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Cabin fuse 52 supplies all the coilpacks, a 15A blade fuse. Fuse 35 is injectors' supply, 10A rated Fuse 56 is an ignition switched feed to the engine ECU, 20A rated. May as well check all of them.

Hello all, Few words with my conclusions after conducting short debugging sessions on this issue: 1. The last 2 updates (one with some Error fixes and one with Service Campaigns) have totally broken my unit. Before them, I've had max 2 or 3 reboots in one month.After both updates kicked in(even if I tried to postponed them for some trips) my unit rebooted(at least yesterday and a day before), 4 times in a loop right after I started the car and the journey. 2. Before every reboot, if the car was stationary, "Park Assist" error and "Audio Currently Unavailable" messages were displayed in a loop on the VC. 3. The reboots still happened if the ACC was disabled or enabled! Also, the reboots happened without the AA (smart link connected) - for this test I've left every paired phone(mine and my wife) in my house just to make sure it's not in the car area. 4. Software version: 1896 (update made by the dealer a few months ago). 5. I'm based outside UK (EU region), so it has nothing to do with the region, I think. 6. Sometimes the reboots appeared more on wet weather (it rained a lot in RO for the past weekend). 7. The 12V Battery voltage drops again below 12V(maybe the unit is constantly rebooting during the car is stationary), even if it was previously changed by the dealer at the software update. Hopefully a fix will be available soon. Cheers

if YOU had contracted the third party, then yes, BUT it was Audi who contracted a third party to provide the service to YOU. Therefore it IS to do with them.

The centre pin is the feed to the cigarette lighter - the upper pin is for always live, the very bottom pin is for switched live. You dont want to be messing around with what you are saying to do as you are backfeeding an entire Terminal 15 or Terminal 30 circuit which can cause big issues... There is not a whole lot of room to run the wires but there is more than enough to run them easily by running over the top and back down. The fusebox is extremely easy to access and takes around 10 seconds to unclip the slow release and the 2 upper clips to drop the glovebox door and expose it fully. And there are many many ground points in the area and the glovebox light is not one of them, you have the entire metal dashboard frame with around 3 big bolts and a few smaller torx screw mounting points all in the glovebox area and the A pillar area. Its no different on a MK3 - run wires down the A pillar (properly!! and not over the airbag) remove the dash end piece and flap the glovebox down to find and attach to the suitable grounds and fuse.

I'm wondering if it's glazed rather than warped discs... Check the runout with a dial gauge rather than putting more discs and pads in the parts cannon.

Hi, not sure what you're searching, but my info suggests you need 036133062M. This one seems potentially like a great bargain https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256100509572 and seems to be plenty of others. Fair play for trying to eliminate other stuff first though. 🙂

