Everything posted by PetrolDave
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Driveway or Road?
What's the "white" line of border stones shown near your house? That to me suggests an intended separator between private space and public space?
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Driveway or Road?
Not just older properties, the deeds for my 2022 build property show my boundary in the middle of the (soon to be adopted) road in front.
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Sat Nav issues on Octavia VRS estate
Where is your car parked when you're doing this, and how long did you wait after the factory reset? The signal from the satellites is very weak, so you need a 360 degree reasonably clear sky view to see as many satellites as possible. In addition after a factory reset the GPS needs to see at least 4 satellites with a strong enough signal to get any fix at all, and that fix will be very coarse until more satellites come into view which can take quite some time depending on how clear the sky view is (some satellites can appear very low to the horizon and be easily obscured).
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the truth about electric cars
Theft from drives likelihood is IMHO postcode dependent - I've lived in south London, Surrey, Norfolk, Hampshire, Devon and Wiltshire and never has a car been stolen from the drive of any property close by in any of those places. Which I guess is a contributor to the insurers logic that damage in a garage is more likely than theft from the drive?
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Driveway or Road?
As are all boundaries based on such maps, the thickness of the boundary line itself is equivalent to several feet (metres). A former colleague who lived in rural Norfolk had a dispute with the local council who claimed that his front wall (which had been there since the house was built in the 1850's) was too close to the road (a very quiet rural back road to nowhere) and it ended up with them taking legal action and forcing him to pay for them to demolish the wall. We took him to the council buildings (in an Audi stretched limousine we were working on at the time) in Norwich to pay, with the cheque attached to a brick from the now demolished wall!
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Driveway or Road?
@Winston_Woof your superimposed photo shows part of the car outside of the green area, so I would play safe and say parked on the road.
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the truth about electric cars
Cars have been damaged when in a garage by heavy things falling on them requiring expensive repairs, so many insurers have assessed that the risk when parked on the drive is lower than the risk when parked in a garage.
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What does 'tow bar preparation' actually include
... and some owners have reported that cars without towbar preparation have a VIN plate that shows they have weight limits which means they cannot legally tow anything.
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Possible to buy just the lens for rear headlight??
BTW headlights are on the front of the car, what you are talking about is just called the rear light.
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Witam wszystkich z Polski / Silesia
The language of this forum is English, please post in English. Google translate says:
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radio change
Octavia 2 or Octavia 3, 2013 is the changeover year?
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radio change
Read the translation carefully: No mention of being able to display the CAR menu, etc. It's very carefully worded marketing bumpf designed to deceive.
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radio change
There's no mention on the Kenwood website here of that head unit displaying car specific information, just being CANbus compatible is not the same thing - you've got the wrong head unit. You need one that specifically mentions displaying car specific information.
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How easy is digital cockpit to retrofit to 2018 vRS245?
If you have Canton I believe you will also need a MOST splitter as the Canton amp is connected using MOST.
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2024 facelift hopes and dreams
Sadly that's one way many people misuse front fogs. The legal position is quite clear, but since it's never enforced it's basically irrelavnt that so many people misuse front fogs as additional main beam.
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2024 facelift hopes and dreams
The whole point of front fogs is that they are lower mounted and hence you get less glare reflected back to the driver. Headlights have to be mounted higher (legal requirement so they can be used when it's not foggy) so any 'fog light function' using only headlights will create more glare back to the driver than lower mounted lights, so I can only see the removal of lower mounted fog lights as a bad move - probably a badly judged cost saving.
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Guess the Hire Car.... Mac's 2019 game
In Boston a few years ago I booked a Ford Focus and got ......... a BMW X5!
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Infotainment Model Numbers
How many SD card slots? AFAIK an Amundsen always has 2 - one for media and one for maps. Do you have a NAV button? If not then you likely do not have either an Amundsen or a Columbus, which means you would have a unit that does not support navigation.
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Cam belt change, the truth
No, the EA211 engines (like the 1.4) have a cambelt.
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the truth about electric cars
The key word is Research-Cell, the time from first research cell to production volumes is unpredictable (and some research cell designs will likely never make it to production because of cost and/or manufacturing issues) - there is even one research cell with an efficiency close to 90% that uses nano-cell technology.
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Delivery times?
Whatever make and model of tyre they have in the factory at the time it is built that meets their specification.
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Are kopacek tuning good for Skoda parts?
Post Brexit Kopacek will only ship to the UK items that are accepted by Royal Mail, so as that rear spoiler is too large for Royal Mail they won't ship it to you.
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Is it possible to add lane assist?
I know, what I meant was that the 20 is a lowline camera, and the A5 is a highline camera.
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Is it possible to add lane assist?
I don't think the 20 lowline camera supports TSR, only the A5 highline camera.
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Skoda octavia 2017 SE L Tsi front Assist unavailable
Front mounted cameras? - I've owned 2 Octavias with 2 different cameras, a 20 lowline camera that only does HBA and an A5 highline camera that does HBA, TSR and lane assist. AFAIK side assist needs addition rear mounted radars and does use any cameras.