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Sorry I meant washing up liquid on the rubber blades and windscreen (when they had rubber seals) typing at speed I'm even worse than usual slow typing, I'd worry about wiping the blade rubbers with soapy washing up liquid water.

See previous posts in the thread but I'm sure I would have put about checking with the dealership for any Recalls (that VW admit to) and if there are any updates. With all the computers and their programing I'm not surprised that the computer programs can have the car drive it differently than a driver, that can be is often beneficial but perhaps sometimes (very many times for me) not so good and/or annoying. Modern cars are designed to be driven less by the driver which can be both good and bad. If there is a fault you certainly want it sorted before the warranty runs out but IF it is a fault VW (or other manufacturers) might not want to admit it or be bothered to sort it - that's IF it's a fault, I've no idea. Such modern cars are not for me, driving my neighbour's 2023 car with computer systems taking over (and failing to do it well) annoys me too much already.

xman beat me to it. - https://www.boschwiperblades.com/aerotwin/ ETA: it used to be said not to use washing up liquid on a car because of (IIRC) the ?salt? I've no idea if that was correct and still so now and wonder if the dilution would deal (ETA) with the ?salt? an issue if there was one anyway (ETA) on the wiper blade rubbers, I'd not loose sleep over such stuff. If the wipers have always had that logo on them then I've not had them but I've certainly put some Bosch boxed 'bendy' wiper blades on some car as wiper blades, and using them, is something that can irrationally annoy me and my wife is particular fussy about clearly seeing out of the windows, particularly when she's in the passenger seat co-piloting for me when I ask her to, or not. I think in America you can get longer lasting silicone blades but here and Europe we've been trained to expect to spend more and more often on our cars. On my wife's previous car I put on some expensive 'rally' 'silicone' type blades not what I was expecting, not sure if the 'rubber' was silicone or not and there was IIRC a small sachet of silicone IIRC that you applied to the screen. I've no real idea of how effective they were as it was spring and unexpectedly the car had to go shortly after that. Let us know how you get on with them and if the issues continues or returns.

Don't want to do any 'the good old days' or play the world's smallest violin but in a way a lot from my generation were lucky as we could only start with what would now be classed very much as old bangers, and back then cars got old very quickly nothing like the cars of this century when a 15 year old car could be in good condition without having so had so much done to keep it that way. So then you had to, at least try to, appreciate and then make the best of what you'd got. When I used to give advice to youngsters, and oldies, new to "classic" (over-priced and overvalued old) cars I would put it was best to learn from my mistakes because it was a lot less expensive for them and I had the lack of money to prove that experience. I also had a few brand new and not too old cars that most would say were (road) performance or sports cars and with my club activities passenger'd, on the road, in a few high performance and supercars a few times with track instructors and a magazine test driver so I know how those cars feel, at least as a passenger, at legal road speeds and for me many were just about the badges. I have driven a couple of favoured marques, one car I particularly liked how it felt and went but I found I'd gone over the speed limit (which I never intended to do) on the bit of road which was most fun, at legal speeds was far too capable to be very entertaining. It's a lot cheaper to have your minor bumps and learn your from your "upgrade/improvement" mistakes on cheaper and less powerful cars. I always try to encourage people with a car that is new to them to as much as possible and as soon as possible, over stages if needed, have the whole car checked and where required any full (for the whole car) servicing, maintenance and repair work, some/much of that can be simple stuff you can do yourself. All this whilst also driving the car in all conditions and weathers to thoroughly learn about the car, what it is capable of and how to drive it (in the real world). That way you will discover any issues and what you like and don't like and what you might want to change or what you can live with. Don't spend any money on cosmetics or improvements or upgrades, unless perhaps on a part that needs changing anyway, until you have driven the car for at least 6-12 months in all conditions. The whole car full servicing, maintenance and repairs is the best initial tuning you can do (other than further driver training perhaps) and is required otherwise further tuning could be compromised. Not jumping into changes on the car too soon also means you can sometimes find what you thought you wanted to change you've got used to or realise it's good, fine or suitable or balanced anyway. Balance of the whole car and one system or component with others is very important and why a smaller less capable car can be more fun and rewarding to drive, it may seem limited but the limits are more equal to each other. As others know I could waffle on forever, so I'll end with, there's a reason while new drivers, particularly the young, car insurance is so high and I think you realise this, apart from statistics possible the people who set the premium risks may be not be young any more so have at least the experience of having been young and not so young so know the difference same as most on here, if we can remember for some of us so we do understand your frustrations a bit of how things are. Enjoy yourself and don't worry about ego figures on paper or gauges it all about how things feel to you and not keeping in or up with others as that's ultimately impossible regardless of how high you can go or get, when the opportunity is really there to use more power (torque) whatever power you have will never be enough but those opportunities are so few that the power available is just a dormant waste. Whereas if you have less you can learn to appreciate more.

