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@Xsr when is your next comedy show? If everything in the world was as reliable as a VW or a German Manufacturers Engine what a place the world would be... There was the Engineers Engineer Dr Martin Winterkorn heading VW & signing off the engines and vehicles. He was selectively deaf dumb and blind. Not so sure about how VW Group select their engineers, maybe they have to just take the blame. Eventually they will have sorted the Door Seals, Water Pumps & Tensioners when VW no longer produce ICE vehicles.

@Xsr I read your post of whom they are clearly for. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/482058-mahle-oil-filter-surprise

Many great sources of info are in the General Maintenance section and others from those in the Oil & Component Supplying Business. Sponsors and Members have given advice on Oils over the past decades.

@Xsr The filters like that are clearly suitable to be used by anyone doing an oil filter change. The Mahle filters i get at my local motor factors are the same as the Black VW Group ones as shown. The Silver VW Group ones are not the same as that.

@smokeyshiva From one of your posts you see to not be aware of Switchable maps.

Since Oil is a Coolant as well as a lubricant it is 'Simply Clever' to have the max quantity of the correct oil in for situations like towing over high alpine passes in high summer temperatures, or even just trucking about the UK. (As shown in the Owners Manuals.) Then the correct strength of Anti Freeze / Summer Coolant / Anti corrosion liquid in the Coolant System. * The check 'warm' is an error in this manual and others from Skoda.* It is Check at Operating Temperature or Normal Operating Temperature and even Check Hot in Audi, VW & SEAT owners manuals covering the same VW Group engines. Only the 1.2 44kW engines checked cold. these have only 2.8 litre oil capacity.

So it is on Variable / flexible servicing. It is up to you then if you want to leave it that long until it gets serviced, or maybe you could do things sooner. Looking in the Air Box to see the condition of the Air Filter might be an idea. Removing and cleaning the Pollen Filter or replacing might be worth doing. At least check if you have no record of when things were done and when. The Brake Fluid can be checked for H2o content if you are not going to be changing the fluid for another year. The Spark Plugs used to be replaced at 4 years / 40,000 miles (2nd Major Service). It might be an idea to replace them before the 60,000 mile interval that Skoda have started showing.

Someone will correct me if wrong but in the UK there were no Euro 6 Mk3 Fabia 1.4TDI 'Scout' estates sold. Maybe look at the pinned thread at the top of the Fabia Mk3 section about the Coolant 'Recall' because of overheating issues. Ones will have had the coolant changed and a water pump or 3 replaced.

Your should go to Barnard Castle maybe. I say Audis because in the Audi Capital of the UK for them being used as Taxis there are many with faulty lightlng. Even new ones on trade plates. I suppose if the Audi Aberdeen dealership can not be bothered sorting them then drivers can not bother going to fix them. This is not a BMW issue were the indicators might be faulty if you see them working.

@GMC92 The car still left the factory set on a Variable Service interval and set up as 'In Transit', Whoever accepted the car and did the PDI changed it to the Fixed Service interval. Be that done at a Distribution Centre or a Dealership, but it came into the UK set on Variable. PS Up until the last petrol Citogo arrived in the UK they were on Fixed Service interval settings when imported to the UK. They were the exception to the rule since around 2011, all others arrived on the 24 month / 18,000 -20,000 mile interval.

You would think that by now Audi would stop using them in poor applications and there would not be so many new cars with failed lights. Vorsprung Durch Technik.

TC / Traction Control / ASR / Anti Slip Regulation / XDS / XDS+ or any other term being OFF is not the same as the ESC / ESP being off. Not just front but also the rear. Electronic Stability Programme / Electronic Stability Control.

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Hire an Automatic Camper Van first and see which suits. There are places in Scotland & elsewhere in the UK that sell and rent and actually take the cost of hiring from the purchase price if you buy. https://www.highlandcampervans.com http://fantasticcampervans.co.uk http://bigtreecampervans.com Edit. Pity they have gone. They were very good. Park your car and drive away with good vans including Imported Petrol / LPG Automatics. http://wellhouseleisure.com

Yes you should be able to turn off the head lamps and side lights. or just the sidelights with the engine running, but then the DRL's will be on / stay on. (Daytime / Daylight running lights, front only)

^^^ Good idea. Or take up golf and keep the vehicles you have, and the apre-skiing is usually local to course. If guns / shooting are of interest get a Skoda and a Taxi licence. Actually you will mix with some that are frequently at the golfing or driving the big 4x4's. https://thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/4965436/glasgow-steven-jamieson-drugs-stevie-malcolm-taxi https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/taxi-tycoon-sues-fish-tank-makers-after-6m-flood-in-gleneagles-mansion

@KaroqHenry Sounds like a positive thing. Good cars with some Simply Clever features and proving to be really quite reliable. The Citroen that is! Easy in and out and not a SUV.

Just as well it has never been compulsory that anyone must drive certain style of vehicles. Well other than if a Forklift, Bus Driver, Train Driver, Road Roller Driver etc.

^^^ Nail on the head. & if they offer a Service Plan ask if that is one where Fixed Service Intervals are required or is it available with variable / flexible servicing. http://volkswagen.co.uk/owners/servicing/regimes

Light sensors sensor the light. Some person in some country has it so that your car thought that side / position lights and dipped headlights were the right lighting requires this morning even though it was not particularly dark. I drive with Sidelights in Daylight / Daytime conditions rather than DRL's, when it is sunrise or sunset i use Headlights, not Sidelights only.

@ahancox Sounds like the light switch might be faulty then. You will need to have an auto sparks or someone that knows about cars to look at it if you can not. Worth putting the posts about your Mk3 Fabia in the Fabia Mk3 section.

@john999boy@Aspman I thought it was about an invite to go to field sports / shooting and not dogging. Different dress codes, Hats, Waistcoats / gilets, waders or brogues/ boots / gaiters and no breaches. Different vehicles, rear hatches or drop down split tailgates.

@KaroqHenry When you get in the car next maybe worth calling up 'Servicing' in the cars info and see what your car says about the miles / days until the next service just incase at the PDI it was changed to Fixed Servicing without you being asked if you wanted it at that. 9,400 miles / 372 days, which ever comes soonest.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/481392-4x4-rear-propshaft-coupling-damper