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Had the roof wrapped today, so tied in nicely with the black bootlid, also fit some new vrs badges with red this time, just de wiper to do at some point and probably going to tint the rear lights slightly

All passengers, all passengers. Boarding for flight to Tatooine now starting at gate 54. Thank you for flying Virgin Intergalactic ...

Almost two years after ordering, it’s finally here

@TheWanderer Are you now Pi$$ED OFF that you posted this in the first place? 🤣

Talking with a lovely nurse this afternoon, who told me that my (Tuesday) CEA blood test result was 1.3. This is in the normal range, so no further treatment other than periodic scans and 'oscopies' required. I think this is as close as it gets to an 'all clear' statement for my bowel cancer.

It flies as well. I keep meaning to pop to Miniatur Wunderland.

They might advice Fuel Treatment in year or 2 as Arnold Clark Service Booking Glasgow did this year when booking the Corsa in for the MOT and no Service. .................. No mention of this was uttered by the Sales Executive that put up the build details. Not a factory option it is Dealership applied. I wonder if it will be done to a car that Motability are buying, if it is on the Build / Invoice it should be, we will see. It all comes out in the wash! Or when you ask the awkward questions.

Hope it doesn't smell of petrol when you pick it up! Gaz

If you drop the glovebox door down they both slot onto the side of the main fuse box

If it was in the Australian hinterland you could have got yet another outback reference into the sentence Joking apart I thought towing an awd in that manner, would likely cause some damage to the system?

Pretty sure they don't run a clutch. Haven't done so for 10 years maybe more. It's a variable displacement air con pump isn't it?

Hi All My Fabia 1.6 TDI has now done 235,000 miles Been a great car which is running perfectly. Most of the driving has been long long motorway runs and the fuel economy is still great. I have serviced every 15k miles since 100,000 miles and have had the following done Cambelt and Waterpump changed at 120,000 and 220,000 Disks at 120,000 Cracked rear light cluster Various sets of Tyres Thats it... Anyone else got higher milage? Cheers

Vintage Larson ...

http://autoexpress.co.uk/news/360683/uk-hydrogen-fuel-stations-to-be-supplied-natural-gas-grid-new-trial

All requesters pls check your PMs.

Yeah, like that Trevor.😁

I have very recently been told by a main skoda dealer that 5 year cam belt change is now 15 years or 150000 miles please check with your local dealer or skoda customer services to quantify

Thanks for the tip, My dad is good friend with a mechanic so hopefully he could ask him to just inspect the wires inside the loom and see if he can just fix the broken wires instead of replacing the whole loom. I’ll come back and update this post with how everything went.

At the same MOT Station? Did you get a fail certificate the first time? If so what did it say?

Messages starting to come in from the Dealership about the countdown to delivery of my new MINI Cooper S Electric. Looks like being 6 weeks away. So i was having a look at the Order / Build documents which would be if i was a Customer buying and not MOTABILITY who do not pay the same. The car comes to £34,470. The 'other items' are £1,079.99, total being £35,548.99 RFL - Alternative -12Months )Including 1st Reg Fee) £55. Motability do not pay that. Delivery £396.68 plus VAT £79.33 £475.99 Motability do not pay VAT. Customer Admin Fee. £145.00 Plus VAT £29.00 £174 Protect X £280.83 Plus VAT £58.17 £349 The one that caught my attention is FUEL, £20.83 plus VAT £4.17 Total £25. **** That if charged would be 28 kWh max @ 90 pence a kWh**** (£25 of petrol would be about 4 gallons at current prices.) ..................... The New Corsa Electric with 'bigger battery and more power' but otherwise the same spec as i have now has a crazy OTR RRP of nearly £39,000.

