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When we were driving on the french motorway the sat nav was working o.k. On french N-roads / country roads the matrix lights shade the oncoming traffic though. I am sure Skoda programming simply does not cut the beam to the left when on motorways and the camera might not see the oncoming lights because of the central barrier. I wonder how a LHD car with matrix LED lights and HBA on behaves on UK motorways.

If the oil warning came on when driving I have stopped at the next petrol station or supermarket and I have been in the situation where I could not get the exact oil, so chose the next best. In the case of Ford and Stelantis - Renault, Vauxhall - this apparently can be enough to damage wet belts. This kind of illegal.

I have just discovered that my EA288 engine in our 2023 SIII, a DTUA, is a wet belt engine with the belt running inside the engine to drive the oil pump. I have been telling my children when they looked for cars or anyone who would listen to stay away from the wet belts..... And I am driving one. I never saw this discussed anywhere in a forum. The old EA189 was using a chain. I also discovered that there is a conversion to change to a chain. So no illegal oil. And I have to fill up oil as this wretched engine uses oil in between regular changes. Skoda put me on a 18000M extended interval at the last service. That will also go down to a modest 10000 miles maximum.

In my fuse diagram side lights left is fuse 17 and right 18. The left side light fuse also supplies the number plate light.

Hello, Back from the car. I only found a NJ - FIII - description video online. On the FII I did the following. Unclip ALL connections inside the tailgate - high brake light, wiper, heated screen, lock, washer connection. Unclip all securing clips. One is hidden behind the high brake light between the skins of the tailgate going to the right connection of the heated screen. Pull the wires back. Disconnect the struts. Unbolt the tailgate - 4 10mm bolts. Job done. And all this because my daughter wants to fix the horrible lacquer peel.

Hello, I want to remove the tailgate on a 2009 FII. The manual only states to undo the hinge bolts and "disconnect" the connections. I removed the rubber boot both ends expecting some kind of clip..... Nothing Has anyone removed the tailgate and found a good place to disconnect the cables and the rear screen wash?

Which tailgate module do you have? Skoda has used different ones.

Hi, I will attach some pictures of the VW BCM. I cannot compare this at present because the old BCM is still in the car until another replacement arrives.

Hello Pete, I will take some pictures tomorrow.

Hello Pete, Thanks for the offer. I have already ordered a replacement BCM off Ebay, this time a Skoda one. I would be interested in the wiring / pin out of the Fox BCM out of couriosity though.

This is an update on the reverse display of the fuel gauge. Today I changed the BCMs - replacement out and an old one I still had but with no functioning wipers in. I took pictures... Reverse display Correct display As you can see on the clock they are 30 minutes apart. The BCMs have the exact same PN and nearly the same age. The biggest difference is that the BCM I bought as a replacement for the failed one came from a VW Fox from 2009, so the same year as my daughter's FII. I need to find some pin outs for a 6Q1937049F BCM for a Fox. I have been checking the FII pin outs and nothing indicated that there is any connection to the fuel gauge. Maybe the FL ones do but they are a complete new design. I had started to make plans to replace the complete electrics from dashboard, ignition barrel, door lock, keys... So, the Fox must be using a different wiring with the same PN.

With this setting you can also reduce the screen to headlight ratio to 1:1 and you decide when headlights get washed by a longer pull action.

Oh, when I had the car "new" and wanted to do some coding to the headlights I am sure I was told I could not because of the different controllers - 55 to 4B - and some options had disappeared from 9 too. I wanted to code whiskers / eye lashes and other bits.

These eyelashes I meant.

Do you have the permanent eyelashes? If not it is the 4B multi function module with D6 and D7 light controllers. Not much to code in them.

You can increase the response time for the headlight washers to 1.5 or 2 seconds. That means you will only get a headlight wash when you hold the stork longer.

I have the variable boot floor. It was ordered by the first owner -Skoda, and it was a cost option. I think it is crap and would have preferred the SII boot setup. As said before there are lots of parts to fit / change. I retrofitted a boot light and had to remove a lot of trim including the variable floor.

Dynamic front indicators only work on pre face lift SIII with a 55 controller.

The fuel gauge is working in reverse with the old and the replacement fuel sender. I still have the previous BCM and can try that again. On the wiring diagram the fuel pump / sender do not have a link to the BCM.

It would be nice to have the same options for the FL.

Thanks for the dashboard hint. The display is still working in reverse. The car is away again and it will be a few weeks before I can check again. I am still thinking that there is a connection to the BCM fix when there was a short on the circuit board.

I retrofitted HBA to my old SII and it worked really well. I have Matrix LED lights in the SIII now and they are excellent except for when we travel with tourist mode / continental driving turned on that it seems to be unable to blank the oncoming card on the left hand side and I get flashed by lorries and buses. My HBA is coded to be on all the time if the light switch is on Auto.

Have they worked before and stopped working? Are they turned off in the head unit or have they been coded out?

Just an update. I replaced the sender last night as I thought that HAS to be the faulty part. I think the fault is not fixed as the fuel display on the gauge was the same as before. Unfortunately I did not do any major testing, i.e. level up and level down and electrical measurements. I looked on the wiring diagram again thinking I must have missed a connection but there is only one straight connection into the dashboard. I have not removed the dashboard for inspection yet. That will have to wait as we are going away soon. Any other ideas?

Hi, We have just been through this - again. The second BCM or wiper relais failure since my daughter got the car. I desoldered the relay with a hot air soldering machine which was o.k. Unfortunately I was a little generous with the solder and created a short on the board under the relay. So I got a second hand BCM. You have to make sure you order the correct PN. They are 6Q0..., 6Q1... and 6Q2... As Pete said you probably will have to code the replacement unit as the trim level will be slightly different.