Hello, I greet you, and I'm glad to join the community here. I'm running into a problem
that hasn't been giving me peace for 3 months, and I'm very desperate, any help is welcome.
The series of events, I changed the battery, then on the same day, without any connection, t
the brake pedal started to be a little louder. After a lot of brainstorming and guesswork,
I changed the Power Brake (a wise decision), the pedal + brake pedal stroke were the same
as before, instead the Hill Start Assist underwent a small change... on a straight plane
with 0% incline , when I changed from Drive to Reverse... I had a lag of 3 seconds, the
advantage offered by the Hill Start Assist... but it was not normal.
I went to the Exclusiv Auto representative in Romania Constanta,
to solve my problem, they did coding + parametrization for ABS
(I mention, when I got there, the stroke of my brake pedal was like when I bought the car),
when I got into the car, I felt the brake pedal was different,
the pedal stroke had returned to the same as it was before the Brake Servo change,
and they didn't solve the problem for which I had initially gone to the
Hill Start Assist. Since then I went crazy,
I went to Avia to the representative office, the guy there solved my problem
with Hill Start Assist, he gave me a return to the basic settings with recognition
of the angle of inclination, something like that.
But what was burning was the brake pedal stroke...he looked,
put on a tester, checked, everything was working perfectly.
I didn't have any errors on the tester.. He recommended replacing the oil pump
with an integrated vacuum, which is in the oil bath, as a suggestion.
I replaced the vacuum pump for 2 days because I was going to do the overhaul anyway,
change the pads on the back... So I said everything should be new.
It should be mentioned that the Power Brake + Vacuum Pump are original.
After changing the vacuum pump, there is a difference in the acceleration response,
revs more, goes faster, better, but the stroke of the brake pedal
... it's still the same. I remain to the conclusion that that
coding + ABS parameterization affected me.
The stroke of my brake pedal was elastic, it was long,
comfortable to walk, because I like to brake progressively, not suddenly,
and now if I try to brake progressively, it immediately bites the brake
...it seemed to me that the ABS with stronger braking yes, it tends to come in earlier
... I don't even feel the pleasure of driving anymore from 3 months ago,
when I was leaving I didn't even want to get out of the car,
I would have slept there, I don't want to do experiments on my car,
I like very much my car... What do you advise me? should I send an email to the manufacturer?
I understood that it is not possible to return to the version before
coding/parameterization... because they no longer have that version stored.
But maybe the manufacturer has something in the database that came from the factory?
I said that I won't give up no matter what I do... I want to solve it.
The problem is that anyone who would go up and test the brake pedal, say... it's ok,
it's very good. But I know what pedal I had in the past, a longer and firm stroke,
but it was very comfortable. Thank you from the bottom of my heart,
I hope I didn't miss anything that wasn't mentioned.
( SKODA OCTAVIA III FACELIFT 2018, VRS, 2.0 TDI 184 HP )