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The pleasure and pain of brilliant silver; doesn't show the dirt, but doesn't look much different after two hours of washing it!

Don't worry, the freehub splines and lockring are all that's needed to hold it together. The little bolt just makes assembly easier.

Sounds like the brake pads moving in the caliper. Does it do it if you coast to a halt without using the brakes, then accelerate? Or if you roll down a hill in neutral, brake to a halt then release the brakes to roll away?

Both ACC and front assist put the brake lights on if they apply the brake at all.

On paper 190 4x4 is much faster than 150 4x2 (0-60mph 7.7s vs. 8.8s), 190 4x2 is slower than 190 4x4 (8.0s vs 7.7s) Are both cars 6-speed DSG? Has your friend's been remapped?

A wheel can be buckled but still balance perfectly, and only a tiny distortion is needed to make a vibration you can feel. This recent thread mentions Skoda specifying 0.5mm as the maximum allowable run-out. Vibration through the steering wheel suggests that a front wheel is the problem, you could try swapping wheels front to rear to see if that makes any difference.

Buckled wheel would be my guess.

That's definitely not how the rest of the automotive industry define active and passive safety. I suspect this is your employers covering their arses against customers having problems after you've carried out repairs. If the insurance companies required this evidence for ADAS repairs, wouldn't they want the same evidence for work on tyres, brakes etc that are safety critical in every journey, not just the ones where ADAS might help?

Wow, where did you get that from? Active safety systems help to prevent collisions i.e. ABS, traction control, front collision intervention. Passive safety systems react to collisions i.e. crumple zones, seatbelts, airbags (all of them). Adaptive cruise control is a driver assistance system.

Sorry to question your qualifications but I find this hard to believe - Front Assist is not an MOT item so does not affect the legal roadworthiness of a vehicle. In any case, you can deactivate Front Assist through the infotainment, it would be ridiculous if doing this rendered your car unroadworthy and insurance invalid!

Looking good All Electric still going mad with the stickers though I see.

Absolutely right, I've seen it done with expensive consequences (boss's shoes got ruined ). You can get sealed bags of expanding foam intended for making custom packaging, if you can get them the right size and shape then they would be a safer alternative.

The only issue I had was that the parking ticket clip was a bit floppy afterwards. Parts-wise, either nothing needed replacing or the windscreen company knew what was required and supplied it.

The range estimate is far too quick to adjust to short term changes in driving conditions in my opinion. A 1.3 mile hill climbing 600' near me knocked the range down from 300 to 265 miles, I didn't get them back on the return journey either! In fact, the 'Greenscore' was worse on the way down

I wonder if it's got miles and km confused somehow - 32km being 20 miles, not far off your 18. You could try changing units then changing them back again.

Sensibly, the speed limiter still works with an odd tyre on It amazed me how quickly it's detected when you set off too.

Thermal performance is quite a challenge especially as higher power vehicle systems like power steering move to electric actuation and from in-cabin to underbonnet locations. Glad I'm the systems engineer specifying the requirements rather than the designer having to implement them!

It should be designed to work normally up to something like 105 °C ambient there.

Brake or clutch switch stuck on?

I use the Skoda reversible boot mat which works well for muddy MTBs: Superb III Combi - flip-folding boot mat

33k, it happened while I wasn't using the car for 5 weeks in February and March. A few weeks of frequent use including deliberate hard braking since then hasn't cleaned them up so I decided to replace. The old pads were hardly worn but there is a bad lip on the discs.

Replaced the front discs and pads as they'd rusted beyond recovery. Very pleased with the improvement in braking power and pedal feel.

Do you want to swap boxes with me? I leased mine as a 7 speed but it only has 6!

A solar charger plugged in to the lighter socket is working well for me, the car started up normally even after over a month out of use.

The problem is that you're manually releasing the park brake while in Park. The park brake will release automatically when you drive off, compensating for the gradient as needed, so you can just start up, select D and drive off whatever the gradient. Similarly, when parking up all you need to do is select P and switch off. It's a myth that holding the car on the parking pawl will damage it - that's what it's designed for!