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As it happens, exactly this happened to me this weekend. I'd had INSP on the display for a couple of weeks, but now there was the additional 'ping' noise. When I dropped Bob V (also a 62 reg) off for service this morning, I mentioned it to the service receptionist, who confirmed it was the service warning and it would be reset once the work was done. Interestingly, they reminded me that the MOT is now due, which I had completely managed to miss, since there is no notification from DVSA any more. Oops. Now, if I can get them to not charge me for the service (since they managed to miss calling me to remind me, so I'm technically outside the warranty period), that would be a bonus...

The IAM teaches to depress the clutch on starting, but this is more about contingency in case you've failed to take the car out of gear (or your gear linkage has failed). However, it is a bit of a trade-off as to whether you might, ever-so-slightly, wear the clutch out.

Back in the day, the DVLA actually blocked the use of the SN07 plates from Edinburgh, because it looked too much like "snot". Instead, they issued TN07. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/6897494.stm I can only assume that there will, similarly, be a whole load of TH17 plates in issue from Glasgow come March 2017.

Done and dusted: aforementioned mini-guybles had, indeed, shoved couple of tickets into the slot. Once the service guys had extracted the stereo and gotten my permission to break the warranty seals, it was a quick and easy repair. Of course, the stereo is now out of warranty...but I spent £50 on labour, rather than £230+VAT for a replacement stereo. Thanks for the comments.

Nope, tested with various CDs - it's definitely the stereo.

Whilst washing Bob V yesterday, I thought nothing of letting mini-guybles play with the radio. He seemed to be amused with taking a CD in-and-out of the stereo, then switching between that and the music on the PID. Later on, I discover that the CD player is distinctly unhappy about playing anything: once a CD is inserted, it buzzes, whirrs and eventually spits the CD out with an error message. I rather suspect I have made a huge mistake and forgotten about how much toddler enjoy posting things into convenient slots. Anyway, I've booked into my local service centre for a look-see, but assuming that nothing can be done, does anyone have any ideas on how the Citigo stereo can be repaired, replaced or otherwise fiddled with? It looks like a potentially expensive monolithic unit to me...

If the brakes are already corroded enough that they're binding, plus there's resistance while you're driving, I'd be inclined to replace the pads and disks. It's not the most expensive job in the world and, for something that you rely on to stop in an emergency, it's better safe than sorry. If you're not sure how to do it yourself, any halfway decent garage will get it done in less than an hour. A really good garage will probably even let you know if you don't actually need anything replacing.

I've found, in the past, that the SD card slot can be a tad sensitive. If you haven't already, eject the card and clean the pins before putting it back in. I'm assuming that the card itself is recognised by anything else you load it into?

You should be able to do this through the Garmin Fresh software (https://skoda.garmin.com/skoda/site/fresh). If you select the 'Backup and restore' option from the main screen, there's a 'Device restore' button down towards the bottom. That will download a clean, up-to-date version of the Skoda PID software and install it. Obviously, you'll lose any current maps, but you'll be able to restore those afterwards. I say "should", because I'm assuming there isn't some DRM jiggery-pokery that prevents Fresh from recognising a vanilla Navigon 70, but the description seems to suggest that it'll work even if the PID isn't recognised. Good luck!

I managed to get an official Tornado Red from my dealers for just a fiver - but it was, technically, the colour for the up! paintjob (which is exactly the same in this case). The only reason they went for it in the end seems to be that 'official' touch-up kits are not yet available for the Citigo...along with the PID case, so it seems.

After somewhat of a delay...a possible solution! Given that Garmin own Navigon, and noting the stories about the PID being a Garmin-branded device in the latest versions, I thought I'd see if Garmin have decided to use their own (usually quite good) software skills. Lo! There is a Garmin-branded version of FRESH for Mac, which talks fairly happily to my Navigon-branded version and doesn't give any errors when connecting to the store, or checking for updates. I've not tested it to destruction yet, and I'm unable to download the subsidised maps because my code has expired, but this should be fairly easy to sort out from this point onwards. Anyone else with any comments? Liam2, I'm looking in your direction...

I had something similar with my iPhone 5, where the phone became the active speaker/microphone, despite being controlled by the PID. The best fix was to remove from the paired devices listing in the PID itself and start pairing over again. Re-pairing, I guess. Heh. My personal suspicion: Navigon can't programme their way out of a wet brown paper bag, and have ultimately released a half-baked product. I do like the PID, in-and-of itself, but I could be more impressed with the software support (see other posts in this forum for my - and others - difficulties in trying to deal with updates).

There's a BlueTooth phone compatibility listing on the Navigon site, but it's pretty sparse when it comes to displaying text messages - about a dozen stray Nokia phones, maybe 6 random Sony-Ericsson handsets and that's it. http://www.navigon.com/portal/common/faq/files/list_of_compatibility/4x7x92/BTlist_4x7x92.pdf

That other thread is getting a little enthusiastic, with the various methods to convert all iTunes purchases format to mp3! Maybe they should pop over to some of the digital music forums and get stuck in an argument about lossy conversion. Anyway, the PID will play most iTunes purchases (with .m4a at the end) just fine, but any older purchases (with .m4p at the end) will only play on iDevices. You can 'upgrade' those purchases by subscribing to iTunes In The Cloud for about eleventy million dollars, or something like that. You can get the iTunes purchases from iTunes folder (usually C:\Users\username\My Music\iTunes\) and just drag-and-drop to the PID like the mp3 files. I don't know if you can do it from inside iTunes - it tends to be fussy. The downside is that the PID doesn't seem to read the tags properly for iTunes purchases, so you don't get all the proper formatting of the track, album, artist and cover art. Although that's probably not terribly important, depending on what you're doing with the thing at any point in time.

Latest update: 1) My dealer came up with nothing, after chatting to various technical specialists, who declared it to be a "Microsoft thing". 2) I fired in a comment to Škoda UK asking for more information and a response to the problem. 2a) Silly me, did it late night before Good Friday, so no response during the long weekend. 3) The very pleasant John called back acknowledging that it was something they were aware of, but don't have a fix for. 3a) Best suggestion was to find a friend with a PC who doesn't mind doing the update for me. 3b) He also mentioned that he's aware of these forums and occasionally dips in, so: Hello John! Ultimately, not much else there. John did emphasise that anyone else who has encountered this should let Škoda UK know about it, so they have more ammunition to push Navigon for a fix (and harass the people in Marketing, who I would see as being the people who forget to write things on the advertising like "Probably won't work with Macs, go and buy a PC instead, not our problem"). John did also suggest that the problem is unlikely to be fixed anytime soon. Short of handing the PID back and demanding a refund under Sale of Goods, which would kind of defeat the point, I think that everything that can be done has been done. I'll give it a few months now and, if I'm still unable to update my maps (or operating system), then I might go back to Škoda UK and ask what they plan on doing about it now. Cheers to those who have commented in support.