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The battery pack is around half a tonnes and hence the Zoe weighs about quarter of a tonnes more than a Clio which it is similarly size to. It does not feel heavy in corners as the weight is so low in the car. I think it tells on acceleration ad it is wacking out about 150 hp but only does 0 to 60 in about 9.5 seconds but the 0 to 30 is about 3.5 seconds and it feels quite similar to my 140 hp Arkana and sons 145 hybrid. Of the 3 the Clio is far and away the best handling and power delivery across the range, unless over 100 mph and then the Arkana is the car quite cable of cruising at any speed up to about 110 mph. As I said higher weight makes Zoe feel planned in high winds. All 3 pleasant enough to drive but hybrid clio ticks most boxes except absolute cheapness to run which Zoe EV wins on for fuel cost and servicing costs.

Engines have sophisticated built-in oil separators for the last couple of decades.

I say "go for it"; all the main commentators except Graham Butcher are on my block list anyway.

Hi, Thanks for the replies. I haven't been getting notifications so didn't know I had any. Sadly I had damaged the circuit board as suspected knocking off a resistor. Thankfully a friend has managed to solder a new one in place so all is working again. I didn't use the same keys on my wife's as I managed to get the right ones. Almost a very expensive mistake.

My low milage 2017 Skoda Rapid 1.2 TSi has been suffering from smells in the cabin that i thought were exhaust or crankcase breather. when you stopped at say traffic lights after about 20 seconds the smell would start from the air vents or start as you drove away and then dissipate as you drove, on a M6 long motorway trip when stopping in traffic it was terrible and I was getting headaches. I looked for the cause, changed the cabin filter, had the exaust checked, looked for a broken crankcase breather etc etc. Eventually booked it into my local Skoda deaker in Crewe and yesterday while I waited they diagnosed the problems - failing spark plugs causing unburnt fuel. I don't fully understand how this was getting into the cabin and not going out the exhaust but new spark plugs solved the problem and the car is now smell free. As my car was booked in for for its normal service in a months time on a service and extended warrenty plan there was no charge. I had not experienced misfires or rough running. The mechanic said he could tell the problem when he lifted the bonnet and smelt what I thought was a normal engine smell. Very pleased with the outcome.

Moon was bright though and my Galaxy S23's camera surprised me with it's abilities 😮

Missed 87k on the Fabia, and maybe 32k on the Vectra. However, I want to capture 88,888 on the Fab, and 33,333 on the Vectra.

Thank you for your prompt, affirmative answer to my question.

Hi Thanks everyone. I've just had OSRAM bulbs fitted, purchased from Powerbulbs. Night breaker Laser +150% H7 Cool Blue Intense Next Gen H15 Both claim to be 120% brighter. The wider spread of the H7 is noticeable as is the increased whiteness of both beams. And yes, I've a manual thumb wheel adjustment -hidden by the steering wheel.

Great mid winter trip in the Renault Zoe ZE50. 105 miles from Worcester to Manchester, Cheadle to be precise, for a visit to my airfreight office near Manchester Airport. Only 40% of battery used so plenty to go along to my office and then get home ie about 215 mile round trip. Zoe showing 5.3 miles per kWh. Car great in the high winds with its 1.6 tonnes plus me and gear so probably about 1.75 tonnes. Great to drive past the clean air signs as I enter Manchester and happy I am doing my bit. Petrol hybrid sitting on drive at home with a near full tank in case we get some more really cold weather in Feb. Horses for courses.

If my Karoq lives as long as 15 years, I can't see me ever changing the belt; I'll just make sure that I've got good breakdown/recovery insurance, and run the car until it drops.

Couple of things: 1. within the M25 extended Ulez zone << that doesn't exist. ULEZ covers all the London boroughs and does not extend all the way out to the M25 2. The Superb 3V, late 2015 onwards, should be Euro6 compliant.

