John757

Hi, I've got a 2007 Octavia and I'm wanting to connect another bit of rubber hose to the existing washer hose. The only problem is the existing washer hose is corrugated and feels like plastic? My plan was to use an ordinary barbed hose connector but I'm not sure if this will work given it is plastic. The connector is some sort of Skoda quick fit connector, is there anything which will plug straight in to that? Reason for all of this is I'm trying to plumb in a Heatshot which I've had laying around for a while now. Any help would be grateful. I'll try to get a picture up of the hose soon.

Thanks guys. It turned out to be one of the clips on the gear cable which had popped off. Garage put a new one on in around 5 mins for me.

Hi All, Just had a new clutch and DMF fitted last week. All has been fine until I took it out this evening. When I went to select 2nd gear, it didn't feel normal. When you select the gears, you can normally feel it go into each gear. Now 2nd and 4th gear don't, it almost feels as though the stick won't go far enough, but with a bit of teasing it will engage the gear, albeit the stick doesn't feel in the right place. 1st 3rd 5th and reverse (so all gears where the stick is pushed forwards) feel normal and goes into gear without issue. I've done about 150 miles since the clutch/DMF change and it's just suddenly started this. Any ideas what could be wrong?

I've got a heatshot which heats the screen wash. To move the scuttle panel upwards is it still necessary to remove the wipers? All I need to do is access the jets and plumb in the heatshot as close to them as possible. The wiring just goes back to the battery, so no issues there.

Thanks.

Very tempted. Anybody know how much space there is in the rear seats? I would be upgrading from a Fabia Estate, need a bigger car as we're soon to have another baby and will need to fit 2 car seats in the back. Trouble is im 6'3 so need my seat really far back. This could be perfect though if theres a little extra leg room? Could you get a pictures of the front and back seats with the drivers seat as far back as possible?

Are you sure it's taking up double the space? I don't see why double twist would duplicate the data. They should both see the music on the internal/external memory and just use it from there. Certainly never seen any app do this before. If you had 1 song, both the Samsung and double twist apps would use that one song, neither would make a second copy to duplicate it. Hope this helps?

I didn't focus on the negatives, I weighed it up between my personal pros and cons. While imo there are more pros to the nexus 4 than cons, for me the cons were more important than the pro's. I'm not saying it's not a nice phone Grizzle and I agree that when you look at the price it is a great bit of kit. My concern with the glass, for myself personally is that the next phone I was to get would be kept for around 2 years as my daily. I'm fairly certain in this 2 years I would drop it and end up with a mess. Yes I believe the iphone 4s did use the same glass exterior, which didn't end up to well, i have friends who will vouch for that lol. Another part that put me off was lack of physical buttons and having virtual buttons taking up space on the screen. After considering this the only real upgrade from the s2 would be speed/updates as the screen size would be the same almost. As for the size of the note 2, I have hands like shovels, so doesn't really bother me. I understand it may be too big for some, but then they won't buy it so who cares? It's made and filled a niche market and so far ruling it. They said the galaxy s2 was huge when that came out, the nexus 4 is bigger, yet people don't bat an eyelid. To me my note 2 feels normal now and an s3 feels small and like a toy. It's an easy size to live with, pretty much all reviews say the same. For myself I use the phone for the Internet nearly all the time as I don't get chance to sit at a computer with the baby around, the screen size really helps! At the end of the day all current phones are amazing at what they can do, but everyone has different needs. It would be pretty crap if they were all made of the same materials and same dimensions.

Generally you won't need to turn ASR off when you have winter tyres. As others have said it doesn't trigger very often on the Fabia with winters on. If your in deep snow doing a standing start though, I'd turn it off. The reason being, I'd start in 2nd gear and you don't want ASR potentially killing revs when starting in 2nd. Either way, get some good tyres and you won't really have a problem until it starts going above the bumper in my experience. Drive to the conditions and have fun in the snow Can't wait for more snow!!

Just got a galaxy note 2 last week it's brilliant! Big screen but definitely not big enough to be a problem. It make galaxy s3's feel and look small in comparison. I was going to hold out for the nexus 4 also buy the thermal throttling put me off a little, what's the point in having such a fast phone when it gets so hot it has to cut the speed. Possibly not an issue now, but when games get more intensive it could rear its head. Wasn't keen on all the reviews about the glass breaking and getting hair line fractures either. Roll on the next nexus phone for me, hopefully they'll make it with Motorola seeing as Google bought them. Could be epic!

