Everything posted by nickytheshaft
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Air blower smells and car steams up when it is warm outside
Yes you should leave the ac on everytime your closet your Windows. Mine is always on Auto. It will dry the air in the car. The fuel consumption doesn't change a lot, for me it is insignificant. On the highway at 130 km/h I an between 7.1 and 7.8 l/100. Do that, change your filter every year and use an a cleaning kit and you will be good
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changing columbia head unit skoda octavia
yellow = usb blue = gps antenna black = dab antenna grey = screeen conenctor. As said, you will loose a lot of functionalities and retrofitting would surely have been cheaper.
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2818 ŠKODA Octavia VRS TDI just bought
Wow I was not aware of that!!!! I just learned something new
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2818 ŠKODA Octavia VRS TDI just bought
Hi, I don't think there is a bigger cup holder There is a repair guide on briskoda, I got mine here. 37 mpg seems a good consumption imo. It is about 6l/100 on my 2l TSI I get 7.2 to 8.5 l/100 on the highway at 130 km/h
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Reverse camera
what does this interface achieve? what I did was cut off the rca, add a pin to the positive wire of the camera and put the pin in the qhadlocl + a little codding abd voila, camera works you can also use this if you car doesn't have the blue connector https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/1005003882902507.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.23.78d21481h9sV6i&algo_pvid=f33cbf69-793a-450a-9151-0e3c9af808e9&algo_exp_id=f33cbf69-793a-450a-9151-0e3c9af808e9-11&pdp_npi=3%40dis!EUR!7.21!5.4!!!!!%402100b0d116843062584832826d0742!12000027381704930!sea!FR!914286551&curPageLogUid=W4y6pojE1sdD
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Reversing Camera OEM
i assumed there where 2 sizes as the seller has both on his site and asked to check. One thing odd thought, my car is the 2l vrs ordered 04/2014 ans delivered 08/2014 and I have the old handle. I am sure it was built after 05/2014 (but we are getting off topic) A question thought. My camera is 720p as I had an android device supporting ahd and 720p screen, the picture was superb. i then retrofitted a MIB2 amundsen with a 8 inch screen and analog video feed. The picture is so so . Does the unit struggle to go downscale the camera? will going to a 480p camera improve the picture quality? Thanks
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Reversing Camera OEM
send your details to ApertureS and see. You can also measure your handle and see is it is the old model like on the link. Be carreful, ols models also have 2 different types of plugs. Only way to know is to check behind the trim. Here is an example of old model handle https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/32570611045.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.5863378dS2ZewP&mp=1&gatewayAdapt=glo2fra
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Reverse camera
You have to measure the size of the handle as well as the plug. Here you have the different options https://a.aliexpress.com/_EJLYs2z
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Reversing Camera OEM
The thing is if it is the "small" handle as I have, there is no way to fit a genuine camera. Only third party ones.
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Engine Re-Map 1.4TSI & Alloy Upgrade
If the wheel size are available stock on the car then there will be no issues with the insurance as the car is made to ride with theme. For the remap, it will affect the insurance. How much? I can't tell as the 1.4 may not exist with the power.
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Brake pad warning
mine where almost gone on mr rs but the cable on the pad wasn't cut so it did not trigger the warning, the person doing the technical control of the car saw it. So be carreful and visually check the pad.
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Increase mileage
I find your consumption hight. On my 2l TSI I have between 7 and 8l per 100km on the highway and between 10 and 15 in the City. When my car was new, charging the tyres made a huge difference
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2015 vrs seat question
Sorry, I have tried. If the bolts are off then get a refund, I don't see why there should be a difference.
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Estate rear end just slid out a little easily?
this is not normal, I have a TSI VRS and can corner it very hard without loosing any traction.
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17in wheel on a VRS245
Nothing wrong, I have 224x45x17 the ride is a little rough (mostely due to the vrs suspension being stiff) but handling is great with asymmetric 3's
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Need Urgent help and Advice !!!!!
Is your battery dying? I heard that low battery can trigger a few fault codes
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MIB1 android auto/ car play solution
I hear you and had the same plan. These head units are good, juste bare in mind that you will loose some features like car diag ( I had a low oil level, the unit could not read the fault, fortunetely, the small dot matrix on the cluster could read it.) You will not have acces to all the car settings and and insisit on the call quality, while driving a highway speed, there is no noise cancellation like the stock microphone (that I tried hooking to the unit but it is a powerd mic so it didn't work) , so makes it unusable. I walked around it by adding a usb powered noise cancellation microphone it was ok but far from the stock sound. Also, to be able to hear the gps navigation, i had to install a 3rd party tts app and asign the app as the gps app. Not doing it, the navigation instructions are inaudible if you are on anything else than fm radio. if you can work with this then yes, these units are amazing but I personnaly went with th MIB2 upgrade. Worth every penny.
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MIB1 android auto/ car play solution
These units work good as long as you are ready to loose some functions and mostely call quality. None of theme have good call quality and they do not understand speach recognition with android Auto. My advice, don't go that road. I have had 3 android units and finally went for a full mib2 upgrade. If you wish to go that root, the ebilaen is the only one that had drive profile sélection showing on the screen. As I said, call quality is horrible on every units and you will loose some functions and car settings.
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Screen replacement help! 5E0919605H
you can trust him, I went from a MIB1 to MIB2 flawlessely with his help
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Small issue after Stage1 map.
with tht different mods, the speed the engin revs is also changed as well as the dsg settings if you are in automatic. The steering wheel stiffness and when the ac kicks in. I would go bask to the shop that remaped your car to have it checked.
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Screen replacement help! 5E0919605H
@pab567 is your man
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Inner bonnet covers
From my experience, on the Octavia, only the TDI has the Bonnet cover, not the TSI. I got a 2014 TSI new from the dealer and baught a cover from super Skoda as it didn't have it.
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CarPlay upgrade
How is the spelling with this unit. I have tried and Android head unit and an AI box and spelling was a hastle. Several seconds delay and always spelling wrong
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MIB1 android auto/ car play solution
I am affraid you do... but if you recieved the unit recently, open a request before your time runs out. and ask them for the user manual.