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very pleased with my Enyaq so far. But it's only been a week. Shift work means 4 drives a day and it's short but too far to walk at 65yo. With no special rates and charging on the 2.4kw i reckon around 20kw costing around £5 allowing for 10% loss in kw charging. At the start of the week it's long term miles per kw was 2.3kw/m. I am guessing that was because of being sat in messing with the car at the dealers over time, after my week of driving this has risen to 2.8kw/m long term. I have yet to discover how to sort out the trip and other stats. I don't want to blur the figures by sitting in it playing 😀

If I remember correctly the headlamp washer only washes about every 5 th pull of the washer stalk.

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Facelift wing mirrors are the same, the only time they change is if the car has areaview cameras, then the internals change.

Going off previous posts I think this guy is a troll....

He is good, but makes random statements and assumptions and also has 'Click Bait' titles. The Autotrader and Auction sites are good. As to private to private sales, they wish they actually knew what went on. Then Traders, people buying and selling car, Nod is as good as a wink to a Blind Inland Revenue / HMRC, Just a hobby, honest mister. I know what he looks at. But there are statistics and damn statistics. He mentions going to a filling station to fill up every night. Well that is high mileage drivers or people that stick in a fivers worth. How many Private EV owners, early adopters so older EV,s are selling private to go buy these 'Cheap As Chips, brand new BEV,s with 3 miles or clocked up to 3,000 miles. Clocked UP BEV,s are easily found out when plugged in. Plenty Hire / Courtesy / Lease cars are being caught these days, an extra 2,500 miles up just as much as down in a day. Or change the Tyre Circumference in the ECU and have it register more or less miles. It has been all my time involved in the car trade that Demonstrators were clocked up for the break from HMRC. Channel Island brand new Fords supposedly hire cars with still Wax and Plastic on back in the 1970,s.

My partner has the same DQ200 & speed DSG in her Fabia (1.2 110bhp) - your right the box does change up through the gears quite quickly . This engine produce max torque quite low down between 1400 to 400 rpm hence why it changes up at what might seem like low revs. I suspect the 1.0 TSI engine is also optimised for max torque at a low revs. Having said that pressing the the accelerator harder will cause the DSG to hold on to lower gears, Sport mode will rev almost to the red line before changing up.. When I drive the Fabia (and I my own car has a DSG box) I flip in and out of Sport mode, typically as I approach a roundabout I tap the gear lever to select Sport mode, as I come off the roundabout tap the gear lever again to switch back to D. VW used to say that the DSG box used fuzzy logic, no idea if it does or not. But the DSG boxes do adapt to the drivers style, so if the previous driver was just pottering about in 20 and 30 mph areas in traffic that might be totally different to the type of roads you use. I can give you an actual example of how the DSG adapts. I tow a 1300 kg trailer with my DSG car, with the trailer attached the car has to hold on to the lower gears longer and change down sooner when slowing down to get maximum engine braking. This continues for a while after I stop towing the trailer, while the DSG adapts to a different style of use. The DSG also preselects the next gear either up or down, When accelerating in 1 it will already have selected 2, when 2 is engaged 3 is selected and so on. When 7 is engaged 6 will be selected as 6 is the only gear that can be required next. This process works perfectly most of the time, the exception being when the car is accelerating through the gears for example engages 4th, 5 is selected traffic conditions or a hill slow the car now it needs 3rd which means deselecting 5th and selecting 3rd which is sometimes noticeable as a lag. Something that sometimes catches new DSG owners out is a delay when pulling away from traffic lights or out of a junction. The natural reaction is to press harder on the accelerator - the car leaps forward usually much quicker than intended. There are a couple of reasons for this. - either or both could apply depending on circumstances. Firstly the DQ200 has a dry clutch, this means it disengages when stationary, so when the footbrake is released and the accelerator pressed the clutch has to engage before the car can move, secondly the DSG often attempts to pull away in 2nd gear pressing the accelerator can cause it to decide to select 1st (and it will have preselected 3rd) hence a delay, more throttle. The upshot can be a more rapid pull away than originally intended. Stop/Start cutting in can add a further delay. The S/S delay can be avoided by reducing the brake pedal pressure very slightly just before you want to pull away, which will restart the engine, a further reduction in brake pedal pressure will cause the clutches to engage so that the moment the footbrake is released the car will start to move. A slight movement of the steering wheel will also restart the engine, on our Fabia reducing the footbrake pedal pressure slightly when coming to a stop will prevent the S/S for stopping the engine. Other DSG gearboxes are Wet Clutch, which means the clutch plates are in an oil bath, this stops them overheating which allows the clutches to be engaged when stationary and the car pulls away instantly. My previous car had a wet clutch DQ250, my current car has a wet clutch DQ382.

