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A few more from Donna Nook ......... VID-20231126-WA0015.mp4 VID-20231126-WA0014.mp4 VID-20231126-WA0013.mp4

Made my annual Pilgrimage to RAF Donna Nook today 🦭 https://www.lincstrust.org.uk/get-involved/top-reserves/donna-nook

Can you old ducks stop winding each other up and having ****ing contests over who's got more HNDs etc please. Nobody really gives a toss who had to get old buses or whatever going back in the day. Ta.

Hello guys, In this weekend I've been in a journey for ~ 50mins, when I took the opportunity to "install" the latest Sat Nav DataBase from SK. It's version 23.6. Cheers

Down on the cold river this evening

I drove an ex-police sprinter once, those windscreens are like the reverse of an anadin. Guaranteed headache with every drive

Motability have had EV,s on the scheme for 6 years or more and the first 3 years ones and the 2nd lot of 3 year leases went into the Trade and someone owns them, and there are 10,s of thousands ending leases and being auctioned. Same with Demonstrators, fleets, NHS, Utilities and local authority leased EV,s. Plenty used ones are in peoples hands now. Repair costs of EV,s might well be higher, but is the accidents and more than ICE vehicles of similar cost / RRP and is the theft risk as high. Insurance is a fiddle not a fuddle anyway and there will be plenty actually doing the numbers and seeing who are 'at it'. As for Cities or Capital Cities & the 4 countries of the UK then some prices that people see for them will be WTF to those that pay no place near the Average Prices being mentioned, even the lowest prices used to make up averages.

OK. Ta. Swapping keys now and again seems a good idea.

i was so much younger then 🙂

Hi guys, picked up my first vrs last week, it's a mk1 skoda octavia vrs estate in silver, 195k, FSH, 1 owner from new, 1 year mot no advisories, and I love it. Looking to do abit of work to it. I've put cupra r wheels on it (no pics yet) and a ramair filter and that's it atm.

Given that I very much doubt it's possible to just swap the units in and out due to all the coding / component protection / etc. that the car has these days, I'd be getting a quote from a dealer to swap the unit and presenting that to whoever it is that scratched the screen.

You do what you do or want and don't risk it for a biscuit. Way too risky for the risk adverse. Loss adjusters might well check, might well not be totally daft & have a bit of knowledge. 'Stretched tyres' would be a total no no for me, and should maybe be for MOT,s and road side checks & insurance underwriters. ? Is this about Insurers and Tyre Approval / Certificate or Confirmation and approved standard OME Tyre sizes. If the car has approved sizes / tyres - wheels of different sizes but the same Speed / Load ratings can the different axles have tyres / wheels from these sizes? Audi option of wider on the front and rear, BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Audi etc etc etc larger rear than front. Skoda Enyaq, ID4 etc Staggered Tyres / wider/ larger rear than front. Honda Electric, BMW i3 etc. Can you take the Staggered wheels and change than for matching front and rear winter time? When you need Snow Chains? When you want to carry a spare that will suit front & rear! Is it just a matter of declaring mods then as we do with Off-roaders or other cars, Modified or kit cars etc. 215 front, 205 rear, matching circumference. & the orange JImny,s never came with tyres the size this one had on. 235,s.

It can make a difference with XL / Reinforced tyres or not, and if there is any Rim Protection or not. Just measure tyres side by side when on rims, not just tyres on a rack. Find the actual differences with a tape measure and not by some Table or Comparison tape and tread or tyre width and circumference / total diameter. eg, A mix of 205/40 R 17 here and 215/40 R 17, and there are 205/40 R 17,s bigger than the 215,s.

Remote pre-conditioning / de-icing is just perfect. -4*oC this morning and on 4 minutes. Inside warm, heated rear screen and mirrors come on and i did not miss the steering wheel not being a heated one. One moving and just heated seat on at 1 and heating at 20*oC setting it was doing 2.7 miles a kWh in town.

