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After only owning the car 6 months and became very fond of it. Someone has hit me while parked outside my parents house, worse thing is i spent £800 2 weeks ago on welding tyres wheel refurb, gutted is an understatement.

An oldie, but well worth another listen 😆🏉👍 Football vs. Rugby (Craig A).mp4

What is equally important as generator cheap electricity from renewables is to supply it at the time it is needed/wanted. So solar and wind farms need to increasingly look at battery storage themselves and not assume that the grid will buy their lecky at 10p per Kw at any time of the night or day. Battery electricity storage modules is getting cheaper and cheaper so getting smart and selling it at the right times to make the most money is clearly the better business model. I gather that some suppliers can get over a £1 a kWh at peak times. I seem to recall Octopus was willing to pay me 2 or 3 quid for saving each kWh at those peak times and it was an opportunity to make a few quid. It is unreasonable, in my view, to expect massive grid upgrades just to facilitate producers who spike production as the wind is just at the optimum level. Hold it in batteries locally so it can be used when the wind dies down and it is needed more so and one might get a better price for it !

Rumour has it that we're going to bring it (testing) in-house in future if we're allowed to.

If those DC charging station providers could alter their charging structure to put off us plebs in Zoes they could discourage us in our Zoes so we, for example, go on to any AC chargers rather than use the DC chargers I could understand that. When I have gone on to an AC charger and if my little Zoe is drawing down say 25 or 30 kws I feel really bad if someone is waiting in their Audi e-tron GT or Porsche Taycan to charge and they would get 250 or more kW and get on their way quickly. The Zoe is the fastest charging car on AC, Zoes can charge at 22 kWs and sometimes 43 kW on AC chargers if they are some of the better ones and I would gladly either move over to the AC chargers, if they are there and free up a powerful DC chargers for those EVs that can use it. I have found the EV community super accommodating to each other, generally love to chat to each other about each other's cars, share experiences, keep on chatting to past the finish of charge time and no snobbery if one is driving an Audi, Renault or MG EV. Very not like ICE ownership experience that I have found. A lovely group of people. Hope I never meet the Taycan guy, what a plonker. 10 minutes in TESLA owner Rob Llewelyn states he can charge between twice and half as quick again as his TESLA on AC......

Norway, January 2020. Norway has a very high uptake of EVe so this one *must* be due to an EV surely 🤔 "The vehicle garage in question has capacity for 3,000 cars and was nearly full when the fire started, according to broadcaster NRK. The cause is unknown and under investigation, but local police said they were notified at about 3:30 p.m. that an electric car was on fire in the parking garage." But wait "Local media reports later said the fire started in an Opel Zafira with an internal combustion engine." https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/hundreds-cars-destroyed-fire-norway-airport I fear the only one who'll be eating humble pie is you, Graham. Whether or not you will take a slice yourself remains to be seen but, given the law of averages, is it (a) more likely than not the reports of the RR was a diesel are correct or (b) your theory that the RR was an EV that nobody informed the DVLA of? I think you know the answer. I mean for Chrissakes even the Daily Mail/ Mail Online reported it as a diesel RR and they have a very obvious anti EV bias.

Octopus the cheeky barstewards are on about cheaper tariffs for those within a certain distance of new inshore and offshore turbines in England. That is how it should be for those now, and backdated from the time they have been up. As for Ofgen talking about more cost to customers to stop suppliers going bust. They energy companies are sitting on people money into the billions. Stuff those that pay covering those defaulting. @Graham Butcher Substations. Like at Tealing outside Dundee for the new wind field energy coming ashore at Carnoustie to be online with the one north of Aberdeen and the one to be built near Laurencekirk bringing energy from the Northeast south. PS.& Alyth Substation more Inland near new Windfarms

It's quite unbelievable the number of people who take routing instructions from GPS as absolute, without applying the information their Mk1 eyeballs are sending them - and that includes some HGV drivers!

This is not an issue, simply start the engine and let it idle for a few seconds.

Hello, I would say that this will not be an issue, as you say, the oil will drain back from the tensioner while the engine is stopped. Just refill and restart as normal with one proviso - don't ever permit the engine to turn over in reverse direction while the cam chain tensioner is unpressurised.

