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This problem has been around since the advent of the Bolero. Back in early 2010 there was a huge thread about it. The problem is NOT related to the speed of the SD card it's related to the way the Bolero scans and indexes all the songs on the card each time it starts up. In my testing there is no appreciable difference between a class 4 and class 10 card with the same songs and same directory structure. There was a member here who wrote a small computer program that optimised the directory structure on the card to the best way for the Bolero to understand. From memory it was something like 8 directories deep with all the top directories empty and all the songs in the bottom one. Don't quote me on that but if anybody wants to search the archives I'm sure that they will find both the thread and the software links if they still exist. As far as the software update for the Bolero is concerned I would love it if somebody could post a definitive link. I have asked about this every time my car has been in for service and every time they have told me (here in Australia) that they have looked on the computer and that no software update is available.

Nobody is confusing Australia with Austria are they. ;-) Those brake settings may well be available within the programing of Australian vehicles but as I said in the first post anybody who implemented them in Australia would effectively make their car unroadworthy and risk at the least being fined. I have never read about these settings on the Australian Skoda forum.

I know I'm a little late to this thread but I thought I'd give an owners view of the X10. I have had mine for nearly 12 months. I'll start by saying that like every Fuji camera the X10 is a nearly but not quite product. It has some great features and on it's day will produce stunning photos but it like all Fuji cameras has some quirks and some downsides. Like many I brought mine because of the retro looks, the solid build and the image quality. It's a supplement for my Nikon DSLRs as my carry everywhere camera and as such I wanted a zoom lens (counted the X100 out) and being a DSLR user the optical viewfinder was a huge plus. So lets go with the positives. In the right conditions (see below) picture quality is excellent. The camera handles great and feels solid and nice to use The mechanical zoom ring on the lens is way better than the electric adjustment on most p&s cameras. I find battery life to be more than acceptable and spare batteries are so cheap it's laughable The TTL on board flash produces great images for a camera of this size. Terrific metering I can fire my Nikon flashes in manual mode on the on board hot shoe or as optical slaves from the on board flash. The in camera panorama mode is fantastic. For a point and shoot size and style camera high iso images are very good making low light shooting possible. They aren't DSLR quality but they are way better than most similar cameras. I can use a circa 1970s cable release (that's fun but is a bonus not a feature) The negatives The optical viewfinder is a waste of space and no owners I know regularly use it. It's disappointing. There is no information overlay and it only covers a maximum of 85% of the image size and the centre focus point is not the centre of the viewfinder and varies depending on how much zoom you are using. The menu system is typical Fuji quirky and not at all intuitive The "orbs" issue. My camera is currently at Fuji getting a new sensor under warranty that will hopefully resolve the orbs issue which essentially makes it impossible to take reasonable photos with any bright light like street lights at night, car headlights or even bright sun reflections. Manual focus is rubbish. Don't bother. I would have to include cost here. The camera is expensive for what you get but in my case I was happy to pay the price.

There was recently a now locked thread that claimed the following; I just want to point out that this is NOT an Australian setting and blinking brake lights and auto on hazards when braking would make your vehicle unroadworthy in Australia meaning that you could potentially be fined and at a worst case have your vehicle taken of the road until it was made legal. We do get the optional MPH but that is nothing to do with Australian law and is in fact an EU requirement where vehicles sold in the EU must have the ability to display the "other" speed reading for when mainland European vehicles travel to the UK or vice versa. All new vehicles in Australia have had kph speedos since 1976 and most have no ability to display MPH in any form. I have been told that all RHD Skodas are built with this feature enabled just like they also have the ability to reverse the angle of the headlights for use on LHD roads. Again a feature we get that is useless to us.

Thanks. Hadn't thought off just taking the headlight out. I will try that first.

Well I guess nobody here knows how to take a front bumper off so thanks to the 59 people who have read the request so far but i'll keep searching elsewhere to find an answer,

I have to replace the os headlight washer assy on my 2010 model (update) VRS which means I assume that I will need to remove the front bumper cover. Does anybody have a pointer to a step by step guide or at least a schematic so I can work out where all the fasteners are? Thanks.

@daiking Truthfully when was the last time you took 250 photos in a session and does your car not have a power socket that you can plug a USB charger into? If you want to carry 2kg plus of Nikon DSLR and glass like I do to sports events and take 1500 photos in a couple of hours then buy a 2kg pro or semi pro camera with the appropriate battery capacity but when you said you wanted something small and light for a couple of hundred pounds then you immediately discounted those sorts of cameras. My Fuji X10 also only takes around 250 shots per battery charge but guess what? For 12 pounds I purchased TWO extra batteries and now I have a 750 shot capacity without having to recharge and I still have a small and light package. To be honest I have never come vaguely close to needing to change the battery in any day anyway. the only reason I have the extras is to save me taking a charger on multi day motorcycle rides.

