J.R.

First world problems! Has the Sahara desert spread to the North East of England already?

Remember the Guinness Book challenges when mainly students crammed themselves into red telephone boxes and Minis? I guarantee you that you would not get anywhere near as many in the new full fat Mini as the svelte original, thats how appalling the packaging and space management is, and that is just the students let alone the car 🤣 Can you get an 8' x 4' sheet of ply/OSB/whatever or a bale of hay or 20 Mexican immigrants in the back of the Tesla pick up?

Use some packing or a foam sleeve around the bottle. I can fit 1 litre Sigg bottles in the door pockets.

The whole idea of the EGR emulator/simulator is that if fitted with care and common sense then it would be invisible and undetectable on inspection (mine is), there is no remapping involved. That should enable you to answer all your questions. Look at the listings on Ebay, its a seller from an Eastern European country and they are/were around £99, plenty of info and photographs for you to get a better understanding. Edit, MOT does not test the functioning of the EGR system, visible modifications ie removal, blanking plates etc would be a failure as they would with any part of the emissions control system like removal of the DPF for instance.

I was going by your figures and forgot that I had corrected them, my lack of short term memory again

I would do a similar thing if I bought one, looking more like when I buy one. I have done the same on the rear part of the Yeti as I need the underfloor space but have for the moment stopped short of the seats so as to still be able to use them, but they only get put in once a year and it makes loading long stuff unstable.

1843 wide. From BMW Mini: "The new MINI Countryman is 4,433 mm long, has a width of 2,069 mm (at side mirrors) and a height of 1,656 mm. So it should fit into most spaces" Yup, it will fit in, no mention of egress though! I am seriously considering a Roomster now, it has the same load carrying width but is 113mm less in overall width. You have chosen a car a full 6" wider than the monstrous Mini leaving you 20cm to get out if parked centrally in a stndard parking bay plus maybe a little more if there is not a clown parked to your right.

Spot on!

That view there has convinced me that I should get rid of the Yeti for a Roomster, if only the Scout was actually 4wd I would change in an instant. What length do you have there and what is the height through the tailgate? I am assuming that its 1m across like all the Skodas I have had. Also is that a Variofloor with storage space underneath?

I changed nothing, it was you that made the assertion and judgement, your words. Clown is appropriate

Are you serious? How do you come up with that conclusion? Do you really park between 2 vehicles and damage their doors or find somewhere easier to park?

Parking bay sizes have never changed but as we can all see vehicle sizes and often the corpulence or mobility of the drivers has, the Rover P6 had to be parked carefully within the bay as can be seen whereas the vast majority of vehicles of the day would have loads of space on both sides. Driving a RHD car in France I always park the opposite way as the vehicle beside me on the drivers side (drive in or reverse in), they offload passengers first and park tight to the passenger side so I park with my drivers door to their drivers door where they have left the most space, not because I cannot or do not want to squeeze out but to reduce the chance of them swinging their door into mine.

I did indeed think that the passenger might be a wheelchair user especially as they had chosen the end bay but in that instance they would have driven in and not reversed in which would leave all the room in the world for the passenger and also unobstructed access to the boot for removing the wheelchair, except the interior of the boot probably isnt even big enough 🙄. I will in future bear in mind though that the drivers might be clowns 😁

That says it all having to do an 20 mile run to complete a regen when you only wanted to drive 5 miles! Seems I should be thankful that my vehicle was one of the very last pre-Adblue ones and that I dont need to drive through London or to Heathrow, during the confinement like many people journeys became very short and infrequent, the DPF warning light came on but a couple of kms back and forth on the rocade completed the regen, 20 miles is appalling. A friend yesterday who has had 2 Yetis gave me his unused air, oil and pollen filters, I knew that he sold it because of recurring problems that only occurred on very long runs, driving the family to Spain and Portugal on holiday, they would stop to refuel or eat and it would go into limp mode and have to be towed to a dealer, hotel and car hire for them etc, they loved the Yetis but the last one was a big mistake. I asked him what the problem was and it was with the Adblue system, never anything actually wrong or needing replacing, not sure if the dealers cleared the codes or if it eventually reverted to normal but was the reason they sold the car.

