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EV Production in Oxford stopped last year and they have just announced the future planned EV production in Oxford is binned. But the MINI,s built there are still required to be trained to the port or put on transporters. But that is just how things are, they are not moving the factory.

Long time since no update with my Scout chassis parts, but I ended up replacing all shocks and front springs in October 2023 after a clutch failure (was driven approx 270 000km at the time). Rear springs I had already replaced in 2022. Eventually I went for this setup, my car was 2.0tdi 150hp + manual Scout 2016: Front shocks BILSTEIN B4 OE Replacement 22-230522 Front springs SACHS 993 960 Rear shocks BILSTEIN B4 OE Replacement 19-230559 Rear springs SACHS 992 103 At the same time I replaced the lower control arms to front, ball joints and front stabilizer bar rods. After a 4-wheel alignment the car was really nice to drive, the suspension was stiffer then earlier, but not harsh. Should have done the updates earlier. I swapped my scout last october to a 2018 Audi A4 Allroad with 150,000km on the odometer, and I think that the Scout was at least as good to drive as this is now.

This week i finally found an original windscreen on ebay from what turned out to be a briskoda member. For whatever reason, the previous owner of my car didn't believe in new wiper blades, leading to lots of scratch marks that made driving at night a challenge on it's own. With the new glass i can finally see properly. Important to note that i did not need a camera calibration. Lane assist, tsr and smart light assist work even better than before. Also the top connector ribbon for the heated screen only needs the dome light cluster prying out gently from the side. The whole plastic piece including the sunglass holder can stay in place

We have just had a few days away and I have never seen so many Yeti's This was as we came out of Days Inn Kendal yesterday morning,

You use the electricity to produce Green Hydrogen as is happening some places already. And you do not hold back Pumped hydro storage that had investors wanting to fund. You allow the Battery Storage applications. Obviously none of this might matter to the Capital City of England because they can get cheap electricity just because. No need for anyone there to be bothered by how green or not green energy reached there. Run pylons hundred of miles from where ever.

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Guard against possibly voiding any warranty by having work carried out by anyone else.

The plan is 10% less ground given over to farming. By 2050. More nonsense and that will be England. It will be for more houses built where people do not want Solar Farms or pylons. Or turbines, battery farms or anything else spoiling the countryside. Talk about idiots and that is really the general public. Townies often. Like complained about Countryfile last Sunday. That is the other subject. Stopping eating meat to cut down Emissions from livestock. The livestock that will not need land. Not to live on or to feed them. But then townies do not need farms. There are shops. Supermarkets were fruit and veg should not be wrapped . It can come from factories clean. Like eggs and milk comes from factories.

Thanks to everyone who put in the hard yards to determine best fit. I read this thread with great interest as MOT is due shortly. I can confirm that Bosch A871S fit a treat. Almost exactly the same as OEM. Wonder why the recommended Bosch wipers are smaller that original OEM? 5cm is a massive difference.

I think you are too - take it back, as they haven't fixed it. They could swap the coil pack onto another cylinder. If the fault moves with the coil pack, it might help identify what's going on. Under warranty though, so not really your problem. Gaz

BP should have had a totally different company to do Green. As should every Oil and Gas company. If the electricity generating can not be profitable then the system does not work, and can not work. Everyone is creaming off money and looking for nice earnings from the product. The product is Electricity. It should be Nationalised. It is an essential just like drinking water and sewage. It is a requirement of the whole country. 4 countries and every person . PS. The government and local councils delay every plan. Every development. But then the morons that block stuff are just local or not locals that use electricity.

It does not have to only be for solar as the panels can be raised and sheep grazing still happen between the stilts of the panels. Might even give them a bit of shelter during rain and the occasional blazing sun.

Big plans to harness the power not just in the Scottish Isles but the Merseyside project could be epic. Serves to protect eel pool, sorry Liverpool and generate lots of hydro power. Several lagoon projects being talked about in the Bristol Channel which has the world's second tidal fall after the Bay of Fundy in Canada. Didn't know until this morning that Canada has over 200k km of coastline. Four times more than any other country.

Just because there's currently an oil funded orange tit sitting in the oval office, I don't think it signs of "giving up" by everyone else. The push to net zero is already underway in the industries in the US. UK is on the right track as evidence by the CCC report from yesterday. But there's indeed worrying signs of slow down or watering down of policies by both US and EU.

Look on the positive side, you no longer have to worry about your prononciation 😅

Have people been to Luton ? Not suitable as a modern car plant. Ellesmere Port much better. My company is the largest mover of finished cars globally, I fact our subsidiary was/is the mover of cars from these plants I believe. Modern way is pick up high volumes of made cars from ports. Car transporting or even using trains is clearly much less efficient that being really close to a port and sticking hundreds or thousands on a ship.

