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Much of that sounds like dealer bull**** to drum up some work. Discs... Just take it for a run and do a few hard emergency stops from higher speeds when appropriate to clean up the discs. Shocks... Misting is not the same as leaking. Some light misting is normal. Bush... There's no play in it so it should be fine for a good while yet.

Yes, the final sentence is what is to be expected from this system as it is looking for changes/differences between the values/ratios when last reset to what they are now - ie as probably said already in this thread and others, this system is an indirect tyre pressure monitoring system and so is not actually able to measure tyre pressures - only the frequency of each wheel rotation.

Hardly surprising considering ICE technology has been around so much longer and most manufacturers are putting most of their investment into EV technology. The main question is how much further and how fast battery technology can improve. 5% improvement per annum in energy density is hardly that exciting when ICE is so far ahead. A typical Skoda Superb weighs at least 200kg less than a Tesla Model 3 (and is not insignificantly larger). With 200kg of extra fuel on board it would have a range of about 4000 miles. No contest.

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So, quick update.. I've been on lates at work all week, Monday and Tuesday I commute 45 miles to Manchester and back. So Tuesday morning I got up early and cut the evrymod wiring. It's made a massive difference, no more juddering at a constant speed, idles properly and just generally seems to run better. It's still dropping boost at 70 in 5th, even if you cycle the ignition it happens almost straight away again. So I just put it on cruise at 72 (which according to my ultra gauge that's plugged into the OBD is only 65 haha) and trundle along which is seems quite happy to do, it just uses a bit more fuel (still does 50+ to the gallon though on the trip) So the oven cleaner enema is next on the list. I also bought a £10 head unit from China on eBay to replace the VW cassette player that had just been thrown in the dash, so now I've got a green head unit, and Bluetooth connectivity! Genuinely looking forward to making this a tidy car again, without having to spend silly money. Which is lovely after having R56 Minis/ EP3 Type R that cost me an absolute fortune just to keep them running. One question I do have which is mainly directed at those who've done this, what other seats from the VAG platform are a direct fit (or need minimal work to fit) I'm after something just a little more comfortable because as you can imagine after 22 years and 169k, the drivers seat isn't the most comfortable place to be anymore and I suffer with a bad back. I'd quite like to retrofit heated seats to it but they aren't a necessity.

I've certainly declared my towbar as it was fitted after purchase. It had no effect on the premium but is at least now noted by the insurers

My 71 plate Octavie had AA in the system when it came with V1804 of the software. It has been updated to 1941 and still has it. Check the infotainment software version (scroll o the second page on the infotainment screen to find 'system'. If it is an approved Skoda used car insist that the dealer updates the software to the latest version.

Update on Project Blu. My husband has been using it as his daily and loves it to bits. Properly smitten. Car has done just under 120,000 miles. Things that needed attention: 1) The battery needed replacing. A CCA test showed it had 50% capacity on its battery. Got a new Varta 700Ah battery installed. Car is now very happy again. Curiously, it had a failing reversing sensor. Since we replaced the battery, the reversing sensors have played nicely. Win-Win. 2) Tyres. The tyres on that car were trash. Terrible things. Replaced them with a set of Goodyear All Seasons Vector 3. Brilliant. Recent Snow/Cold has paid those off instantly. Happy times. 3) The car had a full service. Oil/Filter/cabin air filter/fuel filter. Running Quantum VAG 507 spec 5W/30 oil. Got a full service kit for £108. Fantastic. Run some cleaner through the engine prior to oil change that has got rid of the gunk. 4) The humitity sensor had failed. Common fault. Got a replacement sensor from AutoDoc for £82. Both heated screen and air con now working correctly. 5) Its just been to Autohaus in Edinburgh for replacement front springs, droplinks and new polybush top mounts. Big chunk of spring fell away when we were doing a pre-MOT inspection in December (gulp). Other than that, husband has been busily polishing the bonnet. Previous owner did a poor respray to touch up stonechips, resulting in terrible orange peel. Its a work in progress, but bonnet is looking fantastic. Car will never be perfect (its done 120,000 miles previously in rural yorkshire), but its a very good car. Bonus: Its just past its MOT with flying colours. Things still to do: a) Lacquor on the wheels is peeling. Alloys will need to be Acid Dipped, cleaned and made good again. b) The High Beam assist issue. Suspect I'll need a new mirror electronics....not urgent as husband said he's not fussed.

