cleared out my boot of unwwanted stuff, found an old set of plates and a brand new autoglym chamois in the spare wheel well... Result

I drove it to Southampton to buy some stuff for my holiday, and popped into Regal on the way back to order a new rear dubmeister plate. Also ordered another surround from ebay, which will be secured with the same screws as before, but with washers and maybe some sticky back stuff as well to make sure the little chavs can't yank it off again

Fitted a piggyback fuse holder into the fuse box, and then routed a spare 12v cigar socket in behind the side of the dash and connected the power lead from the Garmin to that. Now means that I don't have a lead spread across the dash, and that we can both plug our phone chargers in at the same time, into the double socket fitted to the centre console.

Sounds good. Been meaning to do this myself, for similar reasons. Have you got a link to the parts you used?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=piggy+back+fuse

I had a spare socket in the shed so just soldered that on to the lead, and used the fusebox mounting bolt for the earth.

Changed the pollen filter earlier. Now I expected it needed changing, but good grief! To be fair, that's 2 years of ownership now and I've forgotten to ask/check if it's been done at service. Clearly it hadn't - so it's been in there at least that long....

The new one is so white it barely gets picked up properly in the photo

So for the sake of £7 it's a no-brainer. Look at it! And all that debris fell out - the mat was freshly vacced at the weekend.

Are you sure your original was not a carbon filter, they are grey, I always replace with these, I was going to send you the link from ebay but it has ended now, 11.49 skoda, 7.49 from him, same price as a normal white one

tried to get the bird poop off my bonnet

Easiest way is to pour boiling water on to a cloth, leave 2 mins then place over bird poo, leave it over it for at least an hour, then hose or snow foam it off

Are you sure your original was not a carbon filter, they are grey, I always replace with these, I was going to send you the link from ebay but it has ended now, 11.49 skoda, 7.49 from him, same price as a normal white one

Could well have been underneath Alan, but it was pretty ingrained with grime!

If you've got a link to the ended one, I'll take a look and use one of those next time

I spent a long time looking under the bonnet...

I can't believe the engine and box actually fits in there!

I spent a long time looking under the bonnet...

I can't believe the engine and box actually fits in there!

They're in?

They're in?

Temporarily, :p

Trial fit before we get carried away.

Left the car on the drive. I can't see to drive it at the moment

Easiest way is to pour boiling water on to a cloth, leave 2 mins then place over bird poo, leave it over it for at least an hour, then hose or snow foam it off

I just spray glass cleaner on it, leave it a couple of mins. the glass cleaner breaks it down then rinse off.

Had a new could pack fitted by Skoda Assist after my very clever car decided it didn't like that one...

Also spoke to Skoda CS about rejecting said vehicle...

Is that a 'coilpack' Damo?

I just spray glass cleaner on it, leave it a couple of mins. the glass cleaner breaks it down then rinse off.

Glass cleaner will break down your wax

I almost completely removed the door card of my seemingly permanently locked door. Hopefully will get it off completely tomorrow and get at the problem and fix it (may require a trip to the scrapyard for bits)

bought a new front drivers seat for Oscar, the bolster had a rip in the old and put new gasket and cleaned the throttle body up! Car pulls really well after doing that!

I fixed the annoying tinny rattle that the newly fitted exhaust had adopted on my Favorit, the rear pipe was too close to - and vibrating against - the nearside top bolt that holds the rear bumper on! All quiet now though

I fixed the annoying tinny rattle that the newly fitted exhaust had adopted on my Favorit, the rear pipe was too close to - and vibrating against - the nearside top bolt that holds the rear bumper on! All quiet now though

A good trick someone posted on the forums a while ago, is to use an old auxiliary drive belt cut up, in conjunction with appropriately sized wire rope grips. I did it on my old Favorit, worked a treat and MOT tester was happy with it.

All I can do with my Skoda today is sit and look at it. Still can't see well enough to drive it.

todays skoda mission was, see the wheel refurbisher about getting the gf's minor kerb incident sorted and dropped my grille surround and lower bumper grille off for colour coding

now to knockhill for some BTCC action....

I completely removed the door card on my permanently locked door, and almost got the carrier off, but i'm struggling with a guide i found online. I might take another look in a minute. Hopefully it won't chuck it down, else my carpet might get a bit wet (cloud isn't looking good)

hopefully the duct tape I've just put round the door will keep this downpour out

Now I've lost a screw that holds something, somewhere inside the door Nothing is ever simple