Shermo

I have the odd dropout in the same location to/from work but it's only brief so hasn't bothered me too much. But I did recently have my car serviced and since then I have had bigger drop outs, sometimes for a whole day the 12D (I think) DAB service won't work properly, but the BBC one, 12A? does... but it seems to be really random, not sure if they updated the software on my car when it was serviced.

Physically I believe it's just the injectors and the ECU (which contains the map), I remember someone did some digging about a year ago although that was on an Audi forum for the A3, but same engines.

Given the 150ps engine is the same aside from the injectors and map I don't understand how the 150ps isn't also Euro6 also... Obviously all of us with 150ps engines need to remap them to do our bit for the environment?

They have no control over how long it takes to arrive in the country. I know it's annoying waiting but TBH not much can be done to make it go faster :( Don't worry though, when you eventually get it you will be very happy!

Think my garage would have took as long if I hadn't told them I was pretty sure it was the water pump as I'd read several Golf, A3 and Octy owners have issues.

Looks like Baz555 had the same water pump issue with his vRS. Hopefully the faulty batch wasn't too big!

Sounds like you had a water pump from the same bad batch as me then. Glad they sorted it for you in the end!

Got my car back today, got a little report saying what they had done: Not sure what a TPI is, is that because it's a known fault? Or just the procedures for detecting a pump issue?

Yes, black handles and wing mirrors and manual climate control. Aside from the mushy gearbox (possibly not the cars fault but being thrashed as a rental?) the car is OK actually, the 1.6 diesel isn't all that sporty but it's pretty capable and it's returning excellent MPG, at least according to the cars system.

They didn't say, I will quiz them more once it's been fixed.

A new water pump has been ordered and should hopefully be fitted tomorrow Hopefully this doesn't turn out to be a common thing for others, as it's not good breaking down with a newish car!

Long walk though, especially with the missus all dressed up and wearing heels! No idea, just went with what the AA guy said...

Well I have the hire car until Tuesday, but I can't imagine they will manage to have fixed it by then if they need any parts. Hopefully it's something simple such as the water pump. The 1.6 diesel isn't too bad really, it doesn't have the power of the 2.0 TDI but it's still kind of perky. Did about 45 mile drive home this morning and the car said it had averaged 75MPG on a journey I'd normally get 55MPG in my 150ps 4x4... pretty good economy really! One downside is SO many things I'm missing on this SE spec that my car has such as no arm rest, no cruise control, no parking sensors. Also not sure whether this rental car has been ragged or not but the 5 speed gearbox on this car feels nowhere near as nice as the 6 speed on mine.

In the end the car was towed away and eventually they paid for a taxi to take us 40ish miles to East Midlands airport to get a replacement car. Now have a 1.6 diesel SE Octavia, not as nice as my highly specced elegance but it will have to do I guess. Got to my friend's reception just in time for the speeches at 6pm, not great considering we broke down at 11:30 and should have originally been in Nottingham for 12:30. Guess my car won't be looked at until Tuesday as it's a bank holiday, hope it's nothing too serious!

Man from AA came, checked oil and coolant topped up coolant with a tiny drop and ran the engine for a while with diagnostics connected. Coolant went up to 110 degrees and oil 114 so he spoke to VW tech and they said tow it to Skoda garage, might just need a software update?? Sat waiting for them to bring a flat bed tow truck as it's 4x4 and arrange for a replacement vehicle to be brought to me. Least we're in a pub, time for some grub! This was definitely not part of today's plan, just hoping we don't miss the reception as that will annoy me!

Was on my way to a friend's wedding this morning and the car told me to pull over as the engine was overheating. Checked oil and coolant both appeared fine so left it 5 mins and set off again. Within a mile it shot from 80 degrees to 107 and warning appeared again and pulled over in a pub. Currently waiting for Skoda breakdown (RAC?) to arrive... Going to miss my friend's wedding now, hopefully will make the reception though! Car has only done 14500 miles and is a year old.

To answer your question about rear, they don't put transport blocks on the rear suspension. I had mine checked at the dealers after having the same issue as you. The fronts are there to stop it bottoming out during transportation due to the extra weight at the front from the engine.

Doing about 15k miles a year so I'll be at around 50k miles after 42 months, probably will buy it out and keep it running for as long as I can. Original plan was to keep it for 8 - 10 years, guess it depends what happens with diesel rules in the UK but it's plenty enough car for us at the moment. Making a lot of use of that huge boot!

Keep thinking about getting one of these myself. Not sure I fancy pulling my trim apart to fit one though. Do you have one on the rear or just front?

The 4x4 versions are supposed to have a 55 litre tank, the most I have put in over 10500 miles is 50.8 litres and I think I'd done about 15 miles with zero range. Part of me is tempted to see how far I can go with zero range, another thinks it'd just be my luck to run out!

They do but only with the 150ps engine, still it can be remapped to around 200ps

I recently did a mid-service oil change on mine with a PELA 6000 oil extractor. Sure it's not as good as doing a proper full change, but it got 4 litres out which was pretty good going I thought. Certainly better to replace 95% of the oil at 9000 miles than waiting until 18000 for its first variable service!

If its not showing up on the dipstick solidly then you are probably below the minimum... just putting a few glugs in isn't going to fix the problem! From bottom to top of the dipstick is about 1 litre I believe, the warning will come on when you are in the danger zone, not when it's just a bit low. Really you should check every 1000 miles / 1600km. Also you should use the correct grade of oil assuming you don't want to damage the engine further.

The speed limiter is the combination of your eyes on the dial and your foot on the accelerator

Why buy a diesel for only 10k per year? It's be much better to go for a petrol, although if leasing you don't have the worry of DPF issues in the future