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I purchased my current Octavia, a year ago under Skodas approved used scheme, yes the servicing was up to date to Skodas service schedule, I checked, prior to buying. Although their oil change was 1/4 of a litre low on the max level of the dipstick, as I checked it when I arrived home, cold & hot read. I just topped it up. My car has just been in again for it's last Skoda service (a year later), as the supplying dealer offered me a one off free MOT with them. Plus they collected & dropped my car off for free. Again I checked my oil level, again a 1/4 of a litre down from the maximum level, may just be standard practice. I've just paid them £230 for the minor service, inc the free mot. Next year, I'll be using an independent. I also purchased a previous Octavia, within the past, different dealership, under their approved used scheme. This time they deceived me with regards to it's previous service history, it was missing one service, they promised me that it had a fsh, just their systems were down, couldn't print off a copy. After I purchased it, I again chased the service history up with them, eventually I received a printed copy, 1 service missing. Fortunately with a bit of detective work, I tracked the missing service down to an independent, checking it's mot history. I rung the independent, explained the situation, they emailed me proof of the service. Regarding your original question about missing servicing items, I'm not surprised. I've been buying used cars for a very long time, generally speaking dealerships just want the sale, often cut corners to achieve it. I'd first ring the service manager up within the supplying dealership first, explain that the car is not fully serviced, would he rectify this for free? As it's an approved car. If he won't, I'd then possibly take it up with Skoda directly, put in an official complaint in writing, stating that you'd expect an approved car to be fully up to date with it's servicing, what resolve you are expecting, await their response. Or another option, as you are within the 30 day rejection period, look to reject the car with the supplying dealership, due to it not being serviced up to a satisfactory standard & it being faulty, not fit for purpose, as the start & stop system is not working at all. Again you'd need to put this in writing to the dealership, send it recorded, so that you have proof of posting. Regards to your S/S, sounds like your battery is getting down a bit, may need replacing, coding in. I've never found any S/S system to fully work 100% of the time, but if I were to use it (I don't), I'd expect it to work at least 50% of the time. All really depends how strongly you feel about this, how far you want to take it. I've always found the friendly option, ringing them directly, first, the least stress option. I purchased my current Octavia locally from a Skoda dealer, not for better service, just closer to go back to within the event I had an issue.

I am going to watch it tomorrow. What if it is have component defense?

Many thanks for that, very much appreciated. I'll give it a go in the next day or so 🤞

Thanks for this. Borrowed a dremel, didnt trust myself with an angle grinder. Got them out & bits replaced. Thanks again!

https://youtu.be/3MglpJZ2bTs?si=7ulA3bTA7_AJ8eO1 You can see the wires I'm talking about when he removes a module to check the seal. But obviously for the motor instead.

Welcome. Cool pic ✌️

Yes this is what shows up

Nice to meet you all, I have an Octavia mk3 VRS petrol 2014. With 260K km on the ODO Most noted feature is driving from Brisbane to Perth last year in 5 days, nearly 5K km roadtrip. Great car 20250817_073336.heic

Yes. The solid wires drawn in the CFD for the headlight are actually normal wires. So it will have a live an earth and a feedback to the module.

Yes that's what I hope it is, just a battery issue. But again, I think that they should have checked that it was working before selling it. I paid a premium by buying it from a dealer assuming everything would be working and all servicing up to date

Never thought to check them as well. Don't think they have been. What intervals are both of those?

Do you mean that wire that one is it inside the headlight?

Its clearly working so I would suggest the feedback signal wire could be broken which (if it is) will prevent the basic settings from setting correctly.

https://files.fm/u/tjqms3qwnxjrekdc Here

Yeah they said this. But i dont know you can see and hear in this video.

If they say its a motor, can you not swap it over from your cracked one? Ive never seen a motor fail in an undamaged light, normally broken wires from moving the unit up and down, think Ive seen a tech bulletin for this but on Audi rather than Skoda.

No. Just a good source for cheap components! I’ll edit my post above. Found some other potential wires.

I get that But scala with the 1.5 petrol engine be good for motorway driving

@Binx1310 ThanQ for the info I’ll look at it when the new cables I’ve just ordered arrive …. 🤔🤔 do you have shares in Aliexpress by any chance??? 😂 @Sheriff when you changed the fuel filter did you have to do anything special??? I know on my Passats and my exeo I had to use VCDS to prime the filter but they were inline filters not “drop in “ replacements

Superbs are so long. Most of the time in the city center I have to parallel park and there is a huge difference is parking a car that is 4.3m and one that is 4.9m. Unfortunately manufacturers nowadays put the best equipment in their executive cars which are all too long for my liking. Almost noone makes high quality interior cars with good engines around the 4.4-4.5m mark.

Yeah so i bought two headlights with new oem numbers (2023) the driver site works well but the passanger side not do the calibrazion when i turn on the engine. There is not a single error or code in vcds. I went with it to my dealership but they says to me that the calibration motor get bed inside it.

Welcome to the forum. Are you sure the indication you are seeing is low oil level - or could it be low oil pressure ?

Oil and filter, air, fuel and cabin filters all changed today. Brake discs are all looking worn/pitted, so will need changing when pads are down. Probably aided by the storm in Blackpool a couple of weeks ago!!

Inoperative SS could simply be low battery SOC due to it sitting on the Stealer lot for a while - but it could also be due to a failing battery!

Welcome to the forum. I'd consider it a very reasonable expectation for the vehicle maintenance schedule to be fully up to date, particularly as it was being sold through the Skoda Approved Used system. Has the brake/clutch fluid been replaced at the recommended intervals?