nicknorman

There’s not a lot to do to these cars apart from regular oil changes and a general check over for worn brakes, tyres etc. DSG oil change at 40k, Spark plugs at 60k, pollen filter when you feel like it (it’s an easy DIY job anyway) and ditto air filter, those last two depending on where the car is used. Erwin has the factory maintenance procedures and manual, including the service requirements. I think it’s about 8 euros for an hour, during which you can save and print lots of stuff. https://erwin.skoda-auto.cz/erwin/showLogin.do

It’s a chain. Other engine variants have belt (diesel) but not your one. If this is a main dealer, it’s a bit worrying that they don’t know this basic thing. Maybe you should take it to a competent garage? Of course at 40k miles, it does need a DSG gearbox oil and filter change.

It does, but it’s not necessary. You can switch the ignition off while you change the discs and pads.

Assuming you have checked the sensor cover is clean, it might need a fault code clearing. I did this for a friend with an Audi, his ACC had been “unavailable” for a while, but as soon as I cleared the fault code it was fine and still is a year later,

It is permanently live. However I think the power management system will shut it off if the battery gets perilously low.

Interesting! Yours is a much younger car than mine, maybe they fixed the poor design? My tow bar was factory fitted, only the reversing camera was added after build, but installed by a main dealer and seems to be the genuine bit of kit.

As an aside it is a poor bit of design - not that turning off the RTA and BSM when plugging in a trailer isn’t sensible - it is! But when you unplug the trailer, switch off the car, restart again the next day, the RTA and BSM remain deactivated unless you remember to re-activate them. Which usually I don’t! One does tend to become accustomed to (aka somewhat rely on) these safety features and not getting eg the expected beeping when reversing out of a supermarket car park space into the path of another car, is … “disconcerting”!

Not sure you are doing anything wrong, it could be a fault. The only time the rear traffic alert and blind spot monitoring (which in fact are the same bit of hardware) turn themselves off automatically is when you connect up a trailer, ie plug Into the tow bar socket (if you have one).

Mine is 6 years old and 80k miles. Engine and gearbox still perfect (touch wood), and all the gadgets still working as new. Only thing is a bit of superficial rust on the sills below the doors. I think it might stem from when I did battle with a snowdrift. Also a bit of rust under a rear wheel arch but that was my fault for running over a bit of metal on the airfield grass in the dark - it decided to explore its way around the wheel/arch😢 I have no desire to replace it with anything else - well maybe a 7 speeder in a few years…

Can’t believe my “new” car is now 6 years old and 80k miles! But anyway, yesterday I changed the DSG oil and filter again. A pretty straightforward job really, and I realised the filter can be accessed without having to remove anything from the engine bay. Also did the Haldex fluid and cleaned the pump filter gauze, which wasn’t so dirty this time. Ran the pump calibration.

I just did mine again at 6 years / 80k. Much less black gloop than the first time, but still a thin layer covering all the gauze filter. Still well worth cleaning the gauze filter IMO. It would be an easy job if only the car was up on a lift!

Mine stays in sport most of the time, but I sometimes put it to normal around town. A lot of my driving is “spirited” around Scottish rural roads where the firm damping is good. So I do like the ability to change it.

Unfortunately it is definitely leaking big time. Black oily dirt over the entire body and some of the surrounding area, liquid oil visible on the shiny bit. The damping is ok for the time being but it’s a clear MOT fail.

Both have been reported as “misting” in the last 2 MOTs, this year the offside one has gone (I checked, there is a significant oil leak) so no doubt another one will be needed next year. 6 years and 75,000 miles isn’t great for such an expensive thing.

MOT fail today, front shock leaking. Boohoo, with the DCC system that’s over £300 +vat for one. Tried for Bilstein damptronic but no stock of B4 or B6 in the country until long after the MOT expires😪

Yes I really liked them, very grippy, and when I changed to Michelin PS4S they gave a noticeably harsher ride which I didn’t much like. But lasted twice as long!

Only on the diesel versions I think?

Mine does the annoying stopping when still rolling thing - but only sometimes. Seems like it has a mind of its own! The engine doesn’t like starting again before it’s properly stopped, but it’s not as bad as your video. I’d recommend “managing” the start stop function by turning off start stop as a matter of routine, and only turning it on again when it looks like the car will be stationary for a while (red traffic light etc). It certainly can be bad news to have the engine conk out at a roundabout as you’re rolling over the line.

I had Kumho on my last car (Subaru). They gave a good ride and are grippy. But they only lasted about 10,000 miles. When I switched to PS4s on the same car, same driving style, they did nearly 20,000 miles. So although the Kumhos are cheaper to buy, they are more expensive per mile.

I’ve found TPS extremely cheap for oil, and of course the Quantum range is just as good or better than anything you get at Halfords, but a fraction of the price. I suspect it might be cheaper to buy direct from TPS as they always seem to have discounts on their oils. The price the OP was charged is ludicrous, and probably the guy bought the oil in bulk from TPS at around £5 a litre or less. Huge fat profit!

I had this problem. Basically the infotainment system can operate at different levels of functionality according to what was paid for when the car was new. Some markets eg the hire companies, don’t want satnav (so they can charge you for a carried-on one), or countries where everything is an optional extra. To control what works and what doesn’t, there is an area of memory that hold a security code. This can get wiped when there is a glitch on the infotainment software, which is what I had. The car was still under warranty and, after a bit of fuss, the dealer restored it for free. Just a matter of plugging in the computer and connecting to a big brain in Skoda HQ to check what was authorised in the car when new. The satnav doesn’t need the card in to work, the card is just for loading new map data which is then held in internal memory.

There is also degrees, minutes and decimals of minutes, used a lot in aviation. But bearing in mind there are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in a degree, it’s a fairly easy maths problem. Also worth remembering that latitude goes +-90 (2 digits) whilst longitude goes +-180 (3 digits).

£42.94 from the dealers. Seems a lot for a bit of thin bent aluminium but hey ho, I ordered it to stop the spare wheel going on fire!

Thank you, yes that shows where there should be a heat shield - but there no longer is on my car! I'd better order a replacement...

Nasty rattling sound coming from the back - it transpires that the aluminium heat shield over the nearside exhaust back box had lost all its fasteners and heat shield was resting on top of the back box. No matter, new star fastener thingies obtained and fitted. But whilst I was down there I noticed that there appears to be an entire heat shield missing - well at least there are 4 screw thingies sticking down from the boot floor pan, with nothing attached. This is in the middle just in front of the back box heat shields, where the exhaust splits into 2. Could anyone confirm if there is supposed to be a heat shield there please? Mine is a 2016 model.