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Right level of scan tool and might be able to turn the wipers on to test them. Good luck, let us know how you get on.

Isn't this looping back to the start of the thread and all the possible answers included in the thread. Is it the morning or night where the air was colder? Is the car parked at the same location morning and night? Are you starting the car with your feet away from the pedals? I can imagine why you have the lights on at night but why have you got the lights on with the morning start when there appears to be enough light to see and record the dash gauges anyway? Are the videos taken on the same day, as you appear to have a fuller tank at night or is it that the fuel tank gauge needle has finished rising? I'm mainly curious and expect the questions and answers have been given in the thread before but I've forgot. Either start seems good enough to me and I would be driving off to get things moving as they should.

I've no idea about relays and any BCM thread and I've no real idea Carista following but are you sure the Carista is reliable on reporting on this type of thing, could you confirm, or not, with using another VW specific scan tool. If there's someone on the following list near you they may be able to plug in there scanner do a report and confirm or not your findings. - Briskoda VCDS Owners Map (click me) Good luck.

Do bear in mind this relates to later cars with many more sensors, modules and complex computer programs that interfere more with the running and driving of the car (not as much as later and latest cars though). I know I will shatter the illusions for some that the VW engineers, computer engineers and mechanics always get everything right and have their customers best interests at heart at all times but in my experience with my wife's car the figures given are not fully accurate, now it may be that my wife's car is an exception and there may be other factors influencing the figures to her car. The 6 hours is wrong in my experience with my wife's car, I have never paid attention to coolant temperature when this happens as I have no idea how accurate it is, its a 90 biased gauge anyway.

I took your word for that number but later thought that seemed a lot given the list and on checking it's just over 1,000 Felicias in 2023, that certainly proves you had a garage, you have inflated the final figure. 😄 I'm only joking. 20% is the tax you have to allow for and pass on. 😄

Uhmm, lead on public, smacks of possibly charger getting nicked or where's there's blame there's a claim. 🙂 For using the charger maintainer as a preventive measure I think you want to follow the Owner's Manual guide of 0.1, so a 69Ah battery would be 6.9 amps charger and as they're more likely to be available as 8 or 6 than / amps I would go for 6 as a maximum but prefer a 4 amp which will be slower than a 6, so being practical ithe 6 might be better for you as being practical again you can't leave a lead out over night. You might have to do several part rechargers in a row to get the charger to show full and go into maintenance mode. You could perhaps disconnect the battery and take it inside for a partial charge to speed up the process a bit as it should be warmer inside and and not going against any of the cars systems still running, then next time charge the battery on the car so the car's computer system knows the battery is being charged for the remaining charge(s). Obviously read the Owner's Manual to see what might need resetting after reconnection and how to lock the car and get back into it without battery power. Whilst the battery is below full recharge you could be more thrifty with the power consumption of the battery to take less out of it, things like cancelling stop/start, using the air-con as little as possible, scraping the rear window, door mirror and windscreen fully of ice and snow so you use the heaters less, don't have anything electrical (other than safety items) running without the engine running, preferably driving. Think of the battery like a bank account, the less you keep taking out and the more you keep putting in the quicker it will fil. If you continue with this thinking after the battery has been fully recharged it will run down more slowly and charge quicker, by the car and/or if required the charger maintainer. There are plenty of charger maintainers about, I use a Ring Smart Charger & Maintainer RSC804 (4 amp, you may want the RSC806) the display's not brilliant but it has cold weather setting for when below IIRC (+)5c. The 4 amp version I've been using is fine but I can and have a couple of times left it plugged in outside on cold mode overnight charging on our hard (luck) standing. https://www.ringautomotive.com/en/product/RSC806 https://www.ringautomotive.com/files/mydocs/RSC804_RSC806_RSC808_Instructions.pdf HTH,

😄 Well, you know what they say, when all else fails, read the $"£$%^&t manual. 😄 Or start the car and turn the steering wheel full lock each way whilst having the lights and air-con blower on, or just go for a drive. I've put loads of posts up on best way for charging but it boils down to what I put in my posts here, or just ask here and I'll post a reply later, cheers.