Sorry to have appeared to ignore your enquiry. Initially I tried to find the offending filter but I must've chucked it. I do know that it wasn't Crosland. (Having bought an air filter in that brand and researched the brand I now never buy Crosland. I suspect your question is prompted by the strong suspicion that Crosland are rubbish trading on an historical name) Then Christmas intervened. I have checked the Halfords website to find their recommended oil filter is a Bosch. So it must have been a dud I bought. To finish the saga here I should say that surprisingly the oil alarm is triggered by too low a pressure not too high. My Foxwell code reader is happy : another drain using my siphon/pump toy, a new Blueprint filter obtained from the most reputable independent in Croydon, a measured fill of Castrol GTX, assiduous attention to the dipstick and off I set with a brand new battery installed. I have now stopped praying to the automotive deities and all is well. Fears for my tyres having suffered from months of inactivity were unfounded as the MOT tester saw no cracks etc yesterday.

"The science is settled!" 2025 remix. The "economical transition to electric" has been anything but. Instead, it was decided by people in positions that allowed them to make it happen, that there was a lot of money to be made by creating a whole new industry based around "climate change". And so it was made to happen, and billions have been made by the people who were in positions of power to force their agenda onto the rest of us. People cheering it on are either making money out of it themselves, or are IMO just NPCs in support of whatever current thing the media is telling them to support/oppose. I'll remind you the war in Ukraine is still killing thousands of people, but as it's no longer the fashionable thing to virtue-signal about, all the people who added a Ukraine flag to the avatar image, or signed off virtue-signalling posts with a "Slava Ukraini!" have moved on to today's "current thing", though most are still obediently refer to Kiev as Kyiv, because solidarity(!)

I’m really pleased I got the battery before this cold snap, I think the original battery would have struggled in this weather.

@Graham Butcher What do you actually want, just everything as it is or back to what it was? Can you not just carry on as you were surely as far as the world allows you to.

Only if you are talking about roughly twice as many petrol vehicles as diesels. The difference is significant, but nowhere near that big. I guess you mean CO.

Variable compression ratio / ultra lean burn / stratified charge / miller cycle / six stroke. All improvements in ICE technology coming to market or being developed that improve efficiency.

Happy new year! Had to find some shade and beat the sun to get Rusty washed as it has been too hot. Also a guy in the UK sent me a customised Hot Wheels version of Rusty!

Hello all, Life has been a bit up/down recently and our circumstances changed, so a replacement car was purchased for our previous 2020 Golf MK7.5. My husband Chris decided that he wanted another MK3 Octavia, so we hit the classifieds and eventually found what looked like a clean MK3 2015 Elegance TDI 2.0 4x4. It's in Blue Pacific (quite a rare colour) and has covered 118000 miles (that's the TDI just worn in by my books). It's been given the name Blu. I won't go into the purchasing experience...let's just say that a lot of these MK3's are now in the backstreet sellers lots and these sellers are quite an unscrupulous bunch. This one was located in Leeds, so we took a 4hr trip to go see it. It's a good car....tyres a little worn, but everything else is rock solid. Having stood in the backstreets of northern Leeds for many weeks/months, it then did a 200 mile trip back home and didn't miss a beat. My husband is thrilled to bits with it as it will be used as a project car as well as a reliable everyday workhorse. We will do the servicing on it, get new rubber on it and gradually improve it over the coming months / years. So far.... we've had to change out the battery - the factory OE battery having died at 53% capacity. The only problem I've got (all other fault cleared post battery change) is the High Beam Assist. Described at We have the dreaded b1168f2 fault - Control Module Faulty. Getting to it is the easy part (behind the mirror) but it's the module itself. Seems it's quite a known weakness/failure point on this generation of VAG cars (i.e.similar faults exist on Golf's, Leon's and Passats of this age). Lots of talk of the replacement modules (even brand new ones from Skoda) going faulty, so there is a problem with the electronics of the module. As I hate running cars with fault codes in them, I would really value everyone's views on how to fix this module (for good) and ideally a fix of the existing module would be fabulous.

