PetrolDave

Plug the card into a PC and copy ALL files onto your HDD/SSD.

I've used this wireless adapter for 6 years and found it 100% reliable.

I've been using this wireless CarPlay adapter for 6 years and found it 100% reliable.

It's the same on my fiancee's 2011 Audi A4 cabriolet, no dipstick and can only see the oil level on the infotainment with the ignition on. So this "progress" was already happening 14 years ago!

Paperwork complications after Brexit is what Kopacek say, nothing to do with distance.

Me too on my 2016 L&K with a MIB2 Amundsen, both TSR and HBA which I find really useful.

@Ootohere I know you love being pedantic but really the difference between 97, 98 & 99 in this context is not worth posting about 🤡

Provided you don't live in the UK, as Kopacek won't ship items too large for Royal Mail to the UK.

Exactly what I have done with the Octavia's I've owned over the past 9 years.

There is no reason to change the timing belt on a 2020 car in 2025 - whoever advised it is way out of date since Skoda UK finally got in line with the rest of the VAG empire a while back and scrapped the ridiculous 5 year interval.

You mention 3 cylinders and timing belt, what engine do you have?

It's not the ethanol concentration it's the higher RON value that is beneficial (provided the ECU tuning has maping for the higher RON).

In the UK 95RON fuel IS E10 so all the Octavia owners here who have been filling with 95RON have been filling with E10 for many years. Even our 97/98/99RON is E5.

See pins 9 & 10 of the 13 pin socket. The fridge should be wired to pin 10 which is supposed to be ignition switched.

But sadly most UK homes only have a single phase supply, and in my experience most US home have a dual 110V at 180 degree phase supply (giving 220V for tumble dryers and washing machines).

The 1.5 ACT TSI needs a very special tool (that is expensive) and takes a lot longer than a 1.4 TSI (non-ACT) hence the much higher cost. Because Skoda UK were out of line with all other parts of the VAG empire worldwide!

Find a new dealer, for two reasons: 1) the advice regarding cambelt replacement was changed by Skoda UK several years ago so 5 years is no longer valid. 2) on the 1.4 & 1.5 engines the cambelt and water pump are on opposite ends of the engine so replacing them both together is not needed or advised.

Seems highly unlikely that an ECU would suddenly fail, far more likely to be a sensor or wiring if nothing mechanical or fuel related.

No, CarPlay came in with the MIB2 infotainment which was introduced in around May 2015 on the Octavia 3.

... and expect to wait several years before the maps are updated. I submitted a similar change request to Here a few years ago and it took 5 years for the change to appear!

Not all engines have factory mapping that allows them to take advantage of higher octane fuel.

Lithium batteries won't be under our control until we have an industrial scale source of Lithium in the UK, which seems many years off. Totally agree about tidal, places like the Pentland Firth have enormous potential to generate significant amounts.

You are taking one sided view of who funds research papers, I'm not going to do your research for you but there are multiple organisations worldwide that are wanting to pursue a climate change agenda who have funded many papers. Here's one example - Al Gore has created organisations with significant funding (mostly from high worth individuals) much of which has been spent on funding research as well as activism and public speaking.

Because of the Battery Management System there is no one answer to that. Just after starting the BMS will tell the alternator to produce typically 14-14.5V to top up the battery after starting, if you turn off the engine soon after starting the rest voltage could be over 14V. But when driving once the battery has been topped up the alternator could only be producing 12-12.5V, so again after turning off the rest voltage could be as low as 12V.

Peer review relies on the peers being independent, but since the majority of the peers are themselves receiving funding from "interested bodies" they cannot be seen to be independent. So the peer review process has, by pressure from the same lobbying bodies, become untrustworthy. My Professor at university was deeply concerned about this starting to happen back in the late 1970's so this is not a new problem, and one which there is no desire to tackle because of this "funding dependent on the correct conclusions" effect.