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well as you say youve just recently bought the car id suggest replacing the fuel filter too, you dont know what the cars been run on or how many times its been run close to empty, and also with any engine upgrades ,,,, check the brakes and suspension (and engine mounts) for wear and damage and change the brake fluid too

This new car has also got another issue that I have read on other forums for other models with the same engine. The new issue is the car cuts out when travelling at low speed especially approaching junctions / roundabouts or in heavy slow moving traffic. If you have an auto box, I believe this is normal and its part of how the start stop works, I am sure I read about this on here, as people were complaining that when they come up to a roundabout but don't stop, they put there foot down and there is nothing there, because the car thinks you are stopping so it's trying to save fuel.

Maybe try Tesco Momentum 99, not just cheaper, sometimes exceeds 99 ron, especially once the Winter Spec arrives at filling stations. Starting earliest in the Northern regions, late September / October Scotland.

I have an annoying bug after updating from version from 1896 > 1941 > 1989, I notices that my roller boot cover does not automatically retract when you open the electric tailgate since the update. I did not have the car long before I did the update but I remember it having an option to turn it on and off in the infotainment screen, but currently I don’t seem to have any options for it, it used to have a section called something like “opening and closing”. Has anyone else lost this feature on the infotainment screen? if you still have this option on 1989 can you show me a photo have what that looks like please. Do I need to do something to get this to reappear as I did the factory resets after the flashing, everything else seems normal, I don’t have any errors on the OBDeleven, and I don’t think its mechanical because it was fine before the software update.

I’m on my second tank of shell v power which I believe is 99 ron? I ve put nothing but that in it thus far

in the ottocast manual there is a http address, you open it on your phone and it connectes to your phone allowing you to update the dongle

Are you running it now on E5 / Super Unleaded so 97 ron or 99 ron Minimum?

Good advice I will get it on a dyno to be sure. I only held off on the plugs as I have a friend with a mk2 and he said maybe get the iridium plugs and R8 coils if going to map to stage 1

The spark plugs need checked / inspected as a minimum & gap checked, and best replaced. Best get it on a Dyno before a remap, maybe already re-mapped.

I had the same issue, charge air cooler coolant leak. Found the slow leak into the cooler via USB phone endoscope. Inconclusive sniff test had me worried about the HG or block. I bought a OEM Valeo one from Autodoc Ireland and had my indie fit it. Total cost was £4-500 IIRC Dealers wanted £1200+ Annoyingly I now have ?EGR woes too. Bloody complicated emissions fudges.

i see what you said now actually - i guess maybe checking the oil that comes out the sump could be a point to check? if the endoscope doesn't give me the answer

isn't that what presents itself as white smoke out the back end?

Thank you I forgot to mention I did a full oil change,oil,air and cabin filter the day I got the car too.

coolant also can get mixed with oil, not entering combustion chamber. not visible oil in coolant, but coolant in oil.

change oil no matter what, high quality oil and filter, intake air filter..

We really do need to up our game or we will be in deep trouble.

hopefully its something as simple as that - but not being able to see without taking off loads of stuff and breaking that in the process, is a little frustrating. got my endoscope coming today, so hopefully i can see what is actually leaking.....its not showing signs of any headgasket issues - no loss of power, no fault codes and no white smoke - coolant reservoir isn't contaminated either. water pump is fine as i inspected that and that side of the engine is bone dry.

If the head unit was able to pull in the OTA DAB station icons as well as using that VW database, that would likely solve the problem and fill in the gaps. Unfortunately, they don’t use the OTA stuff at all it seems, only the VW icon database.

I think I am nearly as excited about this as you 😆 Enjoy your shake-down trip (and then start some new threads about all the quirks you find and need to come to love 😉) I too switched to my first Skoda Superb from Mercedes for all the same reasons as you, and I have never regretted it. True, there is not quite the same 'first class' engineering and customer service, but Skoda is close and on a cost-value comparison wins hands down.

Hi all, So I’ve just bought a mk2 Octavia VRs tfsi 2011 in VRs blue with black wheels mileage is 87,000. I picked it up for around £3000. I have always wanted this exact car there’s just something about the mk2 that I love. Anyways my question is what essential jobs do I need to do before starting to look at a stage 1 map? I have a friend of a friend who is a Skoda technician and he is going to do the tensioner,chain and water pump for me next week as there’s no proof in the cars partial service history that this has been done. I’m guessing these are essential but what else should I be looking at please my good people?

ok thank you, will do that

Hi all, I'm a long-time lurker and I'm hoping to find out how often the tensioner pulley for the V Belt should be replaced? I've ordered the parts for the timing chain Kit B replacement (the car has survived to 165 000 kms on its original, but it sounds like a tractor on startup)! Since ordering these, the water pump has developed a leak, and I thought I'd have the timing chain, v belt, and v belt tensioner all done as well. Also, any recommendations for a water pump? Likely I'll order genuine as it looks like the current one fitted is aftermarket and has only just made it to 5 years of service. Regarding the V belt tensioner, am I required to replace the entire assembly (part number 03C145299Q), or just the pulley (part number 03F145276)? If I replace the entire assembly, likely Ill order an SKF one. Thanks.

These are the screen shots on the MySkoda App and I have the Battery Care Mode enabled. I still cannot find the Optimize Battery for the 12v battery on the MySkoda App. Perhaps there are differences between the VW and Skoda Apps.

True. I don’t have infotainment online so I do it manually. And there are a few local DAB stations I listen to that don’t seem to put out their logo so I add my own.

Has this got a DQ200 gearbox?