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Thankyou Kedambarai but i think the best way forward is for you to drive down to sunny Cornwall and do the job for me, that way i can see first hand what you mean!!!! I ve replaced seals on motor bike calipers, many of which don't even have dust boots, will be first time on a car though. Just ordered a seal kit! how bad can it be? i mean i ve got AA at Home!!!

Ah thanks for that. I've got the correct wind back tool & have a hydraulic hose clamp or is a plug better? Any issues bleeding the caliper with the ABS set up? i can't see air could get anywhere the abs pump... i'm assuming pre filling the caliper would be a good idea? only other alternative is a refurb caliper from Autodoc, would cost me about £50 if they took back my old caliper.

Thanks, i was hoping it was an easy job ie pull off dust boot, replace in situ but it seems the caliper has to be rebuilt to replace this seal 😞

Hi Done a really stupid thing and put a small snick in the rubber piston seal of the rear caliper (dont ask!) Anyway, where can i get one and how to fit? thanks.

i had weird noises from my Octavia on switch off, it was a faulty coolant pump b, an electrical water pump that pushes coolant around the engine when its switched off. Cheap ish to fix, around £130 from a VW indie, showed up on scanner.

Hi Anyone know the resistance readings that a working oem speed sensor should give? I ve a very intermittent fault, can be fine all day and then randomly re occur (all the ESC/ABS/parking assist warning/stop start lights) that a borrowed obd2 scanner does not show up, one sensor is 6.5Mohms and the other 2.4Mohms, a new but different brand is 0.5Mohms. I don't want to use it as i wont be able to send it back if the issue is somewhere else, don't know anyone with a different scanner other than dealers and i'm on a budget!! 15k miles ago, when it was my company car, a garage supposedly change the NS rear sensor but i think they didn't as its identical to the OS and equally dirty rusty etc, though i guess they could have swapped for a 2nd hand one. Aside do only some OBD2 readers work with Skoda's ? Thanks.

What is the life of a car? i doubt anyone with a 10yr TSi and 130k would have a claim against Skoda if the chain broke & the car would have reached the end of its life..... It cost £380 to do the belt and water pump on my Octavia tdi (independent VW garage) around the cost of a set of tyres and will do another 100k.

Mine was a company car, that i ended up buying, it was serviced to Skoda's service intervals and i did try getting Skoda to change the belt etc before i purchased it based on 100k miles, Skoda UK said its 6 years or 120k miles, this was in 2020. The belt was changed at 103k miles because the water pump failed, it was already fraying.. car was mainly used on longer DC and motorways, it did have stop start. Now it seems every 5 years or 50k....

Possibly, but something isn't quite right here, my cam belt was close to falling apart after 100k, yet others look like new after similar miles, i 've had the car from new and had no issues with water pump until the last few 000s miles, had that pump not leaked, i could well be looking at a written off car with a destroyed engine.

I wonder whether cambelt suppliers get changed quite often? i've known a few Skoda owners who have had Cambelts done at around 100 to 140k miles and all seem to be quite different in condition plus Skoda themselves spec a different change period to the UK importers.

Very wise, i ve had a slight water leak for a while now, the aux water pump was making a lot of noise too, so dropped the car to local indie VW garage for pump and leak (Bradburn Auto, nr Plymouth) He found the engine driven pump was leaking and cam belt was fraying..... car is 5 years old and 100k miles, i've had it from new & intend to keep it until it dies. Very glad i didn't follow the other cam belt replacement interval that other countries suggest. Just one other thing, he said timing was out, the car is going a lot better now since he corrected that.