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Wow! Many, many thanks! I just went to where I left the car, removed the lower dash panel and indeed relay 109 had almost fallen out of its socket! Pushed it back in and the car is now running again.

There was a recent statement from the Transport Minister(?) that I think I saw here - confirming there would be no retrospective hiking of road tax for any higher 'real world' CO2 emissions. And now this in yesterday's Telegraph... "Do I have to get my car fixed? The Department for Transport says drivers with cars fitted with Volkswagen's pollution-cheating software are under no obligation to send the vehicles back to VW dealerships to get them modified. "If a driver didn't return the vehicle, that wouldn't be illegal," a DfT spokesman said, although he added that failure to do so could affect any warranty on the car as well as its resale value. Motorists would not be fined if their cars weren't fixed, "but it is in their interest to do it". It’s possible that the necessary software update will leave drivers with a car that doesn't perform as efficiently as they were told it would when they bought it. You may face higher fuel bills as tighter controls on the car’s emissions will lower its fuel economy." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/11899049/What-happens-if-my-VW-car-has-emissions-cheating-software.html As many of the EA189 vehicles are now out of warranty, being over three years old, then this presumably means carry on regardless...? cheers Mustard

Spent 4 hours on the car today. First off, I'd already fitted my Superpro ARB bushes to the car, but when I came to torque them up the bolts let go. Upon trying to remove them, one of them snapped. The other side I have one stuck in that I had to drill out... I'd recently bought some new brackets for the bushes from Skoda, but annoyingly they didn't stock the bolts anymore, so had to get those from an independent fastener supplier. All back on, greased up, thread locked and tightened to spec... I was finally able to get the other end of my new drop links bolted up too... Next up... wishbones! Since I'm no longer in a rush to finish the car, I figured I might as well replace the old rusty wishbones on the car. Popped them off - right state... Nice new Lemforder items with new front bushes (rears are Superpro anti-lift). Was going to transfer my front Superpro ones, but they've done about 30k miles now, and I genuinely doubt the need for uprated bushes on the front ones... Fitted the wishbones and once again tightened up and thread locked. They look so much better... Next up I fitted my freshly powdercoated back panel. My old one had a rip in the carpet, so I thought I would go down this route instead. Before they were done I ground down the threads that were sticking out to attach the carpet. Looks really nice fitted... I then cable tied several bits and bobs to the side to make the engine fitting as straight forward as possible... Cleaned up the box mount from my old gearbox and fitted that... Nice shiny powdercoated mount on the other side... I then took out the sump plug and replaced it with one with a 1/8" NPT hole in for my oil temperature sender. Copper washer and 30Nm later... I wasn't completely happy with how tight the oil temperature sender fitted, so I wrapped it with a few layers of PTFE tape to give it a better seal... Temp sender fitted... Here's how she now stands for the evening... Tomorrow I will FINALLY be dropping the engine back on its mounts I'm quite excited (sad I know!). Still LOTS to do, but at least it's a big leap forward as such

Has to be an old imperial adjustable though, no good if it is metric.

I'd not bother buying a lottery ticket with the luck you're having

Its all arrived.....................had an expensive day! Sachs SRE clutch and SMF fitted today, turbo kit arrived and picked up Seat Sport intercooler and Ds hardpipe kit!

New purchase today............I really should be banned from going on eBay

Why would I bother with a stepladder? I've never broken a leg changing bulbs while balanced on an office chair! I've never thought it necessary to buy screwdrivers. My hammer drives in nails and screws perfectly well! If you need goggles to cut metal, you're doing it wrong. I just look away when using my angle grinder and cut slowly.

Decided to give the golf a good going over as it was looking a little grubby from sitting on the road all week, so the following happend..... Snow foamed using Autobrite magi foam Washed with bouncers slick mick shampoo and two buckets dried off with my chemical guys wooly mamouth Waxed with bouncers sherbet fizz q/d wipe down bouncers done and dusted plastic trim dressed with autosmart trim aerosol spray Glass cleaned with sonax glass cleaner To be fair she scrubs up ok and has been well looked after in terms of servicing and having bits replaced im just debating now if i can be bothered to save up and spend some cash on the bodywork.

Most mechanical things not used for 6 months will seize up.

First rolling road day in a while, made 182bhp and 308lbft.

Its lovely Mark Its a credit to you and the previous owner that its so good If you want to come here and Polish it, you're more than welcome...on a non commercial basis of course It will be great to get it looking as perfect as possible!!

I would hope that the Film is far better than that bilge!! Sam Smith? Never heard of him Should have been Ronnie Pickering!! I've heard of him!!

