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OK, dinosaur replying to my own problem here! Sorry to bother you all - I hadn't realised that the Android Auto hadn't transferred completely to the new phone, so having done an update on that, the system now seems to work. I'll find another question in due course, I'm sure. Thanks for reading anyway 🙂

I have a 2018 Petrol Estate, with what I believe is the Bolero infotainment screen - no built-in satnav but happily accepted being plugged into my Samsung Galaxy Android phone. When I bought the car a couple of years ago and plugged in, that more or less set itself up. I've just swapped to a Nothing Phone 2a, also Android, largely because the connection/charging socket on the Samsung was getting less and less reliable, and sometimes dropped contact halfway round a roundabout. (It wasn't just in the car, nor with that cable, its contact was unreliable with other cables too in other places.) Sadly the Nothing phone, while it cheerfully says it's charging, so I guess the physical connection is good, doesn't appear to want to connect to the app for navigation. For some reason the screen now identifies something as "142" which it didn't offer before, but still below that offers me the green rectangles labelled with Android or Mirror connection. When it was in a good mood, just plugging the Samsung in was enough, once it had established what it was. Now I get a pause, then "connection failed". So - firstly - is anyone else using a "Nothing" phone successfully? Secondly - Any suggestions for how to get it talking as a satnav, seeing as that was a large point of buying it, would be most gratefully received, please. Note: DInosaur level tech jargon only, please ! Many thanks. Richard,

Merci! That's interesting to know. Regrettably other things now mean we'll have to postpone travelling far just for now, but we'll hope to visit France next year, and by then will definitely have a Crit'Air sticker!

Thanks. We last travelled to France in 2023 with our 04 reg diesel Volvo, now replaced by the petrol Skoda. It qualified for a black Crit'Air 4 sticker, so rather than going through Rouen we had to go round, which took quite some time! We found that the Waze app provided not only information about which cities needed us to avoid them, but also gave alternative routes to avoid the clean air zones, which helped a lot. I don't know how far they've progressed since '23, but during that holiday we also stayed with a French friend who commented that the whole thing was still very confused and confusing even for native inhabitants, with some places having active ANPR and some not, and she reckoned it wasn't always clear which was which, so the safest thing was to avoid all clean air zones with our black sticker, though she also said that friends of hers tended to give a Gallic shrug and carry on anyway hoping they'd get away with it! I'm guessing it'll be more active by now. Bonnes vacences to you likewise! Brittany and the Loire should be lovely in May, that's the time we're thinking of going.

That is to say, on re-reading, Crit'Air 1. Sorry, I was getting confused between Euro 6 and Crit'Air 1.... but still good, we're in a decent category!!

Thanks, that's as I thought, then. Good.

We're thinking of heading to France later this Spring, where of course we'll need a Crit'Air sticker. The French Gov't site nicely has an English translation, which helps a lot. It asks what the car's Euro rating is, and my V5 document doesn't show this as such, though it does show emission figures. Online information points to it being Euro 1, being petrol fuelled and registered in 2018. There's an RAC site which gives "Euro 1 emissions standards (petrol) CO: 2.72g/km HC + NOx: 0.97g/km" My V5 shows CO at 0.213, HC at 0.021 and NOx at 0.048 which seems to put me clearly in Euro 1 if I'm reading it right. But I'd hate to be the wrong side of French Bureaucracy if I've misunderstood! Am I right, please? Thanks

Thank you. If the work they've already done doesn't prove to have solved the problem I'll take a print out of this to the garage next time.

Update, in case the information's useful to anyone else. I collected the car this afternoon. After much sitting in the boot while spraying it with water outside they spotted a trickle from the grommet at the top right near the hinge, presumably where wires would go if it were a LH drive. They sealed this, drenched the car again and found no trickle. So hopefully that's it. They've carefully explained this is a temporary repair, and if it works they'll get the proper part and seal it in neatly. And they're happy for me to continue monitoring next time it rains. So we're hopeful we get a dry car, and end up writing a nice review for the Bristol St Honda dealers here who sold it to us. Thanks again for all the suggestions made along the way.

Hi, I posted a while ago about water ingress into our 2018 Octavia petrol 1.5, bought last July, forming a puddle round the spare tyre. The dealer who sold it to us - not a Skoda specialist - is currently honouring their 6 month warranty and trying to sort it out. Clearly it's not fit for purpose if it leaks. They've refitted the tailgate seal, having found & removed a piece of metal that was distorting it around the area of the catch, and certainly it closes better now. (See my earlier thread, linked below) It seems to leak when just sitting there in heavy rain, judging from a recent torrential weekend when I didn't use it. They're having it back on Thursday this week to try again. Any more useful suggestions for things they might try would be gratefully received, please, as I think they're short on ideas, though they've not yet tried the replacement vents suggestion made in that earlier thread. (Would this be an issue when the car was just standing still rather than getting splashed from the road?) In almost all other ways we very much like this car, but this water ingress really ain't good enough. With thanks.

Thanks very much "EnterName" (Do I detect a Pratchett Sam Vimes fan at work here? 😀 ) I'll investigate - though as I said, since it's still under warranty I'm going to let them do any adjusting so they can't claim I've messed things up. And forgive my commenting, but I do thoroughly approve your use of the technical term "sproing". Spot on resonance here.

Thanks again for the warning - I tried using the phone as satnav via the USB port near the air con controls for a couple of 25 mile trips out & back yesterday evening, and throughout, the phone stayed at a fairly ambient temperature, it also steadily charged up along the way. Maybe it's fortuitously a good cable I have, or just a lucky combination of car/cable/phone?

Thanks again. Because it's been pretty well dry weather since the dealer re-fitted the seals, it's still dry in that compartment, but I'll keep checking; I'm contacting the service manager there tomorrow so will pass on the info about the vents. A leaking boot is seriously not something we want, between sometimes carrying musical instruments and sometimes using it as a storage space while on holiday with our seriously small caravan.

Thank you, that is worth knowing, and worth suggesting to the dealer for investigation next time I take it for the follow-up.

Thanks for the warning - and that's interesting. The phone seemed to be charging up at the same time as providing navigation, so I assumed there was sufficient charge. I'll check again next time I use it that way, and have a cigarette lighter cable ready in case.