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collected yesterday SKODA ENYAQ IV ESTATE 132kW 60 Lodge Nav 62kWh 5dr Auto Fitted With: Black roof rails, Radiator grille frame in black with chrome strip, Electrically retractable towbar, Panoramic sunroof, Climate pack - Enyaq, Assisted drive pack plus - Enyaq,, Comfort seat pack plus - Enyaq, Convenience pack - Enyaq, Family pack plus - Enyaq, Infotainment pack plus - Enyaq, Parking pack plus - Enyaq, Transport pack - Enyaq, Light and view pack - Enyaq, Metallic - Race blue, Rear side airbags, 100 kW DC charging, 19" Regulus Anthracite alloy wheels [PJC], Drive sport plus pack - Enyaq, Drive sport pack - Enyaq, Carpet Mats (Set of 4)

Hi all Just changed from the standard 18s down to 16s which are 7" wide with an et49. All i can say is wow. Tyre noise fuel economy and the ride. Can't understanding why this car had 18s. The cars suspension is just too stiff for 18s. Tyre noise has literally disappeared. And comfort is nice. I know the 16s look crap for those of us that really are conscious but after the benefits i couldn't care less.

Popping these here in case helpful.

Sorry all this stuff is way above my head,I think I just ask a ten year old to do it for me.

Not at any cost though. £1000 is a huge amount to pay for the rare occasion when extra mileage might be needed in periods of excessively high or low temperatures. The heat pump is really designed for markets where extreme winter weather is the norm like Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and the Alpine regions (or the opposite for very hot areas like southern Spain). The UK winters are comparatively mild, even in Northern Scotland, and don't compare to the regular deep freezes of the areas I mentioned. If it's absolutely essential for your home or business situation to have maximum flexibility in all weather extremes I don't think EVs are quite ready for your lifestyle yet. I thought long and hard before ordering an Enyaq, but I can count on one hand the number of times a year I drive over 200 miles in a single day. So, for me, EVs do work. On the other hand my wife travels the whole of the UK with her work and regularly drives the length of the country, so she won't be getting an EV anytime soon.

Huh, always thought the monte was the same light just black. The more you know...

From what I’ve read about EVs and heat pumps, that dealer is reasonably correct. You will gain some range from having a heat pump in cold weather and the colder it is the more that gain will be. In the uk climate it would seem this gain is minimal and was more important on older EVs like 24 and 30 Leafs which didn’t have much range to start with. Something like an Enyaq already has a reasonable range so unless you need to push that range right to its limits I don’t think a heat pump will make much difference. (Disclaimer - this is my opinion based on what I’ve read, I understand this is the internet and I’m happy to be corrected.)

Hello from Bucharest, Romania! Car ordered on 2nd February, 1 week before Meteor grey color ban. Car delivered after 16 weeks on 25th of may.

Hi all - believe it or not this is still not resolved. I haven’t had the money refunded for the inspection nor have they given me a copy of the original works they have done or the subsequent repairs when it came back damaged again. I have given them a 2 day ultimatum to respond and will then share the headline issues with all of the members on the forum so they know to avoid this dealership at all costs. They have been an absolute disgrace and at the heart of it is ineffective management at the branch which ‘allows’ these practices to go unchallenged. Thanks all BC

I use to own a MK2 Octavia VRS which was at stage 3 and I had got the K04 turbo rebuilt by AET Turbos. I had put my name down to get a retune by R-tech (August 2020) as I had the turbo upgraded to 370bhp spec and waited a retune to get the full potential. However after months of waiting i got fed up ( im calling this Covid Blues and I eventually got a call back in June 2021) and start looking at MK3 VRS. To shorten a long story, I ended up buying a MK3 Superb 280 L&K estate. Main inspiration was "Darth" and I always wanted to try an estate. So I bought the Superb at the back end of February 2021 and inital plans were to go to stage 2 only. Looks like im going to go fully to stage 3 now! In the meanwhile please enjoy of the pics!