I gather it is even worse than the half billion pound of public money on the Somerset battery plant but there was a secondary deal to "help" with the electrification of the Port Talbot steel works which sounds like it will be another half a billion pounds worth of subsidies that were tied in with Tata going ahead with the Bridgewater ex-explosive and now battery factory. Since cars are made in Birmingham, Coventry, Liverpool, Sunderland I do wonder about the logic of putting the battery factory in cider making country so far from car assembly lines ? Near Hinkley point I suppose and cheapish somerset labour ?

Correct. They’re only at full tilt when you select “Max” on the central dial demist button. Look for “Air Distribution Control” in the owners manual.

What does the failure certificate actually say and under what code? The MOT testers handbook https://www.gov.uk/guidance/mot-inspection-manual-for-private-passenger-and-light-commercial-vehicles/4-lamps-reflectors-and-electrical-equipment#section-4-1-2 gives you the criteria for a pass and a fail.

Looks like a bad day for both Tories and Labour given the latter were 'expecting' to win three seats and only got one? Granted one of those not gained was probably down to the ULEZ proposals in London and they did get close but even so... ??? Realistically only the Lib Dems seem to have had a good day yesterday. I'd worry for the constituents of Selby and Ainsty myself though having just read the BBC's article on him - Keir Mather - Labour's newest MP and 'baby of the House' - BBC News - sounds like someone with minimal 'real life' experience outside of the politics bubble who sees politics as an extension of his drama studies. I'd love to be proved wrong though and hope I'm under estimating his abilities and mis-reading his biography...

Labour have overturned a 20K tory majority in Selby and Ainsty. Listening to Lewis Goodall on LBC and he's saying that the results from the three BE's reflect national polling; i.e. the tories are in the hole. IIRC the ULEZ thing was one of the clauses in order for TfL to receive funding during the pandemic in 2020. A clause imposed on Khan by Michael Green Corinne Stockheath Sebastian Fox Grant Shapps. If Sunak had any dignity he'd do the Conference and quit/ call a GE. I doubt that will happen whilst pockets can still be lined though.

No matter who is in power of the countries or constituencies they have to get on introducing ULEZ,s or expending them. It was a Conservative & Unionist London Mayor who later became the PM that had the smart idea in the first place. No point on the Tories going on about it covering a smaller area then. The Tories shaking the magic money tree to give away multi millions to the likes of TATA to get them to build a Battery manufacturer can not be done all around the UK.

Next time it manifests strongly if it is safe to do so brake to a halt then switch off the engine all the time keeping the clutch depressed, if it then comes out of gear easily your problem is clutch drag, if it doesn't then the problem is the gear selector mechanism. I suspect the latter, you should then reset the gear linkage cables but it sounds to me that the problem is internal with the synchro hubs or a baulking selector fork perhaps loose on the selector shaft. I hope that I am wrong.

I was very surprised to learn that there were any NSL country roads left in Surrey, some 26 years ago when the roads were my personal racetrack there was already far too much traffic on them for me to continue to indulge my selfishness, I took to getting up at dawn on Sundays to go for long blats in Surrey and Sussex (I lived on the border) one Sunday I was shocked to find that every one of my favorite roads had had the limits reduced to 40mph, all the signs were new so some guys had been very busy that week. Sussex at that time was unchanged but 40mph limits have pretty much crept in everywhere, even back in the day I could not find any NSL B roads in Surrey, very shocked to find there was one and that there was supposedly a gap in the traffic long enough to overtake 2 vehicles.

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I made no mention of speed, in the context of the accident its not relevant, in the context of whether it was a risky overtake then the speed, the visibility and the distances are very relevant, the latter is hard(er) for me to judge from a selective partial video.

Hi welcome to the forum It sounds very much to me that it has gone into limp mode for whatever reason, a diagnostic scan is needed to trace the cause. Was it fine prior to this happening or are there other symptoms before this happened ? .

