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@tombee sorry, don't know details, i left my car in service, which specialized on Oldtimers, for one day i had idea connect them somehow on the bumper, as they are designed touchless, but service decided veld directly. few months ago met my previous car in traffic, exhausts ends were still on place, 8+ years since install

I absolutely fail to fathom just how so many people get so excited and crow about how registrations are continually on the increase when all that means is that more cars than before have been registered with the DVLA and have been given taxed status. How many times does it need to be explained that it does not mean actually sold to new owners as everyday drivers, unlike your Renault 5. Many of those cars are "registered", as they are counted by the DVLA (in other words, the UK government) as another car towards their annual target and save the motor trade from the punitive £15k fine for each car that is below their annually increasing targets. This figure is just going to continue to grow year on year until these targets are scrapped and the sales are left to market forces, at which time the market will show the true sales of each type of car after the huge inventory of pre-registered cars is finally sold.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/volkswagen-recalls-4-million-cars-handelsblatt-reports-2026-09-25/ Anyone seen any details on Skoda vehicles participation in this safety recall? From: https://www.focus.de/auto/ratgeber/auch-skoda-modelle-offenbar-von-lenkungs-rueckruf-betroffen_7a5080c8-2ee3-4841-bc6c-afddd4de4064.html (translated by Google): "A Skoda spokesperson told FOCUS online: “Internal quality checks have revealed that certain vehicles in some Škoda model series (Octavia, Superb, Kodiaq, Karoq) may have a deviation from the standard in the steering bolts.” The affected production period is week 11/2015 to week 8/2026. In Germany, this affects 370,879 vehicles." (As of now, neither the Skoda Group nor Skoda Spain-specific recall websites match my VIN, an April 2020-manufactured last of the MkIII Facelift Scout).

Seen this on Reddit and a post on the Octavia forum. No news from Škoda directly as yet.

we pick up our Skoda Superb estate diesel on monday. Looking forward to joining the Skoda family

Hello everyone, just to say hello to everyone here and introduce myself with my first ever Skoda purchase. Me and the missus decided to purchase a 2016 Skoda superb se 1.4tsi act. I've never owned a Skoda before so this is my first on recommendations from a friend. Bought it the 29th October so only had it a few days and to say I'm impressed is an understatement. The build quality and smoothness of driving it is amazing. Having owned range rovers over the last 8 years I thought I could never find anything to at least match it. Unfortunately due to having major surgery I needed something more economical and cheaper to run, add it was costing me £200 a month just to keep it legal. So far I've yet to find fault with anything, it's very comfortable to drive and the dsg box is very smooth indeed along with the engine just purrs like a kitten. Decided on petrol as I'm sick of the price of diesel rising along with dpf, egr and other diesel problems. Very smooth to drive along with a very quiet cabin, interior build quality is extremely well put together. My missus loves it, even more so since she found the sports mode which I failed to tell her about, but now she's found it, oh well. It's only done 75k but no service history, however I've spoken to a dealer and says it's digital and to call back Monday. The car has been very well looked after previously only doing 7-8k a year between MOT's and nothing worn on the car at all. So yes, very happy so far. Is there anything to expect as in surprising problems that may arise? Thank you all.

Dogbone one at gearbox watch the bolts. On my sons there are two but one is longer than the other. If you mix them up you can wreck the steering rack which is above. Top ones look ok but difficult to tell. Maybe replace gearbox one first and see if it make a difference. Alasdair

I'm guessing that's 1.0mm2.

I expect the lower mount will make a much bigger difference.

My yellow 5Metre cable that came with the car is labelled 5x4 mm+ 1x0.5.mm The blue 12.5 metre cable that is suspect is labelled 3x6mm + 2x0.5mm.

6.0mm flexible cable is rated at around 32A/7.4KW - but voltage drop can become a factor on longer lengths.

@Evolution13 well, this would be in 1967 and I can remember that when I started working in 1964 I was earning £2/10/0d (£2.50) as an apprentice so I guess I would be earning about £7 to £8 by that stage.