Olympus E-P3 or E-PL3. Why? low cost (E-PL3 especially) small size / light weight great image quality fast focus speed in body vibration reduction (keeps cost of lenses down and means even old legacy SLRr and DSLR lenses with adapters have vibration reduction) great out of camera images huge range of lenses and growing daily (you can also get adapters that will allow you to fit virtually any lens on the market if you want) lots of accessories (cases, bags, flashes, viewfinders, etc) The E-P3 has slightly more user adjustable features and an in built flash but the E-PL3 comes with an accessory flash and has a swivel screen. The E-PL3 is cheaper. Have a look at a twin lens kit if it is in your budget or else start with the 14-42 kit lens and go from there. DO NOT buy the Panasonic equivalent of theses cameras. No in camera VR and their jpeg engine ruins details compared to the Olympus (I own three Panasonic cameras I speak from experience) Despite what some DSLR snobs will tell you these are not toy cameras and the results that can be achived with them are outsanding BUT they have a size and convenience factor that no DSLR can match. Remember the old adage, "The best camera to use is the one you have with you". You will take a m4/3 way, way more places than a DSLR because even an entrey level DSLR has a pro look and is intimidating to many people in many situations. Just to let you know where I am I am a Nikon tragic who carries 8 or 9 kg or roughly Aus$10,000.00 worth of DSLR and lenses most places I go including motorcyle rides but I have recently purchased a small Fuji X10 (not suitable for what you want) and I have had a revalation. It's the closest thing to a regilous experience I have had since I was a teenager and discovered girls.

Is it a SDHC compatible card reader and do you have a USB 2.0 cable?

While I was waiting (about 6.50 am yesterday) and when it did Both are made up of 7 shots megred in NIK HDR Efex Pro.

And I wasn't. I was simply saying that if the OP has a decent camera in his phone then for holiday happy snaps it will be more than adequate in most circumstances taking into account the limited budget. What I know but you may not is that with the exchange rate flucutations and economic changes over recent years Australia is now a very expensive place for UK residents to visit. The days of the cheap 3 month summer back packing holiday in Australia for UK students are well and truly over. If the OP is on a restricted budget that limits him to only a couple of hundred pounds for a bottom end camera with a plastic lens, so so flash, poor response and very limited low light performance then saving that money till he gets here and sees the lay of the land may be a good thing to do. When he gets here there are plenty of places to buy cameras at all sorts of prices for inexpensive through to Leica money and if he is going to be here a year or two then getting a camera a month or even more after he arrives won't make diddly squat difference to having purchased one in the UK anyway..

Depends how old your phone is. The latest batch (less than a year or so old) of Apples and Androids have absolutely excellent optics and image processing.

Some shots from the OMCC practice Trial at Three Bridges today #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 The rest of the photos (52) are here for anybody interested.

You budget is too low for a current model camera. Save your money and take a phone camera in the short term and when you have enough money buy something like a Canon S100.

I'm not sure whether they have Vinduro in the UK but essentially it's a non competitive Enduro ride for pre 1985 bikes (and mostly pre 1985 riders as well). This last weekend (29 January) the first Vinduro of the season was held at a place called Castella near Melbourne. It was hot - 35C+ and very dusty. The loop was 8km and two riders managed 17 laps each. Just for interest the location was completely burnt out in the Feb 2009 bush fires that claimed some 200 lives. If you look at the trees in the background you will see that many are still covered in charcoal. So here are the shots. Nothing like a good PE See what I mean about dust. This was 50 metres after the start Going up At the top Going down The kids playing on the special test MX loop and coming to the checkpoint at the end of the 8km lap The rest of the photos (190 in all) are here if anybody wants to have a look.

I have a RHD.

It's a Huntsman spider. In real life he was medium size and about 4 1/2 inches across his legs. They look scary but they are harmless. There is about 15 km between when the two photos were taken one was just after I left home and noticed him and the other is when we got to the cafe we were going to for lunch. I just used a small piece of cardboard under his legs to get him out of the car then flicked him into the grass. I would have used my hands if i could have got at him easy but he was right behind the instrument binnacle almost against the glass. The can move very, very quickly if you surprise them so thrashing at them will only cause them to go hide inside the dash or somewhere else.

Is this fixable under warranty?

Irfanview is free and will batch watermark images as well as perform a multitude of other useful tasks. Every PC should have it installed.

My Fiscon Plus (connected to a Bolero in a vRS) has just stopped working. It was working fine this morning and now it's as if it is not installed. Touching the phone button on the Bolero just mutes the radio. There is no menu option for the Phone in the MFD and the Bluetooth on the phone can't find anything to pair with. My questions are; Is it likely to be something as simple as a fuse or a power input wire that has come loose? Is it possible that the car has just lost the Fiscon for some reason and a VCD is required just to reprogram the car? Has anybody seen this before with a Fiscon (i.e. is it a known "feature")? I'm not overly worried the unit is under warranty I just don't want to have to drive for 2 hours to the dealer and back if it's something as simple as a fuse. Thanks.

Unless you are out of control going up the big hill with the loose rocks or you need to get off and push your bike up the same hill or worse you need a spectator to help you push your bike or even worse you are stuck in the mud around the back where the only spectator there all day has a Nikon and is not afraid to use it but if your dad is taking you on laps of the paddock behind the pits everything is peaches Full slide show (86 images) here for anybody interested.

Thanks I've been using it for several years and it comes in very handy at times.

Don't forget to take into account the crop factor of your sensor. which is near enough 1.5x (420/3)x2=280 so I'm guessing that you were using a zoom lens (70-300?) at 280mm. Another program that will give you the EXIF info but is way more useful than Opanda is Irfanview. If you use Firefox you can also download an EXIF plug in that allows you to right click on any image on the web and select "View link EXIF data". You will see any EXIF data that is still associated with the image. I see that you are using CS5 as well. I assume that you do know that you can view the EXIF from within CS5.