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Hi Rusty After a long illness I found my car battery dead, replaced battery but Columbus unit wont switch on. Everything else seems OK Any Idea how to get the unit going again? Fuse is OK. thx

After a lomg illness I found my car deas, replaced battery but Columbus unit wont switch on. Everything else seems OK Any Idea how to get the unit going again? thx

I had same with estate and found a little plastic split in boot closure locking area that made the car think it was left open. Removed = fixed

Been a while, I know - covid So the cars have not been used for a loooong time. And that is not good for them So my 1st issue is the total lack of power to the center console - heating, fan, infotainment system - nothing lights up in the middle at all. (car starts and runs as it should btw) Seems like there maybe one source of the problem Any ideas?

Yes, nothing comes on when I do that No idea where to start with the fuses

Been a while, I know - covid So the cars have not been used for a loooong time. And that is not good for them So my 1st issue is the total lack of power to the center console - heating, fan, infotainment system - nothing lights up in the middle at all. (car starts and runs as it should btw) Seems like there maybe one source of the problem Any ideas?

Keep an eye on VW forums for 2nd hand wheels. Many fit and you maybe lucky. I got some 2nd hand VW wheels with winter tyres on.

HORAYYYY I can return

Good to hear. My is still freeand working so it isn't just a short fix/solution. I think it was donw to the fact I didn't change the pollen filter in years.

Thanks all I am in the fortunate position to own 2 virtually identical cars, so I swooped out the unit that worked and mixed and matched parts with the bust unit. As it is the more expensive climate conmtrol I wanted to know if it was the fan or the controller that was bust - it was the fan. Stuck solid So I forced it round, added WD40 and - it now works!! So just answering this one myself in case anyone else has the same issue - 1- take it out (see youtube vid from 2:16 - DO NOT follow any vid that has instructions if they show you taking the whole glove compartment off - this job is as easy as changing the pollen filter) 2- see if the fan is stuck and wont go round 3- if it is the fan - add WD40 where you see the shaft 4- spin it by hand a bit - if stuck - force it - you have nothing to loose now! Hold each end - the blades should go round 5- repeat 3 and 4 6 plug it in and see what happens Should just work Worth the £100+ alternative solution

TBH there are so many fuse plans I can't work out which fuse it would be

Any way to knowing which is bust? No fan speed works. Climatic version, so not cheap parts (f997167j 1K2820015G)

Not quite sure where you are going with that. In Wales I produce quite a bit of food for myself and others, have my own water supply and waste system, same in Germany. Not an easy thing to do while travelling. Why? Borders are a man made construct, as is nationalism - like many man made constructs, you believe in them or you don't. If you believe in them you only restrict yourself, not others.

Currently locked down in Wales (have an apiary here) but I have clients all over the world in many different industries, so work in many places - not fond of the term economic migrant - can have very misleading connotations. The UK may stick foreign workers in appalling accommodation but working abroad has changed since the days of Auf Wiedersehen Pet Every country need pickers, yes. The UK is making changes that will make it very hard to get them though. That Vid shows how we could be doing it, they seem a good company - make that the norm and we may have a chance of getting the workers we need. As good as they are, that place still imports many people that will become harder soon. Ask a rich person if it was luck or hard work - they will usually say hard work. But luck is massively underrated IMHO.

Somehow we need to get the fruit and veg picked https://theconversation.com/the-real-reasons-why-british-workers-wont-pick-fruit-80152 Maybe we need to enforce 1 year of picking in exchange for free education - the gap year pick

broccoli pickers required https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/12/one-workers-experience-at-coronavirus-hit-herefordshire-farm

I have the feeling there is a professional 'off topic brigade' round here. You must be sooo bored. Won't catch me being off topic DOH!!

We seem to have a choice in the UK: stimulus versus never ending austerity 1. Gov does nothing more to boost confidence: Result:. If we don't feel safe, we stay in, those individuals and businesses with money don't spend it and the economy goes down like we have never seen before. Those that suffer most will be those who spend the next ten years without a job. 2. Gov makes us feel safe: masks everywhere and a stimulus that ensures we know we will have a proper safety net - this includes a guarantee to a return to 100% support in future inevitable lock-downs. Result: If we are made to feel physically and financially safe we help the economy get back on track Both 1 and 2 cost the Gov money - but 2 is an investment as opposed to a long term drain. Unemployment helps no one, costs money, ruins and wastes lives. We know austerity doesn't work, the nations' debt went up and inequality skyrocketed when we tried it last time We need a permanent Kurzarbeit

Very interesting long term chart there. Seems to match up with conflicts Why are we prepared to go into so much debt for war and not for recovering from a pandemic?

