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A few photos from a recent holiday in Cornwall.

I took the old cabin filter out and suddenly it started working. Gave the filter a good whack against a wall and a dust out and it works a lot better. Seeing as it seemed to be the filter (at this time anyway) I've bought a replacement filter and installed it today. Nice cold air coming from the vents again now 😁

Hi Briskoda I gave put this video together to explain how the door lock cylinder is released. I'd wasted a lot of hours, hopefully it will be useful. https://youtu.be/3ZBQ4A5hOBs?si=Z1qBLzBuUS8ZoPk-

They were able to scan it and get the info to work, but key program still had to come from Germany. The only difference is that the aftermarket keys have to be closer to ignition button (150mm or so) considering how it got stolen this is not such a bad thing. A few other things to fix.. - light switch was broken - lhs mirror glass was on floor - brakes - bleed and flush - bumper (a lot of bits in this) - lhs front guard - lhs front door (will sort this out last as should pass roadworthy - internal clean - cut and polish

The cabin feels luxurious, excellent quality and attention to detail. The software is dreadful, settings all over the place and laggy. We spent 20min tying to set off-peak scheduling charging, turns out need to set departure time to make that option available. Software is worse than Kia EV6 I’ve test driven and despite the conglomerate and based on same vehicle platform, no Intelligent Octopus integration. I think viewed as traditional car, they are great alternative to Audi. They do sell other dressed up Kia/Hyundai models including ICE cars. But same as Skoda vs Audi, we are on this forum for a reason. I wouldn’t pay more for Genesis when there’s cheaper Hyundai on same platform using same running gears.

Well it’s a nice day in Australia so got into it. Put new sump, baffle and oil filter on. Topped up coolant. Pressed the button and started first shot!. Wow. That was a surprise.. no rattles or noises.. Goes forwards and backwards.. no noises.. But no brakes… pedal to the floor. Worn set of pads in the back so I am guessing they did some home handy work and didn’t bleed the brakes properly or perhaps computer gremlin? Passenger side window went up but doesn’t want to come down.. all the rest are good. Now try and sus out brakes.. reservoir is full. So a bit of digging.

Colourful sky this evening 👍

Its ...ok .....guys 🥱, my insomnia is well and truly cured now......zzzzzz😴😴

@herbywan i think that others might know which Kodiaq / engine you have if you tell them.

Doesn't scrub up to bad, put a battery on and topped up water, turned the key and away she went.

I think this means you have turned on Wi-Fi and the car is trying to connect to your phone to use the internet. Either that or you have turned off the E-sim which is the SIM card the card uses for the internet to do things like updates. Connect a mobile device to the Infotainment hotspot Turn on the Infotainment’s WLAN hotspot in the menu item Wi-Fi Infotainment system as hotspot Use as hotspot. Turn on the Wi-Fi on the mobile device. In the list of available Wi-Fi devices, look for Infotainment Wi-Fi. The name of the Infotainment is taken from the menu item Wi-Fi Infotainment system as hotspot Network name:. Select the Infotainment hotspot and enter the required password. The password for connecting to the Infotainment hotspot is taken from the menu item Wi-Fi Infotainment system as hotspot Password:. Confirm the connection. Connect Infotainment to the mobile device hotspot Turn on the Infotainment’s Wi-Fi unit in the menu item Wi-Fi WLAN: Search for WLAN switch on Select the desired hotspot in the list of available hotspots. Enter the password for connecting to mobile devices. Infotainment stores passwords for previously connected hotspots.