If you think that you are very, very naiive. Insurance companies work on the basis of risk and avoiding it but also hedge thier bets and make everyone cover potential payouts of others. That includes EVs

Hi all new to the forum. This is my wifes Mk2 1.9tdi sport that I have been moding for her. So far I have removed the Egr and cleaned out the intake side of the head. Sport panel filter and 2.5 inch turbo back stainless de cat exhaust. H&R coil over suspension with all bushings replaced with powerflex bushes. Pendelton remap. I have replaced the rear drum brakes with a Vrs rear beam and Vrs front callipers. I replaced the standard alloys with vw ones with 202x50x16 tyres, fill the arches better with no rubbing.

Yep I’ve spotted they were modded when I was in the go station on the strand rd in Derry. I was filling my 272 estate up and saw the brakes on an unmarked one, was looking at it. The officer asked if I was ok and I just said I was wondering what brakes they were. Had about quick chat about it and he basically said pretty much what’s documented above. Armoured metal (not obvious) but the windows and brakes most certainly are

With the aid of an assistant, check whether or not the brake lights work. If none of them do, replace the brake light switch.

When you have a lease vehicle is it actually fully comp insured in the same manner that you would a private vehicle you insured yourself? The liability to 3rd parties be they other vehicles, their drivers, passengers, your passengers etc would be the same but if you dent a wing or even write your vehicle off and its your fault does the lease company claim on insurance or are the larger ones like Motability self insuring? Financially with a big fleet like that it makes sense. My vehicle I bought from a salvage broker, it was written off and he told me there was no insurance claim and the V5 would not be marked as a Category S, it didn't bother me as those markers happily dissapear when you reregister a UK vehicle in France but when I got the V5 in my name what the broker said was true plus it never showed up on any of the vehicle searches. I'm certain it was a local authority vehicle, possibly Forestry or Coastguard, was serviced MOT'd and maintained in Scotland, it has a fleet number in large vinyl letters on the drivers door shut, I speculate it was leased, its the sort of vehicle that would be self insured.

Maps yes, only skoda but navigation instruction can be from apple maps, waze or maps. I am not talking abour the maps

Many thanks all, everything working well now.

Thanks for the info but it maybe it was not clear from my side, i have google maps & waze app in the carplay but in the virtual cockpit, there are no navigation instructions. I get only from apple maps instructions in VcC

This is a cold enough test for anything that might be experienced in the UK. (The Braemar 50 kw charger a bit hit or miss for working but this car has enough range not to be an issue.)

Yes it can be done. Ive done it myself. You have 3 zone climate control, in which case it can be done fairly straight forward. New seat heating mats, custom loom, coding and a replacement rear panel.

Tempting…

Its not the SAFELOCK option. The issue is the doors all locking if I get out of the car, close the door(s) but leave key in the car - which means I'm stuck (unless I have spare keys with me).

Hello Chris - from a bit further South than you. Gaz

Many thanks for the suggestion

On-topic but different brand......... Bought a black 1995 Mercedes C220D manual back in 2006, never got used to the foot-operated parking brake. 😒 Collected it from the local indie after it's first service to be told the sump shield was steel and it took two guys to lift it ! Nor did i realise it had bullet proof glass ! Tracked it back to the supplying dealer who said it was a diplomats vehicle modified to (hopefully ) withstand a car bomb. Back in the days of the N.I. troubles. It was then i realised why the fuel consumption was down !

I hope that she is better at her job than car maintenance and checks! I hope she does check under the bonnet and check and set tyre pressures or have someone do it & not just wait or expect warning on the dash. Her employer should be less than impressed with her and how she treats the vehicles, and the employer should be making sure that someone is doing training, maybe th3 fleet manager, and also talking to the supplying dealers about speaking to their employees to be talking to customers at hand over and explaining about oil . They put in enough fluids & these should be checked at the Dealership / PDI, so a Car Dealer or Drug Dealer might well know there is not that much oil in. They know that those doing the PDI should not be trusted and a 6 month old car should be getting oil checked, when NEW and after that as per the Owners Manual lets you know.

? Has anyone insured or renewed insurance recently on their EV? I have no idea about the cost of EV insurance as mine comes with the car Leased from Motability. I can not see me buying an EV and having to insure it but i will be interested to see how things go incase i do. If i buy anything in 3 years it will likely be a older MINI Clubman petrol auto. I have 1 ICE car left which has the max NCB used and i have sold my van which had 4 years NCB and i am told that can sit unused for only 2 years. (rubbish i think.)

