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Disclaimer - I can only tie the following to my own experience over the last 6-12months with my CAYC engine coded 1.6 common rail diesel Mk2 Octavia. Also, I am not a mechanic, nor overly handy with a spanner. I do however have "The Nack" as Dilbert's paediatrian once put it, so tend to be able to see correlation and decide if causation is linked or not so... here goes! How to tell early on and as symptoms persist whether your EGR is starting to fail and what will happen as it gets worse, broken down into increasing levels of severity, with a quick description of how the egr system works (broad strokes) What does the Exhaust Gas Recirculation system do? Nutshell version - it pumps a certain amount of exhaust gases back into the cylinders via the air intake to cool the burn and help reduce overall emissions. Ladybird book version - (my understanding) On cold start and running the EGR inlet valve is closed. When the engine is up to normal running temp and the engine is running at less than full throttle, the valve is opened. at this time a certain amount of the Exhaust gas is diverted into the EGR cooler which on the CAYC is buried down the back of the engine, very inaccessible and the labour time to access is why replacing the system is so expensive. Out of the cooler, the gas is mixed back into the air flow around the inlet manifold, and the volume of gas sent is metered to match the Fuel:Air mix the ECU is expecting. The exhaust gas reduces the volume of combustible mix i. the cylinder which thus results in a slower burn that is meant to be a lower temp and helps burn off more of the exhaust emissions. When you lift off the accelerator and coast in gear or go full throttle, the egr valve is closed - Coasting cuts the fuel flow to the engine, thus no emissions so no gases need to be sent back for reburning. When on full throttle, the ECU doesnt care about emissions, and wants to deliver max power and torque available, so wants the "cleanest" fastest burn, so it doeant want exhaust gases reducing that efficiency. The above is all great when things are working properly. But, EGRs are notoriously bad at doing their job properly so, below is how detect when yours has had enough. Level 1 - Early signs While driving your car along at a consistent speed, such as NSL on a motorway, you have to slow down considerably, or stop very briefly, to pay a toll or similar situation. on accelerating back up to NSL you see the glow plug flashing at you. Cycling the ignition makes this go away and your journey continues uneventful, other than the nagging feeeling in your head. If you have a fault scanner, there will likely be no stored fault, unless you scan while the GP light is flashing. if you do find a code it will relate to the Mass Air Flow Readings. This is most likely a false error caused by the following - When you coast, the egr should close, but if yours is sticking open, it wont and so after Five Seconds (based on my monitoring over time tracking this) the ecu is going to have unexpected gases flowing into the chamber. When you put your foot down again, the ECU will still be finding unexpected "air volume" in the system as EGR should be closed on full throttle too and so will assume bad readings from the MAF and set the glow plug light flashing. There will be no limp mode nor will there be any loss or change in power delivery. Cycling the engine will reset that fault code and it wont come back unless you repeat the above circumstances. If you can't safely cycle the ignition, its absolutely fine, just an annoying little light on the dash. Level 1 is very intermittent, but will over time (1000s of miles) become more frequent. ignition cycling to clear the code seems to also kick it back to normal operation. NB - an initial check of your brake lights should be done, as a flashing glow plug light on some cars is also an alert that there is a problem with brake light illumination, probably the brake pedal switch. We will assume the brake lights are all working... I'll add Level 2 shortly, as ive tyoed all of this on my phone, while drinking brandy and eating crisps on a Sunday night...

Why should there be... There's a more limited EV charging market than for petrol stations and let's be honest you'd be a pretty sad individual to take your car out to charge it on Christmas day!!!

Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you all have a cracker of Christmas.

Welcome. You really need to say what the engine is, petrol or diesel, 3 or 4 cylinders as Derren Brown is on holiday, but maybe there is someone around still that can help.

after a couple of weeks behind the wheel, some more personal observations it feels more dynamic from the get go then the previous model, there is obviously a small power hike, but the gearbox in normal mode just feels quicker, throttle response in normal feels quicker. so it feels like it always just wants to go..it feels fast all of the time, it feels like its just ready to go at it straight away. and anybody else whos got velvet red...it looks amazing when the sun catches it, its got a flake in it that really pops, like a little golden sheen

That would follow the usual strategy of the UK car market - rather than decreasing prices to encourage sales (as almost every other marketplace does) they increase prices. With all the predictions of loss of business confidence in 2025 and even some analysts using the word stagflation this doesn't seem like the smartest move by car makers.

I don't think that is likely to happen as Big Oil does not have to try and entice people to use their product or services.