Sorry for the late reply.... Been on nights. So yeah a PCP is kind of like the hire purchase of old. The difference is that you have three options at the end of the deal, Keep it, trade it for another or give it back and walk away. At the start when setting it all up all financial stuff is set out and you pay a deposit then however many years of monthly with a pre-agreed final balloon payment if you want to keep the car. Mileage is also agreed and can be tweaked as required (Ours by default was 24,000 miles total but we changed it to 32,000 miles). Vehicle condition & mileage is taken into account but only if you are giving it back and walking away or trading it and starting a new deal. Our Colour Edition was something like £16,000 new, There was £3,000 deposit paid between us and VWFS (We paid £1,000 and VWFS paid £2,000) then what's remaining is paid at an agreed amount per month plus a final larger balloon payment if you want to keep the car. The monthly & final payment can be tweaked slightly as if you were definitely going to keep it you could pay a little more per month and have a smaller final payment or if you intended to give it back you could tweak it slightly to make your monthly payments slightly smaller leaving a larger final payment etc.... So in our case ours was £3,000 deposit, £198 per month for 47 months, and a final payment of £5300 for the 48th payment. The problem pre-COVOD was that the car usually reached the point of neutral equity at around the 3 year mark so pretty much everyone except those who were planning on giving it back and walking away at the end tended to end up finishing the deal up to a year early and switching to a new vehicle or they would end up paying a final payment that was more than the market value of the car. For example with the Citigo that this Fabia replaced in 2019 it was approaching the point of negative equity at a month short of 3 years even though it was either a three and a half year or four year deal and hence the wife traded it in for the Fabia. Post COVOD though with used car prices being a lot higher it means the car has depreciated a lot less and so the final payment is actually a lot less than the market value. This is great if you intended to walk away as you could pay the final payment then just put the car straight on the market and maybe double the money you just paid as the final payment. In our case we will have paid around £15,600 over the last four years (£15,600 rather than the new price of £16,000 as VWFS paid £2,000 of the deposit but there has been around £1,600 paid in interest over the four years) and we have a car that is currently selling for around £11,000-£12,000 on a forecourt looking at others available that are 19 plates with the same spec and mileage. From what myself and friends have found the differences between PCP and leasing are the final options where PCP gives the added benefit of the option of keeping the vehicle and the lease deal sometimes getting the benefit of things like running costs like tyres and servicing included in the deal. Also PCP is usually also now available as an option for used cars at dealers rather than just on new cars as it used to be so the same process can be used when buying an approved used car as well.

You can spend all day trying to find & buy the alleged Mad air suspension for your vehicle & it always leads you back to helper springs, I realise that I have been down that wormhole before, I dont think that they exist. Dont use helper springs, they are a bodge and your springs are clapped. I have never found any compromise with using higher rate rear springs on these vehicles, only positives, they are ridiculously undersprung for the UK market, yours more than most.

There's also the option of going up just one in the hierarchy to 5Q0511115R. In the Kilen spring catalogue, Kilen are showing this as the standard rear spring for the Octavia MK3 VRS, rather than the 5Q0511115Q that you actually have. However, looking at how much your rear end is compressed with the caravan attached, it might be better to go up two in the hierarchy. If your current rear spring has started to sag, then it might just be necessary to go up one in the hierarchy. From the specification of Eibach R16554 (that matches 5Q0511115R), it might be a slightly stiffer rear spring than the others, because it claims to have an 11.5mm wire diameter instead of the usual 11.25mm wire diameter that appears to be more normal for this OEM part number. 5Q0511115R https://www.autodoc.co.uk/car-parts/oem/5q0511115r?search=OEN 5Q0511115R&supplier[0]=85&supplier[1]=112&supplier[2]=246 The below three springs should match 5Q0511115R because no other OEM part numbers are listed against them. Beware of springs with more than one OEM part number listed against them, because they may not be an exact match to the OEM part number that you want. For example, if an aftermarket spring is being sold to replace two different OEM part numbers, then that aftermarket spring can't be an exact match for both of these OEM part numbers. Where multiple OEM part numbers are shown against an aftermarket spring, it might be longer and/or stiffer than the spring that you want. Some rear springs matching 5Q0511115R Eibach R16554 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284964461709 Kilen 63143 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/113808057980 KYB RA7157 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334881250972 The following three springs might be rebranded KYB RA7157 springs as the specification and part numbers shown in their listings seems remarkably similar. If so, then the Japko ZCJ7157A at about £15 each (plus shipping) on a 36% off day (usually Mondays) seems good value. However, these three "cheap" brands (but not necessarily cheap) might simply be copying KYB and not an actual KYB spring. Japko ZCJ7157A Ashika ZCA7157A Japanparts ZC7157A https://www.autodoc.co.uk/car-parts/oem/5q0511115r?search=OEN 5Q0511115R&supplier[0]=193&supplier[1]=10029&supplier[2]=10914&supplier[3]=85

Looks like a good day all round folks. Gutted that I missed it as I was on holiday. 100% be at the next one (wherever that may be) in the Yellow Knacker.

