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Here is my new baby. 🙂 Kamiq 1.0 TSI Active, the most basic equipment, just rear parking sensors added. Waiting time just 6 1/2 months. Compared with most of you waiting Octavias, I consider myself very lucky. Fingers crossed that you all get your cars as soon as possible. My dealer also got two new Karoq's today, but Octavia is pain in the ass. There was a guy asking about his Octavia and salesman told him that there is just a non-comfirmed build date in computer, not very soon (didn't tell exactly when) and he is 6th of more than 100 orders for Octavia.

2 pictures nearly 20 years in the making. (Yes I should've cleaned the cluster)

i ve two Celica Supra chassis ready to received all the stuff in that case 😁

I think you may need to rephrase that question. 👍

I wouldn't disagree with you but isn't that the argument for not using LEDs for brake lights? - their function guarantees they will be switched on and off multiple times on each and every journey so hastening their demise and an expensive replacement and apparently the creation of unnecessary plastic waste if you have to throw out the whole housing rather than a small glass and metal bulb. It seems another example of "we have the technology, we must use it whether appropriate or not. A good few contributors to this forum will be old enough to remember "If it ain't broke don't fix it". (This of course did not apply to The Plumber and others who took to pieces perfectly good Yetis so they could help the rest of us fix ours when the time came!!)

Just thought I'd share this as I was looking for a solution to the phone battery draining when using Android Auto, and not wanting to have to plug the phone in via a USB cable to keep it charged. Simple but effective!

Combi update! Firstly I appreciate these photos are not the most exciting, just parked up in front of a load of bins... 😂 But the weather is awful today, and I only just managed to take these whilst dodging rain and wind. I will of course be taking some much better shots, but for the meantime I just wanted to take these as a way of updating the project. It's been back together and on the road for the past two weeks and apart from a few niggles like the Forge intercooler hose popping off its been faultless. The timing belt, water pump, and aux belt were all replaced last week along with new injector seals and cups as 3 of the 4 were sweating around the inlet manifold. A new coolant bottle has been fitted also to replace the very tired original one. I finally got round to fitting the Whiteline rear adjustable anti-roll bar after hearing so many people say what a difference it makes and I can now only agree with everyone else! I've currently only got it set on the softest setting as I wasn't sure what difference it would make, but it's completely tightened up the rear end and taken away any wayward handling. Before I fitted the front bumper and Forge intercooler I tackled a few jobs in and around the engine bay. SAI, N249, N112, and EVAP all now deleted and the PCV system simplified and now running through an oil catch tank. My next plan is to refresh all the suspension components with polybushes and source Audi TT lower arms, hubs etc to enhance the handling of this old barge further! It's booked in at Badger 5 next Friday for a session on the rollers and hopefully to take advantage of the stage 2 mods that are currently fitted, and to map out the deletes I've done. I'm really looking forward to getting out to as many meets, and shows as possible this year and once I've sourced a second set of wheels with some sticky rubber I will also be venturing out on track!

My car is delivered, All options present, including Canton!!!

Let this be a lesson to all fiddlers. This morning I left the intense reversing light LED's in place as I did the fog. Yes, these Canbus OK lights raise the instrument alarm but I'm OK living with that as I am the obviously not OK Canbus OK front Fog light LED's (bloody joke). I changed the brake LED's (yes, Canbus OK ..... ha) bulbs back to the standard 16w and, Presto, the entire setup functions as it should with black and brown powering sidelights and the red, dedicated brake. I have learned a lesson and while I hope other LED fiddlers learn about this before they fit towing harnesses I would like to thank all contributors to my plight. God Speed.

Thanks guys, but I have figured it out. I pulled the upper door card from inside with quick and small movements. Nothing broke, and I lifted the door lock thing really hard and tried opening the door at the same time. It worked. Then I tried taking out the key lock with the 2 Torx screws from the side of the door and THAT was the problem. The lock broke on the inside and couldn't spin the flathead end to rotate the locking system in the car. It was stuck in the CLOSED position, so it deadlocked the door from inside and outside. With a flathead screwdriver, I rotated the inner door lock to OPEN, and sawed off the tip of the key lock temporarily until I bought a new one (If I will even bother). Doing this has 2 consequences: You will not be able to use the key on that side as it won't work, but the door will open and close normally, yes even with central locking. It's just that the key won't do anything on that side. Put everything back together, and it's good as new I guess. Here's some pics & videos. In the second picture you can see how I pulled half the door card to un-deadlock the door. First picture is how the key lock looks like now. No longer has the flathead tip. Thing was so brittle I sawed a quarter through it and the rest broke by hand. Terrible quality...

Beige interior is definitely worse, but not beacuse of the wait time.

