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As i said though it's not a dealer. It's my usual VAG specialist who i've not had reason to question previously but this was something i've not had before so wasn't sure.

Hi all, Couldn't find anything relating to this so thought I'd ask..... Our 2019 Colour Edition had it's first MOT and got an advisory for brake pads wearing low all round. The car has currently done 26,000 miles.... Anyway I asked for a quote and he gave me a price for pads AND discs all round when I quickly asked about whether it needed discs too he said they recommend replacing them with pads. It's not something I've done on such a low mileage car previously and have only had discs and pads done together on a vehicle I've owned when they have been much higher mileage and the discs had done more miles so my question is whether this sounds right or if I should really be looking at just the pads this time around? This is from my usual VAG specialist who I've never had reason to question before but this seemed strange to me on a car with this many miles? I've attached a couple of pics of the front and rear discs in case they provide any extra benefit in responses.

Do these better LED bulbs require coding or flag up any bulb warnings? or do they just work OK when installed?

As a bit of a side note...... Is it a case of removing the battery then to replace the headlight bulbs on that side? Fancy putting something brighter in our 2019 Colour Edition (Reflector for all four bulbs) as i do a lot of motorway driving at night but not too fussed if you have to remove the battery etc.....

Not sure what HU is fitted in the Mrs’ 2019 Colour Edition but this is a photo of it and its current status. Is this unit up to date or is there an update available? And if so how is the update done? It was supposedly updated by the dealer last year as part of a warranty claim but I didn’t check the status before it went in so can’t say if it’s been updated or not.

That's good to hear........ I'll start having a look around at prices knowing i don't have to either look for places that can code it as well or have to sort the coding out via here etc.......

I confirmed with dealership and Skoda UK at the time that mine was every 5 years... (car built in October 2010). Apparently they changed the time from 4 to 5 years for cars built some point just before mine was built from what both the dealership and Skoda UK told me.

Hi all, Quick one...… My battery is on it's way out after being in the car for coming up to six years. I've seen a few posts and things online regarding having the battery coded to the car once it's fitted. My question is this though..... Is this the case on all the Superbs or only those with Start/Stop? I only ask as mine does not have start/stop (2010 60 plate CR140 DSG) and whenever I see mention of coding the new battery it's always in relation to Superbs with start/stop. So is it a case of not required at all on a car without start/stop or not required on a car without start/stop if the replacement battery is the same spec/capacity? Cheers

Well having upgraded my D90 for a D7500 towards the end of last year i never actually got around to going out and giving it a whirl before lockdown. I finally managed to get out on Saturday to watch a steam special so gave the new camera a go. Sod's law literally just a minute or so before she arrived it started to lash it down, as you can see from the pics. Anyway..... Royal Scot hauling The Yorkshire Rose tour to York in the rain at Grindleford, Derbyshire.

That's what i was asking about as the only thing i was aware of on the iPhone was the Low Power mode that can kick in at 20% battery..... Obviously what Android phones do doesn't matter as the issue is an iPhone only issue.

just out of interest what do you mean by power saving features? Do you mean the Low Power Mode that kicks in when the battery is less than 20% charged?

Yep that's what i've said before.... It can't be a general Apple issue or software issue with the unit otherwise it would be affecting all users. As it is it isn't affecting all users so to me must be something particular to those vehicles. A manufacturing change of something like the USB socket or the shielding of the cabling between the USB socket and the HU itself could well be to blame as various people like yourself and myself have proved it's not linked to a particular phone model, iOS variant or cable type / manufacturer. As to you thinking that because Skoda have admitted there's a fault and that it's Apple's fault means that they must have put some amount of focus into resolving the issue...... It doesn't make me think that i'm afraid. It just tells me they have just passed the buck and are finger pointing at someone else otherwise they would have been able to supply further information as to exactly what the problem was and why it was an Apple issue. 😉 I see the same diversionary finger pointing everyday in my line of work.

The thing with forums though is you only see the posts about the things that don’t work and not the things that do. If you think of the hundreds of thousands of these units out there and how many complaints of stuttering you’ve got on here it’ll be a minority. But also which unit do you have and are you talking about as the unit in your other half’s Polo could be a totally different model especially as it’s a couple of years old isn’t it??? Ours is a MY19 Colour Edition with the Radio Swing Plus. (3 buttons either side of the screen with SD card slot located centrally at the bottom). This is the unit fitted in the majority of cars in the range along with the other VAG marques as it’s the standard unit. If you have the head unit with 4 buttons either side you have the Amunsden upgrade option which isn’t as common a unit AFAIK. This is a picture of our HU in our car and is the model that has worked perfectly with an iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone SE and iPhone SE (2nd gen) with a 30cm Anker lightning cable for the last 12 months since the car has been on the road.

