Warrior193

Hello, welcome to the forum. Do you know if that battery has a cooling fan - could it be that?

Have you had to top up engine coolant at all?

If you can, try charging the battery first - then test the battery voltage while the starter motor is cranking the engine if you don't have access to a proper battery tester. The infotainment system code is not affected by disconnecting the battery - but it is OK to charge while the battery is still connected to the vehicle. Replacing the battery, if the present one turns out to be at its end of life, will require the replacement to be adapted (coded) into the vehicles system - there may be a forum member near you who could do this if your battery supplier cannot.

Hello, welcome to the forum. First get a proper (load) condition test carried out on the battery and check that the battery terminals are clean and correctly tightened.

Have you been able to measure the current being drawn when all modules should have entered sleep mode after locking?

GPS signals cannot pass through metal or concrete, even thick foliage can seriously attenuate the signal - so long as the Android device has a reasonable view of the sky through glass, it should be able to pick up the signal from satellites. If your car does not have integrated GPS, it almost certainly will not have the antenna fitted. A thought occurs - you may experience reception issues if you have a heated windscreen. Where did you have the phone positioned?

I believe in your case the GPS signal is from the Android device.

I can recommend Draft Day, free on Netflix. Very watchable dramatisation of the 2014 season NFL draft. Not a sport I follow, but I enjoyed this film - and it might even have some parallels for followers of 'The Beautiful Game'

Hello, welcome to the forum. I do not know for sure - but I would consider it highly unlikely that there are any differences in the front panels - that would not make any sense, cost-wise, for manufacturing.

Hello Pikaa, welcome to the forum. What mileage has the car covered? If high, oil is probably getting past either the valve-stem seals or piston rings. I'd have thought that 0.5L in 2000km would be showing some smoke, particularly on the overrun - although being a TDI, this might sometimes be a little difficult to see.

Good morning, a compression test would be a logical starting point - then, depending on the results of that, check the valve timing, then the coil packs. Have you had the CV valve joint fixed yet?

Intermittent or short spells of running, such as you will very likely get from the ICE in a PHEV, will be much worse than sustained running from an IC engine alone.

The Old Oak, free on Netflix is well worth a watch.

Hello, I'd suggest starting with a good service with oil and filters, including new plugs and see where you are after that - it could just need a good run out.

Hello, welcome to the forum. Bit of a late starter, huh?

I'm not entirely sure what version firmware I'm running - but to my knowledge, it may well be the original from late 2015.

I would estimate that a significant part of the problem is people who fit LEDs into headlight units that were not designed for this type of light source - which is illegal in the UK anyway.

Just a point - are you zooming-in on the area? A lot of map detail is missing until you do so because of the way map details are layered.

My version is on a 32GB card - which I believe you will need for this version.

I'd have thought it would be highly unlikely - looking at the two setups, the mountings appear to be quite different. Although the torsion beam setup gets a fair bit of stick from some quarters - it should be noted that a recently produced hyper car uses it.

Hello, welcome to the forum. The 1st image is the torsion beam rear axle fitted to smaller engined vehicles, I believe that the 2nd image is the multi-link, IRS version fitted to the VRS.

I can see the village named on my maps - Ver. 5L00051236DH - ECE AS 2024; - it is there.

Can someone confirm (or debunk) the theory that excessive plug electrode gaps puts extra stress on the ignition coils?

The snapped-off hose looks to be the crankcase PCV - wouldn't that affect inlet mixture?

I'd like to see a measure of those electrode gaps.