J.R.

Rear Daylight Running Lights? I thought they were just on the front? As you said just turn your lights on.

L or higher being OK was what I recalled from having to replace the gateway on my 2006 vehicle. I fitted a similar Chinese head unit in the 2015 Yeti and there were no battery drain problems.

The depreciation is much higher when the vehicle is only a few months old, you are paying an extra 9p per mile on top of your monthly payments, if you divided them by the allowed mileage and added 9p I bet it would come to close to if not more than 40p per mile and your vehicle has already done most of its depreciating.

Sounds like a great idea apart from the beeping. Where can I buy a pair of boots with one integrated?

The stop is to prevent the driver breaking the master cylinder pushrod, later vehicles use a plastic one. The button is to reduce noise & will make less difference to the down pedal dimension than a floormat. It will have no effect on the height of the biting point.

If it is an electrical connector then it sure aint a VAG one, no sealing or latching evident. If it is an electrical connector then the pins look to be male Lucar ones which makes it very old and very unsophisticated, definitely something aftermarket like a cheap alarm or for auxiliary driving lamps.

That is understandable, it has to work on the assumption that your current journey will take you to the limits of the vehicles range, if the hill occurred at the start of your journey it will have had a greater effect on the predicted range, I have in similar circumstances seen the range increase but usually it just takes longer to decrease if that makes sense. If you stop for more than 90 minutes meaning a new journey for the computer the range will initially be calculated on the driving profile for the preceeding journeys on that tankfull so most of your lost range should be regained but at 260 miles you are already getting to the point where the algorithm will start stealing from you. I believe my fuel guage and the range shown down to 1/4 of a tank, thereafter I simply use the trip meter which I reset at each fill up, I drive another 50 miles after the fuel warning is on and the range shows zero, only exception would be if I were towing or driving fast on an autoroute.

I have always got a minimum of 50 miles/80kms beyond where the display shows zero miles remaining, that is the point at which the reserve capacity starts. I ran my MK2 out deliberately to ensure that I could still count on the 50 miles, it went well beyond, I refilled it with 5l from a jerrycan and it initially showed 30 miles remaining which is remarkably accurate for a dribble of fuel on the tank bottom, it was less than 3 miles to the petrol station, within 200 yards the "remaining range" started first to 20 miles and was at zero again before I had even covered 1 mile. They have really sorted out the algorithm correctly, with the tank filled it will always show a range that can never be achieved unless you play diesel roulette but if your driving style & journey profiles remain the same you will achieve it, I get 600 miles from a tank, the first half does exactly 300 miles, 3/4 exactly 450 miles & then it starts correcting to create a reserve capacity, at 525-550 miles it will show no miles remaining.

Never too old to be a Kevin Painting the roof any colour other than the current white can only be an improvement, was it really white when you bought it or has he done it for the club colours scheme. I am intrigued by the reflection in the wing & front bumper on the second photograph, I realise its distorted like a fairground mirror but it looks like a cartoon chimp bending forwards, is the person taking the photo wearing a hoody and a face mask?

Easy repair, difficult access, the sort of job that I would once have found easy but now with only one remaining longsighted eye is a nightmare for me. I would look carefully to see if the loom has been pinched, perhaps by the steering column adjust mechanism, if not then its probably yet another example of the brittle wire that they are now using that cannot resist repeated flexing. It looks like more than one conductor that is damaged.

Have they actually removed the clutch to make that diagnosis or just sniffed under the bonnet? You have done absolutely the right thing and I dont think they will have a leg to stand on when its expected, abusing a clutch once will leave a terrible smell and it will slip but the next day when cooled aside from the residual smell it will drive as good as new and go on for hundreds of thousands of miles. You would have to do the above abuse consistently and regularly before the clutch failed through wear which I'm sure is not your case, indeed you didn't abuse it at all but it sounds like the release mechanism seized. As the smell was there then there will be a sign of overheating but not excess wear and it will be a consequence of the mechanical or hydraulic problem.

Asking usually involves a question mark, "Find me a roof rack" is an order or command. Your later remark "I need the fittings and bars so I guess rack. And as cheap as possible so second hand is fine." is defining the parameters and further adds to the impression that you really are expecting others to find a new or second hand roof rack for you.

Interesting choice of title and posting. What did your last servant die of?

Mine was 55-60 all the time I was running, weight gain during the confinement and stopping running with the club in October saw it rise about 5bpm. I have been following your journey to fitness which was at the same time as my journey in the opposite direction, you have made some very impressive gains. I started with one run last week but instead of sticking to the 5km I wanted to start with I took an Italian renter on a longer one to show him the area, it was 12.7km of which I ran 8.5km and walked the rest, stupid on my part, heart and lungs were OK it was my quadriceps and took 5 days for the aches to subside. If for whatever reason you cannot keep up yor regime you lose the gains very quickly, its happened twice to me through Sepsis and a detached retina, within a month I can lose 25% of my VMA and V02max although RHR remains unchanged, it can take up to 3 months to get back to full fitness but at my age all the measures are declining anyway so I never quite get back what I lose. I have my second vaccination tomorrow and will start training with the club again, this time its going to be a very slow return to fitness as I have more than 10kg to shift.

Induction hobs are great for cooking things in their tins (lids removed) without needing pans so no washing up. They are excellent for softening wax finishes, warming up paint before application, reducing the viscosity of wayoyl etc before application, heating bike & motorcycle chains in oil baths. Some people even use them for cooking can you believe!

Thats exactly what mine turned into when I tried to reassemble it, I had replaced the modulating valve twice but it still didn't work, I dismantled it in hyper clean conditions and it was in pristine condition, re-assembly was a challenge trying to keep all the pistons engaged in the swashplate while trying to enter them into their bores, I really needed to be an Octopus. On the final attempt it just seemed to explode and bits bounced across the dirty dusty workshop floor in all directions exactly like a cartoon, I barely found half of them and had to resign myself to buying a Chinese pump, a then another when the hub stripped on that one, & then an aftermarket hub when the same thing happened yet again I enjoy working on AC but wont be rushing to dismantle a pump again.

When an NVQ doesn't cut the mustard, (& where would it?) then some women can call on other attributes to climb the corporate pole. Editted, thats unfair to the vast majority of NVQ holders, it does seem somewhat out of place in the position that she holds with VAG though.

I screwed myself and the AC pump shaft when trying to fit a new E/M clutch on my MK1 in 2005 on my job site in France without my decent tools & workshop. Being potless I just had to live without it for a decade. Then I found that the car was so old that my breakers didn't even have any of them left on the pile!!! And that I could get a second hand pump from E-bay for £30 delivered, I fitted it (not too hard a job at all) had a regas and had cold air for the first time in 10 years

To be sure it would be advisable to augment the foil hat with one of these: https://youtu.be/mS4njwcS4dw?t=113

https://www.quirkbooks.com/post/worst-case-wednesday-how-make-effective-tinfoil-hat

Initially I thought it was a combined filler/breather & then thought that was silly but filler/pressure relief valve makes more sense.

No difference aside from if it is already sagging.

A double pat on the back then!

"They all do that Sir!" You sure dodged a bullet there! Replacement part failing catastrophically well before the OE part that it replaced probably would have done, its why I change the belt (only when its degrading) and nothing else but react very quickly to any new noises which it seems you did so you should give yourself a pat on the back!