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My Dad's first Nova... a D-reg 1.2, presumably a Merit.

Stirling via Callander, Bannockburn, Larbert, Falkirk, and Cumbernauld... Lapped it up well, besides a random "wobble of death" around 65-75mph, especially on accelerating. Currently going about the car ticking off things that could be wrong. So far my tyre pressures are okay but still to check balancing weights haven't went their holidays. Could be thinking about the console bushes, or whatever the weird clunk from the front driver's side is - could be drop links, or the CV joint or something odd. May also see about getting the balancing redone and the tracking checked. In the meantime, hae a photiegraph that I taken to remember where I parked.

That's pretty much everywhere these days. No one wants to pay enough money to actually get people who are interested/skilled in their job, so those people start their own thing and the official places are garbage. Look at electronics repair for example, all they know is how to replace things, a lot of those "techs" wouldn't even know how to use a multimeter to start diagnosing something.

Yesterday was a good day! Front Dashcam fitted, rear one almost done, just got to route the cable through the tailgate rubber boot. I've forgotten how much I hate trying to loosen trim on new cars!

Top speed over 160 mph and sub 4 second 0-60 and a standing quarter in less than 12 seconds.................. Please post any detailed tests here for us EV fans to share of this amazing German/Italian challenging product.

I've never driven on the autobahn, but if you want to see how the Karoq handles it you might like this video. 2021 Skoda Karoq 2.0 TSI DSG 4x4 Sportline 190 PS TOP SPEED AUTOBAHN DRIVE POV

Not gat a photo of my actual one, but I'm ashamed to admit my first student car was a white Renault 6 like this one! It lasted 2 months before ending up upside down in a ditch...

Also try Carwow / Wizzle, & Evan Halshaws , Buying your car sites.

Just because the vehicle has been to Skoda, doesn't mean you had a good technician or one that could be arsed to do their job properly. The whole point of vehicle diagnostics is to find out what is wrong using the data, knowledge and experience... to many places are willing to charge £X for a 30min slot which consists of a plug in and a quick visual. I am in the trade and have seen it time and time again, it is amazing how many vehicles come in with the incorrect diagnosis. My point is that there actually might not be a fault, it could just be a case of the DPF has reached the end of its serviceable life and is the root cause of all your issues. Do you know what the oil ash mass level is? Does the car do many miles per month, and do you do many short trips? I have seen many a vehicle have DPF issues before a car has reached 100k. I have done a couple of vans at around 70k because of short trips.

The next services along at Cullompton has an Ionity Hub 4x350kW chargers and one Gridserve 50kW. You may see EV distribution being different to traditional ICE cars, they are going to go where there are chargers.

Double charging on v2 superchargers is exactly as designed. I don't see any problem extending charging time by 10-20min. The key is it has been plugged in and it is charging. No need to sit in the car queue for the next available spot. Though mind you it will still be charging at around 50kW. Gridserve are now doing the same thing. I saw 2 CCS cars charging at the same time at Ikea last Sunday. They are sharing the capability of the charger and when one tapers the other one speeds up. Maximising the charger capability. But the physical charging spaces for Gridserve are sometimes not allocated correctly for 2 spaces per charger. Another benefit of Tesla cars is the ease of use across Europe. Want to drive to Italy? Just jump in and drive like every other car. No need to plan for charging and get the right apps/RFID/membership. Although perhaps European charging networks like a Ionity membership can achieve same thing? Ionity is certainly bigger in Europe.

Car also got a polish yesterday so I took some sexy shots...

Tackled the offside brake caliper this weekend and thought I'd do a little write up... Everything came apart no bother until it came to removing the solid piece of brake pipe between the caliper and the flexi hose. The nut on the caliper end was seized to the pipe, and thanks to the folly of youth it ended up looking like this: Lesson learned I suppose... I booked train tickets for my weekend's movements and took to eBay to find a new one. £9.74 delivered did me nicely. Once the pipe dropped through my letterbox I got to putting everything back together. Pads installed with new shims too: Copper grease applied to the offending pipe area for the 1% chance I ever have to take it apart again - be nice to the next guy just in case the next guy is you! Shiny red caliper ready for service: I got that bolted on and bled up and job's a good un! I don't think this side was dragging nearly as much as the other, I haven't noticed any difference in mpg so far. I'll be booking wheel alignment the second I next get paid!

