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Good job dude, he's here seeking peer approval, I drive cars, I don't spend my time staring longingly at them, from where I sit how the car looks is completely irrelevant.

I have the strut brace you have linked to, you do not have to move anything, the only tight place is the pipes coming out of the vacuum box but it still all fits. Definitely don't need to move 'AC', 'hot air intake', 'turbo intercooler feed pipes' or 'ABS gubbins', 100% certain about that!

So did you swap coils over between 1 and 3 and witness the misfire move across? If you haven't, then maybe yet too early to be buying that new coil. Have you changed the vacuum pipe? Just to point out that the pipe draws the vacuum from the inlet manifold in the vicinity of cylinder 3 so if theres a bad leak, that cylinders mixture will be affected most.

Probably nothing but it's important to remember that a PCM is NOT like a smartphone, the firmware it comes with was designed to last the life of the car.

I have the inbuilt nav on my SEL and it’s rubbish compared to Google maps - I’ll never use it unless I lose my phone or something But that’s the same for most cars nowadays hence why CarPlay/Android auto is so popular as a car can just be specced with that rather than develop or buy in a native sat nav.

Nope it wouldn't, In this case if stopped by traffs for a dodgy plate you would be done for no insurance and car towed. They would simply hit you with some jargon about ANPR no being able to recognise it and dish out 3 points. I could show you 3 cars that fabia's that look identical to that without effort. Its only a maxton splitter kit, spoiler, rear diffuser and a few bits of gloss vinyl threw on. Unless its porting a v10 or some crap and he's not told us,

Miss representation of the legal identity of a motor vehicle on that front-ish plate - wonder if that invalidates insurance? Plus the fact that is not fitted in the correct position.

The clutch hydraulic system uses the brake fluid reservoir but the take off port is higher up so the brakes will never be affected even by a complete fluid loss in the clutch hydraulics.

I didn't bother lowering the tyre pressure, I just connected it straight to the OSF tyre, I ignore all that sort of legal guff and make my own decisions about things.

Ruined a tasteful car in my opinion, this is the best looking fabia around by far you have just tackyfied yours my friend 👍

No, they're much too tall, 185/65/14 would be ok, guessing you've been offered tyres from the more plentiful Golf based platforms out there, you're only about the millionth person to think of this. They'll rub.

I'll ask for 0467. It'd be nice to get a head start on the rest of you. .

. Pah. I went to see the dealer this morning and they said they might need it for two days. I resisted the temptation to ask them why they needed to drop the engine and replace the big end shells to update the MIB software. Other than the slightly surprising estimate of how long it might take, they were more than happy to check the TPI situation and do the dirty deed. Which reminds me to ask them not to wash it with the works sponge afterwards. I'm beside myself with excitement at the prospect of using an up-to-date satnav. I'll have to think of somewhere new to go. .

I have managed to find someone in the West Midlands who has the relevant replacement touchscreens in stock and will do the replacement on my head unit for £250 including return P&P. Also the replacement touchscreen that is being fitted comes with a 36 month warranty. The turnaround for this is normally 1 to 2 days once he receives my head unit. If all goes well with this I will post his contact details.

My old 1.4lt had an easier route..still didn't fit one..spent the money on Powerflex & Superpro suspension bushes...& Koni dampers...

I'm back !! Been away from Skoda for a while, but collected this 2.0 Superb Sportline Plus today. Looking forward to using this cracking forum again :-)

The sooner legacy OEMs sort out the packing of batteries, so we can get proper saloons instead of these bloated SUV “coupés” the better. Its not an ugly car - to my eye - just completely unnecessary.

