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Says it all really. Happy Christmas to everyone. 👍🏻🎄

"I let it go in idle for 10 min" It is not clear what you mean here. Did you leave the car idling (running)? And then checked the oil level while still running. Or you let it sit running/idling for 10 minutes, then switched off then checked? Whenever you check, the engine must be off. Also - very important - when you first pull the dipstick out you must ignore the level shown. Wipe it clean then re-insert to get a true reading.

It would be ideal if you could drain approx. 0.25 litre of oil back out - the easiest way would be if your oil extractor hose is small enough to fit down the dip stick tube - otherwise, by loosening, but not completely removing, the oil drain plug, as suggested by Breezy Pete.

Sorry for not being clear. I started the car and let it idle/run for 10min while parked. Then turned it off, pulled the dipstick. Wiped it clean and dipped it in fully again, that's when I'm checked the level twice and it showed the level as per above.

Zoe looks like a city car ie short, tall, non-aero but always had the longest of the small EV range, just do not ask it to get good range if you cruise at or above National Speed Limit, better to hold near a mile a minute to get good range. Added the false boot floor to mine which robs a few cubic feet and not great having the cables in the boot when one has a boot full of pram or other luggage. This is why the frunk is such a good idea and EV makes should have worked harder to have frunk space for those charge leads. The Kia Soul, massive hit in the US with over a million sales, Soul EVs mainly sold in California and the a few other "enlightened" states with EV infrastructure. Again the false boot floor to put the "granny" and Chademo cable were suppose to go there but again below that can be a pain. Boot is sub 300 litres which is a surprise for the mark 2 Soul EV which is less than the Zoe. Will actually try the pram in the Zoe and then some of the other 5 year old plus EVs. Amazing how the well thought of Ionic has kept its value compared to similar EVs.

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Apologies for not explaining properly, What I mean is that I'm trying to find under which trim panel is located the other side of the cable connector. I hope that makes sense Thanks you

Hi and welcome to the forum. the language of the forum is international English, or as close to it as you can get. We have readers from all over the world. Feel free to post in your native language, please include a rough translation, it helps others to help you. hopefully an update for the bolero is forthcoming.

Hello all, so pleased to have found a community of Škoda owners! I’m the (sometimes) proud owner of a Kodiaq Sportline 2019, still feel wistful at the sight of an RS whizzing by me on the road. Perhaps next time… Located in Australia, where European aircon just doesn’t cut the mustard.

Aircon pulley shear plate, alternator one way sprag clutch or dual mass flywheel would be my guesses.

My exercise was helping with the cooking (on top of the usual drying up & putting away)...mind you having good simple food & a good beer whilst watching a good programme on T.V. & having the log burner on is a nice way to relax!.....😴......nite..nite!

Thank you for your help.

I stand corrected. I was not aware these two arrangements dispensed with the throttle body. However both are very expensive solutions to the control issue, and the Multitronic is not very durable.

There are some petrol engines without throttle bodies actually. I remember being very doubtful when a young pal of mine told me he'd failed to find one in a petrol BMW he'd been looking at, several years back. Google confirms:

What problem are you trying to solve? Can you read what fault code or codes are causing the glow plug light?

There are speed deduction devises everywhere and down your way likely no more severe than elsewhere. Hundreds, thousands will be go over them and every now and again some plonkers does it too fast or without a vehicle suitable to go over. Nearly everyone else with a similar car will know to take care. It is how things are. Most just get on with things and moan and some moan and the issue is really one that is how life is. Some will put it on YouTube or X as cluckbait. Like these flooded battery EV s. Time a warning ⚠️ is needed. Use your loaf. We built cars that might not be fit for purpose standard from the factory, and lower at your peril.

https://www.lllparts.co.uk/catalogs/skoda/CZ/KAM/584/0/012/12000

Protecting batteries or under carriages of vehicles is not a huge engineering challenge and it has been done as has designing and building vehicles that can wade through water be them road vehicles , soft roaders or offroaders. Maybe some companies have baIIsed up and need back to the drawing board, the board room and to dealerships and employees. As to aggressive speed bumps, they are actually impassive and lay there waiting for those not slowing or dealing with what is there in front of them. They are a pita for emergency vehicles and maybe those low or overladen vehicles and maybe those with design or engineering issues.