Fair enough, honest answer too. I've no idea how strict these things are allowing for speedo errors and errors in other electronic stuff, it would sharpen your observation perhaps but I can understand you want your head a bit. Problem with modern cars is that they are so capable they're boring and the more capable, fast and quick they are the more boring they are at legal speeds, they rob the driver of driver input and feedback sensations. Two ways round this I think, keep your road car for the road, forget most upgrades and mods, as Rooted has put many of them aren't upgrades or overall or specific improvements some are just differences and some workout to decrease specific or overall performance or opposite of improvements. Instead spend your money on going in track cars days/sessions (in other than your car) if you like to see needle figures (modern track cars are still boring to me but I'm not into such stuff). Having a blackbox fitted would mean more to spend on track stuff. Or you could take track instruction which should also help your road driving. This will get the rush out of your system a bit and time and road insurance higher costs will pass a bit. A way to have more fun I think is to get a smaller, lighter, less powerful probably much older car with the minimum of driver aids and creature comforts and unnecessary necessities so that you can and have to drive the car harder getting more noise and driver feedback from the standard car without the need for the exhaust to be loud to hear it through the car's insulation and a giant entertainment system. Think of much on a modern car, it that adds weight, numbs and insulates the driver from the noises and sensations of driving and actually driving the car for themselves. The more you can lose of those as they're not fitted the better generally. Might take a bit of getting used to at first but then you'll find want you've been missing as a driver by having so much added to the road cars to reduce what the driver needs to do. I appreciate this is difficult for you to understand (apart from my poor descriptive writing) without experiencing it for yourself - there again being your generation it might not be you being more used to more indirect experience enjoyment but if you don't get it soon-ish I think it'll all disappear for at least a good while if not disappear all together. Modern cars are for old-farts not youngsters like us. 😁

It's a matter of proven overall statistics, doesn't matter too much about car's performance or not, it's how it's driven and the results of the driving, if other vehicles, buildings, whatever are involved costs can **** mount. Or worst of all people injured, that's when claims can get really expensive. Even if your hit a high value car or two (and all cars really are bits of metal and plastic, worthless in the grand scheme of things) people can be high or extremely high cost if injured. IIRC claims used for held for 7 years in case further claims came up. Cars are much more expensive to repair now with everything that must (and "must") be on them. Further driver training is one of the best things for those that haven't long had a full licence and a black box as far as I can see would help with self training as well as self-regulation (well indirect to others at least). @Buddxrs you choice and decision of course but I'm curious why don't you want less expensive insurance by having a black box fitted (I assume you mean a blackbox that records/monitors your driving, motions of the car)?

