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A little bit grainy due to high ISO setting as it was pretty dark at the time.

From the garden

I gave up on the Aurora and went back to taking photos of the Moon and Sun - at least you can depend on them putting in an appearance 😄

actually some of them are smarter than that. Mine can and does integrate with smart tariffs so it knows only to charge when the price drops below a value I set, it works with my home battery storage and also my solar, I can tell it to send a specified amount of power to the car, or to only charge the car from solar or when a certain percentage of the available oower comes from the grid/ solar. So a bit more to it than just a connection.

EU funding. Better together. As in Europe. All for one and one for all. Just that England was always playing it like they were special. Scotland might be a poor poor country with so poor poor people. But then it had a small population lots of land and is resources rich. Funny how keen some were to keep together the Union even though Scotland is supposedly a drain on it.

What’s wrong with just driving into the parking spot, holding the brake pedal fully down once you’re at a standstill, putting gearstick into P, apply handbrake, then foot off the brake?

Most of the charger operators are still loss making. They are having to invest in network rollout and that is capex intensive. The other reason is that the government has artificially depressed our energy prices, so the difference has been made up from business tariffs. Businesses typically hedge and lock in for longer periods, many are still paying significantly more than we do with our artificially constrained prices. Then there's the cost of connecting to the grid. The grid charges are up roughly 500% since 12 months ago. Per rapid charger it is now roughly £1,000 per year just to have your unit hooked up to the mains. Then there's maintenance, site rental, wayleave costs etc etc etc

Correct, I was driving Passats at the time and when it came time to chose the next company car, I went Superb because of that space, not just in the car, but the boot as well and still nothing quite like it on the market in the price bracket.

No worries. Here's another thread on it.

And in the real world with the parking brake applied and the shifter in P when the engine is off you might still feel the little movement as the Pawl in an Auto or DSG holds the car. On the flat not much,. on a steep slope be careful about a heavy movement. Then there is the Starting up again. foot on brake, ignition on, shifter moved to Reverse, or through reverse, N and into D and a bit of a jolt possible. Not so much in a Fabia as in a bigger heavier car sometimes. Just full stops, full brake pedal, full on hand brake, do not rush it. Until the time you forget and you do rush it. How i see some drivers do it makes me cringe. Often that car be car salespeople. No vehicle sympathy. Remember that when buying an Ex Demonstrator. 'Managers car, top of the range, driven by Tom, **** & Harry'.

So there we are: Nice rounded up mileage getting the car to the MoT place as well. So straight onto the DVLA site to sort out the £255 VED. Not going to tally this or the MoT to the costs as it's the general unavoidable standing costs of any motor. Same with fuel, which is probably the first thing I oughtta do now! Gotten it home and just waiting until the evening to get it filled up and then well, guess I gotta sort out the rest! The steering wheel was a good few degrees off centre to the left. I'll probably for now take the wheel off and put it back on a few notches to the right for now, sounds like I will need to actually get it properly realigned, which probably also means new track rod ends. Maintenance: £2317.23 Upgrades: £1414.46 Miscellaneous: £697.20

@Luckypants Or us that only have a 50 kW max charging on DC. @Graham Butcher They are just car parks with Free Parking and that have Bus Stops. Busy with all sorts. Dropping off cars, meeting up, heading off on bikes etc. Charging just a bonus. The other side of Perth coming in from Forfar has a Park and ride but no chargers. The ones in Perth near shops still require a parking ticket paid as well as payng the charging. Chargers between Perth and Aviemore are unreliable. CPS. Heading to Aberdeen without going to Dundee the charging is at Forfar with Angus Council / CPS beside the A90, and McDonalds, KFC and Marstons. Then either Brechin or Laurencekirk.

Good, Scotland seems way ahead of England, or at least my city, where we have 1 large Sainsburys, zero charging points, 1 large Asda, zero charging points, 2 large Tesco's, 1 has 4 bays for charging at pod points, the other bays for 5 cars only, 2 Morrisons, 1 with zero bays, the other has 2 bays only, 1 Lidl store, zero bays, 3 Aldi stores, zero bays then we have 5 retail parks with zero charging bays, and hence my earlier comments about finding ways of incorporating charging at such places. We have many public car parks but only having 8 charging bays between them and 1 Tesla centre with 8 bays. So thats a total of 27 chargers for an entire city, we are certainly the poor relative it seems.

On PlugShare there shows a planned charging hub above McDonalds with 36 more charging points.

Charging to 100% and using the car below 20% isn't an issue, the issues come if you leave the car parked below 20% or above 80% for several hours. Range will vary dramatically depending on how you drive, drive 'normally' at the NSL (like an ICE) then 3 miles per kWh should be your bench mark to work out your figures especially when it's cold.

