Sanqhar

I always make sure to park any brand new car in the sun on purpose in order to 'cook' the paint. My cars certainly go nowhere near a commercial car wash in the first year. tom

December 2018 (MY19). 11,000 miles. tom

Just like when Garmin moved from Mapsource to Basecamp. Why? tom

Replaced under warranty. tom

Mine's booked in tomorrow to look at this. tom

Even weirder I use the individual setting with Eco mode and heavier steering. On restarting the Eco reverts to the normal Drive mode but the heavier steering remains. tom

It’s probably looking for a VW car. Same happened to me. When I used the Skoda software it recognised the VIN Ok. Tom

Properly set up with a powerful bike you don’t know the trailer is there. That's the risk. I have been within 30mph of the world land speed record for a bike towing a trailer, with the wife on the back and a fully laden trailer. I slowed with the wife yelling down the intercom and banging on my shoulders. That was a long time ago. Old age etc and the wife no longer riding pillion and me struggling to manhandle it around meant me selling it in 2016. I bought a 450cc CCM single at under half the weight, dropping 100bhp that keeps me biking, albeit solo. Apologies for the thread hijack. Tom

Yamaha FJR1300. More comfortable than my two previous BMWs (K75, R1100RT). Wife and I went camping with all the gear in a trailer. The bike didn't know the trailer was there. It was capable of highly illegal speeds. tom

I once bought a new 150bhp sports tourer motorbike without having a test ride. I had sat on a few, I knew it fitted me, it was comfortable and the price was right. It turned into the best bike I ever owned. tom

I'm happy. tom

Was in my dealer today for a routine service. The service guy knew about the problem and said the system just expects you to search using the address. tom

You can pay £100 an hour for a plumber nowadays! tom

I am under the impression that Skoda only issues map updates once a year around November. tom

Thanks, I didn't think of checking the iPhone settings. I checked my phone settings and the App setting for 'ALLOW LOCATION ACCESS' is "While using the App". I will change it to "Always" and see what happens. tom

Now I've got Connect Lite working I am quite pleased with it. One problem is that for an individual trip I get the data: 'Start mileage', 'End mileage', 'Distance', 'Average speed' and 'Maximum speed'. However the journey doesn't show on the map. All I get is the message. "Sorry, we do not have sufficient GPS data to display your trip in map view". I am doing short journeys. How do I turn the GPS on? In the settings on the App the GPS 'Recording of GPS data while driving' box is set, it just doesn't seem to do it. I haven't set the 'GPS for challenges'. tom

My MY19 has an elasticated hook on the underside of the boot floor. Another cost cutting exercise (like the removable torch). tom

Could be worse. A guy I worked with in the 80s scraped a wall on the way home from collecting his his brand new car. It had less than 15 miles on the clock. tom

I have always left my air con on summer and winter over various cars since 1996 (the first time I had a car with it fitted). tom

I keep my cars to the point of throwing them away and have never bothered with extended warranty. Whenever a sales person has pushed it, whether on a car or a washing machine, I always ask whether they are really saying that the car will break down in that time. I am not a betting person. I know an Actuary who works in the insurance industry and he would never buy an extended warranty. 190,000 miles on a petrol Passat estate (10 years). 140,000 miles on a diesel Passat estate (14 years) I only got rid of it because the Scrappage Scheme was too good to ignore. 109,000 miles on my diesel Yeti (9 years). I only part exchanged that because the 'fix' ruined it and my mileage was changing. Now with a 1.5 Tsi Sel DSG and my only (mild) regret is that it doesn't have that rugged look of the Yeti. A great car that gets regularly praised in the press. tom

Petrol cars warm up quicker than diesels. Diesel convert the power in the fuel more efficiently so less is wasted on heat. tom

On my Yeti I'm sure it was on a plate on the driver's side B pillar. Not checked the Karoq. tom

...but the sill jacking point is designed for that purpose. tom

A tip re using trolley jacks. Buy a rubber ice hockey puck and cut a slot in it to go over the sill seam jacking point. I had to also do some cut outs on the underside so it fitted the cup on the jack. Works a treat. tom

Found this: I have previously jumped through some of the hoops above including up to keying the number into the Amundsen. Still getting nowhere so I decided to delete the App from my phone and start again. This time the 'registration' went smoothly and it asked me for the BT code on the Data Plug (didn't do that before!). My phone has also remembered the login and password, didn't do that before either. I can see the battery voltage that I knew must be low because the Start/Stop hasn't cut in for months. Can't wait to drive the car and see what I get. tom