I use https://www.wheel-fitment.com/ Lists other cars with same centre bore and PCD. Watch for the offset. Alasdair

That makes sense. It would be strange to have sensors only at 3 and 9, but I am another person guilty of repeating this theory on Briskoda 😁 On the only occasions when I have had the warning, I have been driving on long lonely motorways with one hand at the 6 o'clock position. I don't think it was just a light resting touch, but maybe your experiments can find out more. One thought though ... don't test it unless the road behind you is clear. There can sometimes be a very short break between the warning and the car starting to take corrective action. If grasping the wheel firmly does not clear the warning immediately, you could be braking before you - or the driver behind - know it. ... and I am the only person who finds it incredible that we have to try to reverse engineer our cars in order to work out how to use them correctly? This stuff should all be in the manual - or at least on the Skoda website - so that we can get a definitive guide. I'm always amused that there is more description in the manual on how to open and close a door (with warnings and diagrams!) than most of the driver features in the car.

I have had this a few times when we were driving along the M90. Like you, I cruise with my hands lightly grasping, finger almost laying on the 6:30pm position of the steering wheel. So I asked my AI Assistant with which I configured the personalised settings in the car - both the question about the steering wheel, "take control" message and the earlier query about the "driver attention" warning message: AI RESPONSE: Yes — and I think what you are experiencing is the hands-on detection, not the camera-based driver-attention monitor. Rosie’s Travel Assist uses a capacitive steering wheel. Škoda explicitly describes it as detecting the driver’s touch on the wheel; in principle, therefore, you should not have to provide steering torque or deliberately wiggle the wheel merely to prove you are there. � Škoda Auto +1 I would be cautious about the claim that the sensors are specifically at particular clock positions such as 3 and 9 o’clock. I can find owners repeating that theory, including on BRISKODA, but I cannot find anything from Škoda confirming it. � Capacitive hands-on systems of this type normally use a conductive sensor mat within the steering-wheel rim, rather than two little point sensors sitting at particular locations. � Briskoda Justia Patents Your observation nevertheless makes sense. If you are cruising with your hands resting lightly around the bottom of the rim, you may have relatively little skin area wrapped around the wheel. Capacitive detection can then be less reliable. Skin moisture, gloves, very light fingertip contact and the exact way the hand contacts the leather can all affect the capacitance. Other VW-group owners report exactly this sort of variation. � Briskoda +1 So I would try a very simple experiment in Rosie: On a suitable straight road with Travel Assist operating, keep one hand normally wrapped around the rim at about 8–9 o’clock or 3–4 o’clock. Don't deliberately make steering corrections. See whether the warning disappears entirely. Then repeat the same stretch with your hand resting down at about 6 o’clock, as you normally sometimes drive. If the warnings occur predominantly in the second case, I'd regard that as the capacitive detection simply being less reliable with your particular lower-hand grip — not evidence that there are discrete sensors only at 3 and 9. And when the warning does appear, try firmly wrapping/squeezing your fingers around the rim first rather than wriggling the steering wheel. If the capacitive system is working properly, that should normally be sufficient. One thing I would watch because Rosie is brand new: if she starts giving “take over steering” warnings while you genuinely have one or both hands properly wrapped around the rim at conventional positions, I wouldn't accept that as normal. VW-group steering wheels have had documented sensor-mat problems, so at that point I'd have West End Garage check the hands-on detection sensor/mat under warranty. � Dot Report So for now: I don't think you need to change any setting. I'd change your hand contact slightly and see what happens. And I wouldn't worry about using exactly 3 and 9 — somewhere around the side/lower-side of the wheel should give the capacitive system a much better signal than merely resting your hands along the bottom. AI RESPONSE: Yes — you remembered correctly. When we set Rosie up, I recommended changing Drowsiness Monitor → Sensitivity to Medium. It sits within the Attention and Drowsiness Assist / driver-assistance settings. My recommendation was: Leave the system switched on Set Sensitivity = Medium Only reduce it further if Rosie was repeatedly warning you despite you being alert and driving normally The idea was to retain the genuine safety benefit without having the car become unnecessarily fussy about perfectly normal driving behaviour. So if you followed my recommendation at the time, Medium is the setting you should currently have. END OF AI RESPONSE. Hope this helps? I will note how the car behaves for our first proper journey down to Southern England in a few weeks to visit our son and report back on my real-life, as opposed to AI world, reality! Best wishes.