I notice all those thousands of solar panel as you go South on the M5 as one crests the hill to drop down to the M4/M5 interchange. Logical site for it, half way between Thornbury and Yate. 50 MW and 70 GWh per year are impressive stats. Well down South to get lots of the sun much of the year and it seems to be most on the southerly slope down to the Bristol area. Larks Green solar farm linked in to the Iron Acton substation and link to the National Grid, nice. https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/map-v5h951/Iron-Acton/?center=51.5891%2C-2.51839

I believe it was a feature that was disabled in software. Probably due to customer anxiety about it reading consistently lower than expected (by those who don't understand the planned undercharging).

Which just confirms that the donkeys are not following the statutory test standard! - conclusion of any EML test is confirmation that the charge indicator led is illuminated on all circuits! So their test certificates are not worth the paper they're written on.

Sorry, you didn't tag me in so I had no idea you'd asked me a question. (Still not 100% sure, but will answer anyway.) The Gummi Pflege (actually German for "Rubber Care") does just that. It seems to keep your rubbers soft and flexible. I love it, but it's really not a cosmetic treatment. The 303 Protectant is mainly a UV protectant and has a slight "Back to Black(TM)" effect. It can be used on rubbers but is best on plastics, IMO. Spray on, wipe off to a dry sheen. It's a penetrating oil, not a lubricant and certainly not good for rubber, though it will make your rubber look dark and shiny. For a while at least. I wouldn't use the stuff, but I keep my cars for ages. However there are plenty of videos on YouTube of people advocating you use WD40 to revitalise the rubbers on your car and it's your car, so if that works for you, go for it. You could probably use actual vegetable oil and give your rubbers that "just new look". (I expect there're some TikToK videos showing just that.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WD-40

Much cheaper for me heading South & towards the West from home than South and towards the east Heading North into Aberdeen / Aberdeenshire or to the Highland region is really to expensive and there is a pathetic charger network for Rapid charging. (There are available more Commercial chargers which really are expensive for just Tap & Pay.) ..................... I was up in Aberdeen last night and going back today. Than goodness for PodPoint and 50 kW chargers at LIDL & Tesco. 65 pence a kWh or 62 pence i used at Tesco. Aberdeen Councils few rapids about the city are 47 pence a kWh but pathetic getting to work if there are ones that are not blocked by people not caring and time penalties. so 62 pence a kWh is £6.20 for 10 kWh, i needed 20 kWh, £12.40. Was getting 3.7 miles a kWh so 74 miles. Expensive. I had done 100 miles on the battery charged for Free. I have charged at home at 20 pence a kWh so another 20 kWh for £4.00. That gives me just over 100 miles before needing to charge. it will probable be in about 75-80 miles though and with 20 kWh again Works out OK with the free chargers and the lower tariff now at home. (Not an offpeak tariff, an all day and night one.)

Hear me out. What if it's a diesel and the ICE is liable to have faults that causes it to violently combust? What if we can build cars that does not have extremely hot components that require heat shields for normal operation? What if the very quick spread of fire is due to plastic fuel tanks are only required to hold highly flammable liquid, with flashpoint of <100c. for 2 min when exposed to flame? What if this Luton airport car park fire was spread similar to Liverpool car park and all other previous car park fire? nO, iT cOuLdN't PoSsIbLy Be. MuSt KeEp An "InQuIrInG mInD".

The dude from Harmony that has been refused planning permission to build a Solar Farm on prime farming land was on the Radio this morning. They own the company (Not the land) and build the Solar Farms with no public money but need to be near the connections to the grid. The National Grid with a waiting time of years for many to get a connection to and they need near a sub station with the capacity. Same with the Charging hub,s planned even built and they can not get connected. **Totally the wrong place for a solar farm and it is crazy the sites that are selected because of Grid Connection availability, it is the Grid that needs the HS2 money and more and with profits from Energy Transmission being in the Public purse not going abroad.** http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-67054731 Yesterday i heard someone on the radio discussing that Scotland has to take on hand expanding the Grid because as it is there is all the energy being generated and more and more coming available and the National Grid is what is stopping it being used and then there is the lack of storage for that electricity or use to produce green hydrogen. http://insider.co.uk/news/scotland-can-lead-way-rewire-31168234

You mean liquids like "electricity"; like "bird nests"...? In the last 2 vehicle fires I've witnessed, one was an electrical fire in the ventilation fan controls (V**xh*11 Z@f1r@), and the other happened when a hot turbo set light to a recently built bird nest in the engine bay.

