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Hi all. Just a quick update. I decided to go with ECU testing in the UK. I shipped the unit @ 3 o clock on Monday and it was returned @11 am the following Tuesday. I cant fault that. 5 working days including shipping from and back to Ireland Shipping cost 95. (they will only collect for free in the UK) Repair cost 505 including return shipping. (No VAT or duty charged) Oil, filter and pressure filling tool cost approx 230. All figures in EURO. Total 830 I tried gravity filling with a tube but it was a nightmare so bought the pressure tool. One thing that I did notice. Be careful after you fill with oil and screw in the drain to warm the oil up. The drain picked up on the stand pipe as I was running it in and initially stopped short of fully home. Luckily I noticed it wasn't home before tightening fully as I could have stripped the plastic threads. I backed off and ran it up again slowly. This time it picked up on the stand pipe and it wound the pipe in ahead of it. I only discovered this when I went to wind the stand pipe in 2 turns only to find it nearly fully home. I had to back it down 2 turns to let it drain. I haven't heard anybody mention this before so found it a little strange. DUNNO!! It did throw up a lot of faults after, including gearbox / clutch faults which wouldn't initially clear so I had to carry out the basic settings . (Lots of strange noises and clunking when you do that). That cleared it. I have about 1500 miles on it since and no problems, so I happy out!!

Thank you!!! I had checked every option but did not think that view was scrollable. That is some weird interface choice from Skoda. Also no mention of it in the manual. Anyway, thank you again, it was driving me crazy

Saw this and could not believe my ears. The tracing of parking up positions is for the EV models of Skoda and Seat as well it is reported. Has someone parked up at the brothel or mistress house etc is there to see. Must be thousands of very worried VAG car drivers. With all the fuss about Hawei circuitry in many cars built in China, including many Western branded cars this is just so revealing. VAG in car software now coded etc in PRC and with the SOS system in modern cars. Needs a patch me thinks.

Germany, rich with data privacy laws, were facial recognition is not allowed, or so i thought. wrongly maybe.

I had issues with assistant notifications (although very rarely) since I got the car in July. But one day towards the end of November, the car did not start displaying the same notifications. So I called the dealer and got an appointment in the middle of December (I live in Turkey by the way). They installed the update within a day and since then I didnt have any issues (apart from failure notifications indicating lack of visibility, which I guess is not related to the bug. It also went away quickly). After the update my software version is 2460 (didn't check it before unfortunately). I just have one problem: after the update the driving data in the dashboard only shows the average consumption since refueling, instead of since start. I tried every related option, but I'm pretty convinced it can't be done. Anyone else having the same issue? Or am I missing something?

I feel lucky to have been able to get my tariff fixed for 12 months, and that was a couple of months after i had fixed it at a slightly higher tariff. I do not have a home charger and am using the 3 pin cable so empty to full takes 2 nights of charging at least if also using it. i get 16 kW/h in during the 7 hours of off-peak and the standard if i need to get more is still cheaper than any public chargers near. The car has only a 32.9 kW/h battery. eon next.

Greg Jackson. Octopus Go tariff was increased from 4 hours to 5 hours and done so at the end of the night period so the battery warming through charging and preconditioning the cabin can happen as late as 0530 rather than 0430 previously. Many people in the UK are reacting to the slightly higher day time charges ie 25/26p per kwh is currently I gather the typical cost of a kwh of electricity by installing typically up to about 20 large solar panels on their roof that I can see around here ie have the potential generation of up to 9 kws and some have gone for storage batteries and some just export to the grid at the 15p per kwh they can get. Yes cost them thousands of investment but there seems hundreds of thousands of households willing to do this. I dont know how much longer I am going to stay in my current house so gone down a bit of a different route. So I have portable batteries "aka" solar generators and portable solar panels. One can get solar batteries at less than 17p per wh ie 2400 wh for less than £400 and 100 watt solar panels for less than £40 ie 40 p per watt of max generation. Still benefit from the 5 hours of very cheap lecky, currently and in to Q1 of 2025 at 8.5 p per kwh, including the 5% VAT. If lecky at night rate did look like moving up to the Day time rate, no sign of it yet as Night time rate actually stayed where is has been rather than going up at all like single rate and the day time GO rate, then I would just buy so more portable batteries and more solar panels so I can both generate more and store more. This is the way that the market is working both fixed battery and solar panels and portable ones and both techs have prices falling at a very steep rate ie about a quarter to a half year on year. I think more the problem, and we see this in Australia, Germany, Spain and the US etc is that the amount of lecky being bought from the grid, by whole chucks of the population, are reducing so much that some of these countries are introducing a hefty standing charge like the UK has ie about £20 or £25 a month as they are making so little money from the lecky sales that they feel they have to have a substantial fixed charge to maintain the grid supply. All well Martin Lewis and others moaning about standing charge but the real cost of supplying a reliable supply is not cheap ie billions of pounds/$ of infrastructure required. The beauty of electricity, over gas, petrol, fuel oil, coal etc is that there is now, in 2024 and onwards, not a huge cost or problem generating and storing one's own lecky and choosing to not take it from the Grid.