Maybe your best plan would be to remove the auxiliary belt while the engine is warm up or hot and then see if that noise has disappeared, if so then it has to be one of the driven components. Or before doing that, while it is making that noise, switch on the headlights and rear screen heater - if it now makes more noise then it will just be alternator bearings. Something else to try is, switch AC completely off, ie switch to ECO mode, is that noise still happened, if it is then switch on the AC and demand cooling, is the noise changing at all to indicate that it could be the AC compressor. After that there are a few rollers and belt tensioner to consider, but you could check them sort of, while you had the auxiliary belt off and the engine stopped. One other outside possibility is the EVAP valve being activated, but I don't think that that happens during idling, unplugging the EVAP power lead would be one way to check if it was that, though normally that makes a beeep beep beeping noise when the engine has warmed up and the engine speed is above idle speed. Finally, does the auto stop/start still operate, if not then check the voltage across the battery at idle and at increased engine revs. Edit:- that final comment concerning the battery voltage, should have included that if your battery is dying, then even at idle the alternator will still be trying to charge it back up and so putting a heavy load demand on the alternator and its belt etc - so while that might point to alternator bearings, it could also be getting made worse because the battery is in poor health.

If it wasn't, I would be even more dissapointed. Skoda - Simply Delayed™

There are Police Scotland officers that would be making sure you get a NIP on the front reg plate not properly displayed and inside the car if you have no Tape or screws to fit it to the front of the car. These officers might well be north of Inverness on the NC500. They have been doing it often enough. Ps. Plenty Fabia vRS hatch or estates or just Fabias about that look like they have been in a ram raid through Demon Tweaks or Halfords about. Tarts handbag comes to mind.

I am really considering to cancel my order. I am at the beginning and it is easier to make this decision. I am going to talk with the dealer about this situation but obviously they will not know anything about it. There are other phev option but more expensive. It is not easy.

I change the oil & filter on my cars every 5-6k, and replace the fuel filter, pollen filter & air filter annually. The cost for 2x oil & filter changes and a complete filter change is £110 plus an hour of my time, much less than a single main dealer oil/filter service. If you drive the car hard, or it spends a lot of time in high-load conditions, it is worth doing it more often, otherwise the normal service schedule is fine.

Personally, I find some model facelifts exactly that; an attempted improvement which is obvious and which can be a failure. The originality of the design gets broken and it looks well, wrong y’know, a bit like adding a spoiler to a car, something which was never in the original designers eye. The radical, sleek MK1 Ford Capri vs the disastrous MK1.5, the gorgeous Lancia Beta that became the appalling Trevi and the already terrible Allegro which, if it was actually possible, became even worse with the MK2. I’m not saying the facelift Superb is as bad as these, but the chrome bar cross the hatchback back and light clusters and the big, incorrectly angled fog lamps in the ugly front bumper to me, just look wrong.

That's a MIB2 Amundsen with DAB

You forgot the most important thing....TIME!

Cracking morning in Patch - its shopping day then I promise I will wash her ! Unclean Unclean !

No, leave the ECU firmware alone, you'd have to go ask a dealer to change it so you don't need to worry about it.

I know my brake lights come on when using ACC but never took much notice whether it was under gentle or rapid deceleration. At night time I can see the brake light coming on when looking in the rear mirror.

You're in a bad way, it's just a car dude. Girls aren't interested, only boys are.

Heading explains more than some nonsense waffle in this "body" section could ever do. As of tonight, I have taken up swimming again. I've always been a keen swimmer since learning to swim at the Irvine Magnum (Ayrshire folks here will be having mega flashbacks) and then the pool in Dalmellington further on. I'm a fairly competent swimmer, and without boasting too much, I received a 5+++++ metre certificate in primary school since they were set certificates that had been photostat many, many times. I'm rather casual about my swimming, none of that competitive lark. So anyway, I anticipate to log my swimming malarkey in here - should I remember.

I'm afraid I find the Mk2 ugly compared to the classy lines of the Mk1, the Mk3 looks ok but is very boxy and anodyne by comparison. But I'm not really a 'visual' aesthete.

Maybe time travel is the way forward 🤔

Not sure if it will fix the issue but a long press of the power button will trigger a reboot.

See the post linked below for basic info, but looks like a Mk2 to Mk2 facelift instrument cluster swap so unsure how gauges would work - early has blue lamp until 45 deg.C temp reached and bar graph for fuel while later car has needle gauges. That is in addition to how any onboard computer info is reported. For spare key this would need cutting and then coding to immobilizer which requires equipment generally not available at a affordable price.

