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I've have now accepted a low offer from a trader and typically had 2 calls today asking to view the car from private buyers locally. The trader hasn't paid any deposit and isn't coming to collect until a week on Monday. I'm torn as to whether I should let the private buyers view. I don't want to gazump the trader but on the other hand they are offering about £750 less than I could get. Where do I stand legally, I'm pretty sure that if I didn't pay a deposit to a trader he could sell the car under me.Thoughts please.

Thanks for the replies. I've renewed the ad on autotrader but coming to the conclusion that I may have to accept a lot lower price or bide my time. I guess people want ease of purchase and that comes through a dealer not a private sale. In no rush yet luckily so will hold out for a while longer.

I honestly thought I would have had some interest by now but so far only 2 people have contacted me and both seem to be a waste of time. I have lowered the price from what I think was already low but would appreciate feedback on this. The photos could probably be better but it has been constant rain since I took the last ones. Any other ideas why it has had no interest?

I am selling my 2015 Skoda Octavia Mk3 Estate TDi VRS in metallic grey. It has covered just under 22500 miles and was first registered in march 2015. The car has all the usual VRS features and I added a tow bar (removable) and side air bag curtain as extras. The car had its second service in December and new front tyres 2 weeks ago. The rear tyres still have about 4mm+ on them. The car still has 14 months warranty and is in very good condition. You'd struggle to find a cheaper car of the same age/spec. Reason for sale is we want to release the equity in it and so have taken out a PCH on a Superb Estate Se Technology. I am looking for £15250. This is £1000 less than I originally had it on for and £1500 less than the next similar car on Autotrader. The car can be seen near Ilminster, somerset. UPDATE: Autotrader advert here. With lots more photos.

Don't know what they did but the service indicator went away. I will probably have to call them.

Car was serviced in March this year. Warning has just come on for oil change in 1400 miles. This will likely be next months so is 6 months and 7000 miles normal between oil changes?

1. Did this, and ended up arguing. Calmed down and moved on to step 2. 2. Plan was to reverse off drive, in reality reversed into car. Definitely a negative difference. 3. The reason for the difference was, previous year was largely frost free, warm (therefore no steaming up mirror) and the 2 days before there was no car behind. Looking at a simple equation taking the probabilities of each occurrence happening, factoring in a risk percentage against this, offsetting this against the frequency rate of the same occurrence over the last year for the same situation and the root cause comes out as......... my wife. 4. The learning point is clear. cost whether it would be cheaper to hire a professional driver for the occasions my wife does drive against the expected cost of repairs from her driving misadventures. Anyone know a reasonably priced per job driver in the South West?

I read that on another thread, I think you can do it with the engine off (after the grief I have been giving my better half she would probably "accidentally" take her foot off the clutch while I was listening!). Had a quick go earlier but couldn't hear anything from any of them.

I like that idea, the problem is I would have to look after the kids.... .... or sell with the kids for a bit more money and use the profit to go on holiday.

I know it sounds like one of those "my friend has a problem" stories but it was actually the Wife's fault not mine! First frost of the year and she decides to not defrost the rear window or wipe the mist off the rear view mirror, ignore the fact she has seen my car behind her and then ignore the reverse sensor beeps before reversing into my run around at speed. Apparently it's sort of my fault because my car wasn't there the day before, work that one out! Anyway, long story off my chest, there is some cosmetic damage to the bumper and reflector strips but also physical damage to the reversing sensor system. I have looked up into the bumper and the sensor is still in place but I can't tell if the connection to the main loom is in tact. Certainly a small piece of broken off red opaque plastic fell down with a broken tie wrap. There is also a loose "clip?" can' really tell what it is but may just be to hold the loom to the bumper. When putting the car into reverse, it beeps for a couple of seconds then stops; and that is it. Out of reverse and back into reverse it does nothing and the sensors do not register anything. If you stop the car and start it again you get the same 2 second beep then nothing when selecting reverse. Also the car settings has "function not available" for parking aids. As we have just bought a house we have no money for expensive repairs, does anyone have any knowledge of this problem, is it a simple sensor failure (one of them was directly impacted) and if so how easy is it to replace myself. I can live with the cosmetic (minor) damage but without the sensors, the likelihood of her in doors doing more damage in a reversing situation has now exponentially increase hugely. Any help and advice welcome.

Car now sold.

Sadly I think you're right. A buyer would still get the same warranty as it has the manufacturers still in place but I can understand the security and finance point of view. Having said that, I didn't have any problem selling my 1 year old SMax a few years ago. No huge rush so will just have to wait it out and see what happens.

Bit of advice if possible. I have had some interest but not as much as I had expected. Having compared to autotrader mine is the 4th cheapest with the others being higher mileage and older. Am I being unrealistic with the price? It is set with negotiating in mind but the offers have been just too low so far. http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201510117717926?body-type=estate&postcode=ba228wj&maximum-mileage=up_to_40000_miles&fuel-type=diesel&search-target=usedcars&make=skoda&transmission=manual&engine-size-cars=2l_to_2-5l&onesearchad=used%2Cnearlynew%2Cnew&sort=default&model=octavia&maximum-age=up_to_2_years_old&page=1&radius=1500&zero-to-60=fast&logcode=p

New photos added and open to sensible offers.

