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Well 13.5 months waiting and I finally collected my Octy Estate vRS yesterday. I couldn't be happier 👍😀

Having hard times waiting for this! 😇

Has had money spent on it - that's impressive and helps with a sale but might not add that much value to the more experienced buyer. Got a big fat ****ing booklet thing to confirm that. - that's always impressive especially if in strict order of some sort (reverse chronological perhaps) and the whole thing is presented well, better to have loose pages in clear plastic pockets/envelopes. Some with be very impressed if you colour code the booklet to the car and you have separate sections for MoTs and other history. "Angry" sounding three pot engine - not a description I used - would use - in any advert or description as it sounds like it might be knackered, unless it means something different to younger folk and you only want to sell it to them. Handles well. Rear beam clamps, soon to have front console bushes polybushed - careful with this as it might suggest you drive the car hard, and there are good bushes and ****-poor bushes available no one knows all the names so I'd leave it at rebushed if you want to include this and leave the potential buyer to ask for more detail if they want. Something is clunking (WIP) and (WIP) - both you really want sorted before any test drives Driver's seat padding is a bit poor - that's a shame, you've got the good impression of clean door shuts, driver's or front seats, steering wheel and gear knob make a good impression on a better presented car like yours. Service history... - you make up for with your extensive big fat booklet, make it a section in that, will look better as a part of something bigger than a slim volume of its own. You can tone down dents, scratches and key marks with paint and polishes and not presenting the car highly polished like a new car at a dealership, reasonably clean is fine with even a slight layer of dust as this is a used car despite many expecting it to be brand new others will be pleased to see it has all its doors and painted the same colour. Mild surface rust on rear sills - use something like Kurust to at least stop (slow down) the rust on show, you can then leave it as it is or touch-up paint over, both will show up so you're not hiding anything or pulling a fast one, leave with just Kurust (as with some of the others?). So if you're a vain and shallow buyer who obsesses over cosmetic ****e, then this is not for you - don't alienate or put off any potential buyers, let them decide the levels and standards they want, if they have objections you can work out then do so, any potential purchaser that is really willing to buy is worth thousands of those that haven't contacted you. Highlight what's important to the buyer not you, what's important to you may not be to them and the other way round, they may just tell you or you can ask questions or pick up on what they say. Personally I wouldn't have any personal stuff in the car for the sale photos, (again a clean engine bay and boot deck impresses many, shiny under the wheel arches might be a step too far though. Any car stuff in the photos a buyer may expects and sales can be lost over silly little things particular with something as personal to many/some as a car, if the car mats or anything isn't going with the car don't include them in the photos to avoid confusion. Plus it give you the opportunity if you want to throw such stuff in as a sweetener to swing the sale, silly little things can make as well as break a sale or make up for any other awkwardness. Also remember you are selling the car not buying the buyer, you don't have particularly like them, don't be false but do be courteous, there are two parties to the deal you can walk away from it but so can they. Oh, no, sorry I've no idea what's it's worth but if you want to sell it I'd suggest you don't hang about and get it advertised as soon and as widely as possible, don't forget locally too, but don't sell to anyone you know and never family as they always want something for nothing and blame you for all the mistreatment they give the car. Good luck.

I hope you do manage to sleep ok. Seeing your damage reminded me of my accident. Fingers crossed you don't have whiplash.

It's on its way Due delivery 8th August Vrs Estate 2.0 TSI DSG

Likely Written Off by your Insurance as an Un-economic repair, but it will be bought and repaired and stay on the road by someone that can economically repair it.

Cold Cranking Amps, measured versus specced.

Hi everyone. I used to have an Octavia for a few years before getting seduced by BMWs. After owning a BMW 6GT, and a less than stellar experience with a local dealer - I've decided to come back to Skoda, having just ordered a K&L Superb. I'm really excited to grab the car and wondered if anyone had any tips for me?

Stop blathering on so, you obviously don't need the money, I too live in a probabilistic universe but probabilities approaching unity are close enough to certainty for us engineering types. Euromillions jackpot: 140,000,000 to 1. PAS Pump unit failure: 10 to 1 on. My advice? Don't play the lottery but do change the pump unit. Blather, blather, blather...