On that note, when I started driving, I had a Hillman Minx and I remember petrol costing 6 bob and 8 pence, a gallon in old money or 3 gallons for £1. Oh, how things change.

It been a while…..but. After a few tests, it does seem that 10to and 10 past generates less “take control” notifications. I have moved my seat 2 clicks forward in the hope that on my next 80+ miles trip I’ll get few, hopefully no notifications to take control 🤞

Growing numbers of unsold used and new ICE vehicle. That are vehicles that are owned by financial institutions in many cases so that is Pension. Fund money that Motor Groups borrow to have stock.

My lad has been put on standby for busy time, he works for one of the super large Fast Parcel Operators. Always the tough choices as to air or sea freight. About half of air freight travel on the regular air passenger flights and the other half on dedicated freight aircraft. For the solar invertors air freight would be fine but not for 20 Kg solar panels which are circa 1.8m tall. I have been looking at the flexible solar panels which seem to weigh about a quarter what rigid solar panels. Not sure of any big disadvantages with them. Batteries, ie so called solar batteries wwth large Lithium batteries present their own challenges as Dangerous Goods. I think Octopus are talking about 7 or 8 weeks delay if a balcony solar kit now but since we are rapidly moving in to the darker tine of year I think it is price that is key. I would like to see the 460w system down below £400 which i would hope it will be and therefore payback in two spring/summer/autumn period rather than 3. Shipping both at sea and inkand UK is quite expensive. I think kne xan still get sub £2k shipping of a 40 ft container if one is moving bulk ie several containers at a time. UK shipping kf these giant near 2m long solar panels when, unless ordering many at a time, the shipping is almost as expensive as the panels. Free shipping if one orders say 16 or more panels ie couple of thousand quid worth, ouch. Maybe a family and friends order. Do like some are doing and replacing fencing panels with solar panels, good for the morning or evening sun in lare autumn, winter and early spring with their tangential aspect to the ground.

Selling out is easy to do if your imports from China are being delayed by disruption in manufacturing or transportation by sea or at ports. So much Halloween plastic crap including lights to get into the warehouse including lights, then the Christmas trash / lights, fireworks etc etc. the money making stuff.

Some intern placed an order for the bolts and accidentally ordered 20,000,000 of the wrong type I reckon!

Interesting. Glad it was only a small period of 11 years-worth of production.

Further to my comment about my mate's 2019 VW T-Roc 1.5TSI 150PS DSG issue, his VAG Indie workshop now have his car, read the codes etc and consider that it is an gearbox oil pump related issue - £4500, repairing the DSG will get carried out by a gearbox specialist. So, roughly 67,000miles in 7.5 years and no gearbox oil or fluid changes carried out which is in line with advice by the manufacturer, could this have been avoided if the oil and fluid were changed at maybe the 5 year, 50,000miles point - who knows. I think that he was told that this DQ200 was improved in 2022 - I'm guessing to improve reliability, though cold comfort to folk like him. The car still drives - if that is relevant!

Skoda JS (industry) are building parts for Rolls Royce for these Small nuclear modular facilities that are seemingly coming and all ready creating so many jobs. Well that will be in the legal, media and planning side not digger and dumper drivers yet. Energy required for AI data centres not electric (heating ) for those in social housing, high rise flats etc without balcony solar or battery storage or a car even. Those to that can get on a bus for £2 while the bus company might get anything from a £1 to who knows how much to compensate them for the full fare. While car dealer sellers / manufacturers get £thoudsands of CAR GRANT money.

