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Afternoon all, strange one here and any help is appreciated. I have a 2013 octavia estate without towing prep, just got back from have a third party towbar fitted by a local company. All appeared ok and lights worked as expected. However, when I open the glovebox I get a warning that a door is open, the outline of the car displays between the dials but ordinarily not showing what door is open, there is the briefest of flashed is white indicating the boot being open. I have contacted the company to at fitted and heading back after the weekend, I’m not filled with confidence for a solution from them after my initial contact. Any bright ideas?!

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Evening all, We have a 2010 Fabia 2 with 16" alloy wheels, living rurally with the state of the road the low profile tyres are not lasting long! Thinking of swapping out for some 14" or 15" steel wheels for a smoother ride and cheaper tyres, has anyone done this? is it worth it? Anyone selling a set with tyres local to the South Coast?!

Solved it.... saw my parcel shelf this morning standing by the airing cupboard door, about to throw it away and thought I would give it one more look, managed to get both end caps off, remove and roll the cover back up, slide it back into place, prime the spring and put it all back together, all working! I think I could have put a little more tension in the spring, unfortunately I didn't think I would be successful so I didn't bother taking any photos but here is what I did. 1. under the end caps there looks like 4 slits in the plastic, these are essentially spring loaded latches that catch onto the main body of the roller housing, the slits allow them to flex, gently insert a screw driver blade into the inner 2 slits (one clip per side) ease it out and that will release the clip and the end caps slide off, there is a large spring on each end which pushes these end caps back out to secure into the rear side panels of the boot. 2. each end of the aluminium housing is another cap, both are held in place with plastic lugs which you can push in and gently pry the caps off the housing, no spring to worry about, one end has a hex shaft which stops the inner tube from rotating, the other end has an X shaped inset which mounts into the end of the roller - I took this end off 3. slide the roller out, re roll and refit leaving it to stick out a little. 4. using the end cap wind up the spring to add tension to the roller so that it retracts again when pulled out, carefully though, let the cap come off and you'll need to re prime the spring, happened to me twice and very annoying!! 5. hold the cap on the roller push the roller onto the hex shaft, I used a second pair of hands to guide that end in place, and push the inner end cap on at this point I tested the roller and found that I needed more tension so ended up repeating steps 2 - 5 6. replace the springs and the out end caps, needed to pry the latches to get them on but a bit of force and then snapped back in place. Fitted the the car and working fine again, a little slower than previously so probably could have added even more tension to the spring but much better than spending £100 on a new roller. Hope that helps some other folks, I will try and get some photos if that is not clear and upload later Solved it if you haven't already managed it

Good afternoon all, I have a 2013 Octy 3 DSG, I have replaced the 4 spoke non MF steering wheel with a 3 spoke MFSW (photo attached), at the moment the lights on the steering wheel do not light up and non of the buttons work, the dash displays the buttons not the wheel when a phone call comes in so I am hoping that the highline gateway is there, can anyone help with codes etc, I'm hoping that this all that is missing here to get this working..... so much hassle just to be able to control the stereo from the wheel!!!

Do you know when this changed, I have an early Mk 3 (63 plate) hit a pheasant last night and like others, skoda are only offering a full bumper replacement which quite frankly is stupid!

I gave up trying to get the end cap off, annoyingly I can see that the roller has slipped out of the ends but I cannot fathom a way to get it back in and the spring loaded. I’m loathed to buy a new one for something that should be a quick easy fix!

Hi all, it would appear that my parcel shelf not longer retracts, looking at it I think the central roller has come off the spindle at one end. I cant figure out how to get it apart to even attempt a repair. Has anyone had the same issue or has anyone been able to take these apart?

What does the blue wire connect to? Is that the one marked as illumination? I’m guessing that’s to connect to a feed from an illuminate dash light to turn the stereo back light on. what is the connector under foam end?

I bought one of those and it’s not a canbus simulator, there is no canbus socket on the BCM on the pre 2010 cars to talk to the RCD330. I have found another simulator https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/m.aliexpress.com/item/32798969960.html hopefully adding this will work but I cannot see that this will take the existing signal from the car canbus

If yours is a 2011 car then it is running a different canbus, the earlier models they are not plug and play despite having the same connectors

Thanks, I have discovered that both live feeds are permanent live, I just need to work out a way of getting the car to talk to the stereo whilst ensuring that all the current features still work!

This is the connector in the car, it would appear that it is more a case of the canbus being different and therefore not plug and play, hopefully a canbus simulator will solve the Bluetooth issue but I am keen to keep the reverse sensors and illumination so I’m keen to hear if anyone has got it working ok

Did you manage to get yours working, I have the RCD330+ and the adapter mention above but it doesn’t recognise the ignition being on I think I have a work around but I’m keen to see what other have done

Did you find a solution to this?