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Thank You, NZ100 and Robjon, I'm almost certainly now sorted out with a set of templates and will update the thread when I have them. However, NZ100 you were right in your assumption that I had already started to dismantle the headlining in my Roomster. I had removed the easy to remove fittings and was waiting for a trim removal tool to enable me to remove the shrouds around the door and window pillars without damage. I will refit everything and await the arrival of the templates. Thanks again for your help and concern. Sparkgap. What a great resource for help, advice and assistance this forum is.

Good morning!

Saw one at 200k going for £1,500 since it was LPG converted. I know car prices are up but Jesus!

I saw a 1.2 for sale this week for £795 I thought that's a bargain then saw it had done 260k miles 🤣

Fitted the rear brace last night, forgone the rear trims for now as I don't want to cut into the trim if i'm not keeping the brace. Managed to fit the rear bag hooks on their own, and thats one thing I don't want to remove as its so handy. Only thing I'd like to put back in now is the parcel shelf, not the end of the world though. Havent noticed much difference in the car except that the creaking from the back is indeed gone, result enough for me. Got tyres fitted today too, certainly looks the part and definately will be a better job for winter weather than the tyres on the car now.

If you're doing anything with it i'd make a project thread of your own, nice to be able to have a place to document everything. vRS wheel goes straight on, I have one in my mk1

Your car looks great. I picked up my little golden nugget a few weeks ago. It's an 06 with 54k I former keeper. Just bought a VRS leather steering wheel for it and a new set of wheel trims. It's only a 1.2 54bhp but fun to drive as can rev the heck out of it 😁

@Sparkgap Good luck with the installation. 🤞 @NZ100 You can sleep now!

Good evening ladies and Gents, thought it was about time i started a thread about my car, i know there's a few fabia's with a similar spec to mine but i "think" i was the first to have the RTMG hybrid in the UK, although theres now quite a lot and some have the upgraded 380rs whereas i have the 360rs, will add photos soon when i get on home laptop. I only ever had one target in mind for the car, to be able to get my kids in it to do dad stuff, then go to Pod and suprise some people. Current spec is as follows. Wossners forged pistons ZRP forged rods Custom/Universal intercooler, Custom 3inch exhaust RTMG 360rs Hybrid turbo with upgraded actuator etc RTMG Diverter RTMG carbon intake RTMG Kevlar clutch RTMG turbo intake pipe RTMG ecu and tcu mapping RTMG battery tray (turns it 90 degrees) RTMG coil pack adapter R8 coil packs AEM water meth setup iBoost boost controller with meth controller as part of it. (brilliant bit of kit, boost by gear/rpm, full obd monitoring etc) 312mm Brakes Corbeau Bucket seats. Full Wrap. Being fitted in 2 weeks, - RTMG valve springs and BC racing BR series coilovers, after that i don't really know what else there is to do on the fabia lol. other than going big turbo but the cost doesn't interest me, thinking of buying a 7 seater then i can put the fabia on a diet.

There have been other problems reported here: I think your best bet is to start with your local dealer, as if you've been using him to service your car you'll have built up a relationship with him. He may well need to get Skoda UK approval to treat it as a design fault but if he's on your side it will make it easier to get them to agree to pay for it. Any other evidence you can gather to show that this is a common fault and/or an acknowledgement from Skoda that it is a design fault will also help your cause. There's another thread here too: Unable to open fuel filler flap - Skoda Karoq Forums Best of luck... Chris

Nothing fancy, Aplus A701 is the name of the tyre. 65 each fitted. No rim protectors to speak of, but plenty of sidewall. Treads on them certainly make them seem like they're fit for purpose, i'll grab a photo of the tread pattern next day. And I take back what I said a few hours ago, it would seem that the brace has made a difference after all, not by much but I was out in the car on some backroads and the car certainly felt a bit sharper turning in, and going through some S curves it certainly felt more planted. Should note it was a much tighter fit in my mk2 compared to my mk1 for whatever reason, had to employ both a scissor jack and a rubber mallet to wedge it into place.

