Rich43

I live just outside Leeds. I took the car to a place called I.V.C. I thought it sounded a lot but have not had a comparison cost.

Thanks for the replies. I have taken it to a specialist dealer who has said it needs recoding. They are not sure what caused the existing code to malfunction other than possibly a low battery ( I changed the battery a couple of months after the faults started as the battery died). It's going to cost £90 plus vat to recode.

Hi Langers 2k, Thanks for your reply and suggesting a possible cause. Does the issue you raise sound like something that could have developed after a standard mot?

Hi e-Roottoot, Thanks for the reply. When I took it back to the garage that did the mot they said that the faults are probably a coincidence and would not accept any blame. When I mentioned this to Kwik Fit more recently they seemed to agree with the mot garage that things can just fail by coincidence. I will probably have to just take it to a VW independent specialist. I have not taken my car to one so far since I purchased.

I own a 2008 Skoda Octavia estate 2.0tdi automatic. I have owned it since 2013 and purchased second hand from a sales company in Pudsey. There have been no real issues with the car since I purchased it and I have been impressed with the reliability. I have continued to get it serviced through a local garage. In March this year it went in for an MOT and required the tyres replacing which I had done. However, when I collected the car there were some issues that I did not notice until the following day. The issues being as follows: 1. The digital dashboard display was not showing what gear I was in despite the rest of the dashboard working 2. The reverse parking sensor was not working, as well as the display not showing on the dashboard as to how close I was to anything behind 3. The rear heated window button automatically turns off when I select it 4. The twin climate control adjusts independent of each other now. I used to be able to change the drivers side which would also change the passenger side but now I have to do both separately I took my car back to the garage and asked what they had done and they said nothing other than changing the tyres but would take a look at it. They looked at the car a few weeks later and said it might be a switch near the gearbox but they would need to order the part. I never heard back from them so decided to book my car into Kwik Fit who looked at it on 5 August. Kwik Fit ran a diagnostic and said there was a problem with the code as the system was detecting my car as a two door left hand drive Audi. They said they would correct this code. They said the rear window heater was a blown fuse however despite changing the fuse it still doesn't work. With regard to the reverse lights which I forgot to mention also don't work, when connected to the diagnostic machine they did work through the laptop but still do not work when I put the car in reverse. Finally, the dashboard display showing what gear I am in could not be fixed. The garage said I will probably need to take it to a specialist Skoda dealer. I was just wondering if anyone here had come across a similar problem before I contact Skoda and try and get this fixed, hopefully at not too much expense.