Aston Martin’s EV rethink reflects luxury market preferences. A significant shift is underway at Aston Martin as the luxury carmaker pumps the brakes on its electric vehicle ambitions. Citing concerns that fully electric cars are “too extreme a step” for many of its affluent customers, Aston Martin is delaying the launch of its first battery-powered vehicle for the second time. https://uk.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/what-the-wealthy-want-aston-martins-ev-rethink-reflects-luxury-market-preferences-3947300 Not everyone is easily manipulated. You might be able to rig the market by discounting low-end products for the mass market, but it's harder to persuade rich people buying high-end products to buy things they don't want by knocking a few grand off them, or raising taxes on the products they do want.

Ok so it’s likely coming straight from outside rather than through the air con system? Can you lay in the footwell, and have someone shine a torch in the engine bay or wheel arch and see if you can see where the source is?

No, those holes could not generate such temp difference. I've driven my Range Rover for long periods with various parts of internal trims removed, for various reasons, and yes I have felt cold spots, but not such a massive difference .... Could you have some blocked ventilation tube or something and therefore "missing" that particular area? I had years ago the opposite problem, on extreme heat on high fans with A/C on, I would get hot air under my feet, only there. The P38 Range Rover has two fans, at each end of the dashboard, and one central combined heater/AC box. I could not figure out how this was happening, as the flap motors were working properly and moreover the flap from the fan also, and the lower end had no flap of its own. After like an entire summer of nightmare, on the next rebuild of the interior I've found the internal duct from fan to heater box had come loose, which meant air from the fan - coming from outside, before the box, was not entering the circuit, and thrown instead on the padal area..... so I had been running with half-AC 🙄

🤔 well that particular OS did cross my mind, but the software I worked on, with quarterly releases, our customers expected and received detailed documentation of every change whether it was an enhancement or fault rectified.

Dundee makes no electricity. Where does he get Where they make lots of cheap renewables energy? From. 2 wind turbines at the Ex Michelin factory. SWARCO / CPS headquarters. There is energy coming ashore 15 miles away and arriving out at Tealing substation from the wind farms. Solar farms being refused within 20 miles of Dundee. There is Battery Storage in Dundee.

Front or rear one? I just had a front replaced at a cost of £442 fitted. MOT history of the car before I acquired it in 2023, shows that in 2020 both front shocks had an advisories of having a light misting of oil. At the next MOT in 2022 there was no mention of any oil misting on the N/S/F but the O/S/F had a serious oil leak and failed the test, but passed a month later with all other faults listed (all 4 tyres below 1.6mm tread and brake pads @ less than 1.5mm) all fixed, with no advisories. In 2023 it again passed with no advisories and again in 2024 with light oil misting on N/S/F shock, (just replaced) and both front lower bushes showing slight wear, now also replaced so hopefully next test, should pass OK. So it looks as if my car has had both front DCC shocks replaced before I brought the car in June 23 and another replaced this Jan.

Quite a good explanation: If you put the P0304 code in the search box on here (top right), there's one heck of a lot of reading material pops up 👍 Gaz

Of course not! Lookers told me I need a Cambelt change at 5 years on the 280 and was called a “w&>ker” when I said it has a cam chain not a belt. Anyway, you’ve come to the right place to get the correct answer. But I don’t have a clue! LOL! 😂

Had a new DCC shock replaced under warranty, I wonder if the other side will go before the warranty expires🤔

Sons got an 06 plate MK1 which was terrible but polished lenses and upgraded bulbs and its not too bad now.

There is no light, just turn the knob to the heating symbol and they should get slightly warm to the touch

Watch the time, in case they're trying to delay things. Maybe have a chat with Consumer Direct/Trading Standards, as if they can't fix it, you may be able to reject it: https://www.themotorombudsman.org/knowledge-base/what-are-a-consumers-legal-rights-when-buying-a-car Gaz'

Let's just remember the elephant in the room. The National Grid. The non UK owned National Grid. Profitable and never underpaid and always looking for more investments and money to spend while never not making huge profits for the owners. Not fit for purpose yet all there is until there can be Regional Grids, with companies that can get local generated electricity for the local first and foremost. Only when they have had what they want at their fair price should areas producing not enough be able to buy at a premium. As it is it is the reverse of that with the National Grid.

I cannot see dirty fuel being a cause of misfire in just the one cylinder. Was the misfire there before the plugs were changed?

Roof top and over every single industrial buildings should have some level of solar installed. Just looking on people's roofs, it's clear there's still HUGE potential in this area alone. This is UK grid mix over last few days, minus solar to clearly show blue gas being replaced, dips down during middle of the day. Imagine more solar and we see dip to almost zero in blue shading. Any reduction in blue shading area on this graph, displaced by renewable, are a win.

This is obviously something we won't agree on but I don't particularly take any delight in having large areas of the country given over to solar farms. I don't suppose I'm alone in that either.

It will. Dale Vince, the visionary who started the UK public charging network, investing millions in to new solar farms cover square miles. Cons not happy calling it all bent as he is a big Labour supporter of course.

How much did they get previously? They are not taking the £60 million. I think that BMW knows that Car manufacturing will be uneconomic in the UK and they are not talking the small incentive from the UK to invest more into the plant in the UK. They never will build EV,s. Probably not ICE vehicles for much longer in the UK. EV,s do need to be built near EV battery factories. Less movement of just batteries.

