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Newly arrived VRS iV in graphite grey.

Had it fixed today at Hawco. TBH I'm not unhappy with the outcome. I was expecting a quote of ~ £1400 going by posts on another thread, as the usual VAG solution appears to be replacing the entire selector assembly. Hawco charged £37 for the switch, £220 labour and waived the £140 diagnostics charge. Happily surprised.

Ask the garage to remove a little.

The trim levels became a bit of a cluster **** at one point. Below is a rough table of how it goes. I have used SE to mark out the models that were offered as additional to the regulars. Hopefully that makes sense..? PFL 220 PFL 230 SE FL 230 FL 245 SE FL 245 FL 245 Challenge Ok, now we’re - not much - clearer on that. The car in here is a FL 245. That’s why it has the 18”s and the silver exhaust tips (Googled the reg). All clear? Nope? Excellent 😂

So hi all here I am again to update you software wise. It is now 1year and 3weeks since I picked up my VRS. 9 workshop visits all of which failed to deliver a full working car software. See all my previous posts. Having posted and followed all peoples postings and given my issues, with my engineering head on it was my conclusion that without a new head unit and so a faster processor it would never be right. So I gave up trying to argue and resided to the fact of living with the crappy software. Then out of the blue a call from Skoda saying we have a fix... Mmm I said... Trust us they said. So dropped off at the dealers had coffee biscuits and a chat as I feel like I work there now! On my way in the courtesy car and await the call. Expected a come and pick up the next day.... But no wait.. 4 days later.. Hi its ready and all is good they say... Mmmm we will see I said. Eat my words I must now do! It's a miracle everything works as it should... Finally. What's the secret I ask. Oooh new head unit and processor they say. [see pic] loads up in 3seconds now and after 3 days trying to make it break I can't 😊 finally a working car. Only taken 12 months but.... Thankfully it ok now. So stick with it people keep giving Skoda hell and eventually it will be ok. 🤞👍

To be fair it's a known issue with the Siemens injectors on the 1.6 TDI, once one goes the rest tend to follow because the MTBF is what's in play here.

Check you've got the right bulbs in all the lights and they're in the right way round.

Although I'll freely admit I paid Halfords to change one on a 1.9TDI Ibiza once. It was dark, ****ting down with rain, that corner of the engine bay in an Ibiza is way tighter than on a Fabia. I'd got a decent shirt on and I knew the boost hose was covered in oil. So yeah, sitting in the car in the dry having a coffee while he got soaked though and covered in oil, in the dark, 10 minutes before home time was probably the best £7 I ever spent.

After much ado, here's one of my 2001 Saab 9-5 HOT Aero in Cosmic Blue: If I can find a clearer image, I'll update it. I was so stupid, stupid, STUPID to let the insurance company write it off 😡 Awesome car, didn't own it for anywhere near long enough 🥲 Gaz

I'm guessing it's the diesel filter that's in the way? If it's anything like a fabia. A long set of needle-nose pliers and a long, slim flat screwdriver will work where fat hands fail.

I believe @Crasher has a lot of experience in this area.

I suspect you're right. There are a lot of people who set something just as they like it, then can't bear the idea of it being adjusted. Mirrors, seat position, steering wheel. I switch driving mode a lot, usually between drive and economy, but do use sport mode now and then. I can imagine a lot of people never take their DSG mode out of D, never mind fiddle with other settings. I drove my friend's car a couple of times when on holiday. (She had a girly moment when she encountered a bus coming the other way down a narrow lane and declared herself totally incompetent and insisted I sort out the problem because she couldn't possibly reverse her car down a narrow road.) Anyway, I set up the mirrors to reverse, then she decided that I should drive the remainder of the journey in case we met any other large vehicles on our way back. Part of that adjustment was setting the rake and reach of the steering wheel. Days later, after we got home, I received an annoyed phone call from her complaining about the steering wheel adjustment, that she didn't know how to set it back to how she liked it. I explained how to do it, but she wasn't interested in doing it just then. After a couple of weeks, I asked if she'd reset the steering wheel position to how she likes it, and she told me she's got used to it now and didn't want it adjusting. People like her are why we don't get power and toque curves in car brochures any more.

Possible to have large digital display as shown by using VCDS, Carista or OBD11.

Yes it was a water pump issue. I changed it and all good today. Thank you guys.

A lot of wrongs to write...

