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Just back from another trip to Australia hired a Suzy Swift for nine days...nine days of having to high rev to set cruise control..nine days of no real boot...nine days... and there are a few more issues...I got the Illness out of the long stay at terminal 4 and fooking welped round the M25 ....I thankyou ....

Returned from "up north" and final true mpg..41.4.Four and a half hour three hundred mile dash for home inclusive of wives fag'n'comfort breaks.The trip to the lakes of which the passes were completed in auto mode one way and flappy gears on the return. Happy happy days for the Illness!

Part one:- North Kent coast to Newark..following day on to Kettlewell via Snake Pass in tbe Peaks through Bradford and onto Kettlewell....real mpg ??? 46.2 ....I love the Illness...Lakes today and the two great passes of Wrynose and Hardknot of which my dear wife knows nothing about !!

On the way up to the Dales,stop over in Newark...The real fun starts tomorrow,the Illness hasn't missed a beat in 10 months and 15000 miles. Every mile begets a smile.

Had to do this yesterday morning,I'm old and thick and it took three minutes ...no "bing bong service calling" this morning!

First MOT yesterday on the Illness,no problems. Looking forward to the first of our bi annual trips up to the Dales in the first week of April.Every mile still comes with a smile !

Totally agree with above,set at same gap,running a tuning box with no problems at all.

I used a small bladed screw driver to remove both the plastic parts and a visual guide I found in the briskoda search under "hard wiring dash cam" took thirty minutes and I'm an old fart at these things...good luck.

Just got back from a month in Australia driving a Kia Rio! I hadn't even got out of the "long stay" at Heathrow and the grin was back...how I missed the Illness !

I received one for the Illness on my birthday. Took the five minutes suggested earlier,was simple as suggested earlier and has the bonus of being the right size for my vintage Ray Bans plus one stashed roll of Polo's,sweets of the gods,not suggested earlier but most welcome.

With help from this forum my local garage has had no problems servicing my vRS.They had not previously serviced a twin charge engine and were honest about it.Using reccomended servicing details from here and charging a sensible price for labour has only improved my vRS experience thus far.

Coming up for 8500 miles on my 2013 vrs since purchase mid July this year. No problems at all with very mixed and varied driving.A smile for every mile....

Loool...ever the shark..let the whole community know please..

Appropriately "bright light" coming from Gizmo ;)

I wanted a Polo gti/Seat with the same engine.... then after researching realised the vRS had to be the comparative bargain of the century. I bought,"The Illness",mid July this year.A 2013, 14500 mile vRS..I have the rarb,yellow stuff brake pads and Denso spark plugs suggested by others.I have since then covered 8000 miles,everyone with a smile on my face,no added oil and consistent 40 plus mpg with mixed driving. Having the later engine perhaps is the reason for my pleasure but as you have read repeatedly there are far far more good cars than bad.I say again,with this engine,the mk 2 vRS has to be the bargain of the century!