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Ooh yeah - my bad ; couldn't see it for love nor errr.... money 🙄 Gaz

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Hello and welcome Rocky Gaz

Mrs Gaz just told me she thinks she's scratched her reversing camera. On going out to check, I don't think it is scratched, just that it's got muck between the lens and plastic cover: I can see, looking online that it's a clip-in unit with no (apparent) screws. What I can't see, nor find the answer to, is whether I can just yank it out, or if I need to get to the other side of the bumper to release the locking tabs. Anyone know which it is please? I have wondered if I can just pop out the round clear plastic lens cover to clean it, but I know my luck if it try. I'm quite happy to buy a new camera if it's a sealed unit, but it's working fine, save for the blurry image. Ta Gaz

Hello Billy Welcome to Brisky. Gaz

Hello and welcome Dave Good shout on getting a wheel rather than the will it/won't it? repair kit. Gaz

Hello Mattia We drove down to Northern Italy just before the first Covid lockdown. Staying at Madonna Di Campiglio, Salo and Bergamo. Also went to Lonato, where my Wife's Grandfather came from. Beautiful part of the world 😎 I got a ticket for driving down a road I wasn't supposed to in Bergamo Alta Gaz

If the red one had been a DSG, I could've been very interested. I've been following him for a long time now, and enjoy his video's. I keep competing for cars too, but he keeps ignoring me - dunno what I've done! 🙄 G

No such thing as registration any more, or being a 'registered' disabled person. There were registers, which came about as part of the Disabled Persons Employment Act of 1944. This required Local Authorities (in England - can't vouch for Scotland) to maintain a register of disabled people in that LA area. This is where the old Green Card system came from that you mention. I was 'lucky' enough to have started work when 'reserved employment' was a thing - I could've been a lift operator or car park attendant 🙄. Registering was not mandatory, and the registers themselves were wildly inaccurate (often having 5% or less of those registerable). Without an 'I am not disabled' register, it was recognised that having a register was discriminatory in itself, and the relevant Act(s) were repealed when the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 came in 1996. Registration continued to be recognised until 2001, but is no longer. Curiously, a number of Local Authorities still maintain a register (of disabled people, not disabled 'driver's), when there's no expectation or requirement to do so (there are some people who continue to want their disabled person's 'card'). Gaz

Bonjour et bienvenue Anacoth Gaz

Yep The car immediately before my first Skoda was a 9-5 HOT Aero in Cosmic blue 😎 It was the first car I'd owned that had my Dad saying 'Jeeeeessuuzzz!!' as we blew off the cobwebs. Gaz

He's a tad under 6'5" - like me 😁 (Although I was 6'5" 25 years ago, just not now). I was going to suggest an F Type. Thinking about Harry, his Project 7 (or 8 ) might be interesting. Not exactly wafters though. I used to hanker for a 928 S4 GTS, but the last time I drove a 928, the soundtrack was very 'waftable', but I realised I'd gotten over the hankering. What about a classic Rolls? Gaz

Yes. DQ200 seven speed dry clutch (provided it's a DSG). Gaz

Looks like we have the beginnings of a Brisky prowl 🦁 G

As well as having individual light switches, my (albeit 2018) Golf has a separate switch in the overhead binnacle which stops the internal lights from coming on - as in, in the way you describe. Not just switched off are they? Gaz

Well it's certainly got the phwarrr 😎 factor! G

Winter plumage on then 😁 Welcome back Gaz

Are your brake lights still on when the accelerator is unresponsive? I'm just wondering if it's a faulty brake light switch. I had a Passat where the accelerator went completely dead. It turned out that the accelerator was functioning correctly, but the brake light switch was switching it off due to an internal fault. Gaz

You can count me in that group. I recently pulled in to a Blue Badge bay at Sainsbury's, only to have a bloke shaking his head at me. As I got out the car he commented that BB bays were for 'the disabled' (his words). As I got my walking stick out and hobbled off I simply said 'Yep'. He said 'Oh, sorry mate!' and his wife/partner/other gave him a clip around the ear 😁 Anyways, my car of the day has got to be my next door but one neighbour's 2007 Peugeot 307 HDi. Bought eight or so years ago at 132,000 miles, now at 229,000 miles, still on it's original clutch, doesn't miss a beat, lost 5th gear several years back, but doesn't make a song and dance about it. I've just gone to grab a photo of it and he's gone out, so I'll snap it later for posterity as he's planning to change it very soon (I've told him he's mad to and should really be aiming at 300k). Gaz

Mrs Gaz has a 2015 Polo GTI with the DQ200 seven speed dry clutch DSG, and it's been faultless in the five years we've owned it. As @Gerrycan mentions, the oil spec. issues were a long time ago, and our DQ200 would appear to be after that timeframe. Mrs Gaz previously drove manual cars, but since having a DSG now wouldn't go back to a manual. I've driven autos for 42 years and the DQ250 six speed wet clutch DSG's I've had in my previous vRS, and current GTI are as good as any i've owned or driven. In my experience, I don't get any delay when pulling away. Ours are both off like scalded cats. I think it's a case of getting used to the stop-start and auto hold and having the car ready to go - I tend to twitch the steering wheel, which fires the engine back up, when I see a gap coming up. Agree with Gerrycan that you really ought to try both before deciding. If you're not used to a DSG, then you probably should go for an extended test drive to get a bit more familiar with them. Gaz

Just out of interest, we've got these: https://www.police-supplies.co.uk/resqme-rescue-tool Like @avi4tor I hope to never have to use them, but for the sake of a few quid... Gaz

You're getting in a car just to get back out again?? And I thought I led an exciting life! G

Both me and Mrs Gaz have locked each other in our cars too. Not intentionally at all, we're just used to locking our cars as we walk away from them. Mrs Gaz has left me in her car, asked me if I want her to leave her key in the ignition, to which I reply yes, she then takes the key and walks off with it. It's just habitual. I'm wise to it now and if I'm staying in her car I open the door and leave it ajar. Gaz

So let me get this straight, travelling at 20mph it's going to take me longer to get somewhere than if I was doing 30mph? Glad I was sitting down for that revelation 🙄 On some Motorways I've found myself able to hit the dizzy echelons of 70mph at certain times. G

I went to central London about 20 years ago for a training course (Press and media relations ) and on a whim took my pushbike. The freedom of movement was exhilarating, as it was quite like riding around a car park with cars shuffling along a bit every now and then. Even going up to East Sheen recently I took my folding bike, and going from East Sheen to Richmond I was leaving Lambo's, Ferrari's and Bugatti's for dead - it was almost embarrassing 😁 G