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Yes, by 0.4 😇: Although my long term was quite a bit less 🙄 Gaz

Chuffin' heck that was quick! 😎 G

My 1999 B5 Passat had the 110TDI (AFN) in it. Great car and would probably still be around now if I hadn't sold it. I drove it some five years after selling it and mused what a muppet I'd been to let it go. Very similar car to a Mk1 Octy. G

Exactly so George. I think a lot of it is semantics (for me). Yes of course I could get caught out, but it's proving so infrequent as to make it a minor factor. I live right down South, in a town that nestles, and is protected by the South Downs. The last time we had a reasonable amount of snow was when I had the Superb, so many years ago. I got the Superb because I wrote my previous Saab 9-5 off (with very good tyres on it) when I ran out of skill on ice, with an adverse camber, clumped a kerb and took my NSF wheel off. Before the Saab I had a '99 B5 Passat on very ordinary Dunlop's (195's I think) and I couldn't get it stuck if I wanted to. Might've been around 2009, when we did have a dump of snow (6" iirc), I was 30 minutes late for work (six storey office block with 500+ staff) only to find I couldn't get in because the place was still locked up and I was the first person there. Time and place. Good tyres and bad tyres. I get what John said in the other thread about tyre compound formulation. But I don't think I need worry about what if, and when, we might next get snow or really bad weather. If it's that bad, I'll just stay in and wait it out. I'd quite like to try out my mobility scooter in the snow. Gaz

One nicely saved Octavia there 😎 Gaz

An update, nine months in, one South East UK winter, and 5k miles later. Are they a good tyre? - yes they most certainly are Will I have them again? - no, I will not. Another mild winter. No snow of any note. I have a GTI, and I like to enjoy having a GTI. My Wife's Polo GTI is on PS4's. Those tyres have outshone the CC2's throughout the entirety of our 'Winter'. Had we had any duff weather, I'd have wanted to be on the CC2's. But we didn't. Better weather has been here for three months, and Summer is most certainly here now. The PS4's now outperform the CC2's quite noticeably. I get that's not the point. The limited time I might need cross climate tyres, I don't think warrants having them. I'm not wasteful, so I'll stick with them, as overall they're a very good tyre indeed. Glad I tried them. Here and now, other tyres suit my needs better. PS4's or PS5's (or similar) for me next. Gaz

Agree with PC and NTA - new tyre time IMO. I wonder what’s happening to those cracks when you load the tyre up at a corner/junction/roundabout. Gaz

Good for you for calling them out over the £90 If it were me, I'd be tempted to have a look myself, and if spotted, stick big red arrow pointer with 'Leak?' on it. G

Can't find it now, but I'm sure there's a mk3 that was at 375k. Might be in this thread: Gaz

Hello Baltazar Gaz

I actually think it’s a cracking looking beastie, and the grey really suits it 😎 G

Ah, my bad. Apologies if that's a duff steer Gaz

The incredibly excessive toe-in? 🙄 G

Yeah, think I'd have the battery tested first if it were me. Simple battery SoC check: Gaz

Struggling to turn over, rather than tick over? Petrol or Diesel? On a six year old car with stop-start, I'd say the battery has quite likely done well. There'll be stories of batteries lasting ten years or more, but I'd certainly get it checked. There were a batch of duff Moll batteries which might've been around that era, but I suspect it'd have given up long before now if it was one of those. My Superb V6TDI really struggled to fire up when the battery was getting to the twilight of its career. Something to do with the Cold Cranking Amperage, and needing to spin over at a certain rate. Gaz

Hello Sal I thoroughly enjoyed owning my vRS estate, and I also used to somehow overshoot the occasional turn on the way home/out Gaz

Heck, that's impressive. All I can muster is a paltry: Gaz

Hello Will Gaz

Smashing light, post sunset, in my garden last night: Gaz

Hello and welcome Robert Gaz

Neither my 2015 vRS, nor my current 2018 Golf needed their air-con serviced to maintain the warranty. Gaz

Nope. My DQ250 six speed Golf is more economical (just) than my Wife’s DQ200 seven speed Polo. Both GTI’s, mine 2.0, her’s 1.8: The answer might differ if you’re comparing the same car and engine with different DSG’s - which DSG’s are you wanting to compare? Gaz

Hello Billy, welcome aboard Gaz

Did that make it a 'Sprint'? Mate had a 1500 when I had a Renault 16TL and I remember being dead envious. G