Hello! It’s been a very long time since I was last on an online forum (mainly thanks to Facebook 🙄) Recently purchased a rough round the edges 1.9 tdi (red i) to get me back on the road after the timing belt snapped on my mk5 golf and wrote the engine off. it’s a 2003 (53 plate for our UK members) it’s currently sitting on 169k and in certain aspects it’s definitely starting to feel its age. the headliner is sagging all the way round the sunroof right back to the tailgate. The sunroof leaks (looks like blocked drains so they will be getting cleared ASAP). It’s got an intermittent fault with the dash lights either taking ages to come on, or flickering like mad. It’s got a boost issue when it’s cold, if you try and accelerate hard from a junction or a set of traffic lights, or even try and overtake on the motorway it cuts boost. Someone in their infinite wisdom fitted a 420 degree potentiometer and wired in an Evrymod (which is absolutely dire) so that’s getting removed soon too. Other than that, it’s just things like knocks from suspension bushes etc so it’ll get a suspension refresh when the better weather comes. The most important jobs for me, are to do the timing belt, give it another service, sort the boost issue and remove the Evrymod. then I’ll be looking to sort the interior out and potentially change the seats for some heated ones, they’ll get wired in properly using factory looms etc.

My Kodiaq only has keyless start but the Swift is full keyless entry and start. Regardless for the sake of what the batteries cost I just leave them in (I buy in bulk the cheapest CR2032s I can on ebay which work fine). If yours has a CR2025 in it the dealers has fitted the wrong type (20mm diameter and 2.5mm thick as opposed to the correct 20mm diameter and 3.2mm thick)

Mine is on v1941, not pushed for an update yet ‘cos it is working fine; no software issues at all. Adaptive cruise control on mine, an SE L First Edition; can’t remember if back in 2020 when the mk4 was launched if the SE L had ACC or if it was the First Editions that got it. The SE and SE FE didn’t have ACC as standard. It should be obvious if you try it on a test drive. And yes, very happy with my car.

As Steve suggests, really double and double check again that the software is updated. A friend of mine bought a 70/71 plate last summer from a main dealer, and it was plagued with software issues that only now are being resolved by replacing the head unit and probably another control unit or two. Hopefully not all dealers are the same too!

Here you go. No need at all to fully dismantle the unit as shown in video 2 & 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzVYML-ybg0

IIRC the very early builds of the Octy4 on early versions of the infotainment system required a wired connection for Android Auto. Only later was wireless support added. As @RobL50 mentions, get the seller to update the s/ware prior to purchase (any Approved Used Škoda from a main dealer should be updated anyway - or at least that’s what the blurb on the website says).

Hmm there isn’t a way to disable the fob from opening so that suggests the actual key is at fault, try the spare key and see if you get the same. Hold down boot opening button for a few seconds. As for virtual pedal not sure, reading some peoples stories on here it’s hit and miss I believe, but one thing at a time and start with fob

Not the car it seems, skodaconnect is down across UK. Apparently a fault in Germany.

For now I think I found the culprit to be the seal between the roof and the roof rails. No water seemed to enter the cabin when I poured water on the windscreen on the top or on the side, but as soon as I poured water from the back of the roof rail attachment point I saw water drops at the pillar. Looks like its headliner off for me 😕

yes

So found the equivalent in the Octavia this afternoon, when you're at the Good-bye screen just press the Clima button on the display and that's it, warmer than what it is when actually driving in EV mode. Thanks for giving me a steer.

This has all been cleared up as Skoda have removed the warning about the service ending.

So the same sort of incremental advances that ICE have been making...

I think the message may have been put up in error and has subsequently been removed by Skoda.

Oh super - thank you very much for the tip.

Yes, I have vcds and yes I'm guessing that coding module is required to tell car to dip right instead left lamp, just a problem as to where it is.

just realised I didn't describe how to get 7p per kWh off peak. That's easy, use Intelligent Octopus go and then plug in. If there's a surplus of green energy they will give you an off peak session.