My beauty 2.0 TDI SE L Executive 2016.

well mines coming up for 2 years old now..so its been in for a bit of a refresh and a coat of exo V5

Thanks for explanation. We live in strange financial times. People are loathed to change cars or houses as the currently financial deals are mostly awful at rates of 7% and above. Managed to get 0% on the two thirds of my son's Clio ETECH purchase over and above the deposit. Pensions that are equity rather than final salary are in a terrible mess with the UK 2 year Gilts at 5% pa make the 1% or so Gilts taken out a year or two ago look very poor investment. I have spoken to several people and know from my own pension fund that they have effectively lost about a quarter of their value due to UK economy's woes over the last year or so, hopefully the Gilts decline has troughed and will start to recover from here. Car manufacturers and dealers and going to have to suffer low or negative margins to move their cars as the world either enters a recession, or a to it that it is a recession in all but name. Might be good for buyers with the cash. With my lad, who I hope can be in a position to buy a small flat or house in a year or two when property prices look like they are going to stop falling, bought the hybrid Clio to sure mortgage lenders he can pay a debt and he was verging on getting over £1k in interest per year so would have been taxed on it. Car insurance was a bit of a shock but that seems normal. I will definitely factor in insurance costs if/when I get a Model 3 Highland, if they drop below £40K and the VED luxury level, as cars that quick must be expensive to insure. The Zoe EV is not too bad, nor is the Arkana mild hybrid at about £400 per year each.

Probably because it’s a generic box programmed on a new vehicle. And probably a boost/torque spike so the company can say it’s high torque 🤔 Custom Remap time !! However it does sound like a new clutch if you intend to do that. have seen plenty of remaps and tuning boxes that should be 480 nm ish but because there is a spike it gets sold as over 500nm. For a split second. That’ll always screw the clutch

Well, no, you have misread the situation again. What I was saying, and I also know a thing or 2 about electronics which you may or may not have picked up by now, was that in the olden days the only electronic part in cars was the condenser wired across the points of the distributor as a spark quencher and that the average person with any mechanical knowledge could sort out most breakdowns and get the car going again. That no longer is the case and anyone of those SMD parts or indeed TH parts can quickly ruin your day if they decide to pop their clogs. Some things are self-evident when they fail and others not so, and also today there are not many people who could repair such circuitry as schematics and spares are not available. You should know that the method these days is not to spend time trying to track down what went wrong and failed, but to replace complete units. When was the last time anybody saw a television repair shop, once upon a time there used to be 2 or 3 in most towns, not any more, we are now a throw away society and replace and that is not cheap nor good for the environment which I find it odd that you don't appear to appreciate that aspect and yet you champion the EV as being good for the environment. It has to better to keep things going for as long as possible, rather than expending a massive amount of energy making new things all the time and disposing of the old when it could be fixed up. It is the TH larger electrolytic capacitors that do often fail, but that can also be quickly and easily replaced and also normally easy to spot as they normally either disgorge their inwards and electrolyte all over the circuit board, or they bulge and vent. Occasionally they might dry out and cease to do any function, but is again easy to spot using the right test equipment which I have.

Ack should change the title of this one to--- years. Updates are: Fitted Folding Wingmirrors with Black Shells , Puddle Lights. - Had to upgrade door card modules too Started installing 360 cameras, but this is currently in prog. Will update. Started installing blindspot alerts (not using official kit), just a third party kit. All hardware is in place for adaptive cruise - not wired the radar in yet (but suspect this is all thats left + coding)! The new stalks however do work for normal cruise so, guess we will see! Will update soon, with photos!

I am not positive but I guess its because you are opening it remotely, so if someone is walking passed they are warned it is opening, where as it you open it while you are there there does not need to be a warning !

Nice colour indeed!

So 5q0907643D is the one that is for a superb, it has since been superseded to 5Q0907643F so there will have been improvements hopefully! But F is the one you want D doesn’t exist anymore

My mistake, you're quite right!

The pollen filter is supposed to be changed at certain service intervals (IIRC, 3 years?) Despite my using Skoda Dealer workshops for at least the 1st 5 years servicing, they never even checked it! Better to just change it yourself and inform whoever is carrying out servicing that it's not required - same goes for engine air filter.

Servicing a Tesla & doing an oil change. 3 years ago.

