Gaz

Think it's likely you haven't 'told' the car it's got a new battery. Gaz

An interesting perspective: Gaz

Dolomite Sprint in Tesco car park. Tesco's seems to be a good place for interesting and unusual cars (for me at least!): Gaz

Hastily taken through the windscreen shot of a 1975 Porsche, at sunset, Beachy Head last night: Would've got out and taken more/closer snaps, but he drove off the wrong way 🙄 Gaz

I think the wheels look great 👍😎 Five studs and six spokes?! OMG that's like an... an.... HP sauce bottle having four sides, but a round lid 😱 G

This little rose bush is only two years old, but already produces an astonishing number of blooms that are still too heavy for its branches - full marks for effort: Love-in-the-mist: And sat doing a bit of gardening, I got the unerring feeling that I was not alone: Gaz

Surely then no offence is being committed as the garage are not 'operating a taxi..', but driving in in relation to plying their trade of being a garage, rather than using it for hire or reward? Sounds daft to me that a garage can't do a reasonable test drive of a car they've worked on. Gaz

Awww, I miss my sprint yellow vRS Estate 😎 Nice to see - hardly ever see them. Gaz

It's a 230 - so a TSI, not a diesel. Am I missing something? My GTI shares pretty much the same 230 set up, and has two working tailpipes. Gaz

Most likely condensating water collecting inside the silencer. A good run and several hard accelerations (maybe uphill too), to slosh it out the hole at the back helped when mine started to gargle. Gaz

Shouldn’t you be playing early 1990’s music in it? 😀 Gaz

Hello Alpaca My first Skoda was a V6 Superb (albeit a Mk1 and a diseasel) - I similarly loved pootling around in it. Gaz

But.... but, without that dead ahead marker, how are you going to know which way is forwards? 😇 Cool car 😎 G

Black bumper cover suits it IMO 👍 Gaz

Hello Acoustic With the passenger door working okay, it kind of points towards a localised issue. It'd be worth checking diagnostics for fault codes, but I think my money would be on dry/cracked solder joints in the door lock control module. Gaz Not the same car, but gives you an idea: There used to be a really good video on YT, by a chap called Taligentx (I think), but I can't lay my hands on it.

It's okay - we don't judge on here 😁 I think the answer is as others have alluded to, but just a heads up that some VAG cars can appear dry inside, but the water can collect under the carpet, between the floor pan and (or in) the sound deadening. Mk1 Superb's were notorious for it - the car appeared dry, but could hide gallons (literally) in the footwells. My Octavia got a bit musty, once or twice. The Aircon Bomb Gammyleg suggested resolved it both times (albeit I used a Comma version). Gaz

Hello Dan My Wife bought a Polo when we were last looking, but we really liked the Citigo/Up/Mii. It was her choice in the end. We're similarly disparate in stature, and while I like the Polo, I do find it a bit cramped after a while. Something I don't recall feeling in the Up we tried. Gaz

I think it's @Brimma who has a black Mk2 (I think) with gold livery that really looked the part 😎 Gaz

Thanks - and I'm a great believer in that particular law. My local independent garage said the same as you 👍 So I opted out of DIY. It was done a couple of weeks ago (Edit: I see from the 'What annoyed you' thread that it was actually 27 April ), and unless it's a placebo effect, the brakes do feel better. Gaz

Maybe swap the battery from the working fob, just to confirm it's not a battery issue? (Won't be the first time a new battery is duff). Battery in the right way around? Asking the obvious coz it's a skill I've finely honed over decades Gaz

Have you by any chance left the plastic sticker on one side of the battery? If key no.2 is nearby, it could account for some things working. My car told me I needed a new fob battery, but it was actually referring to key no.2 which was nearby. Gaz

That'll come back right as rain, and is how you should expect it to be. Be fussy if it doesn't though - I sent similar repair work back four times once before it was to my satisfaction. Good that they knocked on your door 👍 Gaz

My 2015 vRS TSI DSG averaged 29.5mpg over a measured 25,300 miles. For perspective, the majority of my vRS's travelling was four miles in 30mph stop-start traffic, doing home to work. So mine's probably a worst case scenario. A steady run would easily see early to mid 40's. Best tank was 42.4mpg. Gaz

Everything's started to spring into life in our garden. The Peony's are particularly vivid this year: Gaz

Nope. I'm afraid my cynical old mind wouldn't take that for granted. That we latterly found out the 'integrity' of their evidence was 'incomplete' reaffirms my view. Gammyleg was issued an NIP for having allegedly been doing 58mph in a measured 50mph zone. Whether he was speeding, or not, elsewhere is irrelevant (IMO) to the NIP, but could be a factor if the evidentiary photos (and without other evidence) are not from the measured area. Quite so. Gaz