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They aren't standard here in Finland either, and Crew protection assistant is a separate option as well.

That's why I ordered an aluminum bumper guard with the car. Fits in nicely with the aluminum roof rails and chrome accents.

They do the same thing here. And no tire is able to grip said slush so it makes driving equally bad for everyone.

I'm mostly extremely happy with the car, but there are a few annoyances: • The door sills are so massive it's hard to get in/out without getting your pants dirty. • You have to touch the possibly dirty outside of the filler cover to open it. • Every time the temperature drops under 4°C theres an audible warning. Which means every winter morning since I start from a warm garage. • There's no way to do a single wipe if the automatic wipers are engaged. (Without disabling automatic wiping that is.) • In a RHS car you have to use your right hand to open the sun visor on the drivers side. • The front passenger seat doesn't fold down if you have alcantara seats.

As do I. There are a certain set of conditions when it's useful (namely to prevent black ice), but most of the time it only worsens the conditions and makes cars rust at an alarming rate. Here a car is usually ruined in a few years if you rely on the factory coating alone. The stuff Skoda uses does a decent job at protecting the inner cavities, but the exposed metal parts, especially in the rear, are far too vulnerable for our conditions.

It really depends if the people doing the coating know what they are doing. Many companies here in Finland offer a coating developed with the car manufacturers, which is designed so that the factory coating isn't damaged. I had a treatment like that on our previous Volvo and went 9 years without any signs of rust. (And the noise reduction was really noticeable.) I highly recommend getting a treatment if they use as much salt over there as they do here. A couple of Finnish winters will ruin most cars without added protection.

I'm on the taller side (185 cm) and measured that I'd have to lift the belt about 20 cm higher than I normally do in order for it to hit the plastic.

What do those options entail?

I wouldn't be surprised id it did. The O3 is surprisingly quiet, it even compares to our previous Volvo with laminated side windows, which I didn't expect. Though I bet it'll get even more quiet once we get the anti-rust coating sprayed on the bottom, it usually dampens a lot of road-noise.

The standard system is actually pretty good once you've tweaked the EQ and use a high quality audio source (not to mention have given it some time to run in). I've been positively surprised actually, maybe because of everything I've read about it on here made me fear it might be awful...but the artificial (software) tone clipping is pretty idiotic. I bet that if you could really adjust the EQ (not just low/mid/high tones) and disable the artificial limits it could be quite impressive.

I've had the 2.0 TDI for 3 weeks now and have driven about 1200 km. I've noticed it doing region about 4 times now, had to interrupt it on two occasions, but completed the other two by dropping to sport mode for a few minutes. It's not a huge problem, but it's something you might want to be mindful about if you, like me, prefer not to let it get to the point the light turns on.

Well it definitely is here in Finland. I'd imagine it would be the same over there since our winter conditions are very similar. (Our Winter pack consists of: Heated front windscreen, heated washer nozzles, heated rear seats, remote controlled auxiliary heater and a set of floormats.)

Apparently (document in Finnish) it's a Nordic view that it's the shop owner that makes the offer by advertising but it's been suggested that the EU should implement it in the future. Consumer protection laws are an important corner stone of nordic legislation.

Really? It is here in Finland, and I assumed it would be an EU wide law...

I'd regret not taking an option that I miss more than paying a little extra for something I don't need as much...but I guess it depends on how long you plan on keeping the car.

Is it really an option in the UK or is it standard? (It's not exactly a new feature, even our 2004 Astra used to have it.)

The novelty does wear off quickly...but then there are the situations when you really need it and it rocks. For example when the rear end is covered with mud and you don't want to touch the handle or when you have to pick up heavy boxes from the boot with no hands left over to close it. I was in the latter situation today and was really thankful for the power boot. I simply stepped out of the car, touched the outside of the drivers handle to lock the car, touched the trunk handle to open it, then pressed the close button and picked up the boxes while the boot started to close. Then I simply walked away while the boot closed and locked itself. With my old car I would have to have put the boxes on the dirty ground or break my back by trying to hold them with one hand while closing the boot with the other.

iOS version Android version Basically it instructs you to control the front passenger seat from the back seat controls and the drivers seat controls.

I have to agree on everything regarding the 184 2.0 TDI Elegance. I prefer a car that's discreet on the outside but has some oomph under the bonnet when I need it.

You should read through the manual. There are controls for all the front seat adjustments in the rear seat: http://moba.i.daimler.com/baixn/cars/222/en_GB/index.html#../../../cars/222/en_GB/manual/subchapter_05_31.shtml:3658ef655dc6253935477e682ebe2ebe-7

It's always white on mine too. Could it be that it was orange on an older software version and there's a bug that makes it revert to that in some situations?

As far as I understand the basic steering only has adjustable power steering. But on the vRS it actually changes the ratio the steering wheel turns the wheels depending on driving speed.

Luckily it isn't tied to the rear window heating. That would be the most unnecessarily complicated system I can imagine.

That sounds like the regular setup. Variable steering is a vRS only feature as far as I know.

Was mirror heating on then? As I understand, it should be totally independent from rear screen heating.