Floridadaz

Canyon trump cannonade, cube and trek easily on spec. Cube would be about the closest.

Canyon bikes simply cannot be beaten on spec and quality for the price. Start at about £550, my Son has one and one thing I would say is the online size calculations come out a bit on the small side. Site said small and he opted for medium which turned out to be spot on. He is about 5'7 https://www.canyon.com/_en/mountainbikes/series/yellowstone-al.html

There is a reason why you can't get an all you can eat tariff data only.

I used a contactless credit card to pay for something and the charge didn't go on my bill. Bonus!

Just deselect camera roll in the iCloud backup settings on the phone and then next time it backs up to the cloud (while plugged in charging and on wifi) it doesn't back up the photos.

I switched the backup of photos into the cloud off on the phone backup settings. This just wastes space as you can back them up locally if you want and the photo stream does not count towards the iCloud phone backup limit.

Mine is standard.

I did a totally unscientific timing on my bogo standard Octavia vRS DSG using launch control and got around 7.6 seconds, even accounting for balls ups on my part it was certainly less than 8 seconds.

Doesn't add up, if the compressor is compressing then why no pressure? Perhaps it does have a leak and they just can't find it. Mine went in cos it wasn't working, nitrogen gas with UV dye found the leak in the condenser. It is a very common fault apparently, Skoda replaced the condenser with a different model.

I was under the impression that the DSG will not go into top gear myself but I took note of this the other day and it does.

You don't need all you can eat data really, that is just a sales gimmic. Sounds good but is unnecessary in reality unless you want to download music and videos 24/7. I work away and use my ipad tethered a lot and have never been over 3gb in a month. The mifi can be bought direct on eBay and not locked to three. In a caravan I would have thought a bit of browsing and emailing would be the norm, you don't go away to sit on the Internet all day after all.

Cat6 is quite difficult to terminate properly, Cat5e is perfectly adequate and much easier and cheaper to terminate.

The mifi. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UNLOCKED-Huawei-E5332-MiFi-WiFi-Modem-Hotspot-Works-with-ANY-SIM-card-WORLDWIDE-/290913323925?pt=UK_Computing_Mobile_Broadband_Devices&hash=item43bbc90b95

I may be wrong but I think the Three £12.90 tariff is a phone tariff so this will exclude tethering. A data tariff would be more appropriate, my mate is using these in an unlocked mifi mobile hot spot which is effectively the same thing as the Hubba but without the 3G range. . http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Three-3-3G-SIM-Ready-to-go-Mobile-Broadband-3GB-Preloaded-Data-Sim-/230997747622?pt=UK_Mobile_Home_Phones_Sim_Cards_CV&hash=item35c889e7a6 Cost £12 They include 3Gb of data with a 90 day life, when it is due to run out get another one, or buy a few in one go. The instructions want you to sign up to a data plan but it is cheaper to just get another card when it runs out or expires. If you are in a decent Three signal area you can just use the three mifi, my mate puts his in a plastic box on the top of a pole to get better coverage out in the caravan, the mifi is battery powered. You can get an unlocked mifi on eBay for about £50.

Fitted skoda roof rack, top bit of kit. Also fitted 2 thule 591 bike carriers to that.

Mine has done 9000 miles and I love it. If I was being super critical then I could say the change from first to second is not as smooth as the other changes, it is a bit hit and miss reversing up hill off my drive (needs very gentle throttle). I love the fact that it engine brakes going downhill unlike a normal auto and it takes over if I miss a paddle change up after pre changing down for a quick overtake.

If you only have 1 cable between the 2 locations you can run 2 network connections through it as long as it is not a gigabit link. You need 2 of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/CDL-Micro-RJ45-Cable-Economiser/dp/B000XMIJ12/ref=pd_sxp_grid_pt_0_1 One at each end to split the main cable into 2. You would need the main cable to be terminated into a socket at either end or use rj45 joiners if it has plugs on the end of the cable.

My octavia vRS with DSG has hill hold and I am not 100% confident in it whilst reversing up my steep drive. The garage door is very close and I don't fancy the risk of a split second mistake leading to me rolling into it. To reduce to chance I just treat it like a manual and hold it on the handbrake till I feel it wanting to move on the throttle. The split second it takes to automatically apply the hold is a bit too long for me in those circumstances.

The service person guessed what the fault would be before even seeing the car and then confirmed it with UV dye test. If they are sticking refrigerant gas in knowing that there is likely to be a leak then they are breaking the law. In my mind if the gas has been lost in a short space of time it cannot be put down to natural leakage and it can only be a warranty fault or stone damage to the condenser.

UPDATE! Had the car into Skoda and diagnosed as leaking Condenser (all gas leaked out). They said it is a common fault and the warranty replacement is a different manufacturer. Its splits on a brazed seam apparently. They had just done one not long before mine went in.

Yes thanks. I had just confirmed this after having a look.

I did wonder about that but mine is only a year old and if all the gas has leaked out then that must be a warranty fault. I took the cap off the low side valve and some small bubbles were forming round the valve, this may be where it is leaking (assuming it is). Does the compressor have a clutch off the drive belt so I can see if the pump is being driven or is it permanently driven?

Back to the dealer it is then. Thanks all.

Thanks for the reply. Yes the AC light is on. Air just feels like the outside air temp but a bit hard to tell when it is blowing. If it should blow really cold on the lowest setting then it looks like a trip back to Skoda.

Had my car just over a week and now that the weather is starting to warm up a bit I have realised the air con feels like it is not pumping out cold air. If I set the dials to the lowest setting should I expect the air to be really cold? It is about 14.5 degrees outside so it is quite difficult to tell if the air is cold enough. It feels slightly colder with the aircon off than it does on at the same fan setting but this might just be my imagination, should it feel really quite a lot colder? Is it possible to reset the system as mentioned on the forum? The controls do not have an ECON button so I assume the info I can find on here is referring to older cars. Cheers.