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It needs a good 20-30 mins at c. 2,000 rpm+, once a week, to be on the safe side. In the meantime, get it down to 1/4 tank of diesel, throw a bottle of this stuff in the tank and thrash it. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cataclean-Diesel-Catalytic-Converter-Cleaner/dp/B00BFWGI6M

Arnold Clark....?

Where did they come from? They weren't in Port Edgar when we lived in SQ up until 8 years ago. Looks like there's a woman called Laura involved somewhere. I'm reminded that John Wylie who was the propietor of the Hawes Garage had a daughter called Laura who ran the business for a while. Is it her or is that a stretching the power of coincidence?

I suspect your clutch slave cylinder is on the way out. I don't understand your comments about 4x4 mode. It's not something that you switch on and off. It's enabled all the time and the Haldex decides when and how much torque to send to the rear wheels depending upon a number of factors and primarily the difference in rotation speed between front and rear wheels.

Did Škoda not change from the PD engine to the CR one in 2009 in the same way that VW did? One of the main drivers for that was the problem of getting the DPF and PD engine to work well together. Having said that, I didn't experience any DPF issues on my 2008 Golf GT Sport 170 TDI which I bought new in '08 and sold last month after 12 years and some 90k miles. However, the easy way to tell the difference is to pull off the plastic engine cover and look. The engines look completely different. This is a BKD - a 140 PS TDI PD.

My remapped 150 TDI 4x4 is showing a long term average of 40 mpg which probably translates to c. 37 mpg true. I think that's pretty good return on the way that I drive it.

Good heavens no...! Especially if it's one of the low-rent models or even worse, one of the pre-facelift ones..... Nay, nay, never....

I did this to my 2016 Yeti 150 TDI SE L, recently. In my case, I purchased a set of used Mk5 / 6 Golf GTI calipers and caliper carriers from a breaker. I gave the calipers to a friend and had the carriers blasted and powder coated. My original calipers fit straight onto them and I fitted 312 mm, dimpled and grooved EBC discs with their Greenstuff pads. HTH.

I'd strongly suggest that you get them to clean the gauze filter. I had my local, friendly Škoda dealership do it in March of this year. They initially quoted £69 for a Haldex oil change. When I discussed the gauze filter cleaning issue with the Service Manager, she disappeared into the workshop and looked at the fiche with their Head Tech. She came back with a price of £76.00 for the complete job, telling me that Škoda UK were subsidising some jobs to get older cars back into the dealer network. It also, probably, helped that we'd bought a new Karoq from them at the end of last year.

In the Nevada desert, 364 days ago.

I had my '08 Golf GT Sport 170 TDI remapped by the Scottish agent for Angel Tuning in 2013. I subsequently had it dyno'd on my local VAG specialist's notoriously conservative dyno. It made close to the claimed 210 bhp and 325 lbs-ft. I've recently had my Yeti 150 TDI remapped to a claimed 180-185 bhp by the same guy. He found he couldn't get a virtual unlock code to flash the ECU via the OBD port so we agreed he'd remove the ECU. The whole exercise took about 3 hours and several cups of tea. He still only charged me the quoted £289. On both occasions, he came and did it on our drive and then insisted that we went out to test the cars to make sure I was happy with them. The Yeti now has considerably more go than it had originally. I've no reason to doubt the claimed figures which are less optimistic than some I've seen. On the basis of my experience, I'd be happy to recommend the Scottish Angel Tuning agent, Paul Winston. I'd hope you'd get the same quality of service from your local guy.

I've got Greenstuff pads, front and rear on EBC discs, dimpled and grooved 312mm on the front, on my remapped Yeti 150 TDI. I previously ran the same combination for several years on my Mk5 Golf GT Sport 170 TDI. I sold the Golf today and driving it before it went, I was impressed by the good initial bite from the brakes. For some reason, the Yeti isn't like that and it feels like the pads need to warm up before they work properly. There can only be about a years difference between the age of the pads and discs as the Golf had a brake job last year and I upgraded the Yeti brakes in February of this year. EBC have always recommended Greenstuff pads for road use on cars up to 200 bhp.

I'm guessing that you're not really using the performance, particularly as you're in New Zealand which has low speed limits. Your fuel consumption translates to c. 36 mpg. I seriously considered buying a new Golf R a couple of years ago to replace my then 10 year old GT Sport 170 TDI which has 210 bhp / 330 lbs-ft and can return 50 mpg + on a long trip so long as I keep it under 100 mph. I borrowed a DSG Golf R from my local, friendly VW dealership for an afternoon, drove it as I would my Mk5 and returned 25 mpg at which point I decided I'd keep my old Golf for another couple of years, at least.

