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I can happily say I can start to look forward in life rather than just treading water I had my first full body work-over by the heart institute last week and was officially handed over to my GP as they are very happy with where I am in my recovery. Yay!! Very happy, of course, but I am to remain on the beta blockers, blood pressure & statins medication for the foreseeable future. Despite my cholesterol level being tested and shown to be in the "good" range, apparently my arteries are "furry" and want me on statins as a preventative measure apparently?! Already suffering with aching legs as a result of the statins 🥴 I have the home INR testing machine, which we tried to calibrate today but turns out I was given the wrong electronic testing strips for my machine! New ones are due in any moment and will calibrate it tomorrow morning. This will stop me needing to go to the GP to check my levels (almost on a weekly basis at the minute). Perfect timing as the last part of my recovery involves a week in Tenerife kindly paid for by our parents as a much needed break away together. 🥰 Next up; get a job! Just this week I finally let my employer and college know that I am to medically retire from being a mechanic. Not great timing as I was literally waiting for the End Point Assessments to get the level 3 Light Vehicle Technician qualification prior to me being admitted to hospital. I'm sure there will be those reading this thinking that I should just do the exams anyway so I have the piece of paper. Well, I've had weeks to debate this very thing. Obviously I've talked long and hard about it with Zee, but in the end I have to just walk away from it. I just can't take the risk of infection, taking a heavy knock or getting cuts that involve trips to A&E 'cos I can't stop the bleeding (which could very well become a regular feature due to the Warfarin). After speaking with the account manager from college I've got myself an informal chat penciled in once I get back from my holiday Seems like there is potentially a role coming up with them that I would apparently be perfect for..... obviously I'm not assuming anything, so I have also applied for another job this morning and will apply for more next week whist I'm sat at the pool bar with my glass of coke! I'm very laid back about getting a job if I'm honest... maybe a bit too much for Zee's liking 😛

Dear colleagues i can proud to tell you that today i picked up the car form the dealer. And i also got small gift for buying a car and that i waited so long So i hope that you get soon your cars and that Škoda finish this order from Q1, Q2 and Q3 2021 priority. Because you are currently in the club +1 year waiting 😞

good news for me just got reg number and delivery date at dealers 22 july and should have it no later than 29 july depending how fast pdi etc can be done.

Not quite "Neeeooowwwwn" but more "however you make the noise of a car sliding on gravel". That tree branch got in the way of many a photo /rage

i could be wrong Ken, but id imagine his cardiac team know that, and dont have him on them just for the craic

4:50am: Made up for the gnat I RIP'd about 4:48am 🙄 Gaz

Hey guys, I knows there’s been chat regarding the aero covers, but I’ve yet to see a picture of a Fabia with them removed. luckily the parts turned up today so I whipped two off to show you the comparison. Ignore the dirty car! Part numbers from skoda-parts.com. Total cost around £53 delivered. Nut caps 321 601 173 A 9B9 (16 of these) Locking nut cap 4F0 601 173 01C (4 of these) Centre caps 5E0 601 151 FOD (4 of these)

Yes Ken, I’m aware of what each one of the four daily meds I have to take actually do

The cars are taken on trains to German port of Emden, and stored until there is room on a ship going to UK. Although since covid and production limitations there is unlikely to be much delay waiting for a ship with space, probably 2 weeks max A few thousand cars can be on the ship, they have multiple teams that drive them off, then they hop back in a minibus and go and drive another batch off. After that (when in UK) it becomes more dependent on other orders for your dealer, ideally they will fill a road transporter, sometimes will be a split delivery to two dealers in similar areas. Most leave the ports in early hours to arrive about 9am (most dealerships only accept cars between about 08:30 and 16:00 on weekdays). For Skoda (and VW group) they use Sheerness (Kent), Grimsby and Tyne so if you are in the far west, road delivery becomes more restricted as too many driving hours to do a one day delivery, need a truck with sleeper cab. There was at one time (don’t know if still applies) restrictions on number of SUVs on the older trailers as weren’t designed for lots of higher vehicles. Car is thus likely to sit at UK port for anything from about 3 days to 3 weeks depending on other cars being delivered. So overall anything from about 2-7 weeks from build to dealer, then depending on if sales team have tracked and booked workshop time 1-20 days to do PDI. So assume about 8 weeks for your initial estimate.

