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Take it you have seen the latest one were he is kitting it out with vrs interior and getting it resprayed.

My 2016 dsg got its first service at 18,000 and it was noted the pads had less than 10 percent wear, I asked was that good going and the tech person told it is how they mainly judge how a car has been treated and the people with low brake wear are usually the ones achieving good mpg. A friend of mine has a Audi and every 25,000 has to have the pads changed, but I am not surprised, even a very slight bend that you can clearly see around, foot on brake and drops down a gear, the same slight bends I just back of the accelerator going into the bend and then accelerate out including when I drive my wife's Dacia which I will happily keep in 5th gear if I can keep the speed above 45mph.

If it helps anyone https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/nextbase-112-dash-cam-39-currys-free-cc-save-10-2953043

I got a Brink fixed tow bar with dedicated electrics, supplied and fitted for £245 @ sallop towing in Shrewsbury. It was only 7 pin electrics but that was all I need for my erde trailer and pre 2000 bailey caravan. I put my bike rack on the erde trailer when camping, or inside the caravan when touring.

Had enough of motoring costs now, why I do like my Octavia my next car will be a 1.0 litre Dacia Logan in basic trim at just over £7k. Don't need air con and never bother with the radio and will just go back to having a Garmin sat nav. Cheap reliable motoring, would rather spend the money on my family from now on, friends have the Dacia sandero at £5995 OTR, drives okay and gets them from a to b cheaply.

When I got my towbar fitted by scallop towing in Shrewsbury they gave me the crash bar back. Mine was a fixed brink towbar with dedicated wiring. Maybe you could ask your dealer if they have one you could have they have that they recently removed from a other towbar fitted car, especially since they kept the one belonging to your car, would not surprise if they sell it as a new part as mine still looks brand new, guess being hidden behind the bumper keeps it protected and clean.

That is very impressive for 1.0 even if it is turbocharged.

Would be interesting to know the towing weight with the 1.0 engine, I am sure it is capable power wise but would feel harsh making the small engine pull a 1200kg Caravan with a family of 5 plus luggage.

Slightly different being a day but my car gets itself in 7th hear from 43mph and above, assuming that is one of the reasons I can get well over 60mpg on a daily basis, plus very little braking as always keep a good few seconds distance from the car in front.

Hi, It is fixed but I find it great for my use, either pulling my 1100kg caravan or my erde 143 trailer full of camping gear. Been fitted for 10 months now and all works as it should, so for example you select reverse and it comes up with a trailer symbol and disables the reverse sensors. They also handed me back the rear crash bar they removed to fit the tow bar as the brink kit came with its own crash bar. Also if it helps direct towing in wrexham quoted £260 and was recommended by my Skoda dealer in Oswestry, obviously never used them so can not say how good a job they would have done compared to sallop towing.

Hi, had my car just over 15 months and a few days ago the car display started saying replace key fob battery, On my past new cars (Hyundai) the key fob batteries lasted several years and never had to replace one before as sold the car by then, I thought they would at least last 3-5 years, anyway are they easy to replace?

If it helps I paid £240 for a brink fixed towbar supplied and fitted at sallop towing in Shrewsbury, included dedicated wiring kit. This is on a late 2016 Octavia sport.

Not sure if this is any help but maplin are selling nextbase dashcams at great prices, I got halfords to price compare on the 112 and 212 models. Also if you can find stock they have micro SD cards at good prices. http://www.halfords.com/cycling/cycling-technology/helmet-cameras/toshiba-32gb-micro-sd-card?_$ja=kw:drytinder|tsid:40392&cm_mmc=Affiliates-_-PerformanceHorizon-_-drytinder-_-TopLink

I have put 25,000 on my 2016 Octavia diesel and have never seen the regen light come on, Does it only illuminate if there is a fault or after a couple of regen attempts that have failed to complete, I guess if it is just a case that the light has come on because the car has only had several short journeys lately why stuck with the dealer then it is nothing to worry about.

Thanks bigade1 works great, is there a way to make the audible alert louder without making all nav directions volume etc increasing?

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For anyone that may be intrested I captured the iss space station on my uniden scanner and simple home made wire attic antenna

Diving for 23 years and it is only in my Octavia that I have had windscreen damage, stone cracks it last year so needed full replacement and a few days ago a small stone hit the centre and put a nice chip in the screen. Seems to be the smaller stones that do the most damage. Had plenty of stones hit my windscreens in previous cars but it makes me think the octavia windscreen is vulnerable to stone impact.

