ozoccy
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My elegance with canton does the same, particularly bad with talking at higher volumes. Can make it go away by holding the grill so shouldn't be that hard to fix.
Also have a rattle in the left door
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I am happy without ACT, it adds a lot of complexity for a very small fuel saving benefit.
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I've been following this thread and a bit confused by the terminology being used. Just to clarify what the acronyms usually are;
FWD - Front Wheel Drive
AWD - All Wheel Drive, usually constant to all wheels eg Subaru, Scout, Rav4
4WD - As above but with low range, proper off road use eg Land Rover Discovery Landcruisers
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Unfortunately many other factors overide that one fact to give lower mpg's in colder conditions.
Whay factors specifically?
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I notice a big improvement in the sound of the canton system when I wound down the surround setting.
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Looks like I need to change my figures. Over the past day commuting we have averaged over 50 mpg, this involved a few longer runs than normal but still 60 miles around the city. A change since the last tank has been running 98 RON fuel and upping the tyre pressure to 38psi.
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For commuting which is mainly stop/start commuting I haven't managed better than 35.On longer runs 40 and better is achievable, but it is much more sensitive to driving style than a diesel.
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What is really missing on 1.4 engine is cylinder deactivation like there is on Golf and Audi A3. I wouldnt want to buy this engine now if they are planning to include this feature soon.
Adds quite a bit of complexity for minimal gain. I'm really happy not to have it.
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I have now had my 1.4DSG Elegance wagon for nearly 4500km. Its a really nice engine/gearbox combination to drive. The DSG really is slick once you understand how it works, and being able to switch to sport mode by flicking the gear lever back is a great feature. I use it quite a bit when pulling into traffic etc. It has really strong torque and acceleration in the 0-80km/h range which is where I do most of my driving and I've only tried a couple of times but the 0-100km'h time seems to be around 8s, not really built for that but pretty quick for a 1.4.
Fuel consumption is great for a petrol, particularly good on the highway but drops quite a bit for stop/start driving. My consumption has been 5-6l/100km on the highway, average on a trip to town and back last night was 5.5l/100km. It gets around 7-8l/100km with stop/start driving and my average since new has been 7.5l/100km. One advantage of a petrol over a diesel is that they warm up quicker and are better suited to short trips, my other car which is a 3l diesel takes a good 10 mins to properly warm up.
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Bugger about the damage, hopefully you get it fixed at minimal cost.
A couple of comments regarding the discussion. If the brakes are 25mm thick and at 400C when you park, which is racing hot but lets assume a worst case, then they would shrink roughly .13mm. This is worst case so temp really shouldn't play a factor.
Not using the ratchet while tensioning the brake defeats the purpose of the design, which is to ensure that no tension is lost as pressure is applied. Using the button means you have to time the release perfectly to the point of maximum tension on the brake and also reduces the chance of the ratchet engaging properly.
Not putting a vehicle in gear on a slope isn't good practice according to all the training that I have come across, and also means that you have no redundancy,
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Wow...I have written papers at uni that were shorter than this.
As for the point regarding 'capable well informed adults' - some are...others tint their windscreens or glue stuff onto their headlights...
Clearly you feel quite strongly about your particular issue, I think most posters just took exception to the tone of some of your responses.
It makes entertaining reading though.
I probably should have remembered that I'm on a forum and just let the unsupervised children comment slide.
Entertaining... glad to be of service
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You know what the real solution is if youre really that worried about it....dont leave a 10 year old in a car unsupervised would be my honest answer,
No one was left unsupervised in a car! And yes it P&ss%d me off!
Below a comment in support of the previous fairly inflammatory comment
In support of pipsyp I don't see anything unsavoury in his comments at all, quite valid IMO..
Below a subsequent response.
It happened and I do not wish to conduct experiments to prove the issue.
Were you at any point able to replicate the issue? As in try and sit in the car and have someone else lock the car or vice versa and see what happens? First thing about declaring a problem/error is being able to replicate it (consistently).
