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My heart bleeds for him.

Just out of interest. I did a little research once into EV's that didn't gather much steam as my retirement was pending. But it came about as there was concern about the safety of EV's in certain environments. In my case the oil & gas industry. The concern was gathering pace due to reported thermal runaway in the battery technology, High voltage circuitry and runaway vehicles. Various stories were emerging but had more speculation than fact regarding causes and likelihood of occurance. However, it did unveil that in the event of an emergency the site would have some unique challenges ahead that hadn't been thought about when granting access to such vehicles. In the light of concern vs actual facts the stance was taken to not grant anymore vehicle passes until the current risk was understood. As in, how many EV's were already onsite on a daily basis and what areas were they travelling in. How could power be isolated if a car became faulty, how would emergency services be able to remove them if they lost power or were severely damaged in an RTI etc because of reports in the automotive industry about electric shock. And so it goes on..... Funny how a change in technology happens and then the world plays catch up. Phase 2 of the stance was to see which of those vehicles needed to be on site and whether total or partial restrictions were suitable. If this Luton airport fire is nothing to do with the EV's (which looks likely) then great but if it is I can see a heightened level of resistance once people start to investigate prevention and mitigation. Incidentally for the record, I'd love to have a Kia Niro EV someday soon.

These are just the trailers for the main feature. I read a chap coming in to land saw two tenders dealing with one car and then... no car park, so that means either bad firefighting or something they could not put out. Question, how long before EV's are banned from multi story car parks? Fiasco coming to a town near you soon.

Yes but it as a job on the side. Is he taking out expenses and then making that sort of money. Fuel / energy and accommodation for the job he is going to or the youtubing while doing it. If it covers all this eating drinking and being a bl00dy moan about doing it that is win win chicken dinner. Or Fish & Chips, All Day Breakfast etc. Graphic Designer / IT / Webpages, all good on the Southern district. It is like e-bay selling as a hobby that actually is a business / self employed.

If you have one, leaf blower!

Hi All, I was on here a few years ago when I owned a stop gap 2002 Fabia estate 1.9 SDI which was a great little generator on wheels. It lasted me 9 months but was very apparent the last owner had 5 years of questionable MOTs with gouges in discs and rotten lower arms which I repaired so when it failed MOT I stuck it on Facebook to get rid of it. Last I knew it had been crashed, written off and was being broken for parts on a Russian website! Roll on a few years and I am back in a 2011 2.0 TDI SE Octavia with 99k miles. I picked it up in the summer from a dealer and I'm the second owner the first being the police where it looks to have been an unmarked dog car. Only a few holes in the dash and glove box from switches etc but a lot of loose/broken or missing trim where it was hastily pulled apart to remove kit before defleet. No real plans apart from drive away at it but a few upgrades along the way. Have stuck an xtrons head unit in, have a leather wheel sitting to replace the worn budget one and picked up and arm rest so far. Always on the lookout for easy nice upgrades and at some point 17" alloys and springs may happen with a light tint!

I did reply to Skoda and suggested they read this thread, I commented that they could come up with a solution but probably simply don't want to.

A diesel car is reported to have started the fire. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67075159?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=652676048ae7803bb6842d1f%26What we know so far%262023-10-11T10%3A20%3A57.962Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:da8da83c-082c-4784-9a26-0419f41c06e0&pinned_post_asset_id=652676048ae7803bb6842d1f&pinned_post_type=share There was also a Liverpool car park fire in 2018: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-46290095 Statistically, the likelihood of EV being a major factor in spreading the fire in 2018 is very low. Sad to see people are jumping on this and blaming EV's when tightly packed car park fire happens with all cars.

