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Can anyone kindly help please. Heavy traffic. Done probably a mile at less than walking pace. I'm in D2 on the DSG controlling speed of creep on the foot brake. Suddenly with no warning engine revs rise fast to 3200. Hold for 1 or 2 seconds then drop to normal. These revs have no effect on road speed or I would have smashed into car(s) in front. I know how fast this thing can accelerate. In fact it is very unruffled and feels fully under control all round. Like the car or just the gearbox is pretending not to notice anything unusual at all. It has done this three times (all in crawl) in the last three months. Dealer says never heard of it but "lets get it in and see what we can find"--like my wallet. Thanks.

I've failed to find the answer to this, probably because I have not yet looked in the right place. Is the suspension ,all the components ,tougher on the Kamiq compared with the Fabia Scala or Octavia, so more likely to survive the potholes. I look on the Kamiq as a mini off-roader. Thanks

Can one of you very smart blokes tell me this. (It puzzles me). Is the fuel used to start automatically greater than would be used by sitting and idling. Or does it vary with how long it is between stop and start. OR in other words does stop start REALLY save fuel or just make you feel good about saving the air quality (while wrecking your starter motor and your battery). Just for info I really like stop start (but hate its lousy performance when everything is cold) but don't like the feeling I might have been "had". Could have been researched by some students one day. Best wishes. Thank you very much.

It is easy to confuse Automatic Braking warning and Unsmooth ( or Non fluid )driving warning

I am trying to like the Scala enough to buy one to replace my fabulous Fabia estate. Before the Fabia I had an early Rapid which had a good engine and gearbox and nothing else. I keep looking at the Scala as an updated Rapid Spaceback. But my head tells me it is just much better than than that. It must be mustn't it? Does anyone reckon on a Scala estate one day? Any thoughts will be much appreciated.

The day I change my Fabia Estate for whatever I get draws near. I've just discovered the cars I'm thinking of do not have 12 volt fag lighter sockets -- only USB-C. You can get USB to 12 volt female socket converter adaptors. Please does anyone know, are all USB outlets the same size. None of the convertors say what USB type -- B or C, they are. Or is there any other way of using my Tyre pressure pump or Garmin. Progress eh? Thank you.

I feel let down. Discarded by Skoda. After a Datsun Bluebird, Two Honda Accords,(very good) a Citroen Xantia TDI (Fantastic ten years of faultless service), Mark 2 Octavia 1.9 TDI (incredible kept near ten years), Then a really bad car -an early Rapid diesel. Hated it apart from the engine and now the car I wish I could have married years ago, the nicest-to-drive car I've ever had: my fabulous Fabia 1.2 TSI DSG Estate . Just looking at it makes me feel good. I could drive it all day and night with a smile on my face. What the bl***y h**l is that vile copy of some weird Citroen called a mark four Fabia. If it is anything like that in real life that's it. Kia for me or Seat [but the engine and gear box selection is dire]. Sorry Skoda it was good while it lasted . "Nothing good ever lasts". {As Iris DeMent says}

Intriguing. Just looked at mine (Fabia Combi 1.2 Petrol DSG May 2017) and both sides have the gap filled with thin black plastic strip. A bit like the stuff inside Chocolate boxes. Nicely made properly cut out to fit and has a neat little clip built in at the bottom to keep it in place. But what for? It is obviously not waterproof. Is it just to hide something? What ? nasty welding or dangling cables? I hope there is no water logged foam behind it. Why is it needed?

Just another thought on this topic. All these tiny ferrous particles floating about ---do we breath them in ? Day in day out. I know we need iron to survive but I don't want to sniff it up my nose. Time to wear a mask all day like the Japanese.

That is a brilliant idea---rusty particles. Thank you both. No idea where they could have come from and really do not believe they were there before it went into the wash booth. They were so obvious after the wash they were impossible to miss. Perhaps they were covered by the dust and muck the car wash removed. The whole shelf looked like a maniac barista had shaken his cocoa pot over the thing. It really was a jaw drop moment. And why were there no spots anywhere else? Other ideas. The car spent the whole of August in an airport car park outdoors but under one of those sail like taut canvas shades. Do aircraft produce iron filings? There had been no metal cutting done any where around. When I think about it that shelf is the only surface that is perfectly flat and does gather and retain water during rain storms. And does take a while to dry out by evaporation. It annoys me a lot to be honest. ( Like the size and position of all four direction indicators --both lousy) . I will look into Iron-x. Thank you for your replies.

This is a total mystery. Shoved my Fabia Estate Candy White through a car wash today. Got cloth to dry bits missed by blowers and got stopped in my tracks. As you all know the estate has a perfectly flat horizontal shelf just below the bottom edge of the tail gate. It was covered in hundreds or thousands of tiny light brown specks the size of a newspaper full stop. Or a Briskoda full stop. .... ...... .. ..... After I cancelled the heart attack I almost had I checked the rest of the car. Nothing anywhere. Not a single speck. I used a magnifying glass. The specks could be felt by finger tips and snagged on my thumb nail as I pushed it through them. One or two flew off but the vast majority stayed put no matter how hard I bashed them with my thumb nail. I tried soapy water. Neat washing up liquid. Meths. Hammerite thinners. Nothing touched them. A thirty year old tin of weird American polish with a warning it is slightly abrasive did nowt. The upturned ends of the shelf had no spots--only the flat surface facing the sky. After about four hours rubbing the shelf with a worn out green and yellow dish wash sponge and Car Care polish used with all the pressure of my thumb hand and arm I have shifted 90 per cent. I may stop there. I can barely form my hand into a fist tonight !! This will have to go top of my total mystery list. Probably oddest thing ever to happen to me. Asking you all--any ideas seems a long shot but who knows?. Thank you for reading.

But when is the original question going to be answered ??

Excellent info. Thank you very much. I am going to drive round the block which will activate central locking and then get out to see if I can open my boot. NO NO NO . I'm going to drive round the block to lock everything then get my wife who has been standing in the street to try to open the boot. It should still be locked if I don't open a door. But I will drive far enough for the faint clunk to happen or it will not show whether the faint clunk is the boot unlocking or not. If the boot is still locked after the faint clunk I will be quite happy that I will not get a traffic light robbery. And put it down to your excellent suggestions. Thank you.

Thanks for reply. Very soon after moving off -say first 10 yards - all my doors lock AND the boot. I know this because It often stops my wife opening the boot to put shopping in. So the faint far-away clunk after 5 or 10 minutes OR after I reach 20/25 mph (or whatever) must be 1) the system trying to lock my boot (but NOT my doors) a second time OR 2) the system unlocking my boot (but NOT my doors). And I would know this because the door latch is pretty close to my ear-hole ! How can I find out which it is? How do I access the settings for automatic door locking? Do I get to it thru the infotainment screen? Or what? A trip to the dealer? I would like to find out because I don't want my boot unlocked after a few minutes (if that IS what is happening). I've read the handbook so often I can safely say it is pretty damn poor English and clarity.

When I drive off after an engine-off stop I hear a faint but distinct sound exactly like the boot door locking or unlocking itself. (It is Fabia Mk3 Estate). I have puzzled over this for months and read the handbook and tried to work out if it is speed or time related. I am NOT talking about the automatic door locking system which happens very quickly after move off and is loud because it is all doors locking and doors are close to where I sit. This is faint and pretty surely right at the end of the car and can sometimes take a mile or more to occur if I have got into a crawl from the off. It is likely speed related rather than time related. Any ideas please? I am not complaining or moaning, just to make it clear, but just intrigued. Many thanks I shall be pretty narked with myself if it is in the handbook !!!

Just seen the TV news---Pope arrives Dublin and new Popemobile is a Skoda !!!!!!

Simple. For example what is 4.9 litre per 100 km in mpg. Answer. Divide 282 by 4.9. Bingo

Comment please. This afternoon I drove down a country road I know well but forgot that there is one bend that has a nasty camber change half way round. I was driving with a bit of gusto and the camber caught me and the car out. I explored the car's body roll capabilities so to speak. And its amazing road holding for a non sporty Fabia 1.2 estate. And I also got a message that both tyres on the lean over side were low. I got home and checked and the car had lied to me. Can tyre monitoring be affected by heavy cornering forces? It seems it can. Handbook says nowt. Or maybe the tyre monitoring will join front assist in the list of fake reporters. This car has more quirky characteristics than any car I've had I reckon. Thanks

Advice please. When I arrive home I pull up and the engine stops with Stop/Start. I put selector in "N" because I do not know whether I will need to go forwards or backwards until I've assessed the situation. And no I don't open the door or take off my seat belt. (This is connected with difficult parking where I live). If I need to select "D" the engine does NOT start until I lift my foot slightly off the brake pedal. But if I select "R" the engine DOES start immediately even with full pressure on the brake pedal. I cannot find this difference referred to in the handbook and it seems "wrong" somehow. Does your's do this? Thanks.

I think my DSG gearbox is fantastic. (Perhaps I should say "so far" or "touch wood" or "that's buqqered it"). So I try to treat it exactly as it expects and don't fry anything by driving like a hoon. The long thread on here about clutch slip has worried me a good bit. Question please. After I select D/S or R I lift my foot off the brake pedal quickly and then always wait about a second or two until creep has begun before applying any throttle at all. (Different for hill hold obviously---I'm on about normal non hill hold starts). Is this the "kindest" way to treat the clutches? Or not? And second question: what is best ----lifting off the brake pedal quickly to let the gearbox get on with it or caress the damn thing like an egg shell and make the box wonder if I really want to go or stay. I've read loads on the DSG box and not found anything definite. Many thanks

Very quickly after I set off --just seconds really- I get a loud click clunk as the doors lock. Sometime later --it is quite variable- while on the move I get a far quieter -faint even- click clunk from the tail gate. It is a Fabia Combi 2017. Logically it is probably the tail gate unlocking. But why would that be? Automatic locking was invented to stop people being car-jacked at the first set of traffic lights on the journey. So why would it unlock? Or is it the tail gate locking? I don't think so because my wife has been denied access trying to open the tail gate after she has followed me down the road to detach the security chain across the road. Needless to say I can find nothing in the handbook and needless to say this is just curiosity nothing important. (unless it should not be doing whatever it is doing.) Any ideas please. Thanks

The above message has just appeared in my infotainment screen and "no details" in the screen between the main dials on the dash. My car has just had a new tyre fitted and the tyre depot reset the tyre pressure monitor. This may have been the reason for the loss of all info. It is a drag going all the way back to the place for a cure but if they caused it they could make things worse. I only noticed it about 100 from home !! I can find no mention of "no details" message in my handbook or on the internet. I have no idea what the problem is or how to cure it. PLEASE has anyone got the answer. Thank you.

The handbook says 120 N/M or about 88Ft/Lbs. It does not distinguish between steel or alloy so I take it they are both the same. HopeImRight

OK you guys now I need your considered opinions. I must say I am pretty depressed by all this stuff. I needed to change to an auto box because my left leg is developing a mind of its own after a bad slipped disc. I read up on Fabias and DSG boxes as thoroughly as I thought I could. I seem to have missed all this doom and gloom. I feel I'm just waiting for the damn thing to pack up. I need to get it into perspective , into proportion. Does everyone with a DG200 have failures? What percentage. Have VW got to grips with it?. The excellent brochure from TVS was very doom laden but offered hope of a cure , for a price and a long journey. Are VW dealing with it in a reasonable manner? Are the boxes built in the last few months OK now? Are there any tips for using the box to avoid problems? It seems an idea always to put it in N whenever you stop for more than a few seconds. And keep off S mode and maybe leave Tiptronic alone as well. Both these will not bother me but it ain't good. I think I'll change my name to Pig Sick. Anything you can contribute will be very gratefully received. Thank you.

Strewth ! This is getting PhD level now. Bearing in mind that I know nuthin can I comment as follows please. In the dash videos on page 1 I do not see much that I would think odd except for the second vid at about 1 min 16 where the speed does not rise but the revs rise a lot. So that energy is going somewhere but it ain't the wheels. I don't know why the rev counter should be linear and not jump about cos on mine the rev counter leaps about when the box changes up or down--I'm glad it does. Also am I right thinking the problem only/mainly appears when you are in Tiptronic and holding gear 5 way past the revs at which the auto would be in D7. Maybe the box is designed for use by old ladies who stick it in D/S and like to see ECO in the middle if the green leaf. Maybe the box sees 160 Kph in fifth as a tad hooligan. Would this qualify as not fit for purpose? I am sure I don't have this problem. Yet. If I do it will be after it is out of warranty. BUT (question) will it progress and make my car undriveable? Is it that serious out there ? Thanks.