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I wonder how often VW Group service advisors will be offering cambelt changes on their EV? :)

My MINI and the BMW are identical seating positions pedals and comfort. I get out of them just the same after 2 hours. Prefer then getting back in the MINI. Neither hurt my back. Electric seats in BMW, but I never adjust once set. Movable bolsters need at widest for me anyway.

Fantastic to get my car back, valeted and it seems as though no settiing changed. Going damn well with it's heavy accelerator. Had to take a diversion going in through a village with about a dozen speed bumps and very bad roads and was wishing I had taken the dual carriageway. Now Larry and am appreciating the car I have now. The dog is happier as well. 75 miles range when I collected it but AC on at max. 25 miles later running AC normal it is at 80 miles range.

You do realize that was fake?

Replaced the intercooler and boost pipes/hoses yesterday at thephirm - the guy working on my car, Simon, was seriously pedantic about doing a perfect job. Says he likes to work on it as if its his own car. Was there for ages and I helped out for the last couple of hours where I could and could see the lengths he would go to to get everything right; builds a lot of trust to see that first hand so if you're in the area it gets the absolute thumbs up from me. Now to plug in the RacingLine PDM and reflash to Stage 1+...

Try flushing it from engine compartment to see if there is water flowing through it. I used a garden hose. I was changing coolant anyway so put in a flushing compound for a week or so before hand. Alasdair

2021 RS

Wagner Tuning intercooler and boost pipes are in. Went to thephirm in Camberley. While I was a bit anxious about the admin as they seemed to be happy with a hell of a lot of work in a day (new discs and pads and braided brake hoses were booked in too but there was definitely no time for all that without another mechanic working on it) the work that was done was absolutely brilliant. Arrived at the end of the day to find the front still in bits so stuck around for a couple of hours and was an extra pair of hands and just chatting to the guy working on the car about all sorts. Turns out he had previously worked at Wheelbase where the car is regularly serviced so that was a nice link. Also had the front trim panel cut out so airflow was better into the car (although looks like I’ve taken a pic of the wrong side 🤦🏻‍♂️). But both sides are now completely open. Again, the guy wanted to do a proper job rather than drill some large holes so he got a saw out and cut it completely open. He was really finicky about doing everything absolutely right. Now to reflash to Stage 1+ RL quoted figures are 433bhp and 550NM of torque. I don’t have a rolling road session so will have to go with theirs (with a pinch of salt). Main thing for me is the better flow through the pipework and intercooler.

I had Conti Allseason contact on my previous Volvo XC60 and they seemed good to me but these were the previous generation. Currently have Goodyear Vector 4 Seasons on the Superb and they've been good too, if anything I probably rate them higher than the Conti's but obviously the newer version of the Conti's is likely to be an improvement.

Had the wheels refurb'd... and new centre caps and new tyres all round. Much much nicerer. Before and after

I’ve found the DCC in our Ibiza FR to do literally nothing! At least, I can’t tell a difference - both in terms of comfort and handling. You have to give and get with used cars. This one has everything you want plus more, even if you get manual seats, etc. My vRS sourced by the dealer was the 245 I wanted (DQ381, LSD and bigger brakes) and had the digi dash and ACC (two things I really wanted), but I had to make my peace with 18s, no folding mirrors, etc. You can’t have everything, unfortunately, and the cream seats are like the digi dash on my car - quite a nice and rare option.

Wager is good stuff - glad the guys at The Phirm looked after you. Looking forward to seeing the 2-piece/floating discs! Sounds like it’s time for some suspension stuff now, and maybe some special wheels 😉

Hi everyone Having been very lucky to become the proud owner of a beautiful Skoda Enyaq Coupe 85x SportlinePlus in velvet red last year (2024) and finding that Briskoda was the best forum for some genuinely good information, it was time to join. Location: UK

Just had a call from Sytner Mini and my lad's Cooper E Exclusive in BRG has arrived. Odd as I thought it was not due for a month. Perhaps just a same car cancelled from a previous boat. Think the finance has changed a bit as on the Cooper E it is 3.5% APR and not 3.9%. SE is 3 9% and JCW MINI finance want 4.9% APR. At a price of a nidge over £30k it seems a good deal to me considering how expensive Minis have been. With battery prices falling by 30% over the last year it is probably quite easy for Great Wall Motors to sell in the UK at these lower prices. As with all EVs it will be interesting how much lower per kwh batteries will go and with even better finance deals down the road as central interest rates continue to fall should be plenty of relative bargains coming up.