Finally plumped for a new washer bottle so I could get the correct neck part to attach to the coolant tank as you can’t get it separate. Got rid of the cable tie holding the original 😂, also opened up the front lower grill with my dremmel finally

FW download link you have on PM, maps can be downloaded from Update Portal

..mine has just appeared at a Skoda garage in Mansfield priced at only £250 less than I paid for it 4.5 yers ago.....crazy prices!! Not sure who would want to pay £17k for a 7.5 year old car?? ..generally a nice car, 30k miles with new tyres and battery but probably needs a new cam belt by now...

AFAIK no easy way to determine if it's one or the other. IMHO: - Recalls are more safety related issues Service Campaign are to fix something less critical

A genuine used HEX CAN-USB should be £250+ based looking at eBay. Anything significantly cheaper is probably a cloned/pirated version so you won't get any support from Rosstech. The software will have been modified so you're unlikely to get updates either and there's a risk it'll contain a virus or malware A HEX CAN-USB has unlimited VINs but won't support newer cars (2016 onwards). There is no registration or 'licence' required, you download the latest software from Rosstech and you're good to go. If you want support from Rosstech, then it'll be $99 to transfer ownership to yourself. If you decide you want a new interface, a 3-VIN HEX-V2 is around £225 from authorised suppliers. If you know it'll be used on multiple cars, the 10-VIN tends to work out as better value. With a new interface support is included so there is no extra $99 to pay. Personally, if it's just a single car, a 3-VIN makes sense. If you're at all likely to buy another VAG car or offer help to others, a 10-VIN is a better choice 👍

Nice and congrats. I have to contact my dealer, Laakkonen, in next month and ask if there is any new info. Ordered in the beginning of december. First estimate was july, then october, now december maybe.

I've got a 2022 vRS Estate with DCC and i do like being able to choose between the different settings. The main i keep it it normal most of the time and flip to comfort if the road is bumpy. If i'm out for a spirited drive then knock it into Sport but that's mainly for the extra noise. I've set individual to the firmest setting but rarely use it, its really quite firm in that mode. What i'm trying to say is for me the main benefit of DCC is actually the comfort mode. Keeps the family happy.

One from the recent road trip to Austria and Germany.

Having been piggy-backing on an Antipodean thread about a 1964 Skoda Octavia until now, I thought it only fair that I should start my own, and so I'll summarise what's happened with the car so far: I acquired the car in December 2020, from a guy in Kent, in whose family it had been since it was new. I bought it "sight unseen" and, while appreciating the risks this might involve, I had long conversations with the owner and felt comfortable with things, not least because the cars are so rare I'd be lucky to ever see another one! The car was delivered by transporter to a lock-up I'd rented in Whetstone, north London, exclusively for storing the car and I quickly realised what a great car I had! The boot was crammed with parts, the engine turned over happily and the bodywork looked pretty good. In addition, the previous owner handed me an ENORMOUS file, including the original bill of sale, numerous M.O.T.s and associated documents-brilliant! The boot contained the car's original number-plates, although the car sported a newer registration. The previous owner had already explained that the car had "slid off the radar" of the D.V.L.A. & so had received a new number. Fortunately I managed to re-register the car with its original number, with the assistance of the the Skoda Owners Club, and sort out another anomaly in the car's details at the same time-result! The entire process took less than a fortnight and, as this was over the Christmas and New Year festivities, I was most impressed with the speed of the service! All the engine needed was a battery & new plugs and I had it running in no time, albeit from a 5 litre can. Later I changed the fuel pump, to assist the fuel delivery, but there was (and still is!) a problem with the fuel line, but that's for another day! The car had no brakes at all, a fact of which I was aware, so progress up and down the road adjacent to the lock-up was, of necessity, limited. The intervention of more stringent Covid restrictions meant very little could be done for several months, and when I did have a chance to work on the car again, the starter motor had failed! To describe the removal of the starter motor from a Skoda Octavia as "difficult" would be an understatement of a magnitude unimaginable! Oddly, there's a trailer for a new series of "Bangers and Cash Restorations" on T.V. at the moment, in which a restoration mechanic says that it's possible to spend 4 hours just undoing one nut........I know how he feels! The starter is held in by two 17mm nuts, one of which it's just possible to get at, with the aid of extreme dexterity. The other one-forget it! The workshop manual says 2 specific spanners are needed and lists the part numbers......some hope! No-one had them, or had even heard of them. But this morning, I "bit the bullet" and e-v-e-n-t-u-a-l-l-y I removed it! I suspect the right-hand drive cars had several design problems, not least being the removal of said starter motor. I removed the gearbox link from the steering column, the metal heater pipe linking the front lower hose to the heater matrix, the vacuum pipe from the carburettor to the distributor and this allowed me to get a 17mm spanner onto the inner nut, between the engine block and the starter motor. I "cracked" it and, once cracked, the 17mm socket slowly shifted it & the starter came free..... Removing it from the engine bay meant unscrewing the 4 nuts holding the down pipe to the exhaust manifold, and, once shifted, I extracted the starter motor. By now it was 3pm on a sunny Saturday, so I adjourned to a "local hostelry" for several "cold ones". On Monday I'll take the starter to Unit Exchange in Borehamwood, for a refurbish.

