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We should be taking a leaf out of the French book and make covering car parks with solar canopies mandatory. The shade afforded by the canopies is pleasant in summer and the cover is welcome in winter. The power generated can supply the business owner or be fed into the grid. EDIT: Photo shows Tesla SC station at Chalon-sur-Soane with my car interior not getting hot while charging. I believe the power goes to the Super-U hypermarket in the background.

@lol-lolI had friends who lost relatives on Piper Alpha & knew survivors. I worked before that in a company that did Sub-Contracting for offshore construction and fabrication. Halliburton, Texas Instruments etc. & With others building accommodation modules, crane cabs, and generator casings. I was a painter. There was so much crap that was turned out back then by the many that jumped on the bandwagon and should never have been given the responsibility they were which was very much Americans with not a care other than the Dollar. Now that my young lad and his step brothers are on rigs and were doing rope access so inspections i know there is a bit of a different regime but sadly some muppets that were there in the 1970,s still are around. PS A man and boy were struck by lightening today i spotted on the telly just as i was typing this.

@Graham Butcher maybe solar and good ground wasted would be relevant if there were not so many Slipper Farmers like there are in Scotland and before and still since Brexit Farm Subsidy,s. Set aside and payments not to use land productively . Hill sides and rough ground and non economic to farm land about. PS. Do you see on your travels just how much land gets covered by Polytunnels? If you or @lol-lolwere to head to Tayside and the slopes where soft fruits are grown or anyplace then you might see just where Solar Panels are working very well and not wasting farming or agricultural land.

Agrivoltaics is the answer

Farmers can also get free barns with solar roofs, if they want walls and doors they have to contribute a bit but otherwise its 100% free including the foundations and concrete slab (I'm not 100% sure of the latter). Thats in my region in the sunny South West, they are springing up like mushrooms just as the solar car parks on new developments however I have not seen a single one in glacial Picardie so they probably are not viable at all in the UK aside from the companies run by someones brother in law 😄

Car doesn't know the words? Seriously, if you can reproduce the noise at will, ask a garage to have a mechanic accompany you on a demonstration with you driving.

First, why "It does not matter if your supplier does actually the missing two thirds of your power at a later date from a renewable supplier"? (btw, we talk in energy not power) Energy use is replenished by renewable sources. The most important thing is that funding does not go to fossil fuel energy sources. Assuming supplier sticks to their contract, which brings us to second point. Second, what makes you so sure all energy supplier will break contract? You've seen the certified sources claims, if you question this, you should be able to request their certificates and dig deeper to find out for yourself. I trust there are regulatory bodies to ensure no false advertising. Third, the UK grid is getting cleaner year by year. IF for some reason an EV driver isn't on green supplier, all EV will still get greener as it ages because the grid is getting greener. https://www.nationalgrid.com/uk-hits-major-clean-energy-milestone True, EV charged during peak times are more likely to be natural gas powered than renewable. It is clear from grid carbon intensity data. But it doesn't mean the owner is paying the gas company for the privilege. This is important because green suppliers give people ability to vote with their wallet. Which in turn allows building more renewable sources, which allows the nation to be less reliant on fossil fuel. So I have grasped what you are getting at, but you are, once again, ignoring the big picture. Only looking at instantaneous energy generation while ignoring the benefits of green suppliers and overall economics of energy suppliers.

Yes he was in or around his work or home so that is a place, maybe a big place being a National Park in the USA. He was never out of his body unless having out of body experiences, maybe while struck by lightening. @J.R. Might not believe things unless he was their and experienced and sees it with his own eyes which is fair enough.

I actually worked for Halliburton at their Haverhill factory making huge cement pumps and other oil field equipment as well some special rigs designed to put out oilfield fires and I had to work as part of a special team dealing with fire equipment at times of urgent response to such disasters, and we had to do sometimes 36 of 48 hours almost non-stop shifts to get the equipment made, tested and dispatched. Edit> They wanted to take me with them when they moved, I had the choice of going up to Arbroath in bonny Scotland or going to their main factory in Duncan, Oklahoma, but I chose not to do either. I still wonder what might have happened if I had.

