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Can anyone kindly help please. Heavy traffic. Done probably a mile at less than walking pace. I'm in D2 on the DSG controlling speed of creep on the foot brake. Suddenly with no warning engine revs rise fast to 3200. Hold for 1 or 2 seconds then drop to normal. These revs have no effect on road speed or I would have smashed into car(s) in front. I know how fast this thing can accelerate. In fact it is very unruffled and feels fully under control all round. Like the car or just the gearbox is pretending not to notice anything unusual at all. It has done this three times (all in crawl) in the last three months. Dealer says never heard of it but "lets get it in and see what we can find"--like my wallet. Thanks.

I've failed to find the answer to this, probably because I have not yet looked in the right place. Is the suspension ,all the components ,tougher on the Kamiq compared with the Fabia Scala or Octavia, so more likely to survive the potholes. I look on the Kamiq as a mini off-roader. Thanks

Can one of you very smart blokes tell me this. (It puzzles me). Is the fuel used to start automatically greater than would be used by sitting and idling. Or does it vary with how long it is between stop and start. OR in other words does stop start REALLY save fuel or just make you feel good about saving the air quality (while wrecking your starter motor and your battery). Just for info I really like stop start (but hate its lousy performance when everything is cold) but don't like the feeling I might have been "had". Could have been researched by some students one day. Best wishes. Thank you very much.

It is easy to confuse Automatic Braking warning and Unsmooth ( or Non fluid )driving warning

I am trying to like the Scala enough to buy one to replace my fabulous Fabia estate. Before the Fabia I had an early Rapid which had a good engine and gearbox and nothing else. I keep looking at the Scala as an updated Rapid Spaceback. But my head tells me it is just much better than than that. It must be mustn't it? Does anyone reckon on a Scala estate one day? Any thoughts will be much appreciated.

The day I change my Fabia Estate for whatever I get draws near. I've just discovered the cars I'm thinking of do not have 12 volt fag lighter sockets -- only USB-C. You can get USB to 12 volt female socket converter adaptors. Please does anyone know, are all USB outlets the same size. None of the convertors say what USB type -- B or C, they are. Or is there any other way of using my Tyre pressure pump or Garmin. Progress eh? Thank you.

I feel let down. Discarded by Skoda. After a Datsun Bluebird, Two Honda Accords,(very good) a Citroen Xantia TDI (Fantastic ten years of faultless service), Mark 2 Octavia 1.9 TDI (incredible kept near ten years), Then a really bad car -an early Rapid diesel. Hated it apart from the engine and now the car I wish I could have married years ago, the nicest-to-drive car I've ever had: my fabulous Fabia 1.2 TSI DSG Estate . Just looking at it makes me feel good. I could drive it all day and night with a smile on my face. What the bl***y h**l is that vile copy of some weird Citroen called a mark four Fabia. If it is anything like that in real life that's it. Kia for me or Seat [but the engine and gear box selection is dire]. Sorry Skoda it was good while it lasted . "Nothing good ever lasts". {As Iris DeMent says}

Intriguing. Just looked at mine (Fabia Combi 1.2 Petrol DSG May 2017) and both sides have the gap filled with thin black plastic strip. A bit like the stuff inside Chocolate boxes. Nicely made properly cut out to fit and has a neat little clip built in at the bottom to keep it in place. But what for? It is obviously not waterproof. Is it just to hide something? What ? nasty welding or dangling cables? I hope there is no water logged foam behind it. Why is it needed?

Just another thought on this topic. All these tiny ferrous particles floating about ---do we breath them in ? Day in day out. I know we need iron to survive but I don't want to sniff it up my nose. Time to wear a mask all day like the Japanese.

That is a brilliant idea---rusty particles. Thank you both. No idea where they could have come from and really do not believe they were there before it went into the wash booth. They were so obvious after the wash they were impossible to miss. Perhaps they were covered by the dust and muck the car wash removed. The whole shelf looked like a maniac barista had shaken his cocoa pot over the thing. It really was a jaw drop moment. And why were there no spots anywhere else? Other ideas. The car spent the whole of August in an airport car park outdoors but under one of those sail like taut canvas shades. Do aircraft produce iron filings? There had been no metal cutting done any where around. When I think about it that shelf is the only surface that is perfectly flat and does gather and retain water during rain storms. And does take a while to dry out by evaporation. It annoys me a lot to be honest. ( Like the size and position of all four direction indicators --both lousy) . I will look into Iron-x. Thank you for your replies.

This is a total mystery. Shoved my Fabia Estate Candy White through a car wash today. Got cloth to dry bits missed by blowers and got stopped in my tracks. As you all know the estate has a perfectly flat horizontal shelf just below the bottom edge of the tail gate. It was covered in hundreds or thousands of tiny light brown specks the size of a newspaper full stop. Or a Briskoda full stop. .... ...... .. ..... After I cancelled the heart attack I almost had I checked the rest of the car. Nothing anywhere. Not a single speck. I used a magnifying glass. The specks could be felt by finger tips and snagged on my thumb nail as I pushed it through them. One or two flew off but the vast majority stayed put no matter how hard I bashed them with my thumb nail. I tried soapy water. Neat washing up liquid. Meths. Hammerite thinners. Nothing touched them. A thirty year old tin of weird American polish with a warning it is slightly abrasive did nowt. The upturned ends of the shelf had no spots--only the flat surface facing the sky. After about four hours rubbing the shelf with a worn out green and yellow dish wash sponge and Car Care polish used with all the pressure of my thumb hand and arm I have shifted 90 per cent. I may stop there. I can barely form my hand into a fist tonight !! This will have to go top of my total mystery list. Probably oddest thing ever to happen to me. Asking you all--any ideas seems a long shot but who knows?. Thank you for reading.

But when is the original question going to be answered ??

Excellent info. Thank you very much. I am going to drive round the block which will activate central locking and then get out to see if I can open my boot. NO NO NO . I'm going to drive round the block to lock everything then get my wife who has been standing in the street to try to open the boot. It should still be locked if I don't open a door. But I will drive far enough for the faint clunk to happen or it will not show whether the faint clunk is the boot unlocking or not. If the boot is still locked after the faint clunk I will be quite happy that I will not get a traffic light robbery. And put it down to your excellent suggestions. Thank you.

Thanks for reply. Very soon after moving off -say first 10 yards - all my doors lock AND the boot. I know this because It often stops my wife opening the boot to put shopping in. So the faint far-away clunk after 5 or 10 minutes OR after I reach 20/25 mph (or whatever) must be 1) the system trying to lock my boot (but NOT my doors) a second time OR 2) the system unlocking my boot (but NOT my doors). And I would know this because the door latch is pretty close to my ear-hole ! How can I find out which it is? How do I access the settings for automatic door locking? Do I get to it thru the infotainment screen? Or what? A trip to the dealer? I would like to find out because I don't want my boot unlocked after a few minutes (if that IS what is happening). I've read the handbook so often I can safely say it is pretty damn poor English and clarity.

When I drive off after an engine-off stop I hear a faint but distinct sound exactly like the boot door locking or unlocking itself. (It is Fabia Mk3 Estate). I have puzzled over this for months and read the handbook and tried to work out if it is speed or time related. I am NOT talking about the automatic door locking system which happens very quickly after move off and is loud because it is all doors locking and doors are close to where I sit. This is faint and pretty surely right at the end of the car and can sometimes take a mile or more to occur if I have got into a crawl from the off. It is likely speed related rather than time related. Any ideas please? I am not complaining or moaning, just to make it clear, but just intrigued. Many thanks I shall be pretty narked with myself if it is in the handbook !!!