Hopefully I will be able to go out soon and take some shots with my new Canon L series white lens I got from my sons for Christmas.

20 years old in March, and wow, what an absolute gem it's been. Just sayin'. Might have a party for it, and CAKE! It's just had a pressie anyway. Black Magic..... detail valet, and ceramic coating.🥰

The time has come and the Fabia has found a new home. I haven't posted much on this forum as life has got in the way while I've had the Fabia. Ownership had been a great experience and I've enjoyed every minute of the ride, I'll stay a member as you never know what will happen in the future. It's sad to see the car go, it has had lots of positive comments over the years ( except from my teenage daughter who couldn't get along with the colour 😄, personally I've loved it), been totally reliable, practical and fun, even if some of that was chasing max mpg rather than speed! I've also loved the fact that most other Mk1 VRS owners either flash or exchange thumbs up when you see them, reminded me of the old Beetle days and the camaraderie that went with ownership. I've attached a few photos for posterity, taken just before the sale. I think the new owners a member also so hopefully the car will stay on the scene and the record started by bonelorry (previous owner) will continue.

Please don't judge everybody by your standards, the info I gave above was relating to posts made months ago and was I thought correct. I'm pretty sure that I saved a copy of that document but as my computer is playing up, and i Have had loads of files that have just disappeared from my hard drive, I have had to splash out almost £500 buying replacement parts to repair it with, would you like to see a receipt of that expenditure with Amazon to prove that it is not a lie??? I have already given you a possible explanation as to why I cannot retrace my footsteps and get another copy of it, but you can choose to believe it or not it's upto you, but you do not go round saying that I'm a lier, because that is something I'm not and does it not also go against the standards set for this forum???? Sod it, I'll post a copy of the order and dispatch status then perhaps you will kindly shut up with your accusations.

Hello, I recently purchased a non running mk2 Octavia VRS pd170 and am currently repair and restoring her to the glory I know was in its past, this is the second mk2 vrs ive owned. glad to be able to be apart of the Briskoda community and look to the information it holds! Many thanks, Will

Thanks to all, HowardB you have hit the spot. Shows how technically challenged i am. It dawned on me this afternoon that I never listen to music on my phone, so thought I would download a Media Player app onto the phone to test if the files I'd stored actually worked . I was in the car when the recent post from HowardB came in - and YES it does work via Bluetooth when you have a music app installed. I was getting over complicated and perhaps should have checked the fundamentals first. Perhaps I should stick to listening to the BBC Light Program, or Home Service - the simple old days (and giving my age away too) Hope the posts might help others too Thanks for all your help - everyone has been so helpful Cheers Truly a Wombat!

Do the compression test ASAP please, all this speculation is pointless.

😀 I've taken it to the Skoda dealership now, but that might have been the best option. I'm not sure what they would have said. Big Motoring World did call me this morning (are they reading this forum?) to ask me to also send them the diagnostics report, but they are not making any promises but are "looking into it".

I think the answer is to take it to a big motoring world garage and tell them to fix it, leave the negotiations over hourly rate and whether to repair or replace between them and warranty 2000.

I have to say I can't really see the point in the plastic inserts. I think the wheels look much better without them.

It will be. I found that the aerodynamic covers were easy to clean and protect the wheel paint well

Finished it off Saturday morning. I have to be honest. I was very nervous when firing it up. All was well though. Logging suggests that the torsion value is now mostly +1, flicking to +0.5 at times. Running waaay better, I think. No smoke even when booting it, no stinky exhaust smell at idle. Temperature is strange though. I changed the green dual thermistor (what a mission that was!), and removed and refitted the stat while coolant was drained. End result, VCDS of engine coolant sensor, and dash indication both lower than they were! Disconnected the fan for my way home just in case that was spinning spuriously; no better. Oil temp showed higher though, but topping out at about 80 while coolant barely got above 60 according to G62 and dash gauge. Makes me think latest allegedly genuine CTS may be dodgy. Or stat is not working at all for reasons unknown. Baffling. I must dig out my IR thermometer for an independent measure of engine/coolant temp.

wow - what a thorough answer. I will try to digest it and ask Laura when I next have a few moments. I have the Android Auto set up for hands free which works well. Thanks for your time