The Scottish Water video is revealing and them not being able to export / sell into the grid. It is a Cartel, it is a stitch up and it really is a fraud against the people of the UK. Artificially high prices of electricity and huge profits for the few that make up the cartel. Chickens might eventually come home to roost. The Tory & Labour party in the pockets of Oil & Gas and electricity, the likes of the Liberal Democrat leader who has his directorships or consultancy or whatever an Energy Company thinks he has to offer. Ex Elected Politicians as well doing rather well in Energy, Security / IT, Defence. Amber Rudd being a case in point. One of the many, paid for services rendered in the past not just the present. Boris up visiting the North of Scotland. Well there are those that might be getting called on for help they maybe received in the past. Green Freeports and the likes do not come free.

@lol-lolThe farmers and business,s around my area and the owners of the bio-mass products with Solar Farms are not stupid and unaware of the weather like you seem to be. Head for thinking and feet for dancing and these people are registered as Energy Companies, and doing rather well out of common sense and investing lots to make a very lot more money. The Tax Loss days are over and the burning a building down occasionally for the insurance was a few generations back.

If you have Front Assist then you have ACC, disabling Front Assist does NOT disable the "Adaptive" part of Cruise Control - so it will continue to adapt its speed according to how close other cars are in front. That's how ACC works. Have you tried reducing the distance setting for ACC using the slider control on the top of the cruise stalk?

@lol-lolPlease do not talk trash about Solar in Scotland on the East coast, but not just in the East. Just look at the actuality of it and the current Solar Farms and the planned and in use ones. I have 3 now within a few miles of where is live and there are many hours of daylight and sun 12 months of the year. http://solarfeeds.com/mag/the-biggest-solar-projects-in-scotlan

I like pretty much everything about this car and can't find much to complain about after 7 months of ownership. Performance and fuel economy from the 1.4TSI petrol is on par with my previous 2015 Golf mk7, ample power and very frugal depending on driving conditions. I've had as good as 4.9l/100km (57mpg) on the open highway. The 8sp single clutch auto is also much smoother and more responsive at lower speeds than the pervious jerky 7sp DSG - tick! Minor niggles for me: 1. The perennial annoyance with VAG making certain functions default to a standard 'factory setting' rather than remembering your last chosen setting each time the engine is switched off e.g. ride/drive and stop/start. At least ride settings are accessible through the Mode shortcut button. 2. I'd like to be able to fully lift the wipers without opening the bonnet (who designed that??!) 3. Stop/start is about the only thing I miss having as a console button. 4. The thumb shifter is novel but gimmicky. I'm a bit over it really, give me a stick please.... Other than that, rock on! Thumbs up for this Skoda...

Sounds like a diesel isn't the right choice.

That is exactly the worst of use for 1.6 TDI CR.s. so many used as taxis and is the fuel economy actually worth it when the costs are taken into consideration? Usually not.

At the Cracking plant like at Grangemouth the OIl is coming up the Forties Pipeline from Cruden Bay and the Oil needs gas with it to move it along. Then there is the Shale Gas from America on the INEOS Dragon Bulk Carriers, then gas is producing electricity at their own power station to produce petrochemicals from the Oil. The highest emissions place in Scotland. It is a dirty game producing energy of any kind, some maybe less dirty and with less long lasting consequences. Different things for different reasons, minerals of all kinds but it all comes from the ground or out of the air or goes into the air or back into the ground eventually. Some kills people sooner than others and maybe more painfully. ...................... I worry more really about Nut Jobs who walk or drive about us than what they drive or how they fuel them.

Check the freewheeling pulley.

At a guess it could be the exciter wire at the alternator plug. I believe they have been known to fracture and break, or at least they did on some of the 1.9s

@RjaygeeThat was a very good price for getting it done with a 1.5 TSI ACT. Cheaper than Independents were doing them for and hundreds of quid less than other Skoda main dealers were asking or charging from a range of £800-£1,200.

OMG this is terrifying about electric vehicles. Just look at this. Five hybrids and two full EV burning. Obviously it's battery relat.... Oh. Dodgy car transporter. https://www.tag24.de/thema/feuerwehreinsatz-heute/flammen-inferno-auf-a5-bei-lahr-brandneue-autos-auf-transporter-brennen-lichterloh-2971731

Skoda (the car manufacturer) have always had the 1.2/1.4TSI maintenance schedule showing inspection at 240,000km, then every 30,000km. They've never stipulated a 5 year change interval. (I think that's the same for 1.5Tsi but not 100% sure due to having a more recent maintenance manual). Skoda UK (sales arm) on the other hand...did recommend 5 year replacements for many years, and recently change their minds - according to other posts it was from July.