Reflash done. The car feels transformed. Much keener throttle, more induction noise from lower down. For such a small output gain, this has been as transformative as to Stage 1

Well, in mine, it makes quite a difference. Very welcoming trick.

My Spaceback 1.2 TSI (110), got it in April. Got new plates and interior mats, and got SmartLink activated via Vision Coding (using a Carlinkit Mini Ultra for wireless connectivity). Would like to get front sensors fitted at some point, and would LOVE LED DRLs but not sure if the headlights from the facelift are plug and play or if they'd need coding.

Faffed about with this for quite a while today. Skoda Kodiaq 2017 Mk1 Seems the car is super sensitive to the format of the usb file AND where you extract the zip file to Pulled the download of abut 17GB from Update portal. Entered my VIN Got a download link for HIGH2_P410-EU_202522.zip Wait for download to finish I tried using every variant of format on Linux and Windows to get the usb format right to no avail. I wrote one mp3 file to the usb stick to be sure the car could read it. This saves copying 17Gb to the stick and having to retry with different options which takes a while even with a USB-C fast sandisk drive Eventually I used RUFUS which I also use to burn ISOs to USB for installing Operating systems. Prepare a blank USB card Download Rufus (free) software from www.rufus.ie/en website. Insert your USB flash drive into computer, and launch Rufus. Select Non Bootable from the Boot Selection menu. Select MBR from Partion Scheme menu (the other option won't work). Select FAT32 from the File System. Format the drive. Write an mp3 file there (music) to ensure the USB is readable from the car. Plug it into your car's USB port Check that Format is good and car can read it and play the music. Extract the Skoda Zip file to the root of the USB drive. Note: by default HIGH2_P410-EU_202522.zip will unzip into a folder HIGH2_P410-EU_202522 in which there will be 2 folders and a text file like: Mib1 Mib2 metainfo2.txt You want to copy these 3 items in the top level folder of the USB (NOT in the HIGH2_P410-EU_202522 folder) for example if your USB is mapped to say E: drive on your windows machine, the files should be at E:\metainfo2.txt and NOT at E:\HIGH2_P410-EU_202522\metainfo2.txt On mine at least this step was super important. 11. After that from the Nav App go to settings and Map Version and choose Update (USB/SD Card) option Takes about 40-45mins to update. Go for a drive or keep infotainment powered on, but dont turn off infotainment while update is running. In my car if i open the door with radio on it turns off. Good Luck! Thanks to Reddit CarAV for the reminder that RUFUS is the best at formatting

I'm not having great success with AAWireless. Played great at first then lots of stuttering. Troubleshooting suggested enabling pass through which was no help. Support suggested the audio stutter fix but none of them fix it either

I put Cross Climate2s on my Sportline and they give an excellent ride. I do have the 4x4 so with the R45 not R40 tyres and the multilink suspension. The 2WD Sportlines do appear to have a harsher ride.

There are a few good Reviews on wheel / tyre size differences by the reviewer in the linked CC3 Sport Vid. But then during Covid Lockdown and Scottish Ski Centres closed he took a VW Golf up to try the All Seasons. Issue was if he looked there was no snow on the roads to the 3 Ski Centre roads in the Grampians. If he had used the Web Cameras before leaving England he would have known that. & if the centres are open and the Snow Gates and the roads open they are ploughed & Gritted anyway. Any white top has all shorts driving on that. Open to the public. Gritted & Salted.

I have a Superb, Same platform. They've been trying to do the update for 3 days now... Currently having issues with modules not working. They've had the car 6 weeks for other issues... I'd advise waiting a bit and letting them iron the issues out.

Jonathan Benson from Tyrereviews has tested Conti C2 and said about wide dead spot. Don't remember the exact size but it was rather common size , nothing extreme. And that in user reviews the same thing was mentioned few times, also rather common sizes.

