Everything posted by PetrolDave
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New Octavia 2020 vRS?
Only at least £8195 out (£11,720 if you compare with the car pictured) The thing is that according to the Advertising Standards Authority it's NOT misrepresentation for a car company to show a vehicle in the video/picture that costs a LOT more than the price shown - I don't know anyone who agrees with that opinion who isn't employed by the ASA
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New Octavia 2020 vRS?
Text says "Octavia Hatch vRS", numberplate says "Octavia vRS iV"?
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Heads up display not showing traffic signs
Time to get in touch with Trading Standards, the Advertising Standards Authority and make a fuss on social media?
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Wheel fitment
Not 100% true, what matters is the TYRE diameter. If you increase the wheel diameter but fit lower profile tyres so that the tyre diameter is the same then the speedo calibration will not need to change. As an example - a previous car I owned came with 14" wheels (don't laugh!) and 155/65 tyres but in the summer I fitted 16" wheels with 195/40 tyres - this changed the overall diameter by 0.95% so at 70mph the speedo read 70.95 mph.
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Heads up display not showing traffic signs
That's pretty explicit that traffic signs are displayed on the heads-up:
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Lots of regens
Have you checked that the pipes to the pressure sensor are clear? It's not unknown for them to become blocked.
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Map update, Help..
Choosing a format option with a smaller cluster size will make more space available for the maps - how so? There are many, many small files (much smaller than the cluster size) so the smaller the cluster size the less "wasted" space.
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2016 L&K Columbus - Postcode Navigation Search
The Amundsen MIB1 in my Octavia 3 shows PTCD for the postcode entry soft button.
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1.4 tsi New Cam Belt Cost
Last month I was charged the £479 fixed price by Marshalls Skoda in Barnstaple to replace the cambelt on my 1.4TSI (also 5 years old), I too had to decline the unnecessary water pump change (when I mentioned that on the 1.4 the water pump is on the opposite end of the engine so changing it isn't necessary there was a loud choking sound from the other end of the phone just like they realised they had been found out!).
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Charging current
That impression is correct, the battery is not charged above around 80%, supposedly to leave some headroom for regenerative braking by using the alternator to further charge the battery.
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Mk3 rims
When I commented on here that my Elegance has 17 inch wheels I was told that the OE fit on the Elegance was 16 inch wheels - which is one reason why a 1.4 Elegance only has Road Tax of £30 (the 17 inch wheels push up the emissions into the next band if the dealer registered it correctly).
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Luggage compartment courtesy light inconvenience.
Our local farming goods supplier sells the 100x70 timber I needed earlier in the year only in 4.8m lengths, I drove home from their depot with 6 of these on the roof of my Octavia estate using my Thule Aero roofbars spaced as far apart as they would go. It was only about a mile but above 30mph they certainly got a good bounce on despite being pretty solid
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Charging current
The battery management / smart charging system uses the cable between the battery negative and the chassis as the current shunt (yes, it's very low resistance, but it's designed for that). If you could find the measuring block (which depending on the car will be either in the 61 module or the battery management subsystem of the 19 module) that shows live current drain I'm pretty sure that you can log it using VCDS, see VCDS Data Logging
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Charging current
Using a current clamp ammeter?
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Climate Control Fault
That fault is shown as intermittent, and has occurred 15 times with a low priority. Does the engine ECU at address 01 show any fault codes?
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2020 F1 Discussion
Driving a Ferrari means the rules don't apply to you
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Rear wiper arm cap - where can I get it from?
It seems that it depends on the branch - some TPS branches sell to the public but some don't, and just because a branch did last year doesn't mean it will this year.