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Latest photo, taken down Cheddar Gorge on Sunday, showing aftermarket front fogs. Much prefer them over the originals. 😎

it did initially as I couldn't find anything, then John pointed me in the right direction.

I don’t want to be “that guy”……but I will be! I was in the market for a new VRS, ideally petrol 245, DSG and estate. Looked on the Skoda “available cars” tab and there was nothing. So I was resigned to ordering one and waiting. Then I looked on website of Simpsons Skoda, and they had a brand new velvet red hatchback, 245 petrol, manual transmission, winter pack, travel pack and space saver spare tyre. Thinking about things, I thought that I could live with the hatchback and manual so decided that I’d take a run over on 20th October and if I liked it then I’d buy it. However it was a 4 hour round trip, so thought I’d call in to our local dealership to at least sit in any Octavia and check if the hatchback was going to be ok. Unbelievably as I walked in there was a Magic Black 245 petrol estate DSG brand new sat in the showroom! Apparently someone ordered it and got fed up with waiting so bought their ex demo Kodiaq VRS instead. The dealer decided to carry on with the order as they knew (1) it was going to sell quickly and (2) if it didn’t then they would put it on demo. it was so new in that they hadn’t even marked it as “available stock” flag to other dealers within their group. The car didn’t have winter pack and isn’t the “perfect” spec I’d have ordered (manual seats for example and no heated wheel) but every other box was ticked. The deal was done there and then - and in fact when I was signing stuff I had a call from Simpson to see what time I might arrive to look at their car! I picked the car up yesterday (gets it into dealers October figures) and only had to wait the 11 days as I was away on holiday last week! so maybe it is worth calling round a few dealers to see if they have anything in stock rather than wait. You never know what might be out there gratuitous picture attached too.

Check your PMs

Keener lawyers over there.

I love the idea of naming cars 😊

Thanks guys. I love the 2 CV and think it would be the last car I’d sell should push come to shove! Hence the number plate on the Skoda - wife’s car has a very similar number. by the way the car is called Spooky Suzie . (Spooky for short) Because it’s Magic Black, collected on halloween and sales lady was called Suzannah ..

Indeed, my dad had one of those, repairing it all the time and ended up borrowing Renault 4 from my grandad 😊 Anyway, the car looks great, many safe miles from me as well 🥳

Thanks! I was just in the right place at the right time I guess. I put it down to fate as I was mostly happy with my Abarth but after 2 years getting a bit fed up with its “all or nothing” approach. I.e. great when you want to drive it like you stole it, but not so good if you jus want to pop to the shops. the fact that the right car was immediately available sealed the fate of the Abarth… I realised that I didn’t have any actual pictures other than the one posted, as I’d mainly taken walk round video. However I’ve now taken a couple more which are below.

Congrats man! You are one lucky 🍀 guy! But the photo is a teaser, posting a car covered with tarpaulin or whatever black cloth this is, just to provoke our curiosity even more 😀👎. Still, we want to see your new black beauty uncovered 😉!

I'm not convinced basic settings will fix this @J.R. These are indicative of a failed module: B200FF0 - INTERNAL FAILURE B2000F1 - ECU INTERNAL FAILURE This is likely a sympathy code due to the failed module: B1168F2 - STEERING WHEEL ANGLE SENSOR, NO INITIALIZATION I'd be grabbing a wiring diagram and confirming all power/ground connections are good and able to carry current. There are also plenty of update files for steering racks so there might be a TSB/TPI relating to your specific part number with an update with may help.

This is the sequence in my case (I wrote down everything in the .xls of my Octavia 😉 ) - 13/07 - VIN received; - 23/08 - VIN accepted in SkodaConnect App; - 31/08 - car correctly identified in SkodaConnect App; The very same day (31.08) the dealer wrote to me saying the car was completed. - 27/09 - car was with the dealer; - 01/10 - picked up the car. p.s. Happy Anniversary to my car!!! It's 2 months old, and 1 month with me! How time flies...

Just use an adaptor? They are cheap and easy to install/replace... For example: - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07XM7YGQ5 - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09PDYY3C6 I'm sure a Spanish reseller will have something similar.

Seems we might need another page added from SSP 2nd paragraph, also stop start might still function, OP said 1,000 and around 1,400rpms observed

Gz on the new car, but do post some better pics 😉

These SSP documents should be useful to read (for anyone wondering how GPF works) SSP558 Close-coupled Petrol Particulate Filter - Design and Function.pdf SSP590 Underbody Petrol Particulate Filter.pdf Very similar to DPF, they have passive/active and workshop regeneration cycle's.