Yes all things considered that is a respectable number but also bear in at the end of September 2023, there were 41.3 million licensed vehicles in the UK, 3.58 million were cars. Figures were not given on the How Many Left site but some of those Felicia may well have been on SORN so not (legally at least) used on the road for possibly a long time and not had a MoT possibly for a long time as it is free to apply for SORN and it remains in place until the car is taxed again or other declaration. - SORN - https://www.axa.co.uk/car-insurance/tips-and-guides/sorn-everything-you-need-to-know/ I sold a car a good running and presentation car in 2005 and the chap said he was going to keep it and fully restore it before giving it to his son when he was 21, the lad looked about 5 at the time, over 18 years later it is still on SORN and AFAIK has been since the road tax I put on it ran out. Plenty of home gardens or 'drives' and domestic garages with old cars in them just rusting away over here, some with small fleets of them a few with loads. I would put a photo up of a local one with Mercs from various decades but you can hardly see them for the undergrowth and trees that have grown around and perhaps through them.

You've not done the battery any favours getting it that low but if you use the appropriate charger/maintainer, preferably as low amperage as you can get for as long as possible (especially to match the discharge on this occasion) and get the battery fully charged you might not need a new battery and get more useful life out of the battery for a reasonable time to come. ETA: Car batteries are one of the most oversold car parts, don't believe the VW Skoda battery sales promotion about having to change the battery at 4 or 5 year. Do read/check the car's Owner's Manual and charger maintainer instructions, it is not against any law to do so despite what many may think or say. Never wait for any of the car's warning lights or messages, prevention really is better than cure, same for battery you can use an appropriate charger/maintainer for preventative charging of the battery and this will also prolong the battery life. Many don't realise that hot and very hot weather can be draining for the battery which might weaken it for fun and games in autumn or winter. https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/519903-flat-batteries-on-the-first-working-day-of-each-year

I did. That is how it would be perceived over here because it's too old now and was too lower sales volume when new to be a regular site on UK road even when new, so now very rare. I actually saw a dark blue 'T' plate one being driven on the road just before Xmas, sightings are very rare. When new the average age of the purchaser was higher than with mainstream brands and when I had mine when I was in my 20s all the other owners I saw were a generation or two before me. Lat year I did see a bright green and white one, or it might have been Favorit, difficult to tell as it was a bit too far away on the big roundabout with traffic lights and the driver wasn't hanging about, and I have seen a red Favorit Estate parked up somewhere a couple of times, other than that I might have seen only one more Felica that I've noticed being driven on the road in the last few years. The following site tells you how many are registered in the UK (2013-2023) it will have errors and doesn't mean the car is used on the road, the model variants may be mixed up and I am not sure how the data was input in earlier years so some model variates might not even exist - https://www.howmanyleft.co.uk/?page=1&q=skoda+felicia

5 years! Wow you are let off lightly in Greece. 😄 Here they want 1, 2 or three years. Car manufacturers don't make much money on the cars, they make money on the car parts though. The Dealership don't make much money on the cars but do on all the extras they selling including the finance deals, and yet another finance scandal is being exposed and investigated. - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67945385

You could get that, note the "PLEASE NOTE: Images are for illustration purpose only and actual products may vary from those illustrated - Universal lifting jack and wheel brace" 100 x 5 is correct AFAIK with stupid bolts instead of studs so to save your back you are also best to add to your tool kit a couple of these 'Wheel Fitting Removal Alignment Tool For VW Audi M14x1.5 Bolt Studs'. - I might well be wrong but I have a feeling the Skoda spare wheel and kit are with 180/55r15(?) but If you wait @Carlstonwill be along with full Skoda details. If you had 15" or 14" wheels and not on such rubber band size 215/45 tyres you might have less need for a spare wheel but then I'm used to 70 being low profile tyres. 🙂

You can have a pensioners' car like a Felicia and drive it like a pensioner or you can do as D.FYLAKTOS and have some fun with it, or anything between the two opposites. There can be a lot of variables as to whether it's a good economic thing to keep and run the car in either condition, especially given the very low mileage the cars do. A Porsche or Audi are good cars to drive but only at well in excess of legal speeds otherwise they are very boring whereas a humble car can be great fun at speeds below the legal limits. Many people own many cars that are totally unjustifiable on economic and other grounds, I forget the figures but in the UK the majority of car journey are (very) short and very often with just the driver in a 4/5 seater car.

