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Looks like it's the instrument cluster. Arse!

02 1.4Mpi 8 valve, 44 k owned from new, maintained religiously.. Couple of years ago we had the coolant light flashing, which went out when the engine warmed up a little and after a restart. Changed the header tank which was quite dirty, all OK for last two years. Now a similar but slightly different problem. As before no coolant loss, level OK, coolant nice and clean, engine running fine, temp gauge steady at mid point when running. As engine warms up and gets close to temperature, say gauge registering ~ 1/4~1/3 the coolant light starts flashing and the fuel gauge within a second or so drops to zero. Have googled and searched on this site, seen a few others have had a similar situation but not seen any pointers as to the solution. From memory, aren't there two sensors which have to read the same and if discrepancy that's when you get a warning light, or am I thinking of another vehicle altogether? And why the connection with the fuel gauge? Any pointers highly appreciated as it's been a cracker of a runabout and second car. Apart from consumables very little needed to be done. Front console bushes about the biggest non consumable job, done just this year. Cheers.

Personally do not like that brown interior, there is a link near the bottom of page 2 in this thread of that exact vehicle 2.0TSI L and K. At first glance the L/K package looks OK as it includes some options that nicely round off the Elegance. But the way Skoda have implemented that brown! shudder Personally I would suggest Elegance with some carefully selected options.

100E with vacuum wipers, please send one express order of memory bleach. Continuing BOF mode Still on Fords, the original Z cars Zephyr, 3 speed column change, with non syncro first, the nervous tension going for a clean change down to first whilst climbing Hard Knott. Sixpence - half a crown moment. Yes I am an old fart, but no bus pass yet. I may have to grow old but I don't have to grow up.

Also a technique on classics that if the engine is running hot to open the windows and put the heater on full welly to try and keep a lid on things. That definitely saved me in an old 105E stuck in London traffic.

I feel a tremor in the Force, Obi-Wan Kenobi must be close. Begging your pardon sorr! To be honest, you are welcome to the title, just on that one page there are about 12 or 13 sets of amendments and corrections to just revision 6 of the regulation 48 lighting regs. Personally I just CBA to flip backwards and forwards through them all, including all the sub referenced other directives. Then there is the added bonus present of what regulations apply in respect of modified vehicles, which is often where RVLR kicks in as fas as UK is concerned. So if you want to do that then study away obi-wan. The force be with you. oh yes Bobdog, you can hang that big wooden spoon back on the kitchen wall now.

Ahem, point of order Mr Chairman. Being a total pedant, whilst the RVLR regulations as linked by Llanigraham can be interpreted to deal with DRLs, to be factually and legally correct the regulations which cover this are embodied in the alignment of Directive 76/756/EEC with UN/ECE Regulation No 48 Rec 6 and all it's various revisions and corrections. For those with too much time on their hands they are held together on this page To save people without too much time on their hands the specific text reads on page 73. 6.19.7. Electrical connections 6.19.7.1. The daytime running lamps shall be switched ON automatically when the device which starts and/or stops the engine is in a position which makes it possible for the engine to operate. However, daytime running lamps may remain OFF while the automatic transmission control is in the park or neutral position, while the parking brake is applied or after the propulsion system is activated but the vehicle was not set in motion for the first time. The daytime running lamps shall switch OFF automatically when the front fog lamps or headlamps are switched ON, except when the latter are used to give intermittent luminous warnings at short intervals. / Furthermore, the lamps referred to in paragraph 5.11. are not switched ON when the daytime running lamps are switched ON. 6.19.7.2.If the distance between the front direction-indicator lamp and the daytime running lamp is equal or less than 40 mm, the electrical connections of the daytime running lamp on the relevant side of the vehicle may be such that either: (a) It is switched OFF; or (b ) Its luminous intensity is reduced during the entire period (both ON and OFF cycle) of activation of a front direction-indicator lamp. 6.19.7.3. If a direction-indicator lamp is reciprocally incorporated with a daytime running lamp, the electrical connections of the daytime running lamp on the relevant side of the vehicle shall be such that the daytime running lamp is switched OFF during the entire period (both ON and OFF cycle) of activation of the direction-indicator lamp. Re earlier post about 400mm, can see that the EU regs overwrite the RVLR regs and make the distance from edge of vehicle 600mm so gues Yeti conforms with that. This is just another bit of legislation where UK legislaton is totally superceded by EC legislation, and furthermore basically has not kept up with technology. For example the EC legislation deals with issues such as AFS systems, cornering lamps and so on. HTH

Do the Yeti running lights meet the lateral position requirement for front position lights? ie within 400mm? Nobbut just if so, says he without measuring.