Are you sure that you're not a paid shiel for the government policies? Personally, I know that I would be far more inclined to believe them if I were able to see some real evidence that they were building all the infrastructure required to cope with both the current demand and also a decent headroom for the future, along with a clear and demonstrable plan that the infrastructure would continue to grow in advance of the demand and not lag it. In addition, they should lead from the front so we can all see that they are, in fact, relying solely on all the new technologies for all of their needs, both on an official capacity and on a personal level.

Honestly, do you truly believe that? How can you be so sure that the decline in gas-powered "peaker" generation is happening and is not some fabrication to create that we are actually greener? In other words, is it really just even more greenwashing?

Standard wallbox chargers are 32 amp single phase as far as i know.

Hi Warrior, the cable in use is 3 cores of 6mm and 2 cores of 0.5mm for the signals.

I did similar on a B5 Passat (2003). The VAG kit was readily available on eBay at the time. I also had a main dealer retrofit it to a B6 Passat. It was a company car, purchased at 12 months old. The first month that I had it, it spent 2 weeks at the dealer with DSG problems. They offered me a free service as compensation, but I asked for cruise control instead, as I wouldn’t have benefited from a free service 😀. When negotiating on my next company car, a B7 Passat, I got the dealer (a different one) to fit cruise control as part of the deal. None of the above were adaptive cruise.

For standard cruise control, you only need to replace left stalk with one with buttons and enable/code the functionality in VCDS. both can be done as a DIY job, I have done one on MK1 Octavia, since then only buttons have changed somewhat, job is very similar. The videos above are for adaptive cruise control which would be far more involved.

That's how all normal brake fluid changes are done. Yes the fluid does mix a bit and that little bit of un-refreshed fluid doesn't matter. The only time you need to do an ABS bleed is when you have got air in the ABS. I did because I let my reservoir run dry doing a brake bleed and sucked air into the system. Only realising when air splattered out the bleed screw and not fluid, completely my fault, and also when you fit a new ABS unit because the replacement unit would have air in it when installed. I always use a pressure bleeder when doing my brakes.

I assume price reduction of AGM batteries is due to economy of scale rule. Prices of them a few years back was disproportionately high, I thought.

I have great news! The issue was caused by a defective oil pressure control valve (N522) that measured an incorrect electrical resistance (0.8 Ohm). After replacing the valve, the fault code is completely gone and the car operates normally.

