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Maybe because they are springs for a Honda & they use handed ones? The Lesjofors cross references are also different part numbers.

You cant see me and I am not getting mad, I have sympathy for you.

Mine look like these: https://www.amazon.com/Skoda-CDB800001-Pieces-Temple-Silver/dp/B07SRN79X8

Thats 2 groans from you ZacDaMan, why dont you say what it is that you dont like or agree with? I realise it would not be an easy repair to someone that spends their life behind a keyboard but people who make their living repairing vehicles would find that banal, its a rear quarter panel & if an insurance repair the inner rear quarter as well, the rear panel plus all the bolt on bits, tailgate bumper crash beam, plastic stuff etc . Yes there may be more damage which would write it off but a salvage repairer will not be replacing floorpans & inner quarter panels, all of them will come back to shape with the portapower beam. The roof and the rear panel are seperated by a gulley filled with a plastic trim which runs under the roof rails, I doubt the roof will need any repair after the rear quarter is pulled, at best a PDR job. You will realise how simple the repairs can be when you see the crazy price that the salvage will be bid up to on Copart.

I only watched a few seconds to see all that I needed to see, look at the size of that site compared to a normal multi-fuel filling station, "it can fast charge up to 36 cars!", how long does a fast charge take & how long a slow charge? How many vehicles per hour would that equate to at a theoretical maximum capacity? I bet that would not even account for 5 minutes of throughput of vehicles at a supermarket filling station.

That would be me, with the benefit of the later closer photographs it is indeed an easy repair and as Rooty says either via insurance or salvage the vehicle will definitely be back on the road.

My winter wheels I bought from a Briskoda member, they have genuine Skoda wheeltrims which look as good as they could and are very robust, clip well into position and dont look like they have ever fallen off before. Dont know what they cost but they are good.

I should add that 6 months later the motor started playing up again just before I was delivering the car to the new purchaser, I whipped it apart & lubed the motor bushes & the spindle bush again but it still seemed sluggish. It failed on the way to deliver the car so I gave the guy some money off. If it happens again on the Yeti I would try to fix it again but also buy a cheap replacement to be ready for a swift changeover if needed.

Yes, any significant difference can be corrected by VCDS coding.

Not sure about deployment when parked, if the doors were locked & the alarm sensor not disabled then its plausible that they wouldn't. The ones on my vehicle deployed & all the only witness mark is one small scuff on the plastic bumper which compounded out after a tiny bit of touch up paint, I presume it was being driven but it must have been at close to no speed. The primary crumple zone on the longeron of the metal bumper support beam was deformed though so a considerable shock would have travelled through the structure and triggered the G sensor, there was zero chassis damage, just a boken slat on the plastic radiator grille. The rear quarter structure deforming as it did will have attenuated the impact, its entirely possible the airbags may not have deployed were the car being driven at the time of the impact. The car looks easily repairable, whether its economically viable will depend on the insurers, it may be cheaper for them to pay out and sell the salvage will will bring in either 50% or 30% dependant on the category. If they repair it under your policy it wont be recorded on the V5.

The one I use has a switch so consumes no current when its switched off, I leave it on so that I can see the state of charge through the passenger window, it was more visible in the console of the Octavia but this is the best location in the Yeti. It has a USB port as well, accuracy of this one spot on, the last under-read by 0.2v which is still pretty good.

Did the airbags deploy? It looks repairable & if the airbags are intact then the chassis rail (I know its a monocoque) will not have deformed nor the boot floor. The damage is minimal (structural) because of the towbar & the height of the RR's bumper.

When I shared a workshop with others I had a collection of random unidentifiable bits segregated by having traces of engine oil/carbon deposits, transmission oil, electrical parts, odd fasteners & plastic bits like that, they key thing was they had to be unidentifiable but look important if not critical. When someone else had something stripped down that was causing them a lot of head scratching I would select one or two pieces from my collection to add to the parts & fasteners that they had removed If you kept a covert eye on them often after scratching their head they would look around to see if anyone was looking and then hide the evidence!

Lesjofors are made in Sweden where they know a bit about steel & coilwinding. I paid €21 each in August of this year. Qparts24.de

Back up battery soldered to the circuit board has a finite life. They wont add it to the service schedule because they only want to do things that bring them loadsamoney without getting their hands dirty or the possibility of screwing something else up. Like a Haldex service & filter clean and draining the diff oil by mistake, better to say that it never needs servicing.

Do you even know that the immobiliser can be overcome via the OBDII port? Do they even have steering locks these days? Even the dodgiest geezers on Ebay that can clone keys need the original key with transponder in the ignition in order to clone it via the OBDII port, if they have that then they will simply be driving off & not faffing around programming, they can do that later. Pretty much all car theft since the mid 90's when RFID immobiliser keys were introduced has involved the theft of the keys or spare key or the collusion of the owner, the crime rates should by rights have dropped massively but the last category has always been a high percentage & the thieves simply started breaking into houses & stealing keys or pinching cars off the drive at this time of year where owners leave them idling to warm up & then deny it, the figures always shoot up in the winter. Nowadays there is also the capture & retransmission of the keyless entry signals but thats nothing to do with stealing a car via the OBDII port. So back to my original question, is it even a possibility on current new model Skodas?