I had a rapid deflation of one of my winters last year, a stone or something nipped off the valve and so pretty much instantaneous flat rear tyre. I was just accelerating away from some lights had got up to 60 when heard it go, fortunately an entrance ahead so stopped pretty much immediately, ~100m absolute max. Tyre still stuffed. A TPM would not have saved it, and probably given false security to carry on a bit further rather like the OP. So imo for those of us who look after our cars with regular pressure checks daily, or minimum 3 times a week, the TPM is perhaps a bit of a luxury, but for the great unwashed who don't check anything hardly ever it is probably a benefit. If you get a rapid deflation, by and large you are stuffed either way, TPM or not. Reference to great unwashed, all present company excepted obviously.

They are LED, about 550 gbp each lamp though. http://hella-online.code-x.de/uploads/anhaenge/225_1/J00227_KurzInfo_Luminator_LED_GB.pdf The report where the test was done is in Swedish but the charts of light output and spread are fairly illuminating. (ouch) http://www.vibilagare.se/sites/default/files/vibilagare/documents/test_extra_ljus_2011_01.pdf Basically the report shows those named in red are products new to market, the ones in black are market leaders in sales volume. Test covers different light sources named under Glödlampa, halogen bulbs eg H1, H3, H7, H11, then Xenon HID D1S, and LED "tre lysdioder." The normal light measurements were done and then mounted on the Yeti for a real life comparison. Quote "And when the LED came on our Skoda Yeti, which is equipped with xenon in the mid-and high beam (BiXenon), there was a mild shock to discover that the little of xenon light that appeared on the main beam is perceived as yellowish compared to LED lamp's bright white light." The conclusion seems to be a bit strange and confused to me. One the one hand some truckers and some Northern taxi and couriers are using auxiliary HIDs now, and of course rally cars too. But there is the problem that the typical life of 3000 hours is reduced by the constant stop starts due to dipping. The article starts off arguing that the life of the LEDS should be good for 20,000 hours, and thus whilst the initial capital cost, at the moment is barmy, the overall operating cost for long distance very heavy users maybe at a stretch is offset over many miles. All fair enough but in my opinion you have to be very long distance driver to need more output than you can get even with just a pair of lights spreading out over the verges and picking up wildlife and unlit cyclists. Which seems to be the final conclusion of the article, ie a couple of cheap short range lights, and only if you are trucker in the North, or maybe rallying, and if you really must ahve more light then go for a cheap Strand Kiruna xenon for a very intense braod beam, even so 150 quid plus per lamp. If anyone wants an English translation can PM.

Yes agreed that this plate behind the number plate solution does leave the lights hanging out well in front. This shot shows a couple of Hella Luminator LED Spots on the front of the test Yeti.

Graham, kept meaning to mail you to find out how you'd gone on with that 2st plate from Mekonomen. Anyway there is a more expensive solution here http://www.qpax.se/shop/?artnr=Q900175 with some mounting instructions and an exploded parts diagram here http://qpax.e-butik.se/FTP/pdf/93082.pdf 3570 sek though ~350 gbp Now 3 lights or 2? The belief that are only legal when fitted in even numbers is, as discussed a year ago, completely incorrect, but is a common belief. See RVLR Part II 18 Obligatory lamps and 20 Optional lamps. also Schedule 5 parts I and II http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/schedule/5/made It's true that obligatory main beam lights have to be fitted in matched pairs, however for optional main beam lamps, which covers auxiliaries, then Part II of schedule 5 applies. SCHEDULE 5 PART II Requirements relating to optional main-beam headlamps Any number may be fitted and the only requirements prescribed by these Regulations in respect of any which are fitted are those specified in paragraphs 7, 10 and 12(a) of Part I and, in the case of a motor vehicle first used on or after 1st April 1991, paragraph 5 of Part I. Those referenced paragraphs cover as follows para 5 Required Approval markings Para 7 Colour white or yellow Para 10 Electrical connections– (a) Every main-beam headlamp shall be so constructed that the light emitted therefrom– (i)can be deflected at the will of the driver to become a dipped beam, or (ii)can be extinguished by the operation of a device which at the same time either– (A)causes the lamp to emit a dipped beam, or (B)causes another lamp to emit a dipped beam. (b ) Where a matched pair of main-beam headlamps is fitted they shall be capable of being switched on and off simultaneously and not otherwise. And finally 12a)Every main-beam headlamp shall be so constructed that the direction of the beam of light emitted therefrom can be adjusted whilst the vehicle is stationary. NOTE!!! Para 12 b ) does NOT apply to optional main beam headlamps. 12 b)Except in the case of a bus first used before 1st October 1969, where two main-beam headlamps are required to be fitted they shall form a matched pair.