The Driver power survey of dealers has just been released, and Skoda were 16th of 16 (some brands were not included due to not enough responses) This year and its widely publicised shortages of new cars have brought frustration for many buyers, who have been kept waiting for deliveries, often with little effective communication from dealers. https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/driver-power/92307/best-car-dealers-2022 Skoda : The results show it’s the new-car sales side that’s keeping the Czech brand’s scores down, with buyers ranking the firm’s retail operations next to bottom in the survey. Buyers don’t appear that impressed either by dealership facilities, staff performance or the deals they’re driving away with. That translates as parking provision scoring poorly, and low ratings for product knowledge and explanations during handovers, as well as low satisfaction with prices. Skoda’s aftersales scores are more middle of the range, with a 10th place for courtesy, and 11th for workmanship, but only 16th for dealer facilities.

Very hack project I've been working on As Ryan says trying to get a similar effect of a rarb without spending the money. I got the idea from this article. https://www.autospeed.com/cms/a_113302/article Your man did this to a roomster no less. I think my approach is lacking in a few areas, namely the metal I use is really thin compared to what is shown in the article. I use a 10mm threaded bar and bend it to suit same as that article, using my old drum axle as a reference to get the right shape. Then used a strip of thin metal to go over the open V part. Currently a pair of these fitted to both my fabias. I'm still fairly worried that I'm just experiencing a placebo effect on both cars, but I think it has tightened both of them up a bit more. Mk2 has quite a lot of work done to it, including a rarb, mk1 less so but still has a little bit done to it. I hope Ryan can weigh in if he puts them on his car. If I'm proven right then it's great, if not well it just means I need to go back to the drawing board. I do like these little hack projects, and the Mk1 is a great excuse for me to try these things.

When doing mods, there's only one to chose, all others meaning more or less 'ŠKoda Kaputt' otherwise... 🤭😂

^ Oh right

@DieselMonte is better elaborating as to what they are. Meant to be like a more mild RARB, but without as much of the strength of one, plus cheaper. Also meant to say that they've yet to be fitted. Got them here though along with the polybushes.

Have you considered the old fashioned method of looking out of the windscreen?

Well it was a figure of speech. With 1250 kg on the back it is always going to let you know it is there. The Octavia Estate towed it beautifully though. It was fairly stress free.

Doh! I’ve sorted it, realised that I hadn’t turned on notifications for the app in my phone settings.

It's going to be a week. Having owned the BMW and it's continual trips back in to get stuff fixed - I've become a master of patience in my old age (5 months I was without it for prior to getting it all fixed and selling it 🤯. Not the car's fault more the incompetent local dealer). In all truth I could grab it tomorrow but sadly got existing commitments. It's about an hour and half from me - so I'm going to have to just wait it out. 😬

2 chances; fat chance and no chance. And, at 54k I'd even agree with them.

I'd imagine that they would knock it back with the car being a taxi. My mate used to have his Octavia taxi serviced at the main deaer without issue but when it came to warranty repairs, he was told using it as a taxi voids the warranty.

@tonypr Maybe worth a call to the Dealer Principal and ask them if they can maybe make an effort to find out about Software updates. They must have time on their hands as they are not exactly run off their feet selling new Skodas. Maybe they want to buck up their ideas & staff training. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/505905-skoda-dealers-last-in-driver-power-2022

Installed Golf MK8 rear lower control arm cover today. Super easy install, basically plug and play.

Clutch like brakes is a wear item, so odds are slim. At 54k it's a bit early for a new one, so there's a chance... besides you never know if you complain. I did have a DPF replaced for free once, turned out my car had a service campaign for replacing the DPF pressure sensor, so I argued that if that was faulty, then my car went into limp mode as it read the soot wrong.