If it is a sticking lifter, which it could be if it's been stood for a while then an engine oil flush to remove any deposits and fresh oil might sort it

Got most of it off for ya

I drive a 1.5tsi DSG Karoq with e-brake and a 1.5tsi DSG Kodiaq with e-brake and find the Kodiaq the easier to control at slow speeds. It could be that the e-brakes are different but somehow I doubt it. The only real difference is the gearbox - DQ200 vs DQ381. The DQ200 isn't as smooth. The Kodiaq has 235x45x20 tyres, the Karoq 22x40x19. The Kodiaq doesn't have any issues but when new, it was almost impossible to stop the Karoq's front tyres from spinning. It took a few thousand miles for it to behave itself. I'm not the main driver of the Karoq but at just 10,000 miles I reckon there's about 2000 miles left in the fronts. It's only ever used around town so obviously wheelspin is still an issue. When I do drive it, it's noticable that under certain conditions, the engine in the Karoq revs higher than the Kodiaq. Could it be the dry clutch on the DQ200 that's the issue for peoples bad experiences?

Surprised you didn't go for 'Smart arse'

But.... If your driveway was very steep and you were 2 foot from a wall and wanted to get a little closer in a controlled and safe manner. That's when it can get a bit scary if your car is new. Don't bother unless you really really have to 😁 I have learned to slow down on approach to my garage (downhill on a bend) and then crawl to the final stopping place. No way on this God's earth would I want to try and inch closer once I have come to a full stop and Autohold had applied. I also have to reverse up my drive on a bend every day and I am now totally used to it. Would I let anyone else do it in my car of they were not 100% used to it? "no way pedro". Even if they were used to doing it in their manual car with an old fashioned handbrake - Nope!! They don't know what its going to try and do and why - they don't know the "technique" to feather / control the throttle in that scenario without practice. Let them practice on someone elses pride and joy. I would reverse it up and around and then let the other person jump into the drivers seat and take it from there.

Boo, hiss

To be fair I have had 3 Skoda DSGs, 2 Octavia and the Karoq and all have been easy to control at slow speed in forward or reverse. My driveway is also very steep but no problem, the auto brakes do at times bring me to an abrupt halt thinking I'm going to hit the garage.😂 I had a Citroen Piccasso auto some years ago, that was a pig.

It was my Dad's second car. His first was a D-reg base spec (Merit?), the rear '1.2' badge from it lives atop my stereo system as an ornament now. I'll post a photo when I'm home. That H-reg SR has quite a story. My Dad sold it around 2002 when he bought an ST185 Celica. It spent around 12 years in a garage about 20 miles away from where I live. It was then bought by a young lad in my village (who has an Octy vRS now) who blew the engine up. It was then bought by my late father's friends from school who fitted a new engine with Weber carbs (like the way my Dad had it) and some other snazzy bits and restored it as best they could. Unfortunately, finances meant that they couldn't keep it and it was sold on eBay with one hell of a bidding war. It's now with a guy in Northamptonshire. Now, are we a wee bit off topic?

^^^ Before that stage you need to ask the Salesperson doing the hand over what the tyre pressures are and ask them to go get a tyre pressure gauge. Be sure they are safe and not still at the In Transit setting, not having had the pressure reduced at the TPI. Then as with all new cars or newly fitted tyres remember they are 'Green' and need running in and getting the newness off them.

i m ok to accept a car without door panel and put them back later even myself: on contrary it ll let me the time to upgrade the sound system 😁

I'll bet he's used Google translate.

Here they're not really a "chavs" car, golfs,leons and the likes take over for the felt spec crowd. Don't really see many vRS' around me though. Lot of people just see them as old skodas not really chavvy spec cars, atleast from what i've seen.

I'm not sorry to see the demise of the Fabia as the chavs car de jour, the trouble we used to get on here from those closeted manbabies! It's a shame that modern tackle is getting so anodyne and unreliable, I'm pretty much certain that my next car will be a 'classic' from the 90's before diesels took over and ruined petrol heads fun.

Saddens me that this does appear to be the *majority of Fabia vRS owners on the old "social medias". I pray to god that there will be enough of these cars broken for spares in the coming years and it leaves the better ones to actually gain a following instead of an image problem. Knowing my luck that following will just about coincide with the social birching that will come from even daring to own a diesel vehicle.

So we're back at infrastructure will cripple the electric vehicle if they don't get on with it ASAP. I think for freight/trains/smaller towing fuel cells will likely come into their own, however the infrastructure problems there are a whole other level of bad.

Looks way better than all these chavtastic systems with 5 dummy tailpipes and a fartbox on the one that's actually attached to the engine.

Agreed; as to choice of arrangement, I chose the first version to come up on Google!

ALSO! If your speaker is rattling and makes a terrible noise, especially with bassy music, it probably looks like this. You need new speakers.

