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Hi pikpilot, Thanks for the reply. I thought that would eb the case re bluetooth. Great, I can just ignore the phone when it rings, haha. I have another SD card and will format that and see what happens. I'll be disappointed if it doesn't work, but heyho as they say.

Hi folks, I've recently got myself a 2010 Scout with what I believe to be the Bolero system. It doesn't have an sat nav in it, not an problem. It has a button that say 'phone' but all that does is mute the radio! Any ideas if it will actually connect to a mobile phone. When I try and connect via bluetooth, there are no obvious connections available. I'm guessing the answer will be "nope" It does have a slot for an SD card. I've copied a load of tracks onto an brand new card but when I insert the card, I get a message about the card not being recognised. Does anyone know a way of testing if this can be resolved. I have discovered that it can take 6 CD's so my personal music choices can be expanded. I also have a Pure Highway digital radio so all is not lost music wise. Cheers.

CWT / Silver / 2.0L TDi CR manual/ 99600 miles / 2011 reg'd

And on flat ground.

I'll be keeping a closer eye on the oil levels than I used to. I do check the oil but not every day. I'll be doing it more often now.

The car was driven 15 miles back to my place and all seemed ok. I checked the oil and it was showing about and ¾ on the dipstick. I'm thinking that is ok.

Yes but no I didn't check under the bonnet before I drove away. Should I need to? It was the seal with the oil fitter that hadn't seated correctly. All sorted now, fingers crossed. Nope, I refer you to my other to save typing them out again.

Nope. If it had appeared, I'd have dipped the clutch and killed the engine. All sorted. When the garage changed the oil fitter, the seal hadn't seated properly. Were they just careless?

Well, today has been an interesting day. Collected my, new to me, Scout and when I got home, about 14 miles, someone knocked on my front door to tell me there was a wet patch under the front of the car. Aaahhh. What the heck. OIL!! I cleaned and checked the dipstick and it was DRY!! Called the garage and it is getting taken back first thing tomorrow. Plus the Bolero panel has gone blank. Nothing at all. I'll do some digging.

Well, for those who wondered what the other 2 150bhp cars are. One is and the other is Photo's just for reference, neither are mine, I just can't find any photos.

Thanks. Once I actually get the car I'll try and remember to update you all.

And the winner was the older car, for the simple reason, the other one was sold before I could make my mind up. I just need to sell my 2014 Focus Zetec diesel, anyone interested? Thanks for all your input.

To be honest, I don't know. I think I'll end up chasing the ex NHS car just because it is newer. I like the 60 plate one but it's older than the car I'm selling. And it's much closer to home.

I honestly can't remember whether the doors had standard door cards in them. I have to assume they would. I've looked at other cars and keep coming back to the scout. The reason is that I do some work with Forestry England in Kielder Forest and my poor 2014 Focus doesn't have a huge amount of ground clearance. I've had to reattach the exhaust heat shields a couple of times. I looked at having the suspension raised but I don't like to modify the car and the insurance company weren't too impressed when I told them even though they cover me to compete in clubman status rallies. Haha. As I'm involved in rallying, I know exactly what is required, and my little old diesel Focus wouldn't really be the car for it, even if I wanted to, cage, extinguishers, etc.

Haha, I know what you mean. You don't need to elaborate. If I buy that one, it might get used hard but maybe not that hard as I'm always running late at times. 😉

I take it you have knowledge of the rear passenger door. I'll not ask why unless you want to share the reason ;-) Cheers by the way

I just zoomed in on the photo and saw the reg of the 2019 one.

No in answer to your question about body work holes. There is a missing grommet in the boot and the spare is sitting in the wheel well untethered. No jack or wheel brace. I gather it's had one haldex service.

I'm looking at buying an Octavia scout. One is a 2010 model costing £5500 with nearly 100k miles on the clock. It's very tidy and straight. The other is an ex NHS doctor car on a 19 plate with 46k miles on the clock costing £9999. As it has been effectively an emergency car, it has a few holes in panels where a radio has been and other holes in the boot panels for heaven knows what. Which one would you buy? I think I'm going to toss a coin.

I decided to leave the hand brake cable alone, but did reattach the caliper as you say.

I opened the master cylinder to take account of fluid being forced back up the lines. The level did rise but not a lot. I never thought about opening a bleed nipple. All seems ok as I've driven a few miles with the new pads and discs. I'm happy.

It transpired that I was using the tool is bought to wind the piston back in incorrectly. There is a plate that I should have been using and this goes on the tool to hold things in place. I just didn't do that. In my defence, it's the first time I've done rear brakes on such a new car. Normally on front ones, I've just used a clamp to force the piston back in but I knew that I had to use this tool to turn the piston back into the caliper. It didn't help that it was quite cramped where I was working but I've sorted it now. A lesson for others replacing rear pads/discs.

Hi folks, I'm in the middle of replacing the rear discs and pads on my 2019 1.5 Scala. I am under the impression that the piston needs to be wound back into the caliper as a post to just pushed in. I'm winding it back in but it doesn't seem to move. Am I just turning the piston in the caliper or is it just very very slow to retract? Thoughts. Cheers

I've never come across Zimmerman discs and ATE pads. I prefer to use well known brands such as Brembo, etc.

It's got 276mm discs. I had some spare time and as the sun was shining (honest), pulled a wheel off and measured the disc. And thanks.