September 2008
hi
i am looking to set a car pitch up and i am trying to find the cost of cap online per month..
i have looked at the cap site but its a bit vague with no prices
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Dear BackRoomers,
My 27,000 mile, 2.0FSI Octavia, registered in late May 2005, with full skoda Service History, has for the last six months or so been suffering from a constant, yet small, annoying oil leak, that has been making rather a mess on my driveway.
When the car was last serviced (+MOT'd + given a 3 year health check for any warranty issues) by my supplying Skoda dealer in May this year, I asked for the leak to be investigated, but other than a small amount of residue round the oil filter/sump drainage point, the dealer claimed that no fault could be found.
This week having got fed up with the oil spots slowly increasing I contacted my dealer again, they refused to carry out any investigations into the leak unless I paid for 0.5 hours labour (circa £60). Not happy with that response (together with the 25 mile round trip to the dealer) I took the car to a local garage, who investigated for problem for several hours at no cost to me - their conclusion was that the leak was from the rear main seal between the gearbox and engine - a major job for which they have quoted around 6 hours labour plus parts, for which they would charge me around £450.
They agreed with me that Skoda should have picked up this fault earlier in the year.
When I contacted my Skoda dealer to enquire about any chance of getting it done under the (now expired 3 year) warranty I got a poor response, indeed they have stated that if indeed that is where the fault lies, they will charge me a lot more than the £450 that the local garage has estimated!
I would welcome your opinions - is it worth taking this up with again with the dealer and demanding the work is carried out under warranty or raising it with head office - Skoda UK?
Many thanks
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If the dealer is as brazen as you portait they are indeed a bunch of fools. Write to Skoda UK and investigate the cost of bringing a small claims recovery against the dealer. Beyond that its a dead end for you.....and another lost customer for the idiots
Clearly the Skoda dealer reputation of old is dead and on this basis i'll not be spending my money with them in the future. Same goes for VAG in general. I have a company owned SEAT Leon which has been spent nearly 8 weeks in the garage for warranty repairs during which we were told no replacement car was available. Cost to company for hire cars......£1200 and rising! Great way to treat customers eh?
My other car is a Jaguar X diesel and whilst aware of the TDCI shortcomings and Mondeo in a party frock jibes ownership has been a pleasure despite TDCI injector issues dealt with under warranty and major air con fault dealt with FOC 2 months out of warranty.
Dealer (Oxford) is brilliant and secured quick resolution to both problems with a free replacement brand new Jag delivered to ones door FOC during the work. Now thats service!
Skoda anyone??
Does any one know the correct torque for the picasso sump plug on a Picasso 2.0 HDI 90 bhp. year 2005, If you do it would be a great help to me
Thanks. diy chris
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Have the Haynes manual for the Berlingo including versions with HDi 90. Although it specifies torque for the transmission drain all it says for the sump plug is to replace washer and tighten securely.
Hi there everyone I have a problem!
Does anyone know the colour coding for the audio on a Transit X reg 2001?
Whoever had the van before me has trimmed and messwed with the wires Read more
I don't know the colour coding for your transit but you can use a little trick and multimeter to find out what each wire does. Locate wire doubles for example green/white + green/black -, purple/white + purple/black -, now connect both wires to the + and - on a 9v battery (rectangle shaped battery) you should hear a crackle which will tell you if the wiring is for F/L, F/R, RR, RL speaker and go through all four sets. 12V Positive is usually red but you can verify by using a multimeter to check for voltage. Ignition is usually yellow or orange, again you can check this by turning the ignition on and off with the multimeter connected. Illumination orange or yellow, Remote wire is normally blue. Ground will be the black or brown wire. Any other wires should now be alot easier to figure out with the use of the radio diagram if available.
Hope this helps, good luck!
NEW DRIVEWAY LEGISLATION
From 1st October 2008 planning permission is now required to lay traditional impermeable driveways that allow uncontrolled runoff of rainwater.
Released by Communities and Local Government and Environment Agency called 'Guidance on the permeable surfacing of front gardens'
sounds like they are trying to blame the householder for all the flooding! because we have carelessly and thoughtlessly hard - surfaced our drives and thier sewers and drains cant cope.
Doh! - what will be next?
Billy
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Ausschalten motoren !!
Ausschalten !!
Hmmmm.
I think I've sold my 406, maybe.