I don’t think you can use the VW Polo has had zero issues thing though. We’ve had zero issues with the unit in our Fabia since day one also. 😉👍🏻 If you think how many of these units are installed at present and how many people are having issues it’s likely a minority otherwise it’d have been sorted by now.

I believe the £200 isn't solely the charge for the box but also includes the cost/charge of an "engineer" to attend your home and install it. Plus as i mentioned previously i don't know why anyone would ever pay the £200 charge to replace their old Q box. Everyone i know of who has wanted to upgrade to the latest version of their Q box has spoken to Sky to advise them that their box has suddenly and inexplicably developed a habit of overheating and resetting or being intermittently noisy at which point an engineer attends and replaces it without charge.

The last paragrapgh is your answer as to why Sky have opted for HLG. I'd say probably half if not more of their HDR content here will be live sports / events. Football and F1 have already been broadcast in HDR for the last 18-24 months or so on Sky Italia using HLG i believe. These have obviously got to be broadcast alongside the existing SD, HD & UHD feeds. As you say Netflix and Amazon don't have this issue with the only live sport on these being on Amazon with it's tennis and Premier League football and is only ever in UHD rather than HDR. Also, Not just Samsung for HDR10+ either..... My Panny EX-750 had the HDR10+ firmware update last year and i've confirmed it works with some HDR10+ material. All the current Panny HDR TVs and blu-ray players are HDR10+ compatible too along with some from the last couple of years or so like my TV but not my HDR blu-ray player unfortunately which is just outside the cut-off point.

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range and in photography it's been around for a good few years now but is still relatively new to TV/video. For example if you stood someone in front of a window and looked at them your eyes and brain can see both the detail outside and the detail of the person in front of the window but if you pointed a camera at that same person and focused on the person then the camera would have the person exposed but the background outside would be washed out and white. If you told the camera to focus on the background outside then that would be perfect but the person would be very dark. So in HDR photography you would take maybe five images. One a lot under-exposed, One slightly under-exposed, One perfectly exposed, One slightly over-exposed and one a lot over-exposed. Then software would merge the images together to get something very close to what the human eye sees. The end result of HDR in video is the same..... Colours are very much brighter as they would be in reality and you see the details in the dark and light areas as well as the main focus of attention. It is something that you need to have a 4k HDR TV and a 4k HDR bluray player to view though and not just a normal 4k TV or bluray player. And as John says Netflix and Amazon produce pretty much all their new content in 4k HDR now.

yes Q has always been rented equipment since it launched. Does of course mean unlimited replacements for failures whether in or out of contract.

There's nothing set in stone as yet for time scales but a few quotes circulating from Sky saying that there will be an exchange program in place ready for the greater availability of HDR content. The people on the phones now won't have anything in place at present so will indeed charge for the replacement..... Unless of course your v1 box was to suddenly start going faulty and start getting very warm and be resetting very often for instance then you could arrange replacement of your obviously faulty v1 box. Obviously nothing to confirm you wouldn't get another v1 but pretty unlikely.

And for anyone going into meltdown because they have a v1 2tb box which isn’t compatible there is a box exchange program planned before the launch of the other parts of the HDR service whereby users will be able to get a newer compatible box.

Our lad has one of these and it does the job great for a penny less than a tenner. Also from Argos. just plugs into the controller. https://www.argos.co.uk/product/5637715?clickSR=slp:term:xbox headset:19:125:2

Afternoon all, Just a heads up, for those that hadn’t seen the various press releases, that Sky launched its HDR service on Sky Q yesterday with a low key launch. Only three series are currently available in HDR and all are from the new Sky Nature channel, (Gangs of Lemur Island, Wilderness Reborn and Malawi Wildlife Rescue). Third party apps such as Netflix, Disney + and YouTube will be updated in the coming couple of months so that their HDR content can also be accessed. Sky Cinema will launch it’s HDR library in time for the Christmas period and sports coverage in HDR is currently lined up for the rescheduled Olympics. HDR content is accessed via the download option rather than on the channel itself and a UHD subscription is required along with a compatible Q box. Having had a quick watch the quality seems pretty good but I’m looking more towards the cinema and sports launch and Netflix app update myself.

If that's the case that would explain why it isn't affecting all users and isn't a system wide software issue as they were saying previously as it can be rectified by what seems like clearing your connection and defaulting to factory settings before reconnecting again.

Unfortunately I suspect it’s the card reader that is faulty then.

Which HU do you have? And how old is the car? I've put all kinds of SD cards in ours (Kingston & Sandisk and bought from Amazon) which is a Radio Swing Plus HU with no issues. Sounds more like the SD reader might be faulty in the HU. Only thing i can think is to check that they are formatted in FAT or exFAT?