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Real progress Once back together, it was treated to a liberal coating of stonechip

I had someone call from "EE Network" the other day to discuss renewing my contract (I'm not with EE, and he didn't know who he'd called), I was driving at the time and handsfree, so I kept him talking for half an hour to tie him up from calling someone who might believe him. 😆

Now i the right scenario for Scout :))

Seen first on clubgti.com, seemed too handy not to propagate further: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/38656239/audi-vw-renoks/5 Could be handy if you break one, and want to replace, but can't see a part number on it.

Trade talks a prediction. UK - We don't like our deal EU - Why not? UK - We only get 95% of what we want EU - It only gives us 95% too UK - We want a new deal that gives us 100% of what we want EU - But that means we only get 90% of what we want UK - Yes, but we don't care. We hate you. EU - Bit rude UK - We elected people to go to your meetings specifically to say we hate you EU - We noticed UK - So we want a new deal, and we want the deal in 11 months or we cancel our existing deal EU - Wait.. what? UK - We've put it into law: you give us 100% of what we want in 11 months, or we walk away with 0% of what we want EU - Erm... suits us! UK - Wait, what? EU - Perfect, do it. Walk away UK - No, hold on, wait: you have to negotiate, so Boris can win EU - Why? Right now you have 95% of perfect and we have 95% of perfect. If we negotiate, you get 100% and we get 90%. UK - That's right EU - But if we don't negotiate, we still have 95%... and you have 0% UK - But... no, you're not meant to say that EU - And if we don't have a deal, we don't have to put up with you sending people to our meetings to say you hate us UK - The Daily Mail made us do it and then ran away! EU - So we'll just sit it out for 11 months UK - Fine, we'll go and make a great deal with the US US - Yo suckers UK - Could we have a trade deal please, sir? US - Sure thing. We want 100% of everything, plus 51% controlling share in the NHS, and you get, let's see... 60% of what you have now UK - Not good enough US - Bye UK - What? US - Bye. Talks are over. Bye UK - But we haven't got a deal! US - We are 26% of world trade, making deals with EU (20%) and China (17%). We don't need your 1.8%. UK - But we really need a deal, the EU outsmarted us US - We know. Some of us can read. Not Trump, obviously, but the rest of us. Try India UK - Hi India, remember us? India - Oh [zb], these guys again UK - We want a trade deal India - And we want to vastly increase the number of Indians who can live in the UK UK - We can't do that. Turns out we're, like, properly racist India - That is brand new information!! UK - So can we have a deal? India - Sure. Join the queue UK - Who's in the queue? India - USA, China, Brazil, EU, Korea, Canada, Australia... basically everybody. We're kind of a big deal now. UK - So you'll be ready to negotiate in, what: 11 months? India - ha ha ha ha ha UK - What did we say? India - 11 months? Try 11 years. This [zb] takes ages, bro UK - But we had a timetable of 11 months with the EU India - And how did that work out? UK - erm... India - Try China UK - Can we please have a trade deal? China - Sorry, who are you? UK - We're Great Britain China - Great, you say? UK - Well... once China - And what do you want? UK - A trade deal worthy of our status China - You've got one UK - No we haven't China - Yes you have. With the EU. You don't need to renegotiate your trade deals: you need to reassess your status. Cos you're not a mighty nation, you're a small, wet, heavily indebted island on the edge of a globally important trading bloc... which you left, you goons UK - So, what do you suggest? China - You already know ... EU - Hello again. Here to rejoin? UK - Yes, on the same terms as before. EU - Oh, I don't think so. Say goodbye to your rebate, hello to the Euro, and bonjour to the Schengen area. You are so dumb. UK - We hate you!"

Yes, it could go to te fusebox, but I found it easier just to splice it into the appropriate wire at the brake switch connector. The other wire can go direct to the correct engine ECU pin, but won't be long enough as supplied, cos it'll only be intended to reach to the inside bulkhead connector. Nothing to stop you extending it though.

