J.R.

Fan running faster during recirculation is one of the signs that the pollen filter is clogged or restrictive. Even with a new one its a little faster on recirc.

It's good advice, I am content to drive years observing non mission critical faults before resolving them, usually I eventually work out myself what is likely to be the fault and can then prove or disprove it through further driving involving putting the vehicle in the circumstances where I predict the fault will manifest. I get why people who pay garages to work on their car wont have the same patience and become frustrated but the POS moniker is likely to be more applicable to the garage than the vehicle.

As much as a conversion is 100% my bag baby in the country that I have chosen to live "it aint appening!"

I agree 100%

Thats what they were counting on when they made it up. Happy to do so, stuck valves only exist in the fertile imagination of mechanics that are not capable of diagnosing a fault.

Not at all, that is how most microswitches are configured with the operating lever/mechanism having the mechanical stop preventing loads being applied to the switch casing. The big red or yellow mushroom head emergency stop buttons on dangerous machinery, the type that are designed to be hammered by a fist in a panicked reaction have microswitches behind them. The tailgate is counterbalanced by the gas struts, you only pull it slightly outwards with minimum force before the struts take over.

Thats what deadlocking is, only the hard of thinking would deadlock a car with a child inside, its bad enough that some with a faulty door lock microswitch do it themselves. This is the way to do it, the lever will flex enough, I have used my wording in brackets but I'm sure the OP will have understood and was trying to do this anyway but did not want to risk breaking the handle. Editted, this hard of thinking person managed to deadlock themselves in their car in the B&Q car park believing (thankfully incorrectly) that the keys were still outside, the alarm was going off but I could not open any door or window.

Use insulated cable.

And even more de minimus on a diesel engine where there is no enrichment as soon as the compression ignition cycle is self sustaining, that is why diesels were always massively more economical than petrol engines on short urban journeys especially winter ones, EU5 and DPF's put the boot into that though, the extra fuel economy remains but the consequential costs of an obstructed DPF matrix well outweigh it.

Correct but an oversimplification, there are twin layshafts carrying alternate (numerical) gears, you could liken it to two gearboxes one for 1st, 3rd and 5th gears the other for 2nd, 4th and 6th, a gearchange consists of declutching the active layshaft and engaging the clutch on the other layshaft with the preselected gear so very fast and very smooth aside from when maintaining a cruising speed in an intermediate gear when the ECU has a 50/50 guess to make as to whether the next gearchange needs to be an up or downshift.

Je veux dire que c'est bien ça! I want to say that it is well that!

Air vacuum pump to avoid sweaty back?

Translation please!

Yes, having reread your posting I understand that now but it does explain why the other side moves so one less thing to consider. Others have already advised re the door loop cable breakage and corroded connections. I scrapped my MK1 when I could not open passenger doors and fuel flap, had I known about VCDS or the common door loop fault I would not have needed to, it was so reliable I became totally out of touch.

Very interesting, I know its only a concept car but its the first vehicle I have seen in decades that incited my desire, probably the first since the Maclaren F1. And what a pleasure to finlly find a Youtube presenter that not only is informative, talks sense but is not hugely annoying.

If you mean that when you adjust the left mirror the right one moves as well (or it may be the other way round) then it is normal behaviour programmed that way from the factory but can be disabled/enabled using VCDS, it took me several years to work out what was going on, why I was always having to reset a mirror that I had only just set, when adjusting a mirror I am looking at it and cannot see the other one moving nor would never have expected it to. I am blind in one eye so others may see the unwanted movement of the other mirror. I cant see any reason for the function other than if a PORG drives the car they would move the seat forwards and adjust the mirrors down and this way they only need adjust one, problem is it does the same for the side to side movement. I do hope you havn't spent hours searching for a fault that is a "feature".

Aftermarket radio?

It's good design. You know.

I had a Stag with automatic transmission when I was 21, it did 16mpg with me hooning and posing and petrol cost £1.60 per gallon so 10p per mile. Later cars did much better mpg but fuel prices rose and I dont think that I got back below 10p per mile until I started driving diesels at the start of this century. I'm too tired to do the calculation but I think I am above the 10 centimes per mile threshold now, maybe even over the 10p a mile were I ever to buy fuel in the UK again, I no longer care!!!!!!

No it was about the same price allowing for the £/€ conversion but half price when you consider its only done every 2 years. Normally done by booking but they will write to you, write not e-mail which costs a Euro just for the stamp to remind you of your upcoming CT (after 2 years you tend to forget) which you can book online, the reminder will always be sent before the bookings get full, so you just drive up at the allotted time and are tested. No road tax here its on first registration so people keep their cars a long time, the CT appointment is no different to my annual free health check, you dont even fall out of sync when buying a newer car as it has to have 18 months remaining on the CT, it's only people like me that imported vehicles pre-Brexit that needed a rendez-vous in a hurry, my old CT centre, the guy is now a friend, would let me drop the car off in the morning, offer to drive me back home but I would run instead, and squeeze it in during the day so I was never delayed with the registration. They make a good living doing CT's and nothing else, typical place will be husband, wife or son and one employee plus a very large commercial building bigger than the typical UK MOT station, there will be two, possibly 3 in a medium sized town.

In my country a garage doing Controle Technique tests is not allowed by law to carry out repair work, they can adjust headlights etc to allow a vehicle to pass but are not permitted to quote for or do any work on vehicles to avoid a conflict of interest.

I can see now from another photo that there were no gates, the part to the left does look like grasscrete though.

Is that one dwelling or a block of flats? It looks more like the latter. I cant zoom large enough but I think there were service gates there before and behind them looks like grass concrete (the base with holes where grass can grow through) which would tie in with it being the service entrance for the block of flats and maybe the bin storage was at the rear, the photo being taken on collection day. So is he a ground floor tenant/flat owner taking a liberty with a common area or has the person bought the block of flats? There is no longer the keep clear marking. Whatever is the real story you can trust the paper to ignore it in favor of their "angle".

Whatever supplier they did the best deal with that month, likely to be Luk or Sachs. Please describe what you perceive to be the DMF failure and whether the vehicle has been remapped.

Poor bloke, just look at how much money, blood, sweat and tears he has put into the improvements!