I don't usually comment if it's not positive... But those decals really aren't doing it for me!!

Ahh! I look on my Skoda as a means of getting from A to B in a reasonable state of comfort and economy. If I had to work on it it I would consider it a poor investment.

How on earth does anyone find the time to post 20,808 times? I've got a life to live away from my beloved Skoda!

One coal fired station in the UK has SCR to virtually eliminate NOx but it's not used. The Government has had to relax the rules to keep other coal fired stations running. We just don't have enough spare capacity to keep closing 2000MW coal fired stations. During this week of high pressure and hardly any wind, the billions and billions we have spent on wind was providing us with less than 1% of the UK's electricity and at night we had no solar. Currently wind is providing 0.59% of the UK's needs. If we have freezing temperatures and no wind mid winter we are going to be very close to blackouts. We only really have one Nuclear project confirmed with finances agreed and that project is slipping and slipping. It's massively expensive for the consumer and will only offset the closure of Drax, one coal fired station. For all the Governments bluster energy policy is a joke. Lee

Just changed our VRS TDi estate for a new 230 in black - with red decals that we love - but for some reason can't upload any photos? Have uploaded three pictures to galleries - if anyone can advise how to link them here (site says maximum amount reached - one photo of my 'old' VRS) it would be appreciated! Hang on...success! [url=http://s430.photobucket.com/user/Fatfudgecat/media/image_zpsfoghmlme.jpeg.html]

Anybody would think you won the Lottery Pete! :p

I suspect the default to stop/start is to validate the placarded consumption figures.

The official TMG car has now done a 10,7" and I think the "everyday" Cupra I was talking about managed a 10,9" as well. Must find the article with the v-box timed in-gear accelerations, they were just bonkers...

The gearing on the 1.6 engine is no where near as similar to the old pd engines which could run in high gear at low rpm , the newer generation diesel engine can not its far more linear in power much like a petrol in this respect, if you change up to fifth much before 55mph she will judder and labour, I have these engines in both our cars golf and monte , you have to virtually ignore the change up logo on the maxi dot , drive it as you used to do you need to listen to the engine rather than listen to the automated change up

I have fixed it for you.

I find it very sad/funny that people are just realising the true "cost" of diesel ...............people forget about the soot they create & the other carp at start up when cold & what do loads of people do?, ............go out in winter , start car, set heating etc to full, go back inside & have breakfast, then car is warm when they finish breakfast..................meanwhile they have just created masses of pollution..............yay! very clever ..NOT!!!!!! I have always taken an interest in pollution & various other stuff, mind you my step father was a specialist engineer on heat transfer, power stations, flue gas washing plants etc, & he used to teach me stuff about it. I have always gone on about good clean/lean burn petrol's, & I notice in the other thread someone was putting links to the old lean burn stuff............... I posted in that thread near the beginning my old MOT stats for the Fabia which ran on Shell Nitro, serviced regular & properly , ran NGK iridium plugs, Mobil 1 oil etc very low pollutants......... Emissions testing on an MOT for the petrol's has always been higher in the UK than diesels & I have hated the anti petrol stance over the years. I was even relived that Germany had to start sorting the diesels out decades ago & we have DPF etc because various EU cities were dying in diesel particulates in the smog's they had created..........but to clean up the diesels we have to add so much other capture & washing equipment, which adds weight, cost, complexity, so why bother on smaller engines, just use a clean burn petrol!!. The info has always been out there, just because it was not "favour of the month" it was largely ignored.................I just can not wait for diesels to be tested to the same pollutants standards as petrol's & the newer real life tests in the next few years. I told you so..............20yrs ago...................rant over.............

