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Well now, isn't THIS ironic? We've agreed that the tobacco industry promoted misleading data and suppressed truthful data so that the public perception about tobacco use was skewed in their favour. But you're convinced that isn't the case for vast sums of money being spent on climate-change initiatives? 🤪 indeed! Incidentally, it may interest you to know that there are some people who are crazy enough to still be smoking. Can you believe it!? Look, we've had this debate before and when we got into it and I presented my data, you went off on a tangent talking about "imperialism" and "oppression". Come back at me against the data I have already provided, not with political ideology. Agreed, it has to be BETTER. Yes, that is perfectly sensible behaviour. What's your point? 🤷‍♂️ Yeah, you do keep saying that, but the market IS always right, so long as it's left to operate without some smart-alec trying to "improve" things in line with his ideology. Answer me this: Do you honestly believe that all your opinions on issues are perfectly aligned with the smartest people on the planet who are most knowledgeable about those issues and hold the correct opinion on the issue? (They are correct because they have the intelligence and expert knowledge on the issue to be able to reach the correct opinion? For the love of God, don't deflect by trying to assert than I'm claiming to be the smartest guy in the world.) If not, which of the opinions you presently hold are correct, and which are incorrect? You might want to have a think about that one. A level playing field is a sensible goal to aim for. Do I think VAG should have been punished? Absolutely not. VAG did nothing wrong, IMO. They built vehicles to pass the emissions tests and pass they did. VAG shouldn't be blamed for a inadequate test, blame the idiots who created a test that was easy to cheat. I believe ALL the car manufacturers cheated. VAG was just clumsy/daft/honest(?) enough to get caught. You do you.

On the way to work earlier.........

Sorry, I missed this point, and it's a good one. That's quite a narrow set of terms, but if you'll allow it, let me use seat belts as an good example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt#:~:text=Volvo introduced the first production,was the 1959 Volvo 122 Volvo introduced seatbelts into their cars as early as 1959. This was innovative and helped cement Volvo's reputation as making cars that looked after their passengers. Even today, Volvo are associated with dull but safe cars. The market responded accordingly. Demand for seat belts grew, and so more manufacturers introduced them Eventually the legislators caught up, and in the UK it became mandatory to wear a seatbelt in the front of a car in 1983, and in the back seats in 1991.

Is this attitude really necessary? I have benefitted a number of times from Carlston's extensive and accurate knowledge, as have others on here. Your claim that Carlston's post is wrong is clealy incorrect in itself.

It's clear, but my being a happy chappy isn't because I have accepted the reality that most people don't want to be forced into an EV. It's because I'm naturally good-natured and cheerful. Positively playful, even. You should try it. Turn that froon upside-doon! 😊

I've not done it on a pre-FL mk2 but I don't think there is anything complex involved... The only real danger is leaving it plugged into the car due to the voltages used. As long as it's disconnected, it should just be the three screws you can see and the two connectors. They will probably be quite stiff. Before buying anything, I'd try swapping the headlights over and possibly the ballasts. Just to confirm if it's the car wiring, ballast or bulb that's at fault

The average age of a used car on the road today is twelve so maybe in 16 years time when the average age has probably reached 16 the majority will be ev The Government will possibly have to step in and cap the resale price of electricity to secure interest from the many who cannot charge at home.

