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I've driven 2 mk2 Octavias - FL and pre-FL and everything seemed to be fine according to the sound quality. I don't expect much but this sound system feels rather cheap (I mean - crappy). Maybe it was worse in mk3 but I haven't driven one. I hadn't really an option to get that USB port next to the mirror. Either I had to wait 6-7 months for the car or I could get one in 3 weeks but with some standard equipment. I chose the second option because it was like 95% everything I wanted. That port wasn't in the list unfortunately. By the way, it wasn't a very cheap option for some simple thing like a USB port... These 2 USB ports seem to be hidden a bit too deep but maybe that's only my opinion. Sometimes 2 can be not enough and the car didn't support the hub I tried to attach. In overall I might have different thoughts but all these small faults... Every time I'm starting the car, I get the feeling - what's gonna happen this time? Nothing, really? Parking sensors working? Strange...

I'm an owner of an Octavia for about 9 months or so (13k km driven). I might say that I'm rather disappointed with this one compared to the mk2 facelift Octavia. Mostly because of these reasons: 1) all these annoying ecology and safety things (all these beeps, start stops etc. Lane assistant is SUPER MEGA annoying). I understand that maybe in this case it's not Skoda's fault but anyway - that's soooo annoying. Driving on 2 cylinders maybe saves fuel but the feeling is like driving a diesel. 2) basic sound system of mk2 was far better than this one on mk4. This one is really crappy. 3) all these bugs in electronics make me feel like the car has been created in Russia. In the very beginning there was a battery draining thing (solved). Then there are sometimes not working parking sensors (hope it does get solved), faulty interior lighting and other minor things. Like I said, 13k only but I've been to dealer's more than I used to visit the garage with the old car. 4) I get a feeling that it's lower than mk2 and that sometimes causes trouble. 5) where did they get such windscreen wipers? Maybe usable in Italy but when it's colder then they are so damn loud. 6) no 12V socket??? WTF? Only one in the boot. There are 2 usb c-type sockets there but that's not enough. 7) electric handbrake and no way to move the car in case something happens - that's so lame. 8 ) that touchscreen is not the best way to do things. In older cars you could do all the stuff with not even looking any of knobs. Now you either watch the road or take a look at the menu after another menu, trying to find something. If the menu is working properly, of course. Is there anything good to say? Well, it drives, the power output of 1.5 TSI is satisfactory for me. Fuel efficient (the annoying part about it is written above).

Looks like I'm not the only one. The car is at the dealers's today. Also faulty parking sensors. Yeah, the new Octavia is rather crappy...

Do you have a mobile phone next to your car key? Sometimes my car doors do not open (boot opens always) but it starts fine and I found out that it happens when the key is in the pocket together with the mobile phone. Then I started putting this key into another pocket and it seems to work. Probably some overlapping frequencies or so.

Sounds not great at all. Called the dealer and 6-7 months for getting a brand new car doesn't sound great. Now starting to think about other options

Thinking about buying one mk4 but these fault reports make me a bit worried. I understand that probably I won't be the one that suffers from that but anyway I'm willing to find out a bit more about that. Are these considered to be serious errors? Basically I don't care much about navigation, info system etc. If engine works fine, lights are on, aircon works nicely then that's not the worst case. I understand that you might expect everything to be 100% perfect for a brand new car but in case (I hope it won't happen for me) something is not fine, I'd like these faults to be minor ones, not stalling engine or like that.

Forgot to say but it was like you said.

As always, these things happen then when you have a vacation, some holidays and so on...

Hey, Today all these things in the title appeared. Can't recall if they were all three together at once but after starting the car again, ABS warning was on and after some little driving two other appeared - tyre pressure warning and the one that shows slippery road. My Carista reader didn't show any errors. Car's MFD says - "ESP/ABS error" or something like that. Otherwise the car drives without any problems and breaking is fine. Not sure about proper ABS performance because I haven't tried that hard braking and the roads weren't that slippery. I tried reading about this thing and seems like many people have such issue and in many cases they even drive for a long time without any problems. Should I go to the garage ASAP or this isn't a big deal? Any ideas?

You don't need either W or Y because that vrs is not capable of doing that kind of speed. Theoretically same tyres with V, W or Y at the same speed (let's say - 130 kph) would act the same.

I wouldn't bet that pessimistic. Car manufacturers have to create a car that fits to everyone - so it must be strong enough but meanwhile it shouldn't consume much fuel etc. But I believe that if you need it for your certain needs than it can be tweaked that way. At least I've talked to people remapping cars and they said that some people choose the fuel saving and they do that.

I've heard that a faulty brake light might show "check engine". I'd change it because you have to do it anyway and then you'll see if it is causing the problem.

Sometimes it is but mostly not. In case when store wishes to get rid of some product, they might sell them cheaper.

No, I'm able to see the needle - so I'm able to maintain the speed as well. It's harder to see it but it's not impossible.

https://www.tyresizecalculator.com/charts/tire-speed-rating-chart W - it means 270 kph and it's way faster than your Skoda can go. Basically you would pay more for higher speed index just because of that. I might guess that for summer tyres usually in an ordinary store speed index could be around 200 kph. With UK speed limits it's enough. If you are planning to go to Germany (autobahns) and your car is able to do higher speeds then you might consider higher index. Otherwise? More expensive tyres and like previous poster said - you might not be able to get desired tyres with certain speed index. My winter tyres are designed for ~160 kph only. But they are winter tyres (soft ones) and even 140 kph tyres would be just fine.

When I bought my car, it has this issue. At first I thought about doing something but after some while I got used to it. If you are lazy then you might like this method - it's cheap and easy

High idle rpm could be because of hot weather & AC too but there shouldn't be smell from fuel.

A little update. The hoses were OK. Like I suspected before, there was some leak between that filter tank and it's cover. I tried even a different gasket - didn't help. Had to change the filter tank itself. I really can't say why it happened but it seems like it's way more fragile than it looks like I didn't use much force to open it and I tried to tighten the bolts one by one gradually but somewhere was some unfortunate mistake.

Strange. Why should both bearings fail simultaneously? Sticking brakes would be the easiest solution but that would lead to hot discs - like you said.

I have 15'' steel rims for winter for my Mk2 Octavia. Brake discs - 288 mm. Everything is fine.

1) Steel rims over 16'' are rare if there are any. I just checked the most popular Latvian advertisement site - quite a lot of 15'' rims, some 16''s, no 17'' or 18'' steel rims. 2) In general steel rims are fine, especially for winter use but like said before - for appropriate sizes.

Quite a silly mistake. We might have laughed if we hadn't done something similar before

As said above - check the pressure. Otherwise - I know nobody who would change spare tyre because it's 5 years old. By the way, I had to take out spare tyre from my parent's car (year 2006 or 2007 car). The tyre looked really nice. No cracks or whatsoever.

In my opinion for summer tyres it's not that important. For winter tyres it is. 5 years could be about right but basically you have to judge according to your feelings. If you get an impression that the tyre isn't as good as it used to be then maybe it's the time to change it. When buying new tyres try to get new ones. I usually ask the question about their age while ordering them. If they are old or "well, we don't know but anyway they are nice tyres" - no, thank you. And yes, like said before, check the marking on the tyres to be 100% sure that they are really as new as said to be.

In theory it might be so but I've done these things from time to time and usually bad things happen ONLY in wintertime when there's snow (probably not the usual case for the forum readers). Usually tyres has good enough grip and I'm not much into very, very expensive premium tyres (not buying cheap ones, though). Actually, this could be true on roads with high speeds. Ok, whatever. I guess that no-one from us is going to convince another one Let's allow other ones to speak