Yes, RHD but only in my head. I just checked and it is selected LHD in the car 😳😬I could swear I changed it to RHD when came back from France... 😩 I need to check for few days as I've seen posts of people who had their Superbs changing it every time they lock their cars... Thanks for pointing this out👌👏 Feel stupid now 😂🤪

Surely you mean it's set up for RHD which would be normal in the UK...? Left hand traffic, right hand drive

I have recently purchased a columbus unit off forum member but he didn't have code.I used a site radiocodeking and within a very short while code came back.You just input radio serial number and thats it.Cost 7 or 9 quid but very happy with the service.Dont let a no code put you off if there isn't one.👍

Some people need special lighting and stuff others as long as they seen on the dark side of the moon while others get about fine without Special Needs Lighting. If they think back their mother maybe warned them what would happen to their eyesight.

Hi all, new to the group and whilst I have looked I can see posts but not really answers. On my previous car, also a Sportline but a Peugeot 3008 I had a very handy addition to the cockpit/dashboard. On pretty much any decent road that was mapped it always showed the maximum speed on that road - very useful. Is this something I am missing, is there a way of switching this on, the manual actually provides very little guidance for the cockpit and what it can do. One other thing, when my headlights were on auto in my previous car they would when on auto switch on full beam on country dark roads on which I travel a fair bit. Is this something that can be done? TIA

Thanks I don't have that kind of money available at the moment. When I do I'll probably come back to you. If it's gone by then that's my problem.

Certain MIB2 units can send map to the headunit no problem. The difference is MIB2.5 can show maps on both at the same time whereas MIB2 can only show maps on one screen at a time.

Only if they new what to look / feel for and told you. Had a Mazda in last week where the dealer had fitted a new genuine rear diff ( at vast expense to the customer ) to sort out a noise. No improvement after that but swapping the wheels / tyres did help. Swap them to the rear and if possible swap the fronts diagonally. Don't assume you had only one problem - source of noise. Thanks. AG Falco

@RootedNo, I don't have a dog with me, but the car is normally with either 2, 3 or 4 people in it and the temperature set at default, 22oC with the AC ON and on freezing mornings it does take a while for the engine to get warm enough for the stop/start to kick in so on days like that in city driving in the rush hour dropping everyone off at the places of work the MPG can really suffer, round about 26 to 29 MPG. If however, I'm going in the opposite direction towards the edge of the city where the traffic is lighter, then under the same conditions the MPG is around 36 to 38. On days when I have to take my son all the way to his work place, 12 miles away with 2 miles @ 60mph the rest of the trip is 30 to 40 mph I get around 46 to 48 MPG and in the summer that goes to 52 to 54 MPG.

Bit disappointed not going to need a rapid charge probably unless I am driving in to a gale and cannot find some van to draft. Stopping at say the Ionity Chargers near the Hawthorn West Brom, grab a Star bucks, chat to fellow EV drivers is a bit of a journey highlight even for just 5 or 10 kWh and a coffee, a few quid, ten to 15 minutes and on my way.

My Dad once told me the story of how he was driving home from his job in Mill Hill in a pea-souper in the early 1960's and being surprised, when he pulled onto his driveway, to see the line of cars behind him whose drivers, unable to see properly in the fog, had followed him home on the assumption that he was going where they wanted to go! In the past my regular cars, with halogen lights, always seemed fine at the time, but when I moved to the Scottish Highlands (35 miles home from town, no streetlights, not much in the way of effective road markings, but plenty of deer) lighting suddenly became a far more important issue. I had a Nissan 200SX at that time and felt that the lights could be better, so I uprated them to a Phillips version with allegedy far brighter output, but didn't see much improvement. My next car was a Mazda6 MPS, with xenon headlights!! It turned out that the dipped beam bulbs were, indeed, xenon, but the high beam ones were just halogen - crazy! (Incidentally, I've never found front foglights to be of any use whatsoever, although you can be done if they don't function). Then came the Superb,with bi-xenons! Better, but still not as good as I'd like unless it's a very clear, very dark night. When it comes to over-bright headlights, I have a problem with it too (although bear in mind that in almost all cases people don't choose their new car on the basis of how overbright the lights are), but apparently older eyes aren't as good with bright things in the dark. But "they" are always telling us that we are a "rapidly-ageing population" - go figure, as they say. My big problem is with ultra-reflective road signs. I once almost hit a huge stag in the road because I was looking away to avoid being completely dazzled by a reflective sign warning about deer! It would be interesting to know if these fancy new pixellated LED matrix headlights woud prevent that problem by not lighting up those signs, but then you wouldn't see the signs you needed to see. It would be too much to expect them to make signs less blindingly reflective in the first place - there is no doubt an EU regulation covering that. I know - too long, and with no useful information. I'll bet you're all glad I don't post very often.

