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@Tonythesmoke I had a rattle in a similar place but on the passenger side. I also thought it was the door or window. After much hunting it turned out to be the A pillar trim. I have to remove and refit it now and again to eliminate the rattle for a bit. I think I’ll invest in some foam tape as a long term solution.

I rang my local dealership to book a Service and they asked me what was needed. My response was “you tell me, you have the digital service record”. So they proceeded to book me in for a 4 year service. The car has already had it’s 4 year Service and is almost 5 years old and is due it’s cambelt, no mention of this. Needless to say I’m going to cancel and go elsewhere.

I know, nearly choked when enquiring about mine the other day!

When I went to use the configurator last night I wasn’t able to differentiate between manual or auto options when choosing engine/drive setups. I also noticed they have removed the new Phoenix Orange colour from the pallet too. Could this be while they try to shift stock of existing colours?

@Bowiesst That’s a great effort! Can’t tell you’ve had a swipe at all from any of those pictures. Did you have to use a paint touch up kit or did you find it was mostly paint transfer from the other vehicle?

👍🏻 nice, the first Mk4 project thread if I’m not mistaken. Any plans for it? Correct me if I’m wrong but are those wheels the same as those fitted to UK models?

I really like this and more importantly so does the wife. It’d be a tough choice between this and another Race Blue.

Had something similar on an older car and found that 90% of what appeared to be damage was just paint transfer from the other vehicle. I was surprised but was able to scratch it off with my nail. Ended up polishing it out myself and it looked a lot better. Have you checked this? It’s hard to tell from the picture of the damage is down to primer or just paint transfer in places.

This is the one that came with my early Mk3 FL (Part No: 5JA051435A). My phone doesn’t fit so have been looking at the one the OP bought as a replacement.

Is anyone planning on taking advantage of Racinglines November offer and treating their Octavia to a software upgrade? 20% off any calibration. 30% off ECU and TCU combination. I have been keen to get their OEM+ Stage 1 map for a while so may take up on this opportunity. I have no affiliation to this company so I hopefully haven’t broken any forum advertising rules. Just curious on the uptake of this offer and experiences of those with said software.

@Pods good choice. I also have these. The quality and fit is excellent.

Kopacek (formally Skoda) do both red and white LED door lights (both project the vRS lettering in white though). I can only see the white ones in the store currently. http://www.kopacek.com/Skoda/OCTAVIA-III/Octavia-III-MEGA-POWER-LED-safety-door-lights-with-GHOST-light-RS-WHITE

@BBF or the sender got stuck that one time and tricked you in to thinking you had more fuel than you did. If you’ve ran the car down until the warning light comes on (a bit risky at present) and have covered the appropriate mileage I’d say you’re all good and it was a one off.

@BBF any update on this mate?

Ah, in that case I’d go with what @J.R. said and monitor your mileage vs consumption. If you’ve done a fair few miles and haven’t seen the gauge move for a while then it’s a good sign there’s a signalling or indication fault. You never know, it may never happen again. In the case of the my wife’s Megane, that fault never reappeared. We assumed the car was having a moment and that the drop of fuel we put in/thump of the tank made it wake up 😂.

Something similar happened to my Wife’s Megane. Started it up one day and the digital dash was at empty and the range 0. She was adamant she’d only filled up a couple of days before and hadn’t done many miles. Drove to the local garage and stuck a tenner in, gave the top of the tank a whack under the back seats and sure enough the tank was showing 3/4 when we started up. I doubt you would have missed multiple warning to the point of the tank being empty. The low fuel warning comes on way before you run out. How big is you tank? You said you’ve already put 20L in, see how much it takes to brim it and then you’ll know how much was in there to begin with.

@Dulli Have you thought of trying Plastidip? It’s a spray on rubber paint that can be peeled off. If you aren’t sure on which to go for it’d be a cheap way of having the all black option that can be reversed if you don’t like it. Thinking of doing it myself to all my badges as the ones on Kopacek are quite expensive although you get what you pay for as the quality is very good from what I’ve been led to believe.

The red goes well with the rest of the interior and isn’t in your face, nice and subtle. I like it! Makes me miss having a manual. I loved my short shifter and weighted knob on my ST. Sorry to go off topic but who did your steering wheel - Royal Steering Wheels by any chance?

@VRS_White_Hatch I looked at this and it appears Dodo Juice have made a newer version called Fabricadabra that scores very highly in independent tests. Will be ordering some. Thanks for the tip!

@MarkyG82 thanks for your replies. What you say makes complete sense however it’s bad that dealerships don’t advise that by not following the service schedule may invalidate warranty. I’ll report back what Skoda say next week.

This is a good shout and probably the route I’m going to end up taking. Thanks.

I’ve started to use BP and Shells Pay at the Pump feature on their apps (I’m a bit of a fuel snob). Handily they E-Mail you the receipt.

I’ve queried the as to why the DSG service was never offered by the dealership with Skoda (it wasn’t Listers by the way). My only concern is invalidating my used car warranty by not having had it done.

I wonder why the dealership didn’t mention a requirement for this then when it was in for its 4 year service.

@EnterName that’s good to hear, I bought my car from them and I have to say it was a great experience. Shame I’m too far away from them to have continued to give them my business as the car was an employees and was registered/maintained there previously.