J.R.

Do you mean that the excess which you paid was for the difference in price between the replacement cost of your cracked non heated screen and a heated one?

Looks like the coolant temperature sensor and it has been leaking.

Are you sure that is the knock sensor? Hard to tell from the photo but that looks like the bellhousing with the flywheel showing, in which case it will be a TDC or flywheel position sensor. The knock sensor would normally be fitted on the upper side of the engine block.

So you scammed your insurers?

Dupont Pulls A Rabbit Out Of (a) Hat! Ah! Was that Nylon & not Teflon?

Did you know that the Teflon name was finally chosen over the other front runner Duparooh? Todays question is What did Duparooh stand for? A clue, it was probably shortened from Duparooah.

Multi-level marketing (AKA Pyramid Selling) will always flourish all the time there are greedy selfish amoral people happy to exploit their relationships with family and friends for financial gain, social media has given it a new lease of life. Very dissapointing to see it on here.

I was replying to yours. Thankyou for your order, I may or may not heed it.

I am not making assumptions about people when I am dazzled on the autoroute, the only assumption is that their vehicle has chocolate teapot matrix headlights, the assumption is made because their beam pattern changes (to non dazzling) quicker than it takes for my eyes and nervous system to see the main beamflash from my own headlights warning them. Exactly the same thing happens when one is following me at a distance on an unlit section of autoroute with no other vehicles around, the instant I put on my rear fogs their beam pattern adjusts, if I slow down to close the gap the lights never go back up. Now I'm sure these drivers think the illumination from their lights is wonderfull but if they did not abdicate responsability to the inadequate "driver aid" systems (inadequate both as a system and a system for inadequate drivers!) they would not even be using high beam on a very well defined autoroute, nobody else myself included does so especially when there are vehicles in front or coming the other way.

Dont be too quick to dismiss, on the Autoroute des Anglais (A26 Calais to Troyes) where I get dazzled by far the most by oncoming matrix headlights at the hours I am travelling the majority of vehicles are RHD UK registered. The set up will be for oncoming vehicles to be on the right of the vehicle not the left, maybe it adapts if told or through the GPS, maybe VAG will design & test their software properly, maybe pigs will fly.

It's not the drivers who will be complaining. If they RTFM'd and switched the function off on autoroutes & motorways with central dividers neither would I.

I'm not sure where it comes out but I nearly always see it on the floor when I move my car backwards, it should be beneath the scuttle area, logic says it should miss the undertray but when has VAG ever been bothered about logic? My car also currently has a wet patch on the undertray that I need to investigate. Driving the car with the AC off, parking it, leaving it and restarting with AC off should reveal whether the fluid or absence of it was condensate.

You have simply repeated my statement, the word I used for the ICE vehicle on downhill was "saved"

It will have used it to gain the altitude beforehand. Someone on here re-educated in my thinking that with an ICE most of the energy consumed in climbing a hill could be saved by coasting down the other side, mechanical losses aside. I was wrong because of the poor thermal efficiency of an ICE, most of the energy would have been lost as heat, that is where EV's have a real advantage, the extra they consume gaining altitude will indeed be saved by no consumption when losing it.

4th solution - Ignore it!

Air conditioning evaporator condensate drain.

A couple of suggestions for the future to protect your wallet and maybe make a better person of you. Don't drive into cats. Don't tell lies.

But a short jaunt to Spain and back does not count 😆 Being flashed one or two times is one or two times too many and if that does not tell the driver something then two thousand flashes are not going to either. I am not an RTFM person but I do have empathy for the drivers of oncoming vehicles & would never let a vehicle make the decisions for me & sod anyone else.

The noise will most likely be initial failure of the alternator pulley sprag clutch or the aircon pulley shear plate. Try switching the aircon off to see if the noise changes or disappears. Mine has started making the noise, its the AC pulley I think, its working OK and the high & low side pressures are what they should be but putting an inspection mirror down in front of the pulley reveals some oxidised metal dust, the noise is not apparent with the AC on, as the shear plate rivets & straps look OK & the pulley boss & splines are aluminium perhaps its just a characteristic!

What work was done to the car immediately before the problem manifested?

They will have researched if their phone is compatible with the infotainment system, what else could possibly be important? 😆 And then they can creat threads like "my phone will not sync" "Android car play not working" "Problems with Skoda Connect" etc. Me I want a car for driving during which time my non smartphone will be switched off.

14.7v is the correct charging voltage and what I would expect to see after starting the engine or if the battery has been discharged.

I can tell you another situation where the matrix headlights dont work as they should, & when you consider it they never could, it is really dazzling and dangerous for oncoming drivers. I first noticed it about 18 months ago and now a lot more oncoming vehicles fitted with them are blinding me, probably a result of all the new cars ordered during lockdown. It is when you are driving on a motorway or autoroute with the central divider set at the regulation height which stops correctly adjusted dipped beam normal headlights from impeding the forward vision of oncoming vehicles on the other carriageway. There will always be someone coming the other way on main beam or with an overloaded vehicle who hasn't adjusted the headlight level control, most of us will have done it at one time or another. Usually the transgressor will dip their lights after a second or so, others carry on regardless. Now it happens much more frequently and when you flash them the dazzling stops even before your own eyes & nervous system has registered the flash from your own main beam, except when you look carefully the next time (& it will be within minutes 🙄) the oncoming lights are not dipping, the beam matrix is changing. These effing stupid latest "must haves" 'for selfish uninvolve drivers) cannot see the oncoming correctly adjusted dipped headlights over the barriers so will not adjust the matrix until the oncoming driver has flashed their main beam