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Good colour choice.

John, does that mean a 2.0 diesel DSG is relatively straight forward to have towing prep done after delivery?

Just, literally, got my tyres mounted on the 2 spares, wish mine would fit as well. Somehow don’t think this isn’t a long term solution!!

Not sure re the no lettering, it makes the car look a bit naked to my eyes. And as a bit of ying to the yang of all these nice clean looking cars, mines getting almost to the point of trying to find the bucket and sponge. Almost. Downside of getting a service every couple of years is I can’t use my old phrase “the car needs a wash once a year, whether it needs it or not!”.

Just had a measure of the polystyrene bit of the spare wheel fitting kit and it’s 10.0cm deep. That should let you see where the boot floor will sit with the wheel in there. If it was me, I’d bung the Ratikon you have in there and see where 10cm above the side bits of the floor will take you wrt the side wall of the tyre.

Understood but somebody is taking weight reduction a bit too far.

What the beep have they done with the gear shifter?

Yes, just like that. No wheel well, the skinny spare just sits on the floor. Note amount of room around the spare. That allows a proper sized tyre to fit in nicely and this is my plan for full sized spare. Just got to sort out how to sort out supporting the floor either side of the wheel in there. PS But remember mine is a 4x4 version so my floor is a good bit higher because of the 4x4 gubbins.

Should do. I have the factory fit skinny 4x4 spare and took that out, put a 225/55 17 tyre in there and it fits fine. I’ve now got a full sized spare for summer wheels and same for winter wheels that I’ll put in there depending on what is on the car. I’ll loose 10cm of boot height but that’s not an issue for me. Only down side is I have 2 excess Ratikons as an offer came up on a second set of 4 that I couldn’t turn down, but I’ve now got proper spares depending on what I’m driving on. I’m not a fan of skinny spares. Will get round to flogging them at some stage. PS I’m assuming the 57a093860a kit is the same as the factory fit option.

190PS/nippyness on petrol half the price of here in the UK.

Very bad return smear was what I was getting with the factory fit blades, like difficult to see through bad right in my line of sight. With the Bosch blades there was a tiny bit of smearing there when I first used them, but that disappeared after a handful of sweeps. Wonder if the blades need bedding in?

Deffo 4 parts as they like to tell peeps on the factory tour when entering the Body in White (really silver) section of the factory tour. Sad souls that I was, I went on 3 of them! Re using a RHD in Norway, as a regular visitor to Arctic Norway I fully understand the hassle of getting found the droves of campers crawling around but had a bit of a technique/routine for getting round them, worked fine. Mixture of patience, enough of a gap, hopefully a left hand bend ahead and plenty of power/acceleration. OK, not ideal but better than costing crazy amount of money? If it was me, I’d check and see if it is possible to register and insure a RHD car as a first move.

Is that an improvement? The electric element style would get to work pretty quickly, blown warm air won’t start until there is a decent amount of heat in the engine.

Would conversion from RHD to LHD even be possible, never mind expensive, without changing the body shell? OK not a Kodiaq but the old style Discovery (3 & 4) had 4 body shells, RHD with & without sunroof and LHD with & without sunroof, I would have thought the Kodiaq would be similar. I’m assuming taking a gas axe to a RHD and a LHD shell, say rear crash damage, isn’t an option.

We spent the first 3 months of this year (remember the time before Covid Acopalypse?) in Aus, so Aussie summer with really strong sun. We found that the best cars to see in the distant heat haze were invariably white. Much more visible ahead than any other colour, we could see a white car without lights on before many other colours with lights on. Very useful when overtaking Road Trains. Just an aside in this colour debate.

Both almost as nice as Petrol Blue.

Hence my ILs have it. Looks pretty good in person.

You can’t, which is just the way they like it. Just love the way we’re being told that the civil service is working really efficiently on reduced manning and shirking from home. Even I could be efficient if I could avoid actually doing something the computer could easily spit out without intervention if a humanoid.

Looks like DVLA doesn’t want to know via resolver.

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I wouldn’t worry about the wired screens. I’ve been driving LRs with them for about 15 years up to 2018 and never found them noticeable or distracting. Yes, you can see them if you focus on the screen but if you’re looking beyond the bonnet then you, well I, don’t see them. Unfortunately I don’t have a heated screen on mine, nor heated seats, nor heated steering wheel, as I had on my last Disco 4. And I live in the Highlands. I’m going to miss them.

Have a set of 850Ps ready to go on rims in the next few weeks. Will report back in 8 months or so. Just need these: added to these: then Skippy’s ready for her first Highland winter.

Cheers, it’s a bit new to me as my last cars always used rim weights. Dragged kicking and screaming into the 21stC!

Was struggling to find a description, here’s what I merrily call internal. These are the same rim, at about 90deg to each other.

Do I need to have tyres fitted to Karoq rims using “internal” weights, or old school external weights be used. By internal I mean inside the rim, and these are standard SE 17” Ratikons. They have the old internal weights from manufacture still on, plus the Ratikons on my car have internal weights. Not sure if my local garage, that does tyres, would do these fancy weights.