Depends on which Rain-X product you used, which is why I put the hyperlink in my last post, the original repellant I don't think was designed to be used on the rubber elements, check the label instructions on the product bottle. Also depends on which Rain-X or other product you have used on the windscreen by hand and/or in the car's washer bottle or additive in put in there. I used the original Rain-X windscreen repellant (hand wiped on to screen) for decades and the truly concentrated (not like the watered down stuff now) top up additive, never had any issues other than the rake of windscreens on 1960s and 70s cars meant I'd have to go above 40mph for the water beading to happen. If you have too much "product" on the windscreen you cut clean it off by using glass cutter, just a rougher polish really but do read the label instructions and follow them, you don't want or need to use this stuff to often, apply by hand not machine. Expensive, brand, fancy name and label example, but more basic and less expensive stuff will be about, other suppliers and retailers available. - Meguiars Perfect Clarity Glass Polishing Compound 236ml -https://www.halfords.com/motoring/car-cleaning/interior-cleaning/meguiars-perfect-clarity-glass-polishing-compound-236ml-836830.html

I forgot the links. Rain-X products. - https://rainx.co.uk/our-products/ AutoGlym Car Glass Polish - https://www.autoglym.com/car-glass-polish-500ml.html

Which Rain-X product did you use on the wiper blade rubbers (elements)? Have you also used a Rain-X product (there are so many now) on the windscreen (or rear window)? I use AutoGlym Car Glass Polish, it's cream liquid (others are available I expect) to clean my wiper blade rubbers.

There are very few good excuses and no allowable excuses. Here in the UK the Police are usually very lenient but start explaining your version of a law as apposed to what it actually is is tolerated for so long then they either, being human, decide to stop explaining or listening to what is incorrect, they get it all the time, and get on to other stuff or perhaps be less tolerant to other infringements with the person and/or their car. People have always done this but there must have been a rise since the internet and the drop of respect for the Police and other services (sometimes dissevered but more often not). It's very much not a matter of routine that our Police offices are armed with a taser let alone a gun, which is a very good thing, but I've been told of experiences where Brits encountering others countries Police are a lot less "mouthy" seeing the firearms holster.

Uhmm if you say so, means your road position in road lane earlier might have been off-centre but let's not argue about such things the 500 driver was drifting off straight line within the lane, perhaps he wasn't concentrating, or one arm got tired, I think he remained in lane but I'm not checking. If I am wrong about anything I apologise, if it's just a case of you can't be wrong, I'm not that bothered about that either, you may know to yourself, I don't. As you are at the moment I'm glad I don't have to employ you or work with you, I'm sure the feeling is mutual. Best you stick with the certainty of correctly applied mathematics.

Yes but that's just the title of the video isn't it (what we call a*se-covering, and original title is still recorded) but that's relatively unimportant, what about learning (other than to cover your a*se belatedly), any improvement on the attitude, or pretend improvement on the attitude. I'm not giving you any more hints for you to perhaps fake things. No need to reply, best not to, I genuinely hope you've considered more but it makes no real odds if you have or haven't, back to figures, numbers, equations. 😁

Deep scratches might need more than paint but if you're good at such stuff or you find somewhere decent you can get a good finish, might involve some filler or such like, I've no idea, I'm more silver wheels and 80 or 70 profile tyres that protect and hide more, and I'm old I prefer steel wheels. 😀

That's good to know. As you're writing in a second language what you put before didn't come across well, it was just a mistake, we all make mistakes and most of us know we make many different mistakes everyday, that is human.

I'm no expert, just looking at the12/2016 brochure I have - if your car is a 'Colour Edition' and it has stock wheels 16" wheels the same as my brochure they are listed as "16" Anita Black Alloys". The photo in my brochure is very small and not too distant to me eyes but they look the same as yours. As always, always double or treble check any information from any source (including manufacturers) with a couple of other reliable sources, don't just trust some bloke on the internet particularly if they're old and forgetful and often wrong like me. HTH.

Luckily it wasn't your final answer. Just to let you know if you had just driven off in this country that would have been deliberate animal cruelty which AFAIK is against UK law. Not that it matters if it is legal law. If I was there I'm sure I'd have helped with persuading you not to just drive off without me or someone else looking, even if I was the only one there. You are old and experienced enough to know what attitude to at least adopt and when.