Because Skoda didn't move the bonnet lever on RHD cars - on a LHD car that door can be opened using the emergency key and you can open the bonnet to charge the battery, but on RHD cars it's the other door that you open with the emergency key.

Seemed to be a fashion with the manufacturers, perhaps 15-20(?) years back not to have a gauge just blue symbol until the engine warmed up. I can remember further back a mate's girlfriend overheating the engine and when I asked if she'd not seen the gauge rising he said it didn't have one and sure enough it didn't, first time I'd seen such a thing, bottom of the range small French car, forget which.

Ok, let’s hope to have new photos in the gallery thread next month 😉

UPDATE after 1 year of driving my Super IV L&K 2020: (Plug-in) I've done 7000 miles in total in 13 months, most of which has been during lockdown for covid-19. About 3000 miles have been all electric, the rest being in hybrid mode, with about 100 miles in sport mode just as a test. In my opinion: 1. If you do not have a home charging capability then a Plug-in Hybrid is a waste of money since you have to pay at least an extra £4000 for a battery that hardly gets used - I only have a fixed 13amp outside connection not a £700 fully featured home charging system - it takes far too long to charge (0% to 100% takes over 5 hours, this is equivalent to only 7 miles per hour of charging) - which is OK some of the time, but is useless for long trips - if travelling more than 40 miles round trip I have to use petrol which is not good - using a public charge point its a bit quicker being about 4 hours to get fully charged (7kw or quicker, about 8 miles per hour) - the car is designed to be seriously restricted to a very slow speed regardless of how fast the charge point can work, which is a MAJOR drawback 2. The cost of charging at a public charge point is so variable as to be totally stupid - it can be FREE at some supermarkets or up to 25p per mile - the 25p per mile chargers can charge at a rate of over 600 miles per hour, which is useless for the Superb which cannot benefit from the speed but still costs the same - running on petrol only cost about 11p a mile (about 48 mpg on average) - there are FREE 7kw chargers at places like Tesco and Sainsbury, these will add about 7 miles of range in an hour, which is fine if you can do your shopping and have a meal in a cafe, otherwise it's not much use. - FREE charges are also very difficult to find when touring the country on holiday, so not really that helpful, and the range added is not worth the time wasted. 3. The average range is too little to be of any real value in terms of reducing cost - I've averaged about 25 miles on a full charge, varying from 18 to 42 miles. 4. The Skoda app for controlling the charging remote is helpful for the 1st year being FREE, but is not worth the £80 for each year thereafter since the advertised map and software updates are not possible online and my car does not have a memory card reader, or CD unit to do it any other way. 5. My best all electric journey was 42 miles on full charge with a bit being added by the regen system. This was done in eco mode on a non-stop drive on a dual carriageway, at a speed of about 45 mph, in 6th gear, with virtually no acceleration, on a warm day with no wind, with no heating or cooling to use power. - a more normal scenario around home is an average of about 25 miles, being with heating / cooling, stop start etc. 6. Driving in SPORT mode to charge the battery is a waste of fuel and creates more pollution than it saves. - it better to drive in the driver selected "individual mode", and selecting some but not all of the sport features that stop the car using too much fuel and pollution 7. It's a real pain taking the time to plug in the cable in a public place in bad weather since virtually NONE of the locations are covered - simply not worth the bother for a view miles of electric range - in addition most of the FREE charging points are a long way from the door of the place that you want to go to - plus there are virtually no signs to direct you to where the points are in the car park, so you have to drive around just looking - many locations are either already in use (for many hours), or are being used by NON-Electric cars (people that can't read maybe - or you waste 30 mins or so trying the get these things to work using one of dozens of different supplier apps - or the thing are just faulty 8. Skoda are useless at diagnosing any faults on IV cars, including none IV related features such as map updates / serious SAT NAV issues 9. The setup of all the options in the car are far too complicated 10. The benefits of driving an electric car are lost because of the very limited range and very long charging times 11. Effectively it has been an expensive trial with really an otherwise great car. 12. I have been looking for an all electric car this year but decided that the cost for anything decent (same size as superb) is still far too high - in part because the silly government decided to cut the grant this year, and will no doubt cut in again next year. 13. The lost luggage space and extra weight make the car less usable, which is common for all plug-in hybrids. 14. my best trip was where I managed 40 miles all electric PLUS another 8 miles from regen over a trip of about 100 miles. Suggestions based on my experience: 1. Plug-in hybrids could be far better if the car makers supplied faster charging, and at least 80 miles of range (which would qualify for a grant) 2. Skoda need to get their act together to properly support IV drivers 3. Voice command needs a massive improvement - the current system is next to useless 4. The skoda SAT NAV system needs a re-think to be more like Tesla, and it MUST have monthly updates for maps including all new charge points 5. The Skoda connect app should be included for free for at least 3 years 6. The skoda app needs to be made more functional and be made reliable (currently fails too often) 7. Skoda needs to get the problems with basic SAT NAV functions sorted, now - I've had faults logged for over 6 months, with no fixes, or any date for a fix. 8. Skoda should never tell its customers to rely on non-Skoda apps to make up for Skoda failures on a car that costs over £41,000 (ZapMap) Hope this is helpful