Yes, and they will do this by whatever means works. If you're advocating for scrapping the IMF, I'm with you on that. Fossil fuel subsidies lower fuel prices, punitive taxes on fuel raise the prices again. Swings and roundabouts, (Where does the IMF get that $7,000,000,000 from to subsidise the fossil fuel industry, eh? Not willingly from me, I can tell you!) Indeed, and the market has reacted accordingly. Sales are slowing and prices are dropping rapidly. When used EVs (and new) reach a desirable price for the market, the market will react accordingly. Yes. Other EV companies CEO's Mums are asking "Why can't you be more like that nice boy, Elon? Look how well he's doing!". Venture capitalists are part of the market. Legacy manufacturers are faced with the prospect of huge fines for failing to sell EVs that the market doesn't want. So they're being blackmailed by the EU into spaffing huge amounts of money on EV production lines, to make cars people don't want. It's not hard to see why venture capitalists are saying "I'm out!" to that deal. <BUZZ!> No. Climate change concern is for lefties and centrist virtue-signallers. I (and most people IMO) don't actually GAF about man-made climate change in the West. Pollution yes, but CO2 is not pollution. You can give me the Thunberg "How DARE you!?" all you like, I don't care and I've explained why previously. It's a made-up problem, IMO. You can say "Let's be honest..." or "Let's be clear..." (a tried and trusted favourite) or even "We all agree it's indisputable that...", but the assertion that "there is a change needed" needs to be convincing enough for the market to buy into it, and I mean that literally. Oh come on! The tobacco industry promoted fake "research" in to the benefits of tobacco consumption, and suppressed any information that highlighted the risks of using tobacco. So the market was skewed in favour of the tobacco industry, by political blobs like Ken Clarke. (Fortunately that sort of thing would NEVER happen with something like a coronavirus vaccine. Oh nonononono! The big pharmaceutical companies are there to save lives, not make money. Angels, every one of them. #ClapForPfizer) The financial crash of 2008 was not down to too little regulation, IMO it was down to too much regulation. When you have dopey ideologues coming up with regulation and the best brains money can buy finding ways around it, there's only going to be one winner there. One example was literally obliging banks to lend to people with terrible credit ratings. (Remember sub-prime mortgages?) The banks then started taking whatever legal (and potentially lucrative) measures they could come up with, to mitigate having to lend money to the most unreliable people imaginable. It's worth noting that very few banks were allowed to fail. The market was tampered with. IMO, the poor data privacy of the tech industry was both inadequately punished and under-reported. If people knew their data was not secure, guess what, the market would respond accordingly and the tech companies would up their security game or fail. Data security would become a selling feature, not a dirty little secret. Having been told to jump through ever more hoops to satisfy emission regulations, (example of that sort of bumf here https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2023/740246/EPRS_BRI(2023)740246_EN.pdf )it's not unreasonable for the car industry to throw their hands up and say "Oh come on now!" when the politicians suddenly demand "You know what? We've decided you have to make EVs. and if you don't make enough, we're going to fine you.". Why SHOULD they make cars according to political diktat, rather than market demand? (I'm going to disregard a "Muh climate change!" answer to that question.) If you make it, promote it and price it right, people will buy it. If you promote it really well, you can charge what you want for it. 🤷‍♂️ As soon as coercion is applied, people like me who do not like being told what to do without a convincing reason, will dig our heels in against the coercion.

Absolutely. I'd thought about writing something but decided not to because it wasn't quite as polite as what you put.

What do you mean?

