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20200725_155738 by geof worrall, on Flickr been a good few days...recently

So after recently remapping my vRS tdi I was still longing for more so I bit the bullet and bought a 69 plate vRS 245 challenge and wow what a car. Anyone who is in a similar predicament, I say do it, bite the bullet and buy one! I had a 4hr drive from the dealership I purchased it from and achieved an average of 39.5 mpg (without trying and without checking it the whole journey) at decent motorway speeds in normal and comfort mode. So knowing I can get nearly 40mpg on a run without trying, suits me to the ground. Of course around town its awful especially with a lead right foot. Things I love about the car: - The power - anyone who says a remapped tdi is as quick as a petrol is completely lying, maybe a stage 2 diesel with a bigger turbo, but even then it’d be close - Pan roof - never had one before and it is lovely - Heated front/ rear and steering wheel - Virtual cockpit, easily the best bit about the car never realised how powerful it could be - Rear USB ports, essential if you have kids! Things I dislike: - The entertainment system can sometimes be slow (old car was the same) and the reversing camera sometimes stays on for a while after driving off - The fact the drive mode selector always defaults back to ‘normal’, this is annoying. My old 2018 diesel remembered my driving mode Anyway... got a lot of love for the vRS tdi (i have owned 2 of them), but for now the 245 is ticking all of the boxes! The most annoying part of all of this however... is Hatch Bag do not do a boot liner for the Octavia Hatch with canton and I can’t find a company who do as nice Custom fitting boot liners which is a real ****er! - Matt

Same as mine. S001 are very noisy tires. I noticed a big improvement when last winter I fitted a new set of Michelin Pilot Alpin 5 235/40 R19 96W XL. Like night and day!

Advisory is an old chestnut. I was advised my tyres only had 4mm of tread left and the brake pads only had 40% linings left. Us old uns who owned agricultural 60s Vivas and Anglias are not taken in by these selling techniques. My keyfob batteries are coming up to 7 years old although the range is shorter.

Tend to agree with you there... The Edition do look good and the Sirius could be a bit difficult to keep clean (like the BBS copy cross spokes I had on an old Mitsubishi I had years ago)

I share Skomaz's views. I've had four new cars and never bought the insurances mentioned - and fortunately never been in a position to wish that I had. The only insurance I bought for my Yeti was a five year warranty, and then only because it has a DSG. In OP's position, I would be more inclined to put the £2k into a pot, which would be available if I needed it. Just my thoughts.

Personally i wouldn't bother with sany of them... They add up to £2k of extras you mate never need and even if you did claim the chances are there'd be a loophole that would prevent a payout!

By my understanding, Haldex couple can lock up to the level that torque is evenly distributed across axles, meaning 50/50 in ideal scenario. The rest of connections are open differentials. When they say it can transfer 100% to the rear, this is just clever marketing, and although it is actually truth* (I'll explain in the end), it is incorrect to claim so, as it misleads the customers to believe rear shaft has some independent connection to the engine and full control of the torque by the Haldex system. It does not, you have additional open differential, attached to existing open differential like any normal front wheel driving car. This setup is far from perfect in slippery conditions. It needs assistance to stop spinning wheel by applying braking force to stop it from spinning and save some remaining torque for another half of differential, or let's say "third" in this case. You have felt this behavior, as it starts slapping brake pad to the brake disc, where it looses traction. Maybe it is still in the learning stage, but I suppose it is just trying to compensate worn tires on wet road. Weight distribution affects traction, when you start, from 0, most weight is at the front where engine is. When you start accelerating, more weight is transferred to the rear, but as you get the speed weight moves back to the front. *in theory, when there is no traction, there is no torque, formula says that. So, if fronts are spinning, no torque is present there, while all existing torque is transferred to the back. This is 100%, as they claim, can happen in some conditions, but in reality I don't think so. You don't have full control over it, and you cannot with a press of a button convert such a car to the rear wheel driven vehicle. @o6w6e6n, maybe my understanding of technical way how 4x4 is implemented to your car, can help you follow-up how it behaves on the road and is it something expected or you really suffer some malfunction.

Not taken many nice ones yet... but here’s one to show her off... got to admit, I’m loving this colour!

Hi everyone! Its time for me to attempt my first service (plugs, oil, filters). Do you have to buy everything separately or can you just call, say TPS, and ask for a service kit? Thanks

Took the car into my local dealer this morning for its second service. When I booked it in last week, the service receptionist said they had recently had notification of a recall for faulty injectors on a range of VW Group cars with the 1.0 TSI engine. Cars built between 2018 and 2020 are affected. Apparently there is a risk of the injectors leaking fuel into the cylinders affecting emissions. The reference number is 24FQ. This link provides more details. https://car-recalls.eu/vw-skoda-seat-1-0-tsi-recall-injectors/

Yes it does have DCC

I have the incredimit and it is pretty good, had it a few years, though got to admit should have been using it more often. Looks like clean and shiny have it in stock though would have to pay postage buying online https://www.cleanandshiny.co.uk/

I had a K&N panel filter in my Yaris and to be honest, no big difference! I thought of fitting one to the Fabia but after buying genuine bosch or similar, paper filters so cheap from ECP, CP4L, etc, I wouldn't bother. They are so cheap, easy to swap etc that a nice clean one, once a year, along with the pollen filter, oil and oil filter, suffices!

