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@Carlston thank you for helping our community. I just get a bit twitchy when I see it happen randomly. in context makes sense.

I am beginning to think that too. Turing test time

It does appear out of character for @Carlston previous posts. All posts bar the odd one in the swedish members area should ideally be in english. TY.

Despite buying the current superb in '19, KI am really. thinking of swapping. Partly as it's not doing anything and I'm certain once I can get out and enjoy the drive to pastures afar I'll fall back in love again. A electric compact car would suit me perfectly, then a tranny van for fun further afield. I almost did the tranny van, but opted for the superb for a stint, then go full mobile hobo.

Shame you can't unplug his cable, plug an extension lead in and carry on charging on his tab I'm sure that might accelerate his behaviour. Assuming it's a he.

Peter, I've popped this into the Roomster forum as it' wasn't a guide. I can't recall from my roomster if it was a belt or chain... 2 ticks... Nope can't see from my crib sheet. Hopefully someone who knows which end of the car to look at will be along shortly

@Kenrw8 I'm begining to fear this might be a 2022 thing. In another club, we had a memorial meet pegged for last year, we've postponed it again this year. That is also in May, although in Scotland. I'm glad they have a refund/credit option, a covid warranty. Club code is: DHF_21_RY75DP9 See word doc attached, but summary is this: CLUB BOOKING IF YOU ARE BRINGING A DISPLAY CAR CLUB TICKET BOOKING DEADLINE FOR THOSE BRINGING A DISPLAY CAR: 5pm Sunday April 25th 2021 ORDER ONLINE 1) Go to: www.msv.com/DHFdisplay 2) Select our club from the list shown and click on its name. If you already have an MSV account, login. Otherwise, create an account. You’ll then be presented with a page showing the conditions for displaying a vehicle - click the box at the bottom to say that you agree, then you’ll be taken to a page that asks ‘who are you displaying with?’ Select ‘With a club’ then select our club name from the list that appears and press ‘Continue’ 3) Select the day or days that you wish to attend (Saturday, Sunday or both) and press ‘Continue’ 4) CAR DETAILS: Add the details of the vehicle/s you will be bringing to display on the club stand. 5) TICKET SELECTION: IMPORTANT - the online club ordering system automatically puts one combined adult driver entry ticket/display vehicle parking pass for your chosen day/days into your shopping basket before you get to the ticket selection area. This ticket gives entry to both the driver and their car. So, when you get to ticket selection, please only select any passenger entry tickets that you may need. In the shopping basket you will see any additional tickets you have chosen showing as entry tickets and your combined driver entry ticket/parking pass will show as a vehicle display pass (shown at the price for an entry ticket). The tickets will automatically be discounted by 50% so you don’t need to enter a club code. Bear in mind display cars must be there early, and can't leave during the day. Then as per above, post event, those on stand get the driver/car ticket back, via some mechanism. WordDoc: 2021 club booking procedure.docx

This maybe if some use, inspiration. https://alpkit.com/blogs/deeds/maf-running

Welcome. https://search.briskoda.net/ Will be your best friend for specific hunts. What the youtube channel? Always good to know how some panel or another might be bolted/fitted. Odd how modern cars are more modular than ever, but so much harder to do anything on... or are they?

Also out and about in the hills. A bit late to this, so only for future reference Honestly the best thing for lanes and alike is a small city car. You can squeeze onto the smallest of passing places in soctland and similar gateways in the lakes when the bus and camper vans approach. The worst thing about the superb is parking. Just have to skip a fair few otherwise available spots. I've countered this by getting up earlier. If you're keeping it till it dies, then bumpers etc can be used as bumpers. Otherwise go for a few more 'toys'. The octavia isn't far off in overall capacity. I do have to tell myself I cant' carry all this stuff so why am I taking it With the citigo, it was easy, which rucsac and I putting in the boot

The tdi I had was faultless bar one dpf fail. RAC could not force it road side, so had to make slow progress home. Next morning it was clear and running fine. If you can do the odd long run... and not use it for short shop trips, or if you do go the long way home. I don't think it will clog. I was doing about 40miles per day each way, for me the clog was after a week in ireland and it popped up just as I rolled of the ferry in anglesey, then went off then came back on at llandudno. Otherwise it did what it did and did it very well. The dpf is possibly less of a risk than timing chains but that number of owners is a concern, for me at least, but might be a good reason too, as in not something iffy.

