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Best I could manage with a cheap Amazon cardboard and plastic solar filter And the sunset after the moon made way

BCM replaced, all ok. I didn't tell them what the other garage diagnosed, wanted to see what their diagnosis was.

Cheers Gaz. I was fearing the worst, too. I was bit shocked to find you couldn't just check the dipstick and top fluid up! I'm way behind the tech times. But I'm pleased to say it may be alright after all, at least enough to get me the 300 or so miles to the ferry and home. I left it overnight to cool down totally, and then started it and drove gently on as level roads as I could find in A Coruna. The transmission was a bit clunky at the very beginning, then started behaving normally, including getting into fifth smoothly. I think it was a combination of some ultra-steep underground car park slopes in hot weather, the after effects of a fair bit of mountain driving, and (classic me....) the fact that for the first time in 50k miles with me the transmission had somehow been knocked into sporty mode. So fingers crossed we should be able to get home and get any fault code/s analysed. After the water leak last month (which turned out to be a leak in the pump, not just the thermostat housing), I was convinced I'd held onto this car too long - but I'm hoping it will go for another good few thousand miles yet.

Today 150 miles done in 2 3/4 hours. Half Motorway & with 20 miles range left. from a £3.50 Home charge. Charging now @ 55 pence a kWh so it will be £25 to get home with enough miles range for any diversions & hopefully no need to charge. Likely slower going home with traffic & time of day. No plan for keeping the speed down below the speed limits, or drafting or switching off the AC. Smallish battery and if even just 5% battery left and 10 miles to go i would stop and put in some charge as anything can happen in that 10 or so miles.

Presuming you have the DQ200 seven speed dry clutch DSG, this doesn’t sound good I’m sorry to say. Impossible to diagnose on a car forum, but it sounds to me like a mechatronic issue, or the accumulator failure (cracked casting) that’s quite common on the DQ200’s from this era. Better to take to a DSG knowledgeable workshop IMO, but a VAG dealer if needs must. No signs of leaking transmission fluid? Just to cover the simple stuff. Sorry to hear of your predicament - good luck with getting it fixed. Gaz

A few from today.

Must get myself here next year 😁

Hi from me as a new member. Looking forward to seeing what goes on.

You will not find any data for 'AC clutch' as the Mk3 A/C system doesn't have one - the compressor is permanently driven via a sacrificial shear plate.

The roof doesn't open, only the blinds do. So no drains.

I’m on my phone so I will be brief. They are NOT the same thing. In VAG documentation, the VAQ LSD service is referred to as “final drive oil”. The recommended service interval is every 30,000 miles or 3 years, with some sources saying that the MQB Evo cars (2020 ono) want this done every 20,000 miles or 2 years. At this service, you need to replace the oil, and clean the pump screen/gauze. It’s the same principle as the Haldex AWD system (most VAQs are made of Haldex bits, although newer ones are… Borg Warner… @Cairus?) Perhaps @Evolution13 can find the thread from a few months ago where there was a big fight about updated intervals on the Mk4. The DQ381 service is advised to be done every 80,000 miles. This involves new fluid and a replacement filter. That said, every DSG box has an interval at 40k, aside from the 381 (80k) and 200 (sealed…). Most don’t trust this and, myself included, choose to get it done sooner. I have recently done mine at 40k, and will be doing it again when it hits 80k.

You need to get roof bars specifically for the Scala, as they have little pegs that locate into the recesses you refer to. I've got Summit bars for my Monte Carlo, which work well and have these location pegs and detailed specific instructions for the Scala. Not too expensive, either, and an Autocad magazine best buy.

Just a thought, but are the drain tubes vibrating/rattling?

The 2014 Rapid turned over to 150,000Kms yesterday.

Not in my experience Applegreen for example send an email at start then another at end of charge i have come home to a dozen emails regarding one session with only the last one with a cost charged.

Not the case. Up to the provider / vendor, and many accept a false start. Some charging points have a 'Connection Fee'. Before the charge for electricity.

