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  1. A while ago I noticed a bit of water in the spare tyre well, I have had similar problems twice previously I recall and managed to sort it but this time I have found lots of water in the actual subframe of the car is the cause, by just the amount of water in the subframe sloshing about and getting into the well.

     

    In the middle of the picture is a round hole, I can push a piece of pipe in there and down and suck the water out. 1 Month ago I blew and sucked it all out and threw it around a bit, blew the water out again and so on, also left the car open to dry and I believed all the water was out completely. I went away for a month so the car pretty much sat for this time with the only rain being a massive downpour 1 day after I left and someone giving it a wash and apart from the 1 day rain and wash it has sat in the sun for the full month, but today I put the air gun in again and there is loads of water. Obviously there are what I believe to be three possibility's here, 1 - I didn't get it all out, 2 - the huge downpour on day 1 caused it or 3 - a jet washer/washing it is causing it. The water is very clean and tastes clean.

     

    Has anyone one else come across this please. I have extensivly tired sourcing it by tracking back things like, bungs, seals, third brake light and so on and can find no water tracking. It happens on both sides but I believe the passenger side is just the excess from the drivers side.

     

    Car always sits on a slight slope facing downwards so after getting it all out I parked it the other way to see if this helped.

     

     

     

     

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  2. Hi. I’m repairing a radio that has had water ingress. I’ve cleaned everything off of the circuit board but I have come across something I would class as something similar to heat sink paste, it feels more like a spongy type substance but this could’ve been down to the water ingress. Pic below shows one larger area of the blue paste and you can see some which has fallen away from a little rectangle raised tab that is below and to the left of the bigger bit. Anyone know what this is please?

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  3. 1 hour ago, toot said:

    There is not a named driver on a V5.  It is a registered keeper. That can be anyone in a dealerships name. A company, a Motability customer that had on lease.   ? What recourse need there be on a 15 year old car?   2007. WTF.

    Calm down mate only asking a question. 

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  4. Around 13 years ago I purchased a nearly 2 year old Octavia (9000 miles) from a main dealer. When I purchased the car there was a few things that concerned me but it's one of them where I could've been overthinking things. There was and is a permanent liquid stain down the back of the passenger seat and a broken rear air vent amongst other things. I asked the dealer what the provinence of the car was and I was assured it was all above board and came from Skoda to them directly (previous named owner on paperwork) and had all relevant checks for mileage etc.

     

    12 years later I decide to take the rear bumper off to have it resprayed and notice that in the rear quarter there has been some crash repair, noticeable by a seem where the sealant is totally different from factory and that the bump stops are quite a way from sitting where they should do, again with some other things. Would the dealer have known about this and do i have any recourse.

  5. If I recall correctly mine looked great and tested well, changed the battery with a brand new one and it still didn’t work. Put in a second hand one and it’s worked perfectly ever since. Ok it might not last that long but part of it for me in the first instance was to check it was the alarm unit and nothing else. If it goes again in my ownership then I’ll just buy and brand new one, think they were about £150. 

  6. I had everything off and out, cleaned connectors, sensors and dried everything out over night but still the same. Gave the sensors a T cut and they have worked for about the last year with no problems and I had the same or very similar issues - just saying as I know sometimes we can get into holes looking for things, just like I did. 

  7. Turn the ignition on the first click (no engine running) and turn the wipers on, this will mean the wipers stop in the up position. If open close bonnet, lift wiper blades/arms off the glass as if you were changing them, this will make the arms sit better on the spindle enabling you to use the puller. If they don't pull off keep the puller under tension and give the arms a knock at the base with the spindle with a hammer. Nut can be left on but as is in picture or removed.

  8. Yeah thanks for that just managed to find out that the names of the connectors (RAKU2 and SMA) this evening so I could search and I think I found adapters. The other question is will the gps from a newer antenna work with an older Columbus unit?

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