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Just getting back here.. Everybody can take a breather for a couple of days to think, reflect, and question whether this particular discussion is actually going to resolve to a consensus or is it going to spin in circles for another 4yrs of back and forth polarised views that will never be changed and whining. I fear the latter, looking back through the pages and pages of this thread full of personal digs, unsubstantiated claims (from all sides), fear mongering and anecdotes masked as evidence it gives me ptsd to the brexit threads.

That advice seem strange - wasn't 'component protection' started sometime after 2017?

@thamestrader That is the point. Oranges & Lemons or Peaches & Pears. DSG,s from different eras & evolutions, Pre WLTP and Post WLTP. Different engines from different years, and it matters if the vehicle has a e-Brake or manual parking brake. There are differences from 2008-2026, or from 2013-2026. Someplace a few years back there were some features and characteristics that to me seemed perfect on some VW Group models.

Alright, first things first, feedback after a little over a week with the TVS Stage 2+ tune! For someone who mainly does city driving, it’s been a massive improvement. Since it’s almost always a gear lower than the stock logic, the car is much more responsive to your throttle input. It hovers closer to 1800-2000rpm during city driving, meaning there isn’t much of a delay when attempting to make a quick overtake at low speeds. There’s no downside in terms of fuel consumption or noise, it’s merely closer to how you’d drive a manual car without lugging the engine. As you get to ~90km/h, you’re back in 7th gear as you would’ve been before. Shifts are slightly quicker, and 1-2 shifts when cold are seamless. I went with the following options: 1st gear disengaged, manual kick down disabled, auto-downshift deactivation in manual mode, and of course, gear indicator enabled. If you’re not planning on upping the power however, the drivability tune will get you most of the way there and you definitely won’t be disappointed. I’ve confirmed that the Revo sale is applicable at my local dealer and I’ll be there in a couple of days for a Stage 1 flash.

If the filter doesnt help then found post I mentioned https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/481670-p1553-and-p1504-coming-in-and-going-out/

Small update. Got it into my local garage. They diagnosed the fault as the steering angle sensor which is in the steering wheel assembly. This part is apparently component protected so has to go to a main dealer. Booked in for 10th August.

Yes all the dealers needed to do to add the menu was run software configuration on the BCM however even such a basic task seems to complex for them

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What so many of you all are wilfully ignoring is the many Luddites, as you call us (which is disrespectful; we don't call you evangelists, do we?), are that we can see that BEVs or something similar will eventually take over as the fuel of the future. There is plenty of evidence of that being the case, other than the one that you all keep eluding to, that of global warming and its causes. You all love to claim that it is the result of us burning fossil fuels and putting toxic emissions in the air, when there is evidence to suggest that actually is not true at all. Let's look at the one that so many of you keep referring to, that of air quality leading to loads of premature deaths as a direct result of tailpipe emissions. So how do you square that with the fact that life expectancy has risen dramatically over the years? It is a fact the UK has far better air quality with lower PM. 2.5 in the air than Hong Kong, which also has a far higher average temperature than the UK. UK life expectancy is 80.208 as opposed to Hong Kong's figure of 85.68 years. I was born in 1949, and following the graph across, I have already exceeded the expected life of 1950 by something like 2.5 times that figure, hmm. The UK has an average of 8-11 microg/m³ of PM2.5 compared to Hong Kong's average of 15-17 microg/m³ of PM2.5. The UK has 2.1M BEVs, while Hong Kong only has 80,000. The average annual temperature for the UK is 10°C, while for Hong Kong it is 23°C. Density of population per sq. kilometre: UK = 258; Hong Kong = 6,755 So the UK has an annual lower temperature, better air quality, lower population density and far more BEVs but a way shorter life expectancy. Hmm, something is not quite adding up to support the claims that more BEVs, fewer emissions, etc. Clearly, there are other factors at play here.

Code reader showing no signal to both G65 & Air quality sensor, I’ve replaced both sensors with Skoda parts from dealership and still error code is showing, Aircon is non operational. Any help would be appreciated

Might do - I had similar codes and limp mode on a Civic Diesel I had a number of years ago that I could never seem to get to the bottom of, assuming it was a MAF sensor issue - until I found that someone had failed to replace the air filter when it was serviced and hence it had been in there a long time - a new filter and no more codes!

That might do it... Wasn't me, guv. I've just bought the bloody thing. 🤣

if is a 1.2 tsi cbz my suggestion is that it could be a coil pack, look also for the ignition leads, being a 2015 it could be already equipped with the upgraded one (the difference is the heat sheild on the cable), a known fault that can cause a limp mode is the turbo actuator, in my 2013 fabia a faulty coil pack and later a worn spark plug never caused a limp mode 'just' the epc light followed by tcs ecc., (a completely worn ignitoin lead did cause a limp mode once). A faulty wheel sensor normally dosent cause a limp mode, in my fabia I've broken one wile replacing a front wheel bearing and no limp mode just abs tcs tpms warning, also on a 2016 octavia scout 2.0 tdi 184 bhp a snow chain sliced the wheel speed sensor causing all sorta of faults but again no limp mode.