? Is the oil at the top ball when the engine / oil is up to 90*oC and parked on the flat and turned off. So at normal operating temperature? Not cold, not just warm.

There's no way you'll get to the sump via oil fill hole; is dipstick tube wide enough for your extractor? Otherwise just loosen but don't remove sump plug and let some drip out into a tray.

Going back to basics a diesel or compression ignition engine is controlled by the amount of fuel injected. In the pre electronics age, the accelerator pedal on a diesel engine was connected to the injection pump and varied the amount of fuel injected. A centrifugal governor increased the amount of fuel injected as speed increased. The amount of fuel was the deciding factor hence no need for a throttle plate restricting airflow. The air fuel mixture is ignited by the heat generated by the relatively high compression ratio. All of the electronic systems are to increase power output and reduce emissions. A petrol or spark ignition engine is controlled by varying the amount of air admitted to the engine and supplied with petrol across a wide range of mixture strengths. The spark supplied at the appropriate time ignites the mixture. Excess fuel or too little fuel means the engine will not run. The best efficiency and power is achieved at a mixture strength of about 14 parts air to 1 of fuel. So close control of the amount of air going into the engine is required to vary the output of the engine. No one has developed a mass market solution to replace the throttle body. All of the electronic systems we see are again to increase power output and reduce emission. This is a short overview. There are many books written on the topic.

As well as the voltage sensitive relay to charge the auxiliary battery it sounds like you need a time delay relay triggered by ignition to enable the auxiliary heater for a timed period after the ignition turns on.

Poor people, they sound like they are in desperate need of the wisdom someone like you who can read their minds.

Merry Christmas. The point is Scotland is not different, it is a big place and different in different regions. Like in the RofUK. Diverse. Diverse for EV charging and so far in all of the UK car park fires seem rare. Death by EV electricity in garages and body shops as well. Maybe more specialist body repairers of EV,s are coming. And like JLR are doing, arranging Insurance Under writers. Things are moving for what the future brings. People just need to open their minds and think. Maybe stop thinking others do not think before purchases and their situation. Locations, or abilities.

Sorry about that, I can only write as I find. Most filling stations at nighttime are only staffed by a single person and I have heard them talking over the intercom, which incidently is at each pump location, and they will, if there are other people filling up, ask them to assist, or lock the place up and exit the office to assist and then unlock again afterwards. Clearly there is zero assistance at some stations day or night, and Asda springs to my mind here as our local store has 24/7 unmanned pumps and only take debit/credit cards at the pump, as that dude said, and I can see that trend continuing as supermarkets themselves are actively removing manned checkouts in their stores and fitting self-service tills, which I try to avoid like the plague and shop where they still employ people. I have seen people waving their disability parking badges at the people in the kiosk and flashing their lights to attract help, and it has worked. Why is Scotland any different? PS. Merry Christmas to you.

I kicked this post off back in November 2019 when I decided to fit All Season tyres on my car. 4 years on and it was time to replace my tyres again. The Maxxis AP2s that I opted for previously had served me well. Actually Far better than I anticipated. No matter the season, heatwave or cold snap, or the weather conditions, I found they always gave me confidence. The tyres provided excellent grip, (including the odd times on my steep snow covered road and drive which neighbours struggled or failed to negotiate), braked effectively. They also gave a comfortable ride, and were quiet too. I couldn't have wanted much more. So, what tyres to buy this time around, as unfortunately, the Maxxis AP2 appears to have been superseded. A pity as I'm fairly sure that I would have opted for another set of AP2s in a flash. As was the case 4 years ago, I made my decision after reading reviews & test results, as well as considering my location (the Midlands, UK), my driving style (Mr Average), my car (see below) and annual mileage (very low). I still own my humble but trusty and much appreciated 13 year old Fabia 2 HTP estate. But no matter what the car, I still like to have a set of decent tyres that give me confidence when driving in any weather but without paying a fortune. My choice of tyre in the end was the Hankook Kinergy 4S 2. I had a set fitted last month and It will be interesting to see what I think of them compared to the Maxxis AP2s. Since having the tyres fitted the weather has been unseasonably mild so I'll report back next month when we may have had cooler temperatures and maybe even some snow! In the meantime..... Merry Christmas everyone.

