I suddenly realised the other day that I have now owned Betty the Bentley for just over 3 months. I had been watching a youtube video where somebody was talking about the costs of owning one of these cars,  the numbers he was talking were simply unreal. He was one of these guys that wants everything to be like new but doesn't know one end of a screwdriver from another and was paying specialists an absolute fortune to do the simplest of jobs. He is the polar opposite of me, I do everything myself and while I won't skimp on quality I won't pay 5 or 10 times what I need to.

Just a brief one this, in case it helps somebody out. My mate came to me saying his van wasn't running right and that it had gone in to limp mode. I only have a basic code reader rather than a VW specific one but it was good enough to tell me that it had a p0201 code as well as 3 others. The 3 others cleared and din't come back, I believe they were caused by the misfire rather than being the cause, the 0201 code came straight back every time we started the car.

I took Betty out to see how well she was running with nice new coils and plugs - the answer to that is very well indeed. She's as smooth as a cashmere cod piece and it could be me but she seems to pick up better than ever it ever has in my possession. I gave her some beans and she responded beautifully, she does very well for an old lady of her weight and girth.

I started my car up the other day and the TPMS warning light stayed on, going in to the menu showed that the front left tyre was showing 8 psi. I checked the pressure with a gauge and it was at 32 - which is bang on. The problem persisted over several starts / stops of the engine so I took it to my local tyre place.