Mine did the opposite and locked the whole car with the engine still running after I got out to get something out of the boot. Had to smash a window as I was away from home. Also, one morning I went to the car and the passenger front window had fully opened itself. I swear these bloody cars are possessed. You can indeed get wires that are broken inside the plastic insulation. The locks are a pain in the arse to get to, whoever designed the door panels wants shooting. Not much fun.....

Had it a few weeks now and it desperately needed a wash. Fitted my winter wheels and tyres. Also stuck some mud flaps on.

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Mine are a bit contrary to the battery charging obsessive fetishist evangelists, I dont think any vehicle with a minimum of a 90 amp alternator probably a lot more will have any problem recharging the small extra capacity of an 096 battery, once fully charged it is not going to need any more recharging after a start than an 027 battery, the starter motor will not have drawn any more current, the difference in the overnight self discharge will be de minimis. And on that subject the starter motor will be a 1.7kw geared starter lets say 2 kw, these engines start in less than a second of cranking but lets say 3 seconds, that equates to 166 amps at peak, at lot less having got the engine rotating, this equals 0.14 AH. Throw in the glowplug preheating say 5 seconds and the heating while cranking 3 seconds, post start heating will be covered by the alternator, lets say 40 amps for 8 seconds = 0.09 AH So a total starting discharge of 0.23 AH which we will round up to 0.25 AH Lets say you drive off using heated rear screen, heated seats and anything else you can think of, lets say that half of the alternators output is used to cope with the running load, it wont be anywhere near that but I am being very conservative with all these figures, lets say that there is only 45 amps remaining output from the alternator. You would need to run the engine above tickover speed to get the full alternator output ie driving but recharging will have commenced as soon as the engine starts even at tickover but I will also ignore that, you need to replace 0.25 AH from the spare alternator capacity of 45 amps = 45 AH. You would need to be driving for 20 seconds to recharge the battery from a normal cold start. Lets say that you crank the engine for 2 minutes which is a very long time but maybe you have air in the fuel system, even using the above very exaggerated current figures you would only need to drive 13 minutes. I'm afraid the "your battery will discharge on short journeys" has been an old wives tale since the introduction of alternators as standard fitment some 50 years ago over the preceedin dynamos that did not give enough output to cover a full electrical load with the then new heated rear screens and which did not charge at idle speed. I would appreciate it if someone else can cast an eye over my figures and tell me if I have made a mistake 👍

If you do try a HID conversion many on here have used the kits from a seller called London Colour on eBay with good results and success, including myself, and his kit was far better quality and longevity than another I tried.

@ZacDaMan72 That is clear as in you recommend at 60,000 km, and i recommend before 80,000 miles by maybe the owners circumstances and if a keeper. (eg do not pay for a DSG oil change because you have to do a 40,000 mile service or a 60,000 mile service before the end of a lease, leave the Dealerships / traders to do that before flogging the car again, which is unlikely. If buying a used one with a DQ381 then maybe get that DSG service done & have a Warranty in place. Buy one if you are not getting one with the car.) I read your post as it might be VW Group having a 60,000 km recommendation, guidelines or schedule. That will be coming i expect. Dependent on failures within 120,000 km.

Regardless of what VW is saying, I would still recommend a 60,000km interval as a preventative measure. My Golf R has the DQ381 and there is no way in hell I'm letting it tick over 60,000km between DSG services given how it's driven.

I have come to the conclusion that I must be weird….. or just don’t let small things get to me. The beeping when opening the drivers door is a reminder that your engine is still running, and I see it as such. On the extremely rare occasion I do this it doesn’t come close to annoying me. Lane assist is two presses of a button, no big deal and even if I forget and lane assist kicks in it’s just a gentle nudge, again no big deal. Smaller wheels would make the Kamiq (especially the MC) look ridiculous. More to the point, my MC rides and handles superbly, with little road noise. IF I had to nominate a gripe it would be the temperamental sat nav, but DEFINITELY none of the above. Maybe it’s just me……not being bothered about aspects of the car that are meant to behave the way certain people complain about. The occasional sat nav glitches are slightly frustrating because it behaves in a way that it wasn’t designed to behave…….THAT is a bona fide gripe IMO. Anyway, I’ll get my coat.