If going for "new" cars then I agree the F-type would fit, if you would rather go for a bit more comfort, then its longer old brother the XK would fit. Very comfy, room for even tall ones, lots of space in the boot for suitcases Most comfort was probably the convertable as it runs softer springs (though a bit less relaxed on the engine side with 500bhp!)

If you look at the new car configurator on the Skoda UK website, it shows that most of the 16" alloy rims on the Scala 95HP/110HP models come with 205/55R16 91H tyres. Skoda UK website https://www.skoda.co.uk/

Learning is the great thing about this forum! At its most basic, because like a petrol engine all the modern added emissions stuff is superfluous to the basic function, a diesel engine has an open intake & hence no vacuum, engine speed and power is controlled by the amount of fuel injected. Throttling should not be thought to be accelerating, it literally means to choke or restrict like strangling someone, on a modern diesel it is used to create some vacuum to suck through EGR gases and also to stop shudder on shut down, on a petrol engine it is used to modulate the airflow to control engine speed, the mixture is taken care of by the fuel injection. Additionally the throttle body on a diesel engine will prevent an engine from runaway if the turbo blows and it starts running on its lubricating oil. The term wide open throttle actually means no throttling!

look for the section which lists the versions of the Škoda superb brochures and it’ll start with the lowest and say what’s standard, then keep scrolling down until you get to l&k

It is similar in appearance and function to the throttle body on a petrol engine, but as above it's not for rev control. It has two main uses as I understand it, anti-shudder at shutdown, and to create variable pressure levels in the intake manifold in order to allow more control over flow rates of the exhaust gas recirculation system.

Originally, diesel engines didn't have throttles. They ran at full throttle all the time and engine revs and output were determined by the amount of diesel injected. The ASV was introduced to stop the engine dead when you switched off the ignition. If you'd ever driven an old diesel truck and pulled the engine stop knob, you'd have understood about the shudder. However, more recently, the ASV has been used to provide some throttling of the intake air; notably during DPF regeneration. Hence it's become known as a 'throttle body'. HTH

I know. I see them all hogging the middle lanes following each other like sheep congesting the Motorway networks.

Doesn't anybody wear gloves these days if their hands feel cold? I can recall the days when they sold things like "Car Coats", superfluous after 5 minutes of swinging the starting handle!

Thank you so much, appreciate this

Not at all, wiring looms are built for individual vehicles. There are no 'extra' plugs on any looms and if a new loom is required it is ordered against the VIN number to be exactly as required for that vehicle.

I've had my Karoq over 3 winters including this, and during that time I have only had to scrape my screen once, so it would have been a waste of money to me. The salesman tried to get me to have a heated steering wheel, but I wasn't paying over £300 for that, and I can put up with cold hands for 10 minutes. We do have heated seats, but these were standard. My wife uses hers thre or 4 times a year and I have only used mine a couple of times to try and to test. I wouldn't pay extra for those either.

In terms of removing the old unit, the first part of this video shows the process. Just 2 torx screws. Careful removing the cables... Mine were in quite tight and took a bit of teasing to uncouple without damage. For the replacement unit, I messaged one of the Ebay sellers that had a few units for sale, albeit of the wrong part number. I asked if they could keep an eye out for the correct one for me, ending in K not B, sure enough a few weeks later I got a message. £35 delivered, it's in and working perfectly. Good luck 👍

I worked out mine was the SIG wire in the wrong plug on the MFSW. I was switching from a 5 pin to 6 pin and the SIG had to be moved from 5-6 I’d double check the wiring on the Kufatec as the SIG (grey in mine) is what controlled the ACC and Travel assist buttons. maybe that helps?

My deepest condolences.

Two things that seem to be fairly common with MEB platform cars. First is the front drop links can loose their bushes and end up knocking. Changing the stabiliser may have been to address this possibility. The other issue has been with rear shock absorbers starting to knock due to an internal fault.

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2035 before anyone needs to be concerned at not getting a new ICE car in the UK and then years before there might be any issue on purchasing fuel for them. How prices go before then, or where they can be driven or parked is anyone's guess. How much choice there is of ICE vehicles to purchase new in the UK is again anyones guess, It is just as well the countries in the British Isles are not short of vehicles for seeing drivers through another 2 decades.