I can only relate to my own experience where multiple updates of the same type, diagnostic fixes and a oil change service on a similar car was done within 3-4 hours I know this as they picked it up from my office, took it away, and rang me to say when it was ready

Do you have a 5 speed or 6 speed gearbox? The latter I believe will have the concentric release bearing, the former may or may not. Its relatively easy to trace the hydraulic line from the clutch master cylinder to where the slave cylinder is, either external above the gearbox or internal, they will both have the same bleed block and thumb release. Look here at item 20, item 22 illustrated is the external slave cylinder, it dose nos show the concentric one only giving its part number. https://skoda.7zap.com/en/cz/yeti/yet/2015-779/7/721-721030/

Is it not All New Cars Launched from July 2022? As in New Type Approved models / vehicles. Those already Type Approved would need to have them by 2024 if those are still in Production. Maybe i have read that wrong in the stuff i have read. You can only avoid the future for so long by buying cars now and planning to keep them. You can only go as fast as the traffic in front and around you & if you need to overtake then nothing will be stopping you doing that safely other than how quick your car is.. https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/driving-tech/mandatory-speed-limiters-set-for-uk-cars-can-be-overridden Future of transport regulatory review_ modernising vehicle standards - GOV.UK (3).mhtml

E mailed the garage re the update, goes from a while I wait 1st service to a we need the car all day, decision decisions...😉

Genius!!! 🤣🤣🤣 You should send a message tot he factory and suggest the new "punch line"! No, not really... I read several articles on that topic. The fire was close to the train-station in Mlada Boleslav, and the depot that caught fire was actually hosting some plastic-panels production lines for Octavia (belonging to a subcontractor, not property of Skoda). Here's a long (sorry for that) Google Translate of a Czech article on that: " The fire, which broke out on Saturday night in Mladá Boleslav and spread to the Grupo Antolin plant, will have a hard impact on the production of the largest Czech carmaker, Škoda Auto. The affected company makes door panels for it and the carmaker is not able to replace the given part of the fabric in any way. Due to the fire in Mladá Boleslav, we will not finish up to 16,000 Octavia, trade unionist Povšík guesses. This will affect production for months According to preliminary estimates, the damage will exceed one billion crowns after a large fire in the halls near the railway station in Mladá Boleslav, the police said on Twitter. No one was injured in the fire, firefighters killed him for about 17 hours. The causes of the fire are not yet known. Jan Sýkora, a spokesman for firefighters, has not yet had information on the amount of damage; according to him, the owner of the company estimated 900 million. "The estimate corresponds to what the owner of the company said, however, the amount of damage will be further specified," said Sýkora. The owner of the halls stored car parts in them. So far, the highest damage of four billion crowns was caused in 2015 by a fire in the Unipetrol complex in Záluží near Litvínov. More than a hundred firefighters and about 40 cars have been fighting the fire since Saturday evening, and they left for him around 20:30 on Saturday. They went to the reported waste fire, but found on the spot that pallets stacked to a height of several meters were burning. Wooden pallets probably belong to Akuma, which is based here. Of these, the fire spread to the production and storage halls in the neighborhood, which is used by Grupo Antolin Turnov. Kamila Andrlová from the ČTK company confirmed that the company is rented on the premises where it was burning. According to information from police spokeswoman Michaela Richter, the company apparently stored plastic car parts and production lines here. First, firefighters struggled with a lack of water, they had to set up several gas stations. The extinguishing was then complicated by a strong wind, but also by the sunken roof of one of the halls. The highest level of fire alarm was canceled on Saturday around 3:00, when firefighters brought the fire under control. An hour later, he was lowered to second grade and some firefighters returned to base. Half an hour after noon, firefighters lowered the alarm to base. An excavator of the rescue unit helped with the dismantling of the burnt structures, and a police dog trained to search for flame retardants also took part in searching the site. During the extinguishing on the spot, the chemical unit of the fire brigade from Kamenice monitored whether excessive amounts of pollutants were escaping into the air. The firefighters did not find any harmful values. Forensic scientists are investigating the causes of the fire. "We wanted to send a drone to the place, but due to the strong wind it is not possible," said police spokeswoman Michaela Richterová. According to her, police dogs will probably be used to help with the investigation. " (Source: https://archiv.hn.cz/c1-67028490-kvuli-pozaru-v-mlade-boleslavi-nedokoncime-az-16-tisic-octavii-tipuje-odborar-povsik-vyrobu-to-ovlivni-na-mesice ) On the other hand, it's as if the Skoda factory was directly affected - since they'll encounter a new components shortage...

