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@FrenchtoneDoes that allow you to Reset the OIl / Service / Inspection Service when it is set for Variable Servicing?

Damn cheap since through the books (+VAT) & if respraying the boot and an invisible repair /match. Still OK if a SMART repair IMO. If rust removed and spray in undetectable. Lots of 'If's'

Sounds like it is set on the Variable / Flexible service regime. 30,000 km / 24 months, so needs plugged in to reset. If set on Fixed Servicing at the last service, 9,400 miles / 15,000 km , 372 days you could reset from the drivers seat with the settings.

@GabboAUTOHOLD does not apply the e-brake / parking brake, AUTOHOLD when you press the brake pedal then remove your foot applies the brakes via actuators and holds the car at a stop. If there is not enough pressure / movement more brake pressure is applied. The Brake lights used to not be on with some VW Group cars, but for the last few years they are. Check see. Plenty other drivers have no idea the brake lights are on. Opening your door, taking off your seat belt, even going to N or P with some cars applies the e-brake / parking brake. Rear Brakes. P locks the front wheels with a pawl. ............... Look in Owners Manual and on dash. AUTOHOLD will show a GREEN Circle with a Foot. e-Brake / Parking RED. Auto - Stop / Start might be a switch light with A Orange Circle was an A. Lights on Stop / Start switch might be Amber, or Auto hold might be Anber, on a E-Brake should be RED, Some are Amber. Different strokes for different folks.

Have Stop / Start off, have Autohold on. ***The Brake lights are still on with Autohold active on your car.*** So no different from you there with foot on the brake pedal. Autohold has the front and rear brakes working unlike the e-Brake / parking which is just the rear brakes. PS As to ACC and starting the car, or following the car in front as it moves off, i have no idea.

If anyone has a link to a document or terms and conditions from the VW Group on how many uses of the Launch Control is allowable with a VW, Audi, Seat / Cupra, Skoda, Porsche, Lamborghini or Bentley please put them up. Not just some thing that some random dealership employee told someone and that was then in forums or social media. ? Is the limit of uses of the Launch Control by day, week, month, year or the life time of the vehicles warranty period? ? Is the limit over the 2 years in some EU / European Countries or 3 in the UK, 5 or 7 in Australia and whatever where ever.? ? Anything in the Owners Manual telling Owners how many they are limited to doing. ? Any notice behind the sun visor WARNING the drivers? ? Any counter visible to drivers saying they have used the allocation of Launch Controls they might have bought with their £25,000 plus vehicles? .............. Back in the day and still in 2023 Motoring Journalists, Bloggers / Vloggers and others talk about 'Claimed 0-60 mph.s They are arse over elbow and forgetting the 'Claimed figures' are 0-62 mph /100 kph. It is their timing devises that are recording 0-6-,s & some cars are damn slow getting that extra 2 mph.

It tells you how to open the trim to do that when in P and locked and how to unlock. As to just because you want to and not getting into the guts then no. You can park the car and leave it in N, and restart in N as long as it is not Minus 8 degrees Celcius or lower.

Have your spark plugs been looked at or replaced in recent times? Has the Air Filter been looked at and replaced in recent times? The filling stations have winter spec petrol on sale now and it is less hygroscopic. Is you car running petrol from recent fill up,s and is that E10 Unleaded in the tank?

I am surprised that i never see more articles on this type of action by the DVSA. I read it on AMonline about AET Motorsports in Wakefield. "Had been openly advertising illegal alterations to vehicles likely to be used on the road." notably decat exhaust systems and noise generating ECU remaps. 'The Unit's investigators then engaged then engaged AET Motorsports to carry out those modifications on Ford Fiesta ST. etc etc. I will try linking the article later, Or someone can maybe do that please. Plenty coverage comes up on the story if you look. http://evo.co.uk/news/206327/aftermarket-pop-and-bang-exhausts-to-be-made-illegal

@Graham Butcher 1 x 50 kW DC with a 43kW AC tethered on the side, and next to it 1 charger with 2 x 7kW ports. Just the same as the other newer charger in town 1/4 of a mile away. http://boydbrothers.co.uk Installer of choice or no choice.., they put in the charger hub near the A90 and the new chargers in town. Angus Council. https://connected-energy.co.uk/case-studies/dundee-city-council-and-swarco Hit or miss. I sometimes get a 52 kW from it. 3 1/2 years ago it was out of service for months just because the catch on the door was broken and the SWARCO maintenance blamed vandals which it was not. Then one trolled me on ZapMap and Plugshare. Very low temperatures it was not starting, and that was a real PITA. For a Year Charge Place Scotland had its location on the map as 1/2 a mile away and i told them weekly and asked since the Maintenance Manager was often at the charger could they not just confirm the location instead of me directing people to it. But then their HQ is 1/2 a mile from Broughty Ferry yet the Broughty Ferry Charging hub showed for a years as at GlenFord & the Council Yard at the North of Forfar. Incompetence. But i tell them that regularly. & i used to tell Angus Council Councillors and the Convenor but i have given up now on that.

I did not need a charge just exercising the dog in the park. So 1 hour & 17 minutes on the 50 kW charger for the van to get 33 kWh and to 96%. As long as it does not sit much longer when it goes slower than 11 kW and stops other getting on it. A few drivers were passing to check. That is the Telephone Exchange across the road. (Dundee has the Maximum Charge time just right IMO. 40 & 45 minute maximum is not long enough when the 50 kW chargers are crap.) Angus Council has no Maximum Charging time.