Sunrise at Sunderland earlier this week:

As both myself and Lady Munch have birthdays in May we got to discussing holidays and where we would like to be for our respective birth dates. She has always wanted to see Venice and I just adore Croatia and just so happen to have a friend who is the head of tourism is Split. Mrs has never been to Croatia so we started looking at how we could cover both dates, 3rd and 19th in two different countries. Sure we could fly in to either but that left 16 days between dates... What to do within those dates? Sittin on a beach is just purgatory for both of us.. Rather be out exploring the locality. Pompeii? yeah... ! Florence...? Yeah! Venice... Fk Yeah! Then she quipped that she has always wanted to see Lake Bled. I was quite happy with Split, Plitvice lakes, and yes, Slovenia. I must add at this point I have done all the aforementioned but this was some 30 years ago on a 3 month tour of Europe on 2 wheels! Looking at car hire costs it quickly became obvious that it was not going to be cheap to cover the destinations we listed with flights, hotels and car hire so I said... Beggar that (something like that) I'll drive it! One last tour whilst I still can and we take a month out of life and go see... What can go wrong??? Here we are, all planned and we simply cannot wait for the 27th April to begin our tour. Leeds-Hull Hull-Rotterdam Rotterdam-Luxembourg- overnight Luxembourg-Nuremburg (Joe Bonamassa Concert) - overnight Nuremburg-Liechtenstein- overnight Liechtenstein- Venice via the San Bernardino Pass Venice 3 nights Venice-Florence 2 nights Florence- outside Naples in the mountains 3 nights Naples-Tavullia (VR46) overnight Tavullia-Ancona for the night sail to Split. Split... 8 days of beer, sunshine and zero driving! Trips to Hvar, Brak, some deep sea fishing etc and my BD. Split-Plitvice lakes-overnight. Plitvice-Lake bled-2 nights Lake Bled- Vienna-overnight Vienna-Prague-overnight Prague-Dresden-2 nights Dresden-Hannover-overnight Hannover-Amsterdam-overnight Amsterdam-Rotterdam Home. Overnights include getting there in plenty of time to sightsee and plenty of time for a civilised departure to the next destination. If we have hiccup, so what. We sleep in the car lol We will be uploading pics and videos of our adventure so stay tuned.

Hi all, first post here after my introduction. My old Meriva is dying and although it has served me it has been far from Ideal. I bought it in lockdown when my Pug 307 developed an incurable fault for the princely sum of £400. It has done well and got me to work etc but it has always been too small. I'm a very keen angler, getting all my gear in the Meriva has always been nigh on impossible and now the Mrs is coming fishing too there is no way in hell I can get it all in nor will the old steed take the strain as the clutch is starting to fail. Time to change! I have a 20k + budget but there are specific needs. This is where the wealth of knowledge from you chaps comes in. My rod holdall is 197cm long and contains the best part of 2 grands worth of rods and reels. In the Meriva it protrudes in between the front seats and pretty much goes over the hand brake making town journeys a pain. There is my first requirement. A bootspace long enough to hold it. 197cm from boot to center console. The second requirement is fold flat seats (rear passenger). Now I understand that the Octavia has removeable benches as my old Pug did that allows for the back supports to fully fold flat? Does the Superb have the same setup or indeed does the Octavia do this? Does anyone know off hand how long either vehicles bootspace is for said 197cm? You might yell "get a van", I have a van but taking out all the tools etc on a weekly basis is just a PITA... Plus the Mrs would like a little more comfort and not be showered in detritus at every turn I take. I don't need a VRS just a good mile muncher with good MPG that is reliable and that is why SKODA fits the bill in essence, I just hope either the Octavia or Superb can deliver... Oh musgt be a manual GB, old school here! Cheers all, hope you can proffer some advice? Munchy

The sensors (2nd pic) r two long strips that r placed inside the rear diffuser, as shown in the 1st pic.

Car needs scanning with diagnostic tool, that will tell you whats wrong.

