Leaderboard

Reckon we came across the skeleton crew!

Hi everyone. Although I've visited this site a few times since buying my first Skoda 3 years ago, I've not actually signed up until now, so this is my first time posting on here. I bought a 2006-reg Roomster 1.9 TDi on 1st Nov 2020, so I've had it almost exactly 3 years now. It had a little under 150,000 miles on the clock when I got her and now she's just under 175,000. I'd love to reach the "double ton" (ie 200K) one day, but that's probably going to take another 3 years or so, given my yearly average of around 8,000 miles. I bought my Roomster during the pandemic, when overseas travel was either impossible or very tricky, so in June 2021 I had the idea of driving to the most northerly, easterly, southerly and westerly points of mainland Britain and did that over 2021 and 2022, covering 3,735 miles in the process. I'm attaching one photo of my car on the long drive up to Dunnet Head, in the far north of Scotland - the first of those four epic road trips. I'm delighted to say that my Roomster performed brilliantly on all four of those trips, with no mechanical issues or annoying warning lights of any kind. The same is true of an epic 2,400-mile round-trip to south-west France (Tarn-et-Garonne) I did last summer, sharing driving duties with another diesel devotee friend of mine. Despite temperatures reaching the high 30's virtually every day, my trusty Roomster got us there and back without any issues. That doesn't mean that I haven't had any issues with my car - I definitely have, and one of the MOT bills was truly eye-watering (over £1000!), but overall, she's got me wherever I've needed to go and I really love my car. There's just something about the sound of that 1.9 TDi engine which I love. I'm looking forward to having more adventures with my Roomster in the years to come.

Local reservoir this evening..........

You're correct. The map updates have nothing to do with the system updates. You get system updates OTA regardless of any subscriptions.

Needed to visit my office near Manchester Airport, from Worcester, straight there and back, around 200 mile round trip. 100 % charged battery in the Zoe and showing 200 miles range as the temperature was down to 9C and for every degree below 15 it seems to lose about 8 miles range. Trundled off, keeping the eco setting on to see how much miles I could still have left when I got to Manchester, not painfully slow but keeping up with the trucks doing the 55 to 60 mph indicated. Got to Manchester with 145 miles range left ! Wow. Thought I was going to need to get a "zap and dash, maybe by The Hawthornes new Ionity chargers, using my Electroverse card, just 5 or 10 kwh ie 6 to 12 minute stop, get a Starbucks, and roll down the hills from the Hawthorns 511 feet up down to the Severn Valley floor at Worcester. Not needed. My £300 credit on Octopus still untouched. Whole journey on 9p per kWh home charging so about a fiver of lecky if that as still had 45 miles left when got back to Worcester. Zero tailpipe emissions, low cost, all very good. And no fires, explosions or the like too. All this despite having a fuel card so I pay about 32p a litre for fuel if I used the Arkana hybrid.

You clearly have the bandwidth to watch multiple videos on YouTube or wherever you watch them whilst your missus is watching soaps so why not use that bandwidth to watch what you want to using many of the free TV apps available? YouTube can be a right rabbit hole sometimes and IME shows you more of what you want to see/ it wants you to see only confirming your bias. Seriously, take a step back from it. That's not a dig btw.

If that was filmed on a ring doorbell camera, then it has been heavily edited because of the portrait format of the video and also the length of the video. I have one of those doorbell cameras and it films everything in landscape format. That video looks like it was shot on a mobile phone on a tripod and looks like those on TikTok and the man does not sound like he is talking through a mobile phone and then his voice should be coming through the camera's speaker, and they don't sound like that as they are rubbish.

Moon is 95% full this evening

I think you'll find that running into something you didn't see because your headlights were dirty makes more of a mess of your bonnet, and it will take longer to fix than washing the car does.

Very foggy at Rufford Park this evening............

It's a mystery picture wrapped up in a riddle and dunked into the black hole of bewilderment.

Well been out for about 3 hrs today and since I did the throttle thing, it does appear to be working much better.

