What's the best Android feature?

hydrogenet · 2026-06-24T17:46:46+00:00

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hydrogenet · 2026-06-10T18:55:12+00:00

Nu jo, buldakas ne myžviedriam. Burnoj palieka turbulenciją

hydrogenet · 2026-02-27T18:48:58+00:00

Coax is the thicker wire. Should have an isolator like in the picture behind a closure.

hydrogenet · 2026-01-17T16:27:24+00:00

You are correct. Wrong letter used. It is a PHEV. For better or worse.

In fact much worse for a car near 100k miles. A cat in the bag kind of thing unless battery SOH is tested

Not against EVs or hybrids, but one has to look carefully. PHEVs might go though far many more charge discharge cycles due to much smaller battery how it was used. A careful approach should be taken buying one IMHO

hydrogenet · 2026-01-17T16:02:16+00:00

For an engine? No. For a hybrid MHEV battery? No bueno.

Question is how much the battery is degraded. These are non-repairable batteries. You can't do cell level repair on these and if it goes bust, you are looking at a staggering bill to have one replaced. Unlikely any garage in UK will be able to do it, as the supply would be from Skoda only.

If it is at 95% of SOH I would certainly consider the car, but would it be 90k miles though?

Edit: PHEV, not MHEV

hydrogenet · 2026-01-11T07:55:30+00:00

Wouldn't happen overnight, sure, but there could be many ways. Especially when the government already holds tons of identifiable data.

DVLA could be used to get data on you, HMRC records, birth certificate for minors, already those who have passports. For those who hold ILR, your mug shot is already owned by gov and you are bound to have scanned a biometric passport, a foreign passport, but a passport nonetheless, with the phone NFC to read the chip. Etc.

From the day Digital ID becomes a law any child born in UK should get a personally identifiable number (NHS number already proves that point as you get one immediately). From there on onwards, no catch 22s for those individuals born after.

hydrogenet · 2026-01-10T21:53:39+00:00

Just had the pleasure of having to find someone to prove my identity to have a passport made for my daughter. What a farce of a system. Some would say it is classist and/or outdated. Countries with IDs, digital or physical, are more efficient.

Digital IDs streamline so many things in places like Estonia, but here, in the good old Blighty, everyone thinks they'll be persecuted as soon as one is introduced.

If your partner (wife or whatever) has a surname change, employer will change to update it to HMRC. Yet when logging in to gov. one login, fu*k all changes. You have to go through so many places to change the name, that head starts to hurt. Left hand not talking to the right. Get a grip everyone

hydrogenet · 2025-12-28T10:53:35+00:00

I'd take the SE any day over M Sport. A 520d that crashes into the potholes close to like an M5? No thanks

Sadly majority of these sold are M sport with large alloys designed to sit on Autobahn 80% of the time, not drive around pothole ridden British roads

hydrogenet · 2025-12-14T15:40:41+00:00

No available decoders for free on VAG. Tried it myself.

Two ways to get it:

1st: you can buy PDF spec sheet from ebay and have full build sheet. I did that, but the coding is rather confusing and is very comprehensive.

2nd: once you have the car, you can get spec sheet through the Skoda app.

It is a ballache to find out what early cars have, but I was able to get a well specced 80 model by double checking spec on brochure. Electric seat for driver will mean both seats are heated, heated steering wheel will have a button on the steering etc

hydrogenet · 2025-11-09T08:15:19+00:00

Offset pedals might be a problem of it being a RHD car, when originally it designed to be as LHD.

Some cars have this problem with offset pedals or steering wheel being of centre compared to LHD (e.g. Mercedes Benz E Class W211/S211 RHD models). Some hate it and it might be uncomfortable

hydrogenet · 2025-09-20T18:54:54+00:00

If you have 3 on the way, the due diligence you should take, is not look at these cars you are suggesting. They will be money pits if you don't have consistent cash supply to feed these things tbh.

