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The oil remains liquid and will lubricate your metal bits even when very cold. What you are concerned with is the metal bits and how they expand with temperature. This is the thing you want in the normal operating range before giving it some right boot. Moving parts expanded to their normal operating clearances.

Sir, with all respect I do believe you are mistaken. A multigrade oil specified as 5W30 means, its like a 5-grade in Winter and a 30 in summer. This goes back to when multigrade oils were invented, before which you would have to change it twice a year.

Only been in the profession 28 years and I deal with tiny electronics. But that guy - well put it this way, I would have sat a the other end of the lecture room.

Never looked at those things, but go ahead and use it if it suits your purposes. FWIW its easy to say "kills 99.99% of viruses" with no basis in reality. Viruses, even this horrible coronavirus, can survive in water droplets and on surfaces and yes the primary means of transmission is usually by getting onto your mucous membranes (the wet skin inside your nose, around your eyes, in your throat, in your ears, up your urethra, etc) and into your cells where they can replicate. Either through airbourne droplets or on your fingers. But they don't survive outside the body very long. A few days perhaps. Surfaces and those water droplets dry up and the virus particles break down. Cool and damp conditions are kind to them which is one of the reasons why viruses spread more easily in winter conditions. Don't over worry it.

Gaaaa! I can't stand that Engineering Explained you tuber. Patronizing american twerp. As Bret says, once you get a reading from the oil temp display it's OK to consider it warmed up. The water cooling circuit on these engines (you and I have the same) is complex, designed to bring it up to temp quickly for emissions and fuel efficiency reasons.

There is a setting in AA that allows it to pair with a new car. Its in the settings tab (somewhere) and it's off by default.

But how do you stay awake? For motorways I have the "Individual" driving mode set to Eco for engine/DSG and Sport for the steering, and usually but not always the DSG will be in manual and the stop-start will be off.

Eco mode with the DSG is useful in slow moving traffic queues, you get a smoother ride.

Am I right in thinking the turbo has variable vanes? If they stuck in the low-rpm position.

There was talk on here before about the recommended viscosity being a new low, chosen for high efficiency or low emissions, but it is so runny it can disappear quickly. You can use the previously recommended grade which some say works better. Sorry I forgot the numbers you'll have to do a search. BTW mine hardly used any of the new oil in 10k miles.

My previous car the same combination VRS/TDI/DSG never seemed to be in the right gear and always lugging a higher one than I wanted. And S-mode was the opposite like I was on a race track. Sold it. Sounds like something's up with yours. Why not take it back and give them the exact same description - if it was me I'd give them the description in writing, instead of passing it on word-of-mouth via the service manager.

This brings to mind the old US TV cop series "Cannon". He was a big man, with a big gun, and he always drove a full-size American car.

What format are the locations in? If you know someone with a bit of software ability they can build a .GPX file with these as waypoints or similar. This you can load into a satnav. Got a neighbour with a bored teenager who needs a project to do on their Raspberry Pi? Bribe him with beer

Depending on the product you may not need much just for washing the screen. You need a stronger mixture in the winter to prevent it freezing, expanding and breaking the bottle/pipes/pump. It's never effective for clearing ice off the screen for that you'll need elbow and plastic scraper. Do they still allow Londoners to have cars?

You also have to enable detecting/allowing the new connection in the AA settings.

Perhaps look in the phone settings - can you make it use an older version of the Bluetooth protocols? I do this with mine but only for the media playback controls (AVRCP version).

The settings menu of the in-built unit, for "Sound" under "Volume" if I remember correctly.

There is a setting in the built-in units sound cog menu. Tried that?

Can you be a bit more specific, it would help answer your query. Direction announced from the built-in nav or from Google maps nav?

Thanks I will try that on my MY20 as soon as I get the chance

The brexit situation caused a devaluation of the pound relative to other currencies. Maybe its that being reflected in pricing of things. Let them do it all except the pollen filter.

Tell me more of this starting vibration reduction setting

As you can see from the above replies, you get two sets of answers depending on manual/DSG transmission. I used to have the same combo as you - VRS TDI/DSG and the same problems. Bogs down in high gear when you put your foot down in D, hangs on in low gear too long when you take your foot off in S. Used M-mode a lot but prefer shifting up/down using the selector and not the paddles, which are never by your hand when you really need them in a hurry. I have read that you can "reset the DSG" which means returning its adaptation to factory condition, but I'm not sure it actually learns or adapts while its being driven. Its a simple procedure no tool needed (but I can't remember how you'd have to search for it). Now I'm much happier with the petrol/DSG combination 😀

You could peel it off and slap an Audi one on there 😉 Alternatively try the Skoda dealar in Newport

Mine started doing this but only in these lockdown times where it only gets driven once a week.