The UK would have been in far better state if the government had listened to the warning of their unpreparedness for a pandemic. EVERYONE who works in risk knows that the biggest risk is a pandemic - https://tinyurl.com/y7qf3e8n So, yes, the government wasn't prepared. They also didn't act fast enough because of this. Remember back in March? We all thought Italy was the worst place in Europe, followed by Spain and France - turned out, we were worse than all of them at the time, but the government were not releasing any death stats for anyone who died outside hospital or who hadn't already tested positive (and tests were being rationed). Because they didn't act fast enough we suffered more and for longer. So yes, the severity of this IS down to the government. Greybeards holding onto cash - yep. We are not going out. We know we are at most risk. Nothing to do with poorly-performing savings account, well if they were better performing we may be tempted to spend it a bit more. But not by going out. The stimulus has to come from big government spending projects. Add up the savings of old codgers is not going to add up to much:https://tinyurl.com/szdny65 The average Brit has £6,756.81 put away for a rainy day. Experts recommend people to have three months of expenses saved 40.93% of Brits don’t have enough savings to live for a month without income. 1 in 10 (9%) Brits have no savings at all A third of Brits have less than £600 in savings Loads of the big money is tied up in ways that prevent it being spent. My 'one man band' company has plenty of spare money, but I can't spend it on me - only business related expenses are alowed. I can no way justify my company spending money right now can I? There will be one hell of a lot of money tied up like this. A stimulus that was mooted some time back was that pension investments could be opened up to include ANY type of investment. This would untie massive amounts of money. e.g. I was going to invest in a few hundred Harley Davidson's and vacume pack them! This would cover more than the average interest gain from most pension funds. Imagine the money freed up with this type of law change? A company can invest in employees pensions tax free - win win win tbh the furlough seemed to be designed to help out big business, not the smaller ones. My company got zero help when the law prevented me from trading. It will be exempted from the £1k January bonus as well. I don't quite see how company directors can furlogh themselves as you still have work to do even when you have no customers. Sure I can soon take on a young person for free, giving them 25hrs a week and something to put on their CV. This seems like a more realistic stimulus, but we will see what the details contain. I can just see Tesco sacking loads of shelf stackers and getting young people to do it for free!

I don't for one second think the furlough scheme was a bad idea (a bit blunt and many companies got loads of dosh when others got next to nothing), but it was swiftly implemented BUT For ten whole years the UK has been told that money didn't grow on trees and we were all in it together to rebuild the UK finances from the big crash caused by banking So how much debt were we in? And how much debt ARE we now in? Massive numbers with lots of zeros is of no use - we can't visualize it - what we can visualize is this: How much does the average household spend on servicing their mortgage? Answer: between 18% (NI) and 40% (london) https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-5510061/Mortgage-payments-compared-disposable-income-region.html And how much are we alowed to borrow? 2 to 3+ times our income per year? Something like that SO mow much should the UKs be able to borrow and how much of our GDP should go on servicing its debt? Have a guess what it is? Well we don't borrow more than even 1 years GDP, in fact we borrowed under 40% of GDP in 1997, going down to under 30% ( during abour), rising to over 80% during Conservative rule (hmm, thought they were the borrow less party - strange) This means that even at the height of Tory borrowing we spent just 4% of GDP or 8% of UK government tax income servicing that debt If the safe level of our personal household borrowing is 18-40% of our income, why is it not safe to borrow a little more than 4 or 8% of the UK income? The answer of course is - its not. We are just about to do it. 2020 the UK was set to borrow £55bn - in just the first two months of this crisis we borrowed an extra £100bn WHERE DID THE TREE COME FROM? WHY THE HELL WERE PEOPLE SUFFERING FOR 10 YEARS IF THE TREE EXISTED? £1.57bn for the arts!!! come on!! Every time we have a crash we get fed the same mantra - people won't work if they don't have to, we have to make the lazy scum hungry or they will sit on their backsides. SO services get cut, safety nets get pulled away and the jobs that we now see are vital, are paid a pittance. No understanding that financial crashes put massive numbers of people out of work through no fault of their own at all. One of the mantra of Brexit is we won't reduce workers rights, we will be free to make them better - do you believe that? We are not at the top of the list in the EU on unemployment rights and trying to get better: Those at the top of the list include Denmark, where 90% of workers’ salaries are paid for up to 104 weeks, and Belgium, which grants unemployment benefit for an unlimited period, starting at 65% for the first 13 weeks.The least-protected workers are those of Ireland and the UK, the latter of which provides benefits of up to €82 (depending on age) per week for up to 26 weeks. We are about to get mass unemployment beyond anything we have ever lived through - will we pay people to survive (just) or give people a decent amount that will stimulate spending and get us back on our feet so much faster? I think we found the money tree - lets use it this time

Thursday 31st October 2019 shall forever be known as Brexit Day Dead in a Ditch Day

Aspman - if Scotland leaves UK, Wales will seriously think about it. It turns out that Wales voted to leave EU due to ENGLISH voters living in Wales.