Much sterner than here. If it's just the driving in the emergency lane that's reported at most it's the 3 points (and perhaps the fine I'm not sure) and you can have up to 12 points on your licence before you lose it but insurance premiums can be affected by those 3 pionts. IIRC for the first two years after passing your driving test it's 6 point limit, can't remember when that was introduced as it was many decades after I passed my driving test. I'm not sure there was a points system here when I got my licence endorsed as a lad.

@Thefeliciahacker these things are really minor and of little importance except your constant excuses for making a minor insignificant mistake at the time. 1st point Yes the 500 driver cut you up a bit but you are in control of your car, you look in your mirror and brake if required to get the required gap between the 500 and your car and what you have put now and the video add more weight to you were thinking about the manoeuvre you wanted to record on the bend more than the current road conditions. And it also shows you don't know how to properly set the car up for the manoeuvre you wanted to show off. The fact that you don't care is fine for me I'm not over there but it shows your arrogance and as already put your ignorance of setting the "Alfa Romeo Brera (Somewhat) Aggressive Turning", somewhat aggressive is still aggressive isn't it. You do care about numbers so, looking at your video again you not only crossed into the emergency lane you travelled in it, you were only full in it for a short distance but I was giving you the benefit of of some doubt before of when you first crossed the solid white line, again as you like numbers using a fixed point on the dash and wiper arm you and running the video at quarter speed you crossed the line at 12 seconds point, not 14, so using your calculations that's about 60m instead of 40m. 2nd point. You really are sounding like a teenager again. I don't know Greek road speed regulations but I can't imagine the same principle here don't apply there. So here, speed sign on motorway gantry can have speed camera directly behind it for rear facing cameras with, formerly at least, markings to verify vehicles speeds the road directly after the sign and an electronic sign has variable speeds that can be put up on it. The speed limit applies at the sign, drivers need to adjust the speed before the sign so as to pass the sign at the marked speed, basic driving lesson stuff. See at 4:32 in the following video (link) for UK at least, earlier in the video it reminds that it's the driver's responsibility to know the speed limit on any part of any road even if there aren't signs to remind them. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0eY0FfQ1rs The speed limits, and other regulations, in any country are not made up by individuals and apply to all whether they care or not. 3rd point. Who cares depends on what the regulations are and what results happen from doing so. I have said I also have that bad habit, you and I should try to break bad driving habits, I try but don't always succeed but you seem to me to be taking it as some sort of right for yourself. As I put before if you continue in your life inside and outside of work with this attitude, and of feeling superior to others you may get away with it, especially if you are able to "pull rank" in a work situation, for some time and perhaps to some extent but it will you open to reactions of micky taking at best, perhaps social dismissal and perhaps slightly aggressive, or more, reactions from some. Are you a follower or supporter of the likes of Andrew Tate or others similar to his views?

