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Slightly different angle here. I had an engine replaced for free while under warranty. A year and a half later there was an internal oil leak costing over £800 to repair. The replacement engine came with no warranty apparently because I hadn't had to pay for it. Apparently if I had paid for the first replacement engine, the fault in the second one would have been repaired under guarantee. Can this be correct?

Yes. I see that your car is newer. I'll try another map update and see if that works and if not ask at the garage when next being serviced. Thanks for your help everybody!

Thanks. I've had a look . On my one there is only nav. announcement volume (with slider bar), but nothing else other than the option to disable announcements when on the phone. The HU is SE0051236 0064ECE2017. This may refer to the maps rather than unit itself.

On the instruction leaflet it says Amundsen, Infotainment anglicky 11.2012, S00.5614.04.20, 5EO 012c097J Looking a the manual I see under voice control the command "Switch off navigation announcements". I think I've tried that though.

As you say, the volume of the radio should remain the same - but it doesn't, it dips. You can just hear a murmur from the radio. Then it returns back to full vol (or what you were listening to it at) when the announcement is over. What is the abbreviation HU short for?

I'm still driving my 2013 Octavia and still being annoyed that I haven't found a way of satisfactorily muting the satnav voice. I can turn the volume of the satnav voice right down, but that doesn't stop the radio volume being dipped. Dipped to the point you can only just hear it. I don't always need hear directions to go straight over the next roundabout three times. Anyone find a way round this?

I'm afraid it is one of those "it all depends" kind of situation. In our case we had the money to buy the car outright. If we took 0% finance, we got free servicing. So the cash went into Premium bonds, from which we paid the monthly instalments. At the end of three years we had the choice to buy the car with quite a large final instalment or keep the money and hand back the car. This is what's called the guaranteed buy back price. (The finance people calculate it by starting with the buy back price in three year's time, deducting it from the new price, and dividing the difference into three year's monthly instalments.) Keeping the money left us with about £1,000 more than Skoda would have given us as a trade in price, if we had wanted to buy another car off them. A salesman recently told me that even if the finance was not 0% it might still be worth considering. I'm not sure he's right, but his example was that if you were buying a diesel car and were worried that in three year's time, the value of diesels might have been hit hard by the rethink on emissions, then that guaranteed buy back price might be quite a lot higher than the car's market value. Good luck with the maths!

I've always managed to park, even when at first site it didn't look as though there was space. I know what you mean though. My last trip there was to put right the loss of power steering that had occurred after driving through a bit of water on the road. (More than a puddle but not very deep.) The extended warranty people didn't want to pay at first as it was caused by water getting in where it shouldn't. Platinum service dept replied: "Of course Skodas should be able to go through a little water. Road signs indicating fords don't read: Ford (except for Skodas)." The extended warranty people agreed to pay. Full marks to Platinum Service Bath.

I have just found a recent thread on this topic which didn't come up when I first searched (probably as I didn't use the term pcp) Checks when handing back car on pcp

How clean and tidy does the interior need to be, to avoid deductions being taken from the guaranteed price? I am returning a Citigo at the end of a three year 0% finance deal as the guaranteed price is about £1,000 more than the trade in value. The exterior is immaculate. Inside, the pale seats show stains which will probably come out when they give it a really good pre-resale clean. It had G3 fabric protection applied when it was new.

What kind of FAT? I can't say for sure - I used an old pc running Vista. When formatting the choices were NTFS FAT (Default) FAT32 exFAT I used the default one.

I have had superb service from the parts department. I had a leaking coolant hose in a three year old Octavia recently purchased from another main dealer. The "All Parts" warranty doesn't cover hoses and it was going to cost £300 to replace the faulty one. The dealer I bought the car from agreed to pay 60% of the cost as "good will". Platinum Bath then spent a lot of time talking to Skoda UK and Skoda factory to get the other 40% - which eventually they did (from Skoda UK). They spent a lot of time to sort out a problem on a car they hadn't sold. And they lent me a car for a week while they sorted all this out for me. Full marks!

Back to the dealer then. Thanks.

In May I bought an Octavia estate, 2 litre automatic with 33,000 miles. In the 12 weeks since then and just over 3,000 miles of driving I have filled up the coolant three times and it now needs a forth top up. So roughly a top up every 3 weeks. Is this normal? PS not much town driving - country and motorway.

The person from Skoda who helped me through the process (and could not possibly have been more helpful) was surprised that NTFS had failed and that MS-DOS had worked. My pc is still running Vista - perhaps that has something to do with it? I guess a footnote to my post should be try NTFS first and if that doesn't work try MS-DOS. Reformatting doesn't take much time - a couple of minutes maybe.