Continuing on with my initial review of our new Superb: ADAS. It works but I can now understand why folk may get alarmed by it. On the M90 heading north to Pitlochry I thought I would see how the lane centring worked. I thought having autonomous cruise (ACC) activated was correct but I was wrong. As a result the car thought I was checking-out of Planet Earth and threw up its hazards while simultaneously slowing down in the outside lane. I eventually realised what was happening and that a proper tug on the steering wheel is needed to persuade the car that I am still very much alive and kicking! Simply having a hand on the wheel isn't sufficient, not at this late stage anyway. I should have been using the Travel Assist function. Oops! Well, we know it works should I ever check-out for real. Passengers can rest easy. The other event was reversing into a parking bay with some overgrown bushes behind us, these having encroached onto the air space above the parking bay but low enough to catch the tailgate. The car applied its brakes, and then some. That works too then! And I am grateful because it stopped me catching the undergrowth. Having said this, the car happily allows me to reverse onto our driveway very tightly positioned alongside our beech hedge with only the sonic beeping. So that's good. I agree that the definition of the camera is pretty basic. It is acceptable but a bit cheap. Shame that. Minor gripe. On the open road the Travel Assist is excellent, including stop-start traffic heading south across the Queenferry Bridge, over the Firth of Forth during rush hour. The only thing is that I find the autohold a bit eager and grabby. So, I have disabled that and the car now behaves like a traditional automatic in that you lift your foot from the brake and it moves forward. The car still holds on hills to stop you rolling backwards which is where we really want it. I have added the quick icon for autohold to the swipe down menu from the infotainment screen - it means that I can activate it by the touch of a virtual button if circumstances and my foot feel the need. I am not yet sure if I will stick with the assisted braking before roundabouts and bends in the road. It seems fine but I will see how it goes. The autonomous cruise is excellent - by watching the gap closing on the driver's display and indicating to move out before our car attempts to slow to match the speed of the car in front, cruise will maintain the preferred speed or, if you move out a little too late, pick up the speed in a natural way. Same as it passes through different speed limits. By and large the reading of the road signs seem good but it did think that the 50mph restriction across the Queensferry Bridge continued when in fact the 70mph limit was shown on the overhead gantry. There is a lot to learn here but it is promising and I will persevere because eventually it will become second nature, the sweet spot. But I can now understand why some folk on here have lost patience with the workings of the ADAS. It is really useful but there is a need to take time to understand it, make the correct settings and be patient. I was worried after reading all the horror stories on the forum but so far there is a lot to like. As an aside, I do love the infotainment screen and how you can customise the swipe down icons, the bottom row and the on-screen tiles. Honestly though, without ChatGPT helping me through all of this it would have taken ages and some features I might never have discovered. For example, the ambient configurable cabin lighting was set to maximum brightness and it was only because ChatGPT told me that this was adjustable from the on-screen slider from the swipe down top of the screen, that I found it! I have also turned off the band of light across the front dashboard because that just annoys me when night driving. We have kept the doors, the door bin illumination, the footwells and the compartment for the phone charger lit. I thought the colours would follow the spectrum shown in the slide bar but in reality the changes are not gradual but sudden and the colours are not as deep and rich as I had hoped. In the end though I have learned that the joy of a car is derived from how it drives and not the ambient cabin lighting, the latter being a novelty that wanes after a few weeks. I hope some of this information may prove helpful for others because there sure are many settings and variations one can make to the car. I find my joy increases when the car is configured to my preferences and the process also helps me learn how to navigate through it all, or most of it. By the way, accessing Android Auto was easy from my Samsung S25+ and we have linked the car to our home WiFi network so she is hooked up while parked on our driveway. Music playback through Android Auto, sourced from the excellent Poweramp app, is good. I cannot detect any loss of quality between a wireless connection and the USB cable option. ChatGPT is suggesting that, for music playback, the car is using wireless rather than Bluetooth but, whatever it sounds the same to me. That said, the playback quality from the USB thumbdrive library, with it's CD ripped lossless flac files, is on another level. The same tracks, listened side by side on an A:B test, are much more engaging from the USB drive. That's today's update then. Hope you are having a good Thursday. Best wishes.

