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  1. My gut feeling,-walk away. I would not buy any VAG car affected by the emissions recall if they've had it done. Far too many horror stories on all the forums. I run a Scout and I've declined to have the 'fix' done.
  2. Your clinical approach to this question implies a touching faith in the accuracy of the pressure gauges that motorists commonly encounter. Most reasonably priced pressure gauges will have a degree of inaccuracy so without using an expensive industry standard device how can we say with any degree or certainty what we've got in the tyres?
  3. Yes, being a pensioner I chose my cars carefully and expect to keep them for about 10 years or until they become unreliable. So a set of winter wheels and tyres are a good option for me. I service it as much as I can myself and can still crawl underneath for oil changes, disc and pad replacements etc. I'm not into pimping it and its as ugly as sin with the black steelies, (now a wee bit rusty) and no hubcaps, but if push comes to shove with the harsh weather we can get here in the Highlands, I'm as confident as one can be that I'll get from A to B. Oil, I change every 10K. regardless. I'm thinking after reading previous posts I may well bung an extra 2 PSI in all round on the X Climates.
  4. Awayoffski. Forgive me, i'm losing the will to live here. No I haven't compared the two wheels side by side. One of the best cars I ever drove in snow was a Citroen Dyane on standard Michelin X tyres which today would probably be found on a mountain bike!
  5. I've no idea. I bought the steel rims and original winter tyres as a package from Mytyres as the winter option for my car. It drives well and I'm no Stig. There's obviously a speedo discrepancy which i address by running my Garmin and checking my speed with that shown on the speedo in those interminable stretches of roadworks governed by elapsed time numberplate recognition cameras. You can worry too much about these things. The tyres look underinflated with the pressures recommended by Skoda, but surely the whole point of winter tyres is that they grip well in cold temperatures. If that means an increased tread footprint, then so be it. My neighbour runs an Octavia 4X4 and he's on 15" alloy rims. He's on X Climates as well.
  6. Alloys are Continental Contisport Contact 3 225/50 R17 Steelies are Michelin X Climate 205/55 R 16
  7. I forgot to mention, steelies are 16" and original alloys are 17". In my experience 16" tyres are not as expensive as the larger size. A small saving to be made there. I use the same bolts. I seem to remember that while driving the bargain with the salesman I insisted on a full size (16") spare wheel. Which I've never used. If you carefully and selectively scan eBay for part worn winter tyres there are bargains to be had, usually from well-heeled skiers who keep them for their winter holidays. Sometimes they just change their vehicles and the tyres are surplus to requirements.
  8. Just to clear up any confusion, I have steelies for winter and the original alloys for summer, 8 wheels in all. i have plenty of storage space. My alloys are pretty much pristine after 6 years. My steelies are a disgrace. i would rather have outright winter tyres, but like others here got a good deal on X Climate, and maybe bought into the hype also. I gave them a go. They're only tyres after all!
  9. This is the second winter for my Cross Climates now. I still have them on my steel rims and change from the alloys in November and back in April. I've had no problems on my Scout. They seem to be wearing ok but I'm not obsessive about that. Not had any snow to test them.
  10. UK motorists file class-action suit against VW. Its started!
  11. I would be REALLY interested for you to post details of how you complete this project when you install the wireless controller>
  12. Fitted them on my Scout about three months ago. No problems so far.
  13. http://xbb.nu/pdf/SYSTEMDESCRIPTION_XBB-LIGHTSWITCH_EN-20131022-5.pdf
  14. I researched this quite a lot recently, and it seems we are just not geared up for this sort of thing here in UK, unlike Scandinavia. Check out the link I sent Lapik which is a Swedish website. As I said, all Halfords-type shops in Sweden and Finland have all the bits for conventional wiring. The link I sent Lapik has three or four further links in it which have some great gizmos for connecting via canbus. Not cheap though. Don't even think of buying anything from Norway!!
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