Having clown feet is not a get out of jail card that allows the wearer to justify inconveniencing and obstructing others. Bad parking is bad parking. Maybe in land of the giants, during the production of the Rover how many normal people drove executive cars? I only knew one person who drove a Rover 2000, the sales director of the firm my parents worked for, one person who drove a non V8 Rover P5, our doctor, I had to wait for a school trip to Amberley too see, well hear actually, a V8 engined P6, I never saw another one until I had my driving license and took to the roads. Those that could scrape together the money drove family saloon cars which were significantly smaller and a lot lighter than the Rover P5, it only takes a little more interior (and hence exterior) space to make a roomy vehicle, or at least it didn't used to when cars were designed by gifted people like Issigonis and not driven by the fashionable desire to look down on others. Our family vehicles were a Morris 8 Tourer, a Hillman Stinks, Viva HA and HB and finally a Ford Capri, that was for a family of 5, all significantly smaller than the Rover, it was a large luxurious car aimed at that market and even then was not a tall vehicle, it was the Range Rover that started all that nonsense, quite ironic that the current owners are finding them uninsurable and having to sell them at a huge loss when a Mini is larger than some of them now.

That is obscene and the **** head cant even park in a space properly. A Rover 2000/3500 was a very big luxury car in its day. I am assuming the monstrosity beside it is ironically named a Mini? BMW did a very good job of preventing any media photographs of the original Mini parked beside the new abortion which was an insult to the memory of the great Alex Issigonis, I bet you have to search far and wide to find an image and it wont be from the media. That new abortion would look even more fugly parked beside an original Mini. What does it weigh FFS?

Preceded by "Man just keep walking and ignore this post." Not at all, I was explaining why he responded and the contradiction of asking questions whilst not wanting answers, a rhetorical question can be followed by an explanation mark or full stop which given your reaction would have been a better choice. A less aggressive and confrontational style is more likely to elicit responses to your problem.

No it will not, it does not recirculate and is drawn from a seperate tapping on the reservoir higher up than the brake one so a clutch fluid leak will not affect the braking system but will bring up a warning light. Clutch operation will not be diminished by moisture content in the fluid. 2 year brake fluid changes are simply an easy money spinner, my MK1 Octavia was tested every year during the Telethon at our Lycée Professionale using an instrument calibrated every year and the fluid was always perfect right up to the day it went to the scrapyard at 17 years old and 325000 miles.

The wheel bearing ring is not magnetic, it is castellated steel which interrupts the magnetic field produced from the magnet in the sensor, fracture of the magnet in the sensor is its usual failure mode and is invisible unless cut apart. You possible cause 4 would not create a fault code for the wheel sensor, possible cause 5 is meaningless. Possible cause 1 (the wiring) would create a different fault code, sensor wiring open circuit or shorted to ground.

His last response was an answer to your question, you have now asked him six further questions yet ordered him not to respond.

I would like to have read the prosecution details, both the car and motorcycle were on the wrong side of the road and were following the same trajectory, had the bike been overtaking and swerved into the other lane to avoid the car pulling out on it would have been a tragic defensive manouevre or forced off the road but they were travelling side by side neither seeing or reacting to the oncoming vehicle who had seen them approaching and was braking to a halt. It does look like a curve where the bridge rail would have reduced forward visibility I am surmising but of course do not know from the limited video clip, that they were looking at each other and trading insults/gestures, maybe some door or mirror banging, motorcyclists are very vulnerable and aside from the aforementioned swerving scenario most would have braked and pulled behind an aggressor or accelerated past if safe to do so but not on the wrong side of the road. The guy was very lucky indeed.

Why do you think it has had odd tyres thrown at it or even part worn ones? One pair of tyres is likely to have been replaced following the MOT advisory and another may have been replaced at any time due to an irrepairable puncture or tyre damage.

And 2 pin sockets are usually a much lower current rating than a 3 pin earthed socket, probably not enough for your EV charger, hopefully the circuit is protected by the correct rated fuse or circuit breaker.

Well done, people have been taken for loads of money unnecessarily for the same problem. Spot on once again! 👍

Yes, the video might have been relevant for a tiny percentage of vehicles 30 years ago but not for anything within living memory.