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Nigel, Answers to your comments/questions follow: >The optimate charger is a top of the range smart charger suitable for both standard and AGM batteries and was a 6A charger. >The battery did get to "full" but relatively quickly, I think due to the fact that it's capacity appears to have dropped by approximately 50%. >All clamps tight and clean and the last charge was with the battery disconnected from the car and it still gave the same SOH "state of health" value of 50% of the battery capacity when new. >Battery tester is made by Topdon and not expemsive but gives results that seem repeatable and for instance on my Honda civic, which had a new battery under warranty a few months ago, shows max capacity. I also have a very expensive CTEK battery tester with printer but it doesn't seem to cover EFB batteries! > I have a very good and accurate multimeter. > I'm not sure EFB batteries can be reconditioned, due to the construction,something I need to check! > There are cheaper options than Halfords but I would need to find someone to carry out the recoding, which would cost probably more than the difference! > Interested to know how you think you can fool the electronics using a charger? Paul

My partner has a 2020 MK3 fabia 1.0L. It is 3 months outside of the warranty period and recently I bought a battery tester, which included EFB batteries. I recently charged the battery using an optimate charger while it was in the car and got back the SOC was 12.6V and the SOH was approximately 50%! Repeated it a week later and got the same result with the battery tester saying replace battery! Repeated again with the battery disconnected and got the same results. The battery tester on my own car shows everything is okay repeatably so I assume the tester is okay. Without the battery tester the car shows no sign of a problem, however, I guess I should replace the battery before there is a catastrophic failure. I intend to replace like for like although the AH seems to be slightly higher on the Halford equivalent EFB. Does the battery data need to be reset, I guess it does but there are lots of differnt opinions on the subject? Paul

Just attempted to update my old maps to the latest update version and after deleting the old maps the new map almost finishes loading and at the very last minute says the card is full and it cant be completed. The card is a Skoda 8GB card. I tried a 16GB non Skoda card and this wasn't recognised by the system, which is the Amunsden version 1. Skoda are worse than useless at providing information, so wondered if anyone here has a solyion that doesn't involve paying out £100 plus for a new Skoda card. Paul

Just refueled my 2015 MK3 octavia, 30 litre diesel fill to full, drove off and realised that the gauge hadn't moved from its starting position, which was correct for the amount I had to put in. During the 10 mile trip home it slowly rose to just off of full. The trip back involved quite a few speed bumps, but no sudden change in postion happened. I assume I have a problem with the sender unit, but it is now about where it should be, it just took 20 minutes to get there! Has anybody else suffered the same problem and found the answer (I assume it is the float and sender unit) Usually after a fill it instantly responds. Paul

Just measured the Fabia MK3 sill jacking points, the front was basically 30mm and the same each side of the sill, the rear was 20mm and the same both sides, on the Octavia it was 20mm and the same both sides of the sill, the rear sill was the same. I looked at the scissor jack that came with the Octavia and it has a very shallow curved section in the middle, which means the load is taken on the sill edge, the fabia didn't come with a jack so bought a Skoda OEM jack, which has a deeper V section rounded at the bottom, which means the load is taken on the sill edge as well. So now I am confused, do i get bespoke jack pad adapters or accept the sill edge is the load bearing surface. I have seen pictures of a Skoda scissor jack with a higher section at the back and lower section at the front, which suggest it locates on the inner sill section and not on the sill edge. Does anybody know what their standard jack locating profile looks like, just a small "U"indent or a stepped version with the back section squared of to support against the back of sill? I'm probably making too much of this but I don't like inconsitencies! Paul

Thanks for the info, I had a quick look underneath a couple of hours ago and the Octavia has plastic underbody protection, which cover the points you can fit the pads into and they go right up against the sill section, so I couldn't get to the solid point that I assume the sill jack pads contact, the Fabia doesn't have any of the plastic underbody protection and the strengthened sill points are really rough looking, so there looks to be no precise measurements involved for jack pad adapters!

Good to hear I am not the only person with this theory, do you have any photos of the ones you have fabricated? Paul

This should have been in the Octavia section but we have a Fabia as well and I guess the same comments apply. Paul

I have been looking at sill adapters for a trolley jack and all seem to take the weight directly on the bottom of the sill edged have a flat top, however, looking at the standard jack supplied it looks as if the weight is taken just behind and in front of the sill, with the sill edge just creating a location point so the jack doesn't slip! Many people say you can jack directly on the edge of the strengthened sill, which I can't quite get my head around. After hours of searching I finally came across a powerflex sill adapter pad, which seems to confirm my theory that the weight is taken just behind and in front of the sill and is stepped higher at the inner side and lower at the outer side to properly locate and take the weight away from the sill edge itself. Although the sill is strengthened at the jacking points, I think the strengthened section extends behind and in front of the actual sill itself, where the weight should be taken. Jacking the car with the weight on the thin edge of the sill, even though it says "strengthened" fills me with horror, has anybody else thought about this and been through the same thought process? Paul