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The Kamiq alloy rims from the standard Skoda parts catalogue are very expensive...perhaps 2.5 times the price of the same wheels (except for the OEM part number) from the Skoda alloy rim accessory catalogue. However, not all factory alloy rims are matched in this accessory catalogue...but it's worth checking. Are your rims 16", 17" or 18"? Alloy rims from the accessory catalogue (Kamiq) (22 different alloy rim are listed) Alu kolaAlu kola

To help understand what ADAS is, the below information was found using AI...However, I doubt replacing or repairing a damaged alloy wheel would require ADAS (if any is fitted) to be recalibrated. In VAG (Volkswagen Group) cars, ADAS stands for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems. It is a collection of electronic safety and comfort features—utilizing front cameras, radar units, and ultrasonic sensors—designed to monitor the vehicle's surroundings, warn the driver of hazards, and actively intervene with braking or steering to prevent accidents. Common VAG ADAS Features Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC): Maintains a set speed and safe gap from the vehicle ahead. Lane Assist: Tracks road lines and provides steering input to keep the car centered. Front Assist / Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB): Detects sudden obstacles or pedestrians and applies brakes. Side Assist / Blind Spot Monitoring: Warns of vehicles hidden in adjacent lanes. Park Assist: Automates steering inputs during parallel or bay parking. Importance and Maintenance in VAG Vehicles Safety Compliance: Meets modern UK and EU vehicle safety mandates. Precision Calibration: Requires specialized diagnostic alignment whenever a windshield, bumper, or radar sensor is replaced or repaired.

I'm looking at buying an Octavia scout. One is a 2010 model costing £5500 with nearly 100k miles on the clock. It's very tidy and straight. The other is an ex NHS doctor car on a 19 plate with 46k miles on the clock costing £9999. As it has been effectively an emergency car, it has a few holes in panels where a radio has been and other holes in the boot panels for heaven knows what. Which one would you buy? I think I'm going to toss a coin.

Hi all, I am Michael, I'm old enough to know better and I live in Stourbridge. I am the proud owner of a 2004 Skoda Fabia Mk1 Estate with the 1.2 HTP engine where the previous owner was a fan of parking by feel, and deaf considering the absolute drone the exhaust is giving right now. It's a long and fruitless story about how I became the owner of the vehicle. It started away back in 2020 where upon the impending birth of my first born child my wife demanded I bought a more reliable/safe car. I bought a 2006 Land Cruiser which was cursed. While it was off the road for the first time of many technical (and EXPENSIVE) issues, I thought it'd be a good idea to spunk £1,500 on a Rover 827SLi. That can never worked. At all. So while I got the Land Cruiser working, the Rover festered. I then saw sense 18 months ago and sold the Land Cruiser and bought (on a whim) a Subaru Legacy Estate. Great car, I should never have got rid of it, but when child number 2 came along in December last year I PX'ed for a Peugeot Partner. Reason being I found it increasingly difficult to strap my now 4 year old in to it, so I thought I'd get a taller car. I bought a nail, and sold it at a loss 6 weeks later when it only worked for 2 of those days. Strapped for cash and really done with cars, I decided to not buy another car. I have a 2010 Peugeot 107 which I recommissioned and I've been driving that ever since. The problem though was that kids tend to grow, and my 4 year old is a tall lad and with me being 6ft 3 he was struggling in the back of my 107. While this was going on, I decided to give the Rover one last go. I failed. I came to the conclusion it needed electrical work which was many hundreds of pounds, many hundreds of pounds which I don't have (or wanted to spend to be honest), so I was starting to decide whether to scrap the Rover or move it on to someone who enjoyed inflicting pain upon themselves. I then came across this Fabia for cheap. £400. I decided it'd be a good stop gap and while I tried to strike a deal with the seller, I mentioned that I'd have to get rid of the Rover first to placate the long suffering wife who now maintains a "1 in, 1 out" rule. He suggested a swap for the Rover, and while I said it was fit for scrap he felt it was worth the challenge. So we did the swap, he got the Rover and I got the Skoda. Other than a 40 minute drive home, I've not really been able to drive for one reason or another. It's got a slipping clutch, the exhaust is LOUD (like a wet fart at a funeral loud), front electric windows don't work, driver's wing mirror has left the chat, and it's cosmetically challenged. However, a new clutch kit has been ordered, new window switch, and the exhaust has just separated from the clamp so that in itself isn't a huge deal. A friend has a unit and owes me some time for helping him move cars, so we're pencilled in for the 29th August to sort the clutch out etc. I have never owned a Skoda or any other VAG product, I've only ever driven my Mother In Law's Fabia which was a Mk2, but I am seriously impressed with the Fabia at it's age. Everything feels lovely to touch, the action of the indicators for example. The interior, even though the previous owner was teething or had dogs that are responsible for chewing the rear head rests, is really good. Clean, nothing seems to be missing, very well kept and presented. Even if the car is a 3 month, 6 month deal, it just needs to cart my sorry arse to and from work and be able to transport my two boys places while I load it with various tip run items etc. But initially, and I say this in the hope of not annoying the car gods, so far this car doesn't seem too bad. But I think it's evident from the start of this post that I either have pure bad luck with cars or I give them the kiss of death. This is a free car essentially, with a new clutch, and if it carries on working then I'll be happy.

Had, rather than has. Up until a few years ago (2023) when they dropped 5 year recommendations in the UK. I don't believe that applied only to engines made from 2023 onwards.

It does, but with auto hold off in a dsg you can make your final maneuvers by just pushing the brake pedal and changing from D to R to slowly get in the space, no need to blip anything and risk moving too quickly. In some cars the press on the accelerator to release is too much.