Hi all, I heard that Skoda have released a bug fix update after 1800, 1804/1806. Is that available with anyone here? If yes, can you please share the link for the download?

What make of oil filter do skoda use as standard, Bosch, Fram, Mahl, VAG or are they specifically marked Skoda.

Indeed. Salary sacrifice does not always look great as those quoted deals don't seem to be anywhere near what the tax relief should provide. We, at Bollore and CMA/CEVA were told we were going to get SS EV deals but time passed and they never materialised. The EV grants have been nice from both the Con government and current government but both are icing on the cake and I was always buying cake rather than bread (ICE). ICE cars loads of bread to run and don't taste as nice to take the analogy a bit too far.

my wife looked at salary sacrifice and worked out that because it included tyres and maintenance costs it was actually cheaper to buy cash and haggle. My employer refuses to provide salary sacrifice.

Like climate denial there are those that cannot see the clear mass of evidence in front of the them for what ever reason. BEVs are already great and improving rapidly. ICE cars are pretty much stuck in the doldrums. As my fellow converts we gave driven ICE for decades, in my cases done about 1M miles and owned about 50 of them. Sadly many Luddites still around or maybe it is an initial purchase, credit obtaining thing but clear to me that BEVs are the future, whether that is LFP, Na or whatever battery chemistry. I too am tired of this thread and will try and not contribute any more as it seems flogged to death. Am looking forward to even cheaper running from October 1st though when VAT on charging at home goes to zero. Just bought £33 public charge charge from Gridserve so about £5 VAT, not nice compared to home.

Same here, no deals or bungs on my car and my wife bought hers without any offers. She haggled on price but you do that with any car. In our street we have 2 Skoda Enyaqs, 1 cupra Born, one ID3, a Kia EV9, Kia E niro, a ford mustang, a nissan leaf, peugeot e208 a Ford Capri, and en e corsa. That's a street of 17 houses. Of that lot the EV9 is the only one that is a company car

As you are probably aware 'Unbranded' SD cards will not work with the MIB2. When you had the problem with the original card, did you try ejecting and re-inserting it in the slot?

It sounds similar to the issue we had with our Fabia mc 2023 bought from new from Johnson's Skoda. There have been three frightening occasions when just about all power was lost - potentially fatal on a slip road or busy island. I have posted about this at length a couple of month back but the forum is poor when it comes to finding threads. I think it's inexcusible that there has been no recall and that dealerships lack the common sense to check that important software updates have been applied. The update in question came out a couple of years ago so it is a known issue. However, VW are not known for being straight with customers - remember Dieselgate. The dealership and the forum proved of no useful help. It was suggested that the battery would need frequent charging due to most of our journeys being short. I bought a suitable charger which made no difference and had an AGM battery fitted. On my last visit to the dealership they tried to sell me a new battery and then a new car. The Fabia broke down for a third time but I had found out that the AA have "silver service vans" with technicians and equipment tailored for VAG group cars. They are trained to a high level for Skoda cars. I requested that we have such a van sent to our home address. The technician knew what the problems was almost immediately. There's been a software update available for a couple of years that fixes the issue which relates to the throttle body settings. Cables like we had with carburettors have been superceded by electronic controls with sensors. After half an hour was spent updating the car's software we were assured said that the issue wouldn't happen again. The technician also said the battery had nothing to do with it. So far so good but we are still recovering from Fabia anxiety. The only reason I'm on here today is that the dealership just emailed me to attend an event as a VIP customer. I don't think so!! The service manager told me to get out and take my car somewhere else when I became very annoyed with their failure to sort the car's issues. Their diagnostics failed to find an issue so how can you fix a car that's perfectly OK? I will add one positive in that the manual gearbox Fabia mc if fully updated is very good to drive. The Fabia is not likely to continue in production as VW group are starting to feel the pain of strong competition from Chinese manufacturers. We have decided to keep the car but it will be serviced by our local garage rather than a main dealer.

We own both dry and wet clutch DSG cars, 2015 and 2023 respectively, the 2015 dry clutch doesn’t have autohold only hill hold, so the operation is not identical, the dry clutch car is fractionally slower engaging the drive from stationary, but creeps on idle sand as the wet clutch car.

hi i been facing same problem after purchase my mobile app show activated ,shop app in car show activated but no Light assist button in menu skoda support keep sending me to dealer i contacted 3 around me but no response. i got HW : 5WA937086K 016 SW : 5WA937086R 0136 DATASET : V03935324EA 0001 I compared my backup in VCTool what i found was in central electric09/adaptations/LCM/Expanded High beam control/ i got basic configuration where other backups with basic LED they had high beam lights assistant and when i tried to change it i couldn't because function not available that backups has V03935356TC/V03935356TX datasets and SW 0136/0137 so i bought VNCI6154B + VCTool (needed for reverse camera retrofit anyway) requested stock data and dataset was V03935356TX with all calibration etc. 2min flash and central electric09/adaptations/LCM/Expanded High beam control/high beam lights assistant was there light assist button appear in menu

was just about to say the same

I bought a pair from Skoda Parts as I've used them before, took less than a week to arrive. They're slightly wider than the normal ones......