There is no such thing as a Beat Bobby now. It changed to be called Neighbourhood Policing but I have no doubt the title will be something different again now and probably has been several times in between all dreamt up by some top boss who has maybe (just maybe) been in Uniform for the 2 year probationary period and then whisked off as a Graduate entry. Just to show my pedigree as it were. I joined Lincolnshire Police straight from school as a Cadet aged 16. I was sent to Training School as a PC on New Years Day 1973. It wasn't a Public Holiday then! I retired on ill health grounds in 1997 just short of 25 years service. During my time I was a Constable and never promoted. I failed the exams three times and thought sod it I will stay doing what I like and mainly I was happy. I started my service as all do pounding the beat and spent time in Traffic, CID, Intelligence, Regional Crime Squad and eventually back into Uniform on the streets where I finished as a Rural IRV driver (Incident Response Vehicle). When I started in a reasonable sized town our shift comprised of 1 Sgt. 2 Town Panda car PC's 2 Rural Panda car PC's 3 foot patrol PC's plus area beat PC's both in the villages and various areas of the town possibly as many as 10 and a Sgt and the 2 Traffic Officers. On full nights there would be between 8 and 10 officers on the ground. At that time it was a Chief Inspector station with two Inspectors under him. As fate would have it I retired from the same station and at that time it was a Superintendent in charge with a C/Insp and then an Inspector per shift with three Sgts. There would still be about the same amount of PC's. I don't know for sure but understand now that the Police Station is closed at night and there is unlikely to be half a dozen uniforms out in the whole area town/rural at any one time and on nights that number will be reduced greatly. This will be the same story all over the Country. In my time we did have Specials and they would come out when they wanted mainly. These were replaced with the PCSO some years ago and after my time. I will not say anything to criticise the individuals who do that job as they are still very brave putting a uniform on and going out on the streets with all that entails. What I will say though is they have at least one hand tied behind their back and other than having a Uniform their job is nothing like that of a PC. I read a book a couple of years ago Call Girl I think it was. No don't get excited! It was by a serving Policewoman who described her day to day job and the trials and tribulations of modern day Policing. To say I was shocked and horrified is an understatement. What she portrayed was a working day where if you wasn't attending an incident you would be in the Nick doing paperwork of one kind or another. Part of which was answering emails from office staff who were demanding to know where a form or file was. If you had to go out to take a statement you were lucky if you could find a car to use. She spoke about PCSO's and said that someone somewhere probably thought about how to address the problem of getting more bobbies on the beat. Then they came up with the idea that Bobbies aren't on the beat because they are tied up with paperwork. Brilliant! So rather than reduce the amount of paperwork they cynically decided to put people out there that cannot do anything so won't have to do any paperwork! Sorry to go on so long but it is a bit of a pet subject for me. There was a thread on here from a serving Officer who told pretty much the same and there are serving officers on here who could confirm this at the risk of being disciplined if found out. I know ex officers through various ways and most of them will tell you the same and they are appalled at the way of the force. Oh and it isn't a Police Force anymore as that is too aggressive it is now a Police Service with an elected and paid person who tells the Chief Constable what to do. In our area it is an ex TV presenter. Go figure as they say! So that is why you will get all of these barmy ideas being forced upon the Police like only investigating burglaries at odd numbered houses and the like. You couldn't make it up. Oh and the officer in the Tractor will be a civilian doing what he is told to make a living and not a Police Officer. If any of you are interested you could beg/borrow/steal the books by David Copperfield who was a serving officer in the UK but has now transferred to the RCMP in Canada entitled Wasting Police Time and Wasting More Police Time they are truly a shocking insight into modern day Policing. I forget the name of the author of Call Girl but would recommend that as well. There is also Inspector Gadget who was (may still be) a serving officer who tells it like it is and I think there was a massive hunt to find out who he was by the authorities. Once again apologies for the length of this and I hope I haven't bored you too much. Suffice to say any serving officer today does a very difficult job as it always was under far more pressure than I ever did and they will most likely be as appalled as us at what they are forced to do. EDIT due to just seeing the post above. I feel your frustration and that of others and share it but please don't blame the officers as they do not get to choose what jobs they give priority to. Instead of moaning about it on internet forums like we (including me) do we should be writing to our MP's for what good that would do but the door that squeeks the most get oiled first.

I would go for H rated, not planning on exceeding 130mph are you?Sent from my D5803 using Tapatalk

I presume it's a 21w bulb vs a 16w bulb. If so the resistance difference is probably enough to register a bulb warning. Maybe worth a try though if it fits?

From that picture it looks like its missing i will have a look at mine in the morning & see if its fitted there.....how weird. Have you looked on your other vrs to see if it has one fitted there?

I should add that I have managed to test drive a 1.2 TSI since the first post on this thread, and was very impressed. It seemed very refined and quicker than I expected from the figures. It might even have been sufficient for us, had there been a 4x4 model, although the extra weight and energy required to drive the other wheels could have made it feel less sprightly than the 2WD model. I doubt that we will be able to test drive a 1.4TSI, as they seem very rare, but having driven the smaller engined model, I feel confident that it will be well suited to our needs. The brown leather I saw in an L&K Octavia looked fine also.

Many thanks, glad i asked as i was going to plough it on dry before i washed. Wash again after then dry?

So not really "retired" at all!

Yes, see his post @ 0907 - he is getting left and right faults on MFD

By being retired and having no life. Any more questions? (often posting while working on a Skoda as well!)