I will find it on the screen faster than Laura would wake up...

Well after 13 years of Yeti ownership I am reluctantly moving on. I’ve had 2 Yeti’s, the first was an Elegance model 1.2 TSi DSG bought new in 2012 and the second bought new in 2017 when I learnt that Skoda were discontinuing the Yeti. Another 1.2 TSi DSG in SEL Drive trim with all the extras. That Yeti is coming up for 8 years old so reluctantly time for a change. Without a doubt in over 60 years of driving the Yeti was one of the best cars I have ever owned and both have been utterly reliable. So many months ago the search for a replacement started in earnest, my requirements (I thought) were fairly basic - could be a bit bigger but had to have a light bright interior with light leather seats, an automatic but not a pure EV and good to drive with a high seating position for my older bones! Simple I thought, how wrong I was, it seems almost all cars nowadays have funereal dark interiors with black headlining and black seating and dashboard. Volvo (XC40) used to make it with a beautiful pale interior, no longer, now it’s black unless you get the very expensive top of the range model. Same with Skoda, VW, Mazda and most other makes -WHY? The cars with light interiors were few and far between, tried and liked the Lexus LBX but my wife found the passenger seat uncomfortable after 20 minutes or so, looked at Honda’s and eventually visited a Mini showroom where they had one of the new Mini Countrymen, in one trim level it had a pale interior, pale headlining and could be spec’d with pale leather (imitation) leather. Test drive was illuminating, very comfortable ride and excellent performance and most of the niceties I wanted with a higher option level. So on Monday I am swapping my Yeti for a new Countryman. I will be sad to see the Yeti go but I have reconciled myself to the fact that there will never be a proper replacement for the Yeti, why Skoda lost their uniqueness and just cloned VW models I will never know. However, now looking forward to getting to know the Countryman and all its modern tech! So after 13 years it’s goodbye to everyone on this forum, it’s been a source f information and fun for the past 13 years -good luck for all you Yeti owners. You’ve got one of the best cars ever made - as a past Editor of AutoExpress told me.

Having picked up our new Scala Monte Carlo on Friday I wanted to protect the fabulous Velvet Red colour against the usual elements and sun fading. Dan, a Gyeon specialist from Dynamic Details Ltd in Basildon, Essex, did a fantastic job giving the car a mirrorlike finish. The paintwork has a full ceramic coating plus top coat, the wheels have been fully protected along with the brake callipers painted red and Gyeon coated. All the windows and panoramic roof have also been treated. He also PPF protected the top of the rear bumper which should help with wear and tear when getting things in and out of the boot. I can’t wash the car for 2 weeks, however on the way home the heavens opened and the hydrophobic properties were amazing, the rain just flew off the car leaving it almost dry by the time I put it away.

Today I tried using voice control for Recirculation. Works fine turning it on and off. Works for AirCare too. But yes, once you know where buttons are it's quicker to use them.

They genuinely don’t know…..

But the subject was and is Electric cars and today @Graham Butcher not seeing many electric cars so hence he gathered there are not many on the roads. Just the ones they there are that he sees. But it matters not. There will be 22% at least extra ones registered someplace in the UK and that number will grow even if it means they are punted cheaply until the financial establishments can take the hit no more.

I have seen a private hire Toyota yaris, bet that's fun taking a family to the airport

The smallest things I've ever seen with a Hackney licence (taxi or private hire) are a Skoda Rapid (FWD) or a Toyota P(r)ious (and those only as Ubers). I've discounted vehicles run exclusively as "hospital ambulance cars" because they don't require hackney licences.

Err, yes, only on the Skoda's the others are BEVs.

Less impressively, I hoovered ours for what felt like a very long time yesterday. It was filthy.

