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Them posh mini (the original one not the modern german doppelganger) owners bought a rubber oversleeve for their distributor https://www.minispares.com/product/Classic/8G726.aspx Us misers just converted a marigold glove by snipping the tips of the fingers and thumb. What is a distributor ? say they younguns. My Arkana is nice and high as it was original designed for the Russian and Ukrainian conditions for Lada which was a Renault subsidiary so I have 8 inch clearance before water even touches any undertrays or bodywork. Next storm on its way for Wednesday onward which is called Ciaran but pronounced like Kieran I am told.

Can't understand the need for ambient light anyway, what possible benefit is it?

'kinell! 😒

Yes.

You can have them professionally refurbished to the Original colour. I assume this was a used car you bought since the wheels were refurbed by KERB SIDE autos for some dealer / trader. The finance company do not even know the original colour or the state of the wheels on the car they financed. If you want the car nice while you have it then get the wheels done properly and return the car with better wheels than it came to you. Just do not get some outrages colour on them.

US military working on energy resilience using battery storage, solar etc, worth billions. One can only imagine the reliance on solar and battery in Gaza now to run phones and battery vehicles. When the supplies are cut being self sufficient in energy and a micro-generation and use level. US military probably have got battery with energy density of around 1 kw per kilo if not even better. Gaza will be getting less solar every day as the solar arrays are increasingly blown to pieces and the day-night grow darker and colder..... When it seems like the apocalypse the truth is electric cars may still be running, ICE not too much.

OK, so you do not need an engine, the H20 never went in the Air Intake and the engines not gubbed. Too many idiots never think of the dirty water or sea / salt water and alternator, starter and what pushing through that water can and does do to some. Or the gearboxes or diffs. The EV,s built for Offroading or use in adverse conditions will be built with wading expected.

This video shows how batteries could sustain water damage: bad seal. But the car and battery is a 9 (?) years old Model S

The silence is deafening on the gentleman that was 'Kidnapped' by the MG EV that held 30 mph until slowing to 15 mph for a roundabout then having to crash into the back of a police van stop stop the MG but with no visible front damage to the MG. Maybe there was to the police vans rear. As to the £17,000 replacement battery for the Tesla, maybe solicitors are dealing with that one.

The Guardian posted an article talking about EV malfunctions. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/29/uk-drivers-make-claims-of-incredibly-scary-malfunctions-with-electric-cars BMW IX claimed runaway by driver. BMW conducted an investigation: It also talked about the MG EV incident and Hyundai guy being locked in the car due to 12v drained. I'm finally getting V2H charger installed today So topped up 12v battery and also took a reading of Leaf SoH (state of health), 79% at 9 years old.

My JZR

That Is very lovely looking thing! It really shows the likes of BMW how design should be done

I have a friend in the industry & he doesn't think Estate cars will come back anytime soon. "Nobody buys them", hence why many companies dont offer them anymore. It's why I'm clinging onto the superb and Octavia as long as I can.

Never really bothered with TG since Clarkson, May and Hammond stood aside. There’s been no one since that matched their enthusiasm and sheer fun

Bit concerning given the age of the car? Appreciate you're in Aberdeen. What is the rest of the car like underneath?

Took it to a tiny one man band garage in Tamworth today. He said “really busy, I won’t be able to look at it today”. I said “we don’t need to drive back until Friday.., “ he said “OK leave it with me and I’ll try to fit it in.” Fair enough. But 17:30 I get a call “All done, ready for collection”. The damage being £130 which was not too bad under the circumstances. Yes a solid brake pipe corroded through at rear offside. Presumably not too hidden by the fuel tank/transmission.

My latest acquisition......

Petes posting of how to do it was excellent, as I read it I thought what great advice regarding the photo for the belt run because I got it wrong the first time but it looked absolutely correct and I could not initially see any other way that it could be run. Seeing both the photos compared to the obstructed vision I had its very clear to me now what I did!

