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I've just ordered a brand new (yes) set of wheels for my Octavia 230. This means the current ones are up for sale. 4 x 5E0601025BDJX2 Factory original Skoda 19" Xtreme wheels in black with diamond cut chrome faces For 10 years old I think the wheels look great - not perfect - but you have to start inspecting pretty closely to notice anything. There's a bit of corrosion starting in a couple of places, a couple of bits of "white worm" on the diamond cut and a kerbing mark which was there when I got the car 6+ years ago. The wheels are 10 years old and as far as I know have never been refurbed - certainly nothing in my ownership. Here's a Google Photos album with more photos... https://photos.app.goo.gl/tU3a2GhrWbREKH2B8 £800 ono (which is nowhere close to what I'm spending