22 kW very useful or essential for many and often is not counted as a Rapid Charge and just Fast. But where there are Side Tethered AC it can be 22 kW / 43/ 45 kW. unless the cars are being scrapped that were using 22 kW then it might as well be available. Many Zoe about including with the NHS. If we do not support or explain charging and vehicles then we can hardly expect those without a clue including councillors, mp,s, msp,s etc to understand there are all sorts of BEV,s out there and facilities are needed as the vehicle might last decades.

What would be the minimum amount you can put in the battery at public chargers?

You're looking at the wrong instructions at a guess. The Columbus has MIB1/MIB2 folders, the Amundsen doesn't. Just follow these instructions: https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/491705-how-to-update-maps-on-mib2-or-mib25-amundsen/

How annoying. I had a look on line to see if I could get one. No chance, all sold out. I consoled myself with the fact it’s only a partial eclipse and we’ll be bombarded with shots on. Social media anyhow.

But maybe typical of most UK drivers??

I tend to find just cruising with the trucks, safe distance but bit of aero assist so around the 56 mph they are doing. Would not do 50 mph and mess up the trucks by forcing them to pass. False economy, better to do 56 in their slip stream. You don't work 25 years in logistics, and have an uncle who owned/ ran 50 Artics, and have lots of sympathy for truckers. I like trucking and I like to truck.

Is this purely Motorways in England with EV drivers that are on a go slow because too tight to pay public charging? @lol-lol did the same in ICE vehicles to hypermile. I did sometimes, but i would use a fast Coach that apparently had no max speed limits and would be happy to exceed even 70 mph. Winter night time i did draft hgv,s in my Corsa E. But twice was stopped by police because tgey were high value whiskey lorries anx the drivers called thd police. ABERDEEN bypass.

He is not as smart as he thinks he is. Tesla are known, like Renaults, for having substantial sub 0% buffers. He makes too much of being a few miles short of range to charging station. He recently moved from a S to an 3. According to Bjorn Nylands testing and did over 30 miles past 0% SoC. Drama queen who should know better.

Partly explains the congestion on the motorways, having to keep to 60 in the 2nd lane to overtake Lorries but maintain your range? if you're that worried stay behind them.

Probably to do with embedding of the nut's mating face (and that of the balljoint if textured) being different on the two types of wishbone, together with the fact that when a fastener is tensioned by torque alone, a very high proportion of that torque is used in overcoming friction, rather than actually extending the screw. There's a lot of techy stuff about pre-tensioning threaded fasteners, and the general trend towards using a lower torque followed by an angle tightening stage is mostly about reducing the variability impact of this friction.

Loads of stupid radio phone in,s in Scotland over pylons and the £250 a year for the some. People seem to not understand about the substations and objections. Michael Shanks MP is a waste of space IMHO. Secretary of State for Energy Security. & Chris Stark Climate Expert is a plonker IMO. He spins some real crackers. Him and others are so keen for new nuclear in Scotland. Some how missing the point that there will still be those peed off about mega pylons. There is no Labour or Tory UK Prime Minister that will be able to force new nuclear on Scotland it needs to be the will of the people. So ask them if they want Nuclear power stations in Scotland. They might vote yes. But ask everyone who pays taxes in Scotland not just those on the voters roll.

Thats brilliant - thank you. I'll pass that on to my dad and see if it helps.

Mileage: approx 76000 miles (approx: 122000km) Will check later, eclipse to photo!

One thing that you should add in by edit'ng, is, the current car "mileage" as that could help. M25 - what more can you say, horrible place to need to be both for vehicles and people in them! This might be the start of a failure of the oil separator efficiency and it is now, or sometimes, letting too much oil enter the inlet ducting. One thing that might assist you is, check the inside of the exhaust tail pipe, if you rub the inside of it with your finger, you should only get a slight mark of "soot" on your finger. My wife's 2015 VW Polo 1.2TSI 110PS 6MT is now at 60,000miles run from new, and initially when I ended up shining an inspection light up into the exhaust (accidentally), I was amazed that it looked "shiny" - I had considered that at that age and mileage, the inside of the end of the tail pipe would be coated in black "stuff" and that only cars with GPF or DPF end up with clean looking exhausts.

There is no official solution for the clock problem in your firmware. The only solution, also listed in the Digital Elite forum, is a cross-flash to a VW firmware, which addresses the clock issue. Then the Skoda HMI needs to be flashed. Only attempt this yourself if you know what you're doing; otherwise, you risk bricking your software.