That's what venture capitalists are for. Incidentally, Musk did this with Tesla, and everyone loved him until he lost all his lefty credentials and now he's hated by the woke because he bought Twitter, now X. Nevertheless, he's made a good product and the market have responded accordingly. Teslas are everywhere! (I seem to recall you bought one yourself, did YOU get it wrong? 😋) This is a good point and an important caveat: As soon as someone starts tippling the scales to try and steer the market in a preferred direction, they mess things up and the market reacts. Yes, if you heavily subsidise EVs and punish ICE vehicles, then you can tip the scales sufficiently for the market to buy the subsidised vehicles. (Just look at all the whooping and hat-throwing on here over an hour's free electricity. Some people are cheaply bought.) But of course then you have to keep the subsidies in place until you have killed off the opposition. Incidentally, you can do this with any business, and it's simple enough: 1) Set up shop competitively adjacent to your business rival. 2) Undercut them so strongly that they either go bust trying to match your prices, or go broke through lack of business. (A partner with deep pockets is essential here.) 3) Once they're out of business, buy up what's left of them, stock, property etc. and revise your prices to whatever you want (without shocking your customers away with a sudden increase), seeing as you've demolished your competition. This is called predatory pricing and in the UK can be challenged by reference to the Competition Act 1998, or reported to the Competition and Markets Authority, but it's difficult to prove and I suspect many have gone bust trying, especially against a wealthy opponent with deeper pockets and more expensive lawyers. Reasonably free markets are not hard to achieve, but then a successful free market doesn't need a whole lot of oversight/governance, just facilitation and protection against corruption. An example of facilitation would be finding a way of letting people change their energy supplier quickly and easily, without intrusive disconnection and reconnection. For those who love state control over everything, that is unacceptable. "What if people don't do what I want them to? No no no! We must have regulation over absolutely everything! Besides, whatever would all the bureaucrats do!?!". Luckily, as I'm not a far-left ideologue (I'm not throwing shade at you here, Wyx), I'm capable of giving definitions for words I use. From my perspective, the "market" is the aggregate term for the exchange of scarce resources which have alternative uses. If you let people freely trade, and the only authoritative intervention is to facilitate free trade, then the "market" will allocate those scarce resources correctly, in line with the needs and desires of the people who wish to exchange those scarce resources. Using gold as a currency facilitates the market. Fiat money subverts it. (Now ask me to define what a woman is, I'm one of the few people on Brisky who can honestly and accurately answer that question. 😋) LOL no. 😄 What I'm saying is the exact opposite of that. The market should NOT be manipulated at all. Not even a little bit. Facilitation is fine. Offering protection against predatory pricing is okay, though if someone comes along and does it better and cheaper, well TS. That said, if it's a foreign state-backed company, then I think it's reasonable for predatory pricing protection legislation to be used to protect local businesses against that. Yes they do, and as a result, the market is manipulated by that leverage and influence. I am against that.

That's not logically consistent. Businesses are always keen to attract customers from rivals. If the incumbent manufacturers fail to continue to improve their products, new competitors will sweep in and take the market from them. This is nothing new. The market is ALWAYS right, which is why people in positions of power who wish to promote products the market has rejected, have to subvert the market by penalising people for buying the products they desire, and providing incentives to persuade them to buy products they find less attractive. Get a "free" home charger. "Free" charging. "Free" VED. Get a big subsidy off the cost of your new EV. etc. Get an inflated part-exchange price for your old product. There's also a problem when the "free" stuff runs out. As people used to charging for free, £0 VED etc. suddenly find that when they have to pay for what they are used to getting for "free", the product/service isn't as attractive as it once was. ("Free" meaning someone else was paying for it.) If you threaten people, you can intimidate some of them into not buying what you don't want them to. With sustained propaganda, you can even shame some of them into not buying what you don't want them to. But it's difficult/expensive to get them to buy something they don't want, which seems to me to be where the EV market is now with the general public.

This is a classic example of why it is so important to try and establish where these scientific reports and YouTube channels etc receive their funding from, and you can get a pretty good idea from seeing who these are associated with as they will a vested interest in the "right" result. Remember, "Follow the Money" and "He who pays the piper calls the Tune"

We have agreement about tobacco industry, that's good. Remember that was the truthful scientific consensus that is being brought into doubt using very unscientific methods. Now you are now putting words in my mouth. Vast sum of money going into climate change initiatives does not equal to tobacco industry promoting misleading data. Former is late in the action phase while latter is in the early discovery phase. Just like during discovery phase, vast sum of money was spent by oil industry to bring climate change into doubt (see book below). But somehow, you are convinced money into this is for scientists to reach consensus on climate change. Again, same question as before, are MAJORITY of scientists being bribed to achieve this consensus? Again, this book is worth a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt I'm sensing a lot of commonality: The data you presented was designed to be evoke a reaction in your favour. You chose the data to make your point, not to be truthful. (see first post you linked) When pointed out, you moved the goal post by changing to a different metric. (see your second link, where you changed from per capita CO2 emission to total country CO2 emission) Your data: Truth: I think this recent summary video nicely sums up why the market is NEVER left to operate by itself, there is too many invested stakeholders trying to resist any and all changes. Why does correctness or alignment of opinions matter? My opinion doesn't matter, you are free to agree or disagree. Neither does opinions of smartest people on the planet, why does anyone's opinions matter? Why do you care about opinions of individuals? Fact of the matter is climate change require action, government policy intervention is normal when the companies making the products keeps resisting the change. Governing entities using policy/incentives/disincentives to drive change is completely normal from dawn of civilisation. Another fact is that the car market cannot be always right. Not only there's not enough competing product choices, there's also too many vested interest resisting change. As shown with GM EV1, Vauxhall Luton plant blame "stories", the VW video and there's countless more.

