothered with them on any of my old bikes, didn't realise until it was too late, but will do as is now) Have 3 flamin screens for it, dark tint DB (too dark on black nose, so ordered the light tint DB and they sent a light tint standard screen... ongoing nightmare General service Bike and chain it's first ever proper clean When I took it out with new exhaust on CCTV caught the sound a bit, can hear it right at end of clip when I am some distance away on the main road, think baffles will need to stay in lol

Hi, New to the forum, and would like to order new Karoq I have one question, din't find answer here. I'm looking for SE model, but notice significant difference in front light: SE: Sportline: To be honest i love the curved lights, but i don't know why SE model dont have it, do you know? On the all videos on youtube the cars are with this curved lights, looking much more cooler to me. Thx in advance and sorry for my english, not native :)

Been out with my 35mm SLR because I've been off for a wee while and have had even more time on my hands. Scanner done it no justice really, the print looks much better, but I've run it through some editing software to brighten it up a tad. fabia.bmp

I finally bought the grill in my Skoda dealer (about 120€). They had to take out the front bumper, but made it for free the day i got my new car. I think it was a good idea, because the car looks much better, in my opinion.

No think the wheel spacing is the same on all models. Done mine now, lowered 35mm H&R Springs Front Spacers 20mm Rear Spacers 30mm Looks loads better