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The bolt key is probably in the right knee pull down cubby hole, or the rear centre console cubby hole, I often play find the key with the indy I use. Supplying dealers occasionally put it in the filter basket of the washer reservoir, see if it's there, or has it knocked it's way through the plastic and is now in the reservoir below...

High idle and no start/stop is an ageing/failing battery isn't it? What do you call a long run? My mate does 6m each way to work and then 15 at the weekend to see his mum - whilst that's a longER run it is not long!

My ACC works towing a caravan, you haven't got a tyre pressure warning have you?

Depends how wide/long the gap is and the preceding road layout but in worst case scenario road layouts I try and keep the car roughly parallel to the DC and wheels ahead. Then if someone runs up my back I'll hopefully only go straight ahead (a bit if it's a 'tap') and much safer to steer back into the outside lane of the carriageway I'm leaving if it's a real shunt because at least I'm travelling in same direction as the traffic coming from behind. Positioned with any right lock on and getting shunted can have you straight into oncoming fast traffic and a much higher impact speed. Side on and shunted from 'behind' is into the drivers side and to be avoided too. It's the same at traffic lights don't steer until you are ready to move as otherwise getting rear ended will launch you across oncoming traffic.

Just the USB adaptor plugged into the socket was enough it didn't need to be charging anything, might have just been the display LED causing it rather than the charging part.

Just chucked it away, I now charge a powerbank using the slow car USB and use that to fast charge my phone, no point in trying a new USB plug as it might interfere just as badly.

My DAB reception was pants in places and it turned out to be a poor USB adaptor killing the signal completely in poor signal areas.

Oh very pretty! I like some of the Knaus(?) with good graphics.

V5 is wrong then as braked limit is always 750kg or half the cars weight if less, if it's 2200kg braked then that's the traction start figure on a hill (8% or 12% depending on maker) but that's only a ballasted flat bed trailer not a huge white box on wheels in a sidewind which is why caravan clubs suggest 85% of kerbweight (stops the tail wagging the dog). A Superb is erm superb for towing but don't get carried away.

I'm towing a caravan without upgrades (but mine's not DSG/4WD and only 150bhp) my engine runs warmer and the fan runs noticeably, and much much more than even spanking it solo, but a rural run cross country (50mph) to a caravan site sees not much extra heat at all, however a faster motorway run at only 60 is always very hot and needs probably 20+ mins off motorway for it to get down, or the fan will run on for ages, and even then the whole front is hot - think DPF regen hot. A sedate motorway run sat in with the lorries is never as hot a run, and the fans are not needed if you've had about 10 minutes to campsite at normal speeds. I think an after-market rad fan/oil cooler fitted by a local specialist is likely to be way, way cheaper than VW group parts upgraded at full dealer retail/workshop rates. The expense in a dealer upgrade is labour in removing the old bits first then installing the new bits at the full retail, rather than just the price difference of those part numbers swapped at build. Coding would be needed for any towbar, most towbar fitters do it themselves.

Emergency services need a couple of ways to verify location, postcode is fine in towns, and then an unambiguous W3W could confirm location [1]. Trouble is out in the sticks on a mountain postcodes are obviously rubbish (Phone GPS can do Lat/Longditude or grid reference) but W3W can send you to wrong side of a ridge (most close matches are countries away) but see the attachment. W3W are pushing a product that is not quite right and if they push it enough the other better options will be ignored when emergency service systems get updated as it's currently free to them to decode locations (not free for logistics people). If they made it what 4 words and dropped plurals and easily confused words it would be great - but safety stuff shouldn't be chargeable by the backdoor. [1] Merseyside ambulance can't/won't use W3W or grid reference or lat/lon I tried and in the end I told them the nearest vehicle access in Royden park (Caldy Rugby Club) for a medical incident I helped with [2] [2] Bloke shouting to me "get here now I need help" I think I was calmer than him, but then again I hadn't found a body (George wasn't dead actually).

Most mountain rescue teams use a SMS based system that locates you if you have no data, or a dumb phone, or are in a poor signal area as text needs barely any signal. And see why it isn't as good as W3W say it is:- https://w3w.me.ss/ Basically it uses plurals/similar sounding words, and they can be closer than you'd think, and not in a different continent or is that difference continance? and anyone with a lisp is struggling, anyone who can't read or speak well is struggling, better than nothing but flawed. All recent smartphones send their location automatically when you dial 999/112/911 why do we need anything else?

Empty the bottle and direct a fan/blower of some description to blow clear and then dry the bottle out. I've drilled and tapped a hole and used a sealant on the threads of a stainless bolt when I've had trouble just using sealant.

On the Vauxhall the car needed to test the brake switch was working before allowing CC use as using the brake is what disconnected the CC.

Don't know about Skoda but on a VX(Opel) I owned CC wouldn't work unless the brakes had been operated once.

Start-stop proves the futility of using cars on short town journeys that's for sure!

All tyres have a sticker that lists the decibel(*) noise rating see if you can google the current set values and see how new version differs (or any other tyres). I won't have tyres less than B for grip and B for economy and usually about 74db for the noise and they seem OK (though I might be deafer than you), quality of roads probably makes a lot more difference too, ridged concrete and coarse blacktop being worse than really smooth new tarmac. * some decibel numbers are odd as sometimes they are logarithmic, so a decrease of 1 is much better than than the tiny difference suggests, school was too long ago to remember properly but 10 and 100 was a doubling and then decibel levels have variations too.

Called pad bite I believe by some, and is the pad stopping a bit of the disc from exposure to salty water (or holding damp close?), salt can be from the seaside air or more likely winter salting. Panels and stuff are fairly well protected but disks are just sat out there in it - though a wet car in a damp garage is in an even worse place!

I bet your sphincter muscles braced faster

And hope to god that was fast enough just in case the box coming the other way is the OP on the limit

A caravan fridge shouldn't charge without the engine running, the cut out 'relay' for that is in the car, if a factory fit it must be a dedicated module? But the biggest problem with towbar wiring is usually the earthing, old 7N/S (S for fridge) being much worse than on a modern 13pin system, try cleaning the earths first. 2nd biggest problem is the resistance between pins and sockets in the 7S (13 pin far better) so you should try cleaning the pins with emery paper and you could try spreading the heads of the pin VERY slightly, they should have a cross shaped slit that'll pry slightly.

With a hiking GPS receiver an error of 15-50m is usually down to the GPS Datum being different from the map datum, the most common datum is WGS84 no idea what datum Skoda use for maps and from the GPS. I've see something similar to the imgur image when on a new road that the map doesn't know about - most recently A1 between Leeming and Barton, though I don't think that is the case here.

Oh that is really quite clever, I have one of those levels somewhere, thread copied to the keep folder!

Don't get fixated with protected no claims cover as they do let you keep the discount but simply just up the premium to compensate.

I went out with a mate who'd obviously put his padded shorts on in a rush, thing was the insert was bright red so he looked like a baboon! Padded shorts should go next to skin to stop chance of chaffing, might not apply for your need, and indeed feels a bit wrong 'just wearing knickers' as my wife says.