I did it on the back of advice from a VAG software specialist mate, he said no need to do other updates first as that's what I planned on doing

I had black screen scenario out of nowhere during driving with iphone carplay connected on sw 1941. But my and your issue i would put in expected to happen, not because of new sw, but as “normal” 10% possibility to have some weird issue because the system itself is far from perfect and stable. On 1985 I have expirienced no radio logos for some radios that had logo, and two times during car startup it said on two second Choose main user/profile, but its only one main user anyhow and even if this message appear, the setup of infotaiment was correct layout for main user. Br

You're in the 'Styling and Car Care' forum so off course. I don't know any good Dealers, garages or mechanics for a VW under warranty still. The Dealership in Northampton is the usual average for an English Dealership so if you keep your expectations at that level you won't be disappointed and get the car serviced (engine oil % filter change and look-see for chargeable work) on the other side you might have to remind them of the "maintenance" schedule work if you're keeping the car or not be reminded of it if you're not keeping the car and only what the rubber-stamp type attention. You could have a look at the 'Skoda Dealers England' section for any current reviews for whichever areas you think Bucks might fall in or be near, or look and/or ask in the 'Škoda Scala' forum. 'Skoda Dealers England' - https://www.briskoda.net/forums/forum/369-skoda-dealers-england/ 'Škoda Scala' - https://www.briskoda.net/forums/forum/384-škoda-scala/ HTH.

I have fact checked myself just now and i appear to have given a US and EU figure UK stats ignore Cars pre 1994?

That's where mine showed white also, around the edges of the fog light opening and lower edges below the numberplate.

Reply for closure - yep seems OTA update doesn’t do the firmware; downloaded using mibhelper.co.uk and vegarz on here through his ftp link. Updated from 306-308-330 all using the USB-A data port under the armrest.

Yes, make sure the brown wires at both switch pack and lock module are really earthing, but I think the lock one must be OK cos the 'door open' signal relies on it. Backlight in switchpack relies on the same earth as the up/down switches, so do check backlight operation once the daylight goes a bit, later.

Well it really depends where the coolant goes. I bet it is not good for the emission equipment (DPF) if it leaks into the engine or exhaust (charge cooler, egr cooler..) Edit: Btw, just to make sure since I didn't see this mentioned, does the engine oil look like oil and not coffee with milk?

I meant in broad terms; the blower accessible via the absent glovebox, the speed control resistor pack in the fan/housing, the cabin filter in much the same location, just that really. I was expecting the resistor pack on the UP!/Citigo MII to be somewhere different due to the size of the car, maybe behind the dash switch, but thankfully not.

There certainly appears to be too much 'scatter', for those additional lights to be effective as fog lights. In fog, they will just blind both the driver - and oncoming traffic.

Are these supposed to be fog lights used in fog or spot lights to give more light in general use? Do you now have two sets of fog lights on your car? How much fog do you get in your city that needs one set let alone two sets of fog lights? Is it fog that you get or more like smog in the city?

Thanks v much. Yes contacted AG Falco who was very helpful. He is a little way away geographically so trying to find an electrics garage.

Fwiw, I have a blocked heater matrix. I've lived with it for a while now (3 years😆) but my garage is replacing it next week for ~£600 including two coolant flushes. They will vacuum fill and use their diagnostics to operate the coolant circuits. (They have Odis VW main dealer system). I have a slight level loss in the expansion tank over many months. Removal of the expansion tank cap when it's cold it makes a slight hiss. It's under a little vacuum as mentioned which is normal.