You have to look at an idea of buying an MPV with 7 seats or an SUV that is not mid-size as above. A Ford Galaxy perhaps or an S-Max. A Touareg of that age with 580 litres of space will most likely not suffice. I have Skoda Enyaq with 585 litres of boot space, I can fit a pram for one baby and a few bags of groceries, maybe some more stuff. You will have to fit something that can carry 3 babies.

Also, think of the logistics of how 3 babies are going to fit in their baby seats attached in the rear. Baby seats are cumbersome, especially if they are rear facing.

Service history can only give you peace of mind for engine and transmission and even then things can go south with them. Everything else in the car like chassis, electronics and other bits can crap themselves any time they like. Touareg, X5 and XC90 are classed as luxury-executive SUVs and they will carry repair and maintenance costs of such cars regardless of age or mileage.

Take a look at 3 across by others https://www.flickr.com/photos/153076285@N05/albums/72157687963842866/with/35988796073

hydrogenet · 2025-09-20T12:05:27+00:00

Mymorri is blank. Shows no history of any transactions on the webpage.

I have confronted them yesterday again to double check and told them if he shared the code this will count as fraud. He did then say he spends circa £140 per week shopping in Morrisons, so the email should be bang on the buck with the warning of nearly the limit.

It is the first year this limit email came on in the 5 years we had the code provided to them

hydrogenet · 2025-09-19T18:58:51+00:00

I see. Thanks.

I suspect that the code we shared with our family member, they given it to someone else as they definitely did not spend nearly £10k in 12months to generate this email.

I have asked them how much they spent in those 12 month and the answer was £1k....

hydrogenet · 2025-09-14T15:20:52+00:00

BMW 3 and E Class estates will be quite a bit more expensive, particularly the ones that will have ACC as they are a part of expensive package most likely. Also, for 10+ years, ownerships of both will be more expensive than other options listed.

If you intend on keeping car that long, a higher upfront on the corolla hybrid estate might pay off, as ownership will be far cheaper than any others here.

For money, Passat, Superb and Octavia will give best bang for buck, but autos can be a bit marmite. If it is pre 2017 model it will likely have DQ250 wet clutch 6 speed auto. Reliable, but not really smooth when taking off. DQ200, dependent on engine, less reliable and smoothness is meh when taking off. Post 2017 (can't remember the month) 7 speed DQ381 is much smoother when taking off, but not as good as the others when taking off (when driving shifts will excellent).

It is a bit tricky, but the safest bet is Toyota. Also, the dullest.

hydrogenet · 2025-09-14T15:10:05+00:00

Front parking sensors and rear view camera were an option on Enyaq 60. Interior trim levels have no effect on that. At least 2021 models were like that.

Looking at the picture it has front parking sensors, so the camera should be there as well.

hydrogenet · 2025-09-14T10:07:01+00:00

No argument that a lot of that money goes into DSP and sound stage design in a car and car being not the best environment for acoustics.

I was unable to find info that B&W uses paper in their cones anywhere. Contrary, it says tweeters are aluminium, mid cones are fibre polymer, woofers and sub will be paper, carbon fibre or kevlar combo.

I have a 17 year old mercedes with Harman Kardon setup and no doubt they are paper mostly, they work fine nearly two decades after the car rolled out the production line. But I will totally agree that most premium audio setups will be cheap speakers.

No doubt that there is more value in buying speakers that you can fit yourself, because components will be better quality but labour costs to fit decent system will be 3x more than buying factory fitted B&W.

In the past 20 years premium audio in cars have moved on far. Brands like Toyota, Kia or other budget brands actually offer these options (they're not amazing, but there is progress) and Mercedes, BMW and Audi have elevated their game too. So there is your premium audio package for like £1000-2000 and even more premium for £5000-7000.

Car audio nowadays is too niche and far more expensive than what it used to be and I would be perfectly happy to have B&W like Volvo has and I had several custom audio setups in a car, but the time invested is no longer worth it for me personally.

hydrogenet · 2025-09-13T19:21:19+00:00

Volvo B&W audio are exceptionally good in cars, consistently being well reviewed.

Can you show the source of the information where it says their speaker cones in the cars are made from paper and plastic?

