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Certainly, it's not a "bolt" but a Torx headed set screw.

You'd need a wheel-free, because you need weight off wheels.

Neither; it has a rear torsion beam and coil springs.

Worn rear beam bushes Bent rear beam Previous owner swapped front tyres with edge wear to the rear axle.

Usual inconsistency; in the mid-1990s we weren't allowed radio receivers or media players in our offices on some MoD sites, but were allowed any infotainment then existing in our cars although we were asked to switch cellphones off on certain sites since the sites had radio frequency detonators on them.

@Fabia59 @Alasdair1 The rheostat itself is fairly cheap as long as you know which one you need. Buying the part from a Skoda Stealer means buying the pedal with rheostat attached, in which case it's about £110 + Rachel's Robbery (VAT).

Does it have "anti-hijack"?

IME you just switch the ignition on and then look properly rather than starting the engine or putting your seatbelt on during the BITE check. OK, that won't test the light bulb telltales but will test the others.

Actually true; if it were still running, @HeavyMetalRich best solution for getting stuff to Norway would be to put it on the Shetland Bus

Ah the sensor(s) in the windscreen are visual spectrum video; the ACC and similar are somewhere in the radar bands. This sort of stuff used to part of my job.

Ok, so how does the radar transmission get from the transmitter out of the front of the car, and the reflection back to the receiver? It's most certainly not going through sheet steel!

@juan27 @Aldfort Were the cobwebs inside the sensor, or outside it and covering the "window"?

Image of a cross between Santa and Fez .

So do I. A good design is a nice bracket for attaching a tyre to a wheel hub, but Neuspeed S-11s are just a bunch of stress raisers around a hub.

If it's a TDi it's a mk2; the vRS mk1 was only ever a 1.8T. @Jimspark and that means if it's a mk1 it does not have a DieselPF.

@Alasdair1 We're both sort of wrong according to @cr8his metadata. Their car is a 1.6 petrol, which is neither a diesel nor has a secondary air pump (1.8t only). I was right to say that a cone filter is a waste of money and will only make more noise on that engine.

My last employer had 3 (three) Octavia 2 estates in silver. 2 had factory paint and a perfect match on the rear bumper; the third had a new bumper sprayed by a local (to the site) bodyshop following a nudge, which was a different shade.

I didn't think there was an auxiliary air pump on a diesel? Oh and all a cone filter will do is waste money and create more intake noise. It will not give you any extra power.

SUK are correct, but that means the belt is about due inside a year anyway on an average mileage. Budget maybe £500 from an independent for a good cambelt kit. Long way. Make it very clear that you require a several hour test drive, not just a "round the block" before travelling. Not entirely; you do still have additional protections under the Sale of Goods Act, but may not have an additional warranty. Not good; it's another reason for requiring a long test drive.

Any comment from the Scalextric lobby?

I've no idea what VAG say, but ZF Transmission (tell me they don't know about gearboxes) say "every 4 years".

One end towards the battery and the other towards the camera. It's a fuze, not a diode!

Tr - careless parking. And further to what everyone else has said, are the software and firmware up to date?

Well that's not right, but at least you know that the relocking is a safety/security feature even if it's not working correctly.

@deadtom I'd agree with @Alasdair1 about the car being on annual service, which seems right if it's doing under 10_000 miles per annum.