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So on the 1st of March we collected our brand new Karoq 1.5 Dsg SEL with the only extras being brilliant metallic silver and a spare space saver spare. This was our first private car after 16 years of company cars mainly VW Passat with a brief and regrettable excursion into Volvo ownership ( but that's another story). My last company car was my attempt to get some performance back and lower BIK costs ( previous cars had been 1.6 diesels need I say more). This car was a Octavia 1.4 DSG estate I did not expect to like it very much but the figures on paper seemed to give me performance to be able to start overtaking again. To my amazement I loved it loads of space great performance combined with a light and agile chassis, made my Passats look like slugs! But it all ended in December when a Russian lady rear ended us at great speed while we where stationary, car was a total loss but we where unhurt. So I decided to go back to a private car all looked at everything SUV wise but kept coming back to the Skoda Karoq ( VW Tiguan too ugly, Audi Q3 too old fashioned, Kia Sportage just a step too far for my wife). So one could in Sunday in February ended up at Des Winks in Scarborough just to look! By the time we came out we had bought one that was on order and the guaranteed it to be ready for March 1st. we have now had the Karoq for 3 weeks and 600 miles, and despite a lot of the bad press on the 1.5 TSI engine I have absolutely no complaints ( or my wife) it is smooth quite and rapid. The gearbox is as my Octavia and a joy to drive. When it's goes into 2 cylinder mode if it was not for the display on the centre screen I would not know. Run to the east coast this weekend gave 48 mpg, best I got in the Octavia was 60 mpg at 20000 miles on a run to Telford. So we are very happy with our Karoq and I would recommend and look forward to many more miles. I will try and update again at 1500 miles.

Fitted a new bonnet catch today as the old one had got a missing microswitch for the bonnet open warning, so at least I’ll not have a random connector floating about. I’ve made a start on the battery fitting, the BLT versions generally have a much more exposed fuse board set up than the ASZ so I’ve stripped it all down to its component parts, cleaned all the link fuses up in the brick acid then with the wire wheel in the dremel. Need to order an “upper battery case” from TPS as mine is badly marked and gouged from years of use. I’ll get that ordered for next weekend, then hopefully get the battery in and wired up totally.

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I'd be very careful about tasting this because if he has hit an alien the fluid could be acid. I've seen the film and it's pretty nasty stuff.

Had the car coded yesterday by Gizmo (martin) huge thanks done a few little bits for me. Beeps on lock / unlock also got the speedo on maxidot now Top job, highly recommended

Quick translation via Google: Case number: 2053902/1 Motor does not respond to accelerator pedal, fault P05 06 Publication date: 8.2.2019 Customer Complaint: •After starting a cold engine, the engine does not respond sporadically to the accelerator pedal being depressed. •This usually occurs when multiple electrical appliances are activated (electric heated front and rear windows, seats, etc.). Workshop Findings: •Customer complaints can be reproduced. •There may be a sporadic fault in the ECM memory: P0506 Idle Control Speed below setpoint Measures/Action: Do not make any repairs, the solution is working (new SW version). • Only clear the fault from the ECM memory.

Goodyear Eagle f1 asymmetric 3 or Michelin PS4s.

Battery?

Perhaps it's been delivered by the new ferry company the government has chartered for Brexit that doesn't have any ferries.

Hi guys, New to the forum as I’ve found it when trying to research which SKODA to buy. The new Skoda cars look good and styling is very impressive for both Octavia and Superb, I can see the Superb looking a little Audi A6 on the outside, however not up with quality of materials. I am looking a used car say 2 years old 66/17 that is going to stay with me for many years to come, young family growing up and for holidays etc. Octavia would be I think an SEL 1.5 petrol car but unsure if I was going for the superb to go for the 1.4 petrol or the 2.0 diesel on the SE Business/Technology trim. I currently have a Euro 4 diesel car just now. I suppose it’s the diesel vs petrol, government now taking a stand with diesel, even though they tempted me 10 years ago to buy a diesel by low car tax. Opionions welcome.