I get your frustration with your dealer but I certainly don't get "is it any wonder Skoda UK is 71% poor customer service" after you've just written "Had to call skoda direct who were very helpfull" 🤪 Isn't your problem with your dealer Arnold Clark ( say no more ! ) rather than Skoda? You also say you could have got a mk2 2024 car. Yes you could, but the order books haven't even opened yet and you're making an assumtion that wouldn't be going thru the exact same production delivery issues. If the car is already waiting at the port in Germany, what makes you think it'll be 2024 before you see it? It may well be but on average, the car will be available a month from now. You say you were promised by the dealer? How can anyone 'promise' something they have no control over? If the car had already been built and on their premises then yes they can make promises, but if all you did was order a new car then then you've been taken in by 'sales patter'. or you've mis-understood. I've never known a dealer to 'promise' a delivery date rather they'll say we expect it to arrive / be delivered to you around xyz. What I'm reading here has nothing to do with Skoda and everything to do with Arnold Clark. Your contract is with Arnold Clark, not Skoda. Yes you have right to be upset - you also have the right to tell Arnold Clark to stuff his car if it wasn't delivered when they said it would be. What does it say on your order form? Does it give you an estimated delivery date? For future reference, if you want a guaranteed delivery date then buy a car that's already in stock and not one that hasn't been built. That's true for any car you buy - from Audi to Zagonda, from Dacia to Rolls Royce.

It could be the car he uses in the test doesn't use the A/C compressor for hot air. This is why I asked my original question - how can you make it just blow air without the A/C?

Yes wrong, insufficient wraparound as @Breezy_Petestates.

No, it got to the point it heeded an MOT so had to take it to a garage to do that and get them to fix the sensor in the process. They ordered it.

This makes more sense to me, more wraparound on little alt pulley Both 1.2 12 valve. BME superseded AZQ at end of 2004.

Fully loaded neutral position. Place the jack under the rear arm until the wheel lifts off the ground. This is in its loaded neutral.

EDIT: Ignore the following pic - belt has been installed incorrectly. Here's a handy pic (assuming it has A/C?).....

Not bad to do. 16mm(?) spanner on tensioner, but has to swing through a biggish angle to give enough slack, so may be better going downward where there's more space away from engine mount. Remove belt from a non-lipped pulley first and back onto same one last with new belt, after fitting over all the lipped ones. Headtorch will be handy if no other lighting, photos of belt run before removal may prevent headscratching on refitting.

Why do you drive with high beams on when there is oncoming traffic? I live on the country and the fogs provide extra light to either sides making it easy to spot wild life before they run over the road.

As I said above, I enabled the memory function for the lane assist and gave instructions on how to do it. I posted here because I too felt that it was dangerous.....on my '22 octavia. It feels exactly like the passenger grabbing the wheel and I can't get on with it. However, my GF has a '23 golf and it's perfectly fine on that as its only very subtle. Go figure.

Is that your way of retracting your previous incorrect comments?

You are up the wrong dreel!

Its Bangers & Cash not Bangers & Pants 😀 Mind you one of that name sounds like it would be entertaining!

I moved from a MK2 to a Yeti, with the exception of the obviously reduced boot capacity I have no regrets, its very familiar being the same platform but surprisingly to me its a much better drive, better handling despite the height and an equal if not better ride. The towing performance and dynamics are streets ahead. I like the driving position and rear seat passengers like being sat a little higher than the front seat occupants. If you can work around the restricted volume I would say give it a thought, my way is to have made a variofloor and remove the rear seats only refitting them when I have passengers, I also made under seat storage boxes that clip very simply to the seat frame and move back and forewards with the seats, there is a surprising wasted volume there and they are hidden from view so quite secure.

But oncoming drivers won’t see them? So…

My question would be "Why do you want to irritate the drivers of the oncoming traffic?"