I have the exact same issue. 2017 Skoda Superb Bi-Xenon headlights. Right side DRL went yellow and now the bottom longer stripe is hardly visable. Left side is now yellow too and dying slowly. The smaller side part of the DRL is still bright on both sides. Had Skoda do test on the right side when it was dying. Full replacement of headlights required. $1600 per headlight. I just bought an OBD11 and used the preset coding to activate the option to turn on the menu to allow turning off the DRL's. Once the headlights activate at night though the DRL's automatically come back on again which is annoying. Once the left side bottom DRL strip burns out completely as well, will reactivate the DRL menu and live with only the side DRL strip on both headlights.

Just sent this to Audi Genuine Accessories who sell the new maps. Let's see what they have to say. I was considering updating my Audi A6 maps to the latest 4G0060884AN version as I am at the moment running the 4G0060884AK ones. However I have noticed that as from the end of March this year Trafficmaster turned off their RDS-TMC services and as a result I and many thousands of Audi and other VAG Group vehicle owners now have a non functioning Dynamic Navigation feature leaving us unaware of hold ups and with no rerouting from the navigation unit to avoid them. I find this feature which was turned off with no notification to owners extremely useful and would like to know if their are any plans to replace it with the INRIX RDS-TMC service which will continue to operate over Classic FM for at least another eight years. If this is the case new maps containing the INRIX location tables and maybe a firmware update will need to be issued. This is a UK only problem which renders the Dynamic Navigation feature useless on our vehicles and it would be pointless for me to spend 199 Euro on new maps with non functioning RDS-TMC. Please advise.

To be fair most engineers will charge at least £350 for a P&L test + whatever it takes to repair the leak & recharge the system. You could be looking at £400-800. Might be worth considering replacing the indoor / outdoor units with a more modern versions. Most new models can re-use existing pipework if its the correct size which needs to be flushed to remove any existing oil or contaminants before recharging with R32 refrigerant which is what most new small capacity systems are using now. Good luck with your search.

Although Trafficmaster has caused the issue by ceasing its service, it is looking increasingly like either negligence or a conscious decision on VAG's part to not contract with INRIX in advance to ensure continuity of service. Either way, it's on them.

Regarding the Japanese being too late to the party, reckon that is their intended strategy. I have been closely scrutinising Japanese cars since the 70's and their business practices and model since the late 80's, they have never been innovators but sit back and let others get burned with their innovative new features that become achilles heels and are usually dropped, some while later a Japanese manufacturer will introduce that feature without the fanfare and it will work faultlessly as all their systems do the result of patient design, testing and manufacture. I can think of loads of quite benign things like a drum brake self adjust mechanism first used on Fiats that seemed a good idea but was rubbish in practice, a decade later it appeared on a Datsun and was faultless. I reckon they will do the same with EV's and be the first real serious competitors to Tesla, I doubt we will see any public activity for a decade but you can be sure that they are already well on the journey, given the speed of innovation and progress in the EV market that 10 years will probably be 5 years. Japanese, Korean and even Chinese EV's will be the long term winners I reckon, like me they play the long game.

