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https://www.skoda-parts.com/online-store.html If you register on there and stick your vin in and save the car, it’s a good way of cross checking part numbers

Without any pictures I'm not 100% sure what you are talking about but looking at pictures of Roomster engine bays online I think it's similar to our Citigo... If you undo the positive terminal to the battery the fuses and plastic boxes on top that are fixed to the terminal should come away with it. They are, however, clipped to the side of the battery so you'll need to pull them up whilst releasing the clips by pulling the centre section outwards away from the side of the battery.

Screen seems to be good as far as I can tell. Old unit as MIB 2 worked perfectly. Some kind of issue during the upgrade corrupted the eeprom. Spent the last week learning about uart and PAB connected remotely this evening to try to fix it. But it can’t be written to or read through the terminal. Needs a physical connection to the eeprom directly to reflash it unfortunately. I have a friend who is an electronics engineer and he offered to have a look but we would both be learning what’s needed and winging it whereas I can send it to an expert and get a plug and play unit back. This is the last thing I do to the car. Essential maintenance only from here on in!

Hello! This might be the first time I've ever ventured beyond the Octavia and Fabia sections of this forum... Anyway - my folks, both in their 60s, are looking for a second car. They want something similar sized to the Golf they currently have (and have had a long line of before that) but I'm encouraging them to look at other models, in particular SUVs, because they'll probably keep this a good few years now and I think the higher seating position will be easier as they get older (not that they struggle now, they're very active). So anyway, they've seen a Karoq at a local garage, and quite like it, but they've done some research which seems to suggest that electrical issues with the infotainment system are quite common, but they were a bit vague. So, I'm seeking your experience to try and understand a bit more! Are issues with the infotainment system common? If so, what are those 'issues' and are they expensive to resolve? Are we looking at a hardware swap or just a software reset/update? Also, how does the 1.0TSI perform in a car this size? I'm not best placed to advise given my entire car history is 1.9 and 2.0TDIs. Is it comfortable both around town and on longer runs? They may occasionally use it to do trips to the other end of the country. Any other buying advice would be much appreciated! Thanks

Was the old screen bad well? I managed to get mine done remotely with a lot of hacking and me buying a UART board and a very helpful bloke in Telegram. I spent a few days beforehand driving around listening to a Bluetooth speaker in the car and hoped I wouldn't have to access anything on the screen

Thanks @travs those are the exact ones I am looking at and look to give the appearance I am after Thanks

Unfortunately after an evening spent connected to @pab567 we had no luck. Cannot read or write to EEPROM so it’s being sent to him to repair on the bench. Fingers crossed it’s relatively straight forward.

Spent the evening connected to @pab567 in an attempt to revive my failed MIB 2 to 2.5 upgrade. Unfortunately it’s not in a state to be recovered remotely so the MIB unit is off on holiday to Poland for some TLC.

I tried Gummi Pflege - it didn’t work.

Yes, a version of Krytox has been the correct "thing" to use on these door seals to stop this sort of noise AND freezing up in tricky winter conditions. VW Group call it gummi pflege.

Premium Ridex parts (as opposed to base range) are certainly good in so far as I have used them. I have 2 steel brake discs (zinc coated) and an airco condenser/dryer on my Mk3 Octavia vRS for some years now. Have not used any parts in their base range, so cannot comment on those. On the particular topic of zinc coated brake discs, Ridex ones were 40% price of the ECP ones at the time ....

I did before lowering etc. Forge 11mm front and rear with longer bolts in one set. Standard wheels and suspension at the time of those photos.

It is not possible to talk directly to the Skoda warranty department, only the extended warranty department who can't help. Your only port of call is customer services but even when you reach management level they have no control over warranty claims. I have plenty if emails from customer services but you will not get one from warranties. They only deal direct with the dealership who can confirm things to you by email. They win, it's wrong, but they win and now that the ombudsman is on their side they always will.

You can only go by what is stipulated in the body protection warranty regards what you are required to do, which is report the corrosion as soon as it is found (to a dealer in the network). Nothing changes the fact that your warranty is with Skoda. Skoda can contract out aspects of its business to third parties if it wishes. However, you don't have a decision until you have the decision in writing from Skoda. Email Skoda and get a response by email if necessary, don't phone. In regards to the Motor Ombudsman, my experience is that after a year, you get a response from an Ombudsman understudy type. You do get a decision at that stage, but if you want an actual ombudsman to look at it, I am at 3 years total currently and still waiting.

