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As long as the EV is plugged in, and I tend to leave it plugged in much of the time, I can start or restart charging even when I am not at home, create a new charging schedule and alter the upper battery limit to stop or restart charging to take advantage of negative priced electricity. Think my lad can do that for his Mini but I can do it for the Renaults on the Renault App.

Hi. I have the cheapest one I could find on AliExpress and it has literally worked flawlessly since the day I got it. https://a.aliexpress.com/_EQeRtHo

The problem with electricity like that is that you have to be at home in order to take advantage of it. OVO have at long last rolled out special EV tariffs, or at least it is the first time they contacted me regarding them.

Polos have this feature, Fabias don't, I think.

Negative priced electricity certainly helps running cost and there are 5 hours of that which is long enough to charge multiple EVs, as well as do household stuff too. I have found insurance high either and service cheap too ie less than £100 a year. Should be some very good deals, loss leaders to hit EV quota targets for some marquee who are behind target. Might be less 0% deals as cost of borrowing has gone up in the last few weeks in many countries, depending how the UK seller finances any finance deal. New Dacia Spring looks like it has been updated significantly as the UK's cheapest car not just EV !

@Rhencullen Have you ruled out the tailgate dampers not being the cause of the rattle? Have a look at this thread for more details... Link to forum thread

Same on ours. I've noticed a few times the infotainment takes a while to start up so I hoped it was loading an update. Only for the update message to reappear.

Hi all, Just bought a 2017 Skoda Kodiaq SE as a muddy dog wagon/workhorse to replace my much loved Land Rover Freelander 2. Cheers, Simon

And a few of the gardens............

Me neither - ours has a lockable filler cap.

Yes

I had no idea they locked with the central locking.

thanks for all the replies.

I went directly to the Wheel Shop in Manchester for my spare wheel and tools. Very helpful and delivered in a couple of days.

Quick update: I'd had the sense to back up the old map files on the Skoda SD card. I formatted the SD card to FAT32 and put/copied them back onto the card. Then I deleted the two files the Mac seems to have added. I put it back in the unit and I have maps back, even if well out of date and limited to UK and parts of Europe. They will do for now - but I still need to get this thing updated and new maps installed. If there is a Firmware update and a 'patch' that will get round some of these issues, I would be very grateful for the information on how to do that.

Where the door wiring loom passes from door to A pillar is definitely a know cause of door related electrical problems and is usually only a matter of time before continual flexing of the drivers door loom (which obvious gets used more than other doors, except I guess in a taxi) causes a wire to break and give problems. Mine went at 93K miles at the start of COVID. Just shut off main speaker in driver's door (initially thought I'd gone deaf in right ear :-) but depending on wire that breaks, can affect any door as I believe main module for controlling all doors lives in that door. There is a design flaw in original door looms where the wires are slightly too short and hence flex excessively / kink rather than bending smoothly. So if one wire has broken, very good chance others are not far behind. Hence, rather that face a future of playing whack a mole chasing ongoing breakages and faults, had complete new door loom fitted. The new door looms have been redesigned with slightly longer wires to overcome the known problem so in theory should last life of the car, I've certainly done another 88K since then without further problems so fingers crossed the redesign has worked. You can buy repair looms to splice into loom just before it leaves the door which in theory fixes all wires in one and you essentially end up with the redesigned loom. But a lot of effort to solder all those wires and so makes sense to me that once you have the door opened up that you do the job properly and replace complete loom as a single plug and play operation. Before you do anything though, recommend you get the car scanned to get full list of fault codes as whilst the door loom looks favourite here, there could be other issues at play (e.g. genuinely faulty control module).

How? Cairus: I need more information, a drip-feed, a link to something that explains in terms clear enough for an idiot. I do not even seem to now have an SD card that the system will read, let alone load with a firmware update. Even if I did, where is that firmware?

Update Firmware 253 then Patch

Dear Experts , Can somebody please share good Fabia mk2 Repair Manual to open the panels from inside boot to access the wirirng of Fuel Filler Flap for mk2 fabia 2014. Thanks Kind Regards

I have an annoying metallic rattle which I have eventually traced to the boot catch. (This was finally confirmed by driving with the boot lid held partially open by a pillow – rattle eliminated!). Although the boot lid seems to close tightly on the rubbers, and there is no play evident in either the locking mechanism or the lower striker plate, there is this persistent rattle. Has anyone else had this problem, and might this be rectified simply by adjusting the striker plate? T.I.A. Barry.

Dear Experts , Please share if you have any experience for compatibility of headlight, mine looks like SPECIAL EDITION black inside OEM number 5j2941017F /5J2941018F but I want to change to 5j2941017j Or 5J2 941 017 D. (Fabia Mk2 2014 Monte Carlo 1.2 petrol 5j) Any thoughts please ? Thanks Kind Regards

Got it. Hope these help: Eerrrrrr! Excuse all the dust. Need hoover

If the K unit is really meant for the Kamiq/Scala, that could explain the black screen. I’d double-check the exact compatibility before replacing or modifying anything else.

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Hi, I will make ebay auction for it asap and let you know. that touch panel was made by me. works great, already repaired 50 pieces of that radio in octavia 4. The problem is gone.