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Let’s have a think……….nil.

https://www.transportenvironment.org/te-united-kingdom/articles/mission-accomplished-carmakers-fulfill-the-2024-zev-mandate "Mission accomplished: Carmakers fulfill the 2024 ZEV mandate" https://insideevs.com/news/742024/tesla-regulatory-sales-profit/ "Tesla has made $2.1 billion this year by selling regulatory credits to automakers that haven't hit emissions targets.

Big ie 40% price plunge on Octopus Electroverse usage on several networks including Instavolt. Instavolt early bird discount on usage could well be a winner too i reckon.

I have gathered the parts for this job, and they work on the bench but haven't been fitted yet. None are particularly expensive. My head unit is too old to have a video input, so I need an independent LCD monitor. The camera is the type that is combined with a tailgate release switch as a bolt-in replacement. To avoid running video coax through the tailgate flexi-loom, I also have a 2.4 GHz radio transmitter/receiver pair. The idea is to power the camera and video transmitter from the ignition controlled +12 volt feed to the rear wiper, within the tailgate. The video receiver and monitor need a source of +12 volts from the reversing lights. When this is up and running I will give an update.

It was glorious first thing, although I came a cropper on Black ice! Happily no damage 👍

Yes I saw this a while ago. I even had it read out to me when I took out new insurance this weekend. "Your insurance premium may increase if you make a claim, even if you are not at fault.". Heads they win, tails you lose.

That does not surprise me.

Frost on the bonnet this morning, Sunset and an Astromode shot......

Yup. Go check out Kopacek / Super Skoda and you will find nice bright better than OEM boot lights for sale

You'll need to replace them... Normal LED headlights are handed for either LHD or RHD traffic. The option in the infotainment is only for short term use and just drops the beam height rather switches the pattern. This is why there are sperate part numbers for LHD and RHD LED headlights

Well, this is a first. Took my car in for Service....I said I wanted it serviced slightly early due to some longer journeys I was undertaking. Car is saying that it needs a service in about 1400 miles. Therefore it arrived at the dealers today (for just an oil service...not an extended scope). They refused to service it....point blank. I'm waiting at the dealer for the next hour to see if they will make an 'exception' for me. It seems that Skoda won't authorise a service if it's done sooner than 9 months....news to me (i.e. VAG making up the rules as they go along). Shame the service advisor didn't tell me this before I set out on my 80 miles journey to the dealer. So....stuff the service history. Car has only done 27,800 miles (and it's a MK3, so low mileage). I'll do it myself....f**k the lot of them. So annoyed....I'm planning to keep the car anyway so as long as I have all the paperwork, that's my service schedule and any proof of the car being serviced.

Personally, I would say no chance!

Some, including Electric Viking, kicking off that the Five "only" got 4 stars in Euroncap. Euroncap seems more about counting safety systems more than crash testing which buyers should be aware what the Euroncap means these days. Religating the Zoe from five stars in 2013 to no stars in 2021, when it basically has the same shell and auto braking plus several other safety measures ie sign reading etc. Personally feel safe in the Zoe as i will in the 5. Fair bit better than the 850 mini use to zip about in.

Thanks! Oil starvation definitely and failed oil pressure solenoid. Connected or not we'll never know for certain. EIBACH Pro-Kit E10-79-012-04-22 . A little bit firmer with DCC in Normal. I was initially shocked when the car down off the lift, it just kept going down! Very happy with the height now. Spacers finished it off 15MM all round.

At last I'm back in the road! My mechanic had a free day on Friday while we were having Gale Force winds and a Red Weather Warning. He had almost a full day of cancellations, so there loss my gain. New engine, new flywheel and fully reconditioned turbo all installed. Also added the Eibach Springs and Spacers! Let's see how the next few KM go!

How about @TheWanderer looks "away" about 90 degrees right at Pulpit Rock Northbound?

Looks good. My Karoq is black, so the badge won't show up so much but I just don't like the chrome badge. I finally ordered a black one from Kopacek - just waiting for the weather to warm up a bit before I stick it on

FAB Fabrication plant. These are enormous clean room plants for growing the silicon wafers. (Start video at 8:50) They produce "chips" in particular MCU or Micro Controller Units. Which are not quite the same as a CPU or Central Processing Unit on a PC Technically the processors on the M1 Mac are MCUs not CPUs The other one is GPU or Graphics Processing Unit which is a specialist MCU/CPU similar to a DSP (Digital Signal Processing Unit) The shortage was due to flooding in several major fabs in Asia, far bigger than the one in the video, due to freak weather. It took a couple of years to rectify. Then you had the backlog of supply to get through. This was just getting back online when COVID hit. As you will see in the video, they are huge clean rooms where the few people wear full suite, masks, hair covers, eye protection as normal working procedures. These places have filtered forced air and are cleaner than any hospital operating theatre. Also, as staff don't tend to work closely with other people, they were not really affected by COVID. When COVID hit, I think they kept shifts in isolated dorms rather than going home. The electronics production for PCBs (the circuit boards) is 99% automated, once the chips came back online there was little problem with production during COVID. Vehicle production was affected. Whist much is automated final assembly does require people in close proximity, The problem was the chip shortage and COVID overlapped a bit. So you had cars held up with the chip shortages, though some of the problems were due to politics (commercial, not government) in the industry. Then COVID. At the time, I was a member of this https://aesin.org.uk/ as I did embedded critical systems. So I saw it from the inside, talking to the Tier 1's and the supply chain. I retired in 2023 closing the company

