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My VRS has finally arrived, ordered October 21 & picked up yesterday 🙂

A matter of semantics. If you think kit car refers to a home built special from a kit of parts, then yes, you'd be correct. However, in their day, these rally cars to that specification did go by the Kit Car appellation.

Got mine on Friday 😁. It was ordered by the dealer (Not by me). I have just purchased my car from the dealer. So, I had no waiting nightmares. But I have asked the dealer when it was ordered. So, it was order 2022-03-15. It was delivered to the dealer 2022-09-18. Total - 18 months. Style trim, Colour - Lava Blue. Additional options - heated steering wheel, heated windshield, Perseus Anthracite wheels. I will fill the spreadsheet.

You're at Windoze 33!?

It's incredibly rare on the lower powered cars like the OP's, it doesn't make enough torque to damage a wet paper bag...

Waiting to come off the ferry in Portsmouth after 1800 miles driven in Spain over 3 weeks. Car performed faultlessly and averaged 39.8 mpg, fuel prices in Spain similar to UK, (pump prices are discounted by Euro 0.25/ltr) so not too painful. Now will need a wash and vacuum!

Nice trip ! 👍

Thanks for responses. I guess it’s 4 winters or none then!

Hi, the reason for driving a DSG (as OP has) is the the DSG will make all these decisions for you, no?

Online manual is poor to say the least. Best guess I can come up with is interior lights on/off with door opening?

Most main dealership groups are heavily tied into finance companies, if not owned altogether by them. BCA / WeBuyAnyCar / Cinch / Marshall Motorgroup are all the same group.

Agreed, and with all such scams be it cars, furniture, solar panels whatever you like its the same banks and financial institutions seeking a notional product to front their loans. It's little wonder that none of these companise give a Four X about whether their product actually functions as long as the sale is made, any money spent after that trying and failing to satisfy customers is money lost in their eyes.

Loving the Dragon Skin colour

Yep, mine has it, including little hidey/storage compartment that I found for the first time this summer. 😁

Spring vibes. Great drive today over the Remutaka hill and back, the car performed mostly well with the odd hesitation. I think that relay has helped and the fuel pump will help more.

We covered a total of 6,401 miles on trips abroad this summer; 2,890 to Croatia in June and 3,511 to Lithuania in August over a total period of 5 weeks 2 days. It's great to cover those mileages and to be able to get out without feeling stiff, especially as an OAP of 70! We went through 12 countries on our travels as we didn't take direct routes. For instance, when we returned from Croatia, we went across northern Italy, along the French Rivera, through Monaco and then up through France. We averaged 56.7mpg and 55.4 respectively and tried to fill up with as much fuel as possible in Luxembourg, Slovenia and Poland, where the prices are lower than the UK.

Currently got another fixer upper and a old Touareg too so plenty to keep busy just don’t need three cars really

Coming up to the 1year itch 😂 not often I have something more then a year

We were also on the verge of cancelling but when we saw prices of used cars we decided to just stick it out. Now we are so thrilled with the car that we are glad we didn't cancel

Just to wrap this up, in-case someone else has been looking for a solution. I made a short tail-light harness with resistor packs for the 4 tail/running lights, reverse lights and indicator circuits with the stop light circuit straight through. This tricks the Skoda into working perfectly with the trailer and is unplugged the rest of the time. I used 4x 26 ohm ceramic block resistors that were rated at 21 watt 12v.

That suggests that the green wire is fine and the new regulator does not work. Or there is high resistance on the cable and voltage drops once it's connected... Felicia should charge even with a blown bulb. There's a resistor paralel to bulb, which leads current to the regulator.

I usually nuke my other, older machines every now and again... usually because I **** up a Windows 98 installation beyond redemption anyway! I don't like disturbing this or my ThinkPad as I use for the former for a lot of stuff and the ThinkPad is for my uni work so I have to be cautious and I can't fully trust that I've backed up everything. So yeah. I'd rather take the chance with this one, which I'll do once I've fixed it. It's a year old and the keyboard is duff just outside of the warranty.

@AnnoyingPentiumI do hate having to do a clean installation, but years of practice and good backups mean "sometimes you just have to take off and nuke it from orbit" as they said in Aliens. I am glad they should be moving to annual updates, twice a year is annoying.

Ye olde hammer that I smashed the black box with seemed to talk it into working. I just done the update "in-place" if that's what I think you're referring to. Cannot be bothered wiping everything but it may get that way since I plan on getting another SSD for this laptop after I've had the keyboard repaired.

Restarted the computer after installing updates and suchlike. Now almost bearable. Think I'll jump back over to the ThinkPad though.

Likewise Renault.... and Peugeot.... and Citroën..... and Ford....

It is this.

Few more odds and ends done when I have not much else to do. Changed the crunched wing Also did some Rust Proofing, ish. Was high build primed and quickly painted over with some silver left over. Intended on getting the correct red mixed up and then forgot. Also changed the Fuel and Oil Filters ahead of firing it up again. Oil filter was definitely old, no chunks of metal hiding in it happily. Needed a breaker bar to free the oil filter housing cap off, weird considering these only need to be snug. Fuel filter was swapped easily, only took a few minutes. Same as the oil filter it seems pretty old. This is what I drained out of it.