Welcome to the forums and your new Octavia. I'm not familiar with Android phones (I use an iPhone) but I think the Pixel 3a supports Android Auto (AA). That is probably the easiest way to access music, apps etc on your phone from the car. The voice control should work with your phone too. Once AA is set up, press and hold the steering wheel button until the phone asks for input (a short press will initiate Laura, the cars own voice control system). I've not had any issues using USB sticks for media. A simple FAT or FAT32 filesystem and folders full of mp3 files seems to work fine for me. I don't have any playlists though, but the car, in theory, supports several formats, for example m3u. A few screenshots from a pdf version of the manual below. Also, there have been a few threads about the best format for media files on USB sticks in the Octavia Mk4. Try using the search function within the Skoda Octavia Mk4 forum.

Many Thanks, I did finally manage to do it the same way with 7-Zip Program. Thanks again for your update. Happy new year to all 2025.

Osram make LED retrofit dro ins that are road legal in various European countries but that legality hasn't been replicated here in the UK so they can't be legally used here yet.

If they are still supplied from new with the inserts (not sure as many owners ask dealers to remove them) I will be asking my dealer to remove them

I'd be worried if they weren't doing that as standard! But yes the goop does bring about "I don't want to" rather than "It can't be done."

The problem is that the margins on the grid are so tight because we rely on that much wind that when its not windy all the efficient gas stations and old Nuclear are at full capacity and we have to start calling for small open cycle gas generation and diesel engines. Some days our old CCGT can make millions of pounds for the same generation as they made the previous day for 50K. The flip side of that is when we have sold power and have an unexpected excess of wind, power generators still get paid to generate nothing. There is also a balance between renewables and having inirtia on the grid for stability and frequency response. Something we never had to worry about when we had 20 or 30 odd 500MW Coal powered units on the bars. All of the above, and all the other investment into carbon capture and other means of cleaning up fossil fuels means £££££££ for the consumer

Yes, they don’t last long. mine was only 15 years old. Can’t get the quality nowadays. I noticed the end of the wiper was gradually moving off the bottom of the screen, so I kept nudging it up. I decided I should look at it properly and found the plastic moulding had separated from the splined connector. I pulled the wiper arm away, and that left me with the nut and splined bit on the shaft. Needless to say the nut was rusted to the shaft, and a lot of torque didn’t shift it. I used a die grinder with a cut off wheel, a Dremel like tool will do, to slit down both sides of the nut. I slotted a bit of card to slip behind the nut to protect the glass and sealing bush from sparks. Overkill probably, but a new rear screen is EXPENSIVE!!!, and the card was incredibly cheap. With the nut cut nearly through, I played about with it, trying to finish the splits with a screw driver blade. Eventually a spanner helped dislodge it, and I could remove the two halves. Put a M8 nut on the shaft, run it down, then back it off a turn. This is to protect the thread, and to locate the puller spindle. Next get my small bearing puller under the splined bit, and tighten it up, CLICK! and the spline separated. Tighten the nut down, and wait for the new wiper arm to arrive. The nut was a flanged type, but looked to have a smooth plastic washer embedded in the underside. Has anyone seen such a thing? Is there a reason for not using a normal flanged nut with the serrations on? I can think the sealing against water might not be as good I intend to use some Lanoguard grease for assembly, then it wont corrode again. If you do this, use a heat gun to warm up the grease to make it flow into all the cavities. Anti sieze compounds could be used instead, but they won’t coat over the nut and protect it. I’ve written this lengthy tome, as something as simple as replacing a part, when the bits are corroded, can cause plenty of grief, and if you get too heavy handed the job can escalate to catastrophic.The next thing to do is to look at the front wipers, and remove and refix them, then if anything fails the fixing will be trivial. Any car you have now is worth looking after, as the government is making life more difficult, and much more expensive.

Raised oil level can also be caused by seal failure on the high pressure fuel pump allowing fuel into the sump

Why would he want rid of it. Yesterdays video has had over 148,000 views in less than 24hrs.

I hope that in the meantime you have all managed to find a way to successfully download ECE 2025. My problem was solved when I used the 7-Zip program instead of the built-in Windows zip program. Today for your information, I recieved an email from Skoda in which they say => "We wanted to inform you that the file has been replaced. To ensure a smooth experience, please download it again using a stable network connection. Once the download is complete, you can extract the file using the default Windows packager." It took a while but they apparently got it fixed in the end and I find it good that they took the time to let me know. Let's hope that the next map update (May / June 2025) goes without problem. Happy New Year 👍

It wasn't just pagers, they even did mobile phones, but the point I was making was that even the most innocent of things can be used for other purposes and with data tracking could be used to pretty good effect.

