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Cross drilled discs look nice through the wheels if that floats your boat. I paired them with pagid pads. Good braking performance and quiet. The originals that i removed were always a little noisy, probably due to them rusting on the inside disc face.

Good comments. When the motors were re-attached and the handbrake engaged the park brake was engaging and disengaging multiple times before finally engaging. This was the moment the car adjusted its memory for the new pads and set its new piston on and off position. The rear brake motor will always be learning. The pads will wear over time, hence the motors have to account for this by stroking the piston further as the pads wear. In your case as described the ECU will always monitor the current until the pistons dead head and motor current increases as a result. The dead head current will not change fundamentally unless the motor is failing (perhaps a ground fault), its the same motor, the same load, the same power supply. The difference is the motor run time for a change in piston stroke.

During my summer holiday this year the sunshade mechanism dislodged off its rails. I was unaware of this at the time especially when i opened the sunroof. The sunshade is now needing some serious repair as parts of it were damaged. Thankfully i was able to close the sunroof which has not been damaged. Can anyone point me in the direction of any assembly diagrams for the sunroof assembly? I would rather fix this myself than let dealer techs anywhere near it. Its a tilt and slide roof, superb hatch. Thanks in advance.

Hi I just recently replaced my front pads and discs to cross drilled brembos. Bought a piston wind back tool from euro carparts and utilised the old pad as a spacer to make up the gap when the piston was being pushed back in. I would recommend a push back tool, after a few years of use and road grime the piston will not push back in easy without some direct constant force applied. Changed the discs on the front also. Easy tap off with a copper mallet. MOT advisory due to rust on the inside face of the discs. Now i have quiet braking again. Changed the rear pads. The rear piston will not retract enough to replace pads when park brake is 'off'. As you are all aware its electronic thus i removed the small electrical actuator from the caliper. Then would the piston back in by turning the shaft now exposed by removing the actuator. A simple job and £££ saved by avoiding dealer prices. VCDS or ODB needed to wind in those rear calipers and put into service mode. 😂 Not needed.

There are some interesting and entertaining drives in that list. Especially that 200sx.

Fantastic? Have you driven anything else 🤣 The passat is arguably the most bland, dull and forgettable cars on the road. I feel that's why when released the superb mk 3 was quite stylish and angular in appearance to ensure it doesn't become as forgetful as a passat.

Am I missing a simple explanation here and I welcome the explanation if so but my drivers side electric seat base always lowers somewhat after I left the car and locked it up etc. Upon returning to the car I find the seat has lowered and I have to raise the seat base with the button functions. I then store the seat height memory but pressing set once then the store position number (I. E. # 1). I receive an audible beep for confirmation that something happened. Car is KESSY equipped. I have a drivers profile set and personalisation is Active. What am I missing here? Does the seat base lower by default when the car is turned off? My seat position is pretty normal in that the backrest is not overly tilted rearward. Any thoughts on here... Dealer is bamboozled so is there a problem with chair motors, key, me? Thanks

Sums it up when the service dept ladies when asked if they would drive a skoda shook their heads.... 🤣

Had my lights updated few months ago during a routine service as I complained (again) the car was dangerous to drive at night due to the poor forward range of the headlights. That second complaint got the issue resolved and I can now see more that 6 ft ahead of the bonnet. Happy it's done yes. Bemused again why dealers and more importantly techs FAIL to see these issues and address them. Sloppy Skoda.

Had a similar occurance. Complained to dealer the vent had the build quality of a 1980s Amstrad tape recorder. Vent adjuster replaced under warranty.

Grey area of debatable warranty policy wording. A conversation with SUK looms. I have already emailed the service manager directly regarding this problem and another poor repair so I await his response.

My issues were investigated and 'fixed' within warranty. Fixes have failed within warranty and this duly reported to the service manager of the dealer that conducted the work. My warranty expires next week and due to work schedule my car will not be at the dealer now until after Christmas. Simple fact from my perspective is that the dealer failed to solve the problems. Irregardless of SKODAS shambolic fault finding processes they in my opinion are duty bound to solve the issues that develop within a warranty period?

My car has 2 ongoing faults both occurring during the last year of the warranty. Both issues were investigated by a skoda dealer with new parts fitted and software updates performed as solutions. Both issues are still present yet my warranty is due to end within a week. My local dealer informs my I should bring the car in before the warranty expires as any work will be performed under warranty. I understand what I was told by the dealer service agent but I was under the impression that with faults/issues that were investigated during the warranty period and are still present they are still treated as warranty issues even if the warranty has just expired? Any advice appreciated. Thanks.

I rotated my wheels a while back as I noticed the fronts were wearing at a higher rate obviously. Both tyres are wearing at a similar rate and the wear is evenly distributed across the tyre. Alignment was checked during last service only a week ago so the wear rate may be my driving. My mpg is low.

I have two tyres due replacement soon so I'm keen for some advice on harder wearing tyres than the Pirelli tyres factory fitted. My car has covered 16k miles from new and is a 2.0Tsi Sportline on 19“ wheels. Thanks

Yes bi-xenon adaptive lights so yes they can be seen to adjust when turning and speed variance yet for example at 60/70mph the light thrown forward is merely 1 car length ahead.

Are these `issues' commonplace or worthy of investigation prior to my warranty ending this year? Suspension creak and squeak noise when driving over speed bumps slowly. Never noticed before but driving with the radio off I can hear it clearly. DSG inconsistent lower gear changes in E mode. Rather snatchy up to gear 4. 6 speed DSG. Passenger window glass creaking when lowering. Drivers window when half open rattles and clicks especially if road surface is a little rougher than normal. Drivers seat base height seems to drop and require raising every time I get in the car. Drivers seat creaking. Headlamp has range has never been good. Always appears to be dipped to much, illuminates approx 1 car length ahead.

Well I think I'm going to be the first on here then to install one of these.

I had an Amundsen system in an octavia and I found the Navigation system pretty poor in all aspects Also the auto zoom was a joke. Often I would get a view from space of my route so I was forever using manual zoom. The system was also slow to update. Maybe the systems lack of processing capability freezes the unit when you send lots of commands via the steering wheel buttons. Just a thought. To me it appears the system has not really progressed much over the past 3 years from what you are mentioning. If your car has some form of warranty I suggest a skoda 'expert' take a look at it.

This is the only FWD drive car I have rotated tyres. All my previous FWD cars were more gentle to the front tyres. I don't recall my RWD cars being so harsh to the driven tyres either so for me it's also aids as a bit of monitoring to determine if the rotated tyres wear to a similar condition also. If they do wear in the same fashion either I need to drive a little more sedately or I have a free skoda characteristic whereby the vehicle devours front tyres!

Has anyone fitted a rear bumper diffuser to their mk3 hatch or estate.? If so where did they purchase from? Easy to fit? Colour matched or carbon finish?

Same as the above.

Yes the likes of kwik fit website also now recommends keeping the best tyres on the rear. I'm sort of at odds with this on a FWD. I prefer the better tyre on the drive train and where the majority of the brake load is exerted.

It's not a critique of the ACC system in fact I think it works well with a dsg. It's more a scenario where other drivers think that gap between my car and one in front is adequate thus they move into said gap. My car slows down some to compensate. Thus I have lost my constant speed. No big problem but on a motorway it occurs a lot. A little annoying I would say. Just an observation.

I find it useful but the safety gap it leaves between the car in front never lasts long as especially on motorway another car quickly fills the gap, thus slowing my car down to increase that gap again.