As @ZJZ says. The dead spot is usually the centre of the steering but can also be noticed under any change in direction. Some think tyres with large dead spots can be comfortable to drive but unresponsive to turning input. Personally I find them uncomfortable to drive due to the constant input required to keep the car straight. I do like a pointy car though. Small steering input = actual response form the car. However, how the car is set up and the condition can also fell the same. A sloppy rear end (oo-er) can feel vague like a dead spot. Also worn steering bushes can do the same thing.

@Graham Butcher I have driven lots of BEV,s now but this MINI E is very very different, unique even from a New MINI SE from China. I would say it is pretty likely to be dangerous with some drivers. Mostly they are not just quite as keep to move with a slight touch of the accelerator in their default mode. I do not like the D/B or N selector either. But i do like shifters, not the short of stubbies you get now, or buttons or switches. Seat down and fully back and steering wheel down and out and my driving position i expect to select Drive, Reverse / N, e-Brake as i sit and using my left hand and not to lean forward to reach these. (No i am not a Short Hand / Arm typist.) Old model Level 3 is luxury in comparison. Actually there is no comparison to material that came off an animal for the seating and steering wheel. An arm rest with padding & that can be swung out of the way is just common sense. Even if the wireless charger inside only suited small phones. I-drive controller and selection buttons right at the position your hand can get to while driving and looking straight ahead and around without leaning forward away from the seat back.

Not on a Skoda but I have very good experience on my BMW 740 Sport (E38 variant) with EBC Greenstuff brake pads. The BMW brakes are marginal for a 2.5 tonne 300 bhp car (single piston sliding caliper) but the Greenstuff pads have significantly improved things; better intitial "bite", less fade and less of the black dust associated with copper based pad material. I shall be fitting these pads to my Octavia vRS as soon as I can undo the wheel nuts.....

Yes it's the Gen-3. TBH I'm not much of an expert on tyres overall but I've never really noticed much difference between the all seasons and the summer tyres the car came with in terms of either of those things. Sorry not much help I'm afraid.

The way that they do it must work cost wise nowadays due to high volumes. I'm old enough to remember that when I bought a used Ford Escort De Lux van back in 1977, as it didn't have a coolant temperature gauge, all I needed to do was go to a scrappy and remove the dash pod from a same aged Ford Escort GXL or XL, and fit that after swopping the speedo, the extra wire/wires were there. So, that meant that the temperature sensor and its wiring had been fitted already - I had checked - of course!

I've reported it too and referenced your ticket. They asked for screenshots and also phone model OS etc.

Odd that it’s got the button if it didn’t come with it. Could it be as simple as the satnav card being missing from its slot? With the button being present, I’d think it a racing certainty it’s there, but might need unlocking by the dealer. My Wife’s car has Android Auto/Car Play installed, but she won’t pay the cost to have it enabled 🙄 Gaz

It's not just about the compressor, it has to be matched with a condenser and evaporator as a system It sounds like there is something wrong if your air con is not performing very well. There are some things you can monitor and check with VCDS but the first step is to check the refridgerant charge, that the compressor is running well and there are no obvious obstructions to the condenser and that the fan is working ok.

Little bit late, but it’s accessed from below the glovebox. There’s a removeable panel then the housing lid slides sideways and drops the filter down.

Made use of revo's summer sale to finally get that stage 1 remap. 190ps tdi 4x4. Who has this engine knows it's lazy and doesn't really do much off boost. The power is there but it manages to be so unexciting at every stage of operation somehow. So, overall consumption is the same. Maybe it's a bit easier to pull into the 50's below 70mph. On boost acceleration hasn't noticeably changed, however, off boost acceleration is where it really shines. There's less need to push the gas until the gearbox downshifts, making slowing down and pushing it seamless, like on roundabouts. Starts in 2'nd a lot easier, pushes in 6'th for an overtake at reasonable pace. It's like the car is a few hundred kg lighter. One thing i've noticed and i'm not sure how to feel about it is that the dpf stays cooler in normal operation. There's more headroom to heat up and passive regen doesn't happen as easy as before. Active regens are also a bit colder and take slightly more. I'd say from 550-670° down to 520-630 now. Of course i have 0-60 times as well (via car scanner). No map, winter 7.5s, exactly to spec Stage 1, summer 25° 6.4s I'll keep an eye out for any quirks as time goes on and report

As already mentioned by Danoid this was a fairly common problem a couple of years ago (although the cause in your case could be different, a diagnostic check should give the problem area).