So when I ordered the Enyaq back in March, the dealer took a gamble on allowing me to do so without committing to an order without a test drive. We've known each other and I've been buying cars from him for 21 years so there's a degree of trust there but still I wasn't sure when I started the test on Satruday night whether I would be happy with the car. After all, I've come from driving a Tesla Model 3 which is supposed to be the best EV out there. So on Saturday I was handed the key to an Enyaq 60 iv, ie the 58 kWh version, so it has a battery that's 11 kWh bigger than my model 3 but it's less efficient. On Saturday evening it was 11 degrees and returned around 3.8 m/kWh on a mix of motorway and A roads. On Sunday it was about 16 and it returned 4.5 m/ kWh (anythign above 4 is pretty good, but the Tesla used to give above 5 as it is a ridiculously efficient car). Bottom line, wow it's a good car. It's a real step up from the ID4 which I tested previously. The infotainment is fast and snappy and the 13 inch screen is really clear. It's not a rocket ship like a model 3 but it's got that noitcable ev punch that makes it feel faster than an ice car. And it's incredibly quiet. Noticeably quieter than the model 3. I only covered around 100 miles so I've not had masses of experience with it yet but the stand out feature for me is the adaptive regeneration. A lot of the reviews have said there's no one pedal driving. But the car reads the road ahead and works out whether it's best to coast or whether you need stronger regen. It works really well. It spots roundabouts and traffic lights and beefs up the regen accordingly. It does the same if there's a speed limit sign. It even spotted a 20mph sign where I was having to go through the central reservation into a contra flow. The car slowed automatically to 20mph. Very impressive. The two annoying features I found were there's no battery percentage, just a miles guesstimate (which seems very accurate thankfully). No matter where you look all you can get is the guesstimated range and a battery graphic showing how many bars of charge you have. And when you're charging it doesn't tell you what kW rate you're getting from the charger, just how many mph are being added. There's an app you can use to tell you this but I didn't set all that up for a test drive. It's bizarre that the sat nav shows you ev chargers and petrol stations though, maybe it's because they always have a shop you might want, or air for your tyres. I mainly used Google maps though. Or waze. I really just tried the car system for completeness. The voice commands were fine when using google but the Skoda ones (aka Laura) were a bit more slow and ponderous. Whereas with google you say "hey google, navigate to X", with the Skoda one you say navigate to X and she says "ok what's the city", then "what's the street" etc. It all worked way better than the system in the Tesla but I think I'll stick with Google unless I'm adjusting the aircon etc. So am I sold? Totally. It's comfy, quiet, has a huge boot and it's smaller than my model 3. It's got a 9m turning circle, close to a London taxi turning ability. My car has had lots of options selected whereas this one had nothing, it's the plain £32k car with zero options. If anyone is looking for a hatch back ev this is well worth a look. The dealer said that the Renault dealer next door remarked that this is just a couple of thousand more than a zoe, and went away looking worried 😂. I'll let you know yes it goes when my actual car arrives and I can play with things like the HUD. And as for the supercharger shot, it was juvenile but we were passing by and.... 😎

Found it. In settings there are options for switching stations, either "station list" or "preset list". Then the left and right thumb buttons on the left had controls on the steering wheel flip between your presets. Easy when you know how 😜. Thanks!

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It's not mentioned directly in the owners manual, but it says you can select whether the arrow buttons on the screen select the next stations stored or all available stations by going into the Radio Settings menu, and choosing the desired option. I'm pretty sure that this will also choose whether the steering wheel controls scroll through all stations or the preset stations. Chris

Yeh sorry I found that as I scrolled down. I reported myself to try get it deleted. I got the cheap black ones from online auction place as a stop gap after car for detailed. Still waiting on the Kopacek ones to arrived. Took the chance and ordered the coloured infill too. How long for delivery on yours ? I ordered over a week ago and had the text from royal mail to say it's coming but not yet in country.

https://www.drive2.ru/l/593693124241418224/ good be your answer...I will cahnge dsg mount and we'll see... oart number is 5QA199555F

I think I'll go and see the dealer and hand over £150 rather than buggering up a £500 stereo

I picked this up last Friday, got the rear windows tinted yesterday, fitted mudflaps and gave it a wash and first coat of sealant/wax today.

