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All Openreach workers are issued with a company phone and are only allowed to install apps that have been cleared by BT security. Whether BT have allowed that app I don't know but that wouldn't stop him/ her installing it on their own phone if they're aware of it.

I just picked this up on Saturday and drove it 450 miles from the dealer in Perth back home to Somerset. Loving it so far.

@Rooted Explained how Motability works. From my experience, if leased through a company scheme either as a benefit or salary sacrifice, the insurance is covered by company insurance as they are the lessee. I had two prangs in a year one time in a company car and I got a very stiff letter from HR telling me one more and I would be taken off the company car scheme. Those did not affect my own NCB. I have also leased a car for myself and I was responsible for insuring it - this is true even with a full package. The bin men reversed into that and my insurance was informed, but as fault was admitted it did not affect NCB.

Hum..... Another nice rounded article. Ultimately EV fires do exist and fire fighters/car parks need to be prepared, of course that doesn't concern us drivers. What concerns us is that there's absolutely zero evidence to say EV are equal or more likely to catch fire than ICE vehicle. Current evidence (UK OZEV, and referenced by Guardian, this Autocar) points to an order of magnitude less fire claims than ICE vehicle.

There are academics & professionals with the information and knowledge out and about looking at and dealing with things. (Probably none of them members or contributors on this forum.) http://autocar.co.uk/car-news/electric-cars/how-much-fire-risk-are-electric-vehicles ............................ No idea why he said this @ 1 minute & @ 4 mins 15 seconds about the Yellow Badge and telling Fire Brigade or anyone else it is an Electric Car. Someone must have been feeding him guff or he just came up with it himself. There are no regulations i know of of marking / badging passenger cars as BEV, PHEV, or Mild Hybrid as Factory Standard or not being allowed to De-badge. & The Green Flash Registration Plates are not mandatory. It is just a Yellow S at the front and side now & the Round Yellow badge at the back that i have a Saltire on.

That 18 kWh i3 being only 15min later than double battery capacity and newer Zoe is pretty impressive. Rapid charging is the enabler for driving beyond home range. It's the main reason I went with Leaf over Zoe. I think they could have done it not as slow in a 2018 Leaf 40, or any other similar capacity car with rapid charging. These early EV are perfect for secondary family car as local runabouts or daily commuting car. Save the bigger ICE for family trips. That's what I did for ~3 years before COVID.

Channel 4 News is on All4. Quite the revelation I thought.

Just looking at the Swarco site at the Worcs uni, 18 chargers with 22 Kws 3 phase charging as well as the six expensive DC chargers and loads of 7 Kws for those leaving the cars to go in to the city a few hundred yards across the bridge. Brilliant.

The 'Estimator' will be using a programme on the computer to come up with a cost. You finding a cheaper way makes no difference if you are claiming off your insurance. Get a settlement and buy it back & repair it cheaply if you think you can. EDIT / PS. I see your post now. That would need money to buy it back and repair. So however it goes it costs or you get paid out by the insurer. Best start finding figures for replacements and dont accept the offer they give if stupid, which it will be. I take it you are not at fault and the person hitting you was and their insurers need to be 'Quoting you happy'.

Nah, maybe in Chelmsford, I hear "Dave-takes-it-on" was berating Chelmsford, for a country town it is woeful. He had to drive the 12 miles up to Braintree to go to the fantastic Gridserve mega charging hub, have a coffee, use the post office, explore leasing EVs. Here is another country town, the beautiful Worcester, we have increased our EV chargers by another half this week with 54 charge posts being added as part of the University.... 45p a kWh published cost..... https://uk.news.yahoo.com/worcester-university-campus-becomes-one-050000255.html#:~:text=The University of Worcester's Severn,public and the university community. The University of Worcester's Severn Campus has become one of the largest electric vehicle charging parks in Europe. The car park, which has been installed with 100 charging points on Hylton Road is open for use by both the general public and the university community. With easy access to the university's campuses at St John’s and in the city, as well as the city centre, the installed chargers also promise convenience for Christmas shoppers. To use the charging ports, drivers can pay for the parking and separately for the electricity through an app or contactless payment at the charger. Six of the charging points are 50 KWh rapid chargers, and there are also 200 standard car parking spaces available at the site. The development of the Severn Campus into a charging hub was made possible by a £3m award from the Worcestershire Local Enterprise Partnership, as part of the Government’s Getting Building Fund, which assigned Worcestershire £12m. Dr Tim Jones, the university’s pro vice chancellor for students, said: "We’re committed to encouraging and inspiring more sustainable solutions among our University community and beyond. “We’re really keen that the public should benefit from and make use of these forward-thinking facilities as much as University students and staff. "As Severn Campus sits on the outskirts of the City centre, this will also reduce the volume of traffic heading into the City centre."