Sort urban trips will usually keep the battery charge level at only around or below the SS operating threshold. Even with longer runs, the smart alternator algorithm will often prevent the battery from attaining a completely full charge - although still allowing SS to operate.

Would be the safest way, It isn't safe to look at the Sun without special glasses

Your Part Number have this Features: 7UF Navigation system - Standard I8D Standard radio (Gen1) 7UH Preparation for navigation system (MIB) QH0 Without voice control QV3 Digital radio reception QH1 Voice control ER1 Regional code \ ECE \" for radio"

Yes placing a demand on the steering system will also force the engine to restart. For many many years now, I've bought and fitted a plug in 12V DC voltmeter - Chinese made bought via ebay, having one of them does let you see what is going on wrt the charging voltage, okay these cheap - roughly £5 voltmeters will not be extremely accurate - but in my experience, they are good enough to let you work out things like why the auto stop/start is or is not operational. The battery life of the original EFB battery depends a lot on how the car has been used over its lifetime, for reference (maybe) my wife's August 2015 VW Polo 1.2TSI never had any issues with its original battery, but I had fallen into the trap of "everyone says that these EFB batteries fail quite quickly" so I bought a new "next size up" Bosch AGM battery really to be ready to swop when the original battery failed at an inconvenient time during the winter. Well that just did not happen, so after storing it and "topping it up" every few months, for a "few" years, I ended up replacing the original Exide EFB with this "one size up" AGM when the car was 10 years old. My older daughter has a May 2019 SEAT Leon Cupra, again it has an Exide EFB and when I last tested it with my CTEK battery tester, it still looks very very healthy - which is okay, I'd doubt if she ever disables auto Stop/Start and only connected it to a CTEK charger during Covid lock down period. My younger daughter has a May 2019 SEAT Arona "bells and whistles" version - they badly under use that car and it bit them in as much as they needed to call the AA out to fit a replacement EFB battery after the original Exide EFB became unuseable - that was maybe 3 winters ago.

If its been standing for two years has the air filter and air intake assembly been replaced or checked. Have had a few wasps nests etc in my old parts donors. Alasdair

Missed this evenings sunset although a pleasant sky just afterwards

I just fitted a set of NGK 94833's if that's any help.

@Rifleman . I have had almost a year of waiting for delivery of our Superb (she is called Rosie) and almost another year of research. As a result, my AI Assistant is well versed in all matters 'Skoda Superb' and has been trained, through memory updates, to be objective, thorough, evidence based, disagree, challenge and always tell me what I need to know, not what I want to hear. It sometimes slips up but has been getting progressively better over time. Here is the answer to your questions about the Superb's sound system which I shared with it earlier. I hope it helps. As an aside, I suspect Skoda UK Customer Services are little different from any of the other manufacturers and I also doubt the dealership wouldhave any deep knowledge unless you stumbled across an atypical employee. Yes — and the answer is considerably less restrictive than the older Škoda systems made us fear. For Rosie’s current-generation infotainment, I would set the PNY up as follows: USB filesystem: exFAT. That is the safest choice. Škoda itself specifies exFAT for modern USB media used with its current infotainment systems, including 64 GB+ media. � updateportal.skoda-auto.com Partitioning: one normal partition. There is no advantage in dividing the stick into several partitions. Audio format: FLAC is natively supported by this generation of VW Group infotainment; there is no need to convert your lossless library to MP3. Current-generation VW infotainment documentation also lists FLAC among the supported audio types. � My Car User Manual Folder structure: nothing exotic is required. I would use the very conventional Artist → Album → 01 Track.flac → 02 Track.flac etc. The infotainment can browse the actual USB folder structure as well as building its own artist/album/track database from the embedded metadata. � Volkswagen Ireland +1 Stick capacity: your 256 GB PNY is absolutely fine. Importantly, actual Mk4 Superb owners have successfully used 256 GB and 1 TB drives, with one owner specifically reporting both a 1 TB and 256 GB drive being read without difficulty. � Briskoda Library size: I cannot find a Škoda-published hard maximum for the Mk4 Superb such as “x folders/xx,xxx tracks”, so I would not quote an invented limit on Briskoda. The empirical evidence that 1 TB devices work is far more useful. Very large libraries can simply take longer to index initially; that has been reported on contemporary VW Group systems with 10,000+ tracks. � Briskoda There is one important distinction here. The 256 GB size of the stick and the size of an individual FLAC file are not problems when using exFAT. FAT32 has the old 4 GB-per-file restriction; exFAT removes that. No normal music FLAC would approach 4 GB anyway. What I would actually do with ours I would format the PNY exFAT, probably with Windows' default allocation-unit setting, give it a sensible volume name such as ROSIE MUSIC, and copy the library across in this form: ROSIE MUSIC │ ├── ABBA │ ├── Arrival │ │ ├── 01 When I Kissed The Teacher.flac │ │ ├── 02 Dancing Queen.flac │ │ └── ... │ └── The Visitors │ ├── Beethoven │ ├── Symphony No. 5 │ └── Symphony No. 9 │ ├── Fleetwood Mac │ └── Rumours │ └── ... More important than the folder names is having good FLAC tags — Artist, Album, Track Number, Title, Disc Number and preferably embedded album artwork. The infotainment's media database will then give you a much more civilised Artist/Album browsing experience rather than making you work through folders. And this confirms something from our old discussion: the PNY 256 GB stick was a sound purchase. In fact, it is rather nicely judged — enough capacity for a very substantial lossless collection without going to the rather absurd 1 TB extreme that the system apparently will nevertheless tolerate. � Briskoda If you show me the exact wording of the owner's question in the attachment, I can also tell you whether there is any wrinkle in it that I haven't covered above Best wishes, David.