I think this is very good advice and it comes from someone with a 40+% increase in PS twice as much as your son is proposing. What does your son want to achieve, what did you want to achieve when you had yours done, was it just ego figures, where the needle is on gauges, or keeping up or in with the boys and girls, or more, will it ever be enough, was it ever enough. It's his life but you as his father obviously want to help. Note the comment about insurance costs. To me already the recommended servicing and maintenance is already thin in some areas for cars in standard form, with the 20% increase probably not a lot more is needed than at standard but more is needed at standard. A VW 4-pot sounds rough to me and the 3-pot (that VW don't have much history with AFAIK) we had as a loan car for a few weeks sounded a bit rougher still, that was a standard 110. There are plenty of posts and threads in the Mk3 forum and others on mapping and the results of mapping plus there's the 'Fabia Projects' forum. "Go faster" stripes just aren't good enough anymore. 😆

Well, all of a sudden when starting the car like the 10th time, nav database is upgraded. Though it doesn't say 24.48, instead 24.6 However this is a huge leap forward 🥳 Also noticed that smaller updates were received and installed this time. So my solution was to update MIB3 to 330, then download the update for nav 24.48 from Skoda. Thanks to this great forum and it's contributors 🙌

Good, we are on the same page. I don't think anyone is blind to car industry and oil industry's manipulation in politics. But I think a lot of people misunderstand their manipulation goal. They manipulate to maximise their profits margins. However, mass market EV hurts their profit margins. No prizes for figuring out which way they push. Hum. Let's consider the evidences. Billions are poured into fossil fuel industry, manipulating the prices people pay for fossil fuel [1]. Billions more damages as result of using this is not compensated by the end user nor the industry. Perhaps now would be a good time to consider the effect of fossil fuel subsidies on fuel prices, it is the definition of predatory pricing. Then I think it's more than reasonable for governments to apply subsidies/grants/whatever you call it, in order to protect against predatory pricing. There is no longer any subsidies for EV's in UK. There is discounts in form of BIK but no longer any subsidies like in 2010's. The free energy 2 hours was due to excess wind generation. It was purely by Octopus Energy. There was no grid or government involvement, I'd have thought you will call this evidence for a working because it is completely driven by changes in wholesale energy prices. Lots of wind supply, low demand => cheap energy => supplier decided to pass it on. 1 company achieve this whilst going against intense pressure from legacy auto makes. Where are those venture capitalists for the legacy manufacturers? Consumers and legacy manufacturers have always resisted changes, from seat belts [2] to new energy vehicle [3][4]. The whole car industry is set up such that the most profit is made by the "fast follower", not the innovator. Apart from meeting regulatory changes over the years, is there anything that is actively pushed by the car industry for all their vehicles (not just most expensive ones) that benefits vast majority of people? I cannot think of one, EV would not be a thing if it wasn't for disrupters such as Tesla (not just Mr Musk), Leaf/Zoe and governments realise needing to do something about climate change. Let's be honest with ourselves. when there is a change needed that does not benefit the bottom line for established industry, the change will not happen. As evident earlier: GM EV1. Industry resisting change is seen time and time again with: tobacco industry, CFC ban, car emissions, financial industry resisting regulation leading to 2008 crash, tech industry poor data privacy until GDPR, and many many more. EV's worsen ICE manufacturers profit margins and dilutes their established in-house knowledge, so you can only expect car industry to resist the change. This is the reason judging success of EV by saying market is right doesn't work. The product lines are limited by established manufacturers in order to slow the adoption, maximise profit. As result, public cannot buy their choice of size/shape, the trade is not equal, it is controlled by the products offered by car industry and usage prices have been subsidies in favour of long established industry. [1] https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2023/08/22/IMF-Fossil-Fuel-Subsidies-Data-2023-Update-537281 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt#History [3] https://www.pcmag.com/news/toyota-mazda-subaru-resist-full-ev-push-will-co-develop-new-gas-engines [4] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/nobody-wants-buy-electric-cars/322832/

Yes. Your version is October 2024. The free download version is now June 2024.

