TheWanderer

Go to Euro Car Parts and enter your cars registration. It will tell you what oil to get. I bought a 1ltr of oil for topping up purposes for about £10, after I noticed it was getting low last time and popped about ⅓ ltr of the existing bottle in last time, which put the oil level right to the top of the indicator. Halfords is expensive unless they are doing deals or you can find voucher codes. Or are absolutely desperate, also try getting fuel apps as they often have special offers for oils/lubricants.

TBQH it's ideal for a track day car, but for real world driving it's simply asking for trouble in that it would attract all of the wrong sort of attention (Police, Insurers, Thieves), but it would run into problems with a lot of roads with speed humps/ramps in them as some are quite high so it would possibly ground on those. Then there's the thorny issue of parking in a car park, particularly multi-storey ones with all of those narrow spaces & concrete pillars. It looks nice as a concept but for real world use it's flawed. And as someone who's approaching 60 I'm not quite in the definition of pipe, cap & cardigan brigade, I'm still in the floor it once in a while brigade who doesn't tolerate ditherers, dawdlers and late indicators.

£90! It'd be cheaper to get legal tinting!

I had the problem the other day where the infotainment system wouldn't shutdown when I turned the ignition off, the display froze as well. I only got control back after a reset and it only seemed to do that begrudgingly too, it was a real struggle to get it to reset. It has been fine for the last couple of days.

So if you have a facelifted version of the Octavia, I'd see if you have see if you can find a different dealer or an independent Skoda/VW garage who would be prepared to do the work.

If it's an ECU then it wouldn't surprise me.

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TBQH I wouldn't use the unlock on approach system, it's a security risk. I don't often use keyless either, preferring to use the fob buttons instead.

I believe that it's a combination of both

Apparently in the latest version of Waze it can appear on the virtual cockpit display if there's an option to display 3rd party apps.

I'm only paying for the phone app at the moment. Not doing the Infotainment thing for a month as I can't afford to due to a speight of £50-150 bills, it's not vital as I have Waze & Google maps to hand and I'm not doing any long distance journeys where I don't know where I'm going.

IIRC the rear wiper fuse has been mentioned before, as has a couple of others on switched circuits.

It drives me nuts that I can't get rid of London radio stations from the memory. Yes logos have also disappeared too.

I know that a Nextbase GW622 works, it's what I have. The only issue being that it's a bit of a pain as the mount has a power input that's USB Micro B & the mirror is USB C so you'd need a small adapter which is a couple of quid on Temu, or you may be able to find a USB C to Micro B cable

I just did a check on MIB3 Evo and it's a full infotainment system. I never use any of it other than radio & clima control, it's just too much faffing around to get things done.

It should come with it.

Use an extension lead at £7 from the bay it's not going to break the bank. It's what I've had to do and it's annoying but it solves the problem.

I'd be looking at the ECU, Infotainment system firmware, F533 & wiring harnesses, plus having the windscreen camera alignment checked as well, then any suspension/levelling sensors

My advice extends to whenever you're buying a secondhand car & in particular an "insurance write off" to get it professionally examined by an engineer from the AA or RAC and get a full written report from them before you even consider the vehicle. I hope you can get this resolved & hope you can get all of the problems resolved to your satisfaction, but you may well have got your fingers burnt.

I wouldn't have thought so because I had low battery when my steering wheel (stoplock) knocked the parking lights on overnight & whilst I got battery level low + another warning it wasn't any of the aforementioned ones.

You might need the front camera recalibrating for front assist, but I had a whole list of stuff go haywire when the dealer replaced a module, I think you might need a new F533 module which seems to be one of the culprits. I would take it to an independent and get them to run a diagnostic cycle, they're often cheaper than a main dealer. However I believe a new F533 module is somewhere in the region of £600 to replace & program, the modifications my not help the matter either because I believe that the module is put on a computer and programmed by the Skoda servers to what the cars original specifications were. TBQH you could be throwing your money away and I don't know what you paid for it, but in the short term you could pay not far off of what you paid for it, by the time you have all of the parts, labour, VAT added to the overall cost. You may want to investigate what your legal rights are as a buyer, but it being an insurance write off you may find that "Caveat Emptor" applies.

Simple solution Ebay £6.99 for a 3.6m cable.

I've got Heko wind deflectors on my RS they were relatively cheap and you can often find them on eBay for about £35. Are they any good? I find that they don't stop rain drips but when it's raining and I want fresh air I can have it without getting wet. Roof bars I don't have as I have a hatchback.

Always found that Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 5's tyres very good for grip, in the wet & cold, pretty good for road noise too. Not cheap but good and if you use some of the online retailers you can get some good deals and if you use a cashback site (TopCashBack or Quidco) you get a nice chunk of change back.

Might just be the parking brake and pin dropping in.