So I won a Fabia vrs off darkside developments, Big spec diesel Power Figures 332.7bhp & 445Ft/lbs - With Nitrous (50 Jet) 307.1bhp & 400Ft/lbs - Diesel Only Engine GTD2872VRK Billet Hybrid with Vacuum Conversion Darkside Developments Turbo Kit with Tubular Stainless Manifold/Downpipe Darkside Straight through Stainless Exhaust System Darkside Ported + Dimpled Head with bigger valves Rosten H-Beam Rods ARP Mains Studs Darkside Race Camshaft 1.9 8v Headstud Kit Uprated valve springs Firad PD Race 120% Injectors Universal Front Mount Intercooler Custom Darkside Hardpipe Kit Darkside 57mm EGR Delete Darkside Front Mount Oil Cooler AEM Cone Filter Darkside Custom TIP Pipe 6 BAR MAP Sensor Darkside Custom Remap + Hardcut Limiter Wizards of NOS Dry Nitrous Kit (50 Jet) Performance Aluminium Radiator HyperKuhl Super Coolant Fass Lift Pump Snow Performance Water Methanol Kit Snow Performance Solenoid Machined Pistons Coated Pistons Transmission 02M 6 Speed Gearbox Darkside Single Mass Conversion with Sachs SRE Clutch Quaife 02M Limited Slip Differential 4th Gear Support short shifter Chassis Vibratechnic Engine and Gearbox Mounts KW Variant 3 Fully Adjustable Coilovers Adjustable Drop Links Powerflex Bushes with Black Race Series on Wishbone Brakes Porsche Caliper Upgrade Brembo 312mm Front Brake Discs & Track Pads Brembo 256mm Rear Brake Upgrade RBF600 Brake Fluid Wheels and Tyres 17" 2Forge ZF1 Wheels in Gloss Black 215/40/17 Yokohama A052 Tyres Exterior Bumper opened for Air Flow Custom Headlights Plans are afoot mainly to clean it up to my standards, bodywork is pretty good both side sills were done a couple of years back, just a bit of rust coming through on bootlid. Nitrous is going to come off (scares me a little haha) and I’m in the process of tiding all the masses of wiring, as it’s had many additions over the years, nitrous wiring, water meth, boost gauge, sub in its past, some pics before I started my bits and pieces

Wow, not sure how my ebay searches didn't find that, must have looked a dozen times over the last week or so. Yes thats the exact part....and we've bought it. Thanks. Just have to wait for it to arrive now. THANKS....

Try holding it down for 10 seconds, that's the usual value

hold the menu button down for a few seconds 👍

Good news I suppose .... Dealer says nothing wrong with bearings and says probably uneven tyre wear ... It was a strange sound at 4mph as I walked alongside the car but who knows ? It's booked in for 2 new SP4's on the front on Friday so if it goes away I'll eat humble pie ...

@JohnSteedOfSweden I will send you a link to download in a few moments, thank you for confirming.

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@varooomYou Sir are an absolute gentleman. All updated this afternoon after getting the download completed. No fuss, just did exactly what was expected

@TheUltraRunnerThanks mate. I forgot my old account details hence the long absence and new user name

Hello, I follow this topic for a some time and when you made comment I got a notification. I want to say something, but firstly know that I am by no means an expert. I just searched this approximately 5-6 month ago. I cannot point out where, but I read that 5-speed manual gearboxes have single mass flywheel and 6-speed manuals has dual mass flywheel. So this can help you maybe but I recommend searching it more.

I didnt think the Pro 9100 had ECE-Homologation and wouldnt be road legal (even in France?) . The 6001 has it https://poland.lumileds.com/first-road-legal-h7-led-retrofit-headlight-bulb-in-france/ but only for some models...

I did some searching for the source of off-street parking stats, can't find the actual research. But did find varying statistics: This 2012 fact sheet from RAC, but top result in Google, says only a quarter of vehicles in GB are parked on the street, all others are in garages or driveways. https://www.racfoundation.org/assets/rac_foundation/content/downloadables/facts_on_parking.pdf Also from RAC, 2021, they say cars are parked 23 hours a day on average. Perfect to function as grid support battery IMO. https://www.racfoundation.org/media-centre/cars-parked-23-hours-a-day From government publications, DfT published "Public Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure" research report. In there, section 2.1, says 24% households in England do not have access to off-street parking. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/public-electric-vehicle-charging-infrastructure-drivers-without-access-to-off-street-parking From government "Statistical data set, English Housing Survey data on amenities, services and local environments " , go down to "Parking and mains gas", the statistics for "garage" and "other off road parking" added together is just over 67%: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/amenities-services-and-local-environments So we don't know how all the different data came about, but the conclusion I can draw from the statistics is that UK households that can charge at home is definitely well over half. Related stats for public charger numbers. This report shows exponential growth for number of public chargers. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electric-vehicle-charging-device-statistics-april-2023/electric-vehicle-charging-device-statistics-april-2023 Scotland seems to have the best per capita charger numbers:

Yikes! I wouldn't use a paddle clutch, you'll be stalling it all the time.