You're so right; that's the main thing that bothers me too - especially in dark rainy conditions. But that doesn't stop me from using the AutoHold unfortunately... and I hate doing to others what I don't like myself. However I find it really stupid that the system keeps the brake lights on at full power on AutoHold. There are solutions such as variable intensity - it could have those lights on at less power, especially since all these cars can tell if it's night, day, sun or rain. They just add a tone of sensors and technology on the car, but they're lazy-coding most of the systems; ☹️

I went for one of these https://www.travall.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=859_5450&products_id=20504&gclid=Cj0KCQjwhfipBhCqARIsAH9msbnpda1hxuAJBML3QepsIMPmBM4QGHWz7DxkPz48SGFz5AwqZp3bXZAaAmD1EALw_wcB They also do a divider, and although they show it splitting the boot 50/50, I'm sure a competent DIYer could make it split the boot 25/75. With experience from a previous car, I also constructed a couple of side protectors out of hardboard to stop the sides of the boot collecting an impenetrable layer of dog hairs.

My CLK (which I now realise has an ill fitting front wing / bumper (😬) .......

My first and current Jaguars. Whilst the XJ is lovely the S type was surprisingly decent (and extremely cheap 😀

Trees are turning rather late this year 🍃🍂

That's not what the video found. You should watch it.

That Jag is glorious. Beautiful lines. Brings back memories of that episode of Top Gear when Clarkson was driving either a Jag or Aston Martin bemoaning the death of such cars, a fine piece of filming. Just looked it up, TG s13 episode 7, he was driving the AM Vantage v12

@D402 - u can get genuine replacements from Kopacek, however don't forget to order the chrome piece too as it is a separate part. The sell for approx. 13 to 20 euro each grille piece, plus 40 euro for the chrome piece. Yeah, ridiculous about the tiny thin piece of chrome costing so much!!! There r two versions, one for the normal non-AWD, and one for AWD version, which requires additional cooling, hence more holes. - 3V08536669B9 - left grille (without holes) - 3V0853665A9B9 - left grille (with holes)

Thats mebbe because your driving to the road conditions which allows your tyres to keep traction ,minus 5 with frost on the road plant your foot in a vrs in 1st and 2nd and it will break traction ,never had winter tyres myself always had just tyres and never had issues ,i just alter my driving style 👍

Timing belt, water pump, tensioner and roller bearing changed yesterday! Fairly straight forward apart from the engine mount bracket that did not want to come out initially but with a bit of struggling it did eventually come out. Good thing it was changed, as the water pump was leaking and the belt was starting to perish. All torqued up, tensioned, coolant changed and vacuum bled ready to be driven.

So now compressors for A/C use no power? The technology of compressors hasnt moved on that much. If you're using the A/C to cool the cabin it will be using power.

I think speed bumps are one of the causes of the surge in SUV sales. SUVs can happily bowl over quite nasty speed bumps. We have some very nasty ones on one of my commute routes, and I see SUVs blatting over them without a care in the world. I've been trying to work out what the next car trend will be, and I'm guessing it's futuristic-looking EVs. I never understood the SUV craze, or the MPV craze either. I'll take a hatchback that will fit me and my family and our luggage. If it needs to be an estate, so be it. My rules are that it has to be able to fit a washing machine (in box) in the boot, has enough oomph for overtaking safely, has a big engine, and is acceptably economical to run.

Just spoke to a Skoda chat person who stated the time part of the intervals has been lifted across VAG group as of July and my 2.0l diesel mk3 is due at 140000 miles.

Tensioner oscillating is usually failure of the alternator pulley one way (sprag) clutch.

Ah, thankfully figured out last night you can stop the parking sensors from activating automatically, so at least I'm not plagued with bleeping all the time when in slow traffic!

Just in case anyone is interested, my 2010 Mk2 Octavia 1.4 Tsi is now over 80,000 miles and 13 years without changing the chain.