If this post is not allowed in a Skoda Forum, I apologise in advance. I also apologise for the lack of brevity - after 40 years as a software developer its hard to leave out details. The Metro was bought new from Hartwells of Banbury, still in existence but now a Ford Dealer. It was obtained through the BL Employee purchase scheme, as a relative worked at the Gaydon Research Centre, which is now the location of the British Motor Museum. In daily use from Feb 83 to Aug 83, when I started a new job that included a company car. Very little use until my partner passed her test in April 85 and it became her daily driver until Feb 1999 when it failed an MOT. Having amassed a grand total of 34,500 miles in 16 years the Metro was tucked away in a relative's empty garage until March 2018 when I had it transported up to my house and set about recommissioning it. Drained the oil, changed the oil filter and 2/3 filled it with fresh oil, with the spark plugs removed I spun the engine over on the starter whilst pouring the remainder of the oil in. Replaced the plugs and then spun it over to see if it would start, and it did on the 5th attempt, on old leaded fuel that still remained in the tank from 1999. It wouldn't idle very well, was smoking a bit, and the exhaust was blowing badly! I replaced the Hydagas suspension units with refurbished ones, had new rear wheel brake cylinders fitted, four new tyres fitted a temporary used exhaust system, had two 1p sized wholes welded up and it passed its MOT and has passed every MOT since. The item it failed on in 1999, the rear brake compensator valve, is still on the car, not been touched and not even mentioned by the MOT Testers. Having got it road worthy I drove around during the summer, in the autumn of 2018 I sent the carb off to be cleaned and refurbished, fitted a new offisde front wing, repainted front and rear bumpers myself, dealt with rust blemishes on the front and rear valances which were resprayed along with the new front wing. I took the old front wing to LKQ to be scanned to produce a paint that would match the colour of the 35 year old faded paint. I paid extra to have a paint code allocated for the custom shade that was produced. Its also had a Maniflow big bore exhaust fitted to replace the temporary used one, new clutch and engine mountings and the steel wheels refurbished. In the photos below its shown assisting with Food Bank deliveries during COVID lockdown in 2020 (I was a volunteer driver of the Foodbank van at that time). There are 9 Tesco plastic crates in the back I could have got 2 more in !The Metro was featured in the June 2020 issue of Practical Classics. There are two photos of the Metro outside my house , the first taken in 1989 when 6 years old the next a recreation of the previous photo taken in 2020. Everything on the car is exactly as it was in daily use back in 1983. .

Cr2032 fixed mine tonight after faffing about with 2025s👍

The kormorans on my summer wheels are apparently one of michelins budget brands. I have had no problems with them on the karoq or on the previous yeti. The vredestien winters are on the standard wheels and I took off 3 approx 1/2 worn Bridgestones and one new budget to fit them. They were quite expensive at £165 a corner. Far ahead of the Bridgestones, but hit a pothole and ruined one at 2 weeks old. Very annoying.

Swapped Here I described how https://www.drive2.ru/l/681792318050668410/ Even I developed app to sync most of the adaptations

It might be a good idea to go back and check what I said, if you do you'll see that I was talking about taxis with those cars 🤔

I gave up using Mac mail on my MacBook to access Hotmail as it seems to regularly have problems due to changes by Apple, Microsoft or both. I use web based Hotmail via Safari, but even that failed for 2 days a few days ago so I had to use Firefox temporarily. Seems to me that Apple and Microsoft are deliberately making life difficult for each other!

It's the 'battery' symbol (red) warning indicator light in the instrument cluster.

Finally, I've finished today. Now I can add all details Wires schema. All wires 0.5mm except mentioned, for RH rear fog light will be on right inner side T4e/1 - T6bh/1(double check it). Preset, all adaptations for FL BCM, but you can use it for preFL BCM. preset And video

At charging stations in Scotland, who would have thought it huh! Were you not recently saying that your time was valuable?

Had the car since April and this weekend realised that there is a way to manually control the stop/start whilst driving. Apologies if it’s in the manual somewhere but I’ve never seen it or seen it mentioned anywhere on here or in other Facebook Groups. You can control whether the stop/start activates each time by the amount you press on the brake pedal. If you only press lightly on the pedal, enough to keep the car held, the start/stop doesn’t kick in but if you press harder on the pedal it will then kick in. Since realising this I’m pretty much able to stop the stop/start kicking in when I don’t want it to and let it kick in when I do. Again apologies if this is common knowledge and just me that was in the dark about it. 😉😁

Sorry, forgot to add: 7. Many folk seen to recommend changing Bridgestone tires. So, 18" are OK but Kormoran or Vredestien tires instead. When I buy my car, can I ask Skoda dealership to change or is it best to do independently? Roughly how much will that cost? 8. My Fabia is manual but my friends Mercedes is automatic that I like to drive. I know this is subjective but any views either way? DSG vs manual? (I'm leaning towards DSG). Thanks again👍

Perhaps when appropriate using the handbrake instead of footbrake would help certainly if the start/stop has operated. Sitting at traffic lights I often see a row of brake lights in front of me regardless of the type of gearbox in the vehicles. OFF TOPIC @thamestrader as you've given a comprehensive answer to the thread question, a brief post on your 1.3 Austin 1.3 HLE that you have owned from new would interest me, and I'm sure others, as until a couple of years ago I had a 1275 Midget that I used as my daily and only car for the previous 16 years.

