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PetrolDave

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  1. They need rolling out in EVERY urban area before 2030, and with enough connections for at least one per household (remember many households have more than one car in daily use e.g. Mum, Dad, teenagers,...).
  2. One thing that doesn't seem to have been addressed in today's "Green" announcement is how to solve the EV charging problem that people living in cities who have to park in the road will have - trailing cables across the pavement isn't safe (or legal?). Just providing more public charging points isn't enough, everyone who will own an EV needs to be able to safely charge it at home.
  3. Try individual mode, you can change all the settings individually(!) there.
  4. Might be an idea to make your profile show which country that is, as we have no idea at the moment?
  5. On my 2015 Octavia Elegance under the Individual driving mode you can select the ACC acceleration mode, I've gone for the most gentle option which seems about right.
  6. I've fitted Superskoda LEDs to both boot lights and both door lights on my 2015 Elegance with no strange effects. Glovebox and overhead lights remain OE, that's a job for 2021
  7. You need to get a fault scan done to show what exactly is the fault code which is causing the EML to come on.
  8. With the engine running you set the AC to recirc, then place the 'bomb' inside the car (passenger footwell is often used) then following the instructions on the 'bomb' enable it (i.e. set the bomb off) then LEAVE THE CAR and shut the doors. Then just wait as per the instructions on the bomb before opening the door and safely disposing of the new expired 'bomb'. I've only had to use such a 'bomb' once but it certainly got rid of the musty smell.
  9. Sounds like we are in the same 'neck of the woods' as we shop in Barnstaple, Bideford and Tiverton! I have a MIB1 Amundsen and I have to admit I always have the map display set to 50m or 100m so I can't say if the same problem exists on the MIB1.
  10. That's the problem then, AC is just as useful in the autumn/winter as in the spring/summer because by cooling the air it dehumidifies it which greatly improves the speed of clearing fogged windows. All my cars since 2000 have had AC, both auto and manual, and I have NEVER turned the AC off in any of them - even those with manual AC.
  11. When I KNEW that there was a software update available for both my Amundsen MIB1 and my engine ECU my then Skoda dealer (I've moVed since) not only refused to apply the updates but even had the cheek to tell me there were no updates
  12. I have a similar feeling about lane assist on our second car, a 2020 Toyota Aygo, it too makes far too many 'complaints' on non M or dual carriageway roads - but at least when I turn it off it stays off. Seems to me that lane assists isn't fit for purpose on anything other than M or dual carriageway roads.
  13. On a previous car (Audi RS4) this problem was caused by a restriction in (or too small a diameter) pipe to the clutch slave cylinder.
  14. I've driven under that bridge many times on the way to MIRA, it was always worth checking it out for some new "scars"
  15. @cboyle7you've posted in the Octavia 4 forum but your profile says you have a Fabia?
  16. Which given that most Brit's don't tend to complain isn't likely to happen .... unless social media is stoked into action?
  17. To clarify for OP, that's an adaptation channel change not a coding change.
  18. One story I read said it would be synthetic fuels made by extracting atmospheric carbon - so it would be carbon negative.
  19. Reformat it to FAT32 but select the option to make the cluster size 4KB instead of default - that will stop the many small files wasting so much space.
  20. A few years ago when I was working for an automotive consultancy one of the development engineers at Ford Research Dunton expressed the opinion that he would never buy any new model in its first year as, in his opinion, new models were usually rushed to market before they had the bugs fixed.
  21. A relative put Redex into their Octavia III and got plagued by random O2 sensor problems which went away when they stopped adding the Redex.
  22. Any sign of the Amundsen MIB1 2021 maps yet?
  23. VAG seem to change their mind seemingly at random depending on year of manufacture and market - for example on my 2007 Audi the media would stay on until I removed the key but on my 2015 Skoda it goes off when I turn the ignition off; and on US websites many Audi owners complain that even on earlier model years it behaves this way instead of the way my Audi did. So it seems model year, market, and how the VAG software guys "felt" are factors that determine when the media goes off

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