An aluminum oil pan is nicer. I had a steel one for a year, but the threads for the drain plug weren't good. Then again, it wasn't from ECS

I've just had this query too. Noticed a slight uneven were on the front inside tyres, got the tracking checked. This was a few months ago, squeezing out a little extra time on the tyres. The tracking was only a little bit out. I replaced the tyres this week. When I was getting the tyres change, they said I didn't do too bad. 20K KM , Lowered on Sports Springs and 15MM spacers all round. Because there is no Camber or Castor adjustment, only Toe, I was told that's all they can do. Bridgestone Potenza S001 235/40R19 96 W XL Cloth and wire exposed at the very end.

I always have this activated, as all you have to do to release it is to blip the accelerator. The car will then ease forward (or backward) for you.

Schleswig-Holstein about 25Km or so from the centre of HH though I rarely go to the centre as it's a PITA unless you take the U-Bahn!

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Hello I have some troubles with my engine and need desperate help. Here is he the story about Skoda Octavia 2.0 tdi ea288 DSG 2015 I ve bouhgt import car with full service history (Skoda Italy) which is rare in Serbia to find. Seller told me DPF was gutted in Italy and I was aware of this. 5000 km later problems started with light black smoke on hevy load and after few days a LOT of smoke on extra load (4 people, A/C on and acceleration from 100 to 130 kmh) check engine was activated with 2 codes showed on VCDS later. P0101 P13D6 P1734 (probably DSG selector microswitch problem) In next few days car was so much without power that it couldn't get to 80 kmh and on very very hevy smoke and some more error codes. - Insufficient pressure - NEXT, tuner said software wasn't downloaded and he implemented only software for DPF to ECU. Three mechanics said turbo-compressor is dead (including tuner). So I did remont (repair with 12 month guarantee). They also cleaned intercooler which was full of sludgy oil ( taking it apart from engine with new gasket), gutted cat and changed oil+filter. Car was fine. It was pulling ok and without smoke for some days but it started with light smoke on exhaust. First time when I was on highway, problems with MAF and Internal Pressure Sensor came back. Pipes are checked under smoke pressure machine. Injectors are great. 1. Do I have to check if EGR software is deleted ( with or without blanking ) ? 2. Change Heater with pressure sensor on 3rd cylider ? 3. Something else ? Please help I can not find any proper advice for this problem in my area Here is latest VCDS prinscreen codes

Further investigations: I believe the battery was disconnected for c.30secs last night, and it’s now getting angry about everything - but nothing showing up after a dtc clear (except open circuit on the pump control module when I took it off to check voltages etc) The module seems to get power ok, the wires are good to the pump - the pump doesn’t seem to get power all the time, and when I tried to do a live read of the power output the battery had had enough so is being recharged.. it seemed to spike to a c4v in the brief moment it turned over. No idea what I’m look for or at but I feel like there should be some sensor combo that should be able to tell me where in the system the actual problem is?? The 170 and 1700 seemed to flip between that and 450/4500 which seemed weird and borked sensor-ish but maybe that is normal in car land. Car electronics are absolute chaos and I have enough unruly computers in my day job! Aaaa

Nice @Lee01 ! which part of Germany is that? I'm not familiar enough with Waterlooville to know its twin towns... Wikipedia suggests Henstedt-Ulzburg which is not far at all from my favourite place in Germany: Hamburg (I did a year there on an Erasmus exchange)

("I work for Ford so no BS.") not a question that a technical minded person would ask as they'd know what "Bank1" and "Bank2" refers to. These VW Group 3 cylinder engines are only GDI. I thought that that Ford engine was an Ecoboom engine type, no?

You can change what is displayed on the drivers display

Just to ask again, can anyone confirm that the button marked above for the tilt relates to the seat base angle, please.

Remember that the "forever" is for the life of the belt, when it fails it will cause a lot of engine damage. Typically, a cambelt in a 2012 Fabia has a recommended service life of 5 years - but do include your engine type/code.

Welcome to Briskoda @Ali-B My old neck of the woods (Bishopstoke/ Hedge End etc) and now I'm in a town in Germany twinned with Waterlooville

Hi! I'm Ali from somewhere around the Southampton/Portsmouth Hampshire coast (not saying which as it's neither... ) I've been lurking for a while as My wife picked up a Fabia Mk III SE in Rallaye Green (Kermit!) last summer and it's been one of the most surprising cars I've ever been custodian of (lets face it, we never own these things, they are like cats... they let you look after them on their terms!) it's a 1.2 4 pot 90BHP and I never thought I'd say such great things about such a 'small' engine. It's essentially been pulling double duty as our main car as my car was supposed to be able to fill in the role of doing bigger drives etc but it's not had a great year with a catalogue of issues that sprung up since october taking it off the road and losing confidence until the final nail in it's coffin came when on the way to the garage to check out a few issues it started a new "whine" which ended up being the alternator lunching itself... so the combo of things all cropping up at the same time has relegated it to the status of "project car" and as I don't have space, time, funds or energy for a project car right now, it's going to be someone else's project car... :'( However that leads me to the second reason I've joined and that's due to acquiring a very low mileage ( 38K i.e. pensioner owned - gulp!) late '12 Octavia Mk2 Elegance in Dark Blue (Dynamic Blue?) and since it's missing a few options I'd have liked it to have had, I decided it was finally time to actually sign up - now that we're a 2-Skoda family...

My guess would be Blind Spot Assist - green for all clear?

Hello world I am somehow fan of Skoda for years. Dad had 3 of them. All cars that I owned had audio modified with OEM look. This one is the best on SQ.

can anybody explain what this is on the dash and how do i turn it off many thanks

Info such as which engine type you are asking about, for example. 2012 Fabias were made with a fair selection.

In other engines, not this one, obviously.