I've now received and mounted the cover, so all done :) Thanks for the tips everyone

Now up and running

modern diesel engines like the tdi only rev to 2500 rpm or so before the revs cut off they use to rev the engine to max 6 times during the mot test, but they obviously cant do this now, the only problem you might have is if in the future if the mot test gets stricter if manufacturers would make emissions equipment more reliable or lower cost to replace, most people would'nt need to gut / disconnect etc but they keep making them ever more complex, adblue systems on some engines are even more unreliable than dpf and egr valves but there's an easy fix for that 😄

I have had the Karoq for over six months now and I still" Yeti spot" they stand out distinctively. I was at the National Memorial Arboretum a few weeks ago and saw seven Yetis in the car park

The fault I had with my twindoor was that neither of the boot lid buttons would work and the only access I had was boot not hatch and only via the remote, after much fumbling and stripping down I discovered that the fault was broken wiring which runs through the left-hand side of the boot/hatch via the hinge to the roof of the car, there were no fault codes showing on VCDS. Once you understand it the twindoor system is not complicated, the main components are the usual centre mounted centrally locking boot lock, two electrically operated latches, one mounted each side of the luggage compartment, a bolt and hook assembly each side of the tailgate and the two boot lid switches. Boot or Hatch mode is determined by the position that the side latches push the tailgate mounted bolt/hook assembly into, activated by pressing the relevant button(s) on the boot lid. Pic below shows bolt/hook assembly exposed in hatch mode. The following is a rough guide with some pictures to assist anyone attempting this repair, I’m not an expert and someone with more knowledge may have hints on refining this guide. As only the boot lid will open the 1st task is to release the top glass part of the hatch from the car, this is done by removing the long torx headed pin from the side bolts on each side of the car, looking into the plastic covered hinge casing this is the bright metal pin pictured below. To do this 1, Remove the plastic trim button on each hinge cover (pic below) 2, unscrew and remove the side bolt retaining screw (pics show exposed head (tailgate open in this shot) and in situ (hatch closed) but without covers for clarity) Now using a large flat bladed screwdriver or trim removal tool lever the side bolt/hook away from the upper tailgate mounted bracket, this is fiddly and required some jiggling from side to side however once free on both sides the upper tailgate can be raised, the amount of clearance required is only a little more than the thickness of the body coloured tailgate bracket. Now recover the side bolt/hook components from wherever they may have fallen at each side of the car. NOTE MY PIC SHOWS THE PIN YOU HAVE JUST REMOVED STILL IN PLACE. Next remove the inner trim from the boot lid and the plastic covers from the upper part of the tailgate, on the upper part start with the horizontal trims then the side trims 1st removing the outer hinge covers (pic below), these panels just pull away from the tailgate except for a small screw on each inner hinge cover Working inside the boot lid release the wiring from its plugs, note the route and feed the wiring loom out of the lid through the hinge and free of the car to just past the damaged area, below are 2 pics of the wiring condition that greeted me! Plus stripped tailgate open. I repaired my loom but believe that a repair section is available from Skoda, the repair can just about be made without shortening the loom so much that it is strained at the boot lid connectors, when repairing the loom mark the wires carefully as some are the same colour! Refit and connect the wiring. Next you will need to close and lock the tailgate without refitting the side bolt/hook parts, this should lock the boot lid normally, now if all is well you should be able to unlock the boot IN HATCH MODE and the high level brake light will give its confirmation flash, this will position the side latches to accept the hatchback in its complete state when you have finished. See below 1, latch in boot lid mode, you won’t be able to close the complete tailgate in this position! 2, latch in Hatch mode Working with the hatch open refit the earlier removed screws and assemble the bolt/hook parts as shown below, note how the hook locks around the body coloured pin on the hinge, this locks the boot lid and upper glass into the complete hatchback. Now open and close via the boot lid buttons to confirm that all is working correctly, if it is the upper brakelight will give its confirmation flash and when closing the hatch you will hear its usual extra clunk as it is locked down by the side latches. Reassemble any removed trim, job done! Good Luck.

Couple more from the local reservoir...

Looks smart that battery cover, now do bonnet gas strut mod. It's bliss having it lift up effortlessly.

Aye got a femoral rod and screws in it. Getting there now femur is healed after only 3 months knee is giving me jip still may need further surgery on it find out in November. Airbags work with accelerometers which don't pick up on a car rolling and depends on where there placed also. Should of funny as thts what alot of people said to me go buy a ticket. Defo on my last life now tho changed my whole outlook on life.

At the Bedgebury National Pinetum near us, no Yetis but there was one of these

Sorry to hear about this. I'm just along the road from you so I probably read about your collision on Fife Jammers or similar. How long had you had the car? I'm wondering if a previous owner had them coded out because of a fault.

Yes, see how you go. Based on what I've read it points to the brown unit on the filter bracket to me. But i've been wrong once or twice before. And the info is not perfect. Good luck. Come back with what you find!!

Well after seemingly banging my head off a brick wall for the past 2 weeks and being told over and over again that "computer says no" I'm delighted to say that Skoda UK have fixed my faulty order and I'll now get the options I specified when I placed my order. My car is due to be built in week 46 but according to my dealer I shouldn't expect delivery until the new year.