The F20 M140i are increasing in value because it's the only RWD hot hatch. Everything else nowadays is AWD. There's a few things to consider comparing an Octavia to your beamer; Pros Cheaper to run, tax and insurance Increased cabin space More discreet Cons The DSG 'box isn't as slick as a ZF8HP You'll really notice the handling difference with it being FWD The 6 banger in the beamer is a strong engine. Comparing a VRS petrol is chalk and cheese. 335 compared to a stock max 245hp. And again, FWD. Cut and thrust of it, one's a performance hot hatch and the other is a practical family run around with a bit more get up and go

I've had the 95K1 software applied to mine, about 3.5 yrs ago. It is purely meant to fix the headlight startup sequence, so that it (headlight dance) doesn't get "stuck" or interrupted by ignition firing up. It doesn't do anything to the headlight range/performance. As it's been said before - park approx. 7m from a wall, pop the bonnet, using an Allen key, make slight adjustments to the adjuster on the top of the headlight. There r two adjusters - one for vertical throw and another for horizontal. Adjust the vertical one. See image below. If u need to make major adjustments - then u need VCDS or OBDEleven to put the headlights into Learning mode before u can make adjustments.

It's unreal what some motors are going for. Can get a cheap Fabia SDI estate for less than a grand however.

That's crazy! 10k for a 10 year old car, I just sold a 2016 Fabia estate 1.6 diesel DSG with 50k for £10k

Half Black Pudding half haggis split down the pudding long wise. Elsewhere you get Blaggis Pies, Burgers etc.

It was empty when I was there. Parked there to eat my half-pizza from Graziano's and the gulls were perched on the little stubby bit on my tailgate...

Well now that I've been mentioned, my wife's 2015 VW Polo 1.2TSI 100PS, has only ever had its battery dongle lead removed once, and that was by a forgetful VW tech when replacing the gearbox upper mounting rubber. Edit:- how did I work out that that lead might be disconnected, well since it had come back from that warranty visit, auto Stop/Start had been inhibited, so it was easy to put 1 + 1 and get straight to the cause/reason why! Currently my wife's Polo has been exhibiting an annoying "thing" wrt to charging! Out of curiosity maybe, I bought a plug in DVM that has a connector that allows it to get plugged directly into the "ciggy lighter" socket, prior to that, probably when the car was new, I did connect up a DMM and so that I could see what was happening when wrt voltage at that point - ie lowish voltage of 12.5>12.7V while under power and 13.5>13.7V when on the overrun. For the last 18 months or so, until 2.5 weeks ago, that was still the case, a quick glance down at that DVM every few minutes to make sure all was still okay. Then, one day about 2.5 weeks ago it changed, 14.7>14.9V constantly, when cold under power, when hot under power and on the overrun at cold or hot, which meant that the battery was ending the day proper stuffed full of charge - I was not too happy about that. I checked the battery stats as well as checking for logged faults - no faults logged, the battery stats claimed all was well and the voltage was what was required, I stuck with this for a few days, trying to work out what to do next, new or used alternator to fit until I had got the original one checked over, a problem with the battery management part of the CAN Gateway controller, an out of spec battery monitor unit, or a dying battery. The battery stats proved that the car's system thought that the battery had decayed in useful capacity from 59Ah to 34Ah although I could not find where the "energy throughput" statement was - that I believe is where the battery usage gets counted and when it reaches a certain value relative to one of the theoretical battery design specs, it is considered ready for the dump. Edit:- I even resorted to charging the battery overnight to see what effect that might have on this constant high charging voltage - no change! As one last idea, I changed the battery serial number by one unit, then used the car the next day, for the first 20 minutes it remained as before, then it changed to doing things the way I had witnessed for its almost entire life with us. So after maybe 200 miles and maybe 6 outings including a 24 miles each way journey, it is back to being almost as before, at first the battery was being run well down before charging happened on the overrun, but now it has crept back up to roughly 13,2V under power and roughly 14.7V on the overrun, so not exactly back to where I had previously expected it to be. I did check that auto Stop/Start did operate when this first started happening just in case the battery was now not fit to be kept up to that charge level - but it always shut down at lights etc. My next step, well, early on, probably driven by tales of early life failure of EFB batteries, I ordered in the next size up battery tray and jacket - and now I've bought the next size up Bosch AGM battery, talking online to someone that fixes these cars, he said that just too many battery monitor units have been failing, so just in case that this is an out of spec battery monitor issue that will attempt to kill my new battery, I've scatter cashed this and bought in a new battery monitor unit. My, baseless thoughts on this are, that one possibility is, these battery monitors can misbehave and the owner nothing about it until the battery dies - I'm sure that less than 1% of people are bothering to keep an eye on the voltage or the charging behaviour. I was told that for instance, VW Caddy battery monitors are on back order currently and they end up on back order frequently, now maybe only VW Caddy battery monitors are not "too good" - I don't know, the battery monitor on that 2015 VW Polo is made by Lear Corporation in Spain, and maybe "annoyingly" for me, when I got one ordered in, they were in stock at the warehouse and the new one's Lear manufacture date was 07/08/2020 and the VW Group stocking date was 14/07/2021 - so maybe not demand wise in the same league as the VW Caddy version, who knows, as the cost of the battery monitor is roughly 1/3 of the AGM battery I bought, I have considered, in the absence of any better or firm ideas or worked out facts, either I hand it in and it seems that from an outsiders view of this NFF and pay for that report, or I use that money spend on parts! Sorry that this does probably not help out the OP - or does it give some insight maybe, maybe buy one of these cheap (£5) plug in DVMs - when I mentioned this issue while trying to help someone on another forum, the first reply to my posting suggested that my cheap DVM was the issue, that would have been just too good to be true, but I had checked that out in the first place.

