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My daughter's Kamiq SEL has the LED rear cluster and the light is actually very good. When she got the car we fitted an Aliexpress reversing camera which improved reversing a lot more.

I have just stumbled across a report about TAKATA Airbags which have been fitted to many Skodas. When the airbag is triggered they become lethal bombs. Takata does not exist any more but they have developed a cheaper airbag in 2004 and it has been fitted by many manufacturers until 2018. They have used Ammoniumnitrate tablets as the driver for the airbag when it deploys. Ammoniumnitrate will degrade over time and the tablet will become a dusty substance and this will not produce gas in a controlled fashion but explode ripping everything around it apart and shoot metal shrapnel towards the driver and passenger and killing them. Recalls have happened but many manufacturers have dragged their feet - VAG being among them. I have just checked my old car - an SII L&K - which I sold a couple of years ago and this DOES have a Takata airbag and it has NOT been recalled. I am not sure if I put this thread into the appropriate section. Maybe moderators can swap it.

My daughter has got the Kamiq SEL with 18" alloys and no spare. We removed a wheel and test fitted. An 18" alloy fits into the spare wheel well but is a tight fit. We then bought a foam insert with a sissor jack on Ebay - not even VAG - and it works o.k. I don`t know if y 17" alloy may fit.

Servicing depends on whether you want to keep the car or move on quickly. We normally keep cars if they are not immediately a problem. My daughter has just bought a Kamiq from 2020. It had been regularly serviced..... One of the first things I did was to reduce the service / oil change interval to 9000M from the variable. I would not service a car at a year regardless, but the 9000 will be at about 1 - 1.5 years. Oil does not go off by just sitting in the oil sump as it will not in a 5L canister. I cannot prove this but kind of believe that long change intervals with high mileage lead to lots of sludge in the whole engine. Sludge does not lubricate.

Hi, I did the oil change 2 days ago. The 161mm oil filter was the correct one. It is more faff than our old SII.... The tray is fixed with more bolts and different sizes. There is another part - a V488 heat assist pump - that you have to unbolt and swing out and then not mix up all your Torx screws before you get to the oil filter housing. Then you drain oil from it with a 10mm hex and to unbolt the housing you use a 26mm. Oil fill on the DTUA is 5.5l.

My RHD driving on a UK - left hand traffic - motorway cuts the beam at the central reservation and no one gets dazzled in the oncoming traffic and the left hand side of the road is lit up. Driving in right hand traffic with this RHD car it DOES NOT cut the beam at the central reservation - left side - and the oncoming traffic gets blinded. I guess it is the other way round with a LHD in right hand traffic. And this is the flaw of this thread.

Is this a LHD car on UK motorways?

Thank you.

I have just checked my coding and adaptation map and my Stg 4B byte 11 bit 0 is already unchecked. But I think my headlights do not know the central reservation when driving on right hand traffic motorways.

I am just looking for an oil filter for our SIII. Searching online comes up with 2 different cartridges - a 101 mm and a thinner 161 mm one. Which one would be for the 2L TDI with 200 bhp?

It is a shame that I cannot reply to that RossTech thread. I would love to know how he managed the SWaP & Dataset changes.

Hi Cairus, Are you saying that the matrix should only work with pACC?

Very interesting. Can your friend release what he has done on your car by any chance? I just had a look through a coding and adaptation scan of my SIII and I cannot find the predictive route data in STG 4B. I only have predictive AFS as a selectable setting in the adaptations.

Problem solved. When I connected ODIS it auto-identified the car. In the attached screen shot you can see that it says SK37x. But the Kamiq is a SK27x. When I changed this manually ALL controllers were read without issues and coding was a breeze.

Hi, My daughter has lived and worked in the french alps for a few winters and throwing chains on takes her less than 5 minutes in thick snow - they had competitions as you do..... She has had the chains on for a week at a time when there was still thick snow in steep terrain. Driving a Superb I have seen threads where people have fitted snow chains to 18" and 19" tyres. You always hope that you do not need them, but I still "practice" to fit mine and sometimes the roads are not cleared as quick as you hope when there is more than 24 hours worth of snow fall. They just cannot clear all the roads at the same time.