Thanks. I've Just finished doing this. For anyone else reading this who has just changed their slave or master cylinder and the clutch pedal has 0 resistance this is what I did: I went to halfords and got the Gunson Eezibleed kit and a litre of brake fluid. Set up the gunson to a spare tyre and screwed open the bleed nipple quite a lot until I saw the fluid coming out. Keep it going until no more bubbles come out and the fluid runs clear then tighten up the bleed nipple. Go check the clutch pedal and it should be firm. Keep repeating until you think it's all clear of air. I had previously tried using a vacuum bleeder attached to an air compressor to suck out the fluid but after using the gunson, it looks like it prefers a pressure bleed instead.

Never driven on the autobahn but have been driven! Myself and two colleagues were visiting a supplier and were picked up at the airport by a private hire driver in an Audi A8. I thought we seemed to be going a bit quick! Myself and colleague, both sitting in the back, looked at each other then at the speedo which was showing 250kph! Our colleague in the front looked a bit white in the face...

Hi Everyone, I bought my first Skoda in September 2021 with only 16k miles & full dealer history. Its a 66 plate 2017 Octavia III 1.4 SE Sport manual in race blue. Having a few issues which are: 1. Gearchange isn't very smooth feeling a bit notchty, when changing from 1st to 2nd I sometimes hear a crunching sound where cogs trying to line up. 2. Creaking noises when passengers get in the back that is probably caused by cheap brake materials. I have a full set of Brembo discs & pads to fit to rectify the problem. 3. Shock absorbers need replacing at 20k miles Within the first couple of weeks of ownership I'd been trying to find the cause of a weird hollow sound from the back when going over speed humps slowly & the culprit has been found to be the rear shocks making the strange noises. I had the car MOTd at a VAG specialist in March this year @ 20k miles & they informed me that the front shocks are starting to leak but car had passed because it wasn't bad enough to fail. 3 weeks later the car was serviced at the same specialist @ 21k miles & I was advised to replace the front shocks. So, I took the car to a VW specialist who also confirmed the front shocks are leaking & need replacing before next MOT. I have a full set of Bilstein B4 shock absorbers & Eibach Pro springs to fit. Hopefully this forum can give me lots of valuable information that can help me & in return I will help others if I can.

No worries, USB is an option and this car is leased. Not paying for things for other people!!