I just wanted to come on here and offer some praise to the Scala! As you can probably guess by my username, I drive a lightly modified vRS 245. If I’m honest, the Scala isn’t really my sort of car. However, when my Octavia was in for a service last week, I was interested to find the courtesy car was a 2026 Skoda Scala! It was a 6-speed car, with what I think was a 1.0 (although it felt like a 1.5!). I admit, I thought it was a Fabia at first, and didn’t find out it was a Scala until I opened the boot. I really, really liked it. Okay, sure, the clutch pedal felt like it wasn’t attached to the car, I couldn’t get the driving position right, I didn’t like how the steering wheel looked and I couldn’t stand the key fob with a physical key I kept flipping open to insert into a KESSY button. Aside from that though, I loved it! The steering wheel, while visually gawping, was very nice to use. I particularly like the one in my vRS, and found that the button placement in the Scala was even better. The digi dash offered plenty of options (far greater than the significantly more expensive 2024 M Sport 1 Series we have at home). The gearbox felt really tight, solid and engaging - pairing really well with what I thought was a 1.5 until I checked the build sheet in the glove box. I didn’t like how the clutch had no feedback, but that might have been a combination of the car having 1900 miles on it, and me not having driven a manual in a few months. That particular car was an absolute bog standard base model with one button for disabling stop-start. It did have a rear camera (which my vRS doesn’t), and I found everything inside a little bit nicer than the similarly priced Ibiza FR I normally drive. It sounded better, and I appreciated small features such as the adjustable seatbelt height, armrest and physical light switch. I’ve driven a lot of newer VAG cars (Mk4 Octavia, Mk8 Golf, Mk8.5 Golf, 2024 Polo, 2024 Leon FR, 2024 SEAT Arona, 2025 A3, among others) and almost all of them have been terrible. I thought they were overpriced and awful to drive (as both a keen driver and just a random person) with scarily light steering, no control feedback and dismal performance. I was really pleased to see that the Scala seems to have broken that trend.

The V70's 15 years old - so it's averaged 2,667 a year: I bought it last year at 33k miles, so I've put 7k miles on it. 1200 of those were the trip last May up to Edinburgh. Gaz

In the spirit of honesty, that buzzing rattle came back despite the magnets still appearing to be well secured. ☹️

Dug out my solar filter only to find it smashed 🤦

The new T pylons are some much less obtrusive. Shorter, squat. Saw a row of them from the M5 which are in place to take power from Hinkley C to the high voltage national grid. If tol many complaints then bury them like in Snowdonia. I gather Belgium is burying electricity lines as a national policy now.