After being under the car and trying to find it, and with the help of @Breezy_Pete on Wednesday, can confirm the 3rd switch is here. Thanks for further clarification @TheClient! Will be replacing it Saturday morning

Thanks for the clarification. Clearly the little test I did with my friend the other day wasn't really thorough enough. I'll take your word for it that the headlight projectors do swivel when the car is cornering, so it's nice to think that my Roomster has at least one thing in common with the legendary Citroën DS! 😉

Just take the car's rear suspension back to new condition. The car when new was very comfortable especially on 16" tyres.

Just spoke to a Skoda chat person who stated the time part of the intervals has been lifted across VAG group as of July and my 2.0l diesel mk3 is due at 140000 miles.

I suppose I'm lucky there; no-one in this house wants to watch Bartenders, 'emeroidale or Horrornation Street.

Yes, it should have. No, it can't be disconnected. Was surprised same as you, when i was connecting external amp and heard sound from center speaker, when there should be no sound. Thing is, that same speaker is used for other systems, like SOS. If you disconnect it, you'll get errors and some messages won't work. Good thing is, that it's normally so quiet, that after connecting the amp i don't even notice center speaker is there.

What brand have you currently got and how do you like to drive?

Step away from the internet Graham. There's plenty of reruns of Heartbeat on one of the ITV channels. That's not the same woman. I doubt even from the same country. That was clearly made as humour given the name of the account that shared it. No dialogue despite aircraft noise and a woman in an OH locker? Seriously 😳 The flight attendant wore a skirt far shorter than any I've seen on Flight Attendants lately. No aircraft movement at all. Get a grip.

Terrible price, I can deliver such unit, reworked, in P&P version, for 430 GBP plus shipping 20 GBP. Upon delivery you have to pay local import taxes / duties.

Hmm, I've had loads of diesels and I have never had any issues with the DPF, my current car has over 140,000 miles on the clock and again no issues with the DPF, no warning light in the instrument cluster and zero error messages on the ECU's and I do run a regular scan for error codes using my VCDS, So what is the current mileage of your car I wonder and what sort of drives are you doing i it?

That's what I thought. I'd be screaming to stop stealing my 'leccy.

Anti roll bar drop links? Where is the noise coming from? Thanks. AG Falco

Where in Ireland are you? Might be worthwhile giving Daltons just outside Portlaoise a call if you're not to far away. www.daltons.ie

Hi, The TPI is 2069590/3. This does an 5F recovery and part of BAID 167231935. I hope this helps folks. John

Could be lots of things which may or may not be directly related to the work you've just had done. Having the car up on a lift and looking underneath might show some faults with the car or the work done on it (or to it). The problems caused by tyre fitters and mechanics / "technicians" can be unbelievable to those not well experienced with people in the motor trade. On the other hand my wife's car has a sort of clunk / knock when going over potholes and bumps and I've seen on here other Fabia Mk3 owners have similar and unable to track down the cause. VW design, build and parts quality isn't as good as its past reputation, same for the other German marques. I would also suggest returning the car to where the work was done as if you're lucky you might encounter some of the decent people that are in the motor trade (but they often move on as they don't fit in). Sometimes even good people have bad days and not so good people can do decent work so even if either don't want to admit to a mistake it could be put right.

Only surprising if you don't realise that conforming to the correct 50n 00 rating automatically means the oil has suitable cold/warm viscosities. These may vary by a little but as long as the 50n 00 is suitable for your engine and service regime, all will be well.

Welcome to the forum. That sounds like pretty decent roadtrip and looks like a decent motor. Looks like you have one of the rare early cars with the cornering projector headlights that Skoda fitted as standard to the Roomster only for a very short time just as they were launched. 175,000 is nothing for the PD engines, probably one of the most bullet proof and over engineered engines that VAG ever produced.

Car has since been fixed and tested, there was a combonation of clogged Cat and worn piston rings. I changed to a 2nd hand cat and the pretty much fixed the fuel trims but the car still failed emissions, im guessing thisnl was also caused by the worn piston rings. Fixed the piston rings and emissions are now almost 0.01% vol. Fyi, a tip to diagnose worn piston rings was to start measuring emissions at a low engine temp, and if the figures start out ok, and worsen as the temp rises thats a sign that increasing volumes of oil is innthe exhaust as the oil temp increase. Mine was passing NCT limits below 75degC but above got worse, at 90degC it was well beyond the test limits.

This is how the B&O Looks like in a A5 with no spare tyre but with storage space.