It shows charged. 0 kW means taking in no power. 32.5 kWh is how much it got of a charge since they plugged in until it gave no more of a charge. The battery is likely at 100%, but we can not see that when charging stopped, but if it had been still charging and say at 98% we could have seen that. Well when i was first there it was done charging, then before i left i took another picture. You can check chargers even if you are not using that plug. The difference other than the time is that the Charger was doing it,s thing and shows green because still just started running to check.

2017 car with only 44,000 "light" miles on it. Haldex oil previously changed by main stealers. This is the first time I've done it myself. The oil was also pretty manky, with "bits" in it.

I am trying to say that there are many things to worry about with vehicles and components. With VW Group other than DPF,s , DQ200 DSG,s, & SCR, it might well be those with Haldex being sure the service and maintenance gets done properly, and look out for the non water proof controllers. The VW Group took in house the Software, that was a disaster. As is much of there procurement of components of many kinds. As to them having their own battery factories, that is something to think about. With electronics it is good that they trust much of that to be done in Hungary where there is cheap labour but well qualified.

If you have the projector type lamps can simply change to something like Osram night breaker bulbs. They are accessed by lifting bonnet, removing a rubber cover and reaching in. But there is a big tab on the casing and secret is to grab and turn the bulb, not the tab (which won't move), you naturally try and turn both and think they are jammed. We fitted these when we had our roomster Beyond that there are upgrade kits (some are not legal on the road, and are marked for off road use only). However anything like an LED has lower resistance so will need a resistor to trick the failed bulb warning on dashboard display. If that is showing don't expect to pass an MOT.

Thanks. On my Mk3 there wasn’t much difference between my 15” and 16” wheels. On the Mk4 there is a lowish frequency sound (like blowing over the mouth of a bottle) once you get above 20mph on everything but the smoothest road.

Just in case there is anybody here who is a bit puzzled by what I was referring to my post about the surface mount resistor here are some photos I've taken of a computer monitor video card (1) that is responsible for the images you see on your screen, the cables are going to the power supply printed circuit board which funnily enough is some 3.5 times larger. I placed a 5 pence piece on the board and photographed it (2), then placed it under my microscope and took another photo (3) then zoomed in and took another photo (4) . The items highlighted in red are the surface mounted resistors, those highlighted in yellow are transistors and item highlighted in white is a capacitor and any single one of those failing has the potential of bringing your car to halt and really spoiling your day big time. In EV's there are going simply loads of these types of things, maybe running to thousands throughout the car some of the integrated circuits called "chips" can have billions of transistors within them such as the case of microprocessors or as they are more commonly called CPU's. How Many Transistors Are in a CPU? [Updated 2023] | DeviceTests

Thanks for your input guys! It's been very informative.🤘

It took us a good few years living to get old and lots of miles under our wheels and maybe many vehicles. Maybe lots of keepers and repeat purchases and maybe others punted quick. I like physical buttons and even those can be complicated. Basically for me it is KISS now and comfort and reliability while available and that will still be the rest of my driving years even if I go back to a 30 year old ICE. I have a 17 year old one without a high mileage. This one is for @lol-lol This Taxi driver does this all the time. 2 7 kW posts available but late night to lazy or stupid or does not carry a cable so plugs into the 43 kW AC depriving anyone that comes into town of the only 2 available, 1 here and another 1/2 a mile away that also gets hogged. Fully charged and still blocking the bay hours later. At least the charger un-plugs if you can then get near to use it.

@Graham Butcher I am sitting charging free. I put my washing in the Outdoor self service launderette for £5.50 and today it said 76 minutes. 38 mins last time. I moved 10 feet and washed the car and that was £3 for 6 minutes, then moved to charge and the car has charged quicker than the washing had taken and going to get it. Money saved charging paid for clean clothes and car and my phone and chrome book are both charged up. Lovely day for this. I will one day live in a electric camper van and live this way while my health is good. You just need to Sus out electric and water points and waste disposal. I did it a few years back in a MWB, Medium Height Transit Diesel durashift that looked like a works van and got parked where ever with a Blue Badge and I was never moved on. Used all sorts of car parks and facilities and lived for Much Cheapness.

