Graham Butcher

You know what, I just Googled and it seems that the council in my city still do MOT's, albeit £10 more than Skoda, but it might be worthwhile going there next time.👍

I think so as well, I'm not aware of the council still doing MOTs. Years ago they used to service the ambulance fleet and they also did MOTs which is where I used to go all the time. Then the ambulance service was privatised and all of that stopped. And no it was not a cheap cut price test centre I went to, it was the main Skoda service centre for my area.

I can now confirm that this tester is in fact pretty good for casual user and would seem to be pretty accurate, mine has arrived and tested it, works perfectly and it seems that my fluid has 1% water content, which is pretty normal for fluid 1 year old. When they reseat the O/S/F shock absorber, I'll ask them to bleed that disc again and check on the fluid that comes out for excessive dirt etc.

How about this report? Porsche driver's infuriating act at electric vehicle charging station (msn.com)

Not here, the hospital outside the city, all there is near it are houses with their own drives so the parking could well be free as nobody would leave their car there and catch a train to London, the station is miles away.

No that happens sometime later.

They do tend to treat their cars as such, it highly likely that their cost is just small change to them over there.

Most people would thank you for doing that 😉

The whole thing is disgusting in opinion.

Yes it did drive out, but the battery is supposed to be fitted with breathers and water will enter through them. In the floods of New Orleans EVs were burning due to battery corrosion from the flood water getting in.

How screwed is this person going to be in a while when they find water has got into their battery pack.

Other brands are also available 😊

I just came this on another site, and it makes you think about how things are today. Kids just don't know what it was like for us older generation 😁 CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930's, 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's and Early 80's !!! First, you survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, your baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints. You had no childproof lids on medicine ..medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when you rode your bikes, you had no helmets, not to mention, the risks you took hitch-hiking .. As children, you would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun. You drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle. You shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. You ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but you weren't overweight because...... YOU WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! You would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on. No one was able to reach you all day. And you were OK. You would spend hours building your go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out you forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, you learned to solve the problem . You did not have Play stations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........YOU HAD FRIENDS and you went outside and found them! You fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents you played with worms(well most boys did) and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. You made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although you were told it would happen, you did not poke out any eyes. You rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them! Local teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!! The idea of a parent bailing you out if you broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. You had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and you learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS! You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

This just made me chuckle, they make adverts like this anymore.

Also known as Marigolds 😁

@J.R.The standard way of addressing someone directly on a forum like this is as I have done in this reply with @ and the username because it is an open forum rather than a direct message or an email thus anybody could post a message between your post and my post making keeping track of the conversation flow rather difficult if not impossible. That does not however mean that others cannot chip and make a point, even if it's clearly addressed, like in this post, because it is in the open where all members can see it, anyone is free to chip whenever they feel like it. This is how I believe forums work, is it not?

Geez, I'm not, it was an open question to anyone who might know the answer 😉

Hmm, I've always found the Superb to be a quiet car, but it will make a massive difference between the top L&K and the base models which have far less sound deadening material in them.

I suppose the logic is that if the fluid in the reservoir is showing water then it is a safe bet that the fluid else where also has water in it and needs to be replaced. Also of course, fluid being fluid it will never stay in one place, it will work its way throughout the system, especially if the fluid in calipers does get close to boiling point then that will create bubbles which will migrate upwards to the reservoir and these bubbles will be steam which when condensing will become water droplets again. Dark fluid that you will often see when bleeding at the calipers would be heavier metallic and dirt particles suspended in the brake fluid which perhaps don't tend to migrate, being heavier than air/steam bubbles?

Here is a test of one of those and it appears to be good.

Oh thats nasty then, I never realised that your insurance would be liable under those circumstances. I thought the insurance would only be valid, if the car was driverless, i.e. the handbrake fails and it rolls into another car etc. Under the conditions of it being stolen had never crossed my mind. What about if you had declared the car as being off road and being used, therefore no need to insure the car, so what if its gets stolen then and is involved in an accident? As to the owner not being there in the Halford's event and his insurer paid out 2 claims, surely there must be a mechanism in the system whereby those claims could be removed and transferred to Halford's insurer, in this case Aviva so the owner is not penalised for having his car serviced and the mechanics crashing it?

I've just ordered a brake fluid tester from Amazon which will be here tomorrow. I'll have a look at the size of the flap in the tyre and then decide on what to do.

Well, that is what I thought at first, that the tester was somewhat new and being ultra cautious, then I thought about it and just wondered if the superglue might in some react with the tyre and make things worse, being as it's on a sidewall where there will a lot of flexing happening. Also of course as I don't do that many miles, the same tyre is likely to still be on the car at the next MOT, and it might appear like I was trying to cover something up to the tester?

Yes, it would seem that the car has been involved in an accident at the front at some point in its life, as my garage has found some evidence of this and told me about it. They did say however that it was only a minor accident. I did a few car checks on it with the likes of Car Vertical before agreeing to buy the car, and they all came up clean in every respect so the accident was never recorded. With regard to the slight warping, all discs were new when I purchased the car, as were the pads and calipers. The car had failed it previous MOT in Sept 2022 on all 4 tyres below legal limit, offside front and rear pads had less than 1.5mm of material left and the offside front shock absorber had a serious fluid leak. The garage selling the car gave it another MOT on 15th April 2023 and it passed with zero problems. The nearside front shock absorber had slight oil misting as an advisory on its MOT in Oct 2021, not any mention of it in 2022 or 2023 test, so I expect that has not been changed and the last 2 testers decided it was not worthy of a mention?

Exactly, especially as it appears that he was totally unaware of the claims having been made, you'd have expected the insurance company to made contact with him and got his version of events?