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Mk2 Estate in Black and data on left Mk3 Estate in Orange and data on right

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.

previous 2016 Mk3 and current 2023 Mk3.FL

Today i found out my dashcam was full and wasn't overriding old files. Reason? G-sensor got confused after every faster acceleration and locked the file because it thought i got hit by another car

As many of us are expecting to take delivery of a new car soon, I am reminded how important it is to delete all your personal information data from your old car before trading in. It is frightening just how much of our personal data is now stored in the car and is accessible to third parties. .

Thank you for your comments👍

You find them helpful and that’s great, I’ve just never seen the need that’s all. Nobody is right or wrong here, it’s a forum where help and opinions are commonplace, it’s really no big deal and I’m not sure why certain people are getting all worked up about it😂 My last car had reverse cameras but I literally never looked at the screen when reversing, I preferred the old fashioned way of mirrors and the sensor beeps. If it works for you then all is good👍 No dramas whatsoever.

Forums are indeed designed to offer assistance where required, but you’ll also have plenty of people offering plenty of opinions too, that’s the nature of a forum mate. The trick is to accept that different opinions are absolutely fine, there will be heap loads of things that you disagree with me on…..and that’s absolutely fine. No need to get upset. Jesus🙄

In case anyone is interested, attached to OP of this thread shows what's inside the Nissan OEM 3-pin charging cable: https://www.speakev.com/threads/fault-with-nissan-e-nv200-granny-charger.184970/

Reverse cameras are a pointless luxury if you already have reverse sensors (which most new cars have). The sensors will accurately tell you how close you are to something, thus doing the same job as a camera just without the visual aid. If I buy a car with reverse cameras fitted that’s fine, but I wouldn’t dream of chasing wires and drilling holes into a car to have one retro fitted. Even if it didn’t involve drilling holes I still wouldn’t bother, pointless. Only my opinion, if you disagree then all good👍

It's almost as if they are trying to obliterate all references to what the EU actually did for the UK. Much the same as they have been trying to delete all online media about the lies they fed us about the benefits of leaving, remember the famous red bus and did we ever get that money paid to the NHS after we left, of course not, but many believed that we would and the rest is history.

Nope that doesn't work either. I just use the fob to open the boot.

Not sure about the action @TheWandererhas tried but the kick action sure doesn't work for me, whereas the old school fob method is perfect every time

Halfords 18" breaker bar is the perfect length as it just fits in under the wheel arch to provide you with enough leverage. I've done a couple on the drive so it is doable but only with the correct length of breaker bar.

Now a couple of his teammate, who had to abort their practise due to a technical problem with the plane.

I had a problem with a flat battery on my Fabia Mark 2 Hatchback (2012), so I called the RAC and got a jump start. I was just about to go for a half hour drive along the motorway to recharge the battery when lights started flashing on the dashboard and the mechanic checked the electrics to find that the alternator was only putting out half the power it should 😮 He put a volt meter on the battery which said 14 volts, but then tried it on the engine and got a reading of only 13 volts, the volt drop test indicating that there was a resistance in the electrical circuit. It turned out that the actual problem was that, at some point, someone had undone the earth connection on the left side of the engine (opposite side to the battery), but then bodged the bolt back on and crossed the threads so it wasn't fully tightened 😒 This resulted in the connection getting corroded and the rust causing higher than normal resistance in the circuit such that the bolt was actually getting hot! To fix it, since the bottom part of the bolt is (I think) M10, but the top is M8, he borrowed my Dremel and reamed out the hole in the earth cable to let him secure it with the M10 part of the bolt and, once it was back in place, all the parts of the circuit were registering the same voltage. So thumbs up to the RAC guy for spotting this and saving me having to fork out for getting a new alternator fitted! 👍 I hope this might help someone else who has a similar issue 🙂

I have the diagnosis print out (provided by Winchester Skoda) which shows the fault from last summer onward.