Now ordered from LLL at £39.00 'all in'. (a UK ebayer wanted £40.00 + p&p for a 2nd hand dirty and scratched part which nearly hooked me in) Many thanks to Breezy Pete and all of you that have helped change my mind. I love this forum - thanks to all.

It’s crazy to think that TPS is generally (but not always) more expensive than LLL now! Even with my trade account at tps it’s often cheaper to import from Czech or go through LLL, don’t know what is wrong with their pricing!

thanks will get it wrapped today

And joy of joys, as if my day wasn't good enough already their website says: No custom taxes for EU and UK customers due to multiple warehouses in those regions. Happy days for me 🥳 Having access to competitive suppliers like them is something I really miss now that I no longer have a foothold in the UK and post B*****

First UK Tesla V4 supercharger open to all just went online, new stall with contactless payment terminals and long cable to reach all cars. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-tesla-supercharger-v4-open-all-electric-cars-uk It's not far from me. Might check it out on Monday.

Maybe try a mobile repair company first to see what they think. I've never used this company I've linked to myself so just using them as an example , all you have to do is upload some photos and they'll let you know if you need more than a mobile repair. https://www.dentdevils.co.uk/ If it needs to go to for a body shop repair you'll never know it ever happened, there are some very skilled people out there.

I think air is able to find its way out of oil...

It sounds kosher and if you are happy with the vehicle you got for the money you paid then well done you! All you have are some unknown extras and you havn't inherited a bag of problems which is great.

You may be able to see the mot centre locations and if the centre numbers match up for every mot then chances are it’s police

Yeah that’s a Whelen vertex strobe so I’d same it’s ex emergency service spec. There won’t be anything to say it was police and there is no obligation for anyone to mention it sadly.

Just to update everybody as to what has been going on. Tried out the diesel versions, 150 and 190 bhp and have bought a L+K 150 DSG version. Not at all disappointed with its pulling power and the 150 seemed quieter. Thank you everybody for your help.

Fitted and working 💥😁 Thanks everyone 👍

Update. After the spring the issues started again when outside temperatures rose. I got in contact with a German head mechanic working for VAG, after explaining my issues he immediately said: '09 chassis? We've had this before and in the end we replaced negative ground cable from chassis to battery. So I followed that and replaced that though no signs or damage and hey presto issues are gone since June. Part nr: 6Q0971235H - Wiring set for battery Hope this helps whoever gets into similar issues... It must be thermal and/or current load that's causing the internal resistance to rise. Static measurements do not give me indication of a fault. Terminal ends are clean and not corroded.

I think the trick is press the trip button and hold it down, turn ignition on, keep the trip button held down, the service reset message appears, all the time keep holding that button and the inspection reset message then appears after a few seconds. Then release the trip button and repress to confirm.

Plum thief

Alps in Switzerland

You need to find yourself a new mechanic that is competent and is able to diagnose a fault rather than look at a fault code and replace the part it mentions. The air quality sensor is exactly that, it allows the car to automatically control air re-circulation. If a highly contaminated atmosphere is detected it turns on recirc, simple as that. Yes they are common to fail, No you would never notice a difference if it was working or not. And 100% NO it is not the cause of the air conditioning not working. Sorry for being incredibly blunt with you (not about you) but as a diagnostic mechanic myself I am sick of seeing shoddy work carried out by others that rips people off and even worse doesnt fix the issues. Ive had many customers come to me after garages have charged them huge sums of money to not fix the issue and then end up coming to me to get it fixed properly. I hope this starts to point you in the right direction and welcome to the forum

Fixed the car today. All the bearings were checked twice. Both inner CV joints were replaced (driveshafts remained original). This fixed the problem. Although there was no visible wear on CV joints, no play, but it seems like it fixed the problem.