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Hate Eggnog! LOL!

Thanks for the quick reply both! I've got a Class 10 SD Card so hopefully, leaving the head on its going to be OK - I'll open and close the door during the process. Otherwise it'd be stick it in the garden and leave the ignition job on I guess.

Not if you cut their legs off. Drastic but efficient... An adult managed to destroy one of the B Piller mounted ones in our MKII - I was not happy. Apparently "It just fell to bits!" he said....

I'm updating the maps for the first time today. Will the MIB continue to update with the ignition off and the car locked? I don't really want to hang around minding the car for six(?) hours!

I posted this on the other thread… AjhflyerWe had huge water ingress issues on our MKI Focus, with water gathering in the wheel well and the underlay was all wet on the os of the car and water in the footwells. We had the car in a main dealer about 5 years ago, who stripped the scuttle, plenum chamber and removed the OS wheel arch liner; they couldn’t find anything and I was £450 lighter. Time went on, with the car soaking in the winter and dryish in the summer. In November last year I took it to a small local independent who found the issue in 10 minutes. The seam joint where the boot cross member joins the lower scuttle had split in two places. Water running down the body and behind the bumper cover, which hides this joint of course, entered these gaps, soaking the boot carpets which, in turn, then dripped into the wheel well. This now soaking carpet, which goes behind the rear seats, soaked the interior carpets but, as they’re waterproofed, the underlay became saturated but the carpets remained dry; there was an inch of water in the rear and front footwells. Anyway, they dried the carpets and underlay, sealed the joints and voila - no more water. Worth a check.

I wonder if this is something that can be done on all controllers, or just that specific “J” controller?

@AjhflyerWe had huge water ingress issues on our MKI Focus, with water gathering in the wheel well and the underlay was all wet on the os of the car and water in the footwells. We had the car in a main dealer about 5 years ago, who stripped the scuttle, plenum chamber and removed the OS wheel arch liner; they couldn’t find anything and I was £450 lighter. Time went on, with the car soaking in the winter and dryish in the summer. In November last year I took it to a small local independent who found the issue in 10 minutes. The seam joint where the boot cross member joins the lower scuttle had split in two places. Water running down the body and behind the bumper cover, which hides this joint of course, entered these gaps, soaking the boot carpets which, in turn, then dripped into the wheel well. This now soaking carpet, which goes behind the rear seats, soaked the interior carpets but, as they’re waterproofed, the underlay became saturated but the carpets remained dry; there was an inch of water in the rear and front footwells. Anyway, they dried the carpets and underlay, sealed the joints and voila - no more water. Worth a check.

Perfect, thank you Mario; I really appreciate it.

Cheers mate. Can you explain the tap into the O2?

Is that 330bhp at the wheels, Mario? Did you install the JB4? If so, how was it?

Not for me but good on you; nicely done!

Thanks again MartiniB. Bought and replaced. Thankfully SUK had one in stock; it only took about 20mins to dismantle and reassemble. 👍🏻

Re the trim no, nothing will work I’m afraid, other than replacing the trim. On the glove box door, unfortunately the textured plastic has been damaged and again, nothing will bring it back to an original look.

Both rubber mallet and loosening-up the wheel nuts work, with the latter being much less effort.

Yep, it reacts quickly. I was approaching a blackstuff gang earlier today, travelling toward it quickly and even before I smelt it, the recirc came on. It’s kicked-in with smoke and diesel too. No idea about slurry spreading though!

“...but you do imply that the a/c switches in and out of recirc. It doesn’t.” It may not on a 2002 Octavia TDi110, but it does on a 2016 Superb L&K. I quote from page 122 of the owners handbook... ”If a considerable increase in concentration of pollutants is recognised by the air quality sensor, recirculated air mode will temporarily be switched on. When the pollutant concentration decreases to the normal level, the recircula- ted air mode is automatically switched off.“

Seriously, I suggest you read a post properly before you start hitting a keyboard in a misguided response. Please highlight where I said I keep recirc “permanently on”? BTW, I think it was something like doing 6 impossible things but I don’t understand the analogy with this and THG anyway.

Hmmmm, but I never have the windows open, always have AC on and the filtration system will switch on the recirc if needed, all of which will keep most grot out of the cabin.

No, the new battery doesn’t need “coding”; ours was replaced with a new, higher rated unit by the RAC two weeks ago after the OE one - which was five years old - was dead.

...breathing in all that lovely pollution... Ahhh... I’m pleased to see the 1960’s are as alive ‘n’ well in South Wales as they are in Ireland....

Personally I wouldn’t buy a Superb with a sunroof due to the potential for it to leak now or in the future; seems inevitable that it will. Also, the fact is you might actually only use it 2-3 times per annum. My wife has an electric sunroof on her runout MKI 2003 2.0L Focus and she never uses it, except to dump air from the inside of the car when it’s hot, but you can just drop the windows on the Superb to do the same thing; the Focus does same too BTW. And yes, it has leaked, just once about 10 years ago which I fixed. But what I really dislike is they’re sooo noisy when they’re open. I understand that some people like them but given the climate ventilation system on the MKIII is, well, superb, so the use of sunroofs are all but irrelevant these days.

Well, that’s utter boll@#ks, if ever I heard it!

Thanks MartiniB. I’d rather stay original, so would you be able to sell me your original, or give me some help to dismantle the unit?

Thanks again langers2k.

Brilliant, thanks langers2k. I expect dismantling will be.. ermmmm... interesting!?