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Hello, what you experienced was manoeuvre braking - your rear sensors detected something that the system thought your vehicle was about to collide with (quite possibly the slope itself)

Seems the guy has now been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and causing a public nuisance. Well I never.... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13192851/Police-arrest-Jaguar-Pace-driver-31-suspicion-dangerous-driving-control-car-rammed-road-officers-went-rogue-speeds-120mph.html

There is always a solution

Found the ideal car for you. Electric, and in my favourite colour too! What's not to like?

given u have no Comfort mode, that is an indication u don't have DCC. visually, u can physically have a look at the shock absorber to see if there is protruding small cylinder bit, as shown by the red arrow in the pics below. if it does, u have DCC. if it doesn't, u don't have DCC. via the MIB unit - without DCC via the MIB unit - with DCC

From £65k to £77k before options... That's not in any way cheap compared to a Kodiaq which starts at £35k ish for similar space. Thats a price difference of £30k!! That buys an awful lot of fuel...

The forum rules/guidelines state no content should promote illegal activity or infringe on the legal rights of others. Helping folk with cloned/pirated interfaces probably goes against that statement so I tend to leave well alone

MY23 refers to cars made from approximately July 2022 (usually after a summer shutdown but not always) with a VIN year digit that indicates 23 as the model year.

Since start and since refuel should be obvious when they reset. Long term will reset something like every 1000 hrs maybe. It's definitely on a reset period whether that's time based or distance. Are you saying they all reset at the same time and quite often? Are you accidentally hitting a button? Maybe the scroll wheel on the steering wheel is faulty?

I do! Bang in the middle of it, as the only scrap metal weigh in place in the region os in my village it is the centre of the universe for the gens de voyage (static) community and has been for 45 years. half the listings on the Facebook groups are ferailleurs offering to take away your scrap vehicles and metal plus of course anything else metallic while your back is turned. Thankfully the old adage about not s***ting on your doorstep seems to be true and I have great neighbours.

Happy to disagree with you here, without prejudice. But I will remind you of the "Law of unintended consequences" and get my "I told you so!" in now. 😊

That is surprisingly little. I have done 55000 miles now on the set of 4 Kumhos that were on my vehicle when I bought it and they were not new then, I have no way of knowing how many miles they had covered before my ownership but I dont reckon many as the vehicle had been driven like it was stolen (clutch cover friction area dished and burned from doing 4wd drag starts) but thankfully the tyres were not scrubbed. In my experience the 2 factors that really influence tyre longevity make the biggest difference during the first few thousand miles, correct tyre pressures (which are probably different to the manufacturers settings) and driving moderately to avoid scrubbing out the inside or outside edges. It may take 3 or 4mm of uneven wear before the driver may realise, that means they wont get the last 3 or 4mm of wear from the tyres that they would if they wore evenly, wear is not progressive, the last 1/2 of useable tread depth lasts twice as long as the first. In the initial weeks on new tyres I use an infra red pyrometer to measure the temperature gradient after a spirited drive and adjust the pressures to even it out, just as I did when racing, after that once wear is measurable I measure the tread depth across the tyre and tweak the pressures again to the optimum, I rotate the tyres once a year and move the least worn tyres to the corners where the most wear occurs, I also mark and note the tread depths to know how much wear since the last rotation. My aim is for all 4 tyres to wear evenly down to the TWI's and a little beyond which is where I am at now after 55K miles, what has amazed me is I expected tyre wear to be higher because it is 4x4. During my very lean years I drove 250000 miles on part worn tyres, I would only ever buy a set of 4 matching tyres that were evenly worn across the width for the reasons above, I would then rotate them by eye, I got great mileage but not as much as the Yeti because I would have to change the set when one wore quicker than the others or clobbered a kerb, I think the higher profile of the Yeti tyres have saved me in that regard.

Yep. It's a relatively quick job, so take your mobile and tablet, have a few coffees etc on the dealer. I was there about an hour or so, also had the engine cover fitted too.

