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My best mate passed away last week. His wife is the named driver on the policy, like most spouses. My question is, is she still covered? Obviously we need to let the insurers know (and register the car to her with the DVLA) By her own admission, she's not the best at sorting things out, so I'm going to help her. Cheers

I had the 1.0 litre SE Drive with 17" wheels before I bought my present 1.5 litre SE L Edition with 18" wheels a few weeks ago. I thought the SE Drive was the most comfortable car I have ever had. The SE L Edition is certainly on a par and probably that bit better but not a lot in it. Never driven a Sportline so can't comment on that. But if it has diamond cut wheels which I think it has, I would steer well clear.

As a fellow ex-software engineer I couldn’t agree with you more. I’ve given up on my Superb after 18mths, I collect my brand new Honda Civic e:HEV in 3wks time. I won’t be coming back to Skoda/VAG unless they manage to get their act together, if that’s before the Chinese wipe them out…

Skoda being awkward then. Nowhere does it say any of those inspections are a requirement. Why can't these big companies just abide by their own warranty habdbooks!

Thanks. I'm hoping no major damage was done as I only drove a couple of miles with the noise. Gonna try and find a long thin magnet and see if that can fish it out. Plus it gives my bro an excuse to buy a borescope! Will let you know what we find...

I think VW group relays with 53 in big font on the top of them are super-common. Might be able to find a replacement on amazon prime (seeing several options there searching 141951253B), or in a local scrapyard pretty easily.

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Title says it all. I ordered these back in April and went to have them fitted on Friday only to discover that… A. They’re the wrong ones, and B. Autodoc only give you 14 days from date of receipt to return them. Thanks very much for that. 🙄They cost me £90 and selling for 1/2 price, so £45. These give better braking power and produce almost zero dust which is primarily why I wanted to change from the standard pads, as I’m sick of cleaning the alloys! The ATE part number is 13.0470-2785.2. They will fit Skoda and VAG vehicles including some Superb builds with the following OE part numbers. Apologies for the weird formatting… 8V0 698 151 S 5Q0 698 151 5Q0 698 151 A 5Q0 698 151 AD BVO 698 151 B 5QO 698 151 D 500 698 151 AA 5Q0 698 151 AH 5Q0 698 151 AF 8V0 698 151 G

I've switched a relay, I found one that was abnormally hot my car started and turned on with the key! It's 53 12V 40A on the side it says 177.8 GCT 141 951 253 B 20 240 072 pa6.6-GF30 I now have a error of fuel pump A control Circuit Open and ECM/PCm power relay control circuit open and sense circuit open

We find our sportsline on comfort setting OK but no Bently. Normal is too hard. I reget having the low profile 19" tyres but wanted the sunroof. When the time comes I will fit all season tyres they made a big improvement on two previous cars.

Pretty sure they are steel but it may have embedded itself into piston. As warrior193 said do not run engine at all and get it inspected via borescope. Hopefully it will be retrievable without removing head or caused any major damage. Alasdair

Whilst I wait for the blind spot LEDs to be flown in from china, I started on the front parking sensor retrofit today. I’ll write it up in more detail with parts etc once it’s all in and working. but once again it’s a bumper off job! Holes cut and sensors all installed. They aren’t quite sitting flush but the mount brackets are a different part number to the correct Skoda ones. But they don’t look too bad once all back together though! Next came removing air box, battery and battery tray to try to access the main bulkhead grommet from the engine side. Then glovebox and fuse box to get at it from car side. It’s impossible. I could just about get one finger to it and the current bundle of wires are so tight there’s no way I’m getting anything more through there. Found the grommet for where the clutch would be right near the PDC controller so the plan is to go through that. But as it’s right behind the hot side of the engine I’ve ordered some heat shield conduit for the cables to run through as they cross the top of the bulkhead just in case. So for now it’s all buttoned back up, and as I had some spare time I also installed the new button by the gearstick and the beeper that are required for 8k PDC, including pinning them into the plugs ready for the change over of the PDC controller.

Hello @pab567 Would you be able to send me the link as well? Thanks for your help

I can not get the knack! in one year trying occasionally, I got it to work 1 in 100 times. Just tried again and failed! I have tried it with the car both locked and unlocked.

Good luck , Having been down this route last year a full service history including having had all the extended scope inspections and the documentary evidence that these had been carried out were crucial in getting Skoda to agree to carry out a full repair on our car. Regarding the first few services if they were carried out by an authorised Skoda Dealer then they should have been recorded on the electronic servicing record which you could request a copy off

^^ exactly why I will never tinker with the brakes on my car. If I break something that stops it moving, fair enough; if I break something that stops me stopping - that's very bad news!

Hope the Elroq serves you well and you enjoy it over the time you have it. I'm not [yet] ready for the jump to EV so am sticking with my 2020 Octavia; its serving me well and I make a lot of use of its boot capacity and fuel economy. Anyway, thank you for your contributions to the Octavia mk4 forum and maybe [metaphorically] see you in the EV pages at some point...

Welcome to the forum. The noise is probably the missing plug electrode bouncing around inside the cylinder - don't run the engine any more until any foreign bodies have been removed! I'd suggest using a borescope to inspect the cylinder head, valves and top of piston for damage. The missing outer electrode is possibly ferrous, you may be able to remove it using a magnetic probe.

12 volt battery replaced today. Decided to go for an AGM over the existing FLB battery as it was only a couple of quid more expensive. Recoded with new technology type and increased Ah. Stop start now works which is nice.

When following a route, even if by mistake, top left corner is a stop button, it becomes visible when your hand hovers over the screen. If you want to delete a destination: touch and drag left (I think) and a red delete button becomes visible. You can also “escape” from a route by pressing the Nav button.

Sorry for multiple posts, the link wouldn’t paste correctly: here’s pictures of the price list and trim options currently available in Ireland.

On the Škoda Netherlands website suite trim is listed for the epiq. Screen shot attached Also here is a link to the Ireland price list detailing the sportline trim, Prices and mention of the suite trim for seats.

Thank you all for your comprehensive replies. I’m reassured that the problems earlier cars had have been corrected now.🤞 With that knowledge I think that we’ll have a trip to the dealer to see how my wife gets on with the Octavia. If she doesn’t It’ll be another Scala. Thank you again.

Electric seats are listed as coming soon in the uk site. Interestingly if you google sport line trim in Ireland there is already a list price out there for it and says will be orderable in q3 sometime. Ireland only getting 50 first editions. Prediction is for the sportline to roll out gradually as the deliveries take place and first editions run out. I do wonder if that’s gonna tie in with different seats and electric adjustment in the sport line. It’s showing approx €37.5k for the 55 sportline in Ireland. No uk price yet , haven’t googled other countries.

Could you expand on that a little, please?