I was able to use a funnel, hose off-cut, gravity and a reluctant glamorous assistant. I bought one of those plastic pumps (not Hilka labelled) a few years back, £4 off eBay then, to use once but it got used a few times over the years so I bought a second one for coolant use, one of them packed up eventually but I still have the other. £8.49 currently on eBay. - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174159016418

@Thefeliciahackerbefore you were born, and some time after, car manufacturers and their Dealerships used to operate all sorts of restrictive practices so that they kept the work, turnover and profits to themselves, though things were a lot friendlier and looser before VW took over Skoda. I don't mean mods to the cars just standard parts and work. In the UK in the mid-80s Skodas had a 2-year warranty from new, this might have been to promote the brand in the UK I don't know but to my memory, and I might be wrong, the likes of BL and Ford it was 12-months and perhaps even Honda was only 12-months then. Daewoo were the disruptors when they came to UK by giving their cars a 5-year from new warranty (for no additional cost) to their supposedly such poorly made cars, this was an extra 2 or 3 years warranty over the likes of VW at the time. Also the Daewoo showroom staff were on salary only and no commission unlike all other high pressure sales staff in other Dealerships and were very much hands-off and there to help you, very different to other Dealerships. The other big brands here soon went about getting Daewoo dismissed as they did with Skoda in the 1980s. I think it was Hyundai that first had a 7-year from new warranty here, again the others were IIRC 3 years at most without additional charge and again ironic that even well made cars like Toyota and Honda wouldn't risk such warranty in the UK. IIRC ironically for Little Britianers it was the EU that stopped some of the restrictive practices operated by car manufacturers, like VW, and their Dealerships.

Assuming your gearbox is the same type as the posters in the thread you linked to, then yes that would be one way easy to do it. When I changed the gear oil on my wife's 2015 Mk3 Fabia at 5.5 years, 38k-miles, I checked that I could easily remove and put back the fill/level plug easily with the tools I had before removing the drain plug, on removing the fill/level plug quite a lot of oil came out of the filler hole, the car was level. I didn't measure how much came out from there but easily an overfill, whether this is from the car build or later I have no idea of course. I filled to level and as you checked again after a drive. I thought the gear changes felt a very little better, but as others would say I was I also considered I might be fooling myself (placebo) as I didn't drive the car much then (not much more now) as it's my wife's car but unprompted my wife said she thought the gear changes felt a bit better. Of course she might be experiencing placebo but it certain wouldn't have been to stoke my ego, we've been together since the 1970s.

@RicardoM how on earth would I have any friends if I am as you say I am!! And that poster, how very dare you, I've not got a bloated pot-belly (well not any more, well not much of one), I can bend into an engine bay and still see all the little parts beneath my belly.. I am still working on the embroidery on your belly-braces straps, hard going because of the thickness of the straps, also still working out the positions of the LED lights to counteract belly shadow and positions of mirrors to be able to view the small parts out of your sight. Do you want a pouch adding to store emergency use beard and hair touch-up make up products because that will be an extra charge. Pssssst, look up dead pan verb.

Full off topic warning: @D.FYLAKTOSI never followed or listened to Judas Priest (another Brummie (Birmingham)) band, that track is the type I would have listen to up until about the mid-1980s, reminds me of Iron Maiden and the cover very much of Bat out of Hell album cover. At a 'local' pub we once frequented I meet a lady superfan of Iron Maiden though she would have been very young when the band released their first album, self-titled, with the singer before Bruce Dickinson. The superfan thought Bruce Dickinson was fantastic and he was the band, to counter this and have a bit of a joke I said my favourite Iron Maiden track was Transylvania which she seemed to nod approvingly to, I don't think she knew this was an instrumental track and before Bruce Dickinson joined the group. You can have fun with cider drinkers, they're so mellow.