Thank you for your opinion and help. In case of 'button s/s cable' it was added to the car after first battery problems. We have bought car from secound hand in may this year. Baterry seems to be in bad contidion. For now It is about a month when my wife is driving with new bateery and car show no low battery status so I forgot about this issue.

@EnterNameI mean you are a happy chappy. You love failures. Is that clear enough.

How so? The two wires that are black with blue stripe are permanent 12V, the wire that is brown with red stripe is only live when key is in ignition.

I would be returning the car and asking them to update the software to the latest issue. There is no need for them to “diagnose” or “investigate” anything. The issue is well documented and Škoda/VAG have designed a fix. Simply update the software, which they should have done before they sold the car.

I’ve had Goodyear Vector All Seasons on a previous 2wd (front) and the grip in snow, slush and ice was very good. About 10 years ago I saw a tyre test video on an indoor ski slope, the All Season shod front wheel drive got further than the summer tyre shod 4x4 version of the same car. That convinced me of the merit of All Season tyres.

What if there is a huge upfront R&D cost to a new technology that completely negates existing technical knowledge of legacy manufacturers. Innovation is hard, it's far easier to keep building ICE cars with tweaks to 10 year old platform than making a completely new platform. That would be more than enough incentive to actively resist the change. Case in point: people really wanted the EV1 made by GM. But they were rounded up and crushed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1#Demise As I shown in my earlier post with Luton Vauxhall plant, blaming random stuff and putting pressure on slippery politicians are all part of legacy car manufacturer's playbook. It's all about getting handouts (not free market) or getting special treatment (not free market). I guess you forgot the word "free". But there is no such thing as free market. Funny how you are quoting tiny subsidies when there is far more money being pumped into fossil fuel to prop it up. There is still record amount of money flowing into fossil fuel industry. For example, according to Guardian, fossil fuel received £20 billion more than renewables between 2015 and 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/09/fossil-fuels-more-support-uk-than-renewables-since-2015 If you truly believe market is always right, then you ought to stop and define what is the market. The energy market is certainly not free from corruption and backroom dealings. Fossil fuel only works because of support they receive from governments that are not widely publicised. I guess what you are saying is a market that is being manipulated in favour of your view is always right? Because legacy ICE and oil industry certainly still have large amount of leverage over the many of world's governments.

It is true that faulty head gasket can let combustion gases enter the coolant circulation from the cylinders, causing the system to be pressurised even when cold. However, are you sure the hissing is not air flowing into the tank because of vacuum in the system? In closed system there shud be vacuum if closed warm and opened cold. Or if you have a leak and coolant leaks out from the system ie. when it is warm and pressurised. Theoretically, if it is vacuum, the coolant level shud drop a little when opened and if it is pressurised the coolant level shud rise when opened. However, the change in coolant level is probably undetectable to naked eye.

To highlight a point, you made, this video appears to back that up.

Therefore a EA888 engine - either Gen 3 or 4? Have you done a search on this forum for oil consumption issues with this engine? Are you sure the smoke on start up is white, not blue? Heavy blue smoke after standing for a period possibly suggests worn valve guides. White exhaust smoke suggests burnt coolant, unless it is simply steam condensation you are seeing - which is normal for a cold engine. Does the exhaust smoke heavily on throttle up after running downhill or after 'backing off' on engine overrun? Ignore the first line, I misread that you in fact have a TDI. Lines 3, 4 & 5 will still apply to your engine.

Yes, in did

One of our long-term members - @langers2k - may be able to help here.

At least once a week while my partner does some shopping which is of no interest to me... Most new EV owners will have come from an ICE or hybrid and will expect to get the same sort of information made available to them - if they don't then they will 'bad mouth' their new EV to all their friends - this is why they must continue with the "legacy 'trip computer' from the 90's" if they want to get customer acceptance, like it or not most people hate change.