Eventually seems not super difficult : I found this on YouTube : Therefore I understand I just need to : 1./ open the rear window 2./ remove my manual door crank 3./ open a bit the top of the inside door panel 4./ remove the horizontal bar 5./ replace the quarter window 6./ do the same operations in an opposite way 4. 3. 2. 1.

If you're going to quote me, quote me.

Yes, as said flat face towards the hub bearing, these have been changed in design to make them a bit simpler - maybe, I found it impossible to fit a new one on one side of my wife's 2015 Polo due to corrosion on the drive shaft - even after trying to knock most of it off - kept breaking off some "teeth"! Edit:- handy picture of the end of the new driveshaft - so that is what they look like new, wrt the groove for that shield.

No. It is not a strategic change. The company is in financial trouble as the BBC article stated, As I said, BEV is being blamed as the scapegoat, just like Vauxhall. Can you honestly say the 2024 Vauxhall Luton plant article blaming EV is the truth, when you've seen related articles blaming other global events over the few years earlier? Just pointing out your logic: You've previously stated "it's difficult to do X, it's more difficult to do X+Y" means a desire to do cohesion. Here, you've used same sentence structure: "it might be possible (doubt due to difficulty) to do X, it's more difficult to do X+Y". Therefore, by your logic, you must be the one doing cohesion, getting people into doing X+Y. Just an observation. "Changing like the wind" comes to mind.

It sounds like you're trying suggest that Aston Martin is making strategic changes away from EVs for ideological and not business reasons. Is that what you're suggesting? No, clearly I wasn't talking about the rich. I was talking about affluent white liberals virtue-signalling their superiority over the rest of us with luxury beliefs that they can comfortably afford and aren't negatively impacted by. Huh? What I actually said: I do not see the point you are trying to make. If you have a point, make it clearly.

Thanks for the information on checking the battery manufacturing date. I've checked mine and it looks to be the original battery as it has 29 15 on the negative pole to the battery, so not quite 10 years old as it appears to be made in July of 2015 but still not bad going. I have bit the bullet and ordered up an new battery as for the faults I have with the car at the moment. I have since bought an OBDeleven scanner and have done a scan and about a dozen faults were shown some were intermittent but about half were reading as low voltage to different sensors and bulbs but they are working, hopefully a new battery will clear some of them atleast fingers crossed. If anyone is thinking of buying a new battery shortly I ordered a Bosch S5A08 70AH 760A from Battery group as I looked at Tayna batteries as recommended on here but I did some looking around at prices and the Battery group site came out cheaper for the same battery by about £14 cheaper with standard delivery as they had a 10% code off at the moment, i'm not sure how long that will last as it said it was ending soon. The Battery group is a slower delivery service they quote 2 to 4 days on there standard delivery so unless you need it quicker and then Tayna would be the better option as it's next day but will cost you a little bit more. I was looking at the Varta battery as thats whats on the car but the bosch is the equivalent and I have read up they are made in the same factory and the Varta is more expensive on both sites. Thanks again for all the replys I appreciate the help.

https://www.classicandsportscar.com/features/buyers-guide-audi-quattro The "Trouble Spots" section is an incomplete list of expensive things I've fixed

Hello bowdie thats why I kept mine just under the 40k, will miss some of the bits though what really gets to me is the dealers lack of response to phone calls and e mails, can never get hold of the salesperson then he e mails you to say car has left factory which is what they said in January, but the dealer cars are definitely starting to arrive I saw two in a different Škoda dealer to where I am getting mine just to reiterate though I think the car looked really good

I am also interested, but didnt find dynamic turning lights yet..

If you pull it all the way out you should be able to twist it back by rolling (almost folding) it over itself, and then let it retract. It should work. Fingers crossed for ya.

I got my L&K 265 4x4 on 19" Veritate in Cobalt Blue last week. Fantastic car. I upgraded from a S3 220 FWD L&K which was an equally fab car that I bought in 2017. You won't be disappointed.

Front and rear bumper being renewed

I'm going down the same route as you currently. The official interval is 80k, but I want to get mine done now (40k). However, if I'm going to do it, I want the filter replaced, which the dealer won't do, even though I'm paying...

I personally always drove VW with TSI engines and we're happy with it. Tried Passat B8 biturbo TDI but @170-180km/h the consumption is high anyway. Latest 2.0 TDI 193hp can require oil top up every couple of K kilometers, sound not great, still vibrate so I ordered Superb with 2.0 TSI 204hp FWD Sportline. Performance is enough for my highway needs, smooth engine with decent dynamics, consumption is lower overall than the 265hp TSI and generally I am happy with this engine. Should have the car ready at the beginning of June.

Purely for cost I would imagine one of these will make life much easier https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/223490102530?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=rEXkH2ETQbO&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=G0CEmgoeS--&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Definitely need to name and shame the tuner. Sounds like they've done a lot of damage to your car. Hopefully you'll get it sorted.