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Morning folks. I have the above Octavia, and I have an issue with the revs. Normal running it'll idle at 7-800rpm. other times, even after only driving a few minutes, the car will increase revs to 1000, and stay there. The engine temp will increase quite quickly to 90 degrees and the gear changes become snatchier. I'm not getting any DPF or engine management lights on the dash. Drive long enough and it'll settle down and go back to normal. other times if the journey is short enough, it'll stay that way until I turn it off and the fan will come on for like 30-40 seconds afterwards. As you can see from the pictures, stopped and traffic and the revs haven't reduced as normal. It this a sign that the engine it trying to clear the DPF filter? Or is there a malfunction in the DPF pressure sensor or other associated part? I'd really like to know what it is as I'm selling the car in a few weeks (hopefully) and I don't want to sell it on with an issue like this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I can confirm @FOSTER91 observation. It's a regular problem here in Scotland where some trunk roads still have different speed limits for goods vehicles. I passed this sign on a run along the A90 yesterday and the car immediately switched to 60mph warning. It then happily chimed at me for the next 10 minutes until it finally decided that 70mph was ok.

I had two scraped Karoq alloy wheels, one of which had been previously repaired and repainted, and the surface was beginning to have whitre blemishes. I had them repaired for £144 each, however it did take 2 days. They look fine!

I had the same warning on my dashboard. There are sidelight bulbs in there, albeit not worth it. They are 5w bulbs. You can clearly see your offside one is out. 5 minutes to change both.

FWIW, they’re the same engine!

I have already posted several times on this subject. At first, as it happened on the continent, I was told it was due to hunting between different phone providers. Then it started doing it in the UK, so it wasn't that. In summary, after 8 visits to Skoda, including software updates, 3 new aerials and a new control unit, it was finally tracked down to a faulty cable running the length of the car. This was replaced in the spring and it has been faultless since. Please all remember that the error may be caused by several different faults, and a suggested solution may not work for another car.

Most of the proposals I've seen do ask if cover has been declined by others. I've only been declined once, that was for a vehicle that had been a previous constructive write-off with only cosmetic damage. Probably best to declare it.

My mates mid sized Volvo phev , has the same issues. We drove from East Bristol to Weston Super Mare to see a sick buddy. The car showed about 5 on the way down but only 2 onl the way back

Bit late this answer but as I'm doing this right now- this 'how to' assumes you've done the SAI delete, which involves taking that feed from the nipple and running it up to the top of the divertor valve. I know cos I've just bust my DV in the process! So the 'T' piece becomes redundant. Just in case anyone else is doing this install these days

I cannot see the cameras being used to charge people ppm it will be mandatory reporting like they have said. The way the cameras could be used is a back check for credibility, It will be quite simple for a registration number to be put into the computer system to validate "hits" and an AI model see if that 3,000mile was credible

Welcome to the forum. Strongly suggest you 'pull the stick' more often until you get a sense of how much it's using - the TSI (EA888) engines, early ones particularly, can have a bit of a thirst for oil. A litre in 2K miles might be a bit high.

Hey gang. Cable must have popped out of place. Level is loose in the cabin now. Can't see the latch directly underneath between bumper and radiator. Any other options?? Thanks

A quick question that some kind soul will know the answer to. My son was insured with Aviva and at renewal time they declined to renew. It is not a decision based on his driving record or where he lives but a business decision. It doesn't not have to be declared as a declination on another insurance application. It is a high spec electric car which is working well. Has anyone else been declined? Does anyone know exactly why? Also, take this as a warning that at least one car insurer may not renew or indeed offer you a quote having previously done so.

Welcome to the forum. Does this intermittent fault appear immediately after refueling? Check the fuel cap sealing gasket.

Make your wife the user on 2 keys, you use the 2nd and will have all her privileges 🤞

check undertray/arch liners etc. Have had one that was slightly loose and made a weird howling sound at specific speeds. Must have caught it on something and ripped a couple of screw fixings. As it plastic it may be slightly softer when weather hot so might change speed it resonates at. Alasdair

@Graham Butcher "Around here." Very much relevant. For UK wide they will need rolled out UK wide. Getting full Mobile & Digital Receptions UK Wide might be a good idea. There are Average Speed cameras about on 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 mph & on 70 mph roads in many regions of the UK. It hardly requires having watched a Vlogger to know this, just pay attention while out and about driving.

