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I've never had anything other than summer tires before, so TBH this is a bit of an experinment. Do I need them? No as I've always managed with summer tires. Are you just doing the worn pair, or all four?

I see. 21" next time then. 😉

I'm biting the bullet and doing all 4. I'm just shy of 20k too, and likewise rears are in good nick. I've been umming and ahhing for months. Garage reckons the fronts wouldn't get through MOT in January. If doing just one axel I think the advice is put the new ones on the rear, but having part worn summer tires on the front (that's doing the vast majority of the work) for winter didn't seem right to me. Just do them all then!

Not surprisingly I'm in the same boat. I'm going all season. Goodyear Vector 4Seasons Gen-3 at £233 per corner fitted.

Yes, good point.

Have long (i.e. not quick) reformated the USB stick to defaults and reloaded the music, and for now it seems to be working nomally again. I'm guessing here, but I think possibly the head unit now thinks it's a different stick and has therefore reset it's internal cache/index of tracks. ...of it could be sunspot activity. Who knows!?

On a previous Ford there was an issue with USB resetting which I believe was down to the voltage dipping when the engine was being cranked. It only ever restarted at the first track, never playing the incorrect track; i.e. select artist E and get artist D. Bearing in mind that this worked fine for a year... I'm assuming the indexing of the USB device is getting stored within the head unit. If that's somehow stuffed, I wonder if a factory reset will help?

After being fine for a year since getting the car, I've now started getting USB replay wierdness. a USB C stick has always just lived in the car, no bother. It sounds somewat silimar to above. Frequent re-starts to the first track on the stick when turning on the ignition. Voice search for an artist playing the wrong tracks (different artists). Put the stick in a PC and it says error detected, but chkdsk finds no errors, and then re-inserting the stick in the PC doesn't flag an error!? Put it back in the car, start playing, then return it to the PC and error detected again; rinse and repeat. Was originally FAT32 and have reformatted as exFAT; no difference.

That's helpful information. Thank you.

I'm not vouching for this information you understand. Just sharing what I was told. I challenged the change to 2 year guideance and the dealer acknoweldged this was different and showed me a web page that did indeed say every 2 years, but I don't know who's web page that was. Would a main dealer bare faced lie about it I wonder? ...and no, I'm sure they won't remove the pump or clean the screen.

Apologies for warming over an old thread, however I've just been informed by local UK dealer that Haldex service advice has changed and it's now every 2 years. That probably fits in with some of the grotty photos coming from 3 year vehicles.

Yogi is correct. This is the subwoofer for the Canton audio system.

I don't know anythign about the official technicalities, but based on what I've read and my own experience, I'd say it's certainly capable of slipping the clutch when necessary. I also notice the difference between being stationary in D and being stationary in N; D drags on the engine very slightly and N not at all. I beleive this has to be down to the clutch feathering when stopped in D, which suggests to me it's absolutely capable of slipping the cltuches when it has to.

Are the 245s Michelin Cross Climates by any chance?

Better late than never! At least everyone with a facelift model can now replace the junk wiper that came from the factory. Thanks for the pointer.

I've never seen that offered as an after market upgrade anywhere. I'm guessing, but probably wouldn't be anywhere near worth it in terms of improvement vs the cost and difficulty involved.

I haven't tried unplugging the actuator, but I'm pretty sure in my petrol that there's fake sound from the the speakers too. If it was all from the actuator I think it would sound like it was coming just from the back end, and IMHO it doesn't.

I don't believe so, no. One setting for both I understand.

Thanks for sharing _lost_. I'd thought for a while that having Android Auto wirelessly connect (or not) was having an effect, but I think that was a red herring.

In my experience it's standard practice for dealers to claim 80% worn when the pads are 20% used, i.e. you are down to "only" 80% left, act now! It could be argued in court that what they're saying is technically correct (whilst being obviously completely misleading). Just IMHO.

That's really useful intell. Thank you!

Well, at least I know that I'm the only one, which feels positive.

Thanks for sharing. I think this supports the view that the car can signal 2 cylinder mode to the virtual cockpit and that all versions of the virtual cockpit can reflect it in some way (full size VC can definitely display Eco on my Kodiaq), though the Karoq doesn't reflect 2 cylinder mode on the full sized VC. I'd be quite surprised if that couldn't be addressed with some coding and I'm guessing the Karoq is always coded to work with the 8 inch VC regardless of which one is fitted. I like guessing... 😉

Do you mean text saying 2 cly mode? ...and if so do you see the Eco symbol at other times/with different VC views?

Which version of VC do you have please? The optional larger one or the 'standard' smaller one? I drive a 2.0 TSI Kodiaq with the larger VC and that shows the Eco symbol, but it's only coasting as it doesn't have cylinder deactivation. I'm assuming that all the 10" VC hardware is effectively the same, so I'm wondering if it's a coding thing stopping it showing?