PetrolDave

In my experience the two phrases "traffic planners" and "common sense" have no connection at all. In Trowbridge they are going to be closing one of the major entry roads for a week in January (and causing congestion for a further 9 weeks) to widen cycle lanes that I have never seen used by a single cycle - I gather this is to spend a grant given to them by the UK Government to "improve active travel".

If I had a pound for every time a dealer has emailed me, told me, messaged me, WHY that I need to replace the timing belt when the car I drove had a timing chain I wouldn't need to enter the Omaze draw for the £3m house in the Lake District (slight exaggeration but you get my drift!). My experience is that dealer car knowledge can be written on a small Post-It note using a very large marker pen... I echo the advice to find a good local independent specialist.

I never locked the SD card after updating the maps on my MIB1 Amundsen, always worked in the car with the slider in the unlocked position?

No, if no times are displayed then the bus lane is a bus lane 24/7/365 - even if that makes no sense at all.

And the grade we used when I worked for a company in the potable water industry.

As you can see from my signature I no longer have access to the Octavia 3, so I'll have to let current owners comment ...

Only way I know is to replace the filter.

Seen this on some Audis - the rear demister is also used as an aerial and there is a filter that separates the radio signal from the demister power, when this fails the radio signal is lost when the rear demister is turned on as you describe.

According to this you need A4 stainless bolts to be equivalent to 8.8

Might be better asking in the Octavia 4 forum where owners mostly post?

It was in 2017 when I needed one wheel refurbed so my memory might be a bit off, but IIRC they charged me £80.

I used these guys at Woolston when I needed an alloy powder coated after a dealer did a nasty respray http://www.wheelsmartuk.co.uk/

I tried the Audi throttle coding on my 1.4 TSI Octavia III and had exactly the same fault codes, to me it seemed that the changed ECU coding made it look for different CAN messages from the other modules such as ABS so I reverted back to the standard coding.

BTW those are not radar they are ultrasonic sensors. The radar (when fitted) is for ACC and Front Assist and is located in the centre of the front bumper area,

... which is why I stopped watching F1 for many years - Ferrari having different rules to all other teams and Michael Schumacher not being penalised for major driving misdemeanours just became too much for me to stomach. Now it seems the rules are different for Red Bull and Verstappen - deja vu???

Have you checked whether the battery terminal connections have been tightened correctly after the battery was changed?

On the Octavia the 1.4 TSI never had ACT, it was introduced first on other models.

Every 5 years according to Skoda UK, "lifetime" according to VW in the SSP for the EA211 engine, values in between those according to other makes & importers - pay your money, make your choice.

But important semantics that have confused at least one member - ords.

Since you have a 1.5 where the water pump is on the opposite end of the engine (unlike the 2.0 where it is on the same end of the engine), and IIRC there has only been one report on here of a water pump problem on the 1.4/1.5 engine, I think that a water pump change is unnecessary - I certainly declined it on my 1.4 when I had the cambelt replaced after 5 years.

I think you have crossed over LHD and RHD. In the UK we drive on the Left in Right Hand Drive vehicles, in Europe they drive on the Right in Left Hand Drive vehicles.

Letting only 5 of the lapped cars through and not all of them surely isn't following the rule? Either stick with the original decision to let none of the lapped cars through or let ALL of the lapped cars through. IMHO Mercedes have a valid reason to make an appeal. Yes having the race not finishing under safety car is preferred but only if the rules have been followed.

Have you ever had the windscreen replaced, if so is it a genuine Skoda one? I found that on the minimum settings the rain sensing was so unwilling to turn the wipers on I had to click the sensitivity up.

The switch on the top of the wiper stalk changes the sensitivity setting of the rain sensing wiper, did you try adjusting that before disabling rain sensing?

I had a pre-facelift MG Metro Turbo like that and then a facelift one - the facelift one was a 'Friday special' which eat 3 exhausts and 3 batteries in 18 months so I part-ex'd it for a Renault 5 GT Turbo and vowed never to buy another ARG (or whatever they called themselves) car again.