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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.
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17 minutes ago, Aspman said:
That's what insurance is for. Critical illness cover would pay out in those circumstances so you can quit and do what you want while you can.
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.
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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?
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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.
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I keep a small aide-memoire printed out on an index card and tucked under the strap on the driver's sun visor. Any time I need reminding - especially when I've just changed tyres - I can just flip the sun visor down and there they are. The kph speeds are as indicated on the MFD. These figures have been checked vs GPS. The red percentages show the error between indicated and actual:
225/50R17
70 mph = 119 kph 5.6%60 mph = 102 kph 5.6%50 mph = 86 kph 6.8%40 mph = 69 kph 7.2%30 mph = 53 kph 9.8%205/55R1670 mph = 125 kph 10.9%60 mph = 108 kph 11.8%50 mph = 90 kph 11.8%40 mph = 72 kph 11.8%30 mph = 55 kph 13.9%20 mph = 38 kph 18.0%This suggests that my car's speedo is technically illegal when I have my winter tyres fitted. Hmm...(I have recently installed a NextBase dashcam which displays speed measured by GPS, so the card is now basically redundant.)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.
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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.
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Hold pressure on the brake pedal and start the engine, if the pedal does not drop, the servo isn't working correctly.
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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.
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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?
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My MK3 Octavia has heated front screen, heated washer nozzles and heated front seats.
I've fitted all of those to my Ford Sierra
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It's not a MOT issue, at the worst it'll just get an advisory.
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Pull the bellows back on the a post and look at the yellow plug, chances are you'll find a broken wire to it.
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It will also show --- when on the over run as no fuel is injected and you can't divide by 0.
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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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Just file the pins a little and they'll fit.
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The life of a clutch is quite dependent on how the vehicle is driven, I've seen a clutch burnt out on a 1200 mile car on a 7 mile trip. You can't warrant against poor driving or abuse of the vehicle.
Clutch defects can be caused by other components which will be covered under the warranty, clutch slipping due to a faulty oil seal and oil contamination will be covered, as will the operating mechanism, the only down side is in the oil contamination case, the cause wouldn't be known until the gear box is removed, which if it was a burnt out clutch would leave you with a bill for labour and a car in bits.
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So Skoda can't supply the part and VW can, that's how it works. At TPS you don't have such constraints as you can order parts from all the VW brands. Try ordering a front caliper piston for a VW Caddy pick up, VW can only supply the complete caliper, whereas Skoda can supply a separate piston for the Felicia pick up, which was built on the same production line as the VW, only differing in the badges that were fitted.
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Odometer readings can be corrected by the testing station within a few days of the paperwork being issued, after that it can't be done by the testing station. The certificate does state that the details should be checked by you so that mistakes such as incorrect odometer readings can be quickly rectified.
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The Passats with the motors protected by plastic covers that crack and allow the water in, which in a way is good news if you're a repairing garage.
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Check the fluid level first, then check to see that the sensor is giving a plausible reading as the steering wheel is turned. If it was the pump, you may get a warning light or errors in other control units reporting communications problems with the steering. If the power steering completely fails, they are very hard work to drive.
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We've had success with Cat a Clean, plus getting the cat needs get really hot.
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Also if you want to get rid of the selector lever and all wheel drive faults, which is equipment that your car doesn't have, refresh the gateway coding as in recode it with exactly the same coding it has now.
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Assuming this is the Tees mk60 problem there is a repair kit available from Skoda for about £180. IIRC replacement does not require bleeding the system.
Your shouldn't handle any differently unless you do something that would normally make the esp kick in.
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The repair kit is basically the ABS unit without the electronic control unit attached to it. This requires removing the ABS unit from the car and splitting the hydraulic system, so it will require bleeding.
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I work in IT, it shouldn't take to much to get a developer to fix this bug given that the longer it goes on the more MOT's they are going to have to re-issue.
That sounds a lot like common sense to me, the DVSA don't seem to do that too well. The testers have had no formal training or instruction on how to use the system and they've suspended all the refresher training. Post dating of certificates has been automatic since computerisation in 2005, the testers have no control over it.
It was a nightmare when we first switched over to it, we were had writing the MOTs on photocopied certificates.
vauxhall at-6 six speed automatic transmission (new)
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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.