Sadly that lack of product knowledge seems far too common amongst Skoda dealers 😬

Just gave the nod to a Colour Edition in Graphite Grey while the trade in on the Mk3 is good. Hoping for August/September delivery.

Don't know if its normal but I've seen mine do that occasionally as well.

I like that anaology. Having driven a few of those cars shown against it, including the Maclaren, they're all very quick and the Maclaren eyewateringly so. It's a damn fast car and from the standard AWD handles well.

I’ll need to send photos but will wait till it stops raining. I’ll post final offer when done.

@Slick2097 - You might consider treating the front disc backplates with Copaslip. If you're unhappy working with brakes, go to a local garage, not a Skoda main stealer.

Its a feature, called alternate park position, ment to save your blades, and the glass being scratched, and the blade kept in the same position.. Not sure how much it actually helps, as i do change my blades every spring!

Fair enough. Maybe I am blinkered by my first Skoda owning experience then. I had the Fabia vRS from new and owned it for 14 years. In all those years of ownership it only developed one fault when the drivers side window regulator failed, and it was replaced under warranty. A 14 year old car with that track record is almost unprecedented, and it was driven daily. Dont get me wrong, I’m fully aware that I was probably just lucky but even so, that level of reliability can only strengthen a manufacturers reputation. I don’t know whether Skoda cars and Skoda themselves have since nosedived in terms of quality control and customer service, but I did extensively review the Kamiq before purchase and heard nothing but good things about them. Maybe some of you owners over the last 10 years or so will tell me different. All I know is that they APPEAR to still be of very good quality, but I suppose time will tell if my second ownership experience will at least resemble my first🤞

The Gridserve competition or indeed gridserv themselves need to put something big in around somerset, so not everyone is going for a charge at exeter. Whilst taunton dean has space and north/south or sedgemore a little further north could make sense, another good option could be bridgwater services. Bridgwater is on a roundabout serving both directions and close enough to hinkley point to get a fairly direct supply of large volumes of eletricity without long runs.

I'm not sure i'd say it's "meant to be" flexible enough, as in being designed to be used like that - it often may be flexible enough, but i wouldn't fancy trying it in cold weather for example.

@sneal. Read the owners manual maybe. Do not check your oil when warm,. That was Skoda and lost in translation that had WARM. Only 1.2 44kW VW engines are checked cold. All other VW engines for over a decade are checked at Normal Operating Temperature. Or should be and dealerships staff should know that Skoda say 'after a few minutes' that is after stopping. Not 5 - 10 minutes of a cold engine started and idling. They do not say 5 or 10 or any specific time after stopping. But a few is just a few. As is not long. Do it consistent though if you care. Especially if people where checking when refueling a few is only a few minutes. But simply clever Is know where cold is as that is what people checking before a trip will b we checking to see if there is enough oil. ??? Has she got the engine running? 'Simply clever' or not, SKODA!

It dose say in the manual that the engine should be warm.

Not Far as it has the same battery and motors as the AWD GTL/GTL-S with a bigger inverter on the rear motor and some body stiffening/suspension and similar handling/stopping improvements. Since the GTL has the same battery, 19" wheels and a 316 official range, then I imagine turning the wick up and going from 19-21" wheels will drop it to around 275 official. The GTL-S has 20" wheels and is more like 300 miles, so the wheels definately have an effect. The AWD cars are getting 220-250 in winter conditions. then I'd say this is in the 200 mile real world (Without using all the performance, all the time) Still a beast and still a respectable range vs a tank in a supercar, but... Of course if they get it released soon and there are some available, then a trade in from a standard AWD to a GT could be a lot of fun.

No. It’s an 11 month old ex main dealer demo, why do I care what it cost brand new? All I know is that I got it for less than RRP.

@zetzetI am surprised that you are surprised that a TDI might use oil. That is why there are lots of people that ask on here and on social media what oil they should buy to top up the engine oil in TSI's and TDI's. Lots post that they think their new or used car has used too much oil even though they had no idea how much oil the vehicle had in when they got it. That is why Engines have not got a sealed oil filler cap so that drivers need not top up between services.