As per above, that looks like stone chip damage to me. That can happen no matter what car you buy. Could be a stone thrown over by a passing car. If it's something you want to avoid then only option is to buy plain steel wheels.

Do you have access to a multimeter?

I had the "Gearbox in emergency mode" problem last September. It happened while we were hundreds of miles from home but would reset when the engine was turned off for a few minutes. It would come back if the engine was worked hard. Got it booked it in at the main dealer when we got home and was quoted £86 (I think) for diagnostics if they didn't find anything. When it went in, they had found fault code logged (which meant I didn't have to pay the diagnostic fee) and they had already spoken to Skoda UK before they spoke to me. It's obviously a known issue as Skoda had already offered to pay 100% of parts cost (many hundreds) and 60% labour to replace the mechatronic unit. It was a special order part and took about 3 or 4 weeks to come in but got it fixed for less than £200 cost to me.

Not sure if you checked out the above 1896 link above, on page 6 onwards you will see plenty of people with 1803 that you have, they all needed to go in for update to 1896, then OTA updates should finally work. They need to look up TPI2065556 as it relates to your specific firmware and a metric ton of fault's.

Check this link https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2018/MC-10153586-9999.pdf Coolant systems with G12evo adding G13 top up is possible but wont offer the same level of protection. This is an offical document so a pretty good source.

Hi, If this is still topical, I have retrofitted an SII autodimming mirror in my daughter's Fabia. I cannot really comment on the Yeti, but assume that it is similar to a Fabia / Roomster.

I'd start with the connector strip first, then the individual bulb holders. A bit of TLC on all contacts might save you having to replace the whole lot. Is this the connector to the rear light? Separate, inspect and clean.

Guys is very simple to have maps in full screen just tap on maps icon on the left. Tapping apk icon you have full or 2/3 screen

Not fit for purpose so got a refund on them

First things first, let's plug in and code some ****! Sounds like what I would do!

It is. I've just sold my Focus and bought a Kamiq, my wife has a Karoq, sound systems in both as good as the Focus

Thanks, Stubod. Couple of very valid points yopu raise there, I'm grateful. Was interested to hear you mention the Yaris Cross and the Niro (and the reference to old version as opposed the new one). The new Niro from Drivethedeal is quite a bit dearer than the Yaris Cross and the new version of the Niro is 55mm wider than the Yaris Cross (my garage door isn't very wide and two inches makes a difference) . The Kia dealer is more convenient re. servicing than the Yaris. Bothe have decent warranties. Both are well regarded but Toyota might have an even better reputation? I say all this having not driven either - or even sat in either ... ... that could make a difference (although I would think both are just fine). As I say, there's food for thought and you've highlighted a couple of important points. Ta.

Hello and welcome Matt Gaz

Having waited almost 3 weeks for a replacement ABS pump to come from a spanish Ebay vendor, it was fitted and bled yesterday. Works perfectly with no trip to the skoda garage to get it coded to the car. Also had to clear the latched engine faults 18057 and 18061. Happy days (finally)

Far better to ask on the Fabia II forum than the Octavia III forum !!!

Thermostat housing is leaking so ended up buying the two year all in warranty and at a vat, parts, labour cost of just on £1,100 the all in warranty being £699 over two years it’s paying for its self! Booked in for Monday 6th feb so should hopefully get fixed up! the headlight washer they claim was just blocked/frozen due to the cold despite it not working properly in October so I called BS on that, showed the mechanic and he agreed it’s not working so when the front end is off for the thermostat it’ll be getting looked at/fixed. rear clunk, haven’t the foggiest, took a mechanic out on a test drive and it was silent but when I drove home it immediately clunked out the road the forecourt is on, tried to get a video to show them but driving with your phone in hand videoing is dodgy and my dashcam doesn’t pick it up fully, they claim everything is tight suspension wise but once the thermostats fixed I may take it to my trusty Indy let them have a mooch. Checked the boot bump stoppers but they all seem sound so guess it’s a wait and see

So more like a true 137 which is probably about the claimed top speed for the car anyway. 119 deg C oil temperature is well within the temperature range for a modern fully synthetic oil. Would you like to talk about feeling guilty, now...? 🤔

SE ordered in January, week 03/2023, and was told then it would be built approx 15 weeks later with an additional 4 weeks for delivery, so was expecting it in early/mid June. I’ve now been told that the build week is now only 5 weeks or so later (very late Feb/first days of March) after ordering. Add on 4 weeks for delivery, and I hope to get it around Easter in early April.

