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My local independent garage couldn’t find a problem - they experienced the cold start but after a few hours tinkering couldn’t find a problem. They wondered if the fuel injector was faulty but it would be a guess as there’s no fault codes coming up, and it would be an expensive guess to replace without proof. The car had new oil, fuel and air filters a month ago, so maybe one of those is dodgy - that’s my only remaining theory.

@toni8b Did you ever get to the bottom of this? My 2015 Octavia 1.6 TDI DSG is doing this on cold mornings, it's been getting worse over the past week and now unless I really push the accelerator whilst in Park, the engine will happily stall when it should be idling. I'm going to take it to my local garage and leave it on their forecourt overnight so they can experience the problem first thing in the morning... but it'd be good to know if you figured out what the problem was.

Just a quick update: I took my car to another local garage (but outside London) and got a second opinion. Not only were my rear shocks fine, the cost to replace the front shocks was about half what I’d been quoted by the first garage.

Sorry - my typo. It seems unusual to me that at 60k after 3.5 years I’d be needing all new shocks, but then maybe driving every day through Hackney’s myriad of speedbumps is quite punishing? I’ll get a second opinion. Thanks for your thoughts.

My 2015 Octy Estate 1.6 TDI CR 110 DSG has done 62000 miles and my local friendly garage is now saying it needs a full set of shocks, both front and rear. I do 800 miles a week, 90% on motorways, the rest mostly over speedbumps through London. Apparently oil is leaking from them, and I've noticed it's not as stable on bends, so I'm inclined to believe them (I'm also a regular and have no reason to believe they're being dishonest). However, they're quoting me nearly £600 to supply and fit all four replacements, and claiming they have to use "main dealer" parts as their normal dealer doesn't offer after-market parts for such a new car (2015 isn't that new, is it? And what does "main dealer" mean anyway? hmm). A quick Google turned up what looks to be replacement parts from Monroe at decent prices, but I'm not exactly knowledgeable when it comes to car mechanics, so thought I'd ask here. Is the price they're quoting reasonable, and is it worth me getting a second opinion?

I just saw your 2017 post with the same problem... those photos are useful! Thanks for leading me to them, that'll help a lot (even if I can't get my hand in there to re-seat it)

Okay, thanks. Now to see if I can figure out where it sits normally.

The wife’s 2015 Yeti has got what looks like some sort of sensor hanging down from the front bumper, and I can’t figure out where it should go. There’s no warning lights come on and the car drives normally, so I presume it’s still working. My best guess is that it’s a temperature sensor for the radiator but shouldn’t that be in the right place in this weather?

Thanks for the thoughts. Conclusion: not possible. @vRSAnt Interested in your opinions, as I've heard this several times about Lane Assist. I'm not looking for automated driving, but just something to help avoid drifting on occasions that I'm feeling tired. I commute 200 miles a day, and the AAC is really helpful in this respect, although I'd never trust it to automate driving completely. Did you reach your opinion about LA even after changing to different profiles? I recently discovered setting AAC to Sports mode massively helped, because it was being too slow to catch up otherwise and people would be cutting in in-front of me all the time.

I have a '65 reg Octavia with Front Assist, Adaptive Cruise Control, and Park Assist. However, it doesn't have Lane Assist, and I'd love to be able to get it. A VCDS scan shows I don't have the A5 camera in my windscreen, which I believe it the crucial part. I think I've got everything else. Firstly, has anyone ever been able to upgrade the camera in the windscreen themselves? I spoke to Skoda and they don't offer it as an after-market service. Secondly, is there anyone here with a similar car *with* Lane Assist that would be willing to perform a VCDS scan so I can work out what the different component versions might be?

So, it's been a while and I thought I'd post a (hopefully final) followup. After the garage spent about 2 weeks scratching their heads, umming and arrring, phoning mates at Skoda, checking alignment, they concluded that everything was perfectly in alignment within the manufacturer's recommended tolerance range - and yet the driveshaft was still still popping out easily (they said they could see how it was happening, but didn't know why). On a whim, the last thing he tried before giving up was to replace one of the front suspension legs, even though it appeared to be fine, he thought maybe under heavy acceleration it wasn't behaving quite right. This chimed familiar with something I'd read elsewhere about Skoda owners who had manually lowered their suspension and was experiencing the same issue, so I thought this sounded plausible (even If I didn't understand it). He replaced the NSF leg, and now the wife and I have been driving the Yeti around for a couple of weeks now without any further issues. Of course, the real reason I'm posting this is because sods law states that as soon as I submit this reply, it will happen again.

I don't have a precise list, so I'm only going on what he's told me over the phone but he's checked everything including the chassis and found absolutely no misalignment. He's going to go back and repeat but I did get the impression they'd spent a long time and been quite thorough.

So my local garage is struggling to find any further faults. They took an oil sample from the DSG and found nothing unusual - I mentioned I'd read that the wrong DSG oil can cause problems (apparently the cause of a large DSG recall programme), but he said he thought it was the right oil ("it certainly looks and smells like DSG oil"). His friend at Skoda doesn't think it's likely to be a DSG fault since it appears to be behaving perfectly normal and it has no other faults (all gears engage and drive correctly). He's spoken to two other DSG specialists and both of them said something similar. He pointed out that 2 out of the 3 times it's happened, was immediately after pulling out of a T-junction whilst turning hard left. Also the fact that it was the nearside driveshaft and gearbox mount that had broken, seemed to suggest it was something to do with alignment, but all of the alignment checks he's done (he's spent hours on it) have revealed nothing. Other than replacing the driveshaft yet again and keeping fingers crossed, does anyone have any more suggestions? - Desperate, and thoroughly determined never to buy a Cat D again.

Post-facelift “urban” 2015, 1.2 TSI 81kW with 7 speed DSG

Just spoke to the garage - everything is fully in alignment, no issues anywhere on the chassis or with the suspension - “it’s perfect” were his words. They’re going to drain the gearbox of oil and look for foreign objects that might give a clue. It might also be a fault with the differential (can you hear me nodding cluelessly and saying “oh right?”). The garage owner has a friend who works at Skoda who he’s going to ask him for advice if the oil drain doesn’t indicate anything.