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Hi @cheezemonkhai, can you move this to the Superb forum for @MANUTDSTOTT when you have a moment, as he stands a better chance of getting an answer there. 👍

Hello and welcome! Yes, it's caused a few people a bit of bother. Is it misbehaving, or are you get irritated at the removal of some of the manual controls that have been replaced with touchscreen controls? Or even both! 😄

Beyond this, EV lease costs have shot up, which may be a knock-on of the increased insurance costs. (Possibly due to a very cautious approach when repairing crash-damaged EVs. Even a whiff of a damaged battery and it's replaced.) A colleague at work leases a Hyundai Tucson and his lease is up in January. There's no way he can afford to replace it with another under the lease scheme, as the cost of the new lease is ... Bah! I can't remember the exact difference and don't want to pull a number out of thin air, but I recall it was three figures/month more than his current PHEV Tucson when he showed me.

You make a good point. I can't recall the last time I saw a Camry around by me. Everyone seems determined to drive around in some flavour of SUV.

Hello and welcome! The Fabia forums will be right up your street. https://www.briskoda.net/forums/forum/166-škoda-fabia/

What discourages you from getting another Camry?

No partitions, just a *,md5 file in the root area of the card, and a "maps" directory containing the maps. MAKE SURE THE SD CARD IS FORMATTED TO "FAT32" (not "FAT" or "NTFS").

Yes, I realise that. https://www.thecalculatorsite.com/conversions/fuelconsumption.php

Good Lord! That's about 37.7 MPG, which would be disappointing for a petrol, IMO. I know Kodiaq's are big, but that's quite poor for a 150ps TDI. You're not driving around with the handbrake on, are you? 😋

Hello and welcome, Kody. 😊 How thirsty is your Kodiaq?

Buying a vehicle right at the end of it's sales life, right before the next iteration of the vehicle is introduced is a solid plan, IMO. All the bugs and wrinkles are sorted and the replacement parts network is well established. Garages are familiar with common problems and their solutions, and second-hand parts are normally available too, as well as new third-party offerings. 👍

Seriously thinking about getting a VERY early oil change in my DQ381 next year.

Firstly, "all the extras" is meaningless fluff, and should be disregarded. I'd also treat the vendor with discrete suspicion for pushing nonsense like that at you. Get a full list of all the factory-fitted options. As to their value, IMO it's something like this: Value of optional extras = (10% of original cost of extra + x-factor of the desirability and scarcity of the option)*cost of adding extra after car's manufacture. Rare but desirable optional extras stack value to a car, IMO. The most valuable optional extras are the ones you actually want. Don't pay over the odds for a car with a load of extras you're not interested in. Also find out how much the desirable options you want cost to be retrofitted later. I wanted an Octavia with a reversing camera, not knowing that I could simply fit one myself after purchase for £40. (Fortunately, I didn't hold out for a car with a camera, but I did look for one.) Now, how much does the £40 camera I fitted add to the value of my car? 😉

Much money is lost and made in vague definitions, such as "reasonable" and "fair use". Insurance companies will feel that "reasonable" is anything that they consider is reasonable. Mine says this now. Not sure what would be a silly amount over that, but I suspect anything over 6500 miles would void the insurance.

It was looking at my MOT records that alerted me to the problem. Being weird, I used linear interpolation (using sensible data points) to work out what my expected mileage will be by the time by insurance is up for renewal, and found I'd be 300 miles over my mileage limit for the year. I contacted my insurance company and for a couple of quid, they bumped up my mileage from 5K to 6K this year, so problem solved.

This is good advice. I spent a while in Ikea checking out all the seats before settling on the one I did. The adjustable lumbar support did it for me, but I'm a big bloke (6'4") so I need a big chair with decent back support. Definitely try before you buy.

As an aside, I think one of these might help a little, if you regularly leave your car undriven. I've had one for a whole and I've just bought a second one for the wife's car, so I don't have to keep swapping it over. It doesn't charge much, but it does mitigate the little parasitic drain of the various little gizmos on the car, such as alarm, clock, sensor for remote opening, etc. (Not to mention the parking camera on my car.) Some people have not been satisfied with their "charger", but I expect they over-estimated how much current it puts out. (Not very much at all.) I think it's a useful product if you leave your car standing unused for long periods. I think my AGM battery is a bit feeble, so I'm happy to give it a helping nudge.

Why happens if your unexpectedly go over the annual mileage specified in your insurance policy that you estimated when you took out the policy? Obviously, specifying 3000 miles a year to get a low quote and then driving 50K miles would be ridiculous and you'd deservedly get your claim bounced, but is there a tolerance , where if you're a over the specified mileage by a little, you don't get your insurance voided? Or is it a hard limit (if you specified an annual mileage when you took out the quote), and if you can be shown to have exceeded it, then you've broken the terms of your policy and it's voided? Beyond that, is this a big problem for insurers? Do a lot of people lie about only driving small mileages to get cheap insurance, only to drive many more miles than they said they would?

I have one of these. It's good, but initially has a very hard foam in the seat, until you break it in. I'm happy with it, and prefer it to the office chair I have at work. But initially, I thought I'd made a mistake as the seat was very firm. It's still firm, but it fits my behind nicely and has the dents to prove it. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/jaervfjaellet-office-chair-with-armrests-glose-black-60510640/

I once considered heated seats to be a bit of a pointless luxury. Having had them, while I could live without them, I can heartily recommend them.

I have a dedicated product for removing bird poo / insect mess on my car, but I find waterless car wash more convenient, so I keep a bottle of that in my car. Just spray on, wipe off with damp cloth, polish with a dry cloth.

I have one of these, and it's far better than I expected it to be. Very useful and surprisingly easy to get it to cut in a straight line. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Circular-HYCHIKA-Blades-4500RPM-Plastic/dp/B07RZZMR7J

You probably need to add additional information about your problem to allow anyone to help you. A description of the noise, ideally a recording. Where is it coming from? When did it start, how long have you had the noise? What solutions have you tired already?

I was quoted £680 for retrofit ACC on my Octavia this year, which I felt was too expensive so I declined.

Take your time during fitting, and make sure the connector at the back of the media unit in the glovebox is pushed home all the way. That is pretty much the worst part of the job. Also watch out for curtain airbags when routing your wire to the rear camera.