Yes there is lots of different uses, I also use a set when camping to make sure my children are safe and when walking my dogs. If you don't want to swop plugs over or use travel adapter then these are available with usb chargers for £2 more. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2x-Baofeng-BF-888S-UHF-400-470MHz-Two-way-Ham-Radio-Long-Range-Walkie-Talkie-UK/272260808767?clk_rvr_id=1405983624078&rmvSB=true&ul_ref=http%3A%2F%2Frover.ebay.com%2Frover%2F1%2F710-53481-19255-0%2F1%3Fff3%3D4%26pub%3D5574894536%26toolid%3D10001%26campid%3D5336549684%26customid%3D03009g4uo8rl%26mpre%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.ebay.co.uk%252Fitm%252F2x-Baofeng-BF-888S-UHF-400-470MHz-Two-way-Ham-Radio-Long-Range-Walkie-Talkie-UK%252F272260808767%253F%26srcrot%3D710-53481-19255-0%26rvr_id%3D1405983624078&ul_noapp=true

Hi, just got myself a set of long range walkie talkies to keep in the glove box, idea being is that if I ever break down and there is no mobile phone signal and then need to leave the family in the car why I go for help I can keep in touch with them, especially if it is the middle of the night, could just be you need to walk a mile to get phone signal, these are the radios I opted for, they come with an EU plug so you either need a travel adapter from pound shop or swop plugs over, on testing mine I got 2.5 miles range. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2x-Baofeng-Walkie-Talkie-Long-Range-2-way-Radio-UHF-400-470MHZ-16CH-Earpiece-EU/122727271934?clk_rvr_id=1405772593839&rmvSB=true&ul_ref=http%3A%2F%2Frover.ebay.com%2Frover%2F1%2F710-53481-19255-0%2F1%3Fff3%3D4%26pub%3D5574894536%26toolid%3D10001%26campid%3D5336549684%26customid%3D08009g5ck5mf%26mpre%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.ebay.co.uk%252Fitm%252F2x-Baofeng-Walkie-Talkie-Long-Range-2-way-Radio-UHF-400-470MHZ-16CH-Earpiece-EU%252F122727271934%253F%26srcrot%3D710-53481-19255-0%26rvr_id%3D1405772593839&ul_noapp=true

I have had both the Fabia dsg and now Octavia 1.6 dsg, put 20,000 miles on both. Total pleasure to drive. I know some will say you need to be thinking about future taxation of diesel, but from what I understand diesel is a by product of refining oil, as they put people of owning diesel cars there were be less demand, it would not surprise me that despite the governments threats against diesel cars that the cost of diesel drops below petrol, supply and demand is what drives prices. Another plus for me with the diesel is economy, I can easily achieve 65+ mpg. And the fuel range is a good 125 miles plus over the petrol version. My refill range is normally around 595 miles till empty.

Not sure about the petrol but in the diesel with economy or normal mode, it gets up the gears fairly quickly and will change to E7 or D7 as soon as 42mph. I am sure your dsg will be making good use of the gears based on what mode you are in and how you are driving, could it also be that when the car is in 2 cylinder mode that being in E7 to soon would actually be less economical, a bit like when an engine is labouring and you would be better to dropping down a gear, I think that is why many dsg models are more economical than the manual versions, as the dsg knows what is the best gear to be in for best economy or to give more torque for heavy acceleration.

Took my car to skoda on Monday to have the cruise control looked at, on the drive there the hazard symbol was showing again but I had to stop for fuel and on restarting it was working again, they checked the car for a fault code and the only one was a air conditioning voltage drop, reset it and took the car for a drive and done a few ignition on/offs to try get the fault to display which it did not, I doubt the air con was to blame but you never know, problem with it being intermittent fault is getting it to show the problem why at the dealers. They just said any more problems to contact them. Will just have to see if the fault has gone or not but I will be suprised if it has.

But will the 1.4 petrol engine get to 400,000 miles plus that many taxi drivers have got out of there diesel models?. The government may well be saying there going to have a war on diesel cars which is putting many people off diesels, but diesel is a by product of refining crude oil so rest assured that as the demand for diesel drops so will the price. I give it about 3 years till diesel starts getting around 10p per litre less than petrol, and that will increase till we see oil burners eventually replaced with more electric and other alternative fuel cars. Petrol and diesel cars are not going to be phased out because of there impact on the enviroment but because oil reserves are drying up, we have exhausted the easy to get to oil reserves, hence why we are seeing many countries turning to extracting fuel from coal which is very energy demanding compared to extracting crude oil.