Hi All Not sure if this will be of use to anyone, but I have copied this courtesy of Mr-Fix on Youtube. Below are the current model numbers of the various Infotainment units in the VW group. Admins please remove if I have duplicated a previous post, but it might be useful to have a pinned post updated as new models are released. 3G0 035 021 - MIB2 VW Discover Pro 3G0 035 043 - MIB2 VW Discover Pro 3G0 035 045 - MIB2 VW Discover Pro 3Q0 035 043 - MIB2 VW Discover Pro 3Q0 035 824 C - MIB2 VW Composition Media 3Q0 035 819 - MIB2 VW Composition Media 3Q0 035 846 - MIB2 VW Discover Media (MQB) 3Q0 035 864 - MIB2.5 VW Discover Media (MQB) 3Q0 035 874 - MIB2 VW Discover Media (MQB) 3V0 035 020 - MIB2 Skoda Columbus 3V0 035 021 - MIB2 Skoda Columbus 3V0 035 043 - MIB2 Skoda Columbus 3V0 035 045 - MIB2 Skoda Columbus 3V0 035 046 - MIB2 Skoda Columbus 5C0 035 680 - MIB2 VW Discover Media (PQ) 5E0 035 020 - MIB1 Skoda Columbus 5G0 035 020 - MIB1 VW Discover Pro (Golf MK7) 5G0 035 043 - MIB1 VW Discover Pro (Golf MK7) 5G0 035 819 - MIB1 VW Composition Media (Golf MK7) 5G0 035 844 - MIB1 VW Composition Media (Golf MK7) 5G0 035 846 - MIB1 VW Discover Media (Golf MK7) 5G0 035 858 - MIB1 VW Discover Media (Golf MK7) 5G0 035 864 - MIB1 VW Discover Media (Golf MK7) 5NA 035 022 - MIB2.5 VW Discover Pro 5NA 035 043 - MIB2.5 VW Discover Pro 5Q0 035 874 - MIB2 Skoda Amundsen 5Q0 035 864 - MIB2 Skoda Amundsen

If the car model year is 2017 than the maxidot stripes are green (if have color display). the model year 2018 (production from may 2017) than the maxidot display stripes match ambinet color.. If you want to match you need to put new sw and catalog number in the cluster but its very risky job. If fails you need the new cluster... @Onasis (my cluster number was the same.. I think the E on the end will match the color) This is as far as I discover...

My Car was Completed on the 28th Aug, it was in Grimsby port by the 5th July and was today 13 July delivered to the dealer in Sheffield. I am picking it up Tomorrow afternoon. So my long wait is finally over and once the car was completed everything moved very quickly. Just hoping I like the car now hopefully more of you start to get deliveries over the coming Month.

Sure, let them make an example of me. I don't care anymore. If anything, I will be happy if they cancel my order ASAP. They should have done it long before. Turds.

the problem I had was with the battery. I had a new one fitted at a reputable Battery shop who coded it but they didn't do it properly and the parameters were wrongly set. I took in into Skoda who recoded it. Have not had a problem since

Have you seen the service history. If it was done by Skoda, any Skoda dealer car print out the history from ERWIN. Thanks, AG Falco

“Waiting periods are from six to 12 months. Until now, we have managed to guarantee the price on the day of the conclusion of the sales contract,” says Marko Škriba, director of the Volkswagen brand in Slovenia. At Škoda, waiting times range from three to 12 months, the longest currently waiting for the Octavia – also due to a devastating fire at a key supplier. According to Petar Podlipny, the director of the brand in Slovenia, they have also guaranteed the price until now and it should remain so in the future. Link: https://newsbeezer.com/sloveniaeng/confirmation-of-what-we-have-already-seen-in-the-parking-lots-in-koper/ This was published for Slovenia 2 days ago. Even the director of VW is lying. 3 - 12 months? Ok, then I should expect my car next week, even if I have no info. Nevermind me. I see other people from Slovenia waiting already up to 15 months. Efing liar.

Much better.

Welcome. Run away with your barge pole and deposit. You have lots to get to know about a Fabia vRS twin charger. First on the CTHE engine then the DQ200 DSG. Get the service history and warranty history printed out if you stick First question at that dealership is, was service campaign 34h5 needed and carried out on the DSG since 2017. Then is it the original engines in the car? The DSG should not judder. What warranty are you getting. How much are you paying to buy this lottery ticket? Look in the Fabia MK2 section. Look at the top of the page. Plenty good cars about. Right from the off this does not sound like one.