It is a big mistake to mix up Oil & Filter Servicing / Oil Changes with Servicing & Maintenance and looking after a car, Brakes, Steering, Tyres, filters etc. DSG, Haldex, VAQ,Spark Plugs, Air or Fuel Filters are all service or consumables. http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/owners-and-drivers/servicing/service-plans/service-schedules.html You can use Long Life OIl and wait 2 years or 18-000-20-000 miles if you like. Or change sooner. But best not go 2 year from a car had a PDI before checking stufff or have someone that knows what they are looking at check / look. Then 2 year after that between with just a MOT being done annually. Not much is done anyway at Main Dealer Services at 1 year or 2 years other than look sees. Not much extra is ever done without you paying to have it done.

Those of us who had NO news so far about their car's production week, should now add several more months to those 10-19 months that you mention... Details below: https://www.nautiv.com/unfinished-damages-will-start-to-accumulate-again-it-burned-at-the-supplier/ I wonder if at least some of us will start receiving calls/emails from the dealer informing about the waiting time extension... Or will they just let us wait in the dark?

Annually or 10k you can’t go wrong. Have the service computer amended at the service to that schedule.

Hello guys, I decided to register here, because I read this topic day after day, especially after someone here posted the link to the Kralove airport webcam - that was a must check every early morning now i want to share my experience about ordering my Kodiaq to maybe calm down some of you well, I ordered it through dealer in August and at that time I was told to wait at least 6-9 months. I ordered 1.5 TSI DSG Style, Moon white with quite a lot of extra chips I believe (ACC, Side assist, Lane assist, Park assist, Traffic sign rec., Rear camera, Electric tailgate, Family pack, Navi pack, Headlight cleaning system, Digital dashboard, Sport steering wheel w/ paddles, Heated windscreen, seats and steering wheel,...). I somewhere heard that the car gets around 800-1400 chips wow.. However I never got a build date. Around 15 January I got a message from dealer that the production is confirmed by factory, nothing else and now after some 10 days I got a call that the car is in transit from Czech! So there is still hope for all of you, cheers!

Okay. I'd recommend creating your own thread since this one is positively ancient in terms of internet forums. I can't assist much further with Xenons so I'll leave it to the more experienced of this forums.

Imo it will not hurt to service once per annum irrespective of milage travelled. And I think long life servicing is not the best regime for cars that are used less than 10k per annum. Obviously it's your money and your choice. But yes you could leave it for 12k miles more if on long life schedule.

And an equally colourful end to the day.

Yes I also get improved mpg even though it's winter conditions. My All Season tyres are mounted on the 17 inch rims with 215/55 R17 whereas on the summer set with marginally greater fuel consumption are 235/45 R18.

Update. We eventually got around to looking at this again today, I had made some long wooden wedges to slowly exert more force on the tailgate inner panel rather than just pulling and It did come off with more force applied, without damaging it. The rear wiper motor was dead so a used replacement has been ordered from a breakers yard on Ebay. Thanks to all who responded. PS all the spring clips holding the tailgate on have been silicon greased up for future easy removal hopefully. Pete

I'm sure you can tap into the 12V supply to the rear view mirror and stick a 5V voltage regulator in the roof lining. This is how I powered a mirror with an LCD screen in it (for reversing camera) on one of my Subarus. My version didn't have an autodimming mirror, but it was an option so the wiring was there (Subaru unlike VW Group tended to fit all the looms but just tape them up if not used). Thinking about it, that unit behind the mirror on the Enyaq has a camera, humidity sensor, rain sensor, sunlight sensor and probably other things like microphones in it - so there's probably a reasonable 12V supply up there. Just a matter of taking things off and finding it, then tapping into it. Or the supply to the makeup lights in the sunshades is another possibility. Or yeah, just run a cable up the A-pillar from the fusebox like many people do.