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  1. From what I've read the GM 6T40 is a torque converter gearbox. I've just got a 2017 Astra with the 6 speed auto and it drives like a torque convertor gearbox, hardly notice the gear changes and it certainly isn't as jerky or gear confused as some DSG cars that I have driven. in the engine bay, there is what I presume to be a gear box oil filler pipe. Vauxhall use another type of automatic, usually with the lower displacement engine, which is an automated manual.
  2. If a light comes on a fault will be recorded, if the light goes out on its own the fault will be there, but it will be downgraded to sporadic. The reason that the other dealers did not see a code is because it's extremely likely that Simpsons erased it. The code that they retrieved would have pointed them to the general area, which when looking, they found evidence of the cause being a non warrantable cause and advised you of the repair costs. Why did you go to all the trouble of trawling around the dealers, when, presumably, the car drove all the way back from the South of France with no recurrence of the light coming on? Plugging into the car takes time, which costs money, so what did Simpsons charge for this?, also as there was no fault to be found afterwards, what did the other dealers charge you?, as certainly they would not have got paid to do it by Skoda.
  3. More by luck than advanced planning, when I took my mortgage out in 2001 I was advised to take a policy out on it, the cover of which diminishes with your mortgage - this has actually paid out, so I will be mortgage free shortly. As an added bonus it looks like my pension will be paying a lump sum on a few weeks. These were just things that appeared as regular entries on my bank statements, without me comprehending how useful they will be. I looked into the Personal Independence Payments (first time ever that i have attempted to claim a benefit) from the DWP. That has been accepted and they have declared me disabled with the higher rate of mobility allowance, I did inform them that I didn't meet their criteria for the higher rate, yet they phoned back to tell me that I did as they say that the treatment will affect me. I've now got a Motability car ordered and have had my Blue Badge application accepted. My employer is 100% behind me and I can have as much time off as I want. It would seem that the only limitations are my physical ability to do things and that my immune system will be very weak for weeks at a time after the Chemotherapy.
  4. The description for this forum is: 'Discuss the meaning of life, or looking for advice on an issue? Here you are taken seriously. No off topic!' I'm going to turn this on it's head a bit and ask what you would do if you were given a 6 to 12 month timescale on your impending demise?
  5. It looks like you're missing a fuse to the right of the bright yellow mini fuse, there are two contacts in that vacant fuse position.
  6. We had an Octavia Diesel in which had been fitted with a gearbox from a petrol model. A quick spin up the road and a play with VCDS to adjust the speedometer constant and it read within the permissible error limit.
  7. One of those articles mentions: The Skoda continued to accelerate and hit a top speed of 119mph, with the accelerator pedal pressed two-thirds of the way down, two seconds before the impact. The car hit the lorry at 94mph, with the accelerator fully off. That implies that it lost 25mph in two seconds, which contradicts what the driver reported.
  8. Hold pressure on the brake pedal and start the engine, if the pedal does not drop, the servo isn't working correctly.
  9. I had to drive a Yeti for 50 miles in reduced power mode once, there was no chance of me getting a speeding ticket and coincidentally enough the same applied to everyone stuck behind me. Nothing for me in 33 years of driving, which is a surprise as 30 years ago I wouldn't have given a second thought to driving at well over the speed limit.
  10. There seems to be a lot of discussion about the inaccuracy of pointing a speed measuring device at a moving object. Post #1 makes a reference to GPS as though it's the last word in accuracy, so how exactly does GPS take into account the extra distance driven in the vertical direction when it is based on a two dimensional system?
  11. I've fitted all of those to my Ford Sierra
  12. It's not a MOT issue, at the worst it'll just get an advisory.
  13. Pull the bellows back on the a post and look at the yellow plug, chances are you'll find a broken wire to it.
  14. It will also show --- when on the over run as no fuel is injected and you can't divide by 0.
  15. Whenever I test them, if I want to look at them closer I hold a sheet of white A4 paper up to them, the white bits shining through are more obvious. If you've ever been behind a car at night with a white flashing indicator, you'll know why there's a failure for them.
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