I could see how that would be an expensive car!! Title changed.

For sale is my 2014 Skoda Octavia III Estate. Selling as we have bought a 2015 of the same car. Spec as follows: Sunset Glass. Cruise Control. Part leather sports seats. Electric windows, Air conditioning, Reverse Parking sensors, CD player, Part Leather trim, Height adjustable driver's seat, Folding rear seats, Child seat points (Isofix system), Sports seats with grey stitching. Alloy wheels, Roof rails, Colour is white. 9600 miles No previous owners No accidents Car located in Somerset near Yeovil

Didn't read the sticky so my error, found the thread directly. Anyway glad it's all sorted and thanks for the settings.

Yes, just the (4) and (6) was (VO), so at first we were looking for a setting with (4) and (6) at the start.

Finally found a VW garage that managed to program the lights. It appears that the other 2 just hadn't followed the instruction I gave them. Took all of 10 minutes and cost €26.53. Of note the settings were slightly different on the German Laptop. Didn't take pictures but think they were: (VO)-Leuchte26NSL LA72-Lichtfunktion A 26 (VO)-Leuchte27NSL RC6-Lichtfunktion A 27 (VO)-Leuchte27NSL RC6-Dimmwert AB 27 I asked to watch the Guys do it and that definitely helped as I could translate the English which I had to do a couple of times. If there is a high demand I would be happy to translate the above into German, may help to avoid any confusion with Dealers misunderstanding the English instructions.

Thanks for the replies, will keep battling on with the program settings. If no joy by Wednesday (I have also got it booked into another Skoda) I will have to think about the drive to Driburg (a nice 7 hour round trip although at least I can bomb down the Autobahn). Annoyingly I have suggested 3 or 4 times they speak with Thiel Skoda but they clearly haven't.

Well just been to the 3rd Skoda Garage and they are still unable to change the fog lights over. They followed the instruction as per the link above and it turned all the car lights off. They suggested getting a German BCM and trying to program that as they are having no luck but on looking up the part numbers they are exactly the same as UK. They are going to speak to Skoda and see what they say. I am not looking good to get this sorted within the 40 day period but if needs be will get it hard wired by them as am sick of all this ar*ing around. I will definitely be contacting the group who sold me the car as they were supposed to sort this out before I exported it but didn't due to a "misunderstanding". Anyway, heads up for anyone buying to export to Germany.

john96, is your car a MY2015? I am trying to get my rear fog reprogrammed but the local skoda here in Bremerhaven says they can not do it as it might throw faults and they are not willing to risk it. I have asked them to call Thiel skoda and will hopefully hear back tomorrow. Also running out of time to register the car so if anyone has the know how and equipment to do this around the Fallingbostel/Hohne Bergen area let me know. Thanks edit: just seen that the thread title states MY2015, Will PM you.

Yeap, rear fogs change sides. Platinum Skoda in Bath worked it out but not sure if they would share the settings. Hopefully will become an official "fix".

Hi, Just posted in the tech section so thought it prudent to say hello. Just purchased my first Skoda (Octavia VRS Diesel) and am very impressed. Long blast back to Germany and averaged 42mpg even with 30mph average for first 6 hours in UK (London traffic) and then 110mph on the Autobahn. Only downside is the damned Sound Generator. Pretty sure it is causing the annoying buzzing above 80mph. Not a problem in the UK as I never drive above 70mph but annoying over here!

Hi, I have recently purchased a Skoda Octavia VRS MKIII and exported it to Germany. Having looked at the forum I found the front lights could be flattened by the Infotainment unit but the rear Fogs did not change sides. andyvee has posted instruction on how to enable both rear fog lights and with this information I went to my local Skoda garage. They said they could not outright use the settings as they were not approved but did set about trying to work out what settings to change to allow driving both on the continent and in UK and changing through the Infotainment unit. Long story short after 2 hours they managed to set the car up so the headlight beam is correct for both left and right side driving (not just flattened for the continent) and the rear fog light changes side to remain on the off side. All good but did cost a few hours labour which was not ideal. Out of pocket for this I have been in contact with Skoda UK who are not willing to contribute to the costs as the changes are not approved. I have been informed that the technical team have the settings now and are looking to see if they can be approved in which case I will hopefully be partially reimbursed. The only downside I can see with the setting is the cornering lights do not work in continental mode but work fine in UK mode. It is also worth noting that my car was built May 2014 but had the issue with the nearside brightness set to 0. So I'm not sure exactly when the cars became MY2015. Anyway, if you are going to do this in the future worth calling Skoda to see if the fix has been approved and then it is a 10 min job. Thanks again for the help with the initial settings.