KenONeill

OK; that sounds like an immobiliser problem then, and I know little about them.

Technically yes, if you're trying to read the boiling and/or freezing points of the system. Practically, no, since we're talking 4C degrees in 100C degrees range. I'm not familiar with your local water chemistry though, and overuse of hard (contains lime salts) water can cause a cooling system to block up.

Don't blame you mate; a Superb on 17" is the most comfortable car I've ever travelled in.

Manual or automatic?

That's pure Octane and nothing but. Note that "petrol", including aviation grades, tends to be higher or lower rated. Diesel would be C17H36 for 100% straight citane, but I have no idea what (other than long molecule hydrocarbons) is in bunker oil, and doubt anyone else does either.

Absolutely, but that's what happened (based on seeing headlights reflected in other traffic).

That was your "big mistake"; you should have used the M42 west to the M5 rather than east to the M6(either). The M6(toll) southbound is rather better since the M42 west is slow to ok rather than dead slow to stopped.

Yes, at least for a while. You may need heavier cables and insulation to deal with the increased heat rejection at that sort of power, but I've no idea if such a thing even exists.

That's an ethane derivative, not an octane derivative which would be C8...

That's odd; I've had/seen "auto" lights both coming/staying on in situations when I'd not want headlights (usually bright sunlight) and not come on in situations where I would (eg spray but sunlight).

Most of the way when North of Manchester then.

These harnesses aren't mechanically stressed by the engine.

If the prat nav isn't on, how can it know your speed and route plan in order to calculate remaining distance, which it needs to calculate an ETA?

tl;dr - Yes, but it's a lot of work. See the already linked thread.

OP has a wrong hand drive car, so it would pull right in this case.

You're using the Goldilocks approach to weather; I'm starting from the argument that I live in a temperate oceanic climate, which is characterised by mild temperatures but high (70% or more) relative humidity. This means that AC is of some use as an air drier, even when not needed as a chiller.

Any mention of the word "Haldex"?

You mean the odd occasions when it's both cold and dry?

Typo in my previous; it should have read "continuity test".

AwesomeGTi spring to mind.

This was all done with standard push rods, as required by FIA Group A rally regulations. On one occasion John Haugland spun a 130RS on the RAC rally, bending a push rod, and repaired the car with one bought from a local scrap yard.

If crank flex is actually a factor. The tuned engine I mentioned elsewhere (and several Skoda works tuned 1300s) were safe to 7_000 rpm, beyond which they started to bend the standard pushrods. I don't have to do the work, because I know that someone else has, and they were good enough to publish their results in "Cars and Car Conversions" magazine in the UK, back in the early 1980s.

Pretty sure yes; reasoning already stated above.

And now I'm certain that the "technician" left you with a drag pre-load on the brakes, which made your car harder to drive smoothly.

Well, get a proper engineer's drawing of the 3 bearing crank. Check the width of the journals relative to the overall length of the crank. Add those values together. That is the length you have to fit 5 journals into to keep the engine overall length the same or shorter. Can you actually fit 5 journals that are 3/5 of the width of those on your 3 bearing crank into that space?