Hi all. This is my new (to me) business bus soon to be branded up with some discreet orange racing stripes and branding. But loved how it looked on these Audi TTs forged 20" wheels I found on marketplace, thought I'd share. Thanks for the immense info sharing on this forum, keen to do some tasteful mods to finish it off as my perfect daily. Watch this space. Thanks, Ash

You have up to 6 years statutory consumer protection with the selling dealer. Not skoda UK. It Is up to you to prove the fault was present when you purchased I.e design or mfr or assembly fault. The selling dealer will probably resist. Your only recourse on stat protection then would be to take to small claims court and you will probably need an expert report st very least some sort of well reasoned report from your mechanics. You are not guaranteed to win. But usually a retailer will try to avoid going to court if they think you have a reasonable case. Is it burning oil or dropping on ground?

I’m at the stage where I’m down to only 2 out of 5 grandchildren needing a seat or booster cushion, so I’ve shuffled an awful lot of child seats over 40 plus years. It’s been mentioned above that 2 Isofix will present a challenge. I do like my Recaro Isofix chairs but they’re pretty wide. I then acquired a couple of lightweight, narrower non-Isofix seats for ease of car swapping. Halford brand. I could get the 2 lightweight seats plus a booster cushion in row 2 no problem. I could never remove the row 3 headrests, but maybe they can be overcome somehow. I’ve rarely used a booster cushion in row 3. I enjoy the flexibility with 7 seats to separate bodies, though 1 certain chap is always disappointed when I’m not using row 3. It all depends on the load being carried.

It won't move because the water pressure is what moves the sleeve. The solenoid is only a pilot valve. EDIT: Just read your latest post, looks like you had fun finding out for yourself 😂

No. But 6 hours to charge is painful especially when it gives less than 30km. With the weather getting colder charging times get longer and distance travelled get much shorter. Eleven months and longer to wait for a car is absolutely ridiculous.

Oh blimey, its been a while! I don't even know where the OBD2 port is on the car! Do they still use OBD2 on these?

You'd be doing something amazing if you manage to lose the rear end braking in a straight line. If it's not a straight line, then it's oversteer, since you are steering to an angle...

I've never attempted to try and read the ECU on this car. I do have a few OBD2 interface adapters about. Last one i brought was a cheapo bluetooth one for the old mk2 Fabia. Not sure if it would be compatible with this car? That came with Torque, i used it on a android tablet. I have used VCDS in the past, i had a VW 1.8T Bora before the first Fabia so used it with that.

Been to pod plenty of times and yet they never turn up. thanks for proving my point about being too scared to come to crail because you don’t know power management or how to launch a car properly on a bad surface 😘

That’s because Crail looks like a dirt road in Thailand 😂🤣 , try coming to Santa pod they need some cannon fodder for all the lower power standard Golf R’s and Audi s3’s that probably cost a fraction of that car of yours or even better go against a tuned mk1 fabia pd130 that would absolutely destroy you and they cost peanuts 🥜 as for not ready for the events you can’t rush perfection 😘

Sounds like someone is butt hurt because they wouldn’t be able to keep up 😘 Could easily afford a mk2 vRS but didn’t fancy having a slower car if you go back to the previous posts you’ll see that I bog it on purpose hence why I have the LC set so low but I can tell you don’t have a history around motorsport if you believe that spinning off the line wins races 🤗 gotta love these pretenders that think they know what they are talking about 🤭

Same as ours. Nothing to worry about.

Exactly that, I'll just enable the ignition in the morning before starting. I think they all come up then. I'll see if its on there!

I'm doing 18 miles a day, its country back roads. I can get on the motorway to do that run but slow moving heavy traffic puts me off that one. Could even end up being parked up. I wonder if i had done the 400 mile journey up & back to Lincolnshire it would of stopped it. I usually do that journey 3 times through the year. Maybe that's been enough in the past. Should be up there middle / end of next month. (if the cars working....) Just don't do that many longer journeys these days, i could take it up the motorway over the weekend i guess & have a day out somewhere.

We have 3 kids and getting the 7 seats was the only reason I went with a Kodiaq. 3 fitted fine in the back of my Superb, but it's great just being able to split them up and give them all more room.. I would get 7 seats and use 5 if you want, but at least you'll have the option when needed..

yes, same issue for me, I used some IKEA brackets I has lying around and twisted theme to make a clamp on each side. I taped the part touching the trunk to avoid scratching the paint.

I’ve moved this to the kodiaq area so you get a wider audience 👍

Another update from last year, added a boot lip spoiler.

Update from last year, set of Turini’s came up for sale with winter tyres on and i couldn’t turn it down.

