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most of the 9/19 manual will surely still be relevent and you have a downloaded copy of the 6/20 manual, so if it was me, i'd just photo copy any pages needed from the new manual no need to copy the whole manual, should'nt need to have to do this, but seems like the easiest option, at least until skoda can come up with a paper version.

i think the water pump is more likely to fail than the belt

its easier and cheaper to code stop/start out though, remember, if you code it out, you can still stop the engine with the key if your stopped for any length of time, so for me, no real benefit of this device

its does'nt matter though if the dpf holds 45g of soot because it never gets to that level as regens always happen at around 24g [ unless theres a fault ] when at 24g the dpf app says 99% [ or thereabouts ] so you get to know that a regen is about to happen, which is the whole point of the app. As i said earlier, if you are sitting with say 21g of soot, there's no point in taking the car for a run on the motorway as a regen wont happen, in fact all you will do is make the engine do a passive regen and in my experience the soot level will just stay the same during a passive regen, so you have effectively wasted time and fuel and have achieved nothing

yea that would be good alot of people with diesels think you can just take the car for a long run and all will be good they dont realise that regens only happen when dpf is 99% or so full

i've been saying for years, that VAG should have the dpf app built in to the dash on all diesels, the app lets you plan ahead, as you know exactly when a regens coming.

the level going to 100% + 6% seems odd and not right i find regens happen at 99% - 100% and it will empty down to about 24% alot of people think you can take the car for a run on the motorway to empty the dpf but thats not the case as regens only happen when its ready to do it ie 100% full. if i was to go on the motorway at say 80% , what i usually see is the car doing a passive regen, but the % does'nt come down or go up, it would just stay at 80% which proves that you cant make the engine do a regen.

would'nt surprise me, the mk3.5 superb is the newest out of the vag cars you've listed. vag/skoda will call it continuous improvement, all it does is delay things for the tuners though, they eventually find a work around.

if independence ever happens , i'm moving down to england should be able to get a good job with ma 1st class honours degree from oxford uni 😎

yip, who you know etc, you scratch my back and i'll see you alright

in the good old days it did'nt matter how many faults on your car, you could get a blank mot at the barras market £30 was the going rate but sometimes when they where desperate could be had for £20 you could even get an honours degree in what ever subject yea fancied 😎

yes but not many places charging £54.85, local council mot place charges £40 with no repairing for general public

it must be difficult for a place that does'nt do repairs to make any real money though, an mot costs about £40, mot tester must be on at least £15 an hour, then you have all the other overheads like rent, rates garage equipment etc. the council run places are doing other work on there own vans/cars etc so a bit easier for them

some mot garages have been known to spray shockers with wd40 🙃 you've got a leaking shocker sir and we always advise customers to replace both sides 😬 the best place to take your car for an mot is your local council run mot station, they dont do repairs so no incentive to rip you off

there's a way round having to pay a diagnostic fee though if your not sure that the problem you have will be found or will be chargeable under warranty, create another fault which you know will be covered 🤪 you could disconnect a wire or loosen a connector which brings on a warning light , then book both faults in for investigation most dealers are bra$$tards, you have to play them at there owm game

i know you said you have vcds but always good with diesels to have vag dpf app on your phone and keep a carista obd2 in the car. you'll then be able to see exactly what's going on with regens, soot levels ash levels etc anytime anywhere. skoda should have an app like this built into the dash of all there diesel engine cars imo