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This looks useful too. I somehow missed this thread when I searched here recently.

Definitely won't be trying to fix it myself. Mostly I just want to get a little clued up about what the issue might be so I at least have some understanding when I take it in to the garage and they try to explain why I need to pay xxx pounds. Looking online I see it might be around £500 to get the water pump replaced, so I'll brace myself for that kind of hit & cross my fingers that its not more than that! Will definitely get it booked in somewhere asap.

Thanks Danoid, that's been really helpful. At lunch time I refilled the coolant to minimum level & had the engine idling for 15-20 mins whilst I looked for where the leaks were coming from. I came up blank on location, but I could see below the car that there was a slow drip onto the road. The temp had just gotten to 90C by the time I'd finished looking. I've just gone back now and looked more closely (and with a much better torch!!) in these specific locations (with the engine off this time), and found: - Top right location - there's a small pool of coolant there, obvious its been leaking from there. - Bottom left location - no evidence of a leak there at all. The reservoir has held much better than this morning, with the level down only perhaps 2-3mm. So I guess the leak is much worse when the car is actually moving. (Unless there are additional leaks elsewhere then) I don't think my leak is as bad/obvious as this one in the video. In the video I can see lots of pink in those two areas and quite a pool on the plate at the bottom of the engine bay, whereas the plate at the bottom of my bay is clean/dry.

You know I can't actually recall the cambelt + water pump being changed as yet (at least from service paperwork). That would be a significant bill wouldn't it, I'd definitely remember if it was. :S I've read some horror stories of garages changing all sorts of parts in pursuit of leaks, costing multiple thousands in total. Had been assuming taking it to a main dealer might be best bet to avoid that, but perhaps they're just as much a risk of that as any garage?

I have a MY2016 1.4TSI SEL estate with about 55,000 miles on the clock, and I appear to have a coolant leak (first one ever - and I've owned this car from new). The car has was (major) serviced & MOT'd very recently (early December). Services during warranty were with the Skoda dealer and then subsequent services were with independent local garages. In the recent cold-snap over christmas break I'd left the car in a multi-storey all day whilst shopping and on return the red coolant warning light was on. The outside temperature was -5C but felt much colder, and as an aside I'd also noticed that the fuel cover had started failing to open as well. We were in a rush & needed to get home asap with a young baby, and I put it down to the very cold weather & it maybe being sensor issues, and drove cautiously home anticipating that the warning would probably go away once the weather had warmed up. We used the wife's car mostly over the holidays instead, but did take my car out a few times to drive short trips (<5 miles, 30-40mph max, with a keen eye on the temperature gauge which never went above 90C). One of those trips the heater began blowing cold, and after that I stopped using the car. When I got back after that I checked the expansion tank (it was virtually empty, but looked as though there was coolant still in the outlet pipe from it). As it was xmas break I couldn't get it into the garage I usually use, so left it idle until this week. I topped it up this week with Comma Xstream G40 - it took about 1L to get it to the max line - and then I immediately drove to drop the child off at the childminer's about 2 miles away. Was parked up for 10 mins there and then when I restarted the engine the red warning light was back (it was +9C outside that time). I drove the 2 miles back home again cautiously & again temp gauge just about got to 90C by the time I was home. Noted the heater was now blowing warm again. At home I checked the expansion tank again and the level was back to virtually empty. Looking around the engine compartment I couldn't see evidence of any leaks anywhere. Nothing on or around the reservoir itself. I'm about to take it into either the main dealer or the garage who did the last two services, but just wanted to see if anyone had experienced anything similar or could hazard a guess as to what the the issue is likely to be? Any & all ideas/advice much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Picked my SEL Exec Estate 1.4TSI DSG up on Saturday (3rd). Very impressed with it and I haven't even had time to read the manual properly yet. Nice to be back in a petrol again too. Its so quiet & relaxing to drive! Oh and for reference, it was ordered 17th May. The dealer was pretty much spot on with their delivery estimate.

Picked mine up on 3rd. Pretty impressed with it.

I actually downgraded my SEL Exec order from the std 18" wheels to 17". Reasons why included: 1. Probably a smoother & quieter ride. 2. Slightly higher mpg & lower emissions. 3. The 17" tyres are significantly cheaper to replace than the 18" ones. 4. The dealer offered to take £500 off the purchase price when I said I wanted to do that. 5. My current BMW 318d estate has 17" wheels and looks fine, and I think the Superb will look ok too. I'm not really a fan of the bigger-is-better mantra for car tyres anyway.

Ordered a candy white 1.4TSI SEL Executive with loads of options on 17th May. Had a call last Monday (15th Aug) saying it has now been built and is at the port awaiting shipping, so likely to be ready for collection by 29th; Pretty much exactly inline with the dealerships estimated delivery. I'll probably get them to hold & register as a 66-plate, so collect some time in the first few days of September.

Did you get any discount from them? They wouldn't quote me any via Carwow. Being local I offered them the chance to match Horton Lincoln. They didn't get back to me. So i ordered through Hortons. :s

1.4 TSI DSG

Seems quite a bit of variability; I ordered mine 17th May & got build week 35 (last week in August). Delivery probably a few weeks (3-4?) after that?

There are no problems with the larger sd cards then? The manual i found from the system in a 2013 octavia said that 32GB sd's were the largest supported. If you insert two sd's and a usb as you stated, is it clever enough to combine them into a seamless album library (assuming the id3 tagging is good)?

Anyone know what the overall storage capacity available is? Across the internal HDD, SD card(s) and USB HDD (if that's a possibility).

Oneplus phones are maybe worth a look. Android with no bloatware, great spec and low cost relative to spec. I've had a oneplus one for over 2 years now and it's been great. https://oneplus.net