If you ask them for the printout of the full service history from the Skoda system would it show fault codes read during the previous services/visits?

80:28 and 38th place from around 5200 starters. Couldn’t quite manage sub 80 but it’s a 1 minute and 45 second PB so very happy. Conditions were absolutely brutal. It was very warm and not a cloud in the sky. The sun just kept beating down. I’m completely cooked now. Can’t recommend the Chester half enough though. Fantastic race with amazing support on the course. Great morning out.

Not necessarily, if that is your only thought on it going off. Plug all the seat belts in irrespective of someone sat in them. then see if it goes off. If it doesn't, unplug the empty seats one at a time and see. Final thought: A handbag on a passenger seat without the seat belt plugged in can trigger the warning.

Finally, had a safety recall done last week to repair insulation on the main battery (it's an iV). My local garage, Meadens in Brockenhurst, Hants, are literally at the end of my road, couldn't do it as they are the wrong 'level' of services, don't have the kit, nor the training. So after a long wait it went to Skoda Winchester some 40 miles away. They discharged the battery, dropped it out, did the recall work, and put it back together. Two days, excellent communication and service. But then they found they couldn't re-energise the battery, the pre-cursor to charging it. Interrogated the car computer, and found several identical fault reports going back to July last year that the charging control unit was faulty. I have had charging issues, spoken to Meadens, who blamed the supplied cable. Meadens have had the car several times since last July, normal service, software upgrade after a nav fault, and faulty SOS module which they replaced after it started making random calls. Each time they've plugged the computer in. That's how they diagnosed the SOS unit failure. But not once have they told me the charger control unit was faulty, nor tried to address it. Winchester even had to argue that it was covered by my extended warranty, and fortunately won, its a £2000 part. So well done Winchester and back on the road in six days. But Meadens really let me down. I queried this and had an email about having to drain the coolant to diagnose the charger unit issue as if that makes the difference. So I have asked them again to explain. Either did they miss it (unprofessional and incompetent) or did they ignore it and fail to tell me (negligent and destroys my trust). Maybe it too was beyond their service level, but surely it should be communicated to me. Even my service record from this Feb fails to mention any issues and gives a clean bill of health. Or another reason. What would you do or think? Should I use Meadens (who we've bought four new cars from over the years, such is my trust) again...should others trust them? UPDATE: July 9. Heard back, some apologies for lack of comms, but basically they can't remember, long time ago, claim it's undocumented, and as trust has broken down, could I use another dealer henceforth. They say I only complained when I had a problem. Duh?! So no proper explanation, and sacked by Meadens. Actually had reached the same conclusion about their failings, so after four cars bought and serviced there, ta ta.

I was suprised as well, it almost seems smaller than my previous octavia 2 vs previous superb when standing next to each other

Heres a couple of shots of one of the Gnats display team returning to their hangar after a practise display over the sea, on Sunday.

My energy provider gives me an 8% discount on many chargers and the charge gets added to my home energy bill. Why should they have to start buying chargers that cost 6 figures plus the cost of maintenance, a grid connectiion charge of £1000 per charger per year plus site rental, cost of running a help desk. Nah, far better to do what they are doing right now. After all Tesla are providing charging below cost (using cross subsidy from car sales) to drive as may others out of the market as possible and become dominant. Why would an energy provider try to compete with that? It makes zero sense.

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Hi I recently broke down near Dijon on French motorway driving back from a ski-ing holiday. We had breakdown cover with our Nationwide Flex Plus current account. Costs £13 a month. The breakdown cover is provided by the AA. I have to say that I was fairly impressed with their service. We got a pick up from the motorway to a local garage. The AA assistance then spoke to the breakdown guy and sorted the recovery cost off the motorway. They then arranged for a taxi to take us (4 people) to Dijon to pick up a hire car. As it was fairly late on a Saturday they arranged hotel accommodation near Reims. The next day we drove to Lille and caught a Eurostar to London and then a train from Paddington to Bristol. All of the transport was arranged by and paid for by AA Assistance. We had to pay for food and fuel for the hire car. They arranged for a garage to fix the car after me aggreeing to the repair costs. They then paid for me to travel out to Dijon to pick up the car. They arranged a flight from Bristol to Paris Orly, Taxis from the airport to the Gare de Lyon and TGV to Dijon, overnight stay in Dijon and a taxis to the garage the next day to pick up the car. All of which they paid for. We had to phone the AA European assistance several times to make and confirm each step of the journey home and for the return journey. I could always get through fairly quickly and spoke to someone who could speak fairly good English. I thouht it would all be a bit of a nightmare however the recovery, return to the UK and return to pick-up the car all went very well.