Definitely I asked him how he is going to fix and he said he will replace the oil sump or whatever broken, So, when I went to collect the car,I asked him where is the broken sump or the parts that you replaced, he was mumbling and gave me a part which was not even Skoda parts (I didn't realise it untill someone in this forum pointed it out). I still don't know what was wrong with my engine oil leaking and how this guy fixed it. Anyway, I would like him to do the job, but he is not clearly saying what is he gonna do. as an example, everybody I asked, they said they need to reseal it and also need oil replacing which he didn't mentionat all. he said he can fix it for £120 and also he looked confused as well. As far as i can realise this is a complex job and not normal mechanic is able to do it where as engine oil leaking is their part of expetise. That's why i am reluctent to go to him. I had the mechatronic looked at by a gear especialist yesterday. they said it is leaking from the connector (i guess transmission valve) on the side of the mechatronic where the gear connectiong to the mechatroniic.. it is not leaking from breather. They offered me to replace the whole mechatrone with a brand new one for £1,500 (1year and 12k miles warranty) or reseal for £360 without warranty. So, I am thinking I'll have it sealed with this expert VAG mobile mechanic for £260.

You say it needs 24 Volts where are you going to get that from ? From what you have said I don't think you are confident with car electrics so what I would do is find a good Auto electrician and get them to do it, I know it will cost but would be a lot less than the damage that can be done if you get it wrong

You sure it isn't due to increased energy cost, labour cost, parts supply shortage and opportunistic industry-wide rip off? That is correct. But I don't consider the same insurer increase the increase because why would anyone blindly renew? It had been like this for years, I can always find a better deal by switching, So I switch insurance every year. Some years the amount I pay goes down, some years it goes up.

This is wrong on so many levels... 🤭

Evening sun last night in the SW.

It must be true then. Or a bit true, or true for some. Discuss, maybe here please and not in every other thread about EV,s.

You should ask for an aluminium rather than polystyrene tray. You really wont do yourself any good eating takeaways on a regular basis especially those containing flammable liquids.

Just read the discussion, people get stuck on grade numbers being absolute when they are not and do not allow for degradation as the oil is used in the engine with better oils staying at their figures for longer plus offering more and further protection, one 10w-40 might perform differently to another 10w-40 even within the same oil blender's range of 10w-40 oils. As I've put before oil seems to be a lot about beliefs. A big oil producer/blender will possibly have more consistency with their base oils and additives, on the other hand smaller blenders may use those base stocks with their own additive package which might be better, or perhaps not quite as good. You as a consumer have so much choice. If you had a a factory stock car your baseline would be an oil that meets VWSkoda's 23-years old specifications, you could chose to take advantage or ignore any beneficial advances in the oil products since API SH (pre-2001). You may also want to comply with the VW 50* ** commands relevant to your model. - https://addinol.de/en/products/lubricants-for-the-automotive-sector/engine-oil/specifications/#OEM As an example only for you as I know you can't get Millers this is the type of oil I would look at, having had a 50 year old engine, that was designed over 70 years that is still going strong now and was uprated for performance, used through English summers and winters ( -10c to 30+c) for 16 years. - https://www.millersoils.co.uk/products/ee-performance-engine-oil-10w40/ I will end my contributions to the thread with my usual oil viscosity chart attached, cheers. -

Sure will, thanks for your help so far.

A lot of people think that YouTubers make fantastic earnings, but they actually don't make anything like what people think. Take the MacMaster with his Porsche Taycan and his food videos only earns an estimated £2.6k to £41k a year and he has to pay tax etc out of that and his expenses. Here is a link to his YouTube earnings The MacMaster's YouTube Stats (Summary Profile) - Social Blade Stats

Clear the Bluetooth connection too. Don't connect via Bluetooth at all and just connect the phone. It should trigger AA and pop up on the phone to complete the setup. I'm surprised the S20 has the separate app and not built in. It's a modern enough phone for that.

When you go into Connected cars in AA on the phone do you see your car? Also, is the "Add new cars to AA" option enabled? If yes to both, my only other suggestion is to clear AA data on the phone and try starting again. Wireless AA works over wifi not Bluetooth and isn't supported on our cars.

It was punted because the Battery was going out of warranty and because who had it knew it was gubbed. Not rocket science or anything new when something looks too good to be true.

On a standard engine no benefits, only downsides.