How does the kw/mile figure compare with when you bought the vehicle?

If using an EV, use the sat-nav to navigate to Tesla chargers which are normally just off the motorway. There are literally hundreds of Tesla chargers open to all in France . To map out a route in advance for an EV, use an app like A Better Route Planner to see the journey and potential charging stops. There are others who moan about Tesla chargers NOT being on the Autoroutes / Motorways as they do not want to leave the road corridor. Just shows that all needs are mostly catered for.

An article online from our UK public funded BBC. I like it, others may not..... https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240311-evs-lost-their-luxury-status-symbol-reputation EVs were once luxury vehicles. Now, they're for every driver .........Eventually, EVs for everyone Alongside the lower-cost EVs other automakers are introducing, Chinese EVs could represent a tipping point. Yet experts caution models by BYD and other Chinese EV manufacturers may not hit the market immediately. While the Chinese firm started selling some of its models in Mexico last year, and currently produces them in Europe, Helveston says North America will be a tough market to penetrate. The US currently charges a 25% tariff on Chinese EV imports, which eats into the signature selling feature of these cars: affordability. US President Joe Biden also recently announced an investigation into the sale of Chinese EVs in the US on "national security" grounds, while Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said she is worried about China's ability to flood the US market. "There are plenty of barriers here that are going to make it really hard," says Helveston. "Either they're going to have to import the cars, which is going to make them too expensive, or they're going to have to set up shop here, which is going to be really hard to do." Ultimately, sales are going up and prices are going down – which means EVs no longer carry the cachet they once did. As the cost of batteries drops, automakers are getting close to the point where their EV offerings match their petrol-guzzlers.

What is all this Guff about UK being a rich country and lots of pollution, taking a look around at the state of the country today you would be forgiven for thinking that we were a 3rd world country right now with all manner of services on their knees and the energy resources struggling to cope with demand without the increasing load being applied with EVs needing to be charged on a regular basis. The country would be far better served if there was less corruption among the elites in society, and they were made to pay their fair share towards the services that everyone at some time or other, rely on. Yes I suppose if you take into account all the vast wealth that these elites have squirrelled away in offshore and overseas tax heavens, which are often attracting more interest payments in a day than many people earn in a year, then in theory it is rich country with the wealth controlled by a few. As to lots of pollution, has anyone actually investigated the truth instead of just trotting out what the elites keep sprouting? I said before, if the elites tell a lie often enough and the masses (the public) will believe it because they fall for the BS because its being fed to us by those that we naively elect to be the leaders and run the country because we still have not learnt from past history that our system is corrupt, and we lurch from direction to another depending on the election results each time, like yo-yo's. This is the actual live air quality map for today as of just a few minutes ago and anything in green is good and just look at the UK v the rest of the Europe and the continent, and if you bother to check it out for yourselves, the rest of the world fares even worse, we already have clean air and there less pollution as a whole. Not to sure how much longer that will continue for if we allow these elites to keep dumping raw sewage etc into our rivers and sea sides though, it's time that we as @EnterName said, had the gall to say NO a bit more often, the French do and they often have civil unrest and they get things improved. Not that I'm advocating such events, but as long as we blindly accept what the elites tell us, they keep the status quo going and it will be only the super rich who will have the ability to do things we can do today, while the rest of us will be crippled in our movements etc.

"Let them eat cake" eh? 😄

Particularly China has geared up for massive production of lithium based batteries for its own EV market and for exported cars ie TESLA, BYD, SAIC etc. The automotive rechargeable battery technology has moved on from lithium batteries to lithium iron phosphate and very recently to sodium batteries so less lithium is needed. China is going through a bit of a economic hiccup and of its hundred or so EV companies some are to the wall and not the Great Wall (Chinese EV joke). Also the super scaling of battery production, particularly by BYD and CATL, is massively driving down the unit price of kwhs of batteries of each kind. We are just the lucky recipients whether it is buying a RHD TESLA, BYD, MG etc. LG Chem, as in my Zoe, and other South Korean firms are doing the same but no one is close to matching the Chinese in this endeavour.

