NikTheGeek
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ACC is the best invention ever! If I could only choose ACC or automatic, I'd choose ACC but together they are great!
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Aren't you meant to ask this *before* you buy one? Anyway: ok. I like the economy mode that lets you lift of and cruise. The Sports mode doesn't hang on to gears as long as I would, but it's only 500rpm or so off red-lining when you plant your foot. It doesn't play nicely with auto-stop in that it can cut the engine just as you are about to pull away in a gap and you can find you are half way out of a junction waiting for the engine to re-start and the box to select 1st. The fix for that is to disable autostop as you approach a roundabout or junction where you might want a fast exit. The biggest issue is learning to drive it as it anticipates what gear you want. If you have been gently accelerating and its in 6th, it will assume you want 7th and have it lined up, but you approach a hill or accelerate harder and it realises that actually you need 5th or 4th and it can feel like an eternity for it to get it. But generally its great and easy to drive and other than wanting quicker gear selections, I wouldn't go back to a manual. Nick
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Yes, take the tank out (5 min job) and then you can be as rough as you like with needle nose pliers butchering the bag until you get it. Give it a rinse under the tap if the bag splits before re-fitting the tank. I wouldn't risk fishing it out in situ in case you split it. It wouldn't take much of the granules to block a heater matrix I wouldn't have thought.
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I didn't know anything about the emissions scandal when I bought my s/h 2015 one, even though, apparently, it wasn't affected by it. But it is affected by Campaign 23ax and I want to know exactly what it does. I'm sceptical Skoda can change the NOX emissions and prolong the life of the DPF (which is what they say) without having some sort of other impact somewhere else. I've asked Skoda for a breakdown of what Campaign 23ax does and what exactly is changed. I don't know if I'll get an answer, but fingers crossed and I'll post if I do. Nick
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It is. October 2015 and its deffo a Euro 6 when I check it's reg on the clean air zone sites.
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No, the original emissions fix didn't include the 1.6tdi. My car wasn't included in it anyway, I checked. However, it was called in for Campaign 23ax
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What is the claim process and what are you likely to get for your 2015 one? Nick
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Don't have them inspect the waterpump, have them replace it. They aren't in there for life and best practice dictates that you always replace the water pump when doing a timing belt. In fact, if it were me with coolant loss and there was ANY chance it could be the water pump, I'd be bringing forward the timing belt change to now and having the water pump replaced before it dies completely causing an overheat. HTH Nick
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If the silica bag has split, it is a long hard lengthy flush process because silica doesn't dissolve (in anything you could put in a car's cooling system), so it all has to come out and usually involves some dismantling. But then, as others have done, ask Skoda to cover the cost.
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Damn. I assumed they'd use a similar base for their modules. Oh well! Thanks for the info
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I've just seen that you can reverse the button on an Audi with VCDS so that when you start the car, Stop/Start is off by default and you have to turn it on. I know that doesn't fix the issue, but was interesting nonetheless. I wonder if it would work on the Octavia?
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It's positively dangerous on an automatic, you coast up to junction, see a gap and boot it, only for stop-start to have kicked in and the engine dies then it starts up and the gap is no longer large enough. Or someone flashes you out and at that second you engine stops and you have to wait for it to restart. I agree, it should only kick in X seconds after a complete stop, not as you are still slowing down. I'd love to know if those parameters could be adjusted in VCDS Nick
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No need to be rude, I was just trying to help. Firstly I thought, wrongly, that you were fitting the bulbs to your headlights, apologies. It appears you are fitting them to your fogs. However, the bulbs you have chosen are still not road legal even if they may pass a MOT test. But the post still might help someone stay on the right side of the law as most people buying LEDs are fitting them in halogen housings which you just can't do. Even if it passes an MOT, it's still illegal and potentially voids your insurance. That's why I gave up trying to fit LEDs to my cars after several attempts!
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No, but colour temperature is checked and I lost count of the times I was failed for LED sightlight bulbs until I gave in and just accepted I couldn't have them! But yes, those LED headlight bulbs will be an instant fail under the new MOT regs and I'm suprised (or am I?) that the seller doesn't state this more clearly on their website!
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Are you not bothered that they aren't road legal? In the event of an accident, you might well come unstuck with your insurance company, especially an accident at night where they could say lighting might have played a part. You cannot legally fit LED's in to a housing not designed for them and even if you had the right housing, these aren't type approved for road use.
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Even a tuning box that is removable will set a flag in the ECU to tell skoda engineers that the car has been modified. So full remap or tuning box, you are voiding your warranty.
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https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/schedule/7/made But also, it is an MOT fail to not have a side repeater on a vehicle made after 1986. If the side repeater isn't visible from the entire side of the car, including the rear, then it should be failed as not present. But no idea if a tester would go in to that much detail when checking.
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Yes, it's this bit that juts out that needs to be visible from the rear It looks like other ones work properly, so I must have just bought cheap as mine don't illuminate at the ends like others do... Nick
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No, they don't need to be visible from the cabin (thats what the dashboard one is for), but they do need to be visible from behind - which is what the tip of the mirror illuminating does.
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Yes I am sure. It's in the Lighting regulations Nick
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Has anyone fitted any of these "Dynamic" indicators - ie Audi-style that fade in? If you have, does the lens inside the mirror frame illuminate? I got some and fitted them, but as you can see from this video, the lens inside the frame doesn't illuminate and neither does the lens at the outmost tip of the mirror. Only the strip in front of the mirror does. This would be an MOT fail (and be illegal) because the side indicator repeaters have to be visible from all sides of the car including the rear and just having the LED on the front of the mirror illuminating means they aren't visible from even the side of the car unless you are in front of the mirror. I'm sending mine back, but they were much brighter at the front so if you have any suggestions or links for better ones, let me know... thanks Nick
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I show the aftermath I know I should have filmed the process! But remove your tank in case you split the bag and then you can be as rough as you like! HTH, Nick
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Diesl? Get a DPF report. They can need replacing from 100k - although if its a motorway car, you'd expect it to last a lot longer, but it might still be full and need replacing quite soon. What is the police admin fee I wonder? Also the Parking Eye admin fee. Sounds like a company has been paying their staff's speeding and parking fines!