@sepulchrave do get your Euro numbers on before you forget, don't miss out, as the magic power of my best quality chicken bones that I threw southwards at midnight in your honour only lasts 24 hours. You have given that excuse sorry, explanation a few time now but again I'll give you the benefit of doubt and accept it (again) cus I think basically you seem a decent sort ,and you do make me laugh and smile (perhaps I'm being selfish to the others). Only the other day I read that "dude" comment and it brought a lump to my throat (and I do mean throat). And I agree a lot of times changing the gear oil is a waste of time, effort and money for very many, perhaps even more so for the later models than the earlier models, and that millions of cars go to the, now, recycling places with the factory oil in the factory original gearboxes. You may not have noticed my subtle changes to accommodate stricter attitudes like yours (and correct some of the very sloppy langue/words I use, plenty more gets missed but I don't worry too much, as advised) but I can't disagree with anyone putting any recommendations they want (subject to Site rules) as you, I and anyone else can put our contra view based on knowledge, experience ,science (whenever has that changed or been wrong) or whatever, within the rules of the Site. You might want to swat up more, or you might already know, on synthetics and on additives packages what I call wear and of course there are large or huge diminishing returns based all the variables and based on needs/wants/expectations of car ownership, use, etc., etc.. In the artic anecdote perhaps a better quality oil might have made the box quieter or to take more abuse and/or for longer, but I would say that wouldn't I, and whatever oil was in there the box survived and survived on so has served it's purpose so far. Higher mileage boxes perhaps sometimes has less stress than low mileage, especially with some drivers, but there's lots of variables of course. Now, get those numbers on.

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 Coming from YOU! You seem to be the one with all the hatred, no need for anyone to bring anymore you've filled the placed with it. 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 Coming from YOU! And you put aggressive replies, a lot. No you do not refer to classic Skodas in all your replies, no you do not always stay on subject. Again, you are a typical bully as soon as anyone stands up to you start weeping like an infant. Push the 'Report' posters are disagreeing with you and not following your rules, sometimes replying in a similar, but milder, manner to you. This you and I can at least agree on - we end on an agreement, things are improving lets try to keep moving in the same positive direction.

I put those to give context and show I have some experience and knowledge as I am not a mechanic or engineer in the hope you will see some relevance but really more for others to show that you don't have to be a mechanic or engineer to post in this section. You are always putting about these being simple cars so they to me they don't vary that much with other cars of the time and older cars and generalities existing without always the need for exact technical model specific details. You should also consider you are not the only viewer of these posts, we are not in private messaging / direct messaging or whatever it's called (now wouldn't that be fun). I give credit where it's due and you do answer questions, even if sometimes, often to me, you get unnecessarily nasty and try to be controlling. Again, I know the variables, including those you have listed. You are quite right they could have fitted the original dampers incorrectly at the Skoda factory. Are you telling me this or writing it to remind yourself. You are a typical bully as soon as anyone stands up to you start weeping like an infant.

I checked the link just after posting it and again just now after clearing my machine and both times it opened straight away, using Chrome. I used to use and prefer Firefox but had some issues, I forget what, and have been using Chrome without problems since. Perhaps you might have anti-virus or other blockers that didn't like the site or the usual the computer / a program / the internet just had one of its moments.

Bear in mind setting standards isn't the same as keeping to them.

That also covers a point that was in my mind, how long has Kelly_Heroes owned the car, was it a perhaps a pre-existing problem before his ownership, even perhaps covered up by the seller, perhaps even by a nasty dodgy mechanic or engineer (very rare to find either I know but they do exist). Goes on to other questions that aren't allowed if the only point of threads is to only answer the thread tittle, but to get more information to perhaps get at the cause and rectify or work round and live with it. I'm not a good driver so my cars need ore protection than the cars owned by those with great knowledge, who might or might not be no better at driving than me.

What about 12evo then? I wonder if VW have their own numbers for stuff and keep changing them not just for commercial contract or other requirements but perhaps to cover compromises in their builds - by the manufacturing side of course not engineering compromises or mistakes obviously.