You know your own car. Try to get an ODBC / CANBUS scan to see if there are any reported errors. If there are no errors then can you check things like oil level or coolant level to make sure there are no leaks that will cause the engine to reduce power. Failing that, it's Italian Tuning time. If you use Supermarket fuel, can you go and fill up with some Super Diesel from Esso/BP/Shell etc and keep the revs nice and high for a good fast long run (80 to 100 miles). You might have symptoms of a slightly blocked DPF filter. I personally recommend use an appropriate amount of Cetane Improver which keeps the car's performance sparkly, cleans the EGR and DPF. My favourite is Hydra International's Diesel Power Blaster https://www.hydra-int.com/diesel-power-blast.html

No noise on my 1.5.

bought the exhaust 'off the shelf' from a FMS, well recognised German engineering company, got lowering springs and exhaust done at my mechanics at the same time. If you had access to a lift it would be no problem. I did get an extra hanger welded on just to be sure because i'm paranoid. Its been on over two years now and no issues at all with it. the sound generator is the best thing i've bought. I wouldn't hesitate to do it again if i had a quiet car or another diesel. Even at speed its not intrusive into the cabin but you can really hear it outside. I keep getting asked "its that a V8?"

What I mean is that I guess at least at a dealership they are seeing the same cars come and go all day every day and know the quirks, issues, remedies etc, whereas an independent is working on a 1998 Ford one minute and a 2017 Citroen the next and doesn't have the feel for each brand. Case in point, when I had my MG ZS it went to the independent for what I thought was a minor issue but he had to go on google to find what he thought was the remedy. As he was telling me about this it became rapidly apparent he had been reading an old MG owners forum discussing the old 1990s ZS and not the relaunch 2018 model I had! This doesn't happen at a dealership.

I'm not sure they entirely knew. They changed the resistor and it still didn't work the first time they had it. But before they fitted the new one they stripped it all down, cleaned it up, redid the connections and it did work so they refitted it.

Yes, it's from the same supplier, so a direct replacement, thanks. Installed the new alternator this morning and everything back to normal. Thanks all for comments/suggestions

How did you manage 11,000 miles for only £17? Do you live on a windfarm?

http://www.kopacek.com/ formerly known as SuperSkoda: Cat. number Entry name €/piece Quantity € total 5JA853687-F9R Genuine Skoda Auto,a.s. rear emblem ´SKODA´ - MONTE CARLO black version 19.99 1 20.00 3V0853687-BLK Superb III - Genuine Skoda Auto,a.s. rear emblem ´SUPERB´ - SPORTLINE black version 29.99 1 30.00 O3-ZNK-INT Superb III - original Skoda emblem - I.N.T. version - FRONT Colour: S9R Moon white 44.99 1 45.00 S3-ZNK-RR-INT Superb III - original Skoda emblem - I.N.T. version - REAR Colour: S9R Moon white 44.99 1 45.00 Delivery and payment costs: 17.00 Total €: 157.00

1. I sourced this high mileage 67plate Greenline 2. It had a horrible shiny bumper guard, chins on the number plates and the factory standard lettering & badges (the emergency triangle was mine already) NB Greenlines always ship with a spare wheel kit (that needs to be gone ASAP as the foam insert suits my usage better) 4. Replaced the bumper protector with a black plastic one, and fitted nicer looking (legal) plates 5. Judicious hairdryer treatment, leverage from a sacrificial wooden spatula and subsequent 100% alcohol clean up removed all the badges 6. Far nicer Monte Carlo style letters installed, I kept the 2017 Greenline badge as it was the black edition already - that GB is a mag sticker BTW 7. The new (chinless) number plates are an improvement, and the bonnet emblem completes the look

Here in Australia it is part of the $6000 Premium Pack on the RS models. There are no other options except a sunroof. Since that pack contains the attached list of features, many of which I wanted, I bought it. I don't think I would have ordered the sound system by itself. Now that I have it it sounds nice but I am never going to use any of its features and I mainly play DAB radio or stuff that is on You Tube Music and at modest volumes. By the way, is Canton a well known brand? It means nothing to me.

