AK67

Despite having a new EGR valve fitted last year and doing various trips from long to short each week, I now get the same warning lights on the dash. It started with the DPF light but after a 20 minute drive at high revs in 4th gear the light went off. ...but a fortnight later I have these two lights appearing, see my photo. Rapid 1.6TDi, 2013.

Skoda Rapid 1.6TDi on a 2013 plate, I was getting the DPF warning light and then the flashing glow plug warning light. The dealer replaced the EGR valve as a goodwill gesture about 6 months ago BUT the warning lights have just started appearing again! Any ideas whether blasting at 3k revs for a while on a motorway will help, seeing as my EGR valve is relatively new?! I tried doing so and it worked for a week before the glow plug warning light returned. I do one or two short trips each day but give it a few long runs at high revs several times a week. Cheers.

Hi All, Haven't been on here for a while. Hope you're all having trouble-free motoring in your Rapids! Just seeing if anyone is experiencing a rumbling/whirring sound (more of a scrambled rumble) from the dash AFTER the engine has been switched off. Seems to last for a while. Mine is a 2013 Rapid Elegance, 1.6TDi. Thanks, AK67.

Re DIY oil change, if I wasn't a mech ignoramus, it would be very tempting.

Hmmmph!

Cheers. The annoying thing is the 60 mile round trip. I wonder if they would send someone out? Their error after all.

6 days after my service and my dash is telling me "service now"! I've only done 200 miles since the pigging service. Help!

Good advice guys, thanks. An oil change between those s-p-a-c-e-d apart variable services then? I'm being put on variable as of tomorrow. Littleade, your Skoda website link on servicing is interesting. It doesn't tally with the dealer (and now Skoda's customer services) saying that the first major service should be at 40k? ...

Your mechanical nous is way superior to mine Chris, and I share your concern about those miles as a hire car and whether that first service was thorough. The car has driven well since I bought it but I do hope it turns out as good as the Octy 1.9TDi which I owned prior to this. Btw, I do about 18,000 miles a year so perhaps variable should have been the regime rather than fixed...

Update! Skoda admit they had got it wrong and based their info to me on my car being on a variable regime, which it wasn't. On a fixed service regime the first major service is at 40,000 apparently.

Dealer says my car is on a fixed servicing regime and that my 20,000 mile service was a pollen filter service rather than a major service. They say that the 30,000 mile service will be just oil and filter, and then the 40,000 service will be the major service. However, Skoda UK told me yesterday that the 20,000 mile service should have been a major service...

Thanks for responding guys. Littleade, I'm waiting for dealer feedback regarding the nature of the 20,000 mile service. That's the key question I reckon. At present the picture I have of my service history is higgledy-piggledy!

Servicing of 2013 SKODA RAPID ELEGANCE TDI CR 5 DOOR HATCHBACK Hi All, Please help if poss. My Skoda Rapid has been on a fixed service regime and serviced on: 12,000 miles (before I bought the car, serviced by Nationwide...) 20,000 miles (serviced by the Skoda dealer who sourced the car for me from the hire car company it was originally with) It's now due a 30,000 service and then the dealer is putting it onto a flexible service regime. My question is this: when was/is it due a major service? A different Skoda dealer advised me today that it should have had a major service on 20,000 miles... Skoda UK's records has my car as a flexible regime from day one! Confused! Cheers.

Looking good.

I had a bonnet symmetry issue. Maybe you can find my post in about February. The noticeable asymmetry was/is at the front, where bonnet meets grill. The lopsidedness was slightly improved by the dealer adjusting the rubber 'feet' underneath. Additionally, where bonnet meets windscreen, one side sticks up while the other is flush with the wing. So much for accurate standardised production!

Can anyone tell me the laden and unladen tyre pressure for a Rapid please? Tyres are 185 60 R15 Appreciated.

My octavia used produce a winding-type noise, a kind of buzzing rattle from the dash area when I accelerated enthusiastically and reached a certain rev count. The dealer was typically useless, after all, they had my lolly! I grew to accept the rattle and had no real dramas with that car. Verdict: sound car but custmer service is dead.

Cheers Billy, I got a numberplate for £10, just clips on doesn't it, quality. These 'Rideon' carriers get excellent reviews everywhere you look eg Wiggle and Amazon. One question, the instructions tell you to use petrol/solvent on the tow ball prior to attaching the carrier. Anyone know why?

£300 due to some t***'s recklessness is infuriating. I remember pulling into a space near the local sports centre years ago in a nearly new 307 SW. A clearly dense b**** threw open the passenger door in the beetle beside me, thwacking it into my driver's door. Amazingly there was no damage but equally no genuine apology. I wonder what occupied the huge void between her ears.

LeeCZ, me too, and I get stick for making my kids walk an extra 30 metres! Lazy b*ggers!

Yes, photos of this prob please guys!

Nice one!

Jesus! *Rant mode now, that's it, here I go!* You know, if I could do everything myself I fxxxxxg would.Customer service is history!

Sure does! The good news is that the DVLA have finally sent me an amended V5C showing the correct model name of my Rapid. Fxxxxxg Royal Mail had managed to lose the first one I posted to the DVLA, despite being sent 'first class signed for'. A shower! Did you receive your amended V5C Billy?

I tried it today and the sensors were dancing!