Wotcha!

I got my kid an Octavia mk3 as first car - here in Sydney, but I'm what is known locally as a Pom

Already had one expensive bill - the dreaded water pump, so keen to look at DIY for further maintenance, and back bushings are squeaky, so there's clearly some stuff to do.

I work on cars as a hobby - most recent success was rebuilding a Golf 1.4tsi twin-charged motor which suffered the cracked piston problem which was detected early - cylinder walls were ok, and the car has done 10k kms since then without any oil top up.

G'day or whatever time it is down under and welcome to Briskoda @xlot

After the ' Wotcha!' intro I thought you were gonna say your name was Robert Peston 🤣

had to google him (thats how long I've been out of the UK)

nah, its just one of those weird colloqualisms.. if I said that to an Aussie they'd be confused so I took the chance to get it out of my system.

and omg.. MIB1 upgrade paths to carplay are um.. weirdly tricky. Much tougher than the RCD-330 for my other kid's 2009 golf.

22 minutes ago, xlot said:

had to google him (thats how long I've been out of the UK)

nah, its just one of those weird colloqualisms.. if I said that to an Aussie they'd be confused so I took the chance to get it out of my system.

and omg.. MIB1 upgrade paths to carplay are um.. weirdly tricky. Much tougher than the RCD-330 for my other kid's 2009 golf.

Yeah, always starts his show with 'wotcha' lol

And yeah, updating HU's has gone backwards and sideways and any which way!