With a BEV, we call this a "battery" (strictly an accumulator but still), and I'm afraid that this is exactly what it does: Store (electrical) energy, waiting for it to be converted into kinetic energy by using the vehicle.

Horses for courses. I feel the opposite and that it needs a Sport + mode. The sport mode on the 272 is adequate and doesn’t feel like absolutely ‘’full on’. To me the benefit of Sport mode is that it tightens up the suspension via DCC, so you can push on without as much body roll and DSG holds onto the gears longer, throttle response could be quicker. Even in sport mode, it’s not as as fun as my last mapped manual Octavia, which although only 20 Bhp more powerful, had 100nm extra torque.

What is not normal is that your radiator fan would have been running on the slow speed before turning on the aircon. But then I dont know what country you are posting from it might be very hot there. In 15 years of driving Skodas I have never been aware of the cooling fan cutting in aside from when using the aircon or latterly DPF regens.

I have just changed the batteries in my mouse and still the cursor is stuck on that photo of the headlight. My fault for choosing the black mouse because it looked cooler, will I ever learn!

wexford is a bit far for me im on the north coast, the tuning and parts were darkside dev, and the exhaust i had done myself.

When parking, just turning off the ignition puts the DSG ‘box in ‘P’ and applies the parking brake. Discovered it by accident one day after a few weeks of laboriously following the sequence of ‘P’, parking brake, ignition off. BTW - at the time, I was new to driving a DSG

Barely audible and if you have to switch off the engine for it to be "more noticeable" I think you are being unreasonable, all mechanical interactions create both noise and heat, the rubber of your shoe against the pedal rubber will create some noise as will a creaking knee joint The pedal assemby has a very powerfull spring acting against a cam which gives a control loading and acts at both the bottom and the top of the pedal travel, the rubbing components are plastic and that is no doubt the sound that you are hearing which is for me barely audible on the video, I do however have age related hearing loss at higher frequencies so it may sound quieter to me.

I have bought one... collecting on Tuesday

I am using this: "70mai Smart Dash Cam 1S – 70mai" https://www.70mai.com/en/smart-dash-cam-1s/ It works flawlessly and already saved me 700 bucks after an incident that I had to prove to the insurance company.

Cheers guys 😎👍

We have an Octavia iV estate and it's the best car I've ever driven, as well as being the most economical. After 1186 miles, the average was 91 mpg, based on two refills and the calculated mpg based on brimming the tank. The best economy is for a drive of around 60 miles. On a recent 62 mile journey, the Octy achieved 104 mpg as the battery still had 3 miles range left. Yesterday, in hybrid mode, I averaged 123 mpg on 41 mile journey to my destination and 76.4mpg on the return, as the battery was at 1% charge a few miles from home. Our Karoq 1.5 petrol averaged just over 31mpg, mainly because of short journeys in a hilly part of the UK for over a year. Based on 8000 miles pa and assuming 50% e-power and 50% hybrid running, I estimate our annual fuel cost to be £575 pa, compared with around £1500 for the Karoq. The costs will drop further when we gat a smart meter and can use Octopus Go's off-peak rate of 5p/kw hr or 65p for around 35 miles of e-power. We also produce no pollution (at the point of use!) for journeys around town. The Octy iV also has a benefit in kind of 7%, so for a company car user whose employer is prepared to pay a premium for a PHEV the savings are substantial, particularly if the car is a perk rather than long-distance workhorse.

Small update (make the most of it fellas!) Rear seats back in after 12m of being in dry dust free storage, check out the magnificence that IS the middle head restraint... Drivers seat all in on the repainted subframe.. Oh and we got the engine running.... for a bit, till the lift pump in the tank decided it quite liked retirement and handed me it's notice. Dang it! New lift pump is on it's way and i'll try and get some video of it actually running.

Dubious claim for a diesel which uses very little fuel at idle (as low as 0.3l/hr for a 1.6tdi). If it was a petrol engine I would be more inclined to believe it. The taxi driver probably has no real idea if what he claims is true if he hasn't scientifically compared long term results with and without s/s under controlled conditions (similar journeys, similar conditions, routes, weather, load etc etc). Confirmation bias at play.