They are also available on Amazon at 2 or 3 times the price on Ebay, and maybe equally as crap, the same thing from the same place. Sometimes they are not though. That is the issue.

How's this for mechanical sympathy? Look at this high speed DSG shift from drive to reverse. (In a VW advertisement, no less!) Ouch!

There are no exposed sharp edges. Any that are there are protected by the road wheel. It is not an MOT failure item.

Stunning 👌

Moved to superb mk2

You should be able to do it on your drive with right tools, halfords breaker bar and m14 1/2 socket are perfect for the job

Follow everything that has been posted. It is fairly easy

FWIW Sainsburys have their own charging arm that is rolling out rapid charging to it's stores. See https://smartcharge.co.uk/ They are aiming for 100 hubs this year IIRC. That might see something come to your town. As for other supermarkets, AC charging is the wrong model. People don't spend long enough at a supermarket to get a worthwhile charge. At short dwell locations, rapid chargers like Sainsbury are doing is the way forward. It does look like Perth will have an embarrassment of riches in the charging department. Shame that for me it does not fall as a natural stop if heading north of there.

Podpoints and filling station is at a Tesco's. There is a Dobbies site with chargers. Then Ionity down near the Inverness road and BP ultra chargers. There is a very big BP filling station down from these chargers, just below using the same entrance with HGV pumps and parking bays. And MFG chargers. And the busses stopping places. And Chargers. Up the road next to it as McD,s and a Travel lodge. 1/2 a mile away is going the Hydrogen plant and filling station. The houses that got approved along with that. This is Scotland first proper Low carbon transport hub. This is the greenbelt on the outskirts of Perth at the junction for Edinburgh, Glasgow and North A9. Near is the Porsche Dealership and chargers and Others. The Super markets are near the football ground and the car dealerships then Down at the Motor mile. The planners are not stupid. The EU paid for the Charger Hub years ago. The car parking was there before chargers it is a Park and Ride.

Broxden Park and ride Perth. Some chargers covered up still.

Are you sure his exhaust is standard? There are many options for exhaust systems in full and part, and while I can't recommend any personally I'm sure someone will be along to guide you soon. Be sure to check out the "Projects" section and try a search using the site search or Google to find what you're looking for.

Yes, this is the part that must be replaced. You will also have to ask your Skoda dealer to remove components protection, recover FEC/SWaP codes assigned to your car as well as parametrization, coding and adaptations. Alternatively, new unit can be patched.

IMHO the problem is either with one of RAM chips or i.MX6 processor.

260 miles if you getting only 3.5 miles per kWh would need a 75 kWh battery. & 75 kWh electric. if you were just using 50 kWh worth of battery then that would be 175 miles. or 50 kWh and getting 4 miles a kWh 200 miles. 70 kWh and 4 miles a kWh 280 miles. No you can not assume anything. If in the coldest and at worst got 2.7 miles a kWh then 75 kWh takes you only 202.5 miles. So What size of battery, or car are you looking at? Something like an Enyaq 80 (82 kWh, usable battery is 77 kWh. Many need to charge to 100%. Do not leave it charged to 100% and sitting. Go to 10% or 5% if you know there is a charger and the charging speed will be faster for the first charging period.

Hi yes have looked on that site, plenty of useful information on there

Pretty amazing that dealers can sell cars which they have zero ability to properly service. I’d stick with Winchester. Most decent dealers will do a while you wait service.

That sounds as if they cannot now be trusted - unacceptable that they 'missed' the control unit fault report when they were diagnosing other issues.

I bought this one recently which works well with my Yeti and iPhone 12. There's a bit of momentary lag when skipping music tracks, and very occasionally it might not connect properly but If I then turn off Airplane mode on my phone and then back on, it connects fine. Other than that it works great. Obviously you need to check your Yeti has Apple Car Play factory fitted, and had it activated.

Octavia makes good foreground... .

The alternative to switching it off in vcds is to just unplug the seatbelt connector under the seat. It won't flag an error aytakes two minutes.

Czech journalist had it on dyno and measured numbers were : 235kw / 423nm It's basically Golf R in disguise.

Love that colour!

That 12v socket (aka lighter socket) in the front is something that I truly miss, what on earth Skoda were thinking about when they removed it I don't know. I have one (12v socket) in the boot which I have to use with an extension cable for my tyre compressor and car vacuum cleaner.

I suspect the situation is the same as described here, with your car having the wires/fuse sockets in the necessary positions 'halfway down' Fuse 40: https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/520005-👋-how-to-cut-power-to-the-cigarette-lighter-when-the-car-turns-off/?do=findComment&comment=5815406