Not heard of it. TBQH I'm very wary of software updates from them as they have caused so much angst, stress & problems with owners vehicles including my own. Luckily after the last very OTA updates I've had no issue, however from reading this thread I know that some posters on here have.

It might not be your alternator at fault it might be the pulley on the front of it , what are your symptoms ?

You can see I average 4K miles per year. My biggest problem is: I park outside and the car sits for weeks at a time. If I drive in the wet before it's parked, the brake pads stick to the discs. I had to have my local free the pads on one occasion. From ten feet away, you'd think the car was new, except for the curb feelers, um, rims.

Support for MIB1 map updates has been discontinued. The latest and final update is "ECE 2020/21"

I'd expect Smartlink to be activated from factory on a 2018 model. If it does need activation, there is a pretty obvious error message:

Oh well in that case I can see why you were discouraged. Absolutely shocking!

It's not just the mileage but the age can bring failures. Mine's the same age as freelunch's and it received an advisory last year that the original rear tyres were starting to perish, so they were duly changed. Ironically, if I'd done a higher mileage and had to replace the rear tyres due to wear, I wouldn't have received that advisory!

Time will tell if really their claims and pay outs have increased to such an amount that EVERYONE'S insurance has to go up to cover the cost of EV,s. Or if Floods & car damage and a War in Ukraine, and the rise in the cost of living has gone up with wages etc. If they are making more or less profits, paying more taxes or just some are spending so much on Advertising and promotion and sponsorships and dividends. There will be Watchdogs / Motoring Organisations that are businesses and have breakdown and insurance departments that are a bit over the top with pricing or renewals, or the Government / Parliament who have elected members with investments in Inurance businesses or Peers of the Realm that will have vested interests. Nobody wants the general public to pay for Green Motoring for the few, or to have to pay for pollution and the NHS and other stuff and yet they have no cars, do not use trains, do not have very much but need home / contents insurance, pet insurance / health insurance and pay tax on top of policies having paid tax on the money they earned first, even taxed on interest they get from savings from the people they save with who are the same people involved with insurance underwritting.

Just received this from Skoda Support, shame they don't read this forum to find out what has really happened and what is actually possible: Dear *********, Thank you for your patience, and we are sorry for the inconvenience. The Škoda relevant department would like to inform you that the service you are referring to, i.e. the TMC service over FM RDS radio services, is provided by a third party. According to the information available to us, the UK TMC service provider has ended broadcast of TMC on the British territory over FM RDS radio services. On some vehicles, traffic services can continue to be received online via Infotainment Online services, as well as by use of third-party online navigation on the display using Apple CarPlay/Android Auto with either free to use services (e.g. Google maps / Apple maps) or many other alternative providers using a subscription. Unfortunately, our company is not able to influence such decisions of third parties in any way. Kindly accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused to you. We hope that within this answer the complaint will be resolved to your full satisfaction, and you will continue to favour the ŠKODA brand. With kind regards, Support for Digital Services ŠKODA AUTO a.s T: 00800 80 247 247 *****@*****.tld, www.skoda-auto.com

Reached out to my dealer and he's come back to me this morning to advise that my car has been assigned a predicted week 46 build date. Not heard a thing. I'm 10 weeks into my wait which was estimated at 20 weeks when I placed the order.

As I mentioned in the other thread. My insurance for 2 EV's increased by about 30%. A non-fault accident on the Leaf as someone bumped into it while parked, admitted fault and their insurance gave me £1000 to go away. I had front bumper repaired for £400, and added new license plates with green flash. It was 30% increase even with this additional non-fault claim. That was 2nd cheapest last year with multi-car discount to two different cheapest policies. Of course, Admiral renewal were 100% more, but no one blindly renews without looking around...... do they?