Done! I added the date of your order from the top of my head... you mentioned above it was ordered End-of-August, so I assumed 30/08/2021. Also, you could try the link below and see if you can edit: (I think the link above was read-only...) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17h4myLSMpZ3dohgDJX25mkOhKLbyepEaeEeYcA3AqFY/edit#gid=0

Found one of the threads where relay faults have been found to cause fan issues: Radiator fan coming on randomly... - Skoda Superb Mk III - BRISKODA Don't think it's the exact thread I was thinking of, but it looks like it could be relevant to at least part of the OP's troubles.

VCDS error codes or in truth the VAG diagnostics behind it should never be taken at face value, I bet it actually says open circuit or short to ground which are mutually exclusive. You should always start by testing the supply voltage to the sensor and the wiring continuity back to the ECU before condemning a sensor, unless of course you are a garage in which case it's giving you the green light to play parts bingo with the customers money. You could also look at the live data readings before getting down & dirty.

^^^ This. What is the engine and how much oil was charged for at the service and are you checking the oil level when the car is at operating temp, as in the engine oil has been up to 90*oC or so then parked on the flat for a few minutes. Warning messages like low oil, low oil pressure, high oil after the bonnet has been opened for 30 seconds. They can stay off for 60 miles.

Your profile doesn't mention car details from what I can see. Diesel with DPF that fail the regen cycle can I believe fill engine oil with diesel. If you have petrol, then please ignore above.

Summer shower, slight dip on the A14 Newmarket bypass with blocked drains, water across all 3 lanes. Saw the car in front panic brake and go into a tank slapper only narrowly missing the artic in the next lane, I just lifted completely off the gas and went straight though the puddle with no drama before braking to avoid the panic stricken driver in front.

The 1.6 will do the job just fine if you trundle along. Mine is the VRS TDi and is mapped. I easily get over 60mpgs on the motorway. I would find a good example of each engine size and take it for a drive. That way you can decide which you prefer.

good luck, after owning a Tesla model 3 for14 months andnow an Enyaq for 13 months I can tell you the enyaq is a much better car than my Tesla. Pre conditioning is the one thing I wish the enyaq did but it's rarely an issue. In fact on 50 kW chargers the enyaq charges much faster (the tesla used to max out at 34 kW because it used the rest to warm the battery up. On the enyaq I typically get 48 kW. ANd the deal breaker was having to take the Tesla back for repairs every sinlge month, sometimes twice a month 😞

Many thanks for this. It appears it’s going to be a loooong wait. I was gobsmacked when I was told this as my last company car took 12 weeks from order to delivery. I thought that was long 😂

I have 5 identical all-season tyres, including my identical spare wheel. I chose Vredestein Quatrac Pro tyres, partly because they are not directional. So if I get a puncture, I can put my spare on any corner of the car, and carry on for as long as I want. If I only did local driving, I would be quite happy with a space saver or tyre gunk. But I drive down to the centre of France once of twice per year, so don’t want to be limited to driving 50mph max for 50 miles max. The Vredestein Quatrac Pro tyres also work well for France, where they recently introduced a new law which requires you to have winter tyres in many areas (not just the Alps), or snow chains / socks, from 1st November to 31st March. The Vredestein Quatrac Pro tyres have the 3 Peaks Mountain Snow Flake logo on them.

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Hello guys and girls 😁 After quite a while i am back on forum with some good news... I am picking my Octavia in approx. 2 hours 🙃 More about it later, when i catch some time to write it down 😁

Hi everyone! Those pictures i shared with you in last weeks with a full parking lots with incompleted Octavias....Just have a info for you, that basically all of that places in CZ are empty to this date. Thats super positive fot all of us

Some pics from the past few days

Well I for one would not expect a clutch to fail after I had fitted a new headlight, door mirror glass, LED bulbs etc it's disgracefull, they dont make things like they used to, I mean who in the good old days would have believed that a clutch would last for 18 years and 147000 miles? 🤣

If you did take it to a dealers, you might pay a fair whack as you can imagine. If you have some DIY skills you might be able to swap over one sensor with another, to see if the fault shifts. If it's a wire, then the screen will show fault in same place, if it's a sensor failing, then it will move over to the new location. The fault is "permanent" right, so happens regularly then that will be good, as intermittant faults are a pain.

Assuming it's a 1.6TDI Yeah, one pretty dead and one just going over the edge, I'd believe. 4 seems like a stretch. If I'm giving it a guess without seeing the diagnostic read, I think fuel rail pressure sensor. I've just had a set of refurb injectors for £250+exchange off German ebay

If you contact @Johngerard (from Cork) he maybe able to assist in scanning the car with VCDS, he maybe the closest you have if he is willing to assist in scanning the car. He can bring up any fault codes, and scan live data to view values each sensor is reading. Perhaps you have a broken wire, I myself today had to swap the loom for my rear sensors. If you have exposed wire(s) as mine had, then perhaps when it does rain they get wet and produce errors.

