mangoletse

TBH, when this has happened and I've noticed, has been in *tight* traffic, so I've corrected it immediately. If I get a chance in the morning I'll let it roll and report back I could do it on the hill I live on but may not remember in the flurry of getting out and on in time for work!

I always press the button, and pull it up to where it should stop - but do find it needs an extra click at times (this is on a Tdi VRs, not that I suppose it matters as far as handbrake goes) I've just got used to pulling it 'right up' now and seems fine... but I do always check for a roll - now hill start has been mentioned on this thread, it does seem to ring a bell (although I haven't been monitoring as such) - as if the pressure is released when the hill stop shuts off and the roll starts. I'll check in the morning...

I've just got to the thick end of 4k miles on my vRS TDi having had loads of those and had a reminder today that they don't seem to happen any more - today's 50 min commute increased to 2 hrs due to 'something' no idea what - but it introduced an hour of crawling, stop/starting etc. and the car just carried on. The only time I noticed the 'bump' when it increases fan speed / 10k RPM idle was when I kept my foot a few mm on the clutch rather than just letting it idle in neutral, and immediately dropping clutch 100% stopped it. It did worry me too for the first 2k miles but the engine seems to wear in and all is fine now...

My wife can get 60mpg on the motorway, i have no chance - 50 tops. average 38mpg since June, 42 into town commute, 30 back. Car gets a ragging whenevr possible. Manual estate.

Well, I've given it a couple of weeks fatidiously keeping out of 5th gear and the problem has not surfaced in any of the usual points on the route. So I've forgotten about it to an extent, although it now occurs in a different place, by which time I'm not really concentrating on it and can't remember what's going on. However, I'm pretty sure its a case of slowing down and staying in a higher gear - I guess my only analogy would be in an old carburettored petrol car, that massive jerking you'd get. I do find that staying out of 5th is much better for the drive dynamics at lower speeds, in spite of what the maxidot tells me, and in fact I've stopped noticing it at all now. Those taxi drivers who make it into top gear at 10mph, how do they manage it!?

I have a diesel estate (and to be honest have/will always probably need an estate), and i love it. My average economy since June is about 38mpg, this is over a 5-day per week commute in and out of a busy city - tend to find the 'in' gives me about 42, lucky to get 30 on the 'out' due to traffic. However I also seem to have developed a habit of going home via the Peak District on a sunny day, add 5-20 miles depending on route, and I do tend to rag the living daylights out of it whenever I get the chance. My commute indicates already that perhaps, next time I change cars (and it will undoubtedly be for whatever vRS is available at the time) I might pay more attention to the DSG box (just to save the time on the clutch in traffic which, having test driven a DSG, is now tiresome - before that I didn't know any different). To add to that, the DSG car I tried was a diesel, and I didn't like it at all. Just seemed to hold the revs too long with foot to floorboards, didn't seem right to me. And it was quite a few more quid to get it specced so didn't bother. Since this is the first slightly rapid car I've owned over and above the normal 2.0Tdi diesels, I alredy yearn for petrol just to get the extra bhp. SWMBO is not enamoured with the idea of a DTUK chip, worried about warranty and insurance issues... One huge point to make - since you mention bicycles - the estate is fitted with roof rails as standard. Add a pair of bars and Thule Proride 591 carriers x the number of bikes you need to carry, and it's soooo easy. Look for the carriers on ebay as you can save a lot of cash compared to buying from Halfords etc.

I will get it checked, thanks for replies. Mines a manual, and tbh I seem to know not to use 5th on the way in to work but seem to on the drive home (and there are two 'spots' where this seems to happen. I'll ignore the maxi dot for a while, stay in 4th and report back... Spot 1 is uphill but (iirc) trailing the throttle to decide whether car in front will turn right (and hence switch lanes and give it a bit of boot). Spot 2 is flat, clear 40 but can go a bit slow due to junctions ahead. Food for thought!

Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this - seems to happen when driving in 4th/5th at 40mph, engine in comfortable revs etc. Car has done about 1500 miles so far. I did wonder at first if it was DPF regen but I'm not so sure the longer I keep feeling it. Put simply, the engine just seems to lose power for a very brief moment, power drops so it feels like the car has just held back slightly, then just carries on as before. I guess on older engines if have put it down to a tiny fuel blockage maybe. Not had it back to the dealer yet, although I will, although I guess it'd be hard to recreate on demand. Just wondered if its normal for a new engine, early stages of lots of regens etc..,

Yes they do - in my case because I made the mistake of reusing the screw from the Skoda key, it tightened up and the head sheared.... I'll worry about it if I'm bothered enough about retaining the silver bit when I change the car for the 280ps, 4wd one in 3 years time (or whenever it's available / Skoda are on my case to take a new one)

Hmmm. Threads on the dashcamtalk forums (now I know what I'm googling for) suggest that passing cars and even rain on the screen etc. will activate the recorder in parking mode. I can see this becoming a PITA although clearly the smart power box would mitigate the risk of running the battery flat). The twin-camera kit looks like the ticket although is the 720p rear camera up to the job? Also a lot more than I really fancied spending... especially as it looks like the rear camera would need the connection cable running through the headlining, which I don't fancy doing myself...

Great, thank you! Again I appreciate that people may not have tested this but another couple of questions spring to mind (and I might be asking too much from a camera TBH) - would the power drain in parking mode be enough to flatten the battery too much over a 2 week period? (assuming e.g a car park may have movement fairly regularly anyway)? Also say - if parked under trees etc. or at the side of the road, would movement from branches or passing cars be enough to fire it up (and therefore keep it on to much and kill the battery and/or fill the SD card)? I fear I may be worrying too much and/or getting excited about the prospect of some gadgetry (incidentally SWMBO has vetoed the DTUK chip I'd been looking forward to getting)

Visited a local nature reserve today where the parking is distinctly out of the way and has always felt a bit 'dodgy' due to the area it's near and the proximity to a few out of the way footpaths / cycle tracks etc. On arrival we were met by a very dodgy looking group of feral locals on bikes, who were distinctly 'leery' as we passed, definitely checked out the car and immediately began hanging around watching us. Waited a while and they just sat down nearby, and while I may well have been feeling a bit precious and paranoid due to my new pride and joy I really don't think I was and there was no way I was leaving it alone so we bailed and went elsewhere (and again got leered at on the way back up the track). I've also got to leave the car in an airport car park for 2 weeks later in the year, so it got me thinking about dash cams. I'm sure I've read, somewhere, of a camera that as well as automatically recording when the ignition is powered up, can also detect motion outside the car and record when e.g. someone appears on the outside - but my Google skills have failed me this evening so I appeal to the font of knowledge on the site to point me in the right direction, please! I'm quite tempted by something like the eprance G1W for price and features (HD, number plates etc.) and I've seen some threads here mention them (or at least eprance ones) but if I'm installing one I'd really like it to at least try to capture any ne'er do wells when I'm not driving. I do a lot of wildlife stuff and caving which involves being out and about late and in remote places and such laybys etc. can be a bit of a magnet for break ins, as well as people driving back from country pubs after a few to many who might be prone to a bit of swerving, taking off wing mirrors etc (although I appreciate they might be way past by the time the cam fires up in the latter case). I guess an ideal one would have rear and front facing cameras (I'd get two anyway at the price of the G1W for front and rear screens but wonder if rear facing lenses might capture a face at the side or inside, maybe?) Thanks for reading and apologies for lack of brevity

In my new vRS on bluetooth earlier today, listening to Spotify, the volume reduced for a few seconds, no 'text' sound...

Just picked mine up, black VRS TDi estate, black pack and sunset glass. Love it already

Further to some of my other posts I'm still receiving a call every week from the dealer telling me the build week hasn't changed but could. Order placed end of March, so how long should it be till that changes? Also is this still status 10 and what does status 10 mean? Mentioned before I wanted to add Canton and have been informed that this would alter the eligibility for the finance offer I'm on / reset the order.... TBH I'd rather not upset the applecart as I get closer but it'd be nice to take advantage of a 'non fixed' position specially as I'd pay cash for the speakers...