You've changed part of the gear shift mechanism so surely it's worth resetting the linkage to see if that fixes it, it sounds like the linkage is not throwing quite far enough in the horizontal plane to pick up reverse properly.

Thanks very much for all the great info. I've ordered from Caffyns today with an expected delivery in 2-3 weeks time. The local garage is lined up to fit the existing tyre to the new alloy and put it on.

Well at least you're still alive... been meaning to pop you a text.

I'm sorry I don't have any 😞

Have you correctly reset the linkage?

You were correct. All good

Now while many of you will not to hear what this dude has to say about the Luton fire, I find it rather odd that he is like myself has grave reservations about diesel being the cause of this fire and seeing as this video has only just been placed on the internet today, and the fact that he is in Australia, but his thoughts are similar to mine with regard to the way that fire is burning as seen on the video that was shot from behind the car seems uncanny to me. But in the interests of trying to gain some insight into what may have caused this tragic incident, I suggest that it is worth a watch with an open mind and watch the clips and listen to what he is saying in-between some unnecessary padding in my view, he could have made the video shorter and got his message across. There is a lot of common-sense advice that the authorities worldwide should be heeding and preparing themselves and us for. Take my advice if you watch it, start from around 1:15 in to avoid listening to his sponsorship deal.

What make is it? Mines a Varta AGM from Jan 2013

OK, it would appear that even with my son sitting in the rear of the car for around 10 minutes after the car had autolocked, (I still have not got the hang of leaving the keys in the car if people are staying in it), while I was in the vets with one of our cats, the alarm went off because he moved and then again when a little while later the sun came out, and he got rather warm, he opened the rear door by simply pulling on the lever in the normal fashion as I suspected it would. I think that it is like the MK2 model, to activate the deadbolts, there is a need to use the remote control and press the lock button, at which point the mirrors fold in.

1. Carefully pull the grille around the fog light with your hands(no bolts) 2. Undo the T25 torx screws holding the actual fog light 3. Unplug the wire harness from the fog light 4. Change the bulb - type H8 for non-vRS, H16 for vRS model 5. Watch the video for instant courage boost

In such case I believe you need some diagnostics tool to check SW version. Generally I'm afraid that flash memory chip that keeps software failed. Let me know VIN so I can check part number and share some more ideas.

Yes of course you can ask to keep it, it's yours as you paid for it originally. The garage doesn't own the part it takes out, unless you have specifically ordered an exchange unit where old part goes off for reconditioning

So....I didn't go with EBC. At least not entirely. 😁 Instead I have chosen DBA brakes. Front: DBA 4000 series rotors + DBA XP brake pads Rear: DBA 4000 series rotors + EBC yellow stuff pads (DBA doesn't offer yet rear pads) Braided brake lines Motul RBF 600 brake fluid First impression is great. Quiet, good initial bite, good pedal feel.

Maybe the Opel Zafira had been converted to EV and nobody told the Irish motor vehicle authorities 🤔 https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30959872.html

This may be unrelated but I had all four tyres changed recently on my 2018 Karoq 1.5TSI. When I collected the car I had six new faults show up on the dashboard all relating to the Stop/start system even though nothing had been touched other than removing all four wheels to fit new tyres. The tyre fitter said that he had seen or heard of this issue on other VAG vehicles. He plugged in the OBD scanner and cleared all faults and everything has been fine since. Your issue might be triggered by the new battery but any independent garage with an OBD laptop/machine should be able to clear the fault and certainly for less than £80. It only takes a couple of minutes

Is this russian site showing a new map udate? Version 350 2024 Linky

There are a lot of mods mentioned.. stage 2, exhaust, intake.. The mk2 vrs facelift tsi or tfsi depending on whose terminology you use is the ea888 gen 2. Chain driven timing chain. Early edition tensioners were a nightmare for failure. If not done, you want to factor in new chain, tensioner and guides and it will be more than £500 I promise. Ea888 gen 2 could be prone to clogged scraper rings which led to excessive oil consumption and eventual failure. Very difficult to detect at early to mid stages until you've drive 1000 miles and refilled 1.5 litres of oil. As for value, don't know now. For context I had a 2011 fl vrs kombi, with nearly 70k miles completely stock, everything was neat and tidy and worked and sold for about £4k 2 years ago!!