Maybe you saw it already but I emailed Skoda recently and was told it (belt and tensioner) was now "lifetime" which I've taken to be 10 years/150k+. I was going to have it changed next year but will leave it. I've the same year/engine (1.2 4 cyl 90)

I've just never bonded with it and don't especially enjoy driving / owning it. Saying that it is averaging better MPG than my last TDi Yeti! The Karoq is complex in operation (electronic handbrake / infotainment etc) whereas the Yeti was simplicity itself and somehow more than the sum of its parts. Guess this was the reason I owned four Yetis in total! Suspect this will be the only Karoq though.

I bought a 2106 MT-09 recently and had a local guy take some pics of me on it. If anyone local would like to do the same, let me know and I'll put you in touch.

It's quite some time since I updated this thread, so here goes. I've gotten used to the M3 and it is, as Steve Sutcliffe says, "a weapon". Astonishing performance from a paltry 3 litres and a rather podgy kerbweight. On a rolling start, alongside my beloved M4 (F82 model), in the dry and on a smooth road, in relatively warm weather.....I doubt the M3 (G80) would be much quicker, but everywhere else, in every other condition, the M3 is quicker...much quicker. It's simply nuts quick, owing to its traction and ability to hide its rather lardy weight. Cornering grip is great, turn in is superb, body control is nigh-on absolute and the brakes are actually pretty good. Build quality is almost faultless, with high quality materials everywhere. The ability to surprise 'performance' model Teslas is great fun (they believe a quick 0-60 makes their cars sports cars....not to mention the 0-60 figures quoted are with a 1 foot roll out). It also delivers moderately good mpg, considering its weight and performance and has plenty of room inside and in the boot. Even the looks, something I quite liked by the time I owned one and has grown over time, are praised by more people than any other car I have owned or driven (? Surprised me, given the initial, almost universal hatred of the design). And yet... I miss my old M4. The M4 was a car that tried to kill you basically. Wet weather was a tippy toe exercise, mid-corner bumps were interesting and you had to think before you flexed your toes. Cross-country and on a rough road it wasn't a fast car, it was a lairy, heart stopping, fun car. I loved it. It has surprised me, if I'm honest. The general motoring press has gone nuts for the new model, something they didn't always do with the previous version (all except Chris Harris who loved the previous incarnation more than the current one). Don't get me wrong, the M3 is a brilliant car and a wonderful thing to own, I realise I'm very, very lucky, but still.... It's odd really, I recognise the car is better in almost every way and by quite some margin, but to enjoy it properly on public roads, you need to be travelling as escape velocity speeds. The only things I can quantifyably point as dislikes, are the steering wheel (too fat) and the low speed ride (seriously jiggly, even on the softest setting). All the systems work, as does the remote phone app stuff, the interior is a triumph (there are still buttons and knobs) and as a tool to drive quickly in, it's almost peerless in its class.....and yet.... I keep looking at F types Jags, the P450 in particular. A car that is much slower, less well built, doesn't handle as well, has much crappier software and infotainment system stuff. It's thirstier and will cost more to run. It does have enormous character though, that dinosnore V8, the cruder suspension (at least in its handling), some weird design decisions.....and yet....those looks and that sound. So, go figure. My old M4 (F82) I would rate as a 8/10 car and the M3 a 9.5/10 car and yet I miss the inferior model perhaps it is my age, or the fact that cars are probably becoming too fast to enjoy properly on the public roads (although overtaking is still a hoot). I've always thought that true beauty has to have flaws to reach that elevated status and I think that I'm coming to the same conclusion with cars. A perfect car isn't necessarily the car you want, it's just the car you think you want. Disclaimer: I do still love my M3, I'm just trying to put into perspective that it is so accomplished, some of the character that can make a car special is lacking imho. In wet weather I do not necessarily agree with that view of course I think only Mustang drivers know the true nervousness of the M3/4 (F80 series models) in damp conditions

who will act like Rick and morty fans to people who dont like it - " you just dont understand the complexity of the design". No, i do, i just think its asinine and i dont like it...

its almoat like they took the feedback on the massive m3 grill to heart and said " well fine, if you dont like that, then we wont do it again... here take THIS instead, is it small enough for ye fussy feckers?"

The front end / grille has been nicked from a Dodge SUV and squashed... as for the back it seems to be off a previous gen Civic R. Horrid regardless and very, very poor design (in fact I wouldn't even call it 'designed...' But then Domagoj Dukec has said in the past he doesn't really care what people think of his designs... so he clearly holds his customer base in high regard - NOT!