Evening All. Goodness, there's a lot to learn within the settings of these cars! Since I adore cars, love driving and enjoy sharing my experiences on all the car forums I have joined over the years, I am going to use this thread to post my initial experience of ownership before wrapping it up. I'll try and do this thematically and. since it's a bit late tonight, I will start with the Canton audio system. I know, it's a weird topic to kick off with but I can keep this reasonably focused! It's really very good. Surprisingly good. I am an audiophile and I was not holding out much hope for the Canton 14+1 system but it has impressed me and tonight, dare I say it, on a 60min round trip along the Scottish Borders pitch black roads to try some night driving, I actually really enjoyed the music. And that's the thing: it is a music system rather than an 'in-car entertainment system'. The music is played back the way it was recorded in an authentic way. Some Chinese cars link the ambient cabin lighting up to the sound system to create a disco experience - folks, that's me checked out of the Jaecoo or BYD! Most folk head to the settings and pump it all up: the surround sound, the sub, the low bass and higher treble frequencies - the classic smile shape on the graphic equaliser. Don't do it people! If you do this, the first ten minutes will be bangin' but then your head will become fatigued. Re-tune the brain to enjoy music with the Eq set at zero, or pretty close to zero across the range and choose stereo rather than surround sound. Initially it doesn't sound so big but, give your brain at least 30mins to adjust and the music is clear, layered, separated across the sound stage before you. Our brains are wonderful things but they need to hear music like they hear sound in the real world, not a rave party in an abandoned warehouse. The bass is there, as are the mid-range and the treble. Set to zero on the Eq simply means we are taking the sound clean as Canton intended - frequencies are neither boosted nor reduced by the Eq. Same with the LR balance and FR fader- set to default centre so the Digital Sound Processing (DSP) is again as Canton intended within the cabin. Finally, we chose the focus setting for just the two front seats so the DSP would be adjusted for our positions in the cabin. That's how these systems work DSP adjusted to where you tell it you are sitting. We play our music from a USB thumb drive, 256GB, exFAT format. The music on this drive is ripped directly from specific CDs that have been properly sound engineered and not ruined by the brickwalling of the Loudness Era (mid-1990s onwards with a few exceptions by artists who objected to their music being ruined by the record labels). Flac format, lossless. Rubbish in equals rubbish out. Start with a high quality source and don't use Bluetooth for this type of playback. Tonight it was Fleetwood Mac. Quite how the five members managed to write and produce such beautifully crafted music when they did nothing other than argue amongst themselves and snort cocaine is one of life's great mysteries. But they did and the Canton system shone with Gypsy, Little Lies, Tusk, Everywhere and The Chain. Hugely enjoyable. Open, clear, warm and thoroughly engaging. Would I use compressed music files such as MP3 or AAC? Would I ever use Bluetooth for the connection? Yes, for convenience when I just want some music, nothing special. But if that's the limit of my expectation then I am leaving a huge amount of the Canton's potential on the table. And since we have paid for the superior music system, it's nice to hear it occasionally really shine. This truly has been as unexpected bonus. Canton? I thought it would be okay. Not annoying, that was my bottom line. I can only assume that those folk that have slammed the system maybe didn't get the settings right, or were playing poor source material (trust me, there are some dreadful CDs out there with dynamic ranges (DR) down at just DR8). Or maybe they were streaming, using Bluetooth and compressing the music data as a result. Whatever, I am impressed. It'll be another theme tomorrow so, if the Canton music system and details about setup haven't been your thing.....maybe tomorrow will be more your bag. Well done for getting this far! Best wishes to all.

Well folks, today's the day! I began this thread back in April or May 2025 by asking forum members for their assistance. Thank you to all who have contributed. At the time I didn't think it would take almost 18 months before we would eventually collect our new car. Partly of my own making and partly due to the decision to reject the car that arrived in February for a March collection. However, here we are. This feels somewhat different from most of the previous cars we have acquired before. This one has been bought first with my head, then my heart. Normally, it's been the other way around. I've turned my back on the aspirational premium brands of Mercedes, BMW and Audi, the big three. And obviously Range Rover. Why? Too many times they have sold me a mirage. The promise of something special in return for what would have been another £20k+, but the reality has been anything but. Not this time. I am not expecting our Superb to be as quiet or refined as those more expensive cars - sound insulation etc. But the law of diminishing returns applies here and another £20k, or settling for a stripped back 5 series, isn't justified to me. And if the follow-through customer service from Skoda is so-so, and I am hoping for more but not expecting such, it will be less painful than the dire service from Audi Edinburgh, Lloyd Land Rover Kelso etc. because the bill doesn't include £170 per hour labour charges and eye-watering cost of parts (although I am under no illusions that the DCC+ suspension is simple although, by comparison to the Velar's air suspension with bags and compressor, there are clearly more complex systems out there). We catch the train from the Central Scottish Borders into Edinburgh this morning and, all going well, collect the car before a day trip to Pitlochry and a visit to Queen's View.....to pop 150 miles on her across an easy selection of roads - motorway, faster A roads etc. I have my PNY USB thumbdrive loaded with a few test, lossless music files. That's it. If you've been following this thread then thanks again. I will post a few pics tomorrow, provide a final report to the community and then I sense we can retire the thread gracefully. Best wishes. David.

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