tonylathes

An excellent, well-written and illustrated guide. Thank you very much indeed. The Pocket GPS World Speed Camera Database is excellent - and I was fortunate, when I added a camera some years ago, to win a free lifetime subscription (it's just 12 months now). However, it's a shame that the audible warning in the Columbus is inadequate - but if you want a bells-and-whistles approach the best bet is to buy one of the older TomTom 1000 or 750 GO Live units (still available new from some suppliers). Unlike all the modern TomTom units you can add your POIs and put in, via a screen keyboard, a clear spoken warning e.g. Mobile 50 mph 1000 yards. The mobile phone App Waze is also useful, but I find it unreliable as to mobile sites - though no doubt it will improve. It's such a shame that TomTom deleted so many of the very useful features from their newer units, for by now I would probably have bought several of them.

On my 2005 car the laft-hand side of the dash had the most annoying squeek/rattle/zinging noise - and it appeared to come from the sliver triom strip over the glovebox door. However, I discovered that the slightest pressure anywhere along the face of the area produced the same "trim squeek" - so, what could it be?. I prised open the same flap as jellybeard - at the hear-side end of the dash (there's a small cut-out at the bottom into whcu you can put the blade of a flat-ended screwdriver) and sprayed the area liberally with a silicon, including the point where the A piller trim intersects with the top left-hand corner of the dash. That seems to have fixed it.

In 16,000 miles my Octavia 2-litre diesel Elegance Estate has needed a new mass air sensor (12,000 miles) and a fault has just been detected that shows a new turbo is required (though performance remains just as good as ever). Not an encouraging start to ownership, but as the car

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