Missyoctober

I drive 30 miles a day on rural roads at 60 mph and a few long drives at the weekend.

Hi , hope someone can shed some light on a this . On an 2021 Octavia fault says. The regeneration frequency of Diesel Particulate Filter is not ok , says the fault is permanent . Car is due to go for software update , would this have something to do with it. Thanks

I think it was a case of RTFOM , went into infotainment system and found the adjustment was set to car with 5 people and the boot full , set it to correct adjustment and voila perfect lights. Happy days.

Just purchased a 2021 Octavia and I’m shocked at how poor the led lights , when other cars overtake me by on the road and put my lights to shame. . The lights on my wife’s 2014 Toyota were way brighter. Hope someone can shed some light on”light “ on this for me.

Very hard to get to the bottom of it , I just bypassed the charge cooler and the problem is still there so next I’ll by pass the egr cooler and if that doesn’t sort it I’m looking at a new head gasket.

The mechanic is a VAG man , he did several pressure tests and he’s certain it’s not the head gasket , what he did say when I went back after a few days to query why the coolant was rising and falling he said to drive it for a another week and he didn’t rule out the charge cooler even though he did a probe test.

The heater has the exact same temperature on both side of the car . When I checked it cold this evening before the drive home the coolant was just below the minimum mark dove 30mins home and checked and the coolant is way over the max mark , sometimes after a drive it can be low but when I open the cap it comes gushing in . It doesn’t seem to be losing coolant just sometime the underside of expansion tank is damp. As far as I’m aware the mechanic checked the charge cooler. The way the car is now I just couldn’t take it on a long journey. I

I understand the coolant expands , but why would the low coolant warning come on ? When I check it there’s little or no coolant in the tank until I open the cap and it returns and the warning goes off. This has happened while I’m on the motorway and I’ve had to pull over and wait to open the cap. I’ve never had this issue with the car or any car before . This only started a few weeks ago

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When coolant builds up the spring in the cap will allow the coolant out the little hole on top and it exits the bottom of tank see photo below. The heater is working fine only difference I see in that is when everything is closed of (fan and vents ) hot air keeps coming out . The coolant is still saying in the system and when I release the cap it comes back in. It was on the low mark this evening then when I got home it was up to normal level then I loosed cap and it came gushing back in , see video. Thanks

The car is still building pressure When I was with him yesterday to voice my concern about the low coolant in the expansion tank he opened the top and the coolant came flowing back in so much some went out to hole in the bottom of the tank . He told me to keep driving that there was nothing to worry about. He did a test for the head gasket and he said it was fine so there has to be something else causing it. I just can’t be throwing money at the problem hoping something will work. As for the hoses that I think were going into tue firewall I wouldn’t be accusing him of stealing them , maybe he bypassed something or other , see photo of opening in firewall at the location I think they were at.

Hope someone can help , I have a 2015 VRS diesel and it was building pressure and blowing coolant out the expansion tank , took it to a mechanic and he said he replaced the water pump but the coolant is dropping to almost empty until I open the cap and it returns. What puzzles me most is I’m certain that two hoses entered the firewall just to the right of the expansion tank ,one hose directly over the other yet when I picked up my car they are gone all I see now is a slit in the fire wall , when I asked the mechanic what happened them he just laughed it off and said the split in the firewall was for a left hand drive. I’m 100% certain the hoses were there . Can somebody please confirm this and provide a photo if possible. Many thank

Found out the glow plug was not the problem but a faulty oil pressure switch .

Can someone please tell me where the oil pressure switch is on an Octavia 2.0 diesel VRS. Thanks

Thank you , forgot to say it’s a 2.0 TDI 185 bhp.

I hope someone can shed some light on a problem I’ve encountered on my 2015 Octavia VRS . Yesterday when I went to drive it as I accelerated fairly hard.the glow plug lamp came on and I lost power I pulled over and restarted the engine and glow plug lamp went out and power resumed,but some thing happened when I accelerated hard again . This happened every time I drove it strange thing is when engine reaches normal temperature it doesn’t seem to happen. Someone said it might be boost pressure sensor. I would really appreciate if any of you had similar problem and what was the solution. Thanks for any help.