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Either that, or she's hinting that you should join her back there for some of those activities Ned got arrested for!

Maybe you're not spelling the name correctly and so it doesn't understand you? :rofl:

I spent 15 a month ago on mine, 1.8 turbo petrol, and do roughly the same mileage as you. I'd have taken a diesel if I'd had the choice, purely because I'm used to diesels as our main car really, but my wife really wanted the toys of an Elegance (okay so did I) and our 15k budget didn't stretch to a diesel Elegance estate. I can't say that I'm thrilled with the economy, but I have worked out that it would take me a couple of years of the far better economy of the diesel to recover the two grand odd more it would have cost me to buy it as a year old car.

Economy maybe 10% lower than I'd hoped for (but it'll still take a couple of years before I'm out of pocket considering the price of this car versus a diesel version), and, Drivers Side front foglight misted up after water ingress behind faulty seal (dealer replaced whole unit under warranty). That's it, so a big thumbs up from me :love:

Elegance estate? Can't be older than 2010 then? Still under warranty, surely?

Sure you have the right model? The 512s on youtube look like single DIN devices which obviously wouldn't be a direct swap for a Columbus?

How can I hook up my Columbus to the interweb thingy using my Galaxy S2's portable hotspot ability? Doesn't make sense to me to use the tiny screen on my phone when I have a nice big touchscreen sitting there doing nothing! Do I need to buy some additional hardware to get the two talking, or is there something built in to the Columbus to help, or what?! Did try searching but couldn't come up with anything relevant :(

Perhaps fostering could be viewed as 'social engineering'? :angel:

I chopped in a 7 series against my Elegance estate. The dealer still has it and apparently the salesmen are taking turns to take it home at night. Until it needs filling up, of course... Not so. My Beemer was a 750 iL (the factory 'stretch' model) and I was sad enough to measure it - the Superb has more space

<<< --- High risk foster carer. But I'd like to be an engineer too

Apologies in advance for dimness... How can I tell what version of map I have now? I know that some newish roads (the new section from Newark toward Leicester) aren't there for example. Should I have received a physical disk for my nav? My dealer said I didn't get one because all the data is on the hard drive and owners are not supplied with CD's. Bought my car a fortnight ago, one year old this month car, so want to make sure I get what I should have!

Do you know, I think I only got clips because they were fitted for me at VanStyle, and they just bought out their box of clips and shoved a few on just to dot the I's and cross the T's. As has been said, they're somewhat superfluous here since the blinds fit so closely

Seems to be an unfortunately common theme this - Skoda alleging that bumpers have been removed and trying to get out of repairing what's known to be a fault. Stand your ground, its for them to show that the bumper paint was damaged after build, not yours to show it wasn't.

I'm not sure what newer map and/or software versions can do for me, which is obviously the first criteria in deciding whether I want them! Don't entirely know how to find out what versions I'm running now either

Every Skoda main dealer, as far as I know, offers Skoda Approved used cars. I had thought these were only Skoda's, but from what I've been researching recently it seems the cars can be other makes too. The dealers have a large rectangular board listing the 'benefits' of buying a Skoda Approved car which shows: Comprehensive parts and labour warranty If you’re buying a car that’s less than six years of age with less than 72,000 miles on the clock you’ll automatically receive a 12 month warranty. Older cars which has a maximum of 100,000 miles on the clock, come with a minimum of 3 months’ warranty. Warranties will either be the remainder of Manufacturer's warranty, a ŠKODA Approved warranty or a combination of the two. You can also extend the warranty period at the time of buying, giving you even more worry-free driving time A year’s free RAC Roadside Assistance Again, if your car has yet to reach its sixth birthday and has covered less than 60,000 miles, you’ll benefit from 12 months’ ŠKODA Roadside Assistance. If your car breaks down, one phone call will get you back on the move. Cover operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Terms and conditions apply. Please ask your Retailer for full details. Multi-point vehicle inspection check Just so you know your used ŠKODA is in good shape, our fully qualified technicians will give it a comprehensive workshop check before it’s delivered to you. Vehicle status checks We arrange for a third party to investigate your vehicle’s history and mileage, to make sure you don’t get any nasty surprises – like discovering there are outstanding finance payments owed on it or it’s been stolen or written off previously. 30 day/1,000 mile exchange This demonstrates your retailer’s confidence in the vehicles that are on offer. (Terms & conditions apply). It's the last item in this list that I'm talking about now, the exchange, and note the 'terms and conditions apply'. At the very foot of the boards at the dealers it says 'see skoda.co.uk for details'. So I looked. And looked some more. And looked a lot more. Nope, nothing on their website, anywhere. All that I could find is this page http://www.skoda.co....es/default.aspx which basically duplicated what the board says. A Google search for Skoda Approved 30 day change gave me the following page at AutoTrader http://dealerservice...da/skodatc.htm. Okay, so now I had an idea of what qualified to exchange the car, great. When I collected my car though, I was given a different sheet of paper, which is the one attached as a pdf to this post. There is a fundamental difference between the pdf terms and conditions and the one online - the pdf refers to a 'demonstrable fault', that 'the dealer cannot rectify' as being the qualifying criteria for an exchange, while the online version makes no such demand and infers that you can change it simply because you don't like the car. Then the salesman added an additional qualifier, saying that this policy allowed the customer to change the car "if something catastrophic should happen, like the engine fall out or gearbox blow up". That's a pretty high bar, considerably higher than a 'demonstrable fault'. Now I'm not looking to change my car, I like it a lot (although I'm not inspired at all by my dealer for other reasons), but I thought I should post so that people looking at a Skoda Approved car know exactly what conditions there are to an exchange. Unlike many 'exchange' offers at dealers, Skoda seem to have changed their policy sometime after the AutoTrader one was put online and disallowed an exchange without giving a reason. If that's so, fine, but I would have expected Skoda to make those conditions easily available on their website as the board says it is. Incidentally, I contacted SUK and they emailed me back with a pdf of the new version, and ignored my question as to why it wasn't on their website or linked to from it.