It was a 60mph speed limit and the OP was only doing an indicated 51mph on the dashcam when the Ferrari hit him. Had the Ferrari not sideswiped the OP, I expect the OP would have got up to about 60mph before moving back onto the left side of the single carriageway, about 5 seconds or 150 yards further up the road. The Ferrari doesn't influence my judgement because had it been a Fabia, my judgement would be the same. On 60mph speed limit single carriageways many drivers do choose to drive at 60mph. However, I can see a yellow sign on a photograph dated March 2023 on google maps steetview near the accident spot that says "New 40mph Speed Limit Proposed Here" so that would indicate that the council aren't happy with drivers doing 60mph along that section of road. Maybe it's an accident blackspot. "New 40mph Speed Limit Proposed Here" sign shown on google maps streetview (photo dated March 2023) https://www.google.com/maps/@51.2409309,-0.5210647,3a,15y,101.98h,83.81t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s12ZfSmzt1z2_ylHZJ4SImg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

Well it was short lived but I’ve decided not to risk it and was lucky to get a full refund. Back to car shopping … Thanks for all the advice, very kind of you to lend me advice and time : )

Here is my freshly washed 2018 L&K 4x4 190 Tdi dsg. Had it for 3 months now, like it alot.

It all depends on how well anyone knows that road, having pulled out and seeing what is ahead, you have a split second to decide if its safe to back out of the overtake or to press on. Personally if it was a road I didn't know, I'd be happy sit behind and follow them, but each to their own ideas.

I can understand your frustration in the waiting time and hope you enjoy your new car. I collected my new vrs a few weeks ago and so far it has been faultless so fingers crossed it continues that way

Unfortunately I don;t have it 😞 @briscaF1 check your PM

Not to my knowledge - on this range of tsi engines - and I’ve been on here a few years. One or two have had issues from timing belts not being done properly at dealers…

I know this is an old post, and probably not the usual post a newbie would post on, however I have really appreciated seeing some of the numbers on this post... Bought a 2010 1.6TDi Fabia Estate yesterday and took delivery today, just about to hit 150k miles... It's looks to have been well looked after, 2 cam belts done on it, just had a clutch done on it and decent service history on the car... Seeing the numbers people are getting has relieved the feeling I had that I'd make a mistake in buying it, the positivity on here has helped to relieve that.. Thank you

Hi, I had the chance to replace someone who could not go to Le Mans Classic last week-end. I saw the first Skoda Sport (1,2l engine) I had ever seen. It was a MY 1949 : Really amazed by the very simple design of the cooling system : Tank, straight brass/copper (?) pipes, radiator (+ fan), that's it !

One thing that confuses people is that when they download my files they then extract them and then copy or put the extracted folder onto the sd card. THIS WILL NOT WORK. The entertainment system will recognise that there's an update on your sd card but will not see or recognise the files because they are inside a folder on the sd card. This is why it's important to only copy the files named PersonalPOI and metainfo2.txt directly onto the sd card without them being inside a folder. It's also a good idea to make sure the sd card does not contain any other files but it's not a necessity. Sometimes re-downloading the files may be the answer just in case they've become corrupted during the download process.

Here with my new Trinity And after the shocks had a chance to set again

Thank you! I’ll go take a look.

In order to practice, remove the battery from the key and go out to the car. Leave the other key in the house so that the proximity system doesn't pick it up. Maybe unlock the car first to save you time getting out the emergency blade, you know how that works now. When in the car, try and start car by pressing the Start Button - you should now see a message on the screen saying no key detected. Now look at the plastic trim around the steering wheel were an ignition barel would usually be. You should see a Key Symbol etched into the plastic. Very subtle. Hold your key next to that symbol and now press the Start button. Car will start. There is an antenna behind the plastic that creates a magnetic field which powers up an emergency chip inside the key. If the key symbol is not there, have a read of the manual. They may have placed it somewhere else. It varies from car to car.

No fix applied - definitely don’t want it “fixed” given some of the feedback I have heard. My fabia is maintained but a very good local independent garage who are not VAG specialists but do an excellent job. cheers