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The 1.5 TSI is 147 bhp.

I don't have a charging tray and I get the message. I do have the iphone linked via bluetooth so I can use the car's "handsfree" facilities, I have always assumed it is that link that is causing the prompt (along with the "contacts uploaded" which I get whenever I get in the car).

A friend of mine parks his keyless entry Golf outside our village hall. As he wanders around inside the hall his car keeps unlocking itself when he gets near. What's the chance that, if you park your keyless entry car on your drive and then drop your keys on the hall table, your car is permanently unlocked whilst it is on your drive. Oooops.

Also at 2 years I was offered the brake fluid change and an air con filter change. As the car has still done less than 10k miles I opted for the brake fluid (water absorption will be time related), but not the filter (which will be usage related). Seeing as very little else would need doing, I was surprised that the bill came in at over £300, and they didn't even bother to valet it.

Does it only happen at work? If so, it might be interference from either another car's key fob or some device within the premises - try parking in different areas and away from other cars. If not, get the main dealer to sort it out.

Of course not, they are going to put it onto the back of a flat bed and let the teams back at the garage pour over it - the question is whether you will be able to remove the evidence before that happens.

I see the Burteq web site also says "off road use only. It is not road-legal and cannot be used on public roads." It appears to be a little difficult to remove the device in the event of an RTA before plod arrives.

Many years ago my dealer wanted to charge me £800 for changing the air-con pump (it was too noisy). The car wasn't that old, and I decided I would chance my luck. I took it to an air-con specialist who said "rubbish, just make sure you recharge the system with the recommended amount of oil in the freon mix.". The upshot is, the main dealers will always try and get the job well in advance of when its needed. The original air-con pump was still working 12 years later when I sold the car.

Mine kept butting into my conversations until I worked out how to gag her completely.

Now that is just needling him . . .

You cannot plug in any device which needs specialist software to interface to it. This rules out splitters, printers and, oh yes, cd players.

Re a/c whining noise: On my mk II the local dealer wanted to replace my pump at a proposed cost of over £800 because of a whine. I took it an a/c specialist who said "rubbish". He just gave the system a recharge with the recommended amount of lubricant in the mix and the whine went away.

Heavy right foot, low efficiency, light right foot, high efficiency.

Mine does it when first moving off forward from stone cold. Only for the first 30 yards, then it's fine. It can be avoid by having slightly higher revs (you don't have to go bonkers) than you would normally use.

I let the whole lot expire. All I used when it was active was the driving data, and that fad soon faded. Once late at night it did tell me the car was still unlocked, so I had to get out of bed to go down the road to lock it, but it was really still locked - so losing that feature was a bonus.

The boot cover retracts by virtue of a coiled spring in the sheath. It has a holding hook at both the fully deployed and half way deployed positions. To open it, it needs to be triggered twice, to release it from each of the two holding positions in succession. I'm guessing that the 'automatic' feature involves a pair of solenoids in the D posts to release it from the first holding point. If it's a discontinued feature, I'm guessing what you are seeing is a fault in the configurator software and it should be showing the option greyed out in all instances.

Your problem is that you have to ignore the infotainments attempt to sort your files for you. On the track selection screen move up through the directory structures to the top where it gives the option of artist / album etc. Go the bottom of that list to where its says 'USB xxxx'. Select that directory and then you will find it behaves more as you would expect.

Try pressing the ON/OFF button on the console and see where it gets you. Try pressing the START button without depressing the clutch and see where it gets you.

I get similar consumption figures from my 1.5. On a trip from Newcastle to Pembrokeshire I averaged over 60mpg until I left the M6. Then crossing Wales from NE to SW clobbered it. Though the total fuel used was less than if I'd gone down the M5 / M4 route. The trick is a light right foot coupled with reading the traffic well ahead, and I probably kept between 65 and 70mph on the motorway - I recall the engine frequently dropped into 2 cylinder mode.

. . . and the clowns in the Road Traffic Research Labs will make all cars have auto-dipping brake lights to compensate.

Of course it's to light up your way. When I was a nipper and cars didn't come with reversing lights (or hazard flashers) my father would use the indicators to try and get some light behind him when reversing in the dark.

I guess it is a generic - there isn't enough charge in the battery. What makes me jump every time is when it decides to restart the engine whilst I'm sitting in a traffic queue eyeing up the local talent.

For downloads you could always connect to a WiFi source - which would be of no use for the SOS function.

When I switch off and open the door the system presents the option to turn off the sensors. No problem, I do it whenever I leave the dog in the car. It must be done with all the doors closed except the driver's door. I'm not sure at the moment as I'm working from memory, but the selection might persist for awhile. Either way I don't see it as a jproblem.

If you want a modern car you will have no choice but to accept faulty software etc. All the manufactures are doing it. Personally I disable as many automatic features as I can, and keep a Triumph Stag so occasionally I can drive my own car and not have a nerd behind a desk doing it for me.