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Thank you both for your advice. No offence taken, jars, I assure you.

Dear jars, You seem to know a lot about this so perhaps you could let us have some of your wisdom for the benefit of other readers of this forum (and me).

Thanks, both. Have re-posted in Styling and Car Care. We'll see what happens....

I've got a 5 inch narrow scratch on a front wheel arch of my Superb II. The primer's still intact and I've applied 4 coats of genuine 2 pot Skoda touch-up paint (the colour match seems perfect, BTW) and I'm leaving it to harden for a few days. My problem is that there's conflicting advice, here and on the web in general, as what to do next. I have at my disposal the pot of unused clear liquid (is that called clearcoat?) from the Skoda paint kit, some 1500 wet/dry paper, T-Cut and Turtle wax. Do I apply the clearcoat, sand down, T-Cut then polish or do the sanding, then lacquer? Or do I need the clearcoat at all? Or something completely different?

I'm told I have the terminology wrong here. The stuff in the second tube in the kit is "clearcoat", apparantly. Still doesn't help though.

I've got a 5 inch narrow scratch on a front wheel arch of my Superb II. The primer's still intact and I've applied 4 coats of genuine Skoda touch-up paint (the colour match seems perfect, BTW) and I'm leaving it to harden for a few days. My problem is that there's conflicting advice, here and on the web in general, as what to do next. I have at my disposal the lacquer from the Skoda paint kit (unused as yet), some 1500 wet/dry paper, T-Cut and Turtle wax. Do I apply the lacquer, sand down, T-Cut then polish or do the sanding, then lacquer? Or do I need the lacquer at all? Thanks in advance to all you BriSkodians - these fora are "superb""

These comments about ETAs and routing are painfully familiar to me, so much so that my 4 year old Garmin unit is getting stuck to the dashboard more than it ought to be because he gets it right every time. I'm fed up with being routed down minor roads (or non-existant ones) or finding my self 30 minutes early at the end of a journey. I believe the problem is that the quality of some roads is ignored for routing and speed estimation, either because it's not encoded in the map data on the HDD (most likely) or the firmware algorithm is not using this data. Either way, it's inferior to the old Garmin which definitely knows about and uses this information. The Columbus unit clearly know about the difference between motorways and other roads (the map shows that), but I don't think it knows much about those other roads and assumes an average speed of about 35 to 40 mph on them. This is confirmed by a recent all-motorway journey in which the ETA was spot on, but the return journey, on A roads, was way out. I think this is unacceptable in a modern unit (and an expensive one at that) when clearly Garmin (and Tom Tom) have been getting it right for years. I have firmware 4026 and Map version 7690 (V8). Either NavTeq or the firmware makers have a lot to answer for.