@Thefeliciahacker dismiss it, and/or tell me to stop, if you want but I only continue with this as trying to help you and help you understand and not just with the driving. Time to tune in and read below or tune out and don't bother to read below, you decide, tell me to stop now, you decide. If it's 40m and that doesn't matter does 60m matter, what about 80m or more, is it generally understood that 40m / 60m / 80m or more doesn't matter or is it just for you, or for all, or you and those you approved of to also do it. - There is very clear marking where the emergency lane finishes and the turning off lane begins. Perhaps a roads engineer designed this with parameters for type of road and its use and the contemporary legislation, legislation which was probably drawn up including relevant engineers' design work. In this country if someone is being very strict then that might be considered continuous driving in the emergency lane which is illegal and could get you penalty points and/or a fine. I only cotinine with this as I think, and I could be wrong myself, that you continue to be over-defensive about this and at the same time not fully accepting your mistake and doing this in your in your present and future life inside and outside of work (or when you might be wrong or when you are wrong) often doesn't give good results from you and those you interact with. Asking questions, putting your side, debating all are fine and good, even arguing can sometimes be good. To remind you, you initially blamed the 500 driver and not yourself for crossing the solid white line. - I sometimes drive with one hand by force of bad habit but if I said I only done this when I felt it didn't really matter that I did this that would show some level of arrogance and perhaps ignorance as to when it actually really does matter, that's all the time I am driving the car. Now you must admit that shows, as most of us have, some level of arrogance, I hope you would accept if you were caught doing so that you have done wrong and not give the same manner of explanation, excuse and attitude as with the solid white line and instead say "it's a fair cop, guv" and you were going above the posted speed limit without justifiable reason. If you think the speed limit is wrong for that short stretch of road you as an engineer should be able to present a case to the relevant authority to get it changed (before you break the law and accept the consequences) and whatever their decision is you either accept it or accept any consequences of not doing so. You are gonna need to change the title of your video then. 😁 Stick with me for the next bit as you're probably not going to like it at the start. In your video, and with it being available, it might be suggested that the reason you crossed the solid white line early was because your mind was more on the upcoming manoeuvre than the road you were on at the time. Believe me I can guess most of the ways you could answer that to deny or to suggest otherwise and they may be all true, or not. Imagine if that was me driving and made the video and commentary and cutting the solid white line would you think about that action in exactly the same way for me as you do for yourself. Then imagine if that was me driving, making the recording and doing the commentary at the time and I ran into you and your car and you viewed the recording of me on that recording and making the commentary would you think about those actions in exactly the same way as you do for yourself. If you read this far you don't need to give a reply (not that anyone ever has to) and if you dismiss it all and/or want me to tell me stop trying to help you that's fine as I can't think of any more to do, on this at least. Cheers. 🙃

I think you would be better posting in the Skoda Octavia Mk II (2004 - 2013) forum as this one is less well visited and generally about scan tool type matters. - https://www.briskoda.net/forums/forum/28-skoda-octavia-mk-ii-2004-2013/ I don't know if you'll find my other comments welcome but here they are - generally for stuff on car repairs best to video with the phone at landscape rather than portrait as that will get a wider perspective and more information into the frame, when diagnosing turn the radio off as generally it's less distracting and you can hear more (perhaps not need in this case though). Cleanliness of the oil is more important that having it right up to maximum (regular timely oil & filter changes and you'd want a good, or very good, oil for VRS type driving). Take a photo or leave the coolant level as it is until tomorrow's (today's?) video (and you could leave the oil level too for that video). Mention about both in your post and how much oil and coolant has been lost over what period of time/mileage/type of use. The combustion test appears to be fine, I assumed you warmed the engine before test, best check is oil temp as coolant gauge is usually biased to 90 (unless you have a scan tool that reads various temperatures at various points). Sorry topping up will do nothing for that noise but perhaps it's not as bad situation as you might fear. Good luck.

Sorry I missed these and feel you need to know. Even a thicko like me can explain - assuming the car was correctly engineering designed and built and all components and parts suitable and correctly maintained and used within its parameters no car will ever understeer or oversteer - that is all down to driver input (or lack of) it's that simple.

Looking at both video again, my apologies to you in the first video your gear changes are just relaxed or casual rather than over lingering, it's only in the second vid that you are caressing the gear lever. As you like figures, second vid, of the 15 seconds of the vid there is only 1 second with both hands on the wheel, from 3 seconds to end your right hand is at gear lever, at about 11 seconds the car appears straight on the road. You would say you only needed one hand on the wheel for the spin and were going through the gears after getting the car straight - fair enough. I was going on my overall impression rather than maths (timings). Like me you have a bad habit of only having on e hand on the wheel even when the other is not occupied. Video 1, 3 seconds in before you put your left hand on the steering wheel, at the end of the video you dropped your right hand off the wheel to your lap and the video faded out, so for all I know you could have immediately returned your right hand to the wheel a fraction of a second after the video finished. BTW there's no captions or translation that I saw on the videos. I ran the videos at half speed as I'm not bothered about too much accuracy on such a matter as this but as you like numbers you could run them at the quarter speed available. I don't know how accurate the video timing is as obviously there are no frame codes or timings to calibrate and confirm a second, or part of, of time - but you could do approximate maths for the following. You know the speeds you were going at certain points, and allowing for deacceleration - you appeared to cross the solid white line on the right at 14 seconds shown and appeared to be fully across that line for 3 seconds before the full width of the exit lane. How many meters does that make it that you were too early in doing so? I'm joking. Give yourself rests from engineering and maths, there's more to the world and life than just engineering and maths. I think you might be using the word aggressive with a mechanical engineering slant rather than the common use of the word over here. The second video where you are messing around on a public roundabout would perhaps by some be nearer to (somewhat) aggressive but even then it wouldn't be the description used by many or most over here. Enjoy your cars and yourself.