@varooom, Why @Andy585's car is running on VW SW? Is this a mistake or this is how the new SK models will be delivered from now on?! Thx

Hi guys quick update on this issue. Finally got the car sorted. Dropped car off to a GEARBOX SPECIALIST in Glasgow on Monday and had new clutch packs and DMF replaced. Cost me £2100 in total for repairs. Car drives just like new and gear changes are much better as well. Specialist did show me the old DMF and said it was needing replaced as it had too much play on it.

iV80 driver me. Just returned from round trip Wiltshire - Perth 900 miles all motorway or dual carriageway. Mostly stuck to 65 mph, occasional excursions at higher speeds to clear bunches of trundlers. Daytime journey with outside temperatures ranging 11-21 degC, A/C on and temperature set 20 degC. Efficiency overall was 4.2 mpkWh. Two stops each way for charging and found like most, that you've really got to bolt the coffee if you are to disconnect and proceed! Unbelievably convenient fast chargers at Stafford and Gretna Green. Return journey started at 80% charge, arriving home with 40%. Journey times around 10 hours each way and not much different from those in Octavia and Superb diesels driven many times previously tbh . April's other longer journey Wiltshire - Cornwall returned around 3.8-3.9 mpkWh this year. After 15 months since ordering, the car arrived January and I am delighted with the range which consistently exceeds 340 miles this June weather weather and 310 Feb - March. Enyaq iV80 well recommended for your needs!

When the Halfords person adjusted them, did they only adjust to bang in the middle of the legal range? If he adjusted them to be at the top end of the limit and now you’ve adjusted higher again, surely you’d now be over

There shouldn't be a need to lower them for the MOT as long as you have set them up as I did so the hard cut-off line is just above the other cars bumper at roughly 27-30metres away. According to Hella, the correct angle on dipped or dimmed beam is 1 degree down from the horizontal, which means that at 10metres away from your headlight, the cut-off should be around 10cm lower than the centre of your headlight. This info is to be found around the edge of of your light, under the bonnet.

Too soon Trev, too soon...

Went back to Halford's today and the chap there said they were OK on his machine, but tweaked that up a tad. I think that he must have set them up on full beam rather than dipped beam, as he said that they were pointing at the stars. Anyway, I took it for a ride again tonight, nah, still rubbish, still had a sharp cut-off line on the road and your eyes are just drawn towards it, and it was making seeing anything beyond it impossible to see. I did a rejig of the alignment myself and nailed it. Nobody flashed me and I once again to pick up road signs, and reflectors far quicker than I was before, so I'm calling it done.

There are no leaks per sé on a domestic system like there are on a vehicle with flexible hoses, the pipes are copper with either swaged or soldered joints, think of it as a domestic fridge which never need topping up. The exception is those sold for DIY installs with precharged extension pipes (usually partially discharged by inquisitive people in the DIY sheds) with dry break type couplings, these have O ring seals and its not a question of if they will leak but how quickly. I cant make out from the label on your unit what gas it uses, it looks old so might be R22 Freon in which case you will have to throw away the unit.

Working on the fuel pump currently after having loads of other people's cars to fix🙄 found out that the audi tt and the felicia fuel pump housing is exactly the same apart from the level sender. Meaning I can get a fuel pump for a fwd 1.8t car and put it in the felicia. Chuffed with that.

Looks good in the sun does race blue:

Yep, apologies here too… So today I tripped and smacked my right knee on the basement stairs which, in turn, shocked me that I shot up and smacked the back of my head on the doorframe, then to avoid the K2 bus which decided it HAD to occupy the entire right hand lane, I decided to definitely avoid that and I grazed the NSF alloy….Feeeeeck!!!