Hi Can anybody help? I have a Skoda and enyaq 22 plate full Electric car was involved in accident repaired the car. I changed the fuse at the battery underneath the car had an electrician look at it but couldn’t start it. I changed the two Roofer bags. Seat bag got the seatbelt reconditioned. Only thing I haven’t changed is the Airbag module the electrician said that there’s no communication to get it started. I am quite stuck. Don’t know what to do. Can anyone help?

I wish there was, I still got mine to fit

Update: Since I've been using E5 fuel no issues whatsoever. Thanks for advice everyone.

Been a minute, sorry. I got some mild confidence and tried to weld that patch in, but the sill is just tissue paper, I can't get any weld on it without it blowing itself to death. I'm going to cut my losses and buy two complete outer sills and go mental with the angle grinder. I do wonder if I need to brace anything first though. That job being trashed I figured I'd get it off axle stands for a bit. So my neighbour and I started bleeding the brakes, that's when we found out both rear wheel cylinders were seized, yay. Better than that, the bleeder on the back left just went PING and sheered off. Yay. The BESTESTS thing was that when we got the first drum off we found the hub nut was LOOSE (face palm emoji) but anyway the mess inside was like: Only ONE broken spring, heh. We got it all wrestled off but had to drill out the bolts for the brake cylinder. That's just crap on the axle thingy, it's not actually knackered. The process of trying to free the pistons from the second cylinder broke it but also look at the STATE of these things: Soooo crunchy We popped to the local motor factors and ordered a cylinder to see if it would match up, and got new shoes and springs, we left the old ones sprung up as references: In an effort to cheer up, I wired in the second VIBE BLACKAIR T12 sub and fired up the stereo. When it was just one it was ok but a bit borderline, two however has the ability to get slightly uncomfortable which means there's enough bass it gives me more enthusiasm to keep chucking money into this PIT in the hope I can drive it one year.

Quick update.... I purchased a Varta A7 (E39) Dynamic AGM battery and installed it. After a couple of mis-steps due to a flat key battery all seems well; all warning lights extinguished and car starts and runs fine. No need for recoding (hopefully) and best of all the alarm isn't sounding all the time... it's VERY loud! Thanks everyone for your help.

Sorry Dog with a bone, The parts catalogues show: Period Handbrake lever Early Mk3 5E0711301B — plastic handle Early leather version → 17 Aug 2015 5E0711301C From 17 Aug 2015 → 5E0711301D Clearly issue with pre Aug 2015 handbrakes. Those that had issue, was your Octavia built pre August 2015. Can any one who had issue post Aug 2015 build post please, so that I can discount it. Mine was registered Jan 2015, and yes only done 58k miles. Very really parked on hill.

Hi Unless im mistaken, golf mk8 lever (image below) is totally different to mk4 vrs lever, so it wouldn’t fit.

105 or 90 what? Is that 105 or 90 bar? Both are more than enough to keep the car running. My car had a failing HP fuel pump once (around 2015?). Without that HP fuel pump I could still drive the car to the garage, with only the fuel pressure of the pump in the tank, around 6 bar.... If you still have 90 bar, the fuel pressure is not your problem.

Ridex I believe are autodoc own brand they purchase from other manufacturers. They are budget/cheap parts. Fine if its to get it through an MOT etc but personally would fit something better. Try https://www.partsinmotion.co.uk/ been using them for a few years and prices are generally a lot cheaper than ECP plus delivery so far has been within 48hrs. Have had a couple of problems due to delivery surcharge to my address but normally ok. Alasdair

I've used a couple of Ridex parts on my Fabia, mainly smaller items, and honestly haven't had any problems so far. Fit was good and they've been working fine. For £40 compared with £100, I'd probably give them a try for non-critical parts. I wouldn't necessarily choose them for brakes or other safety-related stuff though.

Anyone running standard suspension with wheel spacers, looking to do mine 10/12mm but wondering what it looks like non sports/lowered