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Something a bit different then from a small hatchback

Noticed the advert yesterday... What's next?

I've used Halfords own Berry concentrated screenwash stuff in Skoda's with fan jets since 2001 (Fabia, Octavia and Kodiaq) with no issues whatoever.

I think if you accidentally put coins in the card slot they end up inside. I'm pretty certain it'll be pretty impossible to get them out without breaking it.

https://www.schemecolor.com/skoda-auto-logo-colors.php Any good?

Yep those are the ones we have but I paid less than shown there. My mum has Ultion equivalents.

If the house side of things worries you fit new locks - three star diamond ones to TS007 - there are plenty available these days at about £30 to £40 per lock

Yep you should be fine to drive it but it will get worse over time - we did about 30,000 miles in ours between it starting faintly and us finally getting rid of it when various issues meant the cost of repair was higher than the value of the car. The post below should help:

This is definitely the rearmost propshaft rubber doughnut coupling failing. Cost is about £100 for the coupling alone from various suppliers but Skoda will only sell you a full propshaft at about £800 all plus fitting.

Just spat out a list as far as I can remember so I screen shot the chat and made my own record.

Just go to the Skoda website, open up a chat and ask on there - you'll need your VIN No but it worked for me

oooh that looks nasty!

CTek seem to be favoured in the MX5 community for laying cars up over winter...

I had a 1litre Saxo as a site car for a few months... at weekends I used to have max it out on the M18 after late shifts doing live water mains connections so I could get to the pub before last orders. The speedo would just break 100 downhill with a run-up (so maybe 90 in reality) but it was massively better than the Fiesta diesel that preceded it!

Osrams were OE fitment on my 2018 Kodiaq as far as I can tell (all four were. They've been replaced with Nightbreaker +150s

So that would seem to make it significantly more expensive than a traditional ICE vehicle in terms of distance per £ ??

Nearly got wiped out by a Tesla the other day - my residential side street with parked cars so down to one lane for a hundred yard or so uphill stretch - I was already well into the one lane stretch and going uphill when a local Tesla came the other way down the hill and barrelled into the one lane section in front of me, clearly thinking I'd get out of his way by either reversing back down the hill or mounting the kerb. He seemed most put out when I refused to do either and he had to reverse uphill and let me out. Amusingly it was clear he was only using the road as a short-cut between two other roads and in doing so and meeting me had probably wasted more time than if he'd stuck to the main roads...

Just a though but if it was registered in late 2020 isn't that when Australia and New Zealand were in lockdown? If so I wonder if it was a car destined for that market that was diverted here for sale due to lockdown preventing it being imported and sold down under?

Yes does seem very unusual... I'd be interested to know the story too. I suppose it then comes down to whether you still like / want it or not and what the implications for things like insurance would be. What details show up re mot and tax history using the registration number on the DVLA website

I did something similar on our Honda Civic many years ago and 'stuck' it back together with Tiger Seal. It wasn't the prettyest of fixed and needed held in position for a while until it cured but it did the job...

You can do it through live chat on the website - I did this when I purchased ours second hand as I wanted to know what the full spec was and what had been added as 'extras' when purchased by the original owner. They'll need the VIN but were able to respond within a couple of minutes

You'll probably find it's a UK car. They are built in the Czech republic and, from memory the App is pretty useless at identifying 'local' trim levels and often shows the UK SE-L trim as Style. I wouldn't worry about it too much but you can always check the reg etc. on the DVLA website Part are all compatible and mapping can be updated (it's probably been updated by someone who downloaded the wrong set of maps)

Yep seems pretty good. Much better than BMW's recent attempts

Fair enough but I'd argue you're looking at it the wrong way round. In warm dry conditions the differences between a summer tyre and a good all season are small to the detriment of the all season - but in cold wet conditions (which a lot of the UK gets maybe 5 months a year) the differences are massive to the detriment of the summer. I know which I'd prefer to be using as and all year round compromise given the above.

Toad... Frogs tend to be smooth skinned