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Hi all, Just wanted to share a few pics of my month-owned Enyaq 80x that I use for work. Being a farm vet's car, it's fully loaded in the boot with kit and has to navigate a lot of single-track roads and muddy/rocky farm tracks. It's been handling its duties very well and I've been very impressed with its off-road ability (at least equal to my previous Octavia Scout). Overnight charging gives me full range every morning and when on-call (and often driving / attending call all night) an hours break and a snooze at a 50kW charger (the fastest we have in Herefordshire) keeps plenty of range in the battery. I've also been relieved at how my farming clients have responded - the vast majority are fascinated and amazed that an EV can cope with the life of a vet's car!

I've used these on my last 3 Scouts - my boot is always full (farm vet) and the helper springs make a huge difference. When the car is unladen (rarely) the rear sits a little high but handling is fine. Simply sit inside the current springs. https://mad-suspension.co.uk/cars/

I have the pre-facelift version but looks very similar to yours. Easiest way to remove the 2cm x 20cm black plastic part above the foglight for me was to use the blunt handle of a teaspoon / wide flat-blade screwdriver / dinner knife under the end nearest to the number plate - i.e. on the short end of the plastic part, rather than at the corner of the foglight as shown in the diagram This piece is held in by clips (that seem pretty robust) and will expose two Torx bolt heads. These are all that are holding in the foglights. Best of luck! Andrew

Thanks all, The garage (Independent VAG specialists) are suspicious of the oil cooler as Classic suggested. Will be going in next week when I'm back from holiday.

I think I might know the answer to this question already, but am hoping that someone can prove me wrong. The history: Octavia Scout TDi 2015 128000 miles Has had the sticky water pump in the past. This was replaced within a week of me first seeing the coolant temperature rising The symptoms: Using coolant Using oil Milky oil under the filler cap DPF regen seems to be happening more frequently No smoke/steam from the exhaust, but could the DPF be taking this out? It all points towards CHG to me but could there be any other explanation. If it is as I suspect, does anyone know how much this is likely to cost to fix and whether it's going to be worth the hassle? Apart from this the car is a good one - dealing with all I throw at it (fully loaded along muddy farm tracks) so would like to keep it going if possible. Thanks for any advice

Had this problem on my 2015 Scout (107000 miles). Had noticed the temp getting up to 110 occasionally, then last week it got to >130 and got the warning beeps etc. Heater on HI and it settled down when the valve had opened. Got the cambelt and water pump replaced yesterday (£498 at independent). 1st pic shows where the impellar is covered to reduce the output of the pump while the engine is warming up. My pump had stuck in this position. 2nd pic shows how it looks when the impellar is not covered. Hope this sheds more light on the problem

No breather holes, they have been mist free for 90k, just the flood wading that must have forced water in around the bulb bungs. Thought I had fully dried them, apparently not as misted overnight. Onto the log burner this time...

ScoutCJB: that worked perfectly. Easy to remove, now sitting on a radiator drying out thanks very much!

Thanks Scout CJB, will have a look into that later today

Having waded through some deep flood water in my Scout a couple of weeks ago, I now have a lot of mist in the foglights. By leaving the foglights on the mist reduces but comes back again when the lights go cold. Is there any way that I can clear the misting? thanks

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We had the pleasure of having to drive on the spare on out TdF last week (waiting for our preferred garage to get the CrossClimate+ in to replace a burst tyre (pothole)) No signficant problems with the handling even though the spare was on the front axle. The Halex had no problem with the mis-matched sizes over the 200 miles we drove with the odd wheel. I'd recommend getting the 'original' spare wheel - there won't be any problems of getting it to fit, and it will be much cheaper to source.

I was having the same problem when I first bought my Scout - headlights were almost always on except on very sunny days. Along with this my auto wipers were not working properly. Managed to fix both at the same time while I was investigating the wiper problems: The large plastic surround behind the rearview mirror can be removed easily (prise the upper part away and the lower part will then fall down. The problem with the wipers was that the rain sensor had also fallen away from the windscreen. By tightening the clips for the rain sensor (bending the metal in a little bit) I solved the auto wiper problems. At the same time I saw that the light sensor wasn't properly located against the windscreen (didn't think much of it at the time, but clipped it back in anyway). I was pleasantly surprised to find that the auto lights were also working at sensible times - I think that if the sensor drops back then it is shaded by the coating on the screen. All in all this took about 5 minutes and saved paying for a garage to look into it...

Thanks for the suggestion. Removed the box behind the rear view mirror. As suggested, the rain sensor had come adrift from the screen. Increased the clamping force of the clips (I.e. bent them in a bit) and clipped it back in place. Wipers responded to a spray at of water, just need it to rain now! once again, Briskoda to the rescue!

How did you fix this? Presume you need to get to the sensor behind the rear view mirror? Thanks