OneFourSevenNine

460 miles from 35 litres, so 59.8mpg from the second tank full. Still mainly short journeys, so looking forward to longer runs to see if it improves.

I'm down Bath/Chippenham way quite a bit, so an option for me, I'll email them.

Good to know, Thanks!

I'm still looking as the local dealer says it cant be done, not totally convinced I actually believe that...yet at least!

No track day action this time, maybe next time..

Good luck, mine was on target early in the tank, but now, not so much LOL

So, no actual done update, as I'm away working. But, I have been informed I have 3 boxes from Germany and some springs arrived for when I get home at the weekend. :clap: Oh, and I started the Private Plate from retention process...

Haha, you would say that :p

Welcome aboard. I went in to spec a Monte, but they had such good deals on Pre-Reg Black Editions, ended up with one of them

Welcome aboard

Had a chat with a mate who works for a tuning company and recons its sounds like part of the ECU programming, told me to get it remapped and it will go away 5 weeks old it may be a bit soon for a remap :p Edit: On a side note, it has not done it in the last week, so its a bit of a strange one.

Yep, mine is like that.

Got dragged out on a shopping trip with the wife and kids, sods law I missed my springs being delivered. Damn!

I'd feel obliged to buy one as the ZX Spectrum was my weapon of choice to pass my Computer Science O'Level and in turn was instrumental in my career path. Of cause the added benefit of Jet set Willy, Spectipede, Starquake and not forgetting Elite (This one has stuck, Elite Dangerous these days) had no bearing at the time I convinced my dad it would be an asset to my education...

I'll be there :clap:

Yeah, my main worry, and the mechanics, was if this happens regular all the unburnt fuel through the cat will bork it. They are going to check with Skoda to see what's what. They are suspicious the ECU is doing this to limited the revs when in neutral (and appears to have gone silly last night). If it had the ESC disable button it would be quick to check, but mine doesn't, hence the further investigation.

Been to garage this morning, Obviously it did it when I was going there, but not when there! Its been on the diagnostics and there are no errors logged. Definitely unburnt petrol/cat smell. Seems to occur when engine temp is between 50-75c They have booked it in for 2 days to investigate further, in the meantime, got told its okay to use, we will see what happens. Cant fault the garage, they were very thorough.

Are the revs limited when not in gear? I know my Octavia CR VRS was, but that used to just go to 2.5K and not move however hard you pressed the pedal. Oh well, nuts to it, the garage can fix it, that's why I bought a new car :p

Nope, meant to say, no lights, everything appeared okay.

So, car is only 4 weeks old with 445 miles on it. This evening, getting ready to go and pick the wife up from work and, when I started it up, it went to 2.5K for 10 seconds before going back down to 1K idle, Strange I thought! So after kangarooing up the road 50 yards or so noticed a bad burnt type smell and see a lot of smoke behind me I decided to pull over, tried revving it and it was lumpy as hell and sounded like it was bouncing off the rev limiter at 3.5K, dropping to 1.5K then straight back up to 3.5K, repeat... Straight back and parked it on the driveway, Lifted bonnet, there was that smell again. Very strange, anyone have any ideas? I will of cause be ringing the garage tomorrow, but that wont help the earhole bashing I'll get when her indoors arrives home wet through

Haha, Fitted, That was a pig of a job Edit: Yes from an Up! Still looking for a leather Skoda gear knob, I have only found Up! ones at present, really wanted a Skoda one if possible.

First of the German parts has arrived.

Cleaned today That seriously fails the trainer test, Roll on the new springs arriving :p

I only managed 428 from the first tank full. Was a bit annoyed until I realised it only took 33 litres to fill it up. so 58 mpg to start isn't too bad as its been nearly all town/short trips so far, furthest I've been on one trip is 15 miles :p

Superb stuff, dabbled a bit in my younger years. Great fun!