KenONeill

This is using the alternator and/or the starter motor and/or the electric motor if fitted to do some of the work of slowing the car by generating electricity.

Don't know this for sure, but I think they're logically ordered; RHF icon will be the belt behind you assuming an RHD car.

@KeithCheetham @sepulchrave @cash3005 - Well, rather than a sensor error, my experience is that this is a false positive error on a cold engine. To the extend that it will clear on an Octavia 1 by drive about a minute, switch engine off, and restart. Hence the comment up thread about prong scraping.

Ok, am I reading this correctly and the error is on an actually cold engine? If so, I think the dongs and flashing(?) red light may be a false positive caused by deposits on the level sensor in the expansion bottle. So, can you see 2 prongs poking down towards the coolant when you take the cap off the expansion bottle and look in? If so, scrape a wide bladed flat screwdriver down each of them 2 or 3 times to clean them and get a normal resistance returned. If not, you probably need to replace the expansion bottle to replace them, which may clear your fault. And as a plus, may cure the coolant loss too.

just over 88%; sensible.

I'd stop at 19"; no comment on style preferred although I tend to like a fairly slim spoked 5 spoke as being easy to wash and not having unnecessary stress raisers.

You talked me into the dampers and tyres (and maybe wheels but I don't know what size you're running).

Not necessarily; it could be the linkage seizing at the pivots.

Do you regularly adjust temperature and/or direction (include setting the Demist mode here) to exercise the control flaps? If not, then I prescribe 10 minutes of flapperobics before doing anything else.

As @roottoot indicates below, ever if you have the V5 you may not own the car (depending on terms of agreement). If you had taken out a personal loan, then you would certainly own the car.

Ok, so your contract is with the leasing company, not a dealership. I'd still say rejecting the car for cause here is reasonable, but you need to inform the leasing company, not a dealer.

Which heating do you have?

Good call mate. I'm going to quote ZF Transmissions here, that you should change ATF at 40_000 miles (64_000 km). This is not what most car auto box fitters say.

Given the distance on the A75, that says it all!!

I don't understand "the coolant mixture is too thick". Ethylene glycol has a very similar viscosity (thickness) to water. This is complete b@11ocks! Ethylene glycol has a specific heat capacity about half that of water, so will heat and cool faster.

Tell us which transmission you have.

I'm not sure if you need action from finance or just to inform them that you are formally rejecting the car for cause.

True, but I've never experienced it as cold in the central belt as it can get in Finland where the OP lives.

Er. some of us have never been to a stealership in Englandshire.

Well, the twice my car was serviced by a Skoda dealer, I found a part bottle of VAG washer fluid in the boot.

You'll need a maintenance computer, but from what you've just said about the windows it's either the (lack of) battery coding or a dirty/loose contact. Battery coding is less work.

OK, has the new battery been coded to your car? BTW this is my 6th possible answer, and none of them have involved changing a relay.

We are mostly amateurs who're here when we're here, and when we're somewhere else we're not here. A bit more patience than expecting an answer inside 10 minutes is needed! Meanwhile, back at your car - This sort of problem is most likely a weak battery (battery is 6 years old unless you're replaced it and not told us), a bad electrical connection to one of alternator, battery or PAS motor, or a CANBus problem with the headlights. It really needs physical access to the car to take this further.

At least partly because we don't actually know what car we're working on, not even if it's a VAG car, never mind engine, PAS type and transmission, which are all relevant factors.

You actually want to swap a 3 flash chop for a granny signal!?