I will adopt that phrase Mac!

Yes, please do, also any of the airfields, industrial sites & riverside locations etc although I doubt any of the latter remain recognisable. Its the high street scenes which shock me, instantly recognisable yet could be from another planet today, the scrapyard scenes also. Whenever a MKII or MK10 Jaguar was shown you knew that it would end in a crash on wasteland or a crushing in a scrapyard!

All of my skodas have burnt oil but I have never needed to put any petrol in them

That gave me the biggest laugh for a very long time! Keep the photos coming please! I watch the Sweeney and marvel at all the derelict & run down London (presumably) locations they had in those days to film in, they will all be gentrified & unrecognisable now. Did you notice how much the trees had grown in the various photos? Obvious really but I recently visited the council estate where I lived from 1967 & from where I have most of my childhood memories, it was a new estate and had saplings planted, now they are massive mature trees where the upper foliage meets those the other side of the road and the overall impression now is that the trees have taken over and in most places you cannot even see the sky line. It could be that they have cut back on the pruning & maintenance in recent years.

OK, I think that I may have misinterpreted the info and thought that the person had reported a Shogun with that reg having hit their vehicle. It could be genuine in as much as someone was sideswiped by a vehicle carrying that reg or they may even have misread the plate as it made off. I hope it will be resolved swiftly but as you know its not in the insurers interests to do so even when it appears clearly to be an incorrect claim, at least you know that eventually you will win, there cant be any doubt about that. Strange that you have not been pursued by the Police for an alleged hit & run.

I hope your insurance is not up for renewal any time soon, I agree that it has to be the most obvious claim to repudiate but I was once in a similar situation and it took me 18 months of constant pressure on my insurers to resolve. In the meantime my NCB was reduced because of a claim pending and I could not go elsewhere, well I could but with an even bigger loss of NCB and then no leverage against my insurer for them to resolve it. I presume that the Shogun is your current vehicle with the personal plate, if so someone must have seen it somewhere to be able to match the reg to the vehicle or they have a bent copper or civil employee with access to the P.N.C.

I was speaking of the quality of them and the fact that they are a long established spring manufacturer, being loyal to or being recommended a brand that does not even manufacture is illogical. In my case I wanted to uprate my suspension for towing, both the MK1 and MK2 Octavias were very weakly sprung at the rear, there were different spring part numbers for "rough road markets" or something listed in the VAG parts breakdowns, I chose Lesjofors as they were one of the few companies that listed a spring corresponding to the part number I wanted, on the cars they were everything that I wanted, if someone bought them hoping for a straight swop then they would have been dissapointed. The VAG part numbers are common across many different vehicles on the same platform from a Golf right through to a Touran, I agree that its a lottery but I have more faith in a company that has more variants than fewer and list them as a direct replacement for lots of different part numbers. When I ordered mine I knew the coil diameter and free length and was confident they were what I wanted, they proved to be, the person who bought my MK2 Octavia does not like the rear ride height, I advertised it as having uprated suspension, he bought it for towing and if he was not happy he should not have bought it, no point whinging afterwards.

More and more of the production is shipped to EU warehouses ordered by the reseller once you click "buy it now" and dropshipped directly to you, the manufacturer sends out pallets & containers at a time & doesn't get involved in small orders, the reseller never physically sees or touches the goods. That said for smaller items ordered from EU warehouses they often still come direct from China because of the subsidised shipping rates but they are probably held at a dropshipping warehouse there. There are also re-distributeurs (there is probably a correct term for it) that recieve large parcels from manufacturers, an example might be the glasses you buy on line from a seemingly UK or EU company that is no more than a website, they are made in the factory in Pakistan or wherever and shipped in bulk orders to the redistribution company who then send them out by the postal service. And then you get Amazon doing all of the above for sellers not even on their platform, I have bought security cameras from Ebay supposedly in stock from a French seller which were sent from China to Amazon France who put the original box inside one of theirs with the Amazon smiley logo with loads of paper filing and then delivered it to me. I have bought 2 dashcams from Ali-express and they arrive withing 10 days.

All the talk about brands but how many of them actually manufacture springs? A brand once it becomes entrenched in peoples perception has a great value and they are bought and sold many times over, it means the traders (not manufacturers) who buy it can sell the cheapest crap (should they choose to) for a premium price and get away with it for several years at which point its sold again and it all starts over again, I have socks branded JCB and the tat shops sell batteries branded Ford with the blue oval, the DIY stores here sell the cheapest crappiest power tools branded Black & Decker, now they have moved on to selling the same crap branded Skil, the common factor in all of them aside from the brand names being sold out or licensed by the original manufacturer are that they are all made in China and are all way overpriced for the real quality of the product as opposed to the percieved quality. For coil springs I use Lesjofors because they are a long standing spring manufacturer, I believe that Kilen springs are the same product, I have used 3 sets of them and they have all been fine but it will be another 8 years before I can say that they are better than OE quality which is not setting the bar very high.