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Isn't it physically visible?: Taken from here: Gaz

Does this help? - there's a part number in the title: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394387679667?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=394387679667&targetid=1814673647262&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9045159&poi=&campaignid=19089547614&mkgroupid=142438599285&rlsatarget=pla-1814673647262&abcId=9303859&merchantid=675116239&gclid=CjwKCAiA76-dBhByEiwAA0_s9a2YqQb4lSbagrewO9dmtlKJM85SvbGx4T2f17ZuhWA-kjTYI-o4pBoC3PkQAvD_BwE Gaz

The like's not for the chance of you dying, but getting back in the harness. My bikes have not moved for about three weeks and I'm turning into a house cat/amorphous blob. Whenever I get a chesty cough, I find a hard ride really helps, so that when you're (I'm) gasping for breath a coughing fit can really help clear muck off my chest. With the obvious risk of a good puke if I overdo it and wretch 🙄 Gaz

Hello and welcome Jack Gaz

Hello Neil A proper spare wheel is probably the best first thing you could acquire 👍 Hopefully you'll never need it, but you'll be glad of it if ever you do. I can only remember needing a spare perhaps twice in 40+ years of driving, but both times I'd have been marooned if all I had was a can of gunk and a pump to rely on. Gaz

Lovely photography! 👍 Gaz

My 7.5 230 GTI has heated leather front seats which I much prefer to the vRS seats (2015 standard 220).. I've also got a pano roof - no problems so far. Gaz

Soak it in a releasing agent. Bit of heat might help? Can you force a 'wrong' sized marginally smaller spanner on it? A BSW or AF perhaps? Stillsons, or a self tightening wrench? Could you file it to accept two sides of an open ended spanner? Weld a good nut on to it? Hammer and chisel to shock it around anti-clockwise? Grind the entire head off, and then replace it? Gaz

The battery was at 12.04v at 1pm, so after 17 hours. I stalled it while freeing off the brakes and it started again fine,, not slow or lethargic. It was 11°C at the time. I'm not expecting miracles, it is what it is, and will no doubt need looking after if it's to survive. In normal times, my friend has a five mile commute to work, mostly 30mph and in traffic. But at 720A it's a fair size battery for a 1.2. That we have 12v is a positive sign as to the cells. Time will tell. I'll update if anything exciting happens, either way. I'm quite pleased to have even got it this far. Gaz

Took it off charge at 8pm last night. At 1pm today..... Lights: Camera...... Action: Came as a pleasant surprise 😎 Checked the levels, ran it up to temperature and let condensation out of the exhaust. Moved it (brakes let go quite easily) and remembered to leave the handbrake off this time 😁 Gaz

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G'day Ron Gaz

Very nice of you to ask Mike 👍 I'll suggest it, but as I type I suspect it'll overextend what we can fit in. Charging has started to drop off: So I've turned it off for the night. Might see what happens with a bit of charging on the 'morrow, but I might also give it the requisite 12 hours and see what gives with the ol' Juke of Earl. Provided it stops piddling down 🙄 Gaz

We're coming up to The Wirral in January to see friends who've just emigrated up to Ellesmere Port. I'd try, but I can't guarantee they'll still be warm by the time we get there - or Manchester Thought I'd make my apologies now. G

I've often suggested that she's missed a great business opportunity. Her roast potato's (and wedges, come to think of it) are always amazing. My Son is a chef and even he is bemused at how good they are, consistently. Aunt Bessie, eat your spuds out 😁 We go out occasionally for breakfast, and good as they always are, they're never quite up to DIY standards. G

Agreed, I think it's reasonable to look for more than simply taking it off charge and starting (see my confidence growing!) the Juke straight away. Even if this is moving the goal post a smidge. This request depended on my finding a working multimeter, but I see what you're after. I think I'm starting to smell a Kit-kat 😁 I'd just like to point out the efforts I'm going to here. Holding multimeter leads on both battery terminals, while taking a photo at the same time is no mean feat with only one arm that works! More like Triggers Broom-endale. Yes I miscalculated sawing some flooring a couple of decades ago It was very upsetting. I blame the people we purchased the house from. If they didn't have the CH pump under the floor at the top of the stairs, I wouldn't have felt the need to move it to the airing cupboard, and wouldn't have discovered the hash someone had made of the square (ish) of floor that had been cut out. It looked like they'd done it with a blunt road drill, from outside, on the end of a JCB arm 😡 It's now back on charge and drawing fairly nicely: Slow to update today as having a lazy (easy like) Sunday morning. Then Mrs Gaz tempted me with an intermission of: 😎 G

