Recent content by Woodentop

We've been insured both car and house/contents with LV for many years. However last year the (72 plate) car went up from £366 to £533 with no changes. I talked them down to £506. This year it has gone up to £566, again with no changes. They could get it down to just under £540 but wouldn't go...

Here's a thought for you. When you load the van to, say, about 1440kg when it has an MTPLM of 1450kg (which is usually the rating of the axle), what happens to the extra load when you/family/guests are sitting inside (during a rain storm.) The payload then would be way over the max axle load. I...

RDS/EON/TP is a wonderous thing on FM, and most such radios still monitor TP even if you are on DAB at the time. This, of course, always assumes the radio receives TP! We have had six VAG vehicles (4x VW, 1x Seat, and 1x Skoda.) All of them got TP rock solid. We are in Harrogate and all of them...

For the record Tesco uses O2 infrastructure so you have tried two on the same system. Also did the device using 3 have 4G capability as 3 have now closed down their 3G system and operate only on 4G. Phone sensitivity IME is never as good as a mi-fi unit as it has some much much more to do. A...

I thought that when we (finally) left the transfer of data between the EU and the UK for motoring offences was ceased. Is this not so?

You need to increase the heating power - to 2kw or 3kw depending what your van has. Then (assuming you are talking about showers) you mix cold water with the hot to give you a warm shower, and you use it ONLY when you need it, most definitely NOT continuously! It also seems to help if you have...

For the record, a power MOSFET is a positive temperature device, i.e. as it gets hotter so its resistance rises and the current limits. I have never seen an audio power MOSFET amplifier with failed outputs. Conventional transistors for instance do the exact opposite - as temp rises the...

Is this a local engineer of a PowrTouch engineer? If it is the Powrtouch that is problematic you should contact them as they have techs all over the country that should be far better equipped than a local both in parts and between the ears!

I would totally agree with Bill. We have had three Passat estates - two 140bhp and the last one 150bhp - and they have been superb throughout. As we are now - shall we say no longer young - we changed this time to a Skoda Karoq 2L TDi 150bhp Sportline. It has the advantage of sitting higher so...

With respect I answered the questions and comments made by the OP. I can see nothing about any particular caravan product.

A few points: Are you UK or RoI based because the rules on towing my be different; It would be useful to know the make and model of the caravan - those weight figures seem very light. Looking at the figures. as torque can vary between models of the same range most people work on engine power. A...

Now this may sound stupid, but have you checked that the vehicle is homologated to tow? Find the vehicle label - usually on a B-pillar (the central pillar on either side) - and make sure it has four lines of text - the top two will be plain numbers, the lower two will be preceded by 1 and 2. 1...

In electrikery watts is watts, so whatever wattage the TV is rated for mains will be roughly the same when running off 12V. A slight variation will be because there will be a mains/12V external power supply to run the TV from mains which is slightly less than 100% efficient.

Don't be misled. Two differences with DAB/DAB+ and TV: (1) DAB/DAB+ is vertically polarised in the UK (it was designed for cars after all) but TV can be horizontal or vertical which can cause poor DAB/DAB+ signals if your aerial is horizontal for TV; (2) DAB/DAB+ is not necessarily transmitted...

As I commented above, for the best reception of DAB you MUST have the aerial vertical which you can achieve by turning the handle on the bottom of the aerial mount shaft. Whilst it will help to point it in roughly the right direction, the DAB section of the aerial within the case will be...