This is a likely candidate. Aside from the woeful description, I think it looks okay for the price.
tinyurl.com/4qndrk
Questions I have asked the seller -
1. Service history?
2. When was the last cambelt/tensionser/water pump change?
3. Any bodywork defects, other than missing reflector?
4. Original engine (engine number unknown on HPI)?
Anything else that I should be asking before I commit to viewing it?
Cheers all,
DB Read more
So far, so good. Although I do need to drain the water out of the fuel filter, according to the warning light that has flashed a couple of times at me.....
The low down grunt of the 150 horses is unbelievable, especially after 2 years of trundling round in a wallowy 90 brake 406.....
DB
Hi there
I was wondering if anyone knows the gear ratios for 406 1.9 DT ???
Thanks
{Originally tagged to an old post, (www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=15657 )but now moved to a stand alone post} Read more
With regard to the policy of seizing uninsured motor vehicles, I know this applies to vehicles being driven on a road but does it apply to a vehicle being driven on a public place (supermarket car park say)? The reason I ask is that a person needs to be insured to drive on a road or public place, if a person is caught driving around a supermarket car park (open to the public) or on a public park without any insurance can the vehicle be seized under the legislation? Read more
From my friend Blackstone:
Public Place under the Road Traffic Act
In order for it to be proven that somewhere is a "Public Place" for the purposes of road traffic offences it must be shown by the prosecution that:
Those people who are admitted to the place in question are members of the public and are admitted as such, not as members of some special or particular class of the public (eg people belonging to an exclusive club) or as a result of some special characteristic that is not shared by the public at large, and;
Those people are so admitted with the permission, express or implied, of the owner of the land in question.(DPP v Vivier [1991])
Places that have stated cases that show them to be public places are:
1. A privately-owned Caravan site open to campers (DDP v Vivier [1991])
2. A school playground used outside of school hours as a leisure park by members of the public (Rodger v Normand 1994)
3. The "Inward Freight Immigration Lanes" at Dover Eastern Docks (DPP v Coulman [1993])
4. A field used in connection with an agricultural show (Paterson v Ogilvey [1957]) - but only during the life of the Show
5. A Multi Storey car park (Bowman v DPP [1991])
6. Car Park attached to commercial premises intended only for use of customers but accessible froma public place and with no restrictions placed on people entering the car park (May v DPP [2005])
7. Pub Car Park a Public place (R (On the Application of Lewis) v DPP.) To bring back to private there must be either a permanent or temporary form of physical obstruction to be overcome to enter the place. (R v Waters [1963] Note: A Pub Landlord, by ordering people to leave the pub car park doesn't do enough to turn a public place (the car park during opening hours) into a private place.
At the end of the day it is for the Court to decide and the prosecution to show who uses the place, when and for what purpose.
dvd
www.wigantoday.net/wigannews/Drink-driver39s-warni...p
The guy drank 8 tins of cider before setting off on a 400 mile round trip during which he drank another 16 tins - it just completely takes my breath away !
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As the TV show reminds us, "Let's be careful out there." A week ago, one of my coworkers went bar-hopping on a Sunday afternoon, going from one place to another on his brand new, $13,000 Harley-Davidson motorbike. On his way home, he came around a sharp bend too quickly (speed limit 45 at that point) and crashed.
Holy buckets, Batman! He could have killed himself, instead he suffered some scrapes and bruises, (wasn't wearing a helmet) and the bike was damaged to the point it had to be towed away for repairs. Had there been any police around he would have been busted for drink driving, no doubt at all--he said he'd had enough to drink that he didn't remember leaving the last watering hole. I'm not entirely sure he learned his lesson from it either.
Now, I'm no teetotaler, not by a long shot (breaks into chorus of "I Am A Cider Drinker") but golly gee folks, if you're gonna do stuff like that please refrain from Demon Rum before getting behind the wheel. That's some head-shakingly dumb behaviour. Yowsa!
Thought this info may be usuful to other Megane Scenic owners. Had a problem with mine in that sometimes it would start first turn of the key other times it took two, three or more attempts. The culprit was the Top dead center (TDC) sensor. The sensor is located on top of the gear box next to the engine block and is held in place by 2 bolts. All that needed to be done was to remove the sensor clean with WD40 or simular and replace, a 10 min job. This was done 2 weeks ago and the car now starts first time every time!
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IIRC the electronic version is about £800 per year. The premium and PDA versions if you need them are more.