Yes, you can ask 😜 G

Oooh fightin' talk 💪 😎 So, if I get the Juke to start, with this battery....? Money where your mouth is - I want at least a four bar Kit-Kat, or even a double Snickers if I do. And I'll obviously reciprocate if I fail. G

8:30pm sitrep..... Well it's still drawing circa 3 amps from my trusty old style battery charger (possibly mid 1980's vintage). No leaks, cracks, or bulges 👍 I dried it late afternoon, but there was some more (albeit less) condensation just now. The battery's not warm. Decided to not leave it on charge overnight, so have switched it off and will put it back on charge in the morning. A bit slow compared to Pub Bingo, but I'm quite looking forward to finding out how it fares. Until tomorrow..... Gaz PS: Yes, it's an EFB PPS: Stanley (the stool - first pic) is older than the battery charger. Been with me, man and boy, and has even been with me to car meets for chums to meet 😁

She lives not far away from me, so would've seen minus 5 at times over the last few days, so freezing is quite likely/possible. There was nothing untoward when I oiked it out of the Juke. I'll check on it between eight and nine when it's been trickling for eight hours. Just looked up the price of a new one - cheapy about £140, decent about £220. Stop/start seems to bump the price quite sharply, dunno why that should surprise me. She won't be happy and has already said she can't afford anything 'til after Christmas, not that the car's going anywhere. I forgot to let the handbrake off - sod it! 🙄 Gaz

Can't find an obvious date code Mike But the perky little blighter's started to condensate on the outside (garage is dry but not heated - still 5°C outside) and is showing potential signs of life: I like being an optimist, but I'd still say it's 50-50. Gaz

An ex work colleague has been medically refrained from driving. She told me about it two days ago, silly plonker. Her trusty '64 plate Nissan Juke hasn't been started since August 😳 I've just been round and it's dead as a dodo, not even LEDs coming on. Looks like it might be the original battery: And it's now in my garage, on charge, but at first sight taking bugger all amps: So what do we think, will it pick up and be resuscitated, or has it departed this mortal coil? I'll leave it on trickle for a good while, and check in on it from time to time. A quid says it's dead. Gaz

That's a bag of worms you've just opened! Plenty of discussion on this in the Tyre Zone: https://www.briskoda.net/forums/forum/213-tyres-zone/ Personally, my preferences for a vRS are Pilot Sport 4's (or 5's now obviously), Goodyear Eagle assymetricals, Avon ZV7's, and Hankook Ventus v12's. Although I'm currently running Cross Climate 2's on one GTI and PS4's on the other. CC2's are a good year rounder. There are other all season tyres to choose from, some of which reportedly have a better Summer/warmer weather focus. The world's your lobster really when it comes to tyre choice. Depends a lot on where you are, your driving style, and what you're looking for - something that'll get you about better in snow/colder weather, or a tarmac terrorist summer thrashable. Gaz

I think I saw 1.48 to 60mph. Certainly a sub 8 1/4: Matt's language and responses were quite telling! 😁 Gaz

If you're thinking of having two sets of tyres ( i.e. keeping the Pirelli's - n'owt wrong with them, they just might not be best suited to current conditions), then I'd suggest not going for CC2's, but head for decent winter tyres. Only go down the CC2 route if your vRS is going to wear them year round - full winters being better purposed than all season tyres when it comes to the recent low temperatures, snow and ice. Don't think any of us would laugh. That'd be tempting too much fate 🙄 Three cars ago I had an immaculate Saab 9-5, on good tyres, which I wrote off at walking pace on ice under snow. I felt pretty stupid about that for a long time Gaz