What do you think mate?

car had a quick wash down at @CCVALETINGUK in Horbury

A 2.0 TSI or TDI will not come with a 7 Speed Twin Dry Clutch DSG with no Servicing / Oil Changes, so if a 7 Speed Wet Clutch DSG & it is a DQ381 the Oil changes (& filter even though VW say no filter) is at 80,000 miles. But anyone might not want to leave it till that many miles.

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@Rooted Seems like moving targets. On that matter, I caught my eye on the recommended interval for cambelt changes; 50k miles or 5 yr. Previous cars I've had have been more like 70k miles. Seems that TSI owners have to pay in the region of £750 'cos they're more difficult than other variants to do. There again, I've seen a discussion suggesting that the recommendation has now changed to 100k miles, or more. Riddle-me-ree. 😕

Take Care with Cetane Boosters / Improvers. 'Just say no!'.

The Cornering Fog Lights were / are Sh!te. Cornering Headlights a different thing if one or other FOG light is not used. The Most ridiculous thing i first spotted and then read about was in the Yeti Section. Activating the Front Fog Lights to Automatically come on as you selected reverse. Then it caught on, And cornering Front Fogs as you reverse. Total Plonkers pull up roadside and reverse into a drive putting Front Fogs on regardless of who is coming towards them. If the Needed Front Fogs on to reverse they obviously could press the button and turn on the Front Fogs. Turn on the rear as well if extra lighting is needed.

Fixed - I think! Looks like it was the filter. We ended up buying the exact same one as what was on there previously - a Mann w712/94. We've now driven about 100 miles with no issues or warning light. The Bosch filter that was causing issues had the same number as the one in the post @Rootedlinked to but was black not silver. Would that have been a factor?

Then we think each other is wrong. I'm not scared of change, the sliced loaf was an amazing invention! Seriously though. It's all about how you perceived the situation. Of you drove a 1963 VW Beetle on a 6v battery you would really, and I mean really know what bad head lights are like. Thankfully, change had happened and I welcome it. First it was halogen. Brilliant! Trouble is it's now going the other way. Where do you do with your own safety and start thinking about others safety around you? Statistics show there are 280 crashes in the UK due to dazzling headlights and 6 of those a year are fatal. Hence why the AA is trying to get the government to do something. There is no way that fog lights make you see further. They only illuminate a few metres immediately in front of the car. You should be looking at the road way ahead of that. They are designed to keep the light low so that light will not reflect of the water droplets of fog and dazzle self. They are inherently brighter that normal lights. Just like rear fog lights. Visibility to be less than 100m. The clue is in the name FOG light Here's the law Rule 226 You MUST use headlights when visibility is seriously reduced, generally when you cannot see for more than 100 metres (328 feet). You may also use front or rear fog lights but you MUST switch them off when visibility improves (see Rule 236). Government collision statistics shows that since 2013, there has been an average of 280 collisions a year where dazzling headlights were a contributory factor. Of these, six a year involved someone losing their life.10 Jan 2024 So, to every one. save your money on a fine and points on your licence turn the fog lights off and stop being hell bent on brighter lights. The cars these days are more than bright enough. I don't even use full beam these days they are that good. On a side note, I one followed a cat that hit a parked cars door that was open. It was night time and the parked cars lights were on. Poor person in front could not see around the car due to the bright lights on. yes, it's the moving cars fault but it wouldn't have happened if lights were not as bright. automatic full beam. What a joke. I see that it first dip until it actually sees the oncoming lights. If I used my full beam they would be dipped before as humans can see the light around the corner. That brings me to another point. Lights are so bright now that sometimes people can't see the lights around the corner to dip early. I won't talk about the knight rider indicators. 😂🤣 No personal insult is intended. It's just my opinion. safe driving everyone xx Love it 😁👍