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

I've got the Fabia booked in with my detailer this Friday, I like to think I maintain my paintwork in good order but after seeing what was possible on my golf I'm keen to let him loose on the fabia, I can then maintain the paintwork for the next 12 months I'll post some pics Friday

Misread your earlier post; agreed, clearly he gave us the bigger brolly, still Significant Other is ok with it sitting in her door panel, easier to get to in a hurry apparently 🙄

Always happy to oblige👍

@Graham Butcher Re Porsche. Especially as the platform was shared and is with Audi and engine development was straightforward and carried out by different people from their usual. Getting braking, suspension and control of H2o should be simple, VW have a century of failures to have learned from. Vorsprung Durch Technik. Should have let the Chinese built the Porsche. No PUBLIC HGV EV Charging stations is different from having HGV Chargers at Distribution centers. & there are EV Bus Chargers. Not for the Public use. Early days for the HGV EV,s in the UK but the video the other day posted on here showed the new Fleet that is going to be out delivering. 2 Logging / Timber hauling EV HGV,s are operating just now in Scotland on trials and running loads to the port in Inverness from forest sites. Scania have EV HGV Logging trucks in operation in cold climates. The chargers can run on Hydrogen in the Forests, or Solar or Wind Turbine to Battery Storage. The Forestry Commission and others, Hydro and Water Board are generating electricity and running vehicles and not alowed to export / sell the electricity or let the public use the chargers. Hydrogen at the Free Ports in Scotland as well. As used for the Ships in Aberdeen.

Parking sensors in my car give a continuous beep at around 28-30cm i can get a lot closer with the camera. It also enables me to see the towball to reverse under the Caravan hitch,

Fair play mate, at last someone who recognises that we all have different opinions. It’s nice to have an adult debate👍

I’ll guarantee that if I looked hard enough I can find plenty of posts from you whereby you’ve voiced an unhelpful opinion…..but I don’t care enough to even bother. Wind your neck in mate.

It wasn’t intended to be helpful mate, but this is a forum and like it or not opinions are commonplace, so I voiced my opinion. You’re welcome👍

latterly Robin Hood Airport AKA Doncaster Sheffield Airport, now defunct

A massive act of self harm.

statically there is also XM603 at Woodford which is in all white. Don't know how up to date this list is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_Avro_Vulcans

ah the Victors (maybe I'm biased as I worked on them but I think they were the best looking of the V Bombers) were painted all white at some early stage Also I think the last RAF aircraft with a bomb aimers position in the nose

yup, originally they were all white anti flash (along with the Valiant, I don't think the Victor was ever all white) but for the rest of the time in service they had a white/pale grey belly and camouflage on top. The only reason they painted display aircraft camouflage on the belly was to make it more visible against a grey sky (which is why the belly was the colour it was) when we moved from High level to low level attack vectors

Ok, so I was commenting in this thread earlier without expecting to come later today to my car and find it in an on/off loop When parked at home, infotainment was switching on while car is locked. This time it is wireless AA though. Switched off car's wifi and that solved the issue. Just another example that apart of screen or its buttons there may be many other causes...

What i'm saying though is that the dealer has sourced the wrong umbrella for you..... There are two different umbrellas with different part numbers. One is smaller in length and rounder and designed for cars that store the umbrella under the front passenger seat and the other is longer in length and flatter in shape to match the rectangular shape of the storage area in the door and is for cars that store the umbrella in the front doors. Notice they both have the same Skoda embossed handle but are totally different sizes and shapes to match the area they are stored in. As can be seen by these photos...... The larger one is from my Octavia vRS (stored in the door) and the smaller one is from our Fabia (Stored under the seat). So if you're saying the Skoda umbrella the dealer got for you is too long to fit in the storage area under the passenger seat I would say the dealer has sourced you the one from my Octy rather than the one we have in our Fabia.

Not strictly on topic but sort of loosely related, I went to Southend on Sea airport on Sunday evening as their resident Avro Vulcan was doing a fast taxi run in order to raise some revenue to keep this historic aircraft in reasonable condition. As I'm more interested in getting some decent photos of this beast in motion rather than just getting up close and in person with it, I went to the end of the runway where viewing was FOC. It was very clear from listening to some peoples comments coming from the sizable crowd gathered there just how uninformed and silly some people really are and the most ridiculous comment I heard was when the plane was being pushed backwards out of the hangar (engines off) someone uttered "I thought this plane was supposed to howl and roar, they must have fitted electric engines to it" 🙄 I posted a couple of pictures of it on the Photographic thread if anyone is interested.

VW Caddy Life.

It was the chain that snapped.

