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This is a good policy. Keep looking and you will see the right car and you'll know it's the right car for you. If in doubt, walk away.

As a random guess, there are pressure-relief vents off the boot. They might be blocked or damaged, I suppose. What a strange problem.

Not sure your bumper is out of whack, but something is certainly out of true. The questions are: 1) What is the problem you are trying to solve? 2) What will solving the problem gain you?

Hello and welcome. I think you're fundamentally right about dodging the simple stuff and focusing on the misfire, though that gear selector micro-switch is probably worth sorting out quickly, IMO. When was the car last serviced? Plugs, lead, coil packs might all be a problem at that sort of mileage if not already replaced/serviced, though the power cycle reset seems to suggest it's an intermittent fault, not just faulty old parts. I don't know the dealer, but I would be pushing them to either sort out the problem now, or extend your warranty for this issue if they insist that you have to keep driving it to get more data on the fault.

The best car for you is the one you like driving most. I hope you enjoy your new Superb. (EDIT: I misread the 1000km / month as 1000km / year. 😄)

Meh! I have OBD11 and it ain't all that. The interface is painfully slow and clunky, IMO. Getting it all going is not a quick as it should be, and it turns what should be a quick check into a bit of an event. I don't like it.

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Yikes! Danger, Will Robinson. Some sort of expert intervention is needed ASAP.

Do not panic if your petrol car has a PPF (or GPF as they're sometimes called). They are nothing like DPFs. I cannot recall seeing a single issue with a PPF/GPF, other than people worrying about them. I worried about my PPF and it's done nothing to make its presence known. PPFs work passively, so don't need fuel to heat the process, they use lean-running to increase exhaust gas temperature to activate the burn cycle. I haven't seen a downside to the PPF so far, other than the prospect at some point in the car's life that I may need to replace it.

The damper IS a pain in the backside, but it's not so bad to sort out, once you get the hang of it. But there is definitely a knack to be learned, and it's frustrating until you know what you're doing. If you can live without the damper, then that would make life a lot easier. 😄 Incidentally, I found the full fat Bosch filter (Bosch A8530 - Cabin Filter Filter+) to be a bit pricey the last time I looked, so I went for the MANN equivalent (MANN-FILTER FP 26 009 Cabin Air Filter - CARS + TRANSPORTERS, Yellow) which fits perfectly. Amazon links for both filters below. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01LBWX340 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00URDQ27A (Obviously prices vary depending on where you get your filter from)

Thanks for the update. It's always helpful for people to post the solution to problems they post on here.

Hi @Donie are you happy with your car, or is there an issue or problem you want to discuss?

If the bag hadn't split, you shouldn't have a problem with silica residue in your coolant. However you should renew your coolant, and possibly look at upgrading your coolant from G13 to G12evo.

15cm water is well within operating limits, according to the MK3 Octavia manual. Just drive slowly.

I'm not seeing the danger or anything more than a marginal risk to safety. It's certainly inconvenient, and probably quite annoying though.

Any chance of you posting this letter? (Redact any personal information about your self before posting.)

I'd add to this that I think it's worth changing oil after a period of time regardless of mileage. Oil ages, and as it ages, some of the additives in it may stop working, or not be as effective. I believe 1 year is equivalent to 10K miles use. So for 40K miles service intervals, change at 4 years, for 80k mile service intervals, change at 8 years, regardless of mileage.

This is the classic symptom of coolant silica bag failure. If you have a silica bag in your coolant, you might think about whipping it out. But if you have a heating problem, especially half hot, half cold, you might need a coolant system & heater matrix flush. If you do, my condolences, it's a right pain. 😒 That said, it's not the only failure point. Good luck! My silica bag in-situ and removed.

I keep receipts and have a spreadsheet detailing what I've done, when, at what mileage (usually) and how much it cost.

I know almost nothing about the EA888 beyond Gen 3B.

Any dealer worth buying from should just hand you the keys and let you take a 15-30 minute test drive. Walk away and tell them that you're walking away as you weren't able to have a proper test drive of the car. If they shrug and say "Okay, goodbye." you've just dodged a bullet.

It depends on the mod to fool the battery charging level, @Bap33 . There's a mod where a sensor is physically disconnected, which is the mod I was thinking of. @MikkyTee wasn't specific about which mod he was referring to and didn't mention VCDS, so I feel my note of caution about the simple bodge solution was appropriate. If Mikky intends to use VCDS to tells the CPU that the battery isn't in a condition suitable for S/S, then assuming that changed voltage reference is ONLY used to permit/inhibit S/S, then that sounds fine to me. 👍

There HAVE been internal changes. From VAG Self Study Programme 645.

I've been thinking about this myself (Gen3B engine) and if I were to change, I'd swap from 0/20 to 0/30. I think 5/30 would be a mistake. Bumping up the 0 to 5 may result in more wear on engine start, though going from 20 to 30 would give better hot protection under heavy load/hard driving. As I generally potter about, it's not something I'm in a rush to do, but it is on my radar.

This is a good point that I overlooked because I have S/S switched off.