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Again, thanks for taking the trouble to help. Much appreciated..

Totally common thing on standard cars. It's a general wear&tear as mentioned by Evolution13

The one i got had the groove so more like a groment. Guess an O rings fine if it does the job. Some jobs you just have to do yourelf, i hate being blatantly ripped off!

Hi! Im also looking for the firmware, if someone is able to help me Part number : 3T0 035 686 H HW : H23 SW : 6270 West europe @pab567

Yeah replacing the sensor resolved all the issues. Think the one I got was from Euro Car Parts.

So just had half an hours play during lunch and new pollen filter in (old one was pretty manky), new rear wiper blade fitted (had a spare refill in the garage) and a new green auto headlight switch from Aliexpress fitted and working as it should. Wheelarch liners on the list when I have a day free...

Hi I am looking to retrofit aftermarket blind spot detection lights in the wing mirrors and researching how to get two wires out to the door. Many moons ago when adding speakers to the doors of my mk3 golf, I drilled a hole through both sides of the plug to create a hole to thread a cable through. I am keen to do things with a bit more finesse. There seems to be plenty of availability for the door side of the plug e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wiring-Harness-Replacement-1K0937702C-1K0959843C/dp/B0F7R9DHXW or even indivual wires with the pins on, but I cant seem to find anything for the car side of the plug. Or is the car side full of wires and I would just need to cut one that is unused currently to tap in to? Thanks

Was the new ECU cloned from the old one. If there is a software problem it may still be there as its been copied? Alasdair

Hi. Bought a Skoda Fabia Estate yesterday which is suffering from the crackly CarPlay issue. Please could someone send me the updated firmware file to fix this? thank you 👍 <email address removed to prevent you getting spam> Only send this information via the PM (Private Messaging) function to trusted members. If the PM function is not yet available to you, tagging the member and asking them to start a conversation will work. Briskoda admin.

I had this come up as an advisory (the only one!) on the last MOT and I just got one from ebay. the OG one was quite cracked and the replacement was just a large O-Ring. (the OG one had the groove all the way around it but the new one did not) it doesn't appear to have caused a problem. it closes, it clicks, it seals.) I'd have been livid if I'd been told over £60 to replace that!

Hm. Well. Okay. I just finished an 1800km drive through the continental European summer heat, and while I hope that what I felt was just the flu (yeah, somehow I caught the flu in the summer, ugh!) I am not 100% certain that the air conditioning was always working up to snuff. So, since my older generations OBDeleven device can't capture and graph live data, and before I shell out €85 for a current generation OBDelevent device, are there any other diagnostic port readers that you Briskodans would recommend over the OBDeleven gen3 device (without going up to a €1000+ professional kit)? many thanks,

That's the expected outcome. There's a small possibility that, for some reason, the USB was disabled when you first reset the multimedia to factory settings. Or that the USB got some internal error and stored error code, until you delete error code in 5F module it will be disabled. It's certainly not possible to solve this without diagnostics. Cheapest option would be some Real HEX-V2 VCDS clone (FlyOBD is best) on Ali for 50€, it pay itself very quickly.

I've unplugged and reconnected the entire radio about five times already, so I should get it right at least once :D Today I tried uploading the original .bin file, and sure enough, the USB port is still not visible. I'm waiting for a new USB port and I'll start replacing it. Maybe it was damaged earlier, after I used it to change the station logo. I use it to power my dashcam every day.

will do thanks

Many luxury cars are incredibly low mileage though, tend to spent a lot of time in warm garages and lower spec cars become daily drivers.

@Stonekeeper yes it’s the delay and also the sensitivity of the throttle pedal sensor. I ve read on posts previously that this sensitivity can be adjusted via VAGCOM. We’ve owned 3 different versions of the DSG gearbox: 6 speed DQ250 wet clutch with 2.0 TDI, 7 speed DQ200 dry clutch 1.2 TSI 110 bhp (Fabia) and 7 speed DQ381 2.0 TSI (Karoq). Combination of 6 speed and 2.0 TDI had no perceptible creep delay probably due to diesel low down torque, most noticeable delay is with the Fabia - it’s a smaller engine and it’s a 2015 so DSG and engine software have no doubt been improved since. The 2.0 TSI Karoq, once I mastered the technique, is as good as the 6 speed.

Perhaps ask in the Octavia forum. No idea sorry.

Sounds like it's an art learnt over time. I think the problem might be that because we are relying on sensors on the pedals the reliability is governed by them maintaining their accuracy. The thing i noticed is the delay or latency in the detection. With autohold on when you release the brake and touch the accelerator pedal if it doesn't move the temptation is to press harder which if it then kicks in can have negative consequences. Once you learn the latency it's safer.

I honestly can't remember whether the doors had standard door cards in them. I have to assume they would. I've looked at other cars and keep coming back to the scout. The reason is that I do some work with Forestry England in Kielder Forest and my poor 2014 Focus doesn't have a huge amount of ground clearance. I've had to reattach the exhaust heat shields a couple of times. I looked at having the suspension raised but I don't like to modify the car and the insurance company weren't too impressed when I told them even though they cover me to compete in clubman status rallies. Haha. As I'm involved in rallying, I know exactly what is required, and my little old diesel Focus wouldn't really be the car for it, even if I wanted to, cage, extinguishers, etc.

Welcome to the forum. Check the flexible wiring connections between trunk lid and vehicle body, these can fatigue and break the connection.

Check out the photo of the open rear door - that’s a sharps bin! Looks to be a fully custom interior. Either way, I wouldn’t discount it. At least you have photos of exactly what was where, should you go to view it. Out of interest, are these the only cars you’re looking at for a reason? I saw a few on there that sit on the middle ground.

Further to my previous reply, which was written from how I thought I was doing things, this morning I made a note of exactly what I was doing when maneuvering using creep. I have Auto Hold on all the time, I don't switch off to creep. The key to smooth creeping seems to be a delicate presses of throttle OR brake pedals. To shunt back and forth, a light touch on the brake and the gear selector can be moved from D to R OR R to D just before coming to a complete halt - possibly its learning the 'timing' - the auto hold only engages when the car is stationary and you still have pressure on the brake pedal. To creep up carefully and very close to a fixed object like a wall or parked car I was controlling the speed with a very light pressure on the brake pedal. Note that the Emergency braking is feature which uses the parking sensors and front radar is disabled if the brake pedal is being pressed. I experimented with empty cardboard boxes some time ago- my car would always stop before the boxes when creeping without brake pedal pressure, but would hit the boxes if I was lightly pressing the brake pedal. As an aside brake pedal pressure can also be used to prevent Stop/Start from switching the engine off, just reduce the brake pedal pressure slightly just as the car stops, I have stop/start switched on but it hardly ever stops the engine, my right foot has somehow' learnt' to reduce the pedal pressure.

Incredible. Many wonderful luxury vehicles about be them BEV or ICE. Lets see just how they are behaving in a decade or so. Not that those getting them new or nearly new now are likely to have them still in 10 years. If they do have them and had no major expenditure for repairs they could be a real bargain transportation.

Haha, I know what you mean. You don't need to elaborate. If I buy that one, it might get used hard but maybe not that hard as I'm always running late at times. 😉

I take it you have knowledge of the rear passenger door. I'll not ask why unless you want to share the reason ;-) Cheers by the way