The current substitute is graphite ....plentiful n cheap. Can't wait for a no-maintenance/low-maintenance battery and hope graphene is the game changer it promises also.

Yeah they only rise due to water pressure so are fine to pull out

Here are the Heilos Alloy wheels on the left with no tyre and the Zeus on the right with. As you can see, the Heilos has a flatter face to the center bore of the wheel whith a more square face compared to the more swirl effect and off square face where the bolts are mounted

You have to obey You are no longer in charge Welcome to the new world

1) there apex 45mm springs. But there for an ibiza fr which i have the full suspension from. 2) no black badges yet but i was just going to get them from skoda and paint them black myself its easier. But im getting the grill in black from skoda 3) the induction kit was from ebay for £11 haha. Its only a temporay thing untill i can find a proper one. It uses the cold air feed from the standard box which is good. Dont overly notice a huge sound differance over a petrol but there is one when the turbos really working once everythings over with this recall thing i am going to look into a proper induction kit from somewhere

Now that I'm 10,000 miles and 7 months in to ownership of my first Skoda I thought it was time for reflection and opinion. Coming back from my first holiday in the car, fully loaded with young family and camping gear seemed a good time to write this. Overall, as an all-round package, the car is really hard to criticise. Yes there are niggles, that I've mentioned in other posts, but as a great all round family car, for someone who wants to drive something well equipped, and reasonably sporty it just ticks so many boxes. The sheer space and ability to swallow all of my vast camping gear, with help of roofbox, is so much better than my previous 3 and 5 series BMW's. The seats are superbly comfortable, no problem for 6 hour run from home to just outside Paris in one go. I love the way the lights set themselves for driving on the right, what a great feature. Because of the roof box I needed to alter the opening angle of the electronic boot, no problem, really easy. The Columbus sat nav was faultless, even in France, always spot on with directions and sign recognition. My only frustration with Columbus is touch screen, I really don’t think touch screen and cars works as well as i-Drive type rotary controllers. Bumps and trying to plant your finger on a screen just dont go well together. I think this is just the whole ipad/touch screen world we live in, great on phones and tablets but not on cars IMO. I also had my first service just before going on hols, great experience with my local dealer in Northampton, no issues at all. It's also a car that seems to gain respect once people take a closer look, I was ostracised by many when I went for a Skoda, but when they had a look or go in it they were all eating their words and totally impressed with the car. It is still a head over heart purchase, no doubt about that but totally right for me with my current needs. I'm averaging around 42-44mpg which is made up of very mixed driving of short and long journey's. Mind you that took a hammering with the roofbox and stacked boot, went down to 34mpg! Its still good for what it is and the DSG gearbox. So for anyone reading this who is considering a VRS, and was in the same boat as me (previous VW's Audi's and BMW's), don't think too long about it, just do it.

Thought it was under the rear seats. Almost sure. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Same on our Mii but I believe those models that have wheel liners don't hear it as much, Fred

But if that was the case we wouldn't be able to take advantage of this green landscape you keep on about. Caravan owners are usually the most aware of our lovely countryside but are unable to permanently live there! Live and let live. Fred

That it does! ;-) I'm not too bothered about it all at the moment but if the impact of all of this changes the performance or cost of running the car, I'll be joining the 'Complain Here' queue.

Wheres the spare wheel? Especially with kids.

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How many people set Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) emissions as an important criteria to consider when buying a new car? I bet that it's close to zero. The only emissions that people think about is CO2, as that is what we're brain washed into thinking is important and it has a direct impact on future car spending. It seems to me that a lot of people are now getting het up over a thing that they've not even considered a week ago, or even heard of. One thing to consider is that if you lower NOx you increase CO2, so to make these cars compliant in the real world on one, you could be looking to pay more vehicle excise duty in the future. VW have pushed it too far with their profits first, customers second and couldn't care less about the rest of the population attitude.

US spec cars I think tend to have more emissions control hardware fitted as standard than the "equivalent" engine in a euro car; certainly when I was looking at self-study guides for the CR engines, I recall more cats/filters etc being fitted in the exhaust. As I understand it, the ECU could work out when it was being tested by monitoring parameters such as steering input, speed etc and then making adjustments accordingly to reduce emissions. I wouldn't be surprised if this kind of thing is rife among car manufacturers, and it's just unlucky for VW they've been caught first...

I dont suppose you have the headlight protectors laying around?

Why 17's when you can get 18's or 19's?! I have 18's, they're still very comfortable, and they also look very nice