A clear sign that an Open Reach employee charging a Vauxhall electric van should have the My Vauxhall app on his mobile phone and pay attention if putting on a charger and heading off and be aware if the charge has stopped.

By way of an update to this after draining and refilling the gearbox it seemed to be fine except the bite point seemed a little high. Possibly paranoia on my part but for under £500 to stick in a new DMF & Clutch on a car I'm not getting shot of anytime soon I figured its worth the hit rather than the recovery wagon fees and having to do it when it had certainly gone. And as an aside, I've not posted too many times on here. I've been a Landy owner for years and by virtue of that was on many LR Forums, you know that somewhere there will be another with Green Oval disease who has had the same problem and fixed it or you've had it and can pass on the advice. The shared masochism seems to result in a friendly camaraderie, on here among the helpful suggestions there is always a Bellend. I'm sure they can work out who they are.

Forget Cyber Monday, It is Happy Clamper day in Forfar. Lots of cars and vans been done today.

No faults have come back so far, either on the dash or on rescan. The BSM is working as it should. Emergency braking is working fine during maneuvers. Seems all good for now. Thanks peeps

Pull the seals to one side and give a good wash with soapy water ,its gets dirty and muddy under the seals ,this worked when my back door filled up been ok since 👍

@Robbo12 try download VW's 7z, unpacked it without CRC check errors

Not sure if this has already been posted and it is towards the end of the offer now but as I have only just come across it thought I’d share. Up until the end of the month (only a few days now) there is 25% off the ŠKODA all in service plan, it’s for cars between 3-6 years old. 2 services, 2 MOT’s, roadside assistance and the bit I wanted it for with all the past software issues is an extra 2 years manufacturers warranty.

I think you'll find that brand new pads look like this.

Now at airport …. Taxi was an immaculate Superb L&K with 190k on the clock !

To be fair I'm really not interested in the 'but he started it, Miss'.

have you tried jacking under the sump on the engine itself ? (use a block of wood) if that won't help / give you enough clearance, then undo the engine mount on that side and jack the engine up on that side.

Wonder if you could get clamped for not completing the process of the V11Z ? To those who do not know full EVs, which pay no road tax until 2025 and the document threatens the weight of the law of one does not complete the process, possibly tow away for not "taxing" actually reaffirming one is still the registered keeper. Must cost millions not just hundreds of thousands mentioned in the article. Just wish they would call it something else, ie not tax reminder be Reg renewal and perhaps do purely electronically coupe of weeks before "tax" period ends and only send a paper copy if nothing hear/emailed back 5 days before the expiry date ? https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/electriccars/article-11895163/DVLA-wasting-hundreds-thousands-year-sending-tax-reminders-EV-owners.html

Quick pics of my 176,000 mile octavia mk1 vrs 1.8t on the new wheels

There is a photo in new brochure on Kamiq SE page, clearly looks like full set of climate buttons, not on main screen https://www.skoda.co.uk/_doc/e5530aa7-058e-4978-8855-79f9f20111d6

The UK fashion for decades has been to over wheel and tyre new cars for more appeal, mine are bigger than yours appeal too, with the standard sizes it's a bit like saying 4" heels, rather than 6", heels for walking in. Only example numbers now as I've no idea of tyre availability and price at these sizes, or what you can fit to your particular car, plus 70 is low profile to me, if you had 205/50 r17 you'd have another 1/2" sidewall to cushion against the potholes and with the correct tyre just as much grip and handling if that's a concern for tear-arsing about. 205/55 r16 would give nearly an inch more sidewall.

I just got a good deal on one of the last stock L&K ones, so it was worth the slightly gruelling trip. Good chance to get to know the various safety systems like lane assist on the way back too. The colour to my eyes is quite green in the right light, looks great.

Just a comment in the passing, maybe for people who have not done this yet, the engine RHS mounting is sold by VW Group as a single assembled item, what exactly does the text supporting that "picture" from the official workshop manual say about this, maybe the red arrow is pointing this out, whereas the "!" group of bolts is instructing that they should be removed - and not that nut in the centre of the actual "silent block". I'm sure that I've read about this being the case - while "back street" workshops creating youtube videos just say "remove that nut and jack up the engine" - I can't say if or why removing that nut is a big issue though.