The facts:
1. There are 2 recently documented cases of Kessy based systems doing flaky things, and as previously explained my wife had a similar experience
2. I was asking for some help in turning off a function on my car that I do not want to use
3. I received some helpful responses to my question,
4. There were a significant number of responses stating opinions and questioning my reasons for wanting to implement the change
5. Some very strong opinions of a personal nature were expressed, that were not based in fact and did not contribute in any positive way to the discussion
6. Unfortunately I reacted quite strongly to some of the comments
Ultimately I will keep a glass hammer in the car and pursue the issue with Skoda.
My mistake was obviously to respond to the comments above, lesson learnt.
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Strange how you respond to people who are only trying to be helpful and give you sound advice.
My apologies to gadgetman if it came across wrong. It did seem that my previous attempts to explain that the problem was not about locking keys in the car were not clear, so I was trying to avoid further ambiguity.
Timoctav, you might want to look at your own style. I was deliberately abrupt earlier in the thread when certain members were providing uncalled for comments on my wife's parenting skills.
Really appreciate some of the feedback given, and will provide feedback once Skoda have had a go at disabling the feature.
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This thread is not about accidentally locking keys in the car with Kessy. In fact in another thread I commented on how good kessy is at preventing this.Someone else recently wanted to lock keys in the car, and KESSY specifically prevents this happening.
If yours will, then you have a fault with KESSY.
This thread is about an entirely different problem.
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With Kessy you can't lock the car with the key inside, let alone deadlock it.
The message you get is a reminder that's hard coded into the dash. It cannot be disabled the same way the 4C ice warning can't be.
From what you're saying it sounds like antihijack that enables over 10mph and will unlock when the key is removed although it can be programmed not to and will only open if you use the internal button or double pull the door handle. This can be disabled via the settings menu on the car.
No problem with the anti-hijack system. It only operates when the car is moving. Also no problem with locking keys in the car. The potential problem is Kessy locking the car accidentally or through a glitch. Kessy by default deadlocks the car, which is where this thread started
Will keep the hammer, as others have pointed out handy safely tool. Sounds like pocket under seat is a good spot, hopefully will never need to use it.
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Does the mk3 mot have a door unlock button inside like the mk2 has?,or am i confusing myself,which is not hard,and the interior lock is for unlocking with the key in when set up for auto locking?
The interior lock button doesn't work once the car is dead locked using the keyless remote. I've never had this problem on my Toyota where the door can still be unlocked from the inside.
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Thanks, but like I said previously unfortunately I don't have the alarm option.Just like with the normal key fob, on Kessy you can set it up in the multimedia system so that you get a bing sound when you lock the car.
Nice to see all the likes in this thread, I'm getting a really warm feeling..............
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Kessy is a proximity based system as defined in the VAG technical literature.That's not true, kessy requires the door handle to be touched to unlock and lock, if you close the door and don't the exterior handle it won't lock.
I'm not going to argue what constitutes pushing a button.
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ThanksAs per manual, you touch the locking sensor twice and the deadlocks are disabled.
Link: http://goo.gl/2SSJ03
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I probably didn't make it clear at the start that this problem relates to a Kessy system, which is very different to the normal keyless remote.
Kessy requires no buttons to be pushed for the car to lock or unlock, it works on proximity and hence can be temperamental.
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With Kessy I'm not sure if swiping the door twice disables the deadlock, will try tomorrow.
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When the doors are deadlocked, can't you open a window with the ignition on?
No, everything is locked including windows. Hence the momentary panic by my daughter.
I suspect something triggered Kessy to lock the car without my wife noticing.
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Ah come on, it's not that bad, I see no reason to lock this.. But please keep this civil. There's too much of this sort of thing going on in the octavia section of late.
I'm only new here so still finding my way but I do find that there seem to be a lot of unnecessary judgements made about what should and shouldn't be done that appear in the technical threads. Very overbearing and at times disrupt a sound discussion.
I would have thought philosophical discussions and moral guidance should be kept in the social areas of the forum and not constantly inserted into technical discussions.
Perhaps I will need to learn to live with it in the church of Skoda
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The official line is that it can't be done. One suggestion has been to leave a key in the car and disable it for immo.
Did think of hiding a key fob in a metal box, Kessy won't work if it senses a key inside the car. Also the Kessy key fobs are outrageously expensive.
The key on its own does nothing unless you are outside the car and have access to the hidden lock.
Canton sub settings disappeared?
in Skoda Octavia Mk III (2013 - 2020)
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Some settings are not available for radio