Do you mean MFL jocker on steering wheel ? I dont have it. I have only standard Combination Switch. I have searched entire menu - Drive data, navigation etc. in cluster and no luck. But you give me the idea - its possible the 5F unit is coded for MFL jocker a this can cause the problem. Will check.

I had a similar issue with my interior lamp when I got my car, the contact had burnt out. I used the internals from one that was fitted to a similarly aged seat Toledo/alteca/exeo, the only thing I had to was swap the LEDs over as the Seat one had red ones and not clear/green. Cost was less than £15 and about an hour with the soldering iron

I used my car last night and seemed a lot brighter, I used them later on and remembered my council is stingy and dim the street lights at 11pm. I’d say it’s worth it and even though when I took the pictures I wasn’t massively impressed they are still way better than originals

Maybe your dealer was offering some sort of 'courtesy' service to check your fluid levels, but it's not the norm. 15k or 12 months are entirely appropriate service intervals, otherwise just check the fluid levels yourself regularly. Some vehicles may use a little oil in the running-in stage, most won't. Mine hasn't used a drop since new, now at 3,200km. Don't over worry about this stuff, and as I mentioned previously the manufacturer is warranting these cars for 7 years during which time they won't risk component failures at their expense by miscalculated service intervals.

An engine that is screwed is audible from a mile off to a deaf man. You say the engine is operating at 0.4 bar oil pressure but you only have the word of the main stealer for that, do not take anything anyone in the motor trade is telling you as a given without confirming it yourself, especially when they are hoping for a £9K payday. Checking the drained oil and the removed filter will tell you all you need to know about possible engine damage. Check the O rings on the filter stick while you are at it!

That's predictive adaptive cruise control, not traffic sign recognition Traffic sign recognition does just that, reads road signs and displays them on the dash/HUD Under adaptive cruise control settings, turn off "observe speed limit" or similar. I can't remember how Skoda word it

Lovely day for a drive in a filthy car 😆

Sorted thank you, now the car does what I want.. Cheers..

I was also around when my uncles and others still lit a fire under lorries, tractors and diggers on very cold mornings in the North East of Scotland. And painted molasses on the lorry tyres and put coarse salt or sand on to get up slopes. Delivering or collecting at farms & the distilleries and where they got the molasses from. Salt from the harbours or they were delivering it. They had oil filled greenhouse heaters plugged in under the engines overnight where there was electricity and my dad did the same with his car in the garage overnight.

Mine came with Mann so i stick with it

You have bought products that claim to be like-for-like replacement compatible with your car. When installed, you car returns error messages about the new products. Why do you assume it is your car that is at fault here and needs a remedy applying to it, and not in fact the bulbs you bought which are the problem? Can you not return the products you bought because they do not work as advertised?

Bentley alloys went on...running 255/35/19, 5mm spacers on front and nothing on the rear..

You need to buy a higher spec speedo cluster, and pay to have it coded to your car - not a cheap exercise

I always check after a service that the oil level is correct. And also to have a baseline of what it is so next time I check, I get an idea if there is a change and how much.

It'd definitely be best to keep an eye on the dipstick at regular intervals and not trust that the dealership has done the job properly (or at all....) Mine is a '21 2.0 TDi Combi with 50,000km and has never needed a topup between services. The oil level drops slightly between services but that's it. Engines and usage differ so it's not really a straight comparison but that's my experience. Skoda have a fairly generous window for oil consumption but it'd be a good idea to start logging consumption so that you know if there's an issue or not. It'll also help to bolster your case if you decide to make a warranty claim. Make sure that your top up oil meets the required spec and keep the receipts. As a matter of interest, what way do you use the car? Short trips, urban usage or rural driving?

Insurance question coming soon: do you ever park in densely packed multistory car park?

My motor trade insurance broker of 40 years, dropped his A4 in this morning (usual rear wiper motor failure) and I asked him. He said yes partly because modern cars are so complex but also because an EV, if it gets hit, is written off by the insurer for far less damage due to the complexity of moving a damaged EV around, insurers are naturally risk averse. I should imagine Luton Airport will concentrate their minds. He also said that instead of getting a new A4 every three years as he has done since 95, he is sticking with his 2 Litre petrol I convinced him to buy three years ago to get out of Diesel.