You still have not grasped what I said. You want to use ONLY electric that has come from renewable sources, and your supplier claims that all your electric was renewable sourced energy. As far as you know, that is what you have been using, but secretly your supplier was actually only able to source a third of your power used, from renewable sources, the other 2 thirds came from fossil generated sources unbeknown to you. It does not matter if your supplier does actually the missing two thirds of your power at a later date from a renewable supplier, you never actually used that power that thought was green power, and you also paid extra for something you never got let along used. Your supplier might never get around to buying the missing thirds that you paid for, because your supplier had to obviously buy the power that you used from an alternative supplier who used fossil fuel to generate it. The only way that you could be 100% certain that you were only using renewable is to generate it yourself, or all of the power supplied on the national grid is 100% renewable. Your car runs exactly the same whether you charge the battery with fossil generated or renewable sources generated power, so you would never actually know any different.

Fraid I can't help with EGR knowledge, but with the headlight voltage, I'd expect lifespan to be inversely proportional to the square of voltage. See how you get on with reduced brightness though.

They started refitting engine covers with new improved ones.

Major study subject in my OU degree whilst with customs was the very sad case of Piper Alpha. For those too young or just forgotten......

So many instance. Tianjin port explosion.... We have an office at Tianjin Beirut which our office on the docks perimeter was partially destroyed...... & fire at our battery factory in Northern France...... All due to goods in a nearby warehouse setting fire to an adjacent one which gathered such heat to compound the fires massively ......

Hi all. Hopefully picking up a Superb 2.0tdi Mk3 estate soon enough. Looking forward to talking ****e and getting some insight to Skoda's. New to them, but not the VW group. Been in the motor trade for nearly thirty years. So i'de like to think i know a bit. :P Cheers. ;)

What's all this talk about 3 spark plugs when the subject is Spart Plugs - 1.5tsi ? What's fraudulant about it? Where does HMRC come into it? Skoda 1.5tsi - needs 4 x spark plugs. Phone the Skoda dealer ask for a price to change the plugs. If itheir price is too expensive, phone around some other garages for a better quote. No need to call the fraud sqaud, no need to telephone Jeremy Hunt.

Welcome along - im also in Ireland

Sounds like as I suspected. It is the electronic thermostat. They are a fair bit of work to replace. Not impossible DIY, but not a lot of fun! Took me 2 days - but I did have a problem which required most to be disassembled a second time. I think the workshop estimates are allocated like 6 hours ish for complete job. The replacement unit remains much the same as when the gen 3 was first released. They are a weak point in all gen 3 EA888s. The engineering inside them only built to last so long and so many duty cycles. I got 6.5 years / 70k miles on my golf R out of the original one. I would say this is not the only component part existing across all motor marques (including BMW), that is not built to be durable beyond 4 / 5 year mileage.....

New all black badgeless mask-step closer to all black beast 💪

As above, sounds like you have ACC rather than CC. Might be worth reading the owners manual: https://manual.skoda-auto.com/210/en-GB/Detail?model=Octavia_5E&edition=11-2018&market=&manualLang=en Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) section starts on page 234 (page 236 of the PDF)

Lots like this need building with Solar and battery storage and maybe with toilet facilities and some non rip off price vending machines. Not just in Cities but in town and villages. There are BEV ones. &

I tried Cataclean but it did not help I ended up having a new catalytic convertor at about 50,000 miles. As part of the process I moved away from servicing at my main dealer as they tried to scam me by reporting two non existent problems for attention. The dealership is now closed. I am now with a trusted local garage where I have received first class service. Whilst changing the Cat my new garage found some strange error codes/settings which they dealt with via specialist support. The car now runs like a dream.

Re EDF. https://news.stv.tv/scotland/closure-of-power-stations-by-2028-will-significantly-reduce-energy-generation The only Nuclear Power station in Scotland which is owned by EDF will be getting decommissioned any year now and that will be the end of Nuclear generated electricity in Scotland for a decade or 3 or maybe longer. Other than the Nuclear Submarines obviously that are here maybe for a few years more but maybe not long into the future. ................................. They are generating a lot of electricity that is going to the National Grid to power homes and industry not in Scotland & maybe even in France. http://insider.co.uk/record-level-renewable-electricity-generated-29595999