No, but supermarkets are selling vegetables as a loss leader. Selling for less than they bought them for and they bought them damn cheap and the growers / producers were not getting much of a profit from them. Giving away electricity cheap or free which is not expensive in the first place to charge vehicles is taking the p1th on those that might not be able to have electricity on because it is 25 pence a unit or so, and even £1.50 for the day is too much for them & a standing charge. The system is crap. Maybe use your free or cheap electricity and your EV and go help a local charity and give a lift to people that are maybe getting a Christmas meal provided someplace or do home deliveries if those are being done. No insurance implications in your vehicle already insured foe business use and you are not doing for gain or reward. Just out of the goodness of your heart, and at no cost..

Not just half price as I heard but Free charging at Xmas Day. 60% Discount today the 23rd and 80% discount tomorrow. No competition response from diesel/petrol fuel station I hear yet.

A second clamp seems to have sorted the power steering oil leak.

That's rather low...... In Leaf 24 kWh, with anything less than ideal 5 bar on battery temperature, it would charge at that sort of speed. But with 5 to 6 bars, it could accept 48 kW up to 55%. So I think 30 kW is rather poor for such a new car. https://ev-database.org/car/1705/Dacia-Spring-Electric-45 34 kW DC is fastest....... 🤯

That is nearly it's maximum charge, it is only a 26 kwh battery so that is about 1.3 C ie charge rate divided by battery size. I cannot imagine the cooling is too clever. Cannot remember if it is air cooled or liquid cooled. A good 400 v battery can charge at just over 2C, 800 v seem to able to go over 3C and this seems to be the way EVs are going barring all but these very cheap ones.

With 14% it was only getting 30 kW on a 50 kW charger.

I wrecked a Dunlop D5 Winter Sport on the 17" rims which I fit to my wife's 190 TDI Karoq in the season. We replaced it with a new one without any issues. Equally when a truck sideswiped one of her Tiguans a few years ago, the insurance would only run to one new tyre on that side when I was repaired by a VW dealership. Again, that created no issues.

It is winter, Snowmaggedon Daily express, Opp North Survival Kits are in all the time for the not born stupid, and appropriate tyres. Especially with EV,s where chargers can be sh!t and Snow Gates get closed, like the last few nights. ElectroVerse App playing up, failing to show chargers that are there and usually show. It is a horrible wet night, i will charge where there are canopies. Plenty sweets.

Senna the Scenic & Zoe sitting there with 80% charge. Thinking of some light up sills maybe. Put together a survival kit, New Year snow it is reckoned over much of country !

Nextbase recommends formatting the card every 2-3 weeks. That obviously wipes everything on it but assuming you have not had a prang (or want to report merde driving) and therefore don't need any files on the SD card that shouldn't be an issue

Interesting - it was unladen and in an unloaded position but the failure code I got was '4.1.5. (a) Headlamp levelling device inoperative', so presumably if there is an operating device it has to work?

Chain, lifetime fit.

Couldn't get through, but got it booked in at an auto-electrians in the borders. My main worry is by the time it was booked in with Skoda the MOT would've expired and if the fault is because of water ingress, wiring, wiring looms, connections or fuses, then I may be over a barrel paying dealer prices.

I would hope so. Was the Hand Control fitter not able / qualified & with the equipment to do that?

I am heading off for Xmas, going electric. Living the dream... Rain, drizzle and mist just as the weather warms up. Only 1 charge needed today later and i have a choice of expensive, quite expensive or very expensive.

@Ootohere totally agree for real world comparisons EVs need be treated and driven just the same as you would do with an ICE. People banging on about home charging etc are living the dream that as Jayemm said is not currently even remotely possible for many millions of people. In that case if your trips are short enough that you can replace what you use each time with a home charge and have the means to charge at home, then it might make sense and if you can shut out the possibility of the alleged immense damage to other people's environment overseas where minerals are mined and huge human costs being paid by the alleged children mining them, from your mind, when they go on about how good they are for not emitting any tailpipe emissions, when the damage is being done elsewhere out of sight.

Have you looked at the Roomster forums on this site as there will lots of info there and owners that know about the vehicle and possibly good value insure, you never want cheap insurance as if you need to claim cheap insurance can prove to be poor value of even low premium. Roomster section - https://www.briskoda.net/forums/forum/172-škoda-roomster/ Good luck.