Ross-Tech Upgrade Program This is the Ross-Tech VCDS upgrade program to the HEX-V2 and HEX-NET, but the UK distributors also offer upgrade options Ross-Tech Distributors

Welcome. This will be an issue for many buying cars from the Covid-19 years and theMicro-chip sgortage years. Stuff that was not fitted to vehicles.

No problem, take no notice of the other poster, he sometimes has bad days.

yes a very common failure, when it happened on mine the only symptom was the engine surging instead of slowing down when I took my foot off the throttle at lower RPMs, like someone else was pressing on it, very disconcerting as it would happen slowing for traffic lights, pedestrian crossings and traffic in front. One of the few bits where pattern parts invariably are as bad as the failed original, I think its a green VAG one that you have to look out for.

Thank you Pete. I shall sketch out your info on a diagram for future people to peruse. I will do as you suggest on fuse 50. But first I will run the tests now the cars sat with the radio out overnight as thats almost the same.

Hello new coding : Disable rear window wiper in automatic mode : because turn off the wiping of the rear wiper in the auto mode for the front wipers, because the rear window is often dry : central electronic 09 : Adaptations -> rear window wiper ->Automatisches Heckwischen set to not active ...

I’ve never had a car that has had two possible brake fitments like that before. Even Saab with their known little anachronisms make brake part selection simple. Suppliers/Skoda should at least be able to make it so that looking the car up by reg number (which I did on several sites) will bring up the correct sized discs and pads. No need to be unnecessarily complicated.

Been bitten long ago, now I never order pads or discs without having a quick look first. Measuring disc diameter and getting an idea of pad shape & any identifying ears on them. Even a rough diameter measure with a rule looking through an alloy wheel can often narrow down options.

This is exactly what happened!!! Am exchanging the pads for the correct ones tomorrow 🤦🏻‍♂️😂 I have the correct 7mm bit, it’s the same size as for one of my Saabs so at least that went my way 😎

I downloaded a free copy of VCDS-Lite from Ross Tech which should work with your car, I bought a cable for £7 off Ebay. Worth a try.

So let it lose that every year for a few years then top up. Perhaps it's evaporating because of where you are, the system and seals not being perfect or their wear/tear, age, or even how often you have the cap or other coolant system bits off. 😁 - https://www.kamsauto.com/blog/can-coolant-evaporate-when-it-s-hot-outside And as you like American videos (they can't be wrong, see who they voted as President, twice!). -

My Karoq came with a space saver spare wheel with moulded styrene storage around the wheel. The boot floor sits on top of this and is pretty much level with the “threshold” of the hatch. If you don’t have the spare wheel and moulded storage maybe that’s a way to raise the boot floor?

I'm 100% with you, this is not the first poster on this forum to not only be wantonly ignorant of the effects of their abdicating decision making of such a simple function on the safety of oncoming drivers but also insults them. The central barrier on autoroutes and dual carriageways also stop the high beam assist from recognising oncoming traffic and hence dazzling them, some new HGVs do it too, probably all the new ones have it but as the drivers are professionals like yourself I reckon very very few use it. Editted, its easier for an HGV with said system to see over the barrier and detect oncoming headlights because of their height.

I've had Skodas of one kind or another since 2009 and have always been happy with them. I changed from an Octavia MK3 to a Karoq a year ago. Car was a year old when I bought it. It's a Karoq SE Drive with the 1.0 litre engine. I'm in my seventies now so don't do as much motorway driving as when I was working. That said, the car will easily cruise at 70mph when I do go on the motorway. I find the Karoq an easy car to live with. It's easy to get in and out of and is probably the most comfortable Skoda I have owned. It is big enough (but the boot isn't as big as the Octavia's). Like all modern cars, there's too much technology on it for me but I just use what I need and ignore the rest. I bought a spacesaver spare wheel as those gunge kits are a waste of time in my view. In short, it does the job for me and I am happy with the purchase. The problem with asking about different models of car is you will get loads of different answers and opinions. For me, I'd stick with what I know and feel comfortable with and would keep well away from the £40k road tax threshold. That's far too much to pay for any car in my opinion.

Whatever you do don't cry! 😄 I'll get me coat.....................................

If I was looking at a 10 to 13 year old car, I'd be more concerned about condition than "2 or 3 owners".