If they are the same price and age then the tsi is overpriced or the tdi is underpriced. Given the tdi and dsg should of cost more out of the factory. The 6 owners... in 9 years, maybe not a call for concern. I'd be tempted to enquire/see the history on the tdi, if 3 owners in say last 18 months... run away I had a manual 4x4 tdi of that era, it was fine, even in heavy stop start traffic. Knowing what I know now, I wish I'd gotten the auto. But I'm not sure what the dsg of that era was like. In a way, a manual is at least a known quantity. But then you trade the 1.8tsi engine... one owner, full history, possibly a good bet. Not sure if either or both are from private or garage sellers. If the latter, I'd be tempted to go 1.8 manual. Are you towing or anything that might warrant the diesel torque?

So after writing most of December off.. I'm back November trees rounded up to 70 https://ecologi.com/briskoda?tree=5ff831dc688d7b001d42760e December trees bumped up to 100 for the christmas trees felled over the years: https://ecologi.com/briskoda?tree=5ff8321c13bddb001c55d94f 2tonnes of co 2 for each month aswell.

As above, not great to have oodles more grip on the front over the rear. Various resources on michelin/youtube to explain the physics behind it. I have minor niggles on having a brand new tyre on the left versus an old tyre on the left...you know this rolling radius differences, strain on the spinning bits... thats as technical as I get today. I've traditionally bitten the bullet and done both sides but rotated new tyres to rear for most grip at the back. I've not mixed tyres types, eg winter summer, I can't imagine that's going to go well, but it probably would... mechanically. TBH if less than 3mm I switch tyres. I also don't switch patterns, even that can lead to grip variances and problems in cornering, wet, slushy, aquaplane/grip levels varying. I'd either bite the bullet and swap all four to all season, or if space permitted, a spare set of winter/summer. TBH, unless you have to venture out in bad weather, or frequently head north, all seasons all year are going to be fine, ideal in summer when it rains hard too

Hi Nick, Those cheshire farm dogs I was welcomed by a wolf hound many years ago.... I was like 6 and it was odd looking up at a dog. I got back in the van PDQ. Sandbach was my old school Now as to scratches, umm, t-cut likewise only ever used on older solid colours, when they applied a decent thickness of paint too. I'm going to move this to styling/care as it's more likely to get a wiser pair of eyes than mine. Scratches after all are universal across all models.

Free Display Stand Offer Some more info on costs for the weekend and how the 'free bit works'. Tickets will be £21 per day, or £40 for the weekend. This covers car + driver on the stand. Additional tickets available for family, friends, public/non stand parking. For stand parking, briskoda will be covering the costs via a post event claimback (voucher or similar). Easier to organise than paying for 15/25empty spots. So those on stand will have to order and pay for a ticket, but then claim back. I'm only covering the driver and car on stand; children under 12 go free... I've initially said 15. I'm sure this can be modified. I've no idea how many would want to go, although this is a pretty sweet offer I think. I could do with a volunteer to be an on site contact/organiser for the weekend (1st/2nd May). We'll cover stand costs, or public parking if not on stand, hotel and food ( think premier inn not hilton & not drink I'm afraid ). Link to Club/Stand tickets available soon. Reply to subscribe and keep up to date on this event.

There isn't a restriction on age of car, so new and old are welcome. I'd probably spend longer looking at the capri than the mx5, but only as I had a 2.5 for a while.

Bulk update as I've missed a few... 2nd service on my '19, with the pandemic, hardly made more than a few thousand miles on it. Mentioned a creaking in the front suspension, speedbump, manouvering etc, noticeable more on lock. They removed and lubricated bits n bobs; service bulletin for superbs. Creaking almost eliminated. More-so if I recall the pre-power steering days of only turning while rolling. Fitted a superskoda boot lip protector; gloss black for sportline tie in; fitted when it was warmer <10min job. I already have a DIY boot protector in the form of an old wool blanket. I fold it out when I open the boot, and I put it back in on top of whatever I put in the boot. It's held in place by the boot tray and emergency triangle... makes for a nice warm thing to sit on after a walk. Would double up as warmth if I got stuck, I guess if the 4x4 truly failed me I could lay it down to get out of some mud... On thursday decided to go for a early morning walk, parked up in the 'wrong' layby, facing traffic on the right, about 20m before a blind corner. Excited to go for a walk it was only when I was on the hill it dawned on my that to pull out I'd have to drive the wrong way, with about 20m to the apex of a blind corner, on a 50mhp a road, "stupid boy" rang in my ears. The next layby is where I normally park, I was just half asleep. When I got back, I warmed the engine, while finishing my ribenna, nudged myself back and forth to get a good angle out; dam superminins parking really close boot to nose. Wound all the windows down, when only the sound of trees was heard, went for it. Given the layby was gravel/mud and the road wet, air temp was 0.0... I was happy to be out and across, happier still the 4x4 works I'd been worrying about that 'manoeuvrer' for 4hours while walking. Less happy at the muddy backside It has.