When a valid warranty claim then if you had to pay the diagnostics to the VW Group Approved repairer / main dealer at the time then once the repair approved you should be reimbursed. Read the Warranty T&C,s. Any 3rd party diagnosis is not covered by a Manufacturers Warranty. There are Approved Warranty repairers that are not Main Dealers. What Warranty have you, the 3 years manufacturers, that extended, or an Approved used car warranty? SKODA_Warranty_Terms_July_2023.pdf VWFS_11815379_SKODA_AUW_Booklet_0922E.pdf

And yet here we are, all deeply dependent on their hugely polluting products because of the enticing that was done before our times. Is it not a very good thing to be enticed to use a much less polluting product? What else is there to do on morning of Christmas day besides family activities? We usually take a walk on Xmas morning, because everywhere is shut and there really is nothing to do. I'm actually very happy to find something meaningful and different to do as a family this year.

Thanks for replies. I’ll do my best to check it over ,but at the end of the day you pay’s your money and you take’s your choice.

The usual usual from these 2. 'The TYPICAL EV user.' groan! Just stick to actual costs as paid if away from home or work. you have gone out on the road actually testing for more then a day or 3. Do not count the first full range as having been charged cheaply other than say on a FAST public charger. several hours... (FAST, not Rapid or Ultra Rapid, and they keep calling Rapid or Ultra Rapid FAST, when fast was only ever AC charging in the past as a term they used.) They mean those that have cheap charging facilities available as TYPICAL. as in the TYPICAL Motoring Journalist maybe, home / work and even then they get that paid for,, these TYPICAL Home charging drivers might be lots of those that will be blowing a crazy amount getting a MINI COOPER E or SE. Typical right handed drivers in the UK need a none shaky left hand or finger. As for voice controls, well that is something else as in you may need to repeat stuff several times, or maybe not, depends on your voice / accent. ................ No doubt it can be Cheaper to run an Electric MINI if you charge @ 10 pence a kWh and 50 kWh costs £5.00 and takes you 150 miles or 175. & the Petrol is 137 pence a litre and 45 litres (£61.65) takes you 350 miles, or even 400 miles. (No cheap sources of buying petrol.) Pay 55 pence a kWh for 50 kWh and you are OK at £27.50. even 75 pence, £37.50. 89 pence a kWh, £44.50 but less than 200 miles. Real world. Obviously if you get what is a 2 seater, (2 + 2 1/2s.) or at a push a 3 seater and you need 3 suitcases or more in then drop the seat behind the driver as nobody with legs can sit there unless the driver and the passenger with legs are very short. Or a 2 seater with more luggage space than a MX5.

@Ootohere I can't see that changing anytime soon, either, as it would be counterproductive to their net-zero strategy. When you consider that there is far less processing put into the production of diesel when compared against petrol, and was really prior to the surge towards diesel powered cars, considered more as a waste by product with limited commercial value, then the whole thing with it being the more expensive fuel, a complete mockery. Another issue with diesel powered cars is that emit 20% less CO2 per litre than the equivalent Petrol powered vehicle, and given that you get way more MPG with diesel that means for the same journey of say 100 miles, a petrol car produces way more CO2 then diesel does over the same distance, thus making the whole net-zero policy flawed when diesel is being penalised, which was after all one of the main reasons for the governments global push a few years ago towards diesel as a motive power, as it drastically reduced the CO2 levels being held up as the major cause of global warming. Makes you wonder if the current global warming is the result of more petrol powered cars on the roads then diesel because of the way diesel is being portrayed as being evil? Yes, we know that diesels produce NOX, but then so do petrol cars, and also I have repeatedly stated that the air quality has improved massively with the introduction of DPFs etc over the last few years and is still being improved upon all the time and will, I have no doubt, be considerably less than petrol if ICE cars continue. This chart taken from the UK Governments own sources shows just how much diesel has cleaned its act on the NOX side over the last few years.

If the damp traps dont collect moisture then there is not water leaking into the cabin, what has been described sounds like the film that can build up on glass after a car has been valeted for sale, there wont be condensation as in drips but a foggy haze that builds up as soon as you breathe in the car or if wearing damp clothing or if said clothing has been left in the car. A thorough solvent cleaning of all the glass will probably yield a marked improvement.

I will be passing Frankley. Wanted to test my new cars charging speed but also first for me on Gridserve which is the company with the best coverage at service stations. Just a 10 or 15 minute charge probably but I am in Stoke, then Worcester then South Wales all in 2 days. What is better than 8.5p per kwh at home is free public charging ie cost to fill up and get up to 260 miles range either £5 or nothing. Still think the gentle charging is better for than battery so will not go below 7% or probably above 90% for the sake of being kind to the traction battery. Interesting to compared an EV to an ICE car in monthly running. Decent newish car is going to cost £400 a month upwards but other costs are tiny for the non mad performance EVs for energy, insurance, services and tyres i find.