For 105,000 kilometres I’d say that’s nothing more than normal misting of oil from a few seals and the crank seal. nothing I’d be worried about, looks worse because dirt is stuck to it that Is all

If the car has central locking, I think the part number you need is 5J0 839 016. Lots of cross referenced pattern parts here: 5J0 839 016 Door lock OEM VW, AUDI, SKODA, SEAT (autodoc.co.uk) Maybe pick your favourite from amongst those, copy that manufacturers part number into ebay and see what comes up from within UK.

N280 search term takes you to compressor, and there is a regulator valve that costs around £111.64. Hard to say exactly as need VIN search to narrow things down. EDIT: Attached some information about the part in question, for VW and USA. The SANDEN compressor was used on some Fabia's, so could be what yours has, otherwise attached information should be disregarded. MC-10107210-9340.pdf

Could you mean "A/C Humidity Sensor (G260)" and not Sensor for Seat Rear Height Adj. Pass. Seat (G280) or as mentioned N280

I used to take them for anxiety.

just had my Amunsden radio hacked at my local VW garage now got vurtual surround and sub woofer its sounds a lot better, he didn't charge me either it took like 30 seconds using VDCS

Owner Braving Electrics badge?

EDIT: Ignore me - I'd somehow jumped to the conclusion it's a DSG!! 🙄🙄

On the car front ..... I didn't take my car on a motorway run in the end. Largely as it was far to hot if we were to break down and I don't trust my car at the minute! I have been pottering around town and have now covered about 140 miles in total since I swapped the heads. I've not been able to investigate the blue smoke that is still coming out after I've been sat at traffic lights for a minute or two as physically Ive not been able to, not to mention that all of my tools are at work! Once I've gone and got them I'll be taking off the TIP and intake manifold / airbox etc just to eyeball everything and see what I can see. May even take the turbo off at that point yet..... Still suspecting either seals inside the turbo are shot or the engine shop haven't put in the valve guides and / or stem seals in correctly, but would need to strip everything again to check their work, which I don't fancy at the minute! Not worrying too much about my car at the minute as can't afford to fix whatever is wrong with it anyway(!) and she's driving almost perfectly. So I'll change the oil & filter and just put up with the smoke for the time being until I can get some funds behind me ......

Mine seems to have been replaced entirely. I got 1 receipt in the car for replacement mechatronic and mechanic said that gearbox is painted black + scratched on a new serial number, meaning replaced as well. I'll have a look in the yeti section

Some DQ200 from 2013-2015 have a service campaign action '34h5'. And this was and is a software update because of the failures which was a pressure issue. There is a thread in the yeti section last week and it has the link to the member that sells the Kits and also the company that refurbishes the MCU,s and boxes. I will bump that as I can not link it now.

You don't need it. It's just a warm air feed to the airbox, no?

Don't now if this applies but, there's no synchromesh on reverse so if you select reverse while still rolling forward, or even a couple of seconds after coming to a stop, then the non-synchromesh gears will make a noise as they try to mesh whilst one is still rotating.

Has your car got the driver profile settings? I say that because if you drive in eco, the air con has an eco mode.

I didn't know about the TRW PFG110 grease so I used the Permatex Silicon Ceramic Extreme which again says that it's for slider pins. TRW PFG110 is significantly cheaper..

I just copied and pasted the thread title and copied also repeated the error. If you want more I can give you more, and if you want to play I can give you even more. 😁

Thanks folks. Much appreciated. Dave

I hope mine do better than that! Used to a Yeti managing around 24k or more on front and going back to lease company on original rear tyres at 65k? Last 150ps Yeti still on original tyres all round at 36k on trade in with winter tyres used for about 10k of that. Swapped front to rear each change summer to winter though. Those winter tyres now done 5 winters, two winters since Yeti went on Karoq, and still loads of tread left at around 15k

Mapped or not mapped given as standard the S3 has 304bhp and 295lbs of torque. I am guessing he was not trying too hard. My mapped VRS (as nimble as it is) with 210 to 220bhp would struggle to keep up.

Pleasant evening........

Well, i ordered 1,5 tsi, with basic specs, 11 months ago, still not even estimated date, friend of mine ordered octavia with a lot of specs 18 months ago, and still no date. So it's mostly lottery.