To work out the sidewall height of a tyre, multiply the nominal tyre width by the aspect ratio. For example, 225x0.40=90, 225x0.45=101.25, 245x0.4=98. Sidewall height of tyre 225/40 90mm 225/45 101.25mm 245/40 98mm To work out the outside diameter of a tyre, first convert the diameter of the rim into millimetres and then add twice the sidewall height. For example, 19x25.4+2x225x0.4=662.6, 19x25.4+2x225x0.45=685.1, 19x25.4+2x245x0.4. Outside diameter of tyre 225/40R19 662.6mm 225/45R19 685.1mm (3.4% bigger compared to 225/40R19) 245/40R19 678.6mm (2.4% bigger compared to 225/40R19)

Hi Gaz Nice to hear from you. I miss the Rover but failed on severe corrosion underneath. It had the BMW diesel turbo with only 140 K on the clock. Very comfortable but it was time to move on. We have lived in Norfolk for 42 years. I was in the RAF and we got posted back from Germany in 1982 to RAF Coltishall. I was an Avionics technician working on Jaguar aircraft. I came out in 1994 and then worked on aircraft in the Sultanate of Oman. I see you from Eastbourne. My parents lived in Heathfield from 1972 to 1984. Haven't been down there since then. Must have changed a lot. Dave

1.5 tsi Se L dsg 2020

Yeah, just the one. The car feels, and sounds, so much better now. I'll still take it in, as the rubber has perished thanks to the block being left in so long. I wonder what the previous owner was thinking?! Probably will never but a Skoda again due to the harsh ride?!

Wrong! The passenger seat has a pressure pad which if working correctly will register the presence of a passenger and sound the bong if their seatbelt is not buckled, when functioning correctly it will trigger when a bag of shopping is placed on the seat but not a lighter half filled one, the silver foil inside can delaminate and cause false presence detection and hence the seatbelt alarm.

The two turbo engines are good. The 110ps is surprisingly quick, the 95 is more sedate but isn't a complete slouch. Perfect for tootling about in the town and in the country.

Well done on the MOT pass 🙌

The engine mountings for the Caddy have never been brilliant. Either side it has Vibra-Technics mounts which I believe to be mk4 Golf parts, and they are fine, but the third mounting has always been a bit ineffective, and it had apparently been deteriorating. When the transplant was originally done, into the Felicia, a custom rear mounting was fabricated. This bolts onto the bottom edge of the bellhousing and to a modified Felicia subframe mounting through what was described as a Mazda MX-5 track control arm bush. This bush is the orange one in the picture, and was under suspicion as it was looking tired and there was a definite clunking noise from the rear of the engine under torque. I ordered a replacement Powerflex bush, but then when I had the mounting off the Caddy it was clear that the new bush was not the right part. Nonetheless I pressed the worn bush out of the mounting, and once I had cleaned it up I could see markings saying Polybush and 27C. This confirmed it as an MX-5 front lower wishbone rear bush, so the corresponding Powerflex replacement was ordered. After the bracket had been given a lick of paint and the new bush was pressed into place, the front half of the mounting was looking in much better shape. The rear half of the mounting was a modified Felicia part, which had been cut and re-welded to leave it shorter than standard. I assume this was done to make the two halves of the mounting line-up straighter when fitted. I tried and failed to source a replacement bush to fit the modified bracket, so instead I bought the whole thing. I reasoned that I would fit the standard length part to see how it looked, and I would shorten it only if I could see for myself that it needed doing. All assembled and ready to bolt into place. It was much easier to line-up all the bolts to fit the re-bushed mounting than it ever had been to do so for the shorter version, but whether that is a good thing I am not sure. One issue I spotted when I fitted it was that that rearmost bolt, through the mounting on the subframe, was not metric. This meant that it was not as snug a fit as it should be. I found a metric bolt to replace it and it felt much more solid than it had. The road test convinced me that the engine mounting is now in a much better state than it was before.

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

Latest mod finally on the car and working.

Correct and even with the brake pads worn to the limit on all 4 corners the fluid would not drop to the minimum level unless it was not properly filled before. The only time I check my fluid level by removing the cap is after fitting new pads all round when I make sure it is close to the MAX line, its also the occasion to verify the correct action of the low fluid sensor.

My first thought would have been WD40 but I recently sawa warning about not using it to free up stiff door locks because although intitially it will seem to do the job apparently it does "attract" dust (presumably holds onto fine dust that gets in) so causes problems later on. The advice was to use a fine graphite powder. Presumably the same could happen with switches. So I would agree for your problem to first try a proper switch cleaner as hopefully even if it doesn't resolve the problem it won't make it worse in the short or longer term.

I'm in Poland so it does not make any sense to send it to me due to high costs. The IC that needs soldering is 8-bit microcontroller PIC16F747, I marked it red on the picture below.

If you are prepared top pay the sort of money to swap out a 1.2 for a 1.4, I would be looking for an alternative car!!