Your fruit analogy is not correct. The supplier would pre-purchase 100% of your organic fruit needs from certified organic suppliers. If they end up with a deficit, they will borrow from Aldi and pay organic suppliers to put back what they've borrowed. There is no pretending. Your money only goes to renewable suppliers. JL stops offering EV insurance. JL temporary pause offering EV insurance. Which statement sounds more like JL (their underwriters) does not plan to resume? Yes, it's all about wording and what has actually been said. The whole article is based on statement from JL with other bits giving context. I don't see any problem directly use wording that was officially stated by spokesperson. My insurance isn't with JL. I was giving context. Is that in France? France are known to have stable nuclear generation than other nations. UK electricity spot prices seems to be tied to renewable generation, as more wind is generated, price goes down. In UK, Octopus Go and Intelligent hours have never been reduced. The off-peak pricing has seen a decrease in-line with reduction in price cap. The price in other times used to be 1p more than price cap before 1 Oct, now around 10% more (28p to 31p for my location).

I read the first bit earlier but then it came up with a paywall, or what I thought was a paywall but was in fact just a subscription request. Too little information provided and not enough good journalist questions asked or reported. Is he in an expensive car insurance area, is a performance/dual motor car getting the massive insurance hike, has he picked up a speeding ticket which has failed to mention. Could not see that in the article when scanning it. We will see if such scare stories such as fires and high insurance quotes scare the TESLA buying market but I doubt it and the TESLA sales figures are going from strength to strength despite retooling for the new Model 3 and other new models. If it becomes a problem I would expect TESLA to come up with their own insurance policy just like the effectively solved the charging issue by coming up with their own charging network. The move to EVs is unstoppable. It could be slowed a bit by EU/UK Anti dumping measure and internal duty recovery schemes but the technological pace and the rapidly falling price of the technology has EVs on course to be the obvious vehicle of choice for most within the next 6 the years and most ICE cars relegated to historic rallies.

No, I didn’t think you would😂 Peace and love🤘

Major rises in insurance combined with major rises in standing charges for off peak electric contracts combined with a major reduction in the offpeak hours (now 4 hours down from 😎 plus the price being jacked up on the 20 hours of peak consumption collectively make EV's a much less attractive proposition especially as they will all continue to go up in the same manner. Aside from the insurance I have been saying for a long time that is what will happen with electricity prices for off peak tariffs as I have seen it happen over the last 2 decades in France from EDF, way before any electric cars appeared, the same EDF that seems to own most of the electricity generating plants in the UK, they know exactly what they are doing and once someone changes to EV they are a voluntary captive audience to being overcharged.

John Lewis is not an insurance company. They are a name which is a front for one or more actual insurance companies. Lloyds bank did this to my son when he moved from an ICE car to a much more powerful hybrid. Ditch going through these paper fronted companies, get on compare the Meerkat and don't deal with such muppets again.

Am I blind or is the Aerial missing off the roof? 😂 Quite like that roof spoiler, what brand is it?

Some really good trips away this summer. Not all of them dry, but we had fun anyhow.

Sorted it with OBD11 changed the throttle pedal to linear in adaptations so much better instant response now.

I do hope there is nobody thinking that the more people turn to EVs that the price of Electricity will plummet. I also hope they don't think having a smart meter reduces their electricity bill. Unless they had no idea boiling a kettle cost money before.

Oh look, a new topic I can post in now! Bought about three weeks ago to replace the Darkside Octi. Voted for a DSG 6 speed because I couldn't handle that clutch anymore in stop-start traffic for work! So far, I really like it.

If buying an approved used Skoda v Seat or buying sold with Skoda/Seat extended warranty check the small print very carefully. In the past Seat warranties were limited to £1000 per repair, where Skoda had no such restriction. Toyota/Asian cars are completely different experience, they may have the reputation and perceived reliability but my experience they feel cheaply finished and crude. Generally based on simple old tested and tried designs, which has pluses as well as minuses. Their infotainments are clunky and layout of controls tend to be very random/hap hazard. Last time I looked I thought the Toyota RaV4 were a lot more expensive than Karoq/Ateca/Tiguan 10 yr Toyota warranty is dependent on annual dealer servicing. The big question mark against Skoda/Seat/VW is the DQ200 dry clutch auto box. It doesn't have the best reputation for reliability and if you end up with the lemon it can be extremely expensive to fix £1000 won't cover it. Again check very carefully if the DSG is fully covered by whatever warranty is offered. Make sure the clutch pack is not excluded as a wear and tear item.

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Has anyone found any solution for this?