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Bloody cheek! I’m 32! 😂 Nah… I’ve got tins of beans that are probably older than you! Oh BTW, the Capri MK1 was launched 4 years before the Allegro!

Does it really matter, given the speed limiters can be easily overridden? VAG have not stated, like others, that their marques will be limited to 111mph, have they? Up to date info in AT

Have you got a dealer to check the pipeline for cancelled orders?

I paid £20.5k retail for our March 2016 L&K 280 nearly two years ago. It had 19k and it now has 31. It’s an ex. Briskodian car, which meant I had complete faith in it straight away. He got 18k when he traded it in. It was originally priced at £22k. It’s now worth £23k trade. Yep. Prices are completely nuts.

I can only think the cost of a DSG clutch pack would be somewhat more than a manual box and likewise, the DMF.

Exactly what I was quoted by Lookers in Guildford when our 280 went nuts while we were away in July last year. The dash lit up and no ABS, cruise, blind spot etc. etc. Oh and a three week wait to see it… or five if I wanted (err, NEEDED) a now chargeable courtesy car. Then called a respected VAG Indy who was much closer, who said they were certain it’d be a wheel sensor, probably rear and they could see the car on Monday (this was Sat). I asked about a courtesy car and they said sorry, but I’d have to wait… til Tuesday! Needless to say they got and will continue to get my business from now on. Oh, they didn’t charge for the diagnostics either. P.S. Lookers also kindly told me they’d reduce the cost of a service by 10%, but only if …. wait for it…. I got the camBELT changed at the same time!! Stars, er?

Personally, I find some model facelifts exactly that; an attempted improvement which is obvious and which can be a failure. The originality of the design gets broken and it looks well, wrong y’know, a bit like adding a spoiler to a car, something which was never in the original designers eye. The radical, sleek MK1 Ford Capri vs the disastrous MK1.5, the gorgeous Lancia Beta that became the appalling Trevi and the already terrible Allegro which, if it was actually possible, became even worse with the MK2. I’m not saying the facelift Superb is as bad as these, but the chrome bar cross the hatchback back and light clusters and the big, incorrectly angled fog lamps in the ugly front bumper to me, just look wrong.

Really? Be nice to have a play if it can be done on a March 16 model. I have VCDS, so do you know the codings (straightforwardly please as I’m a bit of a twit!) Thanks in advance! 😂

Yep, an L&K 280 is a rare car. GLWTS. You could ask the dealer to check and see if there are any order cancellations in the pipe? Anyway, I’m not sure if any of the L&K MY have memory passenger seats, ours certainly doesn’t. You can add “easy entry/exit” to the seats with an adaptation with VCDS. Ventilated seats were an option which ours has… and it has a TV, was was standard but only on 4Q15/1Q16 cars. 🙄 Once you’ve played around with the dampers, you’ll probably end up leaving it on the one you like! Never liked sunroofs; it’s just another thing to go wrong and leak. Early cars only had 3 colour ambient lighting. No idea if that can be changed to offer more or change the three one has. And NOT having the parking ticket holder is a deal breaker on the Arteon for me!

I’d think the likelihood of rust settling-in after a few days exposure is pretty remote. In my case the weather was bone dry in 2019 and I appled the underseal the following day. The underside is covered in underseal and where I slapped it on there was absolutely no difference in colour or texture.

I used the Hammerite underseal with waxoyl. A small tin, which I’m sure is all you’ll need, was about a fiver I think. Bought it from Amazon IIRC. A lump came off the jacking point when I lifted the car to remove the alloys.

Just interested. Why are you replacing the OE Monroes with Koni dampers; are they more effective/give more adaptations? What’s the issue with the silicate bag in the tank - braking-down and leaking/ blocking the galleries etc.?

I’m guessing if you can configure an L&K you can order one. In my experience, most of the kids who work in dealers these days don’t even know left from right, let alone anything to do with accuracy of information.

Great news.

Great stuff.. I daren’t ask, but I hope you’ve had no issues with FUE?

And it’s more comfortable, more practical, almost as quick (literally less than a blink of an eye to 60) and just as well built… what’s not to like?

Front and rears?

Blimey - no posts on here for more than 6 months?!? Well, our lovely 280 is having a nice long rest in the garden, after I had a syncope incident on my first day back at work September; I then lost my licence for 6 months. They initially thought I might have had a stroke, so I was rushed by ambulance to the Stroke Unit at St George’s Hospital to but thank Gawd it wasn’t. I’ve had many, many tests, heart CT’s, MRI’s, a tilt-table test and finally, I’ve had a permanent heart monitor embedded in my chest in December. It automatically notifies the cardio team at the hospital if I have a cardiac problem. The good news it that I haven’t had a further episode so fingers crossed, I hope to have the licence back early March. Unless you’ve been here, you have no idea what an impact not being able to drive has on one personally, the family and, in my case, on not being able to undertake my part-time job too. But it’s the pleasure of driving the car I really miss, so make the most of your 280/272 every single time you get into it. Happy New Year everyone..👍🏻

Any more work done on the old girl, Michal?

MODS… PLEASE MARK AS SOLD

Having had a remapped MKII 170 giving 220bhp which could give 55mpg, I can assure anyone making the switch they will not be disappointed with a bog-standard 280…

On our 2016 280, circa 26-27 urban and about 38 average on an 800 mile round trip to Ireland earlier this year. These are real MPG’s calculated on brim to brim refills.

A pair of gloves, heated if really needed, would be somewhat cheaper.

Are any of these better than the original discs? I recall reading the Brembos from ECP are rubbish…. allegedly.

All I’d like, is to be able to get my service history on “something”, given none of the crap Skoda apps work with my old banger…