Stunning for a FWD! 😃 How do you manage do much power only on the front axle? Isn’t your ASR flashing too much?

Octavia mkII facelift 2010 Hello I've been having a problem with the left hand indicator LED on the dashboard being almost always on, with ~half brightness. It still works normally, as in when the blinker is turned to the left the led blinks between half bright and full bright. This ghost light only appears when headlights are turned on and for some reason disappears when cruise control is activated, see pictures below. Otherwise wouldn't bother as it affects nothing else but I got a to be fixed notice for it from yearly inspection and thus have to fix it. The cruise control indicator led has some of the same ghosts but did not get a notice for that. Would anyone have any idea where the problem might be or how to diagnose further? Pics, with cruise on and off and running lights on and off.

Yes they got dropped in 450 for VW as well as I understand it although there were some ambiguous postings and YouTube saying 450 worked with VW. Expect it will be February when we get the June 2027 release all being well.👍

Second data point for you — and unfortunately it's another Combi. I have a 2026 Octavia IV Combi 2.0 TDI 150 (facelift). Same thing: - Booming/droning starts around 140 km/h and gets louder with speed. At 160 it's noticeably louder but it's the same tone — the pitch never changes. - Shift to neutral and coast: engine drops to ~1000 rpm, the drone carries on completely unchanged. So nothing to do with revs or the drivetrain. - Fuel level makes no difference. I thought at one point it only did it with a full tank, but I retested properly and that was a red herring. I can't answer your hatch/liftback question, but at least you now have a second Combi with an identical signature, on a different model year and in a different country. One more thing that might be relevant. Separately from the drone, my fuel pump is clearly audible at idle — louder than the engine — but only when ambient temperature is above about 25 °C. Below that it's silent. Same 25 °C threshold you're describing for the drone. Might be coincidence, might not. That temperature threshold is what I keep coming back to. The thing on these cars that changes state right around there is the active radiator grille shutter. It stays shut at speed when there's no cooling demand, and opens once it's hot and the A/C is working. Open shutters at 150 km/h means flow into the engine bay and a cavity that can resonate at a fixed frequency. It would fit everything you've described: front-ish location, headwind makes it worse, drafting behind another car kills it, nothing below 25 °C, and it appearing after a few months rather than from new. A few questions so we can look for a common part: 1. When you removed the roof bars, did you take off the longitudinal rails themselves, or just the crossbars? The rails sit in a channel with end caps and those are worth taping over. 2. Panoramic roof? Tow bar? Wheel size? 3. Have you had a look at the grille shutter position via VCDS or ODIS while driving? If it reads open exactly when the drone is there, that's most of the answer. 4. Has the dealer actually driven it with you, and did anything come back from a TPI search? I'll record mine and run an FFT so we can compare — if I land on 129 Hz too, that's a very strong argument to take to Škoda. Two documented cases in two countries is a lot harder to wave away than one.

I've just tested them on VW. Working as expected.

Update, Despite not being able to find the right socket (looks like 10mm, I've got every one except that it seems) or spanner, I managed to disconnect the battery, and left it off for a bit. Result: The screen itself is magically back on, which is the important bit. And the SOS error has also gone, at least for now. There was loads of errors and warnings, they were cleared by steering lock to lock, opening and closing all the windows, and driving round the block. I expect it won't have resolved it permanently, but at least we can use the car in the meantime & if it happens again I'll disconnect the battery again.

The UK MOT-test rules regarding DRLs are as shown in the attachment below. In @SteveFab partner's case, as the car is a 2022 Fabia Mk4, it's DRLs will be inspected during a MOT-test and, if either of its DRLs is found to be inoperative, that will be classed as a Major defect.

Great. I was wondering this morning where the "June" release was which we had February in that more targeted release. So this in the November release.... connected cars processing with streamlined production of the map files means the turnround is much quicker. Even the mib2 standard TomTom cartography gets that as well. These are Here Maps ofcourse. Will load it up later today on my Seat with those dual navigation FeCs.