If you don't want to go down to 225/45R17, then slightly oversize 235/40R18 7.5Jx18 ET51 5/112 57.1 wheels should give a decent level of ride comfort. These tyres are 10mm wider than the standard 18" tyres, ie. 225/40R18. Notice in the chart below, that 235/40R18 would keep the gearing close to standard. 235/40R18 fitted to 7.5J rims would give much better ride comfort compared to 225/35R19 fitted to 7.5J rims. To get the 235/40R18 to feel as hard as the 225/35R19 you would have to overinflate the 235/40R18 by at least 6psi...and considering its easy to notice a 3psi difference, this is twice that difference. Outside diameter of tyre 225/35R19 640.1mm 235/40R18 645.2mm (0.8% bigger outside diameter compared to 225/35R19) 235/35R19 647.1mm (1.1% bigger outside diameter compared to 225/35R19) 225/40R19 662.6mm (3.5% bigger outside diameter compared to 225/35R19) 235/40R19 670.6mm (4.8% bigger outside diameter compared to 225/35R19) Alloy rims from the Skoda accessory catalogue can be ordered from any VAG parts department by quoting the relevant OEM part number. 18" alloy rims for the Octavia MK3 (from the Skoda accessory catalogue) https://eshop.skoda-auto.cz/cs_CZ/alu-kola/c/alloyWheels?q=%3AscoreDesc%3ArimDiameter%3A18%22%3AcarType%3AOctavia%2BIII%2B%282017%2B%29&text=#

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Yes, that’s why there a lot of issues after retrofitting 569B. Only after disassembly or connecting to car you can check.

High beam is a nice touch where it takes care of itself. It's on my RS and I just activate it before I move away and leave it. I still get the little wimps flash me because of my lights, even though they're auto and they dip themselves. Ultimately it depends on how much night/early morning driving you do will more or less dictate whether you're going to find it VFM. I used to be a train driver before retirement and I used to drive mostly either early mornings (0300-0500) or late shifts (1200-0200) so anything after 1600 was dusk or dark in the autumn/winter, so it was useful. Now I'm retired I don't do much night time driving, so its value has somewhat diminished, but it's still a very good thing to have as I don't have to constantly dip or raise my lights at night or twilight/dusk.

Hey all Just to update, fitted new rear-right ABS speed sensor, so far all good with approx 2000km since the fix Cheers!

Blimey, how much?! When I first looked for mine four years ago it was £99 - and I decided that was too much!

Really struggled to get a picture of it clean, so instead I've taken a quick couple of pics when the sun just popped out, whilst away camping for the night 🏕️ it's an awesome car

Well the time has come and I'm moving on from the Octavia. This has been my second Octavia, my previous one being a Mk3 SE L 1.5tsi EVO DSG estate which I had for 4 years. I was excited to collect my new Octavia in petrol blue after a 16 month wait. I took delivery in December 2023. I only specified the boot lid protector. I was hoping to add the Canton system but they had stopped supply at that point. Anyway, I have accumulated just over 8800 miles in that time. Most miles have been motorway and a-roads. It was a company car so I only charged it for every work journey. Pros: Big step up in interior design and quality over the Mk3 Much better, sharper looks Fantastic drivetrain, seamless between the EV and hybrid driving modes Overall space and practicality Cons: Not quite as nice to drive as my previous Mk3, mainly due to the weight, and the soft suspension. I could really feel that extra ballast of the battery, although most of the time I was driving at regular speeds so it ultimately didn't matter much. EV range. I never got any more than 25 miles Battery charge retention. If I stopped to say pop to into a shop and then returned within 5-10 minutes, I would lose 2-3 miles immediately. It was always poor in that regard. I think the worst I did on a full charge was about 18 miles. Slightly smaller boot space Seats not quite as comfy So, I've really liked my time with the iV. I would definitely consider another Octavia. I'm actually moving to an A3 plug-in hybrid with the same 13kWh battery. Looking forward to that Audi interior.

Evening gang I’ve currently got an ultra gauge plugged in to the OBD, mainly to check if the car still produces boost when I feel it lose power (it does, but tends to stall at about 15/16psi goes north of 22 when I’m round town and give it a boot full in 3rd/4th) anyway.. I’ve noticed the engine temp reading tends to start at -30/40 when it’s cold, and it takes absolute age for it to get warm, I’ve also noticed the fans staying on.. could this be a temp sensor issue? 🤔

Late reply on this one! I had a subwoofer installed and the unit to plug into was indeed behind the glovebox. Battery in the boot Weird config, but its in lol

Yeah and no! I used a hairdryer for about 8 mins and the some floss. it needed some jimmering with a flat head screwdriver too 🤦‍♂️ (nervous part) so I protected the paint with a towel and masking tape. left some residue behind that I scraped and rubbed off most of it with my fingers. After that dead easy. 😮‍💨 good luck 😉

Glad you like it but not a fan personally.

A 10mm spanner would be for a 6mm thread - maybe m6 x 14mm is what you need?

Just collected our 24 reg Fabia Monte Carlo 1.5 DSG today. Options include Winter Pack & ACC. It’s the MY23 spec although the actual build date was Jan 9th 2024. Replacing a 10 year old VW Polo Blue GT 1.4 DSG with only 46k miles on the clock. Brilliant engine & box and all round great car. VW no longer offering the 1.5 engine on a Polo so the Skoda was a no brainer.