Hahahaha so funny. After 90 minutes of multimeter testing, scrabbling around the footwell, then reading wiring diagrams, it was a fuse. Yes there appears to be a fuse that serves just one tail light.

Thanks, That looks great.. a bit steep though.. will see what way the seats stay initially..

New badges

I had this problem a few weeks ago. I booked the car in for a service, only to be told that the leasing company wouldn't authorise it, as it wasn't due. Apparently, the garage that serviced it last time, didn't reset it properly - it should have been on variable. Anyway, the garage said the leasing company wouldn't let them reset it - I'm guessing there would be a charge - so told me to contact the leasing company, which I did. They sent me the instructions, which worked.

So when I ordered the Enyaq back in March, the dealer took a gamble on allowing me to do so without committing to an order without a test drive. We've known each other and I've been buying cars from him ffor 21 years so there's a degree of trust there but still I wasn't sure when I started the test on Satruday night whether I would be happy with the car. After all I've come from driving a Tesla Model 3 which is supposed to be the best EV out there. So on Saturday I was handed the key to an Enuaq 60 iv the 58 kWh version, so it has a battery that's 11 kWh bigger than my model 3 but it's less efficient. On Saturday evening it was 11 degrees and returned around 3.8 m/kWh on a mix of motorway and A roads. On Sunday it was about 16 and it returned 4.5 m/ kWh (anythign above 4 is pretty good, but the Tesla used to give above 5 as it is a ridiculously efficient car). Bottom line, wow it's a good car. It's a real step up from the ID4 which I tested previously. The infotainment is fast and snappy and the 13 inch screen is really clear. It's not a rocket ship like a model 3 but it's got that noitcable ev punch that makes it feel faster than an ice car. And it's incredibly quiet. Noticeably quieter than the model 3. I only covered around 100 miles so I've not had masses of experience with it yet but the stand out feature for me is the adaptive regeneration. A lot of the reviews have said there's no one pedal driving. But the car reads the road ahead and works out whether it's best to coast or whether you need stronger regen. It works really well. It spots roundabouts and traffic lights and beefs up the regen accordingly. It does the same if there's a speed limit sign. It even spotted a 20mph sign where I was having to go through the central reservation into a contra flow. The car slowed automatically to 20mph. Very impressive. The two annoying features I found were there's no battery percentage, just a miles guesstimate (which seems very accurate thankfully). No matter where you look all you can get is the guesstimated range and a battery graphic showing how many bars of charge you have. And when you're charging it doesn't tell you what kW rate you're getting from the charger, just how many mph are being added. There's an app you can use to tell you this but I didn't set all that up for a test drive. It's bizarre that the sat nav shows you ev chargers and petrol stations though, maybe it's because they always have a shop you might want, or air for your tyres. I mainly used Google maps though. Or waze. I really just tried the car system for completeness. The voice commands were fine when using google but the Skoda ones (aka Laura) were a bit more slow and ponderous. Whereas with google you say "hey google, navigate to X", with the Skoda one you say navigate to X and she says "ok what's the city", then "what's the street" etc. It all worked way better than the system in the Tesla but I think I'll stick with Google unless I'm adjusting the aircon etc. So am I sold? Totally. It's comfy, quiet, has a huge boot and it's smaller than my model 3. It's got a 9m turning circle, close to a London taxi turning ability. My car has had lots of options selected whereas this one had nothing, it's the plain £32k car with zero options. If anyone is looking for a hatch back ev this is well worth a look. The dealer said that the Renault dealer next door remarked that this is just a couple of thousand more than a zoe, and went away looking worried 😂. I'll let you know yes it goes when my actual car arrives and I can play with things like the HUD. And as for the supercharger shot, it was juvenile but we were passing by and.... 😎

Went to look at bikes for you daughter earlier this week... with her epilepsy etc. it needs to be something stable so thinking of a Hase Trigo Up with a couple of adaptations... Very nice bit of kit and nicely engineered! Can be retrofitted with a Shimano e-motor but means I'd probably need to invest in a trailer to transport it. They do a similar version that folds but it's nearly three times the price!