Hi @Bima, as far as I am aware, there are no plug and play catch cans yet. APR list their GEN 3 MQB compatible with the DNPA GEN 4 engine, but there are not, or at least I haven't been capable to find, feedback from people who installed one. For me, best objective feedback I've found so far is Charles' outcome after he installed one on his 2019 Golf: For me, it's not worth its price; however, what I do in a regular basis is adding Liquy Moly fuel injector cleaner (1971) to clean and prevent carbon deposits.

People were being just as conned up to 2020 when the Service Regime changed in 2020 & Skoda moved stuff. The Fixed Price Minor / Interim & Major Servicing had customer think a fixed price had stuff done. @ the First Major Service you were paying a price that would include Spark Plugs, or Diesel Filter. & Air Filter yet toy never got those changed at 2 years only at the SECOND Major Service. 4 years / 40,000 miles. You might of got the Pollen Filter at the 1st and 2nd major service. The Technician / Fitter decided. Now you pay. The one year the £99 oil service was offered was good, that was an Interim OIl Change and a free Brake and Safety check should have been done then. The Body Inspection @ Major Services was & is for the Corrosion & Paint Warranty and is shown, but often not done, not logged, Skoda knows it should be done and who never did it when they say, 'No record of a body inspection', There are no T&C,s about Annual, Bi-Annual or Periodic Body Inspections for the warranty anyway. Back in the Service Books up to 2011 or so the Body Inspection Page was after the SERVICE check page.

I have yet to find a Skoda Dealer who knows how to drive the MIB2 or MIB3 systems. If it's any consolation, my "new to me" Octavia L&K from a proper Skoda dealer wasn't setup at all. They didn't even do a handover. They were more interested in selling me insurance products. First thing I did when I got in the car was reset the MIB system. This is really important to do because (as you said) all the owners details were on there (including their home address). Fixed based servicing is a bit of a misnomer. If you do micro-miles it makes sense. Rather try to go with condition based servicing if you can (as the car will tell you when it needs attention). Re: inspection service. See the screenshot above. The exact wording is Oil and Inspection service. I think this is actually bad English/German translation in all honesty from the original service schedule. Most people think that Inspection is: the techs look at the car, check it over and press the reset button. There is a lot more to this. I prefer the original minor and major service previously used by VAG, but people got confused on these terms too. Oil and Inspection service is equivalent to the old "minor service" plus any age appropriate servicing (e.g. brake fluid, cabin air filter changes etc). Skoda will always do an oil/filter change, then do a complete inspection of the car underneath and in the engine bay.

Some have two, some even have a SIM slot

what make of timing belt kit did you use ? and i know you said they gave you the wrong pump but could you not have gotten hold of a new pump just seems like a big mistake to me to refit the old pump which has done 168000 miles, as you say most of the work doing these timing belts is stripping all the bits to get access so i think i'd be wanting a new pump while i'm in there but each to there own did you already have that laser tool kit or did you have to go and buy it ? , just asking because you can get the chinese timing belt tool kits on ebay for around £25 or so like the one below

It's been few days and mirrors are still working as they should👌We can close this topic. Once again, thank you for help 👉👍

Oil & Inspection Service. Then @ 3 years and after that each 2 years the Oil & Inspection Service and the Extended Scope. The car can come up each year showing 'Inspection' because it was left as that but there is no just an 'Inspection'. At different times from Oil Service. Fixed regime on chart, not Variable / Flexible.