Ah 'ave a massage from Mladá Boleslav

Well, so far so good. It does vibrate if you floor it on the 5th or 6th at low rpm, clutch can't handle max torque at low rpm. But you can floor it from 2500 to avoid that. Or, which seems a better solution so far, keep it in eco and power goes a bit lower. And the boost button becomes active so you have it when u want it. More like a 280ish hp with 470ish torque that becomes 330 and 560 when you floor it. When the clutch gives up, i guess will change to smth better, a manual Golf R 7 maybe?

Thanks for the tips folks, I'll take all on board and hopefully get things sorted. I must admit, I never thought of saying "Navigate to....". Will also remember to start a specific topic thread, rather than my drivelling on different subjects. I must admit, i still have an Atlas as a back up. My theory being, a satnav will tell you where you are going and where you are - but where in relation to the rest of the country? (Mostly when I have been out in the wilds of Exmoor or such places).

On the edge of the lip of the glovebox. As you push the lid closed, you can feel where the lip contacts. Smaller ones on the rear lip, slightly bigger ones on left and right of the side lips.

It must be something blatantly obvious that I am missing, Yes, just forget about the built-in Nav and use Google Maps or Waze via Android auto or Carplay

That is very similar to what the digi cert shows for my Karoq, mileage is approx 6 weeks out date. About 2 months ago there was an issue with the 'Send Route to Car' feature. If you use the App to plan a route this feature will send the destination/route to the built-in Sat Nav. You could send the route but it never reached the car, many owners had this issue and it wasnt limited to Karoqs. It was clearly a Skoda server iissue not transmitting to the car. It got fixed after about 2 weeks. This Digi Cert issue looks very similar - the data on the Skoda server is not up to date - as proven by mine and @mumpsim examples, it also seems as though new car data is not reaching the server hence why Digi Certs are not being produced. Generally the slave servers used to provide data to Internet and App requests are purely for that purpose, they get regular (hourly/daily/overnight) updates from the master servers. The Digi Cert should have an entry for when the PDI was done. As cn be seen from this extract for my car.

@abood299 - have a look in the Superb Guides section, u'll c a how-to-guide I made for firmware updates.

@Tobes_25 I got a response last night asking for more details, & another just now that they're investigating. I'll update with any progress. Co-incidentally, I've also had mine two weeks today... My phone is a Samsung S23+ running Android 15 & I have the same issue on a Samsung tablet running the same. Might be an idea to email [email protected] & reference my ticket no. 00274107, so they know mine's not a one-off.

After seven years having this car I found the SD slot last night...

Out of the standard Karoq front wheel drive wheel sizes 215/60R16 6Jx16 ET43 5/112 57.1 would give the best ride and by far the best protection from kerbing damage. The Karoq 4x4 uses the same specification rims as the Karoq front wheel drive, but the Karoq 4x4 uses slightly bigger tyres, eg. 225/60R16 vs 215/60R16. Karoq using 16" Octavia MK3 rims https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/524262-would-65j-x-16-et46-octavia-wheel-fit-2020-karoq/

It’s a fault where every time the car is started a warning comes on ‘proactive occupant protective system is restricted’. The ACC recall was done then this happened. 3 weeks and they’re trying to find a solution

Hi, have you set up a home location in the Skoda app?

I'm the same. I traded in my 2016 model for a 2023 model last year. There are some improvements with the newer car, but sat nav definitely isn't one of them.

I let my daughter drive it after adding her and her sister on the insurance ahead of an upcoming holiday. This doesn't sound very exciting apart from the fact that the last time she drove a car of mine was on her first driving lesson over 25 years ago where she panicked and crashed my Peugeot into a wall

Back to Skoda from Seat and what a difference between 5F Leon and "new" Octavia. 😍

Hello All, Apologies for not being back online sooner, I went ahead and purchased the car on finance. Within the 14 day period, I used my right to withdraw, which meant I had to pay the outstanding amount and a few days intertest. I kept all my perks. Hope that helps, and thank you all for your assistance. Thanks again