Thank you for the reply varaderoroguy. So from your reply it sounds like this is the standard charge for them to plug their diagnostic tool in - crazy! I do actually have one of those ODBEleven dongles that I bought for my previous Skoda Roomster when it was going into limp mode randomly. It had a fuse box that was easily accessible whereas I have not managed to get access to the one on my Skoda Octavia. (I am aware it is behind the passenger glove compartment but was hesitant to try and remove that for fear of breaking it). I had hoped that for the £140 Skoda could have told me what the issue was and the cost to replair it but clearly I need to cough up more for step 2 of x steps. I have been on a service plan with Skoda since purchasing the car in 2020 but I am not too concerned about maintaining a Skoda service record especially as the car is on 143,000. So it sounds like I need to find a local independent VAG specialist. Is there a directory for these or is it just a case of using Google? I am based near junction 26 of the M5 on the Somerset/Devon border (nearest towns/cities are Taunton and Exeter). The 12c heater sounds a great idea as a temporary fix. Thank you very much for your reply - really appreciated. Paul

The heater is the same (as long as the heat doesn't come from the ICE) - it's a PTC heating element using energy from the HV battery. However, what you noticed and described in your post I think is some sort of software error (or just lazy programming) of the climate control unit - it has exactly the same behavior in my Formentor, which is basically the same car in different clothes. However, I found there's a solution for this lack of heating while using the in car controls with the car stopped (no engine, not "Ready") - probably there's some info in the User Manual, but who reads it 😁 ? . If you're trying to heat up the cabin via the infotainment controls - the same way you do while the car is running - it will only use the ventilation, but no PTC heating. So you'll have air at outside temperature blown inside your car. The workaround is to press the STOP button - as you do when you leave the car, and the infotainment screen layout will change to the "Goodbye" one. On the top/upper bar of the screen, in the left corner (that's on Formentor - might be different to Octavia) you have a "heating button" (see attached picture) - press that one and you'll have stationary heating, without using the phone App.

World leaders are not caring what so random person in the UK thinks is relevant.

The Vehicle Status screen should tell u which tyre is bad. At least mine used to.

Well, this link European emission standards - Wikipedia will show just how much advances have been made cleaning up ICE vehicles and as mentioned before, if there was not a ban coming up on producing ICE vehicles, these advancements would continue at a pace, but no manufacturer is going to spaff £billions on further research on a dead in the water system unless there is reversal of government policy. It is also worth noting that you say that it is CO2 that the cause of global warming or climate change that is expected to kill millions due to flooding and yet petrol vehicles produce twice the amount that diesels do, so continuing pushing diesels would dramatically cut climate change and save millions of lives, and retain the speed and sheer convenience of refuelling a car to a full tank and maximum range in minutes without having to invest £billions in bolstering the national grid and increasing generation ability. The graphs extracted from that link, shown below also illustrate just how much has been achieved since 1993 in just 31 years, the CO2 and PM and NOX levels are almost none existent on todays engines and no reason not to believe that the same kind of pace would continue if it were not for the looming ban. It makes me and a lot of other people wonder if there is another possible reason behind the policy.

Thanks Swint. Would be interested to hear what your badge is like. Maybe matt is the way to go!? Nice looking car btw 😉

In 2023, the United Kingdom became the world’s first major economy to halve its emissions relative to 1990 levels. UK cars on the road 1995 21,394,103 2023 there were 41.2 million licensed vehicles in the UK

For Diesel engines efficiency went down as more and more exhaust mitigations were added.

You'll need to do more than just 'turn' the cap, you'll need keep loosening it until there's a pop of pressure or the cap comes completely off. If you get a pop, immediately screw it back on to avoid the coolant boiling.

My 1.3 Felly has never failed to start in any weather all I do is keep it std spec and service it even in this cold snap we have at the moment. Just follow the manufacture instructions and you cant go wrong after all they made it. A good battery is a must have.

Vague answer. We need mileage each day, city driving, motorway. what?

I have both vcds unlimited hex-v2 and obd11 nextgen pro plan. I recommend both. They do all that is needed for a VAG, Skoda, audi. Obd11 is my go to due to size

My mx5 skoda octavia combi project taking shape.

why would you pay more than 7p per kWh at home? I have had off peak power for the whole house since noon today until 11am tomorrow thanks to plugging in an empty enyaq

poked it with the air shears till I realised I couldn't turn a corner with them (maybe this is user error) then did the rest with a worn down, thus smaller and more manoeuvrable angle grinder disk. Gradually worked over the new return with the joggling stick, finally gave a couple of choice areas a whack with the hammer and I ended up with this: Which seems to fit on the car like THIS: Which I would have to categorise as feeling flipping awesome! We can get this stuff DONE, can't we?!

@D.FYLAKTOS thanks for the info