They won’t be. And the time to migrate will be more than the time they lost. Lid once the other service gets an influx, you hit the limit and have to pay... assuming it does not falter under a thundering herd of users. google has its place. I pay for a few services I could get from google for free... but what is free... I bet 99% of those stuck are free users. but t hi en we see google in June changing it’s free offering tiers anyway so free isn’t so free going forwards.

Yep Monday and last night well afternoon, it continued into the night. My phone got very tired of alerting me

hi all, you possibly had problems sending emails to gmail users yesterday and overnight. We certainly did I get a two emails for every failure as well. Here is a copy of a update from another mail provider. I personally switched to and use for BRISKODA internal mail. We send email via Amazon SES. start Starting at around 4:30PM New York (10:30PM Zurich), Gmail suffered a global outage. A catastrophic failure at Gmail is causing emails sent to Gmail to permanently fail and bounce back. The error message from Gmail is the following: 550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. This is a global issue, and it impacts all email providers trying to send email to Gmail, not just ProtonMail. Because Gmail is sending a permanent failure, our mail servers will not automatically retry sending these messages (this is standard practice at all email services for handling permanent failures). We are closely monitoring the situation. At this time, little can be done until Google fixes the problem. We recommend attempting to resend the messages to Gmail users when Google has fixed the problem. You can find the latest status from Google's status page: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=a8b67908fadee664c68c240ff9f529ab Best Regards, The ProtonMail Team P.S. You might also consider asking your contacts who are still using Gmail to switch to ProtonMail for more private communications —end i left the ps in as it is a good service and a handy one to have for private, encrypted emails eg sending bank details. while we’re here make sure your email password is very secure and not used on other sites

That from looks like something out of frogger. Something eating, hungry about it, Pokemon-esq id still have it over the bmw grill, which doubles up as a bbq grill.

@CJJE yes, we used to have some. I'd not thought about reordering them. The first batch of a few hundred took a while to go, but go they did. I've no idea who did t hem for us now it's been a few years. If you have a recommendation I can certainly look into it. The design we had was quite simple, I'd go for a better one this time around, open to suggestions on that front too

Welcome, never had a saab, but friends did... I sense what you're missing. I went from a 75hp citigo to a 272 superb, albeit via a v50T5 for a year. I don't need the 272, I wanted the new toys. I could of got the new toys and more from a very well discounted octavia. I was thinking of long drives to the alps and beyond, or up north to scotland. I got it for the radar cruise, i got it for the making progress moments. Possibly the worst reason, I got it because at that moment I could. If I'd waited another 2 months I'd still have the volvo and a van. SWMBO got some bad medical news, changed our perspectives. The superb's still out there and I am going to drive to the alps in her at least once The boot on the superb is perhaps, like the octavia, its trump card. at 600+ litres on the hatch, it can swallow up vast amounts of kit. MY friend has a 116 company, we get three folk in that with kit for a week climbing and you kind of live in the backseat with the bags. In the superb, it all goes in the boot. Just costs more on the fuel :( Although after 5hours of a walking pole sticking in your side, I'd pay that in a jiffy The DSG is, great. It has it's moments, but generally it's quicker and smoother than I ever could of hoped to be. I'm often reminded coming of a motorway or at a junction in SWMBO car, that it's not an automatic wondering why its not going anywhere or picking up and going. It is a 1.0 litre focus estate though, it takes a bit of waking up. I tend to have it in eco from customised profile, everythign else normal or sport, then when the moent presents itself requiring a bit more alertness from the box, tap it down to sport then back. But all said and done, I miss the citigo, it got me from a to b. I miss the citigo more leaving it, than I did the superb I left going into it, a remapped pd170 4x4 mkII superb. Power corrupts If you do go to test any of them with stop start, either turn that off, or if you don't want to wait for the cycle to wake up, eg roundabouts, gently move the wheel a fraction before your turn comes and it will all start up ready for you to get out of that situation. For me when testing the stop start cycle of the auto not being ready to go; you know when you put the car in first ready to go the clutch kicks the auto restart on, so it's ready. The dsg only has it when you tap the pedal to move... which I felt led to a few moments of omg no, this is going to hurt. Hence the steering wheel wobble trick