Based on your stated use case, you want this engine rather than a TDi, unless you're prepared to get an (illegal but undetectable if done right) DPFectony.

There's worse things than a motability car. I don't know if it's still the case, but about 10 years ago, Enterprise Rent-A-Car were the biggest vehicle re-marketing company in Europe.

He is doing the right thing no matter what. If you take off a cylinder head it is accepted standard practice to give it an as light as possible reface BUT VAG now scream very loudly about not doing this “cylinder head must not be reworked”. The reason is the heads are HIP heat treated (Hot Isostatic Pressing) and refacing removes this so increasing porosity. This is why you read people saying “I had the head gasket done two years ago and it has gone again”. I have used AMC heads for years with totally reliable results. I have used genuine VAG exchange heads on the ASZ and ARL, you can see these have been refaced and reheat treated, it has an almost gloss lacquer type appearance rather than the typical satin skimmed finish.

Sorry, forgot about that, I used the free version of winrar to extract them. Also used a 32gb microsd card to do the job.

You've posted in the Octavia III forum, it might be better to ask fellow Superb owners in the Superb III forum here On a general DSG note, what mode do you have the gearbox in D, E or S ?

@AnnoyingPentium that sucks that it wasn't the usual smooth upgrade experience. I did have to install Windows 11 x3 due to one program being a swine, that wasn't fun, felt like groundhog Day.

Arnold Clark or the other named dealerships they own have never not done well. Even selling less cars / vans etc they make huge profits and can manage to make the overheads high so that they pay less tax. They have everything done by businesses that are their own and all along there is stuff to pay and people making money / profits. Back in the day when AC started doing 'Interest free cars' which were 3 year old cars that they had Buy Back on from Motability that really changed the Used Car Market, not only in Scotland. Motability cars at that time were limited to 12,000 miles a year. Dealers that wanted to supply and buy back put on mud flaps and put in mats and cars were very well serviced and cared for in the 3 years when any parts / warranty work was needed. Arnold Clark did great out of Motability cars, fleet cars and much else. Eventually Ford & Vauxhall had had enough, as had Motability Customers and we got 20,000 miles a year with the lease. Subaru & Fiat and others offered Disabled buyers good deals because they were not getting Motability customers, before those years BL had done the same thing. Having a Green card / Orange Badge got you a discount on a new car.

Your not wrong there. I keep looking at used Kodiaqs as I still fancy an SEL instead of our SE but for the same reg, or older and similar mileage the used prices are still about a third higher if not more than we paid just over a year ago I know I thought we got a bargain at the time but current prices seem to still be mad.

Fire a Fantasy Green Fabia on lifted suspension, kit it out "one life, live it" style. I'll buy it for off-roading up here in a year or two's time.

The last update is availabe here: https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/myvolkswagen.html Create an account and choose the UP as the car you have, no need to register vin etc... In the map support section the last update is for q3 or q4 2021. You have to download and extract the files from the .rar file to the root of a micro sd card, insert it into the pid and connect it with the power lead, when powered on it will start the update, dont touch anything once the update starts Its finished when you have a green screen and are able to select ok on the screen, its a full wipe/recovery install...

I used one of my plastic trim removal tools with a split end and inserted it around the neck of the clip. It pulls straight out by levering the tool.

The Polo did have the centre arm rest on some models. When I had my vrs I fitted a set from a Polo Sport and it had the rear arm rest.

Just a quick 'n' dirty fix but it does expand. Ahh I see what you mean.....

Noticed the advert yesterday... What's next?

Just a phone picture from a twilight walk around Sale Water Park it would have been nicer without the pylons

The main issues with the engine is the waterpump and thermostat housing leaking. If the car has DDC shocks leaking.

Well, had a call from my Dealer a couple of days ago, to say “our” Enyaq had arrived on site, even though he knows we now have a Tesla and bought another little Citigo from him a few months ago, so we said we’d pop by over the weekend and have a look, just to see it. So we have just got back, and we pick it up on Thursday! Still had the government grant and Skoda contribution attached to it. So the 3dr Citigo is going. Lynz is very excited which is nice.

Unless someone knows otherwise, i believe that the only people who can do this are the dealer. I've seen prices of £150 for them to unlock it.

Got messed about by the last guy for weeks on end so sacked him off. Dropped it off with another mate while I went to Turkey and picked it up yesterday. £700 lighter but cills have been re-made, all the holes in the roof welded up (police aerials and roof rails). He then dropped it off with another mate to do the mot and oil change. It's also had 2 new front wishbone bushes (rear ones) and I've had to put 2 rear shocks on as the 8 month old stance+ are absolutely shot so a warranty claim will be going in for them! Looks like I'll be keeping this one a while.

Thanks all for your helpful comments. It really does seem that the DSG gets a big thumbs up. Right now I need to convince my wife that I need to swap to one. Obviously it will be for her benefit so she doesn’t need to keep swapping form DSG to manual all the time. Wish me luck (I’m gonna need it)

Yes, & for the 1.0 / 1.5 MHEV / e-Tech it is called the DQ200-e.