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After 8 months with my Mk4 I still occasionally find my left hand pawing the air trying to find the reverse gear selector 😕 There should be a Music icon at the bottom of the infotainment screen to get you back to the radio settings. Otherwise, the Home icon at the bottom right is your friend - wherever you get lost in the maze of screens it will take you back to the main page so you can start searching again. I recommend spending a little time to customise the icons at the top of the screen. Decide what you will need most often and put them there; it makes a real difference for ease-of-use when driving. For example, I have the Auto Hold selector because I need to turn it on and off when moving in and out of my garage. That means I can select it with one tap instead of hunting through menus.

I eventually decided to replace my Fabia Mk4’s ‘peepy’ single horn with the Hella twin-horn set-up described in detail by @Prillerthriller above. I won’t be doing this until the weather gets a lot warmer, but some comments now on sourcing the necessary parts may be of interest. @Prillerthriller managed to obtain the Hella twin-horn kit and add-on ‘splitter’ wiring harness as a single order from Aliexpress, but I was unable to do this. I bought the add-on wiring harness alone from Aliexpress for £17.24 (£9.79 + £7.45 delivery-charge) but sourced the Hella horns though ebay (£16.51 including delivery charges and with a discount voucher). To allow immediate connection of the Hella horns to the add-on wiring harness, care is needed when sourcing the horns. The appropriate Hella Part Number is 3FH 012 010-021 that gets you a box marked TE26 SET TRUMPET HORN QUICK FIT. The box just contains the two horns (one 500Hz, the other 400Hz) and an instruction leaflet - but no wiring harness. I suppose this makes sense as the length of each 'branch' of the Aliexpress add-on wiring harness is about 500mm - which will be plenty long enough for a Fabia Mk4, but may be too short for other VAG models.

https://www.skoda-parts.com/spare-part/03c907660t-oil-level-sensor-skoda-16903.html oil level sensor and temperature sensor Gasket https://www.skoda-parts.com/spare-part/038103196-gasket-for-oil-level-sensor-skoda-14403.html

I'm in the UK, west of London, does anyone have a resolution that can be tweaked in person and I can come to meet? Cheers GB

Thanks DaveFromSydney - that's pretty good economy. Well I'm just about to find out for myself how thirsty they are as I'm just in the process of buying an ex demo race blue 26 plate with 1000 miles on the clock and pano roof and winter pack ( handy for my Scottish weather ).

On my sons from memory blower switches off when cranking. Not sure but read theres a relay connected to ignition switch that cuts certain accesories and blower when cranking. If the radio loom doesnt help it might be a faulty ignition switch or relay. Alasdair

Yes, no vibrations. But remember that some vibrations occour on different road surface - it is normal and delicate than previusly

My new 2l TDI SE L Estate was delivered yesterday lunchtime, so not had much time with it yet. I have moved from a 2018 2l tsi executive hatch to this tdi estate. Firstly I thought in the short drive I had that it was very responsive, but the ride was much firmer and the bumps felt more. I will check tyre pressures today. I felt the car was in sports mode and was disapointed to find there are no driving modes, so obviously not in sports. Checked I hadn't moved into Sports on gear selector. That will take a bit of getting used to, I kept putting my left hand down when I wanted to reverse. I went for a quick 10 mile run up the motorway and tried the ACC, which was fine. I came home on A roads and town work, and all seems fine. I have already found out how to get rid of the nannying features and switch them off. Unfortunately not permenantly. The infotainment screen is a steep learning curve, for instance, I eventually found the radio, but when I moved on to a different screen I couldn't find it again. That's a job for today along with fitting my dash cam So first impressions overall are good; I'm not unhappy!

Thanks Ryan, I also have a 2015, 1.2Tsi (cambelt engine) that I'm putting up for sale in a couple of weeks (bought for my lad, but tbh, it's way too nice - all he's going to do is stick stinking fishing gear in it...), once the Tsi is gone, I'm going to put the HTP on the road. Once I can figure out how, I'll stick a couple of photos up. All the best. Rick

speaking of attachments, is there a way to rename the attachments so i can easily find/search them, rather than scrolling n scrolling until i find it? thank you

About three weeks ago, two major updates came through, and everything has been working perfectly since then.

Mine is close 10l/100km in mostly city driving but on long freeway trips it gets below 7 and on the best 110km/h runs it can get below 5. Yes, I have seen 4.9l/100km multiple times. That is 57 UK MPG. I use ACC all the time - it has a much lighter foot on the accelerator than me.

I have a steering wheel off my T6 DSG which has paddles, may be able to retrofit the switches to the blue cars wheel. Not looked into retrofit of travel assist. It does have multi function camera and blindspot assist with the same adaptive cruise to stop then go as the high mile one, so wonder if its coding only as already has the hardware, don't know, not researched it. And massage for driver I could do without. The low miles may have to give way to the toys.

Ah yes you did say that. How did the sump crack?!

Hi everyone, I’m hoping the Briskoda community might be able to help me track down an old car of mine that has a lot of sentimental value. I used to own a 2002 Skoda Octavia Laurin & Klement (L&K) with the registration PA02 DCF. According to the DVLA, it has been sitting on a SORN with an expired MOT since late 2013, which gives me hope that it is tucked away in a garage or barn somewhere rather than scrapped. I’d love to know if the current owner is a member on here, or if anyone recognizes the plate and knows what happened to it. I'm not looking to bother anyone, just genuinely curious to see if she survived—and if it happens to be sitting unloved as a project, I might even be interested in buying it back! Any information or leads at all would be massively appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help!

Its a private sale, not on autotrader

Have a link to the higher mileage one?

MIB3 is fine on the later firmwares which can be sorted on here. Colour is bright, and possibly not metallic either. Slightly too dark for Nogaro I think but close. Could always consider a wrap instead of paint correction? Go for a colour you like and will solve all problems. By the looks of the power that’s a DNUA engine - EA888.3 with the GPF so a 272 rather than 280. Looks clean on the inside and the mileage is very low. I wouldn’t write it off completely.

Few minor events logged but more importantly, the ecu logged mileage matches the dash mileage

Anyone?

Agreed, I do like the full LED lights, I can also update it as and when releases are available if needed with my diag unit. I get your point though.

Not keen on that colour personally and I don’t like the look of the facelift model as much. MIB3 as well which can be quite buggy

Depends where you are, as I’m based in the South East. Drop me a message!

Damn - that’s surprising, sorry. I know Awesome GTI and Powerflex themselves don’t have them, but you should be able to get them. Is there any word on how long?

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202610167041901?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios-app This is the low mileage one. Anyone on here recognise it? A proper history background would be nice. But then it doesn’t have the other options, the paint needs a pro mop quoted starting from £700 depending on scratch depths and damage. Looks good in the photo, but up close so disappointing. And it’s a bit too bling, I’m more for an understated paint job. Electric blue, I thought it was Cobalt blue. Think Audi called this Nogaro blue on the RS4 B5 I had a midnight blue S4 as even then the nogaro was too bling.