I believe so. My understanding is that solely replacing plug 3 with a pressure sensor fitted plug (e.g. Beru seems to be one of the only ones available) would likely solve the issue but it's probably worthwhile replacing all of them with OEM / Bosch instead of the Ridex plugs. Hopefully I've not missed something!

I expect you need the seat controller updating by a dealer. Technical product information Transaction No.: 2049942/3 Storing seat memory positions not working Release date: 07-Feb-2019 Customer statement: • Storing driver’s seat or front passenger’s seat positions into memory is not working. Service centre findings: • Entries „no basic setting“ concerning seat adjusting motors are stored in the event memory of the seat control unit. Measure • Online update of the memory seat control unit SW using the diagnostic tool ODIS via the measure code. • If the fault „Data set invalid“ is logged, check the SW version. It has always to be the latest SW version, i.e. SW 22 or 24. • In the case of the version SW 22 or 24 with the fault entry „Data set invalid“, carry out only the parametrization of the memory seat control unit using the software configuration (SWK).

I just got a call yesterday that I can expect the car by the end of this month

Hello everyone - I hope you're all keeping well! So I've not updated this for nearly 2 years... and believe it or not The Beast is still going. However it's very poorly. Turns out that crash in 2020 has totally knackered the NSR wheel arch area and I'll be honest... I'm kind of scared this could be the end. I'm really hoping it's a simple case of welding, but if it's anything more severe then I'm not sure what to do. I'm also getting problems with the turbo recirc system, which I still can't work out - I'm not sure if it's the N249 or what the hell is going on, but it's really driving me nuts. Currently sat SORN on the drive... I just hope that after nearly 14 years of ownership that I don't have to say goodbye 😢

This worries me, I purchased approved used at the start of November and took out a service plan. Apparently the car had just been serviced and had the cambelt changed although they gave me no proof of this 😕 As above, old owner was still fully connected with the Infotainment, they hadn't reset it. They even failed to update Skodas internal systems that I purchased the vehicle!

We don't have any of that naff sunny weather here, it's good old British weather or nothing for us diehards.

H7 is the dipped, & the one that gets the most usage, thats why I just suggested that... I would also check if you have any self levelling, or dial levelling to control the headlight level..I know my old MK1 Fabia had dial levelling (dial next to dash brightness dial)....self levelling is usually on Xenons I know....as the levelling sensor can seize & the BCM just points the headlights at max "down" as a safety fault...

Sounds like the Octavia suffers from the similar bad reflector design like the Roomster did.....however when everybody else has Xenons & LED lights, halogens pale (literally) by comparison. In the UK for dipped & main beam you have to keep the exact bulb type for the reflector (as per lighting regs & MOT)...so your reflector is for Halogens...so you have to fit halogens...you can't fit LED (drop-ins) for those bulbs, but you can for all other external bulbs! Looks like H7 for dipped & H15 for main. Selection of H7 here, I only use Osram or Phillips:- H7 Bulbs | Upgrade Car, Van & Motorcycle H7 Bulbs (autobulbsdirect.co.uk) Osram Night Breaker in +100% has a 1yr warranty.....their 150%+ & 200%+ only have a 6month warranty ...all three are road legal... Phillips do several bulbs...again in 100+ or 200%+ Powerbulbs also has them:- Sale On Now I PowerBulbs UK Ignore the LED drop ins...you'll get pulled on your next MOT as not road legal in UK for dipped/main beam...

Ten years ago today

The usual difference between left and right hand traffic is the third digit of the first group, even for right hand traffic and odd for left hand traffic.