All I wanted was a shiny car.

You only have to pretend to bounce. 😉

The keyless entry and start system is certainly throwing out some varied problems. I myself still have a minor issue which is difficult to pin down to the fobs. When locking the car, as i do by hand rather than the fob, there i a delay that prevents me from opening the door if i have left something in the car for example. Also having got into the driving seat having opened the door by hand and pressed the start button the car won't start unless i press the unlock button on the fob. So hard to explain as a faulty fob. I think it important we all continue to share our experiences here wether good or bad. Regards: Steve....

I think they're a total waste of money, they don't provide sufficient filtration to protect the engine and they don't increase airflow enough to improve performance. Kind of the worst of both worlds if you like. People fit them mainly for the stupid slurping sound they make.

You'd hear the most ghastly rumbling sound if the main bearings were kaput enough for you to see the crank vibrating.

The Superb was my third Skoda. First was a 2008 Octavia that covered 96 k miles in four years and apart from me bending it a couple of times the only non-wear related item I recall was the bonnet release handle coming loose (not fitted properly) and the second(2015) was faultless if you don’t count rodents eating pipes over 2 years. A fourth due next month nth

Many thanks for the reply , i will give it a go .

Mine does that too, at the apiary I have to reverse up a little Lane to turn round, every so often a dangling stinging nettle will slam the brakes on, as it's skittish ground it always sounds like I've grounded and hit the bottom on something, it sounds and feel s awful but I know there's nothing there apart from a nettle. Driving slowly doesn't seem to help, it does it when the nettle makes the display turn red. Not sure if turning the parking warning off helps or not. As it would stop me hitting a pedestrian or a bollard in other circumstances I feel it is one of the better safety devices.

Car 2 for me. It's your preferred colour and SEL spec is good and the power tailgate (I have it on my 2019 Superb) is very handy. Mileage is not an issue on any of these cars as they will reach 200,000 miles with regular servicing.

Just an update. I went to speak to my dealer today. The service manager agreed that historically the Fabia had a problem with water in the doors. regarding my Kamiq, he said for him it was a new issue, he did say that the Kamiq is a new model and the industry does get glitches in new models. That's a fair enough point and I'm sure not everyones new Kamiq is having this issue and meybe I have rogue one off the production line. My car is booked in for investigation next week. When I asked what the investigation would entail I was told certainly the door panels off to see if anything was obvious and a technical sheet (no, me neither) send to Skoda HQ. It's possible that if other Kamiqs have experienced this fault, in small numbers, the HQ techies may have a solution that they can advice my dealer of. Only major faults affecting huge numbers across a model are sent out to dealers.

I would definitely take the opportunity to upgrade the drop links if possible - I (the tuning shop) did recently with the rear APR bar because they came with them. Makes sense if you're going to be upgrading that component to ensure supporting components are updated too and saves additional labour.

Yes she was, pitty she ended like that 😜

Who is Amy is she famous?

Out of pure curiosity I wanted to weigh the car. From the spec it should be 1629 kg for the 2.0 tsi 4x4 sedan, including the 75 kg driver. In fact it turned out that it weighs 1685 kg. Trunk empty, without driver and full tank.

But your Roomster won't have keyless entry will it?? It's that new 'aid' that seems to cut battery life dramatically as they are constantly signalling to see if your car is nearby, while the old style (like my Golf keys) only transmit when you push the button.

Ahh, the one i'm having is a DSG. Yours sounds like a bit of a beast!!! to accelerate like that.

Haynes's wiring diagram is possibly for a version without bulb failure warning detection; yours clearly has this function. Are all your bulbs conventional filament/incandescent units? I'll look at wiring info later if I get a chance.

Thanks for the welcome. I just wanted to change to an automatic but I'm not fussed weather it's Petrol or Diesel.

Me too, absolutely. They gave the car the distinct "sport sedan" attitude I was after. They are Ispiri FFP2 Gloss Black in 19x8.5 ET37 in case you where wondering!

I would have said no. I would have sworn no, in fact..... But I have the exact same car and just tested this out. They do indeed come on without the key in.

I am fully conversant with Hookes law thankyou and have been for 45 years and as a design engineer regularly used it. But even without that knowledge, simply common sense and having had oily hands working on cars for even longer than that I would know that a vehicle shock absorber has no influence on the ride height, laden or unladen. Heck I knew it at 14 and by 16 fully understood it and could have explained it to anyone without needing to quote Hookes law which by then I could have, but if you want to carry on believing it then its no skin off my nose, I was more concerned that others might read what you said amongst a very good and informative posting and believe it because clearly you had done lots of research. You are getting confused with the instantaneous transient spring rate which can be infinitely high with very stiff dampers during turn in and will cause very high transient roll stiffness but will have absolutely no effect on ride height in steady state conditions, when not resisting vertical motion the dampers have no effect to the spring mass system and carry none of the weight of the vehicle, 100% of it is supported by the road springs.