Guys, Could anyone tell me where the screenwash hose runs through the engine bay? I'm looking to splice in a heated pump to heat the washer fluid as it squirts for winter. I can't see where it runs in the engine bay though? I need the front windows ones only, I couldn't trace the hose from the nozzles as it's covered up. Pictures welcome! Cheers.

We bought a fairly expensive travel system package for our little one and wish we'd never bothered. We happened to buy a second car seat for his nana so she could take him out, it was only 35 quid and was far better than the one in the travel system, much easier to use and much lighter and less bulky. It seems you pay through the nose and get less. Even the pram bugs the hell out of me after using a friends. My suggestion would be to look at all prams and car seats and pick and mix the best you find. We don't use isofix and the seat is solidly in using just the seat belt, no wobble. The base is something I wanted the most for ease of use, but there all ridiculously expensive and when you upgrade the seat when they get bigger you generally need a new base too. 6 months on and I don't see any real need for a base, strapping him in using the seat belt takes about a minute if that.

Tbh I'd expect to pay between 150-170. The tyres are more than past it, the sipes are almost none existent which are what makes the winter tyre. Just trying to help... probably have more luck n ebay.

Can you open the rear windows with them installed?

Your the one assuming 99% of the population don't need winter tyres, that makes you king of assumption.

So all your previous comments are based on living in Cornwall... Says it all really doesn't it lol you don't get proper snow very often, so no in your case it wouldn't be very beneficial. Go further up north, where we have real hills, real snow, then have a job thats critical to get to or small kids/babies, then it makes sense. Your not exactly helping the OP talking about something you know not a lot of. As for tyre sizes, there's a few handy tyre size calculators on the web to show how much your speedo will be out if you go above your current profile size. Generally the best size is a high profile 60+ as you have more flex in the tyre. Width is a double sided sword in my experience. I found a 195 better for braking and stopping as it has more surface area to build up snow in the tread and sipes. However I found a 185 to be better for standing starts up hills and going up steep hills in general due to placing more weight over a smaller contact patch, giving more traction. I'm sticking with 185's from now on as I have some pretty steep hills to climb and the trade off for braking isnt huge. Hope that kinda helps

Used to get this every now and again on rough roads under acceleration in my CZT. Try having 40 profile tyres and that noise gets a whole lot louder! Accelerating hard over pot holes = lots of noise. Great for scaring unsuspecting passengers lol just don't make a habit of it. I think a lot of the noise is tyre slap, makes a mighty bang. Check your alloys for any damage.

Dont use newspaper as a temporary measure. Just get a bin bag, cut it in half, get some clothes pegs and in the door pocket peg the bag on. Then just run the bag to the outside and close the door. Hey presto no more leaks at all! Ive left mine like this now, they've been sealed twice and still leak!

I'm using the SGSII at the moment, I've dabbled with the SGSIII that my collegue has and TBH I dont see it as a worthwhile upgrade. Speed differences are negligable for daily use. The screen is nice, but maybe a little big, even for me a 6'3ft guy with big hands. I'd love to see it in the hands of a smaller person. I am a big Android fan and love how powerful the system is, but I feel it's getting a little stale and boring. Hopefully when I flash a Jelly bean ROM that will change. The announcement of the Nokia Lumia 920 and Windows phone 8 look interesting. WP8 looks a very promising OS and the Lumia 920 equally promising hardware and design wise. Not sure if I can pry myself from Android though, it's so powerful, especially with apps like Tasker. Decisions Decisions!

As a year round solution they'd be ideal. If where you live you get a lot of snow, I'd be looking at a proper winter tyre, such as the Goodyear Ultragrip 8. The Vector4seasons are however siped, so shouldn't perform too badly in the slippy stuff. Don't expect them to perform like a winter tyre though. It depends how much tread is left also?

We put all ours stacked in the loft. Is that a possibilty?

Oh and I usually got 280-320 miles out of £55 of v power. Only 165 to tax a year too.

Mitsubishi Colt CZT 1.5 turbo. Cheap because hardly anyone knows about them. Pretty fast out of the box with 150bhp, 7-8 secs to 62. With a few breathing mods and a ecutek remap your looking at over 200 horses in quite a light car for today's standards. Google cztoc.

I had the same problem doing mine the other day. Like Brian said, pinch it and wiggle it up and down and left to right. It will eventually go in and it will scrape the plastic too inside the dash. I hit mine pretty hard on my last attempt and it sat flush.

Well, I've successfully installed the head unit, microphone and USB cable thanks to all the helpful comments on this thread. It was fairly straight forward with the right information. I placed the mic on the drivers side A pillar in the end. Not a wire to be seen either! Thanks for all the help guys!!!