So…newsflash…its in a production and delivery approximately last week in may 🥳😆

Engines do tend to use some oil during the 'running in' period. It may not have been full at the point of purchase, it isn't unheard off. Either top it up yourself and monitor the consumption, or pop into the dealer and ask them to do it, at least it will be on their records then should you find an issue further down the line.

Some very good points, the massive growth ie doubling of the Model 3 in about 6 months and no real increase in the Tesla Supercharger network I reckon will cause EV drivers to look more favourably at non Tesla purchases. The new GRIDSERVE station at Exeter Services have made me think that the near 200 mile journey from Worcester to Plymouth is on in the little Zoe though at holiday times it could get rammed I expect. Hope they keep the 22 kW AC charge posts if all the CCSs are being used. GRIDSERVE a bit rubbish in Scotland for some reason.

The 220 only came with the DSG-6 (DQ250), with the pre-facelift at least. The 272 comes with DSG-7 (DQ381). I'm not sure if the facelift version now comes with the DSG-7 (DQ380) for FWD models.

That is exactly what Skoda are, mainstream and really not more premium than a Peugeot or Ford at the same RRP's. Skoda is a low volume seller in the UK and are slipping with Quality Control and after sale and warranty issues where there are faults that should never have been signed off or models allowed to leave the factories.

When doing the service on my Citigo two weeks ago, I used a 'Boa Constrictor strap wrench' to remove the oil filter. This can be useful around the house for many other things as well. They come in many sizes, look here:- https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=boa+constrictor+strap+wrench&crid=2PLSCK4GVX2XT&sprefix=boa+constroictor%2Caps%2C59&ref=nb_sb_ss_sc_2_15 Thanks, AG Falco

Yup, first thing I did was take all the others out and replace with normal wheel nuts, I figure the chances of me getting a flat and needing to change the tyre is higher than the risk of someone decided to steal some beaten up alloys from a 12 year old Octavia 😄

You need a new dook lock mechanism: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313948718584?fits=Plat_Gen%3AMK+I|Model%3AOctavia&hash=item4918cd45f8:g:mQMAAOSwPphhQWHt

Thank you. Very helpful Thank you

check the connector blocks where the cable passes from the car body to the hatch. pretty sure its tucked under the headlining. also check the cables for wear and tear inside the bellows. good chance either the connector has water corrosion or theres a broken/shorted wire in the loom. happens with drivers door cable bellows alot too.

So I removed the jet unit and poked a thin cable tie down the feed tube but it was too short to reach the bottom. I got a much longer but thicker tie and cut it down the centre to reduce its width. I poked this gently up and down the pipe hitting the bottom of the 90 degree angle and after a few goes, hey presto, the water bubbled-up the pipe and out of the top! The car had been standing for 6 months following me rescinding my license following a suspected stroke, so I’m sure it was just blocked by the screen wash crystalising at the bend. Anyway, works perfectly now and thoroughly soaked a couple of people on the NS and OS pavements earlier this afternoon; oops… I really must re-adjust them jets!

And then there's the fact that the water is usually, if not always, absolutely bloody baltic, even in summer. That definitely catches a lot of folk out.

if you've read my thread on my Tesla model you'd see the other aspect of Tesla - their build quality is very variable - I spent 14 months trying to get Tesla to take ownership of the faults and just fix them. In the end I gave up and sold it and bought the Enyaq. It is so much better than the Tesla other than in terms of 0-60 drag racing. Personally I'd not have another Tesla even if you paid me to take it.

This is what you get when politics tells you that the pollution problem is caused by cars and you, as a good citizen, want to contribute to the health of the planet. And let's pretend we don't know that industries can continue to pollute simply by trading emissions on the carbon market. I'm sure the future will be electric, but today the choice is very limited and it is not within everyone's reach. Until then, I still enjoy the smell of gasoline every time I start the car in my garage.