If the key you have is the Fish Key, then I don't think it was ever made as a spring return switch, I may be wrong, but I have worked for a few wiring accessory manufacturers and I can't recall ever seeing one in their catalogues.

excellent, glad it sorted 👍

Christallduckingmighty🤦 Nobody's denying that cars can be converted to EV ffs. Just that it's been reported as a diesel, Beds Fire Service said it was a diesel, there's been links about JLR RRs problems with fires but nooooooo that's not good enough for Graham is it? Seriously, get a grip rather than clutching at straws in whatever desperate point it is you're trying to make.

@TiltOnly ones I've come across so far are NiCd. Which you can still buy (cheaply) specifically for this application. It's a mature building with a mixture of fluorescent and LED lighting fitted at various times. Maybe some NiMH too, I forget, like for like anyway. The newest set of LED light fittings are the ones I've had to fix most (all of them now I think) due to extreme cheaping out on the inbuilt PSUs. Progress. 🙁

Guilty as charged, the rambles down memory lane in the bus garage or a 60 year detailed curriculum vitae do make me skip paragraphs in the hope of finding something of relevance.

@pab567 might have some ideas

ACC? Spawn of the devil 😀

Love my Scala SE 1.0 in Meteor Grey 6 speed manual with 16”” wheels. Comfy economical and quicker than you might think. I don’t see many on the roads though.

Maybe it was transporting EV batteries......................................... And gas cylinders, and jerrycans of petrol, and signal flares, and kindling, and wire wool..............😀

All was merely as example, you have the choice of many different engine oils. Personally particularly for a car engine of your vintage I would ignore the added unnecessary VW numbers compliance (with my wife's 2015 Skoda you only get the VW number and not the multigrade weights specified). But anyway. - https://www.millersoils.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/7708-EE-Performance-10w40.pdf API oil categories. - https://www.api.org/products-and-services/engine-oil/eolcs-categories-and-classifications/oil-categories#tab-gasoline

I just had a recent battery replacement. I knew about the possibility of errors and faults after a battery change, so I decided to use a secondary battery to power the car while the old battery is being replaced. Simply used a jump lead to put on the terminal in a way it's possible to remove the battery from the car and replace it with a new one. Not a single error message, I didn't even have to set the time. After that with the help of VCDS, I updated the information on the battery stored in the car. Technology, Brand and Serial Number. That was it. To my knowledge, only the battery tech, serial, brand and capacity is what describes the battery for the car. I believe the only actual value you need to change is the serial number. It is enough to increase the number present by 1 at the end to tell the car something changed. If this doesn't solve the problem, it is highly likely something else is wrong with the start-stop system, and will require further diagnostics.

Have to say though if I went back to 2015 knowing what I knew now it would make zero difference. Its without a doubt the best car I’ve ever owned which is why nearly 8 years later I have no desire to swap it !

I changed my mind and installed DSP to replace Canton amplifier. So now i have this gear: Alpine R-S65C.2 speakers in front doors Match DSP UP8 under drivers seat 10” subwoofer in trunk and 500W RMS amplifier to drive subwoofer. Basser box. I also coded head unit with OBDEleven to send signal to speaker inputs. That replaced MOST going to Canton. sounds great now

The last update is availabe here: https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/myvolkswagen.html Create an account and choose the UP as the car you have, no need to register vin etc... In the map support section the last update is for q3 or q4 2021. You have to download and extract the files from the .rar file to the root of a micro sd card, insert it into the pid and connect it with the power lead, when powered on it will start the update, dont touch anything once the update starts Its finished when you have a green screen and are able to select ok on the screen, its a full wipe/recovery install...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sources -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://obdeleven.proboards.com/thread/175/coding-adaptations @wirer - https://wirer.sk/ He has some awesome guides on all things retrofits for the NJ Fabia. Well worth a look Unlock and lock beep https://www.vwroc.com/forums/topic/14420-vcds-alarm-chirp-on-lockunlock/