I stopped parking right where you are when eating my chips as too many gulls landed on the roof.

Thank you very much for the heads up.

Alloys look great 😁 I might be tempted by some VRS alloys for mine

@roottoot will know where I was today...

Update: Went a substantial run, longest I've ever done with the car. See this trip-computer reading...

Good luck with sorting it out!

Hello from little Belgium! I've had a Skoda Octavia II Combi 1.9 TDI DSG from 2006 to 2018. After a short intermezzo with the ubiquitous and utterly boring Toyota Corolla HB 1.4 D4-D (and an occasional drive in my wife's Jaguar X-type 2.0D), I've just bought myself a second-hand Superb Combi IV Sportline. I can't wait 'till it's being delivered and I can begin exploring every bit of it.

If you leave it in auto it will automatically deploy high beam if it decides the conditions are right and you go faster than 30km/h, which basically means it will always be high beam as long as there are no street lights.

I managed to remove the module without taking every part of the dashboard out. My fingers hurt from trying to remove the 2 black connectors, in such a tight space, thanks to the little tabs that are so hard to release. Anyway, I opened it and the 2 switches sits where @Wino pointed on his picture. They definitely don't fit behind the knob. The mecanism that tells which fan speed is selected is the copper part we can see on the black plastic thing. The knob is just here to turn this copper plate. Now that the 2 switches are in place, the vent control knob feel a little different and stays better when in position. I still don't know what they are for, but they're back in place. For Fabia owners, I made a hole at the bottom of where the headunit seat to get access to the back of the module. This way, you can release the module from the front without taking the whole dashboard out. Anyway thank you for your answers.

Update: SOLVED The new lead fixed it - all working now. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08HWKVHMK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Seems poor that the Skoda adaptor that came with the car didn't work with a USB-C Android phone (it did with the iPhone). I would guess that its only wired for charging. D

yup! but the weird thing was it didnt bothered me. none of it did. i just went along with all the ****e and was laughing through the spray coming up off the front wheel into my face. id say the people in traffic going the other way mustve thought i was an utter nutter laughing away cycling up the bypass in a status yellow rainfall warning

https://uk.motor1.com/news/535045/helicopter-lands-on-skoda-kodiaq/

I couldn't work out how the petrol pump was connected to the fuel hose for a while

Sadly I did check this many years ago J.R., and you may be correct, as if I remember that registration number was indeed a Blue Yeti from the VAG fleet, but never made its first MOT ..... 🙃

The day has come where i covet a Mercedes. Just a no frills looking one in the same colour as a Peugeot 504 i had in the 1980's. Just posting here rather than in 'Visually my car of the day'.

@Rudi Its all very strange, and baffling as the guys at work cant even figure out the fault. I am now of the opinion that I will just drive it until it gives up completely, as I am not too sure what else to do - as this is the only thing wrong with the car I begrudge getting a new one. Mileage is approx 63500. I will not be beaten on my quest to find the fault, so fingers crossed we can figure it out lol

For me the phrase I have highlighted is the important thing that hasn't happened in this case. The customer can only properly agree if they are informed what the firmware update is expected to achieve, which the dealer clearly hasn't done here, and then choose whether (or not) to give informed consent.