If you look in your account settings there is an ignore user feature. Hope you get it sorted, it does sound like the clutch dragging.

The other things with carplay…if car play is turned on, skoda bluetooth app is not working…if I connect to bluetooth via skoda phone app, carplay is turned off!! Android auto supported both communication in paralel…

I've only just seen this thanks to George replying today but, I have seen cases (albeit on Twitter) of EV drivers having their cars clamped by the DVLA for not completing the necessary paperwork.

yes that's what I'm saying, mine came with only two sensors and I put my three sensor one in there. The fairly sure black box that sits in front of it has r be transferred as well

Stop Start systems are notorious in that they need everything perfect before they work, certainly in Honda, which I owned before my Skoda. Outside temperature affects them as does the battery voltage and what you have running (heated seats /demister etc). Someone will probably be along with more VAG specific information but I certainly wouldn't be worried it it was my car, which thankfully does not have Stop Start.

Often the cars will have been on longlife service intervals which can go for up to 2yrs. Dealers here (I think it's another of those uniquely UK things) like people to have their cars serviced annually, and the service plans assume that's the case (although I notice All In, and the two service service plan we have on our new Kamiq, have a 4yr validlity for services so they do seem to allow for people who have services every 2yrs). You can't take the All In plan while the vehicle is covered by another warranty. You can only take a service package. You might be able to time it so you could wait until the current warranty runs out, then take All In (if it's still available) to cover the service due at that point. You could have taken the Approved Used PCP offer as that includes 2yrs of everything as well as £250 discount Then Withdraw from the PCP. Dealer we recently bought off just assumed we'd be doing that.

And we're back. Lowered on H&R Maxton front, sides and rear bits Hella Supertone Horns New grill Full custom Spyro the Dragon wrap Ceramic coated Rotiform SIX alloy in gold Still left to do later: New speakers/under seat subwoofer RGB Underglow (Hashtag bring back neons) Tints

got one CRC err at 82% unpacking, but broken file \Mib2\NavDB\FranceNorthWest_eu\0\default\FranceNorthWest_AdvancedMap2D.psf is ok in previous archive

I believe the Octavia is the same as the Kodiaq, and the only way to stop the random rear window wiper operation is to untick the rear wiper in reverse option. If you untick the automatic wiping in the rain option as in above post it turns of the front windscreen automatic wiper option.

added VW's links to head post, content isn't checked yet due extremely slow download

I finished it before your intervention.

Sorry Nick, was to come back with an update, was a bit stressful when I found out it was crashed.

Check the earth to the starter. not seen it on a mk3, but seen other cars where a rusted earth bond (negative) to the starter meant it wouldn’t turn over. it was cold today, are the glow plugs working?

Having not been able to find four OEM covers at a sensible price I finished up with 4 after market covers from Trago Mills. I think they might have mispriced them, or perhaps they were end of line but at £12 for a set I was quite happy especially as the Skoda emblems from the old set transferred over a treat and, to be honest, they look fine. After all they're purely cosmetic and serve no practical purpose at all. Additionally I decided that as the tyres were over 12 years old I should replace them with 4 Goodyear Vector All Seasons Gen 3. They're ordered and will be fitted in a couple of weeks.

Ahh ok well mine was during the drive, though one time was before a drive when I excitedly showed my wife the feature where you press and hold the unlock button on the fob and the 4 windows plus sunshade (sunroof) open. I had forgotten that the sun shade/ roof also opened when you did that so I didn't complete the process then we started to drive off and she tried to fully open the sun shade and roof and it was stuck plus the lights didn't respond for about 15 to 20. Yes you are correct if it's random it would be hard to prove. All the best with it.

The display has component protection so not a DIY replacement unfortunately

Stop messing about, and rip it out this weekend! 😁

Here are some exterior pics of my Skoda Octavia VRS. Just 2 week old.

If it's a projector light it probably has a single H7 bulb with a shutter in front of it that screens off the full beam when on dipped beam. Chances are you may be able to upgrade to a H7 hid burner like many did in mk2 Octavias

Any fault codes stored in parking or rear sensors (even if related to a flat battery) and if they haven’t been cleared will cause the rear cross traffic to disable itself. clear the codes and try again, if it proceeds there will be a fault code now to show what is faulting and causing it.

Never posted any pics of the coilpacks once fitted - there was a difference on how the car runs lower down in the rev range cruising around, feels a little more eager and like it possibly had a bit of a flatspot before. . .this might just be down to the new plugs 🤔 Also gave the bay a pre winter tidy up 😎

One of those threads where the op asks for help then just vanishes ?