Yes it is. If I'd bought a diesel Yeti with the 6 speed wet clutch gearbox, then I would probably not have bothered with the extended warranty.

I'm tempted by the scuff & dent insurance, but it's a lot of money and I could always just get the scuffs and dents done myself as and when, instead of paying up front for them. I have 2 year's warranty remaining on the vehicle, but maybe an extended warranty *would* be a better idea. 👍

Nothing to worry about.

Current VCDS version is 20.4.2

Seems odd for them to be using DOT 3 in this day and age. I would have assumed in the Leaf you could use DOT 4. And with regards to colour, it'll either be clear or amber ish colour. The only one which is distinctly different is DOT 5, which is purple.

Last night, my wife went out to her June 2018 Karoq SE to get something. Opened and locked the car using the door handle. Key in pocket. About an hour later she was going out and the fob would't open the car door. First thought, dead battery. The spare opened it just fine, but me being me, thought I'd switch batteries in the fobs to check if it was a fob issue. Wife had no in car warnings about a battery problem in the fob. By switching batteries I found that both batteries were fine and worked in the spare fob, but neither battery worked in the main fob. So, looks like fob failure. Fortunately this happened at home. I'm assuming it can be fixed under warranty. It left me considering a scenario where the same thing happened miles from home. My wife returns to a locked car and nothing happens with the fob. Using the fob key she knows how to clip off the little cover to reveal the keyhole, (surmising here). Surely the alarm would go off? Then what? Both she and I would have been clueless about holding the key against/ close to the start button to see if the car would start. If not call the helpline I presume. Anyway, as I said fortunately this happened at home and in daylight, but it has certainly dented my wife's confidence in keyless entry. Mine too tbh. Ash

My wife’s rubber ones are wearing thin after 9 years, banana.

Awesome. Now get an is38 turbo from a Golf r and a remap. Have fun

LeClerc DNF on lap 41 pretty boring race as usual at Barcelona with easy win for Lewis and a record 156th podium finish for him overtaking Schumacher long standing record. Max the closest rival again. Bottas with a free 3rd stop bags the extra point for fastest lap and 3rd place. Rude not to mention Racing Point finally bring home some good points for 4th and 5th converting their good qualifying pace at last.

What like this 🤣🤣

@BigJase88 There are no plans to allow new Nuclear in Scotland. What was there and the remaining stuff that also needs cleared up was experimental and was in the main about Nuclear for the Subs. The stuff in the North was coming for storage near you, and then was going to China, now it flies out to the USA. Rosyth has so much storage of Nuclear and Subs that needs dealt with as well. Then there are the mines to clean up, and the open cast to deal with at great expense. The Oil & Gas coming out of the ground is just wasted using it to run small vehicles and for heating homes and workplaces. It takes a lot of Oil & Gas just making Electricity to produce Oil / Petroleum products. Grangemouth is importing the gas needed to run the refinery from the USA since they are not being allowed to 'frack' for what they require. ? Do you not see those big white wind turbines as you drive about. Turning and making electricity that can not be stored or not generating but the owners still get paid for not generating. Just as the last Coal Generators are paid not to, and the Gas and renewables are paid not to. The Diesel Farms are on stand by in England and paid to be ready to make electricity In Scotland there is the Hydro power generation ready to go at a moments notice if power is requied. http://gridwatch.co.uk The Electricity is coming into the UK / England right now from Continental Europe while Producers in the UK are paid to not produce electricity. Re EV prices, purchase / lease / on tick (rented) The RRP's showing of over £30,000 after the Government grant vehicles are sitting to be had at £27,000 or less on the never never. Save £10.000 on Fueling and other expenses over 3 years of less service and maintenance, fuel and parking / congestion charges and it is easy to see who the fools might be. I was charging earlier and let a Gent get his Jag charged as i was not in a hurry and heading off on my bike for a while as the car charged. (Phone app tells me when charging done, or can phone me if another driver wants to checks how long you will be.) He had come to Scotland on Holiday, paid £20 for his card to free charge in Scotland. He has done 10,000 in his EV which is his first and it costs him £600 a month less to run than his diesel Jag did. Free workplace charging in England so o fuel bought and the BIK with a EV. It's all about the motion and not paying for the locomotion juice. No Turbo lag, no hesitation of the gearbox etc etc.

Agree the 1.4TSi 150PS engine in my 2016 was better than the 1.5TSi 150PS engine in the wife's Karoq. I tried to offload it last October and she made me buy it back just to annoy me even more.

I picked this up on 30th June - a Volvo XC90 B5 R Design....

Petrol Dave, I don't have "an issue" I had a qyestion. I have got the larger map on my 16gb card and it works. If, in future the map size increases I may not be able to get it on without formatting the accessible partition with a different cluster size, which I understand. I was hoping there would be a way to use a non Skoda 32Gb card, using some form of cloning or copying utility, so I was asking on this forum if anyone had managed to do it. It appears that this may not be possible.