Such a shame that Skoda / VW Group could not have had the Mk4 Fabias Hatch & Estate with e-Tech 1.0 & 1.5 TSI's to allow the low emission kidology. If MG Motors just First Register more EV's then the new Skoda Estate / Combi could maybe be produced. https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/vw-faces-eu-fine-missing-2020-emissions-targets https://autovista24.autovistagroup.com/news/vw-group-and-jlr-face-fines-exceeding-2020-eu-emissions-target

Here is another promising new Australian developed battery chemistry that is exiting the laboratory and going into production. Graphene Enhanced Aluminium Ion. They are not claiming any greater energy density, other than over rival Al-ion competitors, but that it can be charged and discharged at 60x time the rate of lithium ion without any temperature issues, it is virtually a super capacitor. No lighter than equivalent lithium batteries they claim it saves the 80 kg of temperature management equipment a typical 100kwh system requires. Other advantages are no rare metals, easy recycling and no fire risks. They have entered into an agreement with Bosch to build production facilities. Initial production will be button cells followed by lithium ion compatible pouches for auto applications. Bosch to produce Aussie EV battery tech - carsales.com.au

I ment, did your test drive sportline have DCC? Yes, both have Sport mode, but perhaps Sport in RS iV makes noticeable difference? Finnish specs say that Sportline PHEV is 7.7s from 0-100km/h. Imo the about 40hp and plenty of more torque should be noticeable

I experienced the common touchscreen problems since the Octavia 2.0D SEL was a few weeks old. First the heater controls vanished. A reboot by holding the on/off button for about 20 seconds cured this. Then the double clicks from the passenger footwell and various SOS failure messages. These usually all reset themselves or needed a reboot. Some weeks it was fine but recently got more common. Last Wednesday lost heating controls again and it wouldnt reboot, just had message system resetting. Phoned dealer and they had around a two week waiting list. They suggested using Skoda Assist which if they couldnt fix it would prioritise the repairs. Phoned up and was offered the AA within a couple of hours or Skoda Assits first thing the next day. He attended and know exactly waht the problem was - an 8 hour software update. The dealer still couldnt prioritise the repair so tried a nearby Skoda Service Centre. They couldnt look for 2 weeks. Rang Skoda customer care. The helpful guy there rang round all the dealers within about 30 miles and they all had 2 weeks or more waiting list. As i didnt need the car for a few days I 'dumped it' on the dealer with a promise that Wednesday was the earliest they could look at it. They uploaded Service Campaign 69BN which ran overnight. the dealer wouldnt confirm that its a major issue but the internet proves otherwise, it affects all the VW group using the touchscreen panel. Have only driven it 12 miles back from the dealer so watch this space. just a shame that Skoda dont update their customers and poor show from the service centres for having two weeks waiting lists.

No worries, I have not been posting much on here. I have had Timing Belt, Water Pump & Aux Belt done on the Golf so it should hopefully be good until August 2022 when its due another Major Service. I have to admit, The Wife has just ordered her next Car on PCP which comes next March (Non Skoda unfortunately) and it has spurred me on to begin looking again but I am not doing it with any real intent and will be waiting until after Winter before making a decision.

As a member of the human race with some brain cells still i was not suggesting doing that. Skills in the Motor Industry & Car Engineering sector with those trained to whatever level seem to take longer before lack of ability or laziness are discovered.

it's a common issue on many cars and considered acceptable by manufacturers. best way to clear is long drive with headlights on and bulb covers off so the heat and air from the engine bay helps as well, but at this time of year it will happen again.

Is it bought or leased? If leased go to the lease company and make it their problem, that’s how I got mine sorted so quickly. Skoda customer services / dealer couldn’t care less, VWFS stepped in and within a week I had various options / offers. None of them fixed the car, but there were various incentives put on the table, in the end I chose to get shut and order something else.

SPARKGAP, DID YOU SEE THE ABOVE POST ? I can't sleep at night.😵

Take the middle seat out and put a big bag between the two rear passengers. That's what we used to do.

In all honesty I think a replacement or removal will be the only option.

I am still trying to compute how you get parts from a car that is 50,000 euro more than the Octavia for only 3,500 euro.

I work in IT. Closing and opening all the windows is the first thing we do when something goes wrong.

If i had AC set at 22*oC i would need iced drinks and cold towels. I seldom put the cars heating to 18*oC in the coldest of weather.