Introducing the hover Octy haha Here’s how it’s going to sit for a week while the wheels are away getting refurbished. I have until tomorrow at 8 in the morning to finalise a colour and then plenty of time to wonder if I’ve made the right choice. At least I have my brothers Fabia vRS to hoon around in in the meantime

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/460710-replaced-the-battery-in-my-rapid/ Worth getting the battery checked. Not saying it's the cause but if you read my posts on the thread above I had the EPC light throw up plus traction control light and it went into limp mode, turn off and restart cleared it temporarily. New battery fitted solved it

These polls asking 'online', on Mobile Phones', Land Lines and at Transport Hubs / Train Stations or busy locations really do not get to 'all the people'. ? Who here has contributed to the 'survation' poll?

Picked up on Friday, replaced my Citigo with this as I missed driving a Fabia. 2019 1.0 (75) mpi SE

If it's not electrical or connection issue the egr will be full of crap. They can be cleaned out if youre handy with diy

Bring on a high interest rate for savers. Let borrowers pay high interest to borrow money. If they need money why should they not, we had to in the 1980's. All those people that managed to buy homes or properties to let back before all the Car Leasing, Mobile Phone Leasing etc was burning up their incomes....

It would have been at least 7 years ago and it happened once or twice. Might just have been one of the standard ones in the fusebox under the dash below the steering wheel. look for both front and rear wiper fuses. I do know it was a simple thing which if the fuse was gone, (If it was the fuse as it was a very long time ago), it did what you said. I know for certain, I have not had to swap water pumps and /or any of the relevant washer system, apart from the bottle when another driver hit me and it cracked. That was a totally different issue, where the water flooded out on to the floor. Go fuses first. Find, inspect, swap as even ones that look intact sometimes have a flaw in them and fail to work, despite looking like a good contact. Fooled me a few times in my 40 years as a motorist!

Pub alley in leeds

I think its more then 1.5cm as thats hardly lowered! I think it was some 3 or 4cm (30or 40mm) it was lowered by, if memory serves... The difference is noticeable, side by side to a pogo stick set up Fabia. You could fit those Greenline springs and I think get away without any other mods but it will be mostly aesthetic rather then better road holding as you will have the same shocks. The different tyres, underbody covers, etc were mainly for lower rolling resistance, along with a re-ratio-ed gearbox, for better fuel economy. (Mostly noticeable on faster roads then town ones). The later Greenline two, along with a newer engine etc, also had a nice rear spoiler supposedly again, for better wind resistance. I want one for my Greenie 1!!

Hi folks I'm in Aberdeen new member got a blue mk3 octavia vrs

Apologies; I assumed you were one of the fanboys here who claim 50+mpg from a 245bhp petrol VRS and 60,000+ miles from a set of front tyres. Please forgive me.

As a 16 plate, if it's got the original bridgestones on the rear, i'd say to swap them to the front, they'll be getting a bit old and cracked, mine had 4.5mm left after 50k miles, had one changed after one got a slow puncture after hitting a pothole, then the other was advised by a different garage to be replaced as all the rubber was quite badly cracking on the wall edges.

I'll go and get the one that stopped and open it up.

Definitely NOT the Pirellis...

Out of those two the Bridgestones.

So we went to drive it and buy but it was being sold as we arrived! Grrrrrr. But..... they have a white one, almost identical in mileage and the same spec. Pcp deal of 140 a month with 3 services included, 4 years warranty, tax paid for the first year and a full tank of fuel. It's too good a deal to refuse. So we signed the paperwork today and will collect the new car next Saturday. Glad to have another skoda on the drive! Thanks for all the advice!

Two weeks ago our local Skoda specialist had one of our elderly Fabias for three days chasing a mystery fault. They are ex main dealers. The fault remained elusive and they did not charge us anything. If your garage are going to charge £102 for the easiest diagnosis in the world then go elsewhere as they are stitching you up. Boiler fault diagnosis is my daily bread and butter, and unless it is something very involved I don't insult my customers for having a broken boiler by charging them to tell them what they already know. I charge them for repairing it.

It is not how it is meant to work, but as I've never ever needed to look into this, I can't honestly tell you how the window washer system works to achieve only one end spraying from a shared pump.

I bought this one and leave it in all the time. Works perfectly, USB3, cover closes properly, price is right: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00VQ3F8U2 Plus I can connect any USB device to it (using their original cables) without ever needing to remove it so no fear of the Karoq USB socket ever getting damaged or worn out.

Sound like slave cylinder inside clutch housing as above poster said. Happened to me, new slave and clutch I'm afraid if fluid has leaked onto clutch. If you can look under car (under tray removed) and see greenish fluid on housing then you know slave has leaked.