MQB option E if you want dynamic lines and plug and play https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/4000230897829.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.11502b6dG7CRMK&algo_pvid=b5278275-be52-4118-9f2d-bd68c3796b74&algo_exp_id=b5278275-be52-4118-9f2d-bd68c3796b74-8&pdp_ext_f={"sku_id"%3A"12000030861906212"}&pdp_npi=2%40dis!EUR!61.13!51.35!!!!!%400b0a0ac216673052161283037eb1a8!12000030861906212!sea&curPageLogUid=4GGM4ykMWMes others, you will have to find a 12v source

15 min will always be "free". Podpoint's way of working is that you plug in and go. After you get settled down, you "claim" your charge. I've been doing something similar at lunchtime with Leaf back when my workplace charging isn't so busy. Plug in for 15min, have lunch, if need more charge, plug in for another 15min, go for a walk, and then return to move the car. They used to unlock the cable at charger end so a quick unplug and plug back in will reset 15min. But now it remains locked until you unplug at car end. Unfortunately now, unchanged at 12p/kWh, it seems most EV owners are hovering around the charger wanting to get a cheap charge. Work is reluctant rising the price, fear people might have committed to salary sacrifice EV budgeting on this benefit. Despite (with my input) the charger policy states along lines "do not rely on using workplace charger, home charging should be primary source " Luckily with my longer range EV doing commute, I don't need to bother charging anywhere else.

Those are from VW (erWin VW) sadly I have paid for these myself, but you might be able to find those wild on the internet. SSP = Self Study Program I find that to get ALL the information for our cars, we need to read non-Skoda SSP's as so much is missing for us. VW has quite a good range of these documents as does Audi.

Just confirmed from Skoda factory, the part is intended for 1.5 TSI

? How many miles has you 2019 1.0TSI done? Remember that the important thing is being off the accelerator once the engine, cat, gpf is up to temperature. It is not the same as a DPF. Then, Yours is not blocked, you are getting the high idle as the car does what is required to ensure it does not block.

The one in the link is 532G. The index can mean anything from a minor modification to a totally different part. "With the ''temporary replacment" GM relay i had no lights and wipers although i could start-drive the car normally." That just confirm what I said before - no part of engine management is connected to the X-relay Edit: found the rear wiper relay right from the OEM manufacturer: AEV 2015 https://eshop.aev.cz/aev-2015

Yes. Only you can decide what to do though. And you won't know unless you ask. A component, potentially non-moving, that should be keeping oil in, has failed. It's what's happened that's the key. If you want 'better than 50% chance', then maybe save yourself the trouble, but I'd want to know what was causing the issue. Taking TheClients point, what if it was a copper washer on a banjo bolt? (one hopes not and that your mechanic would simply fix it, but you get the point). There are plenty of turbo's available, with varying levels of warranty. As per TC, I'd take the service exchange route if it were me - but not before knowing exactly what the problem is, and then deciding next steps. Have you had any work done to the car that might dislodge anything turbo related? Gaz

Well after a month I finally have a new second hand fuel pump in and it's working perfectly. Nice and silent. It's so nice to not hear that horrible whining when I start the car. The first one I ordered got lost in the post, brokers refused to refund me so I had to get my bank involved for a refund. (Specialist Dismantlers, Oldham) please never use them. This company had some of the worst customer service I've ever experienced. Lies and being fobbed off at every turn. The second one I ordered from a different brokers arrived with a broken outer case, so my mechanic and I had to disassemble the old unit and use the outer case from it on the new pump. (UKVechicleDismantlers - through eBay) Although the outer case was broken the customer service and packaging was very good. Hopefully this will help anyone else with a similar problem. Thanks for the help folks.

Surprise surprise

Have you set your tailgate to 'Sport' mode? Or is it like ship's lighting - red at night so as not to affect your night vision?

Awesome! Post some photos when you're done, please AFH Fun is something Škoda should've made. Edit: If you manage to find a 1.3MPI Felicia, get its gearbox. The AEE gearbox might be a bit too long for AFH.

Evening. I have given up on mine, nothing worked so I am buying a refurbished one mine is a 3t0035680E and am getting a K one with all the updates, plug and play with no coding. Not having the radio on long island drives in the dark is a tad boring. Good luck with updates everyone.

You need to take it back, point out the failings and tell them it doesn't drive straight and to sort it out or you'll get an independent inspection and complain to trading standards.

I'm sure you're right. What shocking workmanship. ☹️

I think I might be answering my own question here. I've just sketched out what I think might be going on. Purple colour exaggerated. The suspension leg compresses OK to equal length both sides (weight of car), but the nearside stubaxle/hub/wheel-bearing-housing they'd positioned it much lower than the offside one. You can see the markings in the rust clearly that it's not been put back as they found it. The mind boggles how they couldn't have seen these markings and re-used them to put it back the way they found it. Or at least put paint marks or something.