I just deleted a long reply to Wyx about this issue, because I just lost the will to try and explain it. When I sold my Mondeo, I offered it to a couple I know who desperately needed a car. I was asking £500, which four years ago was crazy-cheap for a 2006 Mondeo Ghia TDCI, well-maintained on 4 newish tyres, with 120K miles. They asked if they could pay me on instalments. Frankly, I'd have just given them the car if I'd been closer friends with them, but another friend wanted the car and could rustle-up £500 (like most of us on here, I suspect), without a second's thought, so I let him buy it and he's still very happily motoring around in it. EVs are an expensive novelty for large numbers of people in the UK.

Hello Lads, Many members are struggling with their DSG going in Neutral when they release the gas pedal and engage the “coasting function”. Especially with the facelifted cars with no drive mode selection option. You can disable the coasting function with VCDS, OBD11, VCP, ODIS E following those steps: Front hood open/popped, Module 19 - Gateway>Long Coding>FPA Funktion Freilauf DefaultON>Not Active Thats all. Enjoy your normal transmission behaviour. 😉

Hi everyone - just taken delivery of a new Superb Hatchback 2 litre TSI DSG 2wheel drive standard suspension from a Skoda dealer. Front shock absorber transport blocks not removed prior to collection. This came to light as I experienced a number of instances when travelling on the open road even a minor road imperfection generated a huge thump through the whole car. Sensing that something was not right I researched BRISKODA and found a possible cause relating to the transport blocks on the front shock absorbers not having been removed as part of the PDI exercise. Contacted the dealer and they confirmed this might well be the cause I would need to have the car booked in to my local Skoda dealer to have this checked over. I have asked to see a copy of the PDI inspection report as I need the assurance that the PDI was carried out and that there are no other outstanding matters which need attention. In the meantime, I checked for the transport blocks myself and found the buffers still in place. I have now removed these (2 buffers each side) and the car in transformed. Thanks guys for the heads up. It's simply crazy why this issue is still coming up year after year after year!

Radio silence still on Brian Morrison / MG EV driver in Scotland where the reports were 'The car would not go below 15 mph to the Car took over and drove at 30 mph. Neither the Police van or the MG being damaged when he was brought to a halt by driving into that.

Same engine as my Octavia, 1.4TSI. The Golf had a 7sp dry clutch, AFAIK the wet clutch only went into the higher torque models. The wet clutch was reputed to be a smoother unit, somewhat academic though. I am aware of the attributes of S, I alternated between D & S frequently. Frankly it made little if any difference to the situation we're talking about here.

It was left for 3 weeks not touched in Dec 2018 as we went away for Xmas. Came back exactly same %. Last December, as we have V2H, it was left plugged in powering the house and recharging overnight. So can't comment. Generally haven't noticed any self discharge. I think the only car that has vampire drain is Tesla's, where they regularly wake up HV battery to report to the mothership. Everything in Nissan Leaf and other early EV is designed around ICE mentality, if I don't "start" the car, HV battery would not be "started"/connected. Some cars have HUGE built-in buffers. Audi's and Ioniq are known to have this. 6 years old Ioniq 28 are still reading 100% SoC.

I am pretty sure when I was researching about the DSG thermostat, I came across an article that stated some Skoda Diesel engines have two thermostats. One located top of engine and easy to get too, and one buried within the bottom of the engine. I however could be mistaken.

If not doing long life service intervals / oil changes there is VW502 00. Why they should mention using VW504 00 / 507 00 for fixed is simply because Skoda shows nothing about Fixed Service Intervals from the time of the WLTP and them going VW508 00 / 509 00.

A 2010 Jaguar XK With a big V8 engine up front is expensive to run. It struggles to do more than 25mpg and emits 264g/km of CO2 But is ulez compliant The system is nonsense

Is it No7 ?

