After some 3k posts, I figured I best make a very late hello.

 

 

As a child I was always pulling things to pieces!  If it had electricity inside it, I had the tools out pulling it apart, I was deeply fascinated by how they worked.  I put some broken things back together and they worked, but not always successful!

 

At school, we had very limited exposure to PC's, we had to look almost and not touch the things... it was awful for someone that likes to know what makes things tick.  They were I think 486 processors, but I do remember they had 25MHz clock speed and one of those turbo buttons, that I think would boost them to 33MHz!  I had to have one, so I saved up some money and brought an 8086 CPU PC that was the old school library machine, it had green screen that gave you "pink eye" when you looked away from it, turning everything pink 😬

 

I then self-taught myself everying I could about the MS-DOS 6.22 OS and command line was king back then, I loaded Windows 3.11 and spent time tweaking and wiping it several times learning.

 

So then naturally progressed to working in the IT field for a few years, building/repairing/networking.  I was in heaven doing this as my daily job.

 

Circumstances change as they do in life, so I ended up working as a Taxi driver for many years also, and unlike most that thought maintenance was a dirty word, I kept my car pristine and in good working order.  It was again, going back to my childhood, how I wanted to know how things worked that I started to learn as much as I could about features of the car, so getting workshop manuals/wiring diagrams etc... nothing changes!

 

I did then a short stint in a garage environment, but was never allowed to do much work on the motors, though I was often called up to assist with things during engine rebuilds or other such tasks.

 

I am now a carer for my wife, so I no longer working, which is why I am available here to assist.  Given the cost of living crisis going on, I try to help people out where I can with assistance where possible on their cars, so it could be firmware files for infotainment or snippets of the workshop manuals to help out with repair information.  So I am not a mechanic, but I have pulled apart and done many DIY things over the years, so fairly confident to tackle tasks.

 

 

Good to ‘meet’ you, sounds like you have a good breadth of experience to draw on there and fair play to you for always offering help if you can 👍

 

Thanks @Modders I do try my best to help out wherever I can to save people some money where possible 🤝

Only took you twelve and a bit years - you've been here longer than I have! 🤣

 

G

3 minutes ago, Gaz said:

Only took you twelve and a bit years - you've been here longer than I have! 🤣

 

G

Daft thing was 12 years ago I had a Passat 😆

1 hour ago, varooom said:

Daft thing was 12 years ago I had a Passat 😆

 

Snap!

 

'99 B5 AFN 110TDI Estate.  Sold it to a mate.  Five years later I was helping him with a pump timing issue, took it out for a test drive around the block and wondered why on earth I got rid of it! 🙄

 

G

I had several Passats over the years @Gaz, only got a very low mileage Superb 2015 (less than 500 iirc) but sold it a few years later as I was doing 6 miles to work each way for a petrol corsa.  I miss the Superb, but the DPF would have been shot with those short journeys in no time.

I will be taking leave of the forum for an indefinite time period.

 

I wish you all the best, and I am happy to have helped a lot of people.

All the best dude. 😁

You have been an enormous asset to the forum, I have only just read your posting of 8th February explaining your background and (then) current position which was a real eye opener and made me appreciate you all the more.

 

Then to read on to todays announcement was a real shock, I am guessing that it relates to your wifes condition and can only offer you both my support and best wishes, dont hesitate to look back in if you need support or to talk.

before you can upload to me all firmware for Skoda scala i want help all Skoda people

57 minutes ago, Valle90 said:

before you can upload to me all firmware for Skoda scala i want help all Skoda people

@Rainesh Should have these files to send along.

 

And yes @J.R. I do currently need to focus on the wife, and hopefully I will be back, just I have no idea on the timeline.

Toodle pip Matey 👋

 

Hope things pan out well for Mrs varooom, and that you can come out to play when time and circumstances allow 👍

 

It's always playtime at Brisky, so we'll be here 

 

Gaz

 

My thoughts are with you both.

Take care @varooom...   Hope things pan out and you make it back.