Just as a little follow up on this I decided to experiment on one of my foglight surrounds. I gave it a good clean and then tried heat. For the record heat did nothing at all. I've used heat successfully on plain plastic trim on other cars but here it was ineffective. So I then tried in patches Tyre gel Plastic trim reviver Black coloured wax (turtle wax) Normal wax Polish Polish and wax They all made it look better to varying degrees, so I then washed the trim again. The trim restorer washed off immediately, no obvious signs it was even there! The tyre gel was still doing something but not much and I suspected it would be gone after another wash or 2. The polish and normal wax had done well but it looked like the polish had taken off too much colour. The black wax looked good but you could see it hadn't quite covered so many imperfections as the polish and wax. So I tried combining a light polish and the black wax which seems to have come out really well!! Now to try on the rest of the bumper! Little nervous as there are some scratches and stone chips that may cause problems but it can't look much worse...

8-10 hours of charging may not have been enough but it depends at what amperage the recharge was made at. The general rule is very low and very slow is better, 2-amps or less charger. You do need to have checked this battery before (and after) charging for all 6 cells having the correct level of 'water' (electrolyte) in them and that the plates were not buckled or furred up. 12v is a low state of charge for a battery out of a car and IF the battery was fully charged properly to even say 90% to drop to 12v after just two weeks suggests the battery wouldn't probably perform well in another car (unless it's a very old petrol manual car with none or little computer stuff on it and associated electronics and it is to be driven very often and regularly on reasonable length journeys so that not too much electric is used and the alternator can keep topping the battery up). You could perhaps use the battery in non-car use in your basement or shed, run a radio or lighting and recharge as required. Otherwise recycle for a small payment, about £8 from a "scrappy" in England. From our very, very, dear friends, VW, blessed their cotton socks, we do luv them. - Charge level No-load voltage 1.28 g/cm3 100% 12.7 V 1.21 g/cm3 60% 12.3 V 1.18 g/cm3 40% 12.1 V 1.10 g/cm3 0% 11.7 V

If your heater matrix is blocked the engine won’t overheat. There are three separate coolant circuits on the engine, engine, egr cooler and charge cooler. If the matrix is blocked when doing a regen the egr cooler gets substantially hotter and it can’t then pass through the full circuit to be cooled as the matrix is blocked so bypasses it back to the tank where it can boil the coolant out of the thank. The engine temperature sensor is on the block so will still read a steady 90

1. Value for money/cost effcient based on the performance you get. 2. The place to truly appreciate Stage 2 & 3 is on a track as you realise that you run out of road alot sooner than you think without being reckless. 3. When things go wrong its costly to get fixed! From experience, 400bhp on UK roads is more than enough, I would even 300bhp is.

Try another battery.

@EnterName - I wouldn't worry. They've probably got a few suppliers for the camera unit but as long as the handle is the correct shape, I'm sure it's fine. In other news, I've calibrated the highline camera (not required for the aftermarket Chinese kits). I initially tried to use VCDS but none of the security codes worked which appears to be normal with the newer cameras. Instead, I got my trusty VAS5054a out and found a copy of ODIS service v5 online. You'll need a VAS6350 calibration targ et, the dimensions are online so I made a an SVG file and then converted it to a 300dpi 1900x700mm PNG. The forum software doesn't seem to like the PNG for some reason so I've zipped it: vas6350.zip I had the PNG printed locally for under £7 (190x70cm) but you can also play the cutting and sticking game with A4 if you prefer. The VAS6350 needs to be placed correctly on level ground, it seems like there are a few methods but I did the following. Find and mark the centreline of the rear wheels: Find the centreline of the car, I guessed this based on the roof antenna and rear badge: Place the VAS6350 on the car centreline and measure 1700mm from each rear wheel centreline and the first black bar: Fire up ODIS and use the guided function finding. It should spot the not calibrated fault code and walk you through the procedure. Make sure the camera is activated and at some point, it should ask for the distance to the target, target height and the camera height, in my case I think I used 1700mm, 1mm and 890mm. The RVC image will go a bit weird and 30 seconds later, it's all calibrated and no fault codes. Final picture of a very untidy garage: