Dan H

Re. question 2, I have the same engine/gearbox on mine. I only ever use cruise on the motorway, where hills are generally not so steep and I just leave the car in drive (D). The cruise control is pretty crude in that it tries to match the speed to EXACTLY what's set. That can create a less than relaxing experience on hills since it will just increase the throttle to whatever it takes to maintain the set speed. It'll also drop down one, two or even three gears until you're at high revs and full throttle trying to maintain the speed. For a relaxing ride on steep hills I'd just turn the cruise off and drive up the hills allowing the speed to drop a bit with less gear changes.

Auto gearbox on a 1.6 '08 "3" is not DSG. Conventional 6 speed. I know 'cos I've got one ! Still a nice car and the conventional auto box is tough and reliable. Much more thirsty than the 1.2 DSG though and VED is high.

I had this issue after getting all four tyres changed at the same time. Light came on - when attempting to reset, light would briefly go off and then light again. Main dealer did a software update on the "ABS Unit", which seems to have done the trick.

We don't use nuffink. Perhaps we've been lucky, but there's only been one sicky incident in 5 1/2 years - which mostly affected the child seat. A couple of baby wipes on the rest and it was fine. We only drink water in the car and the odd snack.

Still working...............

Return spring wasn't poweful enough to shut the throttle. I did a trial with a much more powerful spring - which just made the throttle really stiff - and still didn't solve the problem. I then noticed what I think is the issue - which is the added mechanism is pulling the throttle pedal sideways slightly, enough for the moving part of the plastic throttle housing to rub on the stationary part . I re-aligned the extra sping so it pulled the mechanism at an angle, to try and reduce the friction. This seemed to solve the issue - as a temporary bodge. Installer of the conversion came and removed the left foot accelerator assembly and refitted it - still with no charge - and put my spring bodge back! All a bit Heath Robinson. Fingers crossed.

Grrr, problem not solved. watch this space.............

Took to second Skoda dealer, who identified an issue with the left foot accelerator conversion. Under certain conditions, the throttle wasn't closing fully. Skoda dealer wouldn't touch it though - had to get the original installer back. Hopefully now resolved by adding an extra return spring on the accelerator mechanism. Done for nothing, despite th original installation being 5 years ago- which was a pleasant surprise.

My 2008 "3" had the alarm go off 2 or 3 times. The problem was fixed by Skoda main dealer under warranty by replacing the electric window control unit. Does sound similar to you problem.

I've got a 2008 1.6 petrol auto (6 speed) Roomster, which I've had for four years. Car had accident damage (front end, no work to engine) and has just been returned to me. As soon as I drove it I noticed that if you brake continuously to a stop from above about 30mph, as the car nears a halt the revs rise to about 1200 and stay there - so the car's driving forward hard against the brakes. Driving like this in town all the time - which is 90% of the car's life - is going to totally kill the fuel economy. Lift and re-apply the brake and the revs go down to about 800 as normal. Put the gearbox in neutral whilst the revs are high and the revs stay high until you lift your foot off the brake, when they go down. If you just pootle around - like in a car park, then the idle revs stay at around 800 - as it always used to at all times once the engine is warmed up. Car was due a service which has now been done - at main dealer - and made no difference. Fault reported as part of service and the report came back - "no fault codes and problem not experienced on test drive". I went out with technician who drove the car with me in it - albeit him driving harder than I would do and the fault didn't occur. Then I got in and the fault was there straight away. I don't want to go back to the accident repairer as their response when I contacted them about it was "no warning lights on when we 'ad it mate - must be all right". This fault has definately started after the bump. My thoughts are maybe a sensor is not working properly e.g outside air temperature falsely low so the car sets itself for extreme cold even when it's not. Could something be wrong with no fault code showing? Any suggestions?

Resolution of this issue was as follows: Wrote to the landowner with costs - who referred me to his loss adjuster. I wrote to them with full details and asked them to pay the bare repair costs. Repairs in the end were a new front panel, replacement waterproof liner on one of the wheels and a new undertray. £450 all in from Skoda dealer. I didn't repair the bumper - which still has a split in it. My claim stated the landowner had failed in his duty of care to others to protect them from the risk of defective trees - particularly that he hadn't carried out adequate surveys. Loss adjuster wrote back - my client has no liability. I wrote back saying - not so fast Sunshine, let's see some records of tree surveys. Loss adjuster wrote back - my client has no liability. I wrote back stating I was going to pursue the matter through the small claims process of the County Court - and did so (was pretty easy - but a bit scary). Two days later there was a cheque in the post - they obviously decided it was cheaper to pay up. I'm happy with the outcome although I'm nervous of driving under trees now though - especially in Devon.

B.O.F, Thanks for the response. I do have legal cover on my car policy and spoke to them. I also spoke to the insurer about making a claim. Legal people said that there is a common law duty on the tree owner to take action to prevent such events, but that as in my earlier post that they are likely to use as a defence that they routinely inspect their trees. In law in those circumstances then they are likely to be treated as having acted reasonably and therefroe not liable. My insurer said that they would not pursue action against the landowner in the circumstances, presumably due to the low value involved. If I chose to make a claim it would therefroe be effectively be treated that I was at fault and I would lose my no claims bonus. This I'm not prepared to do, hence going to the landowner direct. My case will be that despite inspecting his trees, the landowner was incompetent in doing so, as a branch that has by its condition been visibly dead for a long time went untreated, fell on the road, with unaviadable damage to my car and narrowly avoiding physical injury to me and my family. I'm not hopeful, but we'll see what happens. Car is in for repairs today.

Was driving along a tree lined B road last week at about 40mph with other half and 4 year old son - before the recent storm. Nothing in front of me, cars behind. Large branch starts falling from height, right in front of the car, across the full width of the road. Slammed on the brakes and thankfully the branch hit the road just before the car hit the branch. Thankfully no -one hurt, though bloomin' scary. I initially thought the only damage was a split bumper. A closer look revealed a damaged undertray. No problem I thought, just get the undertray changed. Nice idea - except that the main dealer i got to try and fit the new part couldn't - as it wouldn't fit. Turns out the front panel is bent and that needs replacing - which means bumper off and radiator out. Now looking at £400 + without trying to repair the bumber and before any more damage is found. Ouch. Not really worth claiming on insurance. I've found out who owns the tree and am thinking of trying to claim the costs back. Their defence will no doubt be that they inspect their trees regularly so this was an "act of god". Be careful out there!

Fixed this problem on mine with a magnetic cabinet door catch from B&Q, with keeper glued on one side of the existing handle and the catch glued to the other with "Evil stick". Doesn't look brilliant, but had zero problems since I did it, which is over three years ago.

Having a rear facing seat may be arguably safer - in a front impact for example, but by the time kids get much bigger than13 kg they like to be able to see what's going on and they will let you know if they don't like it! Having the option of forward or rear facing sounds like a good option to me. Have you noticed that it's all the BMW's in scrapyards that are front end damaged ? A Roomster in my opinion is more likely to get rear ended - when a rear facing seat may be a disadvantage. Safety standarsds are all relative as well. I take my 3 year old on the back of my push bike - with no steel box at all for protection. Compared to that he's pretty well protected in a forward facing Britax Duo Plus that we have in our Roomster. This has the option of Isofix or seatbelt fixing - which has come in very handy for getting lifts in other people's cars.