All Activity

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......

Unfortunately it isn't, I've ordered a branded sd card with latest maps. I've read that the branded ones are coded. I'm hoping that the replacement card will resolve the issue.

Which simply highlights the idiocy of Skoda's approach.

The coasting function is slightly different on later models. On my 74 plate it only operates when in 'Eco' mode, on my earlier 71 plate it operated in 'Normal' & 'Eco'

Just dropped you a DM 👍

Came across an old post from 2020 with BBY engine codes P1553 and P1504 with same symptoms as yours. Sorry cant seem to post link but he had done a major overhaul on engine and it started and ran then got the codes with EPC,ASR Idle all over the place and no response from throttle. Eventually they did the following and it cured it. It was solved by resetting the ECU to factory defaults by writing value 00 to channel 00 in the engine control module. A bit above my zone but might work Alasdair

I've noticed it coasting at times. Going downhill engine braking disappears when it happens 😲

Cheers. I grew up there and lots and lots of family in Macduff and Banff. Anther thing about DSG,s is if there is 'Coasting Function' and if enabled or used.

Do you happen to be in Macduff No, but I do go there on occasion 🙂

Difference is a DQ200 7 speed twin dry clutch from a 6 or 7 speed wet clutch DSG. Wet clutch can slip some, a dry clutch should not be slipping. They should and do drive slightly different. @McDuff Do you happen to be in Macduff?

Thanks for that info pab567. I didn't know how to bring up that service menu. Do you know if any of those codes relate to the phone function? And being temporarily rejected, does that mean they need to be enabled in a s/w load?

That fault sounds to me like an issue with the SD port - is the updated SD card you tried a branded Skoda one?

thank you for replying , the car is going back to the auto electrician next week so hopefully he can get to the bottom of what's going on with my lights at least for the meantime .

I have the CTEK charger too, ran a recond programme on my battery a couple of times and a few good, long runs later and it's (almost) as good as new. I don't leave mine on a trickle or anything but if I'm ever plugging in an OBD device then I hook it up. Best money I ever spent

Thanks for the replies guys. I'm reassured that it works as I thought. Cheers 🍻

Hi @Madrunner , I'm based in France and looking for a replacement LHD Yeti (specifically a 1.2 TSI 110 PS petrol / manual). Is it worth having a conversation? I can't message you privately with my contact info as I don't have the required 'credits' but maybe you do..?

Sorry to laugh, but every tme I come back to this topic is to have a laugh at the "get rid of 'em trees" 😄