Tidypug

Hi all, I have owned my 14 plate Diesel VRS for 3 years. Ever since I have owned the car it has made a "chirrup" sound when engaging the clutch. The car had 65K when I bought it with me putting another 40K on it with the current mileage at 104K. I don't feel any shuddering or vibrations when in use so can't see the DMF or clutch suddenly failing (touches wood). The reason I'm posting is hopefully to put my mind at rest a little. I'm looking to purchase an Audi Q3 Diesel manual which uses the same engine gearbox as the Skoda I believe. I've read that the Sachs clutches installed on this car and by the looks of it my Octavia have a design flaw causing the clutch to fail and destroy the gearbox costing around 4-5K to fix (ouch!!). The failure seems to happen from 40k to 50k miles so I'm guessing my Skoda won't have this issue, but my question is does anyone know of a telltale noise or signs of this happening? Thanks Jamie.

The rear lights still don't work.

Hi, I have wanted to install brighter LED bulbs to the interior lights of my VRS. Like a fool I didn't notice the body of the new LED bulb was metal so installing the bulbs ( I only installed 1) has caused a short in the car. I quickly removed the bulb and have fitted the original bulb. Now the lights in the rear won't illuminate when the door opens, only if I turn the lights on with the switch. With the doors closed I can see the lights in the boot and the rear lights illuminate slightly but not fully. I can also smell that something electrical has burnt out, you know the smell of a burnt out capacitor or the like. I'm guessing the rear interior lights are separate to fronts as the fronts work as before, so could I have damaged a relay? If so where is it? If any one can help I would be eternally great full.