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Ah, thank you JR . Gives me some idea anyway . My car appeared to be first in the Q and its four hours in now and Ive heard nothing yet, so my purse is starting to tremble lol! Fingers crossed its something simple and not too expensive . Nearly melted in it the other week , so I dread to think what it must be like in France if ones AC goes. I remember from holidays the murder of getting into the car after a shopping trip till you get going and the AC kicks in . and of course its even hotter over there these days with global warming .

Sorry to cut in on OP's post , but my car is in the local garage today with my aircon being looked at . All I know about AC is what Ive just read above in this thread, so not a naturally technically minded person. Hes supposed to be coming back to me before repairing as Ive no idea of costs. . What sort of costs am I looking at for a couple of the most common scenarios of what could be wrong with it please if thats not an impossible question. When I switch on the ordinary blower on hot and cold seems ok , but nothing further kicks in when I press the AC .

thanks all.

Thanks all. Ive never driven a car with no handbrake before , my old Octavia which I still have, has one and Im well used to it . How difficult do you reckon it will be to get my head round the lack of one, in my first trip out , to the garage a few miles away ? ( I am insured for it btw incase you wonder)

Good afternoon all. Sad circumstances have led to a 3yr old little used Skoda Superb being parked up outside , untouched for about 3 .5 months. It is going to need a service and MOT after Xmas .Can anyone advise me please whether Im likely to damage anything by just starting it up to drive straight to a dealer / garage ? Ive been told by someone (not a mechanic) that its possible it should have special handling /preliminaries done first. (beyond oil tyre and lights checks ) , or I could damage the engine. It has at least half a tank of diesel in it.

Think we're going to let it go now to be honest , asking for the parts now, having been lying round in a garage where oil could have been splashing around -----etc :p wouldnt really be conclusive anyway, and it could well be that weve just been unlucky --- or lucky one could argue that its been picked up now rather than at an inconvenient time in the future . The situation sounded less dodgy after I read The Clients post back to myself. Dont really want to fall out with the garage when we might be being very unjust.

Oops, doubt he'll be singing the praises of the AA to his mates . Shortsighted I think of the AA .Presumably though the turbo is under guarantee. Disappointing though when you have a new car.

Hopefully you're right The Client, I think we maybe just got a bit paranoid after having a radiator go on a fairly new car, and now a turbo at such a ridiculously low mileage ----- re the photos, it doesnt take much lack of faith to wonder if they are even of our turbo. However, I guess we have to just get over it now , and hope we havent been fleeced . Thanks for the replies everyone.

Not sure that these say much to help - should have had a look at the parts at the time . To be fair, OH has had the car out today for a run and says it does feel as if its running slightly better (not that it was noticeably below par before )

Morning all. To answer the questions in one go -- yes we have had the car from new and its only been driven by us. The mileage is genuine. It did fail on emissions -- apparently the turbo had leaked oil into the engine , so burnt oil in the emissions . The garage was a local VAG specialist , we thought we would try out for a service. It was due an MOT. They dont do MOTs themselves and took it to a general garage on the same estate. May just have had the one MOT charge , will have to check the breakdown again, but its not that part thats worrying. They send some photos after OH requested which Ill try and post later.

My OH took my 2009 estate for its MOT and service - and it failed . No symptoms of anything wrong beforehand . We had expected probably to have to shell out more as it got older, but it was a shock when the garage said it needed a new turbo !! Its a second car , so only done 27k miles - the garage said they too were surprised as usually the turbo doesnt go before 80 kmiles .So - today Im £1300 lighter -- new turbo, service , and 2xMOT's. What with shelling out a pile for a new radiator for our Feb 2016 Octavia est in Summer, Im not impressed with Skoda at the moment . Anyone else heard of a turbo going so early ?

Absolutely right - even down to road closures. Round here , the road closure /diversion signs always seem to be put up a few days before necessary , and left a day or two after the job's finished , so people have noticed this and tend to ignore them - then somewhere along the line you get car after car having to turn around .

Yes, I guess what you both say is correct . Thanks . We thought it must be something major, but googling over the next 24 hours didnt show anything up , so I guess the situation was sorted out pretty quickly thank goodness before a pile up could take place . Reckoned the offenders must have been travelling pretty smartish if we needed a warning when we were still that far away.

When we were in France on holiday, suddenly a message flashed on the small screen directly infront of driver (not infotainment one) " Warning ! Vehicles travelling wrong direction down motorway " and proceeded to name three road numbers and name of town or village where incident was nearest to . None were the paid motorway we were on so we didnt pay too much attention until the same message a minute or two later, flashed onto the Infotainment screen -- which was already switched OFF ! Bit startled , looked up the details and found it was about 40 miles away. Question is, how is a switched off Infortainment system, showing a message ?

Thanks Meta - will get onto that and see what they got .