It can do adaption maps for all modules, it's just not part of the autoscan as it takes a while to complete - about 10 mins looking at the last one I did VCDS >> Applications >> Maps Random screenshot from google, I tend to choose the red highlighted options:

No I use a microfibre cloth and apply several thin coats the leather just soaks it up, then another clean dry microfibre to buff the leather after about 10/15 mins

Extremely welcome good news varoom! As we know small tweaks have been coming through on eSIM for a while. Guess its just a case of wait-and-see to know if every future update now happens this way. Neither my Service-Partner nor SkodaUK who prompted them on my behalf have mentioned this. If it does as you mention and incorporate all future updates I will be delighted. My local Service-Partner always seemed to view their role in software updates with reluctance and as an unwelcome chore. Hopefully now I wont need them when my warranty expires. Thanks once again for the ‘heads-up’ on this.

They might call it a RECALL. But it is a Recall Action or a Service Campaign or a Workshop Action if REGISTERED KEEPERS of a Vehicle is not getting notified that the VEHICLE HAS BEEN RECALLED. Regardless of if they use a Dealership for servicing. Only contacting those the Dealership network have contact details for is not enough. http://skoda-auto.com/services/recall-actions Safety Critical Recalls are obviously Safety Matters but VW Group can get Authorities to believe they will do a Voluntary Recall.

There was already one forum member with Mamba Green, polish if I remember correctly - car delivered last year (?). I haven't seen him for quite a while now - I guess he's busy enjoying his car... 🙃

Small update: it was breaking fine on the road, no more soft pedal feel. However, it was due for a break fluid renewal in September, so I asked for it now. All good, thanks for your feedback!

@Bap33 I agree 100%, I picked up a new car just about a month back, and the first thing I did was full scan and save for a baseline. It helps you with repair history/fault finding etc. if you need to reference back to a fault that keeps occuring. I am glad this feature exists though, because the number of times people never take a snapshot log and just reach for the coding is amazing. I wish there was a full-full scan that saves all the adaption channels too, as we often dive into those for changes. Prevention is better than a cure, but sadly many people find out the hard way, and our posts here if read will help people discover the programs features now 🤝

Aaa Mamba friend. I am happy that will not be alone here with mamba 😊😊😊. Good luck with the waiting 😀

You are confusing lane assist with travel assist. Assisted lane change is an extension to travel assist, which keeps you smack in the middle of the lane, no tugging.

Nah, it's piston crown, dished or flat for turbos, raised for N/A, 4V pent roof chambers on modern cylinder heads have no scope for varying the volume.

Nope, they are not... If you have CANTON then stil you can get Android Auto and Apple CarPlay - you need to retrofit display unit, glove box unit, CANTON power amplifier and USB.

There is something wrong with a manual an auto or a semi auto if in Neutral with no brake applied and it does not roll. That is what Neutral is, out of gear.

May I introduce you to this folder C:\Ross-Tech\VCDS\Debug It creates some lovely CSV files of changes. AdpLog.CSV CodingLog.CSV A get out of jail card for those that forgot to save original coding.

Also, one of the cheapest places to get them INCLUDING their postage from CZ is skoda-parts.com - all genuine bits but a lot cheaper than in the uk. UK is about £25 each.

I've successfully fitted a new air filter and housing to the top of the engine, so that's another job done! I'm moving onto the brakes now, and I've removed the off-side front wheel with a view to refitting the brakes. The previous owner had removed the brake shoes and informed me of this, leaving the brakes in the boot. My job is now to re-fit them and I need a little advice before I go in with a heavy hand. Having studied both the workshop manual AND the instruction booklet I'm no clearer how to remove the drum. The instruction booklet explains both how to bleed and adjust the brakes, but not how to access the shoes themselves. Having removed the wheel the brake drum looks like it simply "pops off" with the aid of some judicial lateral tapping to the rear. However, some enthusiastic tapping has not resulted in any movement of the drum. Does the hub nut have to be removed first? I hope not, as that'll involve a great deal more work! Any thoughts?

Estate SE in Energy Blue 💙 Collected today.

More of ‘Big dog’ as the kids have named it!!

Not sure if I’ve put this on yet but I’ve now fitted a roof rack and bike holders (Yakima flush bars in black and Thule ProRide mounts) My 1.4 iV SEL estate in petrol blue with optional wheels (still 17 as I wanted comfort but the standard wheels are awful).