The wholesalers keep being allowed to have diesel artificially high priced.

I agree with everything he said, and I have had similar discussions with others in this thread who are just like the EV owners he mentions who constantly have a go at him for doing it all wrong, should be home charging, etc. I have had this feeling for a long time that what with the advent of 15 minute cities etc, that they really don't want the average person to be able to travel very far at all and that the great plan is for the poor to be heavily taxed, have their freedom taken away from them and that basically only the elite in society will be able to afford to run a car and have the ability to effectively be free to go and do whatever they want. The essential workers that we all depend on every day are very rarely from the elites, and yet it is these people who are being squeezed till they bleed, I could go on but I know that I shall get a barrage of negative comments from those that cannot see the overall bigger picture.

I had this several times, then replaced rear discs and pads and never had the issue since. Guess it wasn’t releasing pads quick enough but not really sure. As it sounds silly cold where you are what’s the general battery condition like? Anything over 5 years old it might be worth getting a new one

Take Tesla supercharger as best case scenario, the per kWh price is always going to be higher than slower destination AC charging. Then remove Tesla's CapEx backing through sales of vehicles, load it all onto per kWh price. How much do you get? I bet it's pretty close what they are charging now. Make it into a family activity I've never visited Gridserve's Electric Forecourt. My very old parents are looking to buy their last ever vehicle, profile fits EV perfectly. A trip there and a demo of public charging.

As requested, here's my Octavia, now bearing its original Kent Council registration number and associated paperwork. Progress in bringing this one back to life continues apace......

Just my 2 pennies worth but in the specific condition described in the OP, the car in front is slowing to almost a standstill and turning into a side street. Front assist does not anticipate the behaviour of the car in front, it only looks at the information presented to it, the car in front is stopping & you are driving towards it. In the UK it's quite common to brush past the back of the car Infront when it's turning because you as the driver know it will continue to turn. In Europe a driver turning into a side street does not have right of way over a pedestrian and can often stop before entering the junction. You must think of the system with this kind of manoeuvre in mind. Also, from a manufacturer point of view, there is nothing dangerous about braking sharply in any conditions. It's the driver behind who is at fault if they hit you because they must maintain a safe stopping distance from the car in front in the event of such an emergency stop. Whilst in real life this will obviously cause problems e.g. on a motorway or busy road, the manufacturers are covered by the road regulations given to them & for them it would be more serious if they hit a pedestrian rather than someone else his the back of you.

my last vrs was my first ever auto after 30+ years driving..I got used to it after 3 days and now 3 years later and onto to my second auto I would never go back! its pretty fool proof, you cant accidently pick reverse while moving forward or anything like that..its all electronic and it just wont let you, I personally dont use auto hold as I find it an irritant in stop start traffic

Just want to say thank you to NZ100 for this.... it works 👍🏻 I had my 100,000 service in October (17th) and since then my service spanner icon keeps coming back 🤦🏻‍♀️ Thanks again 👊🏻 From Sean

Dear Gabbo You will find the part numbers further up this thread. i really couldn’t tell you whether there is a difference between hatch and estate.

Thanks Simon, that's good of you. My multimeter didn't turn up, hopefully will tomorrow so I can test it.

My Skoda Estelle Rapid ... Owned Brand New from dealership in 1988... I do require help & assistance from group members on a few items I need to keep car on the road. The car works beautifully with only 30,000 miles from new but alas I need to source the odd item 😬 🚘 🚘

that looks great @Tailhappy I am getting my 1990 120L 5 speed next week incidentally what electronic ignition do you use on yours as I will look to fit something to mine

The key to your problem you need a ferrite ring around the power cable. And importantly, the power cable needs to be looped through and around it once to reduce interference of the DAB signal as shown in this link. https://nextbase.zendesk.com/hc/en-150/articles/360018064857-How-to-fit-a-ferrite-core-magnet-on-a-cable

Maybe they are doing what so many EV owners/users/drivers keep trying to tell everyone that you should only drive for about 2 hours and need a comfort break and something to eat and as so often happens when going out to eat, time slips by waiting for the service to catch up. I went out to celebrate my late Father in Laws birthday on Wednesday last week, 1.30 table booked for a pub lunch and it was over 2 hours before we actually finished, spent most of the time waiting for food to arrive.

In China where oil fuel demand is on a ever increasing slope downwards due to new EVs coming on to the market it will be interesting to see how fuel prices go. The UK looks like it will try and use VED to replace the lost £25B of income. I hear many car makers are raising ICE prices to discourage them being bought and make EVs look even better value. Interesting times ahead.