Canton was an optional extra for me when I ordered Jan 2021, it's not in all VRSs

I would completely agree with @J.R.on this one. But personally I'd skip the master, it's only false hope 😄. It will be the slave

First off don't go connecting to the original wiring, as you can do some damage most of the wiring is Can-bus so if you connect to the wrong place you can wipe out the canbus system. I have just had one fitted on mine but it was done professionally and it was coded to the car and no holes drilled if fits where the boot release button is, and it even has a washer jet so when you use the rear jets it cleans the camera. and to be honest you say about the car being leased just leave it on as no one will know if it was on or not when you got it

Hawco has confirmed I will receive a new filter, oil and clutch calibration if needed as its a DQ250 box. Bitz quoted the same price Toots.

My Daughter's currently in Nairobi, meeting hefalumps: And not a hefalump: Gaz

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I'm not going to have a pop, and until 4 years ago took same view Then I discovered that the tyres the car came with were skittish on colder mornings when damp, even when was nearer +6c. And pulling out of side turnings on cold wet days managed to spin the wheels (on a 1 litre with DSG in normal mode). My commute was partly along a country A road that suffered muddy field run off. Bought set of winter tyres, then discovered didn't need to drive accordingly, as bit of frost, or cold rain, didn't trouble them and could drive like a dry summers day. And the handful of days we had snow in 4 years, turned out to be brilliant, passing cars stranded all over the place. Although did shock myself glancing at speedo on a winding B road when I found I was doing 45mph on few inches of snow. The snow had killed any noise, and car tracked like any other day. Nowadays having found they are safer in cold rain (which occurs for months in UK), so I am a convert, can't tell difference between about 11c and 20c, but far superior below +10c, even if don't get any snow. Might be in south of country but have some hills nearby around Bath and Mendips, and knowing can have a freak snowstorm and can drive home is reassuring. Just about to switch the wheels, and put winters back on, my car has now done 53,000 miles, is 5.2 years old, still using the 4 original summer tyres, and the winters all have 6-7mm of tread. So by switching wheels around to even out wear looks like will be 70k+ miles before I next need tyres, so compared to those who buy 2 new tyres every 20-25k miles has worked out cheaper. Safer and Cheaper so what's not to like

We went up to the Smoke today (East Sheen to be precise) to see relatives. Decided to spend a glorious afternoon at Richmond Park on the way back. Saw lots of deer 😎 including this one which was right by my car: Some pillock decided to offer it some grass. Like the grass that was immediately all around it 🙄 I was willing it to kick or skewer him, but sadly it was better behaved than the idiot humans around it. Quite a number enjoying the shade: And I quite liked this later afternoon photo. Mrs Gaz very pleased at her long legs (!), me on my Brommie: Gaz

I wish all the software bugs to be fixed!

Thanks all for the various inputs . I've hard wired the Aguri DX4000 now and it works perfectly. It would appear that the mirror C Port generates less than the required 3 amps required by the DX4000 but probably generates sufficient amps for most dashcams out there.

I wish a Golf R's engine with 320bhp and 4 wheel drive. A 55 L fuel tank, sturdier seats and quicker infotainment system or system in general.

It’s also factually incorrect… Trafficmaster was only ever broadcast on Capital and Heart. INRIX are the provider that continue to use Classic FM. Granted they are all Global Radio brands. But only the Classic FM TMC licence was tendered via Ofcom. My assumption is Trafficmaster had a private agreement with Capital and Heart, probably predating those stations acquisition by Global.

Another one here for Michelin Cross Climates. I'm up on top of the Pennines, they've lasted approx 30 - 35K. They offer superb cold weather & wet weather grip and were quieter than the set of Bridgestones my Golf GTE came on

Spotted these (? mammatus) clouds whilst driving through Sheffield earlier: Wiki

Thanks, I hope he is fine! Is anyone else in here who can suggest/advice on my software update? Thanks everyone.

Thank You all for your responses. Eventually we did get a car that had 56k miles (2015 1.4TSi) - and previous owner changed the belt at 32k - so we are safe now - as EnterName mentioned maybe take the approach - "if in doubt, change it" - luckily we don't need to. Anyway, thank you all. jakk

Had a play with the AI regenerative tools in Photoshop. A before and after below.