ScottyNS

Hi everyone, any tips for fitting these (from Kopacek)? Do I need to make sure there isn't any power to the existing ones? Are they easy to remove? Anything to watch out for? Mine have just arrived

Hey @mccririck, I am still persisting with a usb stick for my music. I seem to get away with having a mix of *.m4a (straight from itunes) and good old *.mp3. I also found that the system didn't see music that sat within subfolders - but that might be a quirk of my system or even me! itunes loves putting everything in subfolders. Since I removed sub folders, removed non-playable formats e.g pdfs, mpeg-4 and added album artwork, I seem to have solved everything, but time will tell! You could try some of the above tricks, see if that helps? I couldn't find a supported files list, so I just did guesswork. Not sure if that's helped, but hopefully a few things you could try? I am sure there is a post on the forum that covers a lot of this, but I couldn't find it. Maybe one of the longer standing members will be able to throw a link over. However, I think a lot of people just use their phone these days and that removes most, if not all of these issues. Cheers, Scotty.

My local store sorted it within 2 minutes - if I need another, just go to the store (big if though after all the hassle)!

Mine is a 2018 model @varaderoguy. I'll update after my visit tomorrow. As long as I get it coded, I have 5 years of cover should it not last. From then, I can get something better etc.

Given I thought a battery was a battery (within reason) and they're not it seems , I just went for this one from them: https://www.halfords.com/motoring/batteries/car-batteries/halfords-efb096-start-stop-car-battery-5-year-guarantee-255862.html I thought the 5 year cover would come in handy as the last one only lasted 3 years - I'm assuming it's the original, but I have no idea what type it was. I'm going into the store tomorrow to insist on coding. As ever, thanks for all the advice Scotty

I'll let you know how I get on in the next couple of days. It certainly shouldn't be this hard and I won't be using them again. I'm guessing a local garage type of place is going to be better - I really can't see that I need to get the dealer to do a battery change.

I'm afraid I've no idea @PetrolDave, I'll hassle local store tomorrow and go from there.

Thank you everyone. I'll go to my local Halfrauds store first, see if they can finish the job. So far it's been the mobile team coming to me, hopefully I'll have better luck in the store. Failing that, I'll see if anyone is local with VCDS. I'll keep reminding myself how much money I have saved, despite the hassle!

Thanks @paulski, sounds like I either need to kit myself out with VCDS etc (not sure how much that will cost) or it's back to the dealer to get it coded. I'll google VCDS etc options.

Thanks @peter3197. Will bookmark that for the future! One of their Team Leaders has just called me and it appears to be all sorted - a small but effective trick: Start the engine, go full left lock then straight through to full right lock. All of the error codes are now cleared from the dash Hopefully that's it sorted and stays that way!

To be fair to them, they're getting a Team Leader out to me late this afternoon. Fingers crossed.

Yeah, it really shouldn't be this difficult. I have now been on hold for an hour as well... It was half the price of main dealers (they wanted £270) and couldn't get the job done until mid-December anyway - despite having already had the car with them for a full day. I miss the days when they had the capacity to get this sort of job done quickly, even at the end of the day. Happy Sunday!

Just a heads up for anyone even remotely considering using Halfrauds to do a car battery change.... yup, the guy doing it didn't know it needed coding and didn't have the right kit to do the coding (or simply didn't know how to use it!). My VRS is now on my drive with lots of wonderful error codes. He's driven off leaving the problem with his supervisor to see what they can do 😞 Sorry if this isn't a suitable post for here, please feel free to move etc. ...I'm now wondering whether my breakdown cover that came with the car will dig me and them out of this mess!

Thank you @KenONeill

Hi everyone, I want to order a boot liner for my hatchback but I've no idea whether I need the 'limousine' model: http://www.kopacek.com/Skoda/OCTAVIA-III/Octavia-III-limousine-heavy-duty-cargo-trunk-mat-RS-design or 'Combi' http://www.kopacek.com/Skoda/OCTAVIA-III/Octavia-III-Combi-heavy-duty-cargo-trunk-mat-RS-design The fitted pictures don't help as they've both showing hatch back - also, has anyone bough these? Are they any good or am I better off sticking with the Skoda OEM one? http://www.kopacek.com/Skoda/OCTAVIA-III/Octavia-III-Limousine-rear-trunk-RUBBER-cargo-mat-original-Skoda-Autoas-product I've recently returned to VRS 245 ownership after a brief spell in an A6 (18 months) - I found that the 245 ticked a lot more boxes for us! Many thanks, Scotty