Forgot to cover this. The condition of the car should tell you a bit but it will depend on how much the seller knows (or wants to tell you). Was it kept in garage or outside, but then a poor quality garage can be worse for rust. If it was kept outside always parked in exactly the same position their might be more rust one side or area than others, perhaps even fading of paint or internal fabrics but hopefully not or not too much at this age of car. If it's outside it might have been always kept fully locked with the windows up so days like today the internal temperatures would be high but these cars are test to take such but it'll certainly get more sever and extreme heat/cold, wind/rain/sleet/ice/snow cycles parked outside than in a heated and dehumidified garage. Personally I'd want it fully serviced by time interval on all items before I bought it so that I could as soon as possible use it the way I wanted. If you've not already done so you can research the common problems with the model generally but also specifically to what is fitted to yours, the engine, gearbox, toys inside, put the details here and others will know. Even though I've known for decades that "German engineering quality" isn't all it's cracked up to be (Merc, BMW, VW (Skoda)) and allowing for the price difference to generally more robust and reliable marques like Toyota and Honda I was surprised that my wife's car needed the front dampers and brakes replacing at 41k-miles, 6 years - but we don't know the history of use for the car's first 10k-miles. I've changed the gearbox oil and coolant but you'll never get the dealership to and many owners say it's not necessary. Which brings me on to the often debated cambelt change, if relevant to your model, it's in the schedule for 5 years so you want it by the Dealership if the car's supposed to be fully serviced, plus anything else relevant in the service schedule (these won't/might not(?) include driver's maintenance items that some bother with and others don't. Vehicle/driving priorities are brakes, steering, suspension (all three include tyres), safety electrics (lights, horn, wipers, blower, etc.), and glass in windows and mirrors., then you can look at comfort and toys. They will sell the car a a low-mileage premium, whether to you or someone else, so if you buy the car you want full valve for this (justifiable or not) premium in that the car is premium by being as fully sorted as you can have it. You already better understand the real value of a low mileage car than many. To the salesperson a closed sale is worth negotiating with you and whoever is in charge their side as they will try to get more out of you from add-ons especially financials.

They should use the tech available and stuff like from Formula-e. They know where the 4 corners of the car is or can do if they want, they know where the track is and the computers can tell where cars are the cut each other off. So show the driver in the cockpit automatically the 3 times off track because they can not slow and get around corners etc, or that they have obstructed another or what ever and then if they do it again to pit the car and their race is over. Stop their team having to communicate warnings or when to take a penalty. Make it clear to the driver, the spectators and the tv audience.

Check your high and low oil pressures anyway, you have after all bought the tools to do so. Fresh oil will mask a failing oil pump, I would not be convinced that the engine flush has cured whatever the problem was, it may have eased it in the case of a blocked strainer but the engine will still need attention, more likely the new oil has reduced the pumping losses. Check the pressures against the manufacturers specifications and then do so after a couple of thousand miles when the oil has thinned. Was the oil level before the oil change very low or perhaps overhigh?

I'm going back to a mark 7 Golf GTI. I had one before and loved it, as did my wife. Our toddler daughter no longer requires half of the contents of our house when travelling so the tardis boot is never full anymore! I will miss the ability to look at almost any object and say, "Yes. That will fit in the car!"

Cheap cable disc brakes are generally awful even when adjusted perfectly in my experience. There are better ones like TRP spyres that do move both pads at once but they are still not great. Next step is hybrid hydraulics like TRP HY/RD or Juin tec whch have hydralic calipers actuated by a cable. They are another step better but really, you know where this is heading...... 🙂 Full hydraulic is the way to go really. My preference would be for Shimano but really even inexpensive Clarks or similar will be an improvement and be less maintainance.

Just clicked over 30,000 miles...

I used to be into the detailing / taking nice photos of my cars. Now, it's a family work horse!

Hi all, I got the bearing yesterday from the dealers and fitted it this evening. Its actually not too hard, the Drive2RU link given above is pretty accurate and was a nice reference when doing it. -You do need to absolutely destroy the old bearing to remove it. Jam a flat screwdriver in and twist until a load of plastic breaks off, repeat until it comes out. Just be aware there is a small rubber band you need to swap over You'll need to remove the gear knob which on mine was simply turning a little clip sideways. I cleaned much of the copperslip off and used silicon grease instead The plastic bearing slips over the top of the gearstick easily and clips in. And that's basically it. Took me an hour and fixed 99% of the side to side slop on mine. For the sake of €11 from the dealers, well worth doing, was a lot cheaper than a new shifter and honestly fairly easy to do. For reference, this shifter is similar to the one found in Mk6 on golfs, its NOT the same as a mk1 fabia which is like a Mk4 Golf shifter. If anyone in the future is having this sort of trouble, this worked for me. Hopefully these photos are of some help to someone. Thanks all for the advice.

17” wheels fit fine over 340mm discs just fine on my Kodiaq