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The car is a 2020 Scala 1.0 TSI and has done 16,000 miles. It's had two Skoda services early on in it's life followed by a couple of services from non-Skoda garages. I've recently aquired the car and I'm thinking I'll go with an annual service and MOT with a chap locally who has been great with our previous cars. He's happy for me to give him the oil I want to use. Would I be right in thinking that VW 504 00 oil (e.g. Castrol EDGE 5W-30 LL) would be appropriate? Or should I go with VW 508 00 - Castrol EDGE 0W-20 LL IV?

All done now. Getting the pillar trim off was a challenge. Having unseated it from the door seal, I ended up pushing the top part from outside the car parallel with the windscreen. I was thinking I was going to damage it and then the upper section loosened off. Pulled it upwards towards the roof and with some hard wiggling it came off. I ended up routing the cable from behind the glove compartment on the passenger side to the fuse box on the driver's side by pushing the cable in the join between the lower bit of the console and the upper part. I couldn't find a way to feed it through round the back. Piggybacked off fuse 43 - rear windscreen wiper. At first the camera wouldn't power up when the ignition switch was turned to the powered position. I measured the voltage at the bullet connector - 11.7V. Thought I'd got a faulty hard-wire kit. Then I remembered something about the dashcam only being powered if more than 12V is available. Turned the engine on and the dashcam powered up!

Thank you. I'll route the cable via the passenger side. It seems I need to pull the A pillar trim off completely and get the cable behind the airbag. I did have a quick go today at pulling off the trim but so far without success - I'll do a bit of digging for tips on the direction of pull etc. Thank you for your tips about the passenger airbag switch and the cable ties.

I'm trying to hard wire a Nextbase dashcam to a 2020 UK Skoda Scala 1.0 TSI. I'll position the camera on the passenger side to the left of the mirror (avoiding obstructing the daylight sensor on the back of the mirror). Then piggyback off the rear wiper fuse in the box under the steering wheel. Which route do people take for the cable? I've looked at running it (untidily) over the mirror (see pic) to the driver's side, under the roof lining, inside the trim of the windscreen pillar; uncliping the panel on the end of the dashboard and then to the fusebox. However, when I peel back the pillar trim, it looks like an airbag is running continuously all the way down from above the headlining and down the door pillar (see pic). I don't want to obstruct it. How do people get from the headlining to the fuse box without crossing this airbag? Is there an airbag in the rear view mirror area? (In which case I should probably route the cable the other way to the passenger's windscreen pillar and then find a way behind the glove compartment to the fuse box.) But I'll still need to avoid crossing the door pillar airbag. What's your experience? By the way, there's no USB port on the mirror!

I'm trying to fit a Nextbase dashcam to a 2020 UK Skoda Scala 1.0 TSI. I'll position the camera on the passenger side to the left of the mirror (avoiding obstructing the daylight sensor on the back of the mirror). Then piggyback off the rear wiper fuse in the box under the steering wheel. Which route do people take for the cable? I've looked at running it (untidily) over the mirror (see pic) to the driver's side, under the roof lining, inside the trim of the windscreen pillar; uncliping the panel on the end of the dashboard and then to the fusebox. However, when I peel back the pillar trim, it looks like an airbag is running continuously all the way down from above the headlining and down the door pillar (see pic). I don't want to obstruct it. How do people get from the headlining to the fuse box without crossing this airbag? I'm also wondering - is there's an airbag in the rear view mirror area? (In which case I should probably route the cable the other way to the passenger's windscreen pillar and then find a way behind the glove compartment to the fuse box.) But I'll still need to avoid crossing the door pillar airbag. What's your experience? By the way, there's no USB port on the mirror!