Interested to hear the answer from those in the know. ? What is the ambient temperature where you are, and had the car been running just in EV mode before being stopped / parked? ? Is it because the cars 12 volt battery is getting low?

Jacked the car up, got the wheel trim off from behind plate, got the studs out, wheel off, clamp off wheel, wheel on and tightened up, wheel trim on. Clamp was gone when i looked 20 minutes ago, missed seeing it being collected or pinched. I can see where the van is parked now off the Kings Highway.

Just spotted a guy removing the clamp himself on a van across the road from me. Watching to see where he puts the clamp. They will not just let that go. EDIT. Left the Clamp against the fence and took a picture and now putting the van 'Off the road'.

My experience is that when pretty cold and a Rapid charger / 50 kWh is playing up, maybe started but slow or cutting out then getting on a 7 kw / 11 kw AC can be a God send, even if just to get you enough into te battery to another Rapid or to where you want to be going. (Single charger issue in Scotland, even at hubs with a few Rapids that might be out of Order or blocked by muppets that could not care less about others, even when there are overstay penalties. The cold / below freezing temps are not affecting my battery noticeably with the MINI electric as it did with the Corsa Electric. It is the temperature chosen for the interior and with the MINI the heated seat on is not affecting the high power battery and neither is the heated rear screen. The AC if needed to be demisting does have an affect but while not raining or snowing i can have the sun roof up a bit or the windows cracked open. Not an option is sitting charging in the rain or snow and sitting in the car but the fan and AC can be on then. Not as good as these were in the Corsa when sitting in and then i had wind deflectors which were really necessary to keep a dry interior for when going to be parked up in the coldest weather. I am on All Season tyres and would not run on anything else other than full snow tyres if i need to. Range does not matter if you are stuck or can not get into EV chargers where the bay is deep with snow or iced up. * Frozen Water, not a ICE Vehicle blocking it.* ............ First Vid. Running in GREEN mode not Mid or Sport and with Full Regen. Must feels like a slug and i will only try that setting with Cruise Control on and it makes a few miles difference and you are maybe better off, Green + would be OK as well apart from the Heating / AC is disabled, top speed limited and the 5 or so extra miles might be critical with it in Cruise Control. I get peed off though and go back into Sport, low regen and get the same miles and power used and do not have any traffic including HGV,s having to pass me. If i need to hypermile better get behind one and really get some range.

If it was done properly there should be no sign of work done. I was a car sprayer. So a measurement of the paint helps. But that can just show that after the production line there was maybe a Factory repair or from an 'In transit' incident and Kerb Side Autos did a job at a dealership. No records of such. Anyway, this is now & the Paint Warranty is gone. The Corrosion warranty not relevant. So maybe talk with a Mobile Painter / Man-Woman with a van, or a Body Shop. Not an Insurance Repair so maybe a 'nudge and a wink', No VAT. (Only fools and horses,# theme song'.)

The Body shop or painter you get to repair / paint it can check and see if that is the factory paint or there has already been work done there.

@LeeThat is the first Open Reach EV i have seen. It is the British Gas ones that are a real PITA for taking up chargers and staying a long time.

@Graham Butcher Could be. I will go with the Telephone Exchange being across the road though. The van did need charged though. Not going to pay 75 pence at InstaVolt are they!

The 'Estimator' will be using a programme on the computer to come up with a cost. You finding a cheaper way makes no difference if you are claiming off your insurance. Get a settlement and buy it back & repair it cheaply if you think you can. EDIT / PS. I see your post now. That would need money to buy it back and repair. So however it goes it costs or you get paid out by the insurer. Best start finding figures for replacements and dont accept the offer they give if stupid, which it will be. I take it you are not at fault and the person hitting you was and their insurers need to be 'Quoting you happy'.

@Graham ButcherI appreciate they are workers and likely not away have lunch. The none electric vans sit outside my house several times a day and at times a van or 3 as some poor sod works in all weathers hunched next to a green box on the street corner. It is the Companies that need to get with the flow. The van when charging was only at 22% and getting 39kW from the 50kW charger. These vans can charge at 100 kW. It is the need for chargers suitable for business users and the general public that is the issue & Forfar does have a couple of council rapids in town and a few on the outer limit and InstaVolt have 2 hardly ever used due to the cost compared to the Council Chargers @ 41 pence a kWh. It is a National Issue, and a 4 Nations issue. I read something today on the Fleet News down grading of 'who ever' on the expected number of EV,s in how ever many years. The Governments are at it. COP 28 now. Cop ing out of actually splashing cash to get the businesses building their own facilities.

@Leewhat i can do for Open Reach and their 'The People that make the network' & Driving 100% Electric is let them been seen on Social Media as not giving a toss about other EV drivers. If they want to use Electric Vans then maybe have them use the Commercial Chargers in the town, but then that is not 100 yards from the BT Telephone Exchange. ? Do Open Reach staff have to go to such places?

A clear sign that an Open Reach employee charging a Vauxhall electric van should have the My Vauxhall app on his mobile phone and pay attention if putting on a charger and heading off and be aware if the charge has stopped.

Forget Cyber Monday, It is Happy Clamper day in Forfar. Lots of cars and vans been done today.