PetrolDave

Many in this generation want to change away from ICE vehicles but are unable to do so without both some financial assistance (the latest Grant scheme is close to a farce) to lease/buy an EV suitable for their family, and a viable solution to allow those who have to park in the road to charge an EV. Remember there is no right to park outside your property (as an example, I am very rarely able to park outside my fiancee's house, often 200 yards down the road!).

And now can't afford to run those 2kW convector heaters so they wear multiple layers of clothing and sit under blankets - BBC West showed several people having to do this last Winter, and I don't see any reason to believe it won't be the same for them this Winter.

That means nearly 80% of us are not! Please do NOT make the incorrect assumption that pensioners are well off! Despite having worked exclusively in the allegedly important high tech industries I was made redundant 4 times during my working life and had to restart from a lower salary each time, so my private pensions do not match those of someone lucky enough (like my father) to work for one firm for 40+ years. So my pensions income does not meet the suggested level for a "comfortable" life style and I have to carefully consider every outgoing.

It's not unknown for the software in some of the many modules not to wake up properly!

Renewable generation is problematic during an autumn/winter anticyclone like we have over the UK at the moment. I've been watching National Grid: Live for the last couple of days and so far today gas has provided around 70% of UK electricity generated with renewables down less than 15%. We really need to move further and faster on both Grid battery storage and local micro nuclear if we are to stop burning gas without having grid failures.

@lol-lol But does the saving in electricity bills pay for the purchase of the multiple small batteries? What's the payback period?

There isn't one answer to that as the car has a Battery Management System that dynamically changes the battery voltage. Before starting if the voltage is below 12V then that's cause for concern, when the engine is first started expect something around 14V but this will drop to something over 12.5V after a few minutes except when you come off the throttle when it will rise again to around 14V as the "micro regenerative braking" comes into effect.

I 100% agree, get the multimeter out and start doing some battery voltage measurements.

My bad, too early in the morning!!! If start/stop only works for a few hours then that suggests the battery charge state isn't being maintained. How old is the battery?

PDF files only. If you download everything to your local device then you only need to pay once.

Removed due to early morning brain fade 🙃

erWin has the factory repair information, so it's probably the most complete information you can get. Just buy the shortest subscription (1 hour in Europe), enter your VIN and download every file available as PDFs.

The DQ200 has a mechatronic that is sealed to 3 bar, it's only the gearbox oil that should be considered for changing.

But on a DQ200 it is suggested to change the gearbox oil at 40,000 miles.

The electronics and software in a 2016 Mk3 are completely different to any model year Mk4. Also the attitude of VAG and the regulations regarding ADAS systems have changed a lot since 2016 meaning that many systems cannot be disabled or have their settings changed without some "trickery".

You might be best approaching a specialist broker dealing with imported vehicles?

Try again, I've changed the video to the correct one.

As I said VARIABLE displacement, see from about 1:31 AC Compressors

The AC compressor doesn't have a clutch, for many years VAG have fitted variable compressors that permanently run.

Steel hub + aluminium alloy wheel = corrosion

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AFAIK Auto Hold requires an EPB, which no Mk3 has.

A 2013 Mk1 will have a MIB1 Bolero, no MIB1 unit can have CarPlay enabled. If you want an OEM solution then you need to replace your MIB1 Bolero with a MIB2 unit from a 2015 on Mk3. Best person to ask is @pab567 so I've tagged him.

It will be WiFi, BT is only used to establish the initial connection to WiFi.

Interesting - so she always needs glasses as one eye will always be out-of-focus?