GlennC

Thanks for suggestions so far - I need to get my head under the dashboard and find out where everything is. There will be some delay, I have more pressing things to deal with! BTW, I would rather take advice from people like you who have practical experience, but a quick Google trawl found several "experts" suggesting a full reset of the radio might fix it. Do we believe that? Could it be a software fault? I somehow think not...

DAB reception in our late 2015 Fabia having faded away over the past months to the point where there is none at all, regardless of where in the country we drive, I thought I would see whether anyone can shed light on this... but no. As an electronics engineer with some understanding of what's involved I had thought it might be an antenna problem just on our car but from reading the posts here it seems that the issue is more widespread. I would suspect a poorly specified component in the radio receiver itself, one which has drifted out of tune, but to be honest in this age of "chuck the old one away and fit a new" that's purely academic. So now it's FM only, which works fine, unless there's a ready fix.

Thanks everyone for your helpful responses. I've elected to sit tight for now and perhaps address the cam belt at the 6-year service this Christmas. Meanwhile: can anyone tell me whether it's a simple job for the owner to carry out a visual inspection of the belt, for instance by removing a little cover plate with a couple of screws? (I can but hope).

I too need to know when to change the cam belt. As none of the knowledgeable contributors above has been able to give a hard-and-fast answer to the original question, and the car's original documentation doesn't contain the answer, I posed the query to Skoda UK via their online form but nothing whatever came back (how rude). My nearest main dealer has been clamouring at me to change the cam belt but I am suspicious that they are just drumming up business - I don't see that a 30,000 miles engine on a December 2015 car should need any attention yet. Or am I just living in a Utopian world where stuff is designed to last a reasonable length of time?