Maybe time to buy a phone with Call Guardian/blocking on it? Some useful advice and options here: https://shop.bt.com/guides/ideas-inspirations/how-to-stop-nuisance-calls We simply let the answerphone vet calls from any number not in our phone book. I don't think we've had any scammers leave a message. Gaz

Did you get this sorted? The first port of call is to read the fault codes logged and stored inbthe car's brain, this is usually what any independent garage or main dealer would do. These codes are unlikely to fully diagnose the fault, but they will at least give you an idea where to start. Unfortuantely the loss of gears on the DSG is rarely a good thing, often hinting at a faulty mechatronics unit (the electronic brain of the complex DSG gearbox), which invariably means a big bill. But that's worst case, it might also be something much simpler and less expensive - this is why reading the fault codes is important rather than trying to guess. The 'stop start error' might be related, quite often the failure of one system will result in the unavailability of others, but again the fault codes will help to link or separate the issues. Any reputable garage should quote your their initial diagnostic rates or hourly labour rates as their minimum charge, and not replace parts or incur any additional costs to you without first gaining your permission to proceed, this is even more likely at a franchised main dealer, although their rates will be higher. There are numerous recalls, service bulletins and TPI's associated with the DSG and mechatronics, if you did decide to take it to a Skoda dealer, even though your vehicle is out of warranty, you maybe eligible for an offer of goodwill towards the repair costs.

Hi, I diagnosed the problem, this is an issue with trunk lid earthing. Three symptoms: endplate lights were starting yellow ,,check lights'' on the dashboard, it was working but very dim, rear wiper was not working every time and trunk lock did not open every time. After I slam the trunk it comes back to normal and after some time it is losing contact again. I will use WD40 on the hinges as a temporary solution and will add additional earthing wire on the weekend. The crazy thing is that engine kept going without key with headlights on... This failure was present for some time, but since it happened I've never switched engine off with headlights on and generally did not use headlights during last time as we have summer and Fabia is my city driving daily, so I also did not notice yellow light on the dashboard at all. I'm sure original author had the same issue as it is surprisingly similar. Best regards.

My legend of a brother did some work for me. replaced the broken connector to the MAF sensor where it was broken it made it really loose. also replaced the in-tank fuel pump. When first turning the key it didn’t sound like it was priming properly old one looking a little worse for wear No no pics of the new one, but seems immediately better.

A couple of snaps of the front end for a change

A couple of jobs done today. fitted my new headlights they look amazing They have sweeping ping indicators and drls. more pics to follow, but reached the upload limit. also replaced the window trims as the old ones were out of shape and pretty nasty

Managed to get hold of the original load cover and the side covers. Shame one of them’s missing the clip. But got a replacement on order.

The reason I love this colour MOT day tomorrow!

A little test drive around the estate and all seems good i do do get a bulb out warning, but all of the lights work which is a bit of a mystery and the washer fluid warning comes on. Just need to get the MOT booked now

A few hours spent giving it a final coat of wax. Now it finally looks like a car

Managed to get a few hours on the paintwork today. It’s better than it was also fitted colour coded door handles. had to re-do the grille as the carbon fibre started to crack. Bought some vinyl and wrapped it sadly one of the headlights got broken, so I’m having to stick with standard ones for now

It runs got it a little abs and traction control error light to sort. But happy it's up and running. next is to give it a good clean and get the bumpers on started with the side strips and debadging 4 hours later and blisters on 2 of my fingers and one side is done. remembered someone used a caramel wheel so have ordered one for the other side

Time to get busy! Stripping down both cars getting them ready for the transplant