I think you may be confusing the flaps in the inlet manifold which close off 4 inlet ports at low revs for emissions reasons with the Anti Shudder Valve which closes when you turn off the ignition. Swapping the original BMN, plastic, flappy inlet manifold for a BKD one sans flaps has no downsides as far as I've been able to establish.

What PipH said...^^^ I suspect that when you take the manifold off, you're going to find that the flaps are sticking and probably breaking up. I'd get a BKD manifold like the one in the Darkside kit on there, sooner rather than later. When the flaps break up, they have a habit of being sucked into the combustion chambers with dire results. I bought that Darkside kit for my '08 Golf GT Sport 170 TDI as it was convenient and came with the necessary gasket and bolts and the manifold was blasted clean inside and out. However, you can do it more cheaply if you source a manifold from a breaker and get the gasket and bolts from a VAG parts source. The parts you want are from a TDI 140 PD. If you go down that route, I'd recommend Wigan VAG Parts as a good source where you might get a manifold. https://www.facebook.com/vagpartswigan/

My 16 plate SE L Drive Outdoor has the heated leather seats with electric adjustment and memory for the driver's seat. I bought it in February this year with 34K miles on it. You might get lucky and find one of those. Having said that, mine is a 150 TDI which might not be what you're looking for and my friendly, local, Skoda dealer did say that the electrically adjustable seat was rarer than a rare thing. He said it was because it was an option and most of the late model Yetis were built from the factory, rather than to customer orders. You need someone who knows their way around VCDS to establish if it's possible to retrofit a memory seat and have it coded in. My guess is that it will be but it might be worth enquiring on a VCDS users forum.

My wife's 190 TDI SE L came on those same Bridgestones. However, I changed them over for the winter and fitted 17' wheels with Dunlop Winter Sport D5 which are great tyres. I bought a Yeti earlier this year and fitted it with Michelin CrossClimate+. If you're going to fit All Seasons, I think it'd be hard to find anything better than those. As ever, YMMV.

I used to know a Traffic Sergeant in Strathclyde. In 2014, I asked him if they were still operating a 10%+2 threshold for nicking people. He said, "Don't get me started. We used to do 10%+10mph in Strathclyde. Nowadays, if my guys don't come off shift having writted the requisite number of tickets, I have to ask them what they've been doing with their time!" He, like me, was and probably still is a motorcyclist. Most of us who buy bikes with well in excess of 100 bhp don't buy them with a view to bimbling along A roads at 67 mph.

If it were simply a choice between those two, then the 150 ps 4x4 every time. The 2wd car has a max braked towing weight of 1500 kg, so you'd be very close to the limit with that caravan. The 150 ps, 4x4 has a max braked towing weight of 2100 kg; so has a much greater reserve.

If the Kodiaq ECU is the same as the Karoq one, it shouldn't be an issue. It's a moment's work to undo the clip that holds the ECU in its carriage and slide it out. While I was having my Yeti remapped, I had my local Angel Tuning agent have a quick look at the ECU in my wife's late 2019 Karoq 190 TDI and he was pleasantly surprised how easy it is with there being no security bolts.

Have you got the original inlet manifold? If so, do this.... https://www.darksidedevelopments.co.uk/products/1-6-2-0-tdi-common-rail-swirl-flap-delete-kit.html

Is this a PD or a CR engine? The usual fix for the 170 TDI PD, engine code BMN is to fit the alloy inlet manifold from the 140 TDI BKD which doesn't have flaps. I've done this to my BMN engined Golf and it made a world of difference.

So long as the electrics that you have fitted along with your towbar are OEM specification and then coded into the ECU, you will find that the car recognises that you have trailer attached and the ESC will behave accordingly.

It's not a simple yes or no. It depends very much on the level of towing performance you want and are prepared to put up with. The other issue is that you haven't stated whether your car has a manual or DSG gearbox. I see there has been some discussion which suggests that the manual gearbox version of your car was never homologated by Škoda for towing. I've only skimmed this thread, so I don't know if there was a definitive answer as to whether or not Škoda subsequently homologated the vehicle. It might be wise to ask your local dealership to confirm what Skoda's position is on this now.

I'm pretty sure he means - 'after sales, towing will be your problem.' That is to say that the caravan dealer is interested in selling you the caravan and not much more after that. HTH