The ‘crunch’ noise you heard would be the ABS pump applying full pressure to the brakes very quickly as the manoeuvre braking thought you were about to collide with something

@Graham Butcher It is good that when stop / start is operating that there is nothing to smell. I still do not see why the supposedly low or non polluting vehicles running ICE,s can not just redirect the tail pipe back into the car then, or to a tank in the car that can be taken home and those with off street parking could unload it into their home. All nice fresh non polluting air. Gather all the stuff and recycle it regardless of how powered. Carbon Capture. Hand it back into the filling station or tyre an exhaust centres. It all came from the ground, there is no place else to get stuff, put it back in the ground. Life & death is so simple, just like people. is

Long cars are a problem. if cars were shorter and the queues were shorter then drivers would be able to get to their turning quicker and queues would be shorter or non existent.

I disagree, but I'm happy to simply disagree and as Rooted says, "Just say no.". I get somewhat frustrated by what I see is a lack of empathy for the people in the UK who don't want change, but have it foist upon them by people who claim to know better. Re-framing change as "progress" just so you can force people into the change you want won't wash. When the "progress" turns out to be worse than what was originally deemed to need change, those who pushed for change always hide behind their good intentions, as if good intentions always trumps the caution of opposition to their change. I'm lucky enough to be able to accommodate the penalties for not buying into the green utopian dream, but many aren't. It is nice to be able to live in some sort of Pleasantville, where the high cost of living prices out the Plebs. Certainly that's where I choose to live, and I suspect you do too. (I bet you don't live anywhere near the sort of people who rattle around all day in a smokey 20 year-old Transit, looking for scrap they can sell.) People can put up with living in a world where there are "haves" and "have-nots", only when the "haves" enjoy what they've got without bullying the "have-nots" into living like the "haves", and punishing them if they resist. I think the problem is one of ignorance, used in the true sense of the word. There seems to be a lack of comprehension of how many people live in the UK. Example: There are an estimated 1.5 million uninsured vehicles on UK roads. Do you think those uninsured drivers give a toss about "getting to net zero" to save the planet? Talk of using the stick if the carrot doesn't work isn't encouraging. You can only enforce laws people don't consent to with the use of draconian force. (So much for our "Liberal Democracy", if it comes to that.) If you are willing to use a stick on people, don't complain if they find a stick of their own to use on you.

Replacement anti-roll bar drop link cured my rattle/knocking. Garage said difficult to locate exact source of sound when driven, until car up on ramp and wheel (NSF) free to 'fiddle about'.

Then we're unwilling to help you as we don't support owners of clone cables.

BEV,s are in the hands of many business users, and people like Nurses, Carers, Home Helps, Social Workers, Emergency Workers, taxis, couriers, trades people, fast food deliveries, chemists, so Fleets, Lease Companies and owned by Motability Finance. Just cars used by employees or those that opted for a BEV or got landed with them. Then those that want to own or lease them. They are what they are, if you do not want them or can not afford cheap ones then just say 'No'. ............. I doubt any member here is a Trader in Minerals / Metals or speculate in world markets so you just need to see what reason might show on Social Media, Media or business news. There might be various reasons given. Depends who tells you.

Recallibrate the stop points on the drivers window by holding the button down for five seconds after it stops, and then the same for the up position. Should sort out the one touch up and down. Gaz

Economy centric tyres sometimes come with lower thread depth. You are free to fit 8mm tyres if you wish. But remember it's not the thread depth that determines life of the tyre. The compound wear rate plays a bigger role. This video starting at this point explains why some tyre may have lower starting depth, it's for rolling resistance. But they may have slower wear rate.

Look up the meaning of ignorant and you will see it is commonly used as a rude and insulting term. You would be better using 'ill informed' as it is not rude and insulting.

With the increasing ranges of EVs and judging by comments often made by those who buy or own these EVs, options should be offered to make their lives even easier and more comfortable.