You are at it again ! you are not putting a description in the title, Just you user name !!

In the first part of the video, i linked it from towards the end for the post, he is looking at a traders auction site, the data is keeper register changes from the dvla and the auction declares trader or private entry. The stats arrived at are his calculations from the limited data from that source on that day? On the multiple changes in a year i wonder if it could be trader to trader. There is a car check website that shows "Number of V5c issued" as part of it's info too.

There are lots of falsification of figures of vehicles sales compared to first registrations. Stored cars, runways of vehicles, dockside compounds. @Graham Butcher please stop thinking where you drive and go to is representative of the rest of the UK as far as his many EV,s are on the road. As you point out the EV public charging in your area is pathetic. Go north young man. Look for green flash registration plates. See just how many there are. In cat hire car parks, in NHS staff car parks, in airport car parks, in forecourts and on the roads. The total number in the UK first registered was only over a million earlier this year. If 30 million cars registered then what do you expect to see, or 50 million. I have no idea how many new or nearly new cars are In Trade, but car dealerships have millions of the cars in the UK sitting about.

You think they'd add features rather than remove them wouldn't you

Very handy outside Girvan on the industrial site. Rapid CCS at the harbour still broken. 11kW AC cut out at 80,% and £7.00 if I had started again I would have been £5 minimum to 100%,. This shows on ElectroVerse at 53 pence a kWh. It is a 22kW and I am getting 11kW. Started with ElectroVerse card immediately. Wind turbines very near.

Bit pedantic but true, you know what I am getting at. An older car is more likely to have higher mileage, hence more likely to be near failure. OP, my 20015 at 140K just had new clutch and flywheel fitted.

Cheers MChris Yes, did it all yesterday morning with very much the same method you outline above. Used a compressed air gun to clear out dust and debris from plug recess, soaked the plugs in penetrating fluid over night, replaced the caps and took the car for a run in the morning to get warm, then gently gently and the all came straight out no fuss. Will put a longer description with photos and what I used in due course but all good now, car happy and fault has not returned.

Dabbled with some light painting.

Age is irrelevant to clutch wear. No-one ever had to replace a clutch because it was old.

I love technology and touchscreens (my work nickname was Inspector Gadget!) and wouldn't be without the many IOT devices in my home and my touchscreen tablets and smartphone, but context and place is important. In a vehicle having to look down at a touchscreen to change a driving setting is much more of a hazard than with physical controls as your fingertips get feedback to help locate the physical control without the need to look down and take your attention away from the road (and change the focus of your eyes which adds further delay re-focussing even when you look back at the road). IMHO in vehicles touchscreens should only be used for comfort and convenience functions, with all driving related functions having physical controls.

Navigation to the station list and click the refresh button top right.

Over the air updates are not available on the Octavia 3.

Hi @Gizmo , you can add me to this list too (VCDS HEX+NET and OBD11) Limavady area, Northern Ireland

Don't. You want a softer yellower light in fog and snow. White LED light will just reflect back making driving in for snow much worse.

Just collected today. 6000 kilometres showing and very happy after a few hours behind the wheel. mk111 , I assume but registered Feb this year. Pleased to say it has all of the kit I wanted, inc reversing camera, heated seats, heated steering wheel. In fact the only (very small) thing missing is wireless charging. Sure I will get over it !

Goodyear Efficient Grip, I find them very good, wet or dry.

A different car, but on my wife's 2015 Polo, when I press the middle button, you don't actually hear anything happening, but the boot will have unlocked and that area removed from the alarm system, if I then open the hatch and close it, the boot is relocked etc, if I wait about and don't open the boot/hatch, it will relock after a short period of time - same as the rest of the car will if the top button is pressed and then no doors are opened within a certain period of time.

Hi - eventually found a video explaining how to put the spring in properly... Great!

I ended up with a TSI 95 Fabia colour and is plenty quick enough, really pleased with how car drives Cheers Steve

I run a small funeral company with my best friend and we didnt want our transport to be the usual mondeo or van /galaxy...i already own an Octavia Vrs we decided on our Superb...been a fantastic car so far and does exactly what we want.

There is another thread somewhere. Several people, myself included have used CR2032 batteries. They are marginally deeper but still fit ok and they seem to solve the issue...