You only need to find someone with a computer who can rip cds to a USB stick. The double-ended USB sticks will take care of the case that the computer has USB 2 sockets, but the car has USB 3 sockets. You may need to pay them extra to handle your Max Bygraves CDs.

Please don’t use metal, screwdrivers etc. Trim removal tools are cheap and won't damage anything. The airbag plastic cover pops off easily. Just be careful when removing the screw that it doesn't drop inside the trim. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wetado-Removal-Upholstery-Fastener-Terminal/dp/B08PCP9PTC/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?keywords=Trim+Removal+Tool&qid=1686049349&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1

Battery a bit low? Might be worth putting it on charge overnight to see if it still doesn’t work next day when fully charged. Or just enjoy it not working, would save either myself or Mrs DSL switching it off after every start! 😆

See this thread, some of wire colours and pin numbers at BCM may differ between Yeti and Octy2, but the gist is the same. Will check Octy wiring later to confirm. No CAN node involved. https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/511807-2010-yeti-rear-wiper/

Thought I'd better report back on this after the helpful advice I've received. Overall the trip went very well - I didn't do any damage to the hitch whilst grounding out, didn't snake and we didn't end up on the roof! Power and torque was never in question. There is plenty of both for this size and weight of caravan. It still can maintain 60mph up hills in 6th with the cruise set. Stability is very good on motorways and A roads which has backed up my initial impression from collecting the caravan last week. Loading the caravan up a bit always makes it feel better. B roads were more of a problem with this new caravan. As JR predicted, undulations in the road caused suspension bump stop strikes and there wasn't much travel before this happened. I also had four or five jockey wheel strikes on speed bumps. So really have to slow right down to have a chance of clearing them. Because of how well the car performed overall, I am going to try a suspension upgrade (yes, as JR stated above!) whether that's a helper spring or uprated spring I'm not sure yet. Should also add to the already good stability at higher speeds with more weight towards the front wheels.

I have a 2020 MkIII hatchback with panoramic sunroof. On driving it back from the dealers it was the normal limo like drive on the motorway but as soon as I got it on A, B or unclassified roads there were so many creaks it was like I was sailing in a wooden sail ship. I isolated them to the headlining but in the meantime the sun blind failed. The dealer packed it with foam saying they had had another Superb with a similar problem. Shortly afterwards I had panoramic sunroof surround crack, what appears to be a common fault. The long and short of this is that Skoda have accepted responsibility to replace the panoramic sunroof surround, sun roof and the blind. Currently only the sunroof surround and blind changed as glass sunroof is on back order. The good news is that the creaks have pretty much all been eliminated. I had a MkII Superb estate and it was bliss to drive - solid and noise free. Cannot fault the build quality of mine bar the bumper clip on the R/O/S. Hope you get all your noises sorted as I feel your pain but once done you’ll no doubt be driving around with a massive smile again.

But.... but, without that dead ahead marker, how are you going to know which way is forwards? 😇 Cool car 😎 G

A few of you might, know but I won a car and of course it’s a Skoda, started another build thread, at the moment I’m keeping both

I ordered a Skoda Octavia RS in February 2022. finally got it today and I am very happy.

Just received, out of the blue, the updated lease documents for signing. Glad we stuck to the order, in terms of cost it's a good deal and a damn sight cheaper than most other leases now available. Car is: Brilliant Silver OCTAVIA Estate 1.4TSI IV SE L DSG (Hybrid) Ordered: Sep 21 UK Registration date: 29/05/23 Delivery should be at the beginning of next month barring any delays.

Do you have an EU Certificate of Conformity with the car? You are legally entitled to a free one, if Skoda haven't issued one before (e.g. to a previous owner). It is the definitive legal document for that particular car (they are VIN-specific). Field 18.4 will tell you the maximum unbraked trailer weight that it has been type approved to tow.