I agree, EXTREMELY unlikely...........

I think the answer there is stand back and have an honest talk to yourself about what else it needs, or is likely to need. Or get someone who's not emotionally attached to the car to do that. £250's scrap money if you do it right, so if you weigh it in, you've lost nothing if you've got the means to get it there with the cat, battery and alloy wheels (if it has them) taken off, so you've lost nothing. But at the same time, if that's really all it needs.... cheap motoring..

You're making me want one now... been looking at various VAG 'classics' (at least old enough to get classic insurance) to tinker with. Just need a garage now!

What happens is that in Germany they strongly advise that winter tyres have a minimum 4 mm depth and since they must legally be fitted you really want to be following the advise just incase you are in an accident and the winter tyre tread is less than the 4mm. I have Michelin Alpin 6 on with 25,000 miles covered and no wear, but if they were down to 3 mm by winter they would be replaced as summer tyres they might be OK to 2 mm.

Also sorry to double post but soaking where the injectors go with coke softens them up for pulling them out

Here's my answer, I bought my 2.0 Fabia on 27th December 2016 for £450 on ebay, In January 2017 I replaced every single suspension component, every bush, every balljoint, all the shocks and springs and topmounts, the lot. It didn't need brakes, they'd just been done, since then all I've done is standard services and brake pads and tyres. In January 2020 it needed a new clutch, it cost me £350 but it was worth it. By your logic I should have scrapped the car because it was going to cost me nearly what I paid for it. As long as my Fabia continues to start on the button and pass the MOT then I'll continue driving it because a car is a machine for transporting you from one place to another, not a wallet with a measly few hundred quid stuffed into it!

There is no filter to be changed on Haldex Gen 5. Only a strainer to clean up on the Haldex pump. 😉 But as you said, this is rarely done by Skoda dealers because not required in the workshop manual. You have to ask for it, but it’s hard to know if it has really been done. 🤔

A open ground doesn’t always mean a faulty sensor. can mean dpf pressures are off the scale causing issues, broken wiring or any other manner of things. it may well be the sensor but doesn’t mean it’s the only thing it can be

Ok. Sometimes it shows as units and a unit being 0.5 lites. Your cars oil is VW 508 00 / 509 00, so 0w 20 fs. Unless they go 0w 30 FS or 5w 30 FS.

Yes I think this is possible as well, the warning has seemed to come on when performing a sharp turn [such as at a roundabout etc], after driving for several minutes. Other 10-20 mile drives the warning has not appeared. We checked on a relatively flat surface after driving approx 10 miles. The level was definitely on the high side of the stated range in the manual.

It's the 245 but for whatever reason the original owner put the 18s on , I've heard the ride is better on the 18s but we'll see. Not going to do too much to it until it's warranty is up but I'm definitely going to get a diffuser, side skirts and splitter on it at some point

Hi Allan7690 Yes I have precisely these same issues as you have. My car DID have a major upgrade to 1896 in May. All the very many previously existing faults were corrected by the 1896 upgrade but now I also get ‘Pop-Pop’ then “SOS not available call your service partner”…….which resets next time I stop and start the car. I will ‘accept’ this (for now🤷‍♂️) because it is so nice of Skoda to at last give me ‘most’ of what I paid for in good faith 18 months ago - and my first extended service is due soon so I’ll raise that with the garage at the same time. Disappointed isn’t it?

Much better colour, IMO. I love silver cars, and would have been much happier with silver than my white car. C'est la vie!

You may find that location can dictate prices, negating any information given. May be better getting quotes and questioning those - I think people would tend to know if you are being taken to the cleaners.

Gained bang on 5mm drop on the rear with the different rear top spring cups, part numbers for anyone interested 1K0512149B

Downpipe (with cat delete) will make it louder somewhat in general, you'll gain maybe 5-10bhp over a stage 1 with a downpipe, with a little more noise but nothing major. I've attached two pictures of my car running eibach pro-kit springs. Running standard shocks for now, but with shorter rear bump stops from the ibiza cupra r, as it was bottoming out a little too often with the standard bump stops.

Should have posted yesterday but, when I was doing the rear doorcards I fixed the rear carriers. Hopefully means water and mould won't be such an issue now. Had to remove the rear door lock flags as the new doorcards don't have the hole for them, they simply hook out so it wasn't a big deal at all. Nice the rear doors have small pockets now. This was a very messy job, but necessary. Obligatory taking it for a run pics.