The road looks great and great fun.. Different kettle of fish though, closed road racing, most of those cars could have gone up sideways on, the big engine'd American stuff probably did. 😀 I didn't see any small British sports cars probably the MGA as the smallest but I did note the BMC Austin Mini triumphant again showing you don't need a big car with big horsepower to be fastest, at least two Minis could have gone up sideways, a small family saloon embarrasses heavy metal again. The Jagg 120 on crossplys was a credit to the local guy, to be fair to the rest the 120 was still a fast car in 1956 unless you had a 140.

Yes I realise this and that's what you should have done so were correct, cutting the lane a bit early isn't the crime of the century, lighten up. I didn't see it, you mentioned it, I put I'd not no idea what you meant, I didn't think your Alfas would have such gauges, you are the engineer and interested in figures I'm neither. - Speed limit has nothing to do with it, nothing to me what you do no need to be so defensive and serious. If you done that in the UK and a Ploice car was nearby I'm sure they would have a word with you if they could spare the stop and time and be able to explain way better than me. Depends what you crash into, and your self-learning rather than learning correct procedures from a trained tutor. As I put it was just an example, there are opportunities of free courses and experiences sometimes here, there's a free scheme for 12-17 years for all sorts of driving training and experiences -only an example, in the UK, not necessarily available in Greece. I'm surprised there aren't some schemes for studying engineers like build track vehicles (only an example) or something. Sometimes you have to look and ask around about opportunities. Are you sure you're not a teenager, I put when possible and I wasn't suggesting quick changes look again your hand isn't on the gear lever or heading to or from it - and I repeat I'm not a driving instructor or good driver. Ease up on yourself you are being too serious and defensive you're not sitting some exam it's just general discussion on a forum but please don't act like a teenager and deny and be totally dismissive, have joke about it but also accept it a bit or just say I've got it wrong, people make mistakes, me all the time, and you too make mistakes, if you made any very minor errors in those videos they were very minor, quite insignificant not the end of the world. These things don't need explaining in an engineering maths equation or formula and I would never have the first clue about such but you give me the feeling that's all you're prepared to accept, believe it or not there's more to the world but there are people who can put everything into an equation but still explain in a wider way. Enjoy yourself, worry less, life is very short, the rest of us were 25 years old only the blink of an eye ago, despite what any maths would say. 😄

No, not at all I meant better to keep both hands on the steering wheel when possible. Yes I could see you weren't off roading, I only thought about captions after I'd watched the vid a couple of times but 0.45g would have meant nothing to me (a typo perhaps). That's for lane changing not turning off but as it was (finally) a dedicated lane I see what you mean. Sorry but not so, he cut you up a lot earlier and was well in front of you even though you were gaining on him, look at your video again. I'm not a driving instructor, or a good driver, so you do as you please, though I do like to respond to any questions or comments made to me. I should say on a public forum don't be power sliding on a public road, you would probably respond there was no one else there and you had everything under control which may be is fine until it isn't. I am a bit surprised you would do such things as you have so much sympathy for your cars (well Felicia at least) but I am not your keeper and in the past done silly things on public roads so not trying to be righteous. If you could get road training I think you would enjoy it, the technical aspects, the heighten observation, it would only involve power sliding if done off-road, doesn't have to be a wet slid pan can be on dollies. Just as an example only, local winter UK driving course but can be applied to dry driving on slippy roundabouts and tight bends. -