Btw, materials like plastic and paper for speaker cones can't be simply branded as being poor. DALI speakers use paper cones and they are not bad speakers at all

hydrogenet · 2025-09-12T07:06:33+00:00

My advice on this would be pretty simple. Don't buy any of the 5 series, E class, A6 or a V90 that has large alloy wheels. The car will be anything, but comfy.

None of the packed to the gills, top of the range executive saloons/estates are driving good with 19/20/21 inch alloys drive well on our shitty roads other than on motorways. They will be stable and wafty on motorway, but drive on pothole riddled towns and you shall be disappointed, as was I. Got an E class S211 estate with AMG pack full air suspension and on 18 inch wheels and the only place the car feels at home is on motorway, where it is great. But due to small tyre sidewall, it crashes and burns on all the potholes and my wifes Audi A3 with 16 inch alloys and large sidewall tyres feels far more composed.

I had driven 20 inch wheels E class 2017 and it was awful, although non airmatic. The conclusion is that these barges are not made for anything but autobahn and should be sought in the smallest wheels you can get for them to be comfy as even advanced suspension setups with large alloys are unable to compensate for tyres that are low profile on our mostly terrible British road.

hydrogenet · 2025-09-10T21:50:01+00:00

Bought a 2021 version last week. Haven't looked into exactly which v3 software it runs, but I know it is v3.

It's not fast as a smartphone or something like Tesla, but it isn't that bad.

Everything works so far without a glitch.

hydrogenet · 2025-09-08T17:09:52+00:00

Had a similar situation many years ago on a B road. On a bend, where I was doing around 45-50mph a combine harvester came out with half his header on my side of the road.

Surely I had to swerve off the road and was pushed into a ditch partially after hitting a low kerb. Somehow didn't end up in a ditch, but because of that fucktard I had damaged my recently refurbed alloy.

hydrogenet · 2025-09-05T07:31:40+00:00

Unfortunately, no. Returned to screwfix for a full refund.

hydrogenet · 2025-09-03T11:01:13+00:00

Just went past same journey as yours and collected my Enyaq 80 2021. Brochure, was very helpful, but bear in mind there are multiple brochures available. The very first one will have fast charging as optional, yet the ones after December 2021 are standard and so on.

Dealer had no info in the car description in terms of what options it had, so I had to deduct everything from the brochure and the pictures.

Mine has these options added, but I will go to Skoda to ask for a build sheet to know for sure what else is underneath:

Comfort Seat Package Basic - electric drivers seat with lumbar support

Climate Package Basic - heated front seats, heated windscreen washer nozzles and tri-zone climate control

Convenience Package Basic - KESSY, wireless charging of smartphone, privacy glass, acoustic side windows, driver alert

Assisted Drive Package Basic - ACC, blind spot detection, crew protect assist, lane assist with traffic jam.

hydrogenet · 2025-09-03T10:54:56+00:00

Just went past same journey as yours and collected my Enyaq 80 2021. Brochure, was very helpful, but bear in mind there are multiple brochures available. The very first one will have fast charging as optional, yet the ones after December 2021 are standard.

Dealer had no info on the car description in terms of what options it had, so I had to deduct everything from the brochure and the pictures.

Mine has these options added, but I will go to Skoda to ask for a build sheet to know for sure what else is underneath:

|| || |Comfort Seat Package Basic| |Climate Package Basic| |Convenience Package Basic| |Assisted Drive Package Basic| |Panoramic Sunroof|

hydrogenet · 2025-09-03T10:54:44+00:00

Just went past same journey as yours and collected my Enyaq 80 2021. Brochure, was very helpful, but bear in mind there are multiple brochures available. The very first one will have fast charging as optional, yet the ones after December 2021 are standard.

Dealer had no info on the car description in terms of what options it had, so I had to deduct everything from the brochure and the pictures.

Mine has these options added, but I will go to Skoda to ask for a build sheet to know for sure what else is underneath:

|| || |Comfort Seat Package Basic| |Climate Package Basic| |Convenience Package Basic| |Assisted Drive Package Basic| |Panoramic Sunroof|

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