This, though worth noting it's successor, the F1 Asymmetric 5 is now available. The tyre ratings for fuel efficiency and external noise are slightly worse, but reviews and tests suggest better performance.

I think we may go back today and have a drive and a second look. Little things put us off though. No armrest, no CD player, no rear electric windows really let's it down especially when you consider the meriva it will replace has all those things. But it's the price! It's on for 8300 but I've been offered it for more like 7000 and they will clear the 500 odd we are still in negative equity on the meriva. And theres no deposit. They have said the car will come with 2 services included, 3 year warranty, full tank of fuel and paint protection. Clearly they are desperate to sell before the end of March I just need to check were not buying a dog.

We had that engine albeit with a tad more power for nearly 3 years in the larger Spaceback which was nippy, economical, cheap to tax, quiet and swapped the tyres front to back at 15,000 miles so when we traded it in for SWMBO Karoq all 4 tyres were the originals at 28,500 miles. It never used a drop of oil between the 2 annual services we had carried out on it. Get it bought PDQ.

Fitted today. They are a 10/10 Perfect fit. So so happy! Removing the handle from the door needs some muscle (see YouTube video for how). Might help is you have 'plastic door panel removing' tools. The power window controls was bloody annoying (destroyed the old one as I cut it up to - then again who cares about the problem one - 30 mins). Mirror control was a push out (5-seconds). Snap-fit into the new handle and push back in place (too easy). Happy to answer questions, or if anyone is nervous doing it yourself (don't be). Pictures: White inside is Original. Black insides is from OEM shop. Comes nicely bubble-wrapped, packed with great service.

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Turbo noises and asbo exhaust PS4 tyres are epic

I assume he talks about this popular MK7 tweak, which I've no idea if is applicable on the Superb: ============================ Battery SOC 17- Instruments 10- Adaptations Scroll down until you see "Battery Charge" > simply change it in the new value drop down to "active" and it's done. To use it…..Switch the ignition off, then press (and continue to hold) the trip reset button in the middle lower of the instrument panel. It will cycle from first resetting the trip to 0 miles > show "Time" to allow you to change the clock > then keep holding until say "Battery". Release the button and display SOC for a few seconds before returning back to the main screen. ============================== UPDATE: This is not an available option in MY19 cars, possibly even before that year.

This is almost funny if it wasn’t so sad....

My 1 series had frameless windows. Warm water poured around the frame solved the problem when frozen, it's not the end of the world!

They give these people a vote

Bite the bullet and pay the 7 quid to one of the ebay guys. I did the other day and I had the code in less than 5 minutes.

Plenty of sellers on eBay can provide the code from the serial number pretty cheaply :-)

Sorry to rain on anyone's parade, but the data extract that people are analysing is produced on a batch basis - maybe no more than once every couple of hours. That means that it's a static snapshot, and thus lags behind the headline signature count. It'll be like this for all petitions, although I suspect the extract frequency has been lowered because of the load on the petitions site at the moment. In other words - no, there aren't millions of unregistered, location-free signatures, it's simply that hordes signed after that snapshot was taken. When I looked an hour or so ago, the data extract was up-to-date and tallied with the headline number. At that point, 93.6% of signatures were UK-based; 3.7% were non-UK; 2.7% were still potential errors (eg invalid postcodes). Top non-UK countries, in order, were France, Spain, the USA and Germany, each showing between 10k and 25k signatures, versus the UK at 3.15 million. Non-UK countries tend to tally with where Brits abroad are typically found, so places like Australia, Canada and New Zealand also make a decent showing.

Bought my car from them this week Can't fault them John Deakin dealt with all my needs and went above and beyond for very very happy!

The last Top Gear episode did a pedestrian avoidance(?) test with a new VW Arteon from 39 mph. The car didn't "see" the pedestrian/didn't stop for the pedestrian. Best to keep your eyes on the road ahead! All this "driver assist" technology makes me a bit nervous. It's convenient (and I love ACC) but I don't let my car do the driving for me.

I'm sure your lights look fantastic from where you are sitting - it's the people coming towards you that will be dazzled. These are reflector lenses - that light is not coming out with a nice cut-off, the clue is in the name - that LED light is being reflected all over the place. Sorry, don't have any answer to your exact question - but you are dazzling oncoming traffic with a setup like that.

Hadn't thought of using Silkaflex; good idea.