Think you'll find that the Isrealis had a batch of pagers actually built with tiny explosive chargers which got the battery to go off with a bang. It was being investigated. A short circuiting newly added sub circuit might do something, probably just fizz and overheat but in these cases the last report I read was that a batch was doctored so a tiny charge was placed in these papers, maybe close to the battery to get it rolling on a combustion of the battery. Clever by MOSAD but sadly, as usual, seems to have also harmed many innocents.

I think you cannot change it there, you have to get to the view where in the middle of the virtual cockpit these consumption data is displayed, use the right scroll wheel there and select the one you want and then go back to your preferred view

Could it be that those tin foil hat wearers, who have been labelled as conspiracy theorists, have been right all the time?? They have always claimed that the electric push, the cameras that track us allegedly purely to determine if our cars enter certain zones etc, the mobile phones that loads of us carry are there for other reasons? This data tracking of course is not with EV's, think about all the electronic tech that even ICE vehicles have onboard these days, they could all be tracking our movements. Smartphones for instance all have cameras and microphones as well as GPS system built-in. My own phone for instance has a feature that listens to music being played and identifies it on screen, it is always active, even when the phone is locked.

I'm not an expert when it comes to diesels with dpf but there are a lot of parameters that can be checked even without a fault code to check the dpf management is as expected. It could be fan controller has gone and stuck on. Normally a code would be stored. Need to get a garage who will properly diagnose for a fee. Or get your hands dirty and a full scan tool for parameters. Also on diesels there maybe a secondary app required for dpf control. Someone else will buzz in I'm sure as I don't really do diesel stuff myself

Should be 2. One at bottom rad outlet. One on block below vacuum pump. If you are ordering off skoda you won't need part number. I would guess the block One. Try disconnecting and see if the guage shows 0. Have you got a scan tool? They're both slightly tricky to get to. You may need to move / remove other parts.

It is totally subjective and individual to any given persons back. I actually had years of back trouble whilst driving and most Japanese cars and Vauxhalls will cause me great discomfort after 30 minutes. I actually only started getting Skodas after my employer got them at work and I did a long journey in an Octavia and had no back pain. Personally I have found most VW group cars and Fords I am ok with, also some Renaults are ok. Most of the Asian manufacturers vehicles cause me issues which is a shame as it has ruled out a number of vehicles which I like or would be ideal for me. As duncs1961 proved with the sel and sportline difference I won’t buy a car now unless I’ve had a long test drive of over 1 hour continuous driving.

On the pre-facelift Superb, the interior lights turn on when u open the door, not when u turn the ignition off. I would assume the same for the facelift Superb too.

A few from this evenings walk.....

I recall having to remove some fasteners to peel back the wing liner but not removing the bumper, that has to be done on the pre facelift model because the foglamps behind the bumper are part of the main headlight, on the facelift they are separate. When refitting the new headlight the fixing bolts for the lower wheel arch bracket can be re-oriented to make future removal easier, - no need to displace the wheel arch liner.

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I've done it 3 times successfully. Remove all the trims and bolts you can, lower the window (if you can) which will allow you to pry off the top of the door card will allow you to drill the lock motor releasing the deadlock or like in my case it will allow you to totally remove the door card and then drill it. Then its a case of fitting a new ebay lock but removing the deadlock mech so it will never happen or cause issues again.

Hi Just picked up a MY2025 L&K. So far I've noticed - Steering wheel has the word Skoda in the centre rather than the Skoda logo - Remote Park Assist is now available. Not clear which models get this but its there on L&K.

@andry You have posted previously in English. Please stick to using English.

The originals were okish but not so sporty, which became more and more obvious lowering the car and adding side skirts. So found these used Audi Sline wheels and it seems they suit quite well. No need for spacers also...

I managed to find & buy my pre reg Mk 3 IV this year with 38 miles on the clock for £26.5k from West London Skoda, it is only a SE Tech model, but it does everything I need. If you search you may find another somewhere.

I would if you've got the front end off anyway.

Don't know where you are getting that idea from but wherever it is it's a load of tosh and rubbish - there is no such legal requirement! It may be 'recommended' by various motoring organisations but is not a requirement and these days with LED lighting it's pointless anyway. As for LED bulbs in fog lights - please don't and please don't use them as additional lighting unless it is indeed foggy - to do so WOULD be bad, cause glare to other road users and would be against the highway code as they should only be used when visibility is restricted and below 100m.

And the total cost for parts... €861.93 Incl VAT @ 23% Plus my mechanic and my time.

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