The brown would be OK if you didn't get the oases of brown splodged into deserts of grey and black. Example the shot of the dashboard showing the gearlever. It's rather like the new ivory seats but only with black carpet combo where there is that black area up the B pillar behind the front seats. Just completely misses the target, problem is the volume of sales won't justify a completely different set of coloured plastic trim. They'd have done better, imho, to equip the L&K with really top notch upholstery and carpeting. Unfortunately that would mean they accept the inference that the Elegance leather and carpets leave something to be desired when viewed completely dispassionately cf the luxury sector.

Well I ordered first week Sept, Greenline Elegance with a few extras, originally it was due March(ish) but very soon delivery came into January. Arrived at dealer last week, unfortunately as per my "Goodbye" thread, order was cancelled.

Not on a Superb but 17" Pirelli 7000 or Goodyear Efficient grip to 16" with near as dammit similar rolling radii Michelin X-Ice or Conti WinterContact TS830 has given me about better 4-6mpg on winters, despite the colder weather, greater use lights, heater, heated seats, wipers, heated screen etc etc. Measured brim to brim style as opposed to relying on computer. That's on two different vehicles too, one manual, one auto. The Michelins showed a bigger delta improvement cf the Contis.

Less than a month to go to the delivery of the new Superb Elegance Greenline in Amethyst and... well it won't be coming to me, order may even be cancelled. Work, major major unplanned direction change, without going into details just can't afford to refuse the offer. So not joining the Superb ranks, gut reaction involves a bad word beginning with b and rhyming with rugger. Ah well, let's see what next year brings, sad about the Superb, happy about the other stuff.

I too am waiting for my Greenline in Amethyst Purple too. As mentioned on other threads whilst in theory could have had a 140 DSG 4x4 or even stretched to a 170, just not prepared to stomach the BIK tax due to the higher emissions. Have driven a few vehicles with 1.6 diesels and have found that the six speeders tend to be a bit fussy compared to the Skoda 5 speed. Not sure quite why, but it seemed to be a far more relaxed drive whereas in a Volvo DrivE for example seemed to be forever shifting gear, plus needing to rev. Caught out in the wrong gear far more often than the Skoda, which seems counter intuitive somewhat.

Don't think you'll find many V6 as company cars, dread to think what the BIK will be.

This ^^^For example, some people have problems with projector headlights using filament bulbs and put ever increasing wattage bulbs in. I have fallen into the same trap, when what is needed are bulbs with very precisely located filaments. Obviously if you can find correctly aligned filaments coupled with higher power you are onto a winner but they can be difficult to find in my experience, by which time you've spent the money.

Those Sirius wheels look like the Vicenza that is a cost option on the Passat SE / Sport. That grill would be a complete deal killer for me on that package. Though it seems a rather good value, and the brown leather seats might not be so bad.

Had a greenline estate as a rental for a week on top of a test drive before ordering. There was no issue on the motorway including some quite significant climbs at 130kph, but it was only one up. Getting to a two lane section behind a truck going at 100kph, no real issue to squeeze on the gas and go. The only time I found it struggling was in some moments at a roundabout; approaching you are preparing to stop but looking to go, as you get to the line, there is a clear gap in the circuit so you plant it. To get the instant go you have to be in exactly the correct gear, whereas in such vehicles with large unstressed engines, eg Volvo D5, you just plant it and go, almost regardless of gear. If you are in too high a gear in the Greenline when you press the pedal there is a pause while it gathers pace rather than accelerates, and then it kicks in and goes. Hope I've explained it OK. In the end it was easy to adjust the driving style to avoid and I've ordered a Greenline Estate.

The Greenline Estate that I rented a few weeks back had the sharkfin missing. There was simply a small rectangular bit of metal(?) that looked like a mount for something. The Bolero radio worked fine, it didn't have sat nav, which tends to support Gizmo68's post.

Inner city plus 50k mile per year it has to be 140CR with DSG surely? Only slight question mark would be how the DPF will react to all inner city driving, but must be capable of coping with that?

Electronic Counter Measures!!! Roads really are a battlefield then!! Seriously though, cripes. Warranty one hopes.

I'm getting more excited, order placed second week September, expected it to be Feb or maybe March, told it will be here early December. Might not pick it up until 2nd half Dec due to overseas travel; but another confirmation that Greenlines are being shipped out.