June is not going to happen. I think your dealer just wanted to make a deal. My dad ordered an Octavia iV last week and was given january 2023. Delivery times should be at least 10 months for new orders. And this information was before the fire.

@Colin170CR @Timmyboy Amazon/Ebay/Ali's aren't genuine - smaller https://www.drive2.ru/l/500982303787319849/

Going a bit OT but.... When evaluating audio systems, occasionally, I try to find holes or weaknesses by playing certain tracks. America by Simon and Garfunkel is one. There's a deep bass drum around 45hz that's so much deeper than the rest of it. Pachelbel's Canon I've used in the car trying to find missing and booming frequencies. These days it can mostly be done with a decent smartphone or a measurement mic on a smart phone.

That takes me back Ken - great show ! I do know of a 1.4 TDi which has 170k miles on it - still going very well. The secret is the correct oil and regular changes. The car is going from Capatagle to Galway and back 70 miles round trip 5 days a week and sometimes weekends as well. Car has been at this for at least 5 years. So nothing to fear if the wee car is serviced right and driven with mechanical sympathy!

The price of progress.....LED lights should "last the life of the car" but probably won't (I'm already replacing led bulbs in the house which were advertised as lasting 25 years at about 5-7 years) and then it's a second mortgage for replacements rather than a couple of pounds at the local motor factors. (Am I the only one that cynically believes "lifetime" is manufacturer code for "about two weeks out of warranty"?).

So.... today is a Sunday.. it is night time. i should be drinking.. instead i went for a run, as swmbo finally admitted on Thursday night that shes sick of waking up at 615am with me and then only dozing until its time to get up, and being tired enough as it is with the migraine etc etc... I had to take that on board and have to accommodate her needs too, so... im back to nights. ooooooh it felt weird. there was more people around and yet it felt as quiet as it does in the mornings. that will change as the evenings stretch out and the clocks change, but for now it is as it is. the running though.. well, thats odd too, but not unexpected. I ran faster! i set off feeling lighter than when im only up 15mins, legs didnt feel like they were still under the duvet gwtting some extra REM sleep weighing me down. so much so after 2k i could feel the cold damp air starting to hurt my airway from sucking harder at the faster rate. mornings this wasnt happening as the lungs were able but legs were not. did my 8k route, and by luck decided to check the distance covered at a "waypoint" marker i use - the turning point on the 6k route, return leg of the 8k - to see how close it actually adds on to do the 8k. it should be about the 5k and it is 4.8km, yeah pretty bang on. but i notice i was only in my 23rd minute... so i pushed a bit and cracked the 25min wall for 5k! i then manged to keep that going and checked again after a few mins... keep it going, keep it going... BAM! sub 30mins for 6k! and finally - 8k in just over 40mins. absolutely nothing award winning about it, but i am feckin buzzed after it. setting a couple of 3rd fastest whatevers and 3 new segment PRs really helped it too probably wont sleep until 2am now though 🙄

Sunday afternoon update, had a go at the carpet today...not perfect. There's some pink and yellow stains that aren't coming out but I'm happy with the results, it's nice to know they are at least clean.

Possible? Yep; probably. Worth doing over just buying one? Nope.

Good luck. We just hope your driving skills are better than your photo taking sills.

I have been asking to the dealer today (in Madrid) and they have no news about delays. They say my car (Octavia iV) has already date of manufacture next March (they have shown the date in their computer) and advise me not to trust in all what I read in forums like this.. Something that I am sure is that here there are a lot of people from different countries with delay problems and it is going to be worse soon because the fire. Sadly I have cancelled my order. Very hard decision actually.

Re: the 12v battery going flat, I’ve just had this through today from my local dealer: “We have just been notified that Skoda have today released a new recall in regards to the Battery monitoring system, the recall is for the exact same issues you have been experiencing lately. We have been asked to replace the battery monitoring control unit as part of the recall & I have ordered the part ready for your visit to us on Wednesday.”

Thanks alot 🌺🌺

Blimey, that's a LOT of lip-gloss!

Check the coding log in C:\Ross-Tech\VCDS\Debug and set the original coding?

Wow, Skoda are fantastic now🤪

You should probably see a doctor if your wee is red!

Why!? The V5 proves nothing except the following:- Date of first regimentation Colour Date of transfer to current keeper Date of last amendment by current keeper.

but looks like now Skoda Rapid will be called the Slavia in 2022. Saw this news while surfing the net. https://drivestreak.com/skoda-slavia-ground-clearance-dimensions-boot-space-fuel-tank-capacity/

JVC, wiv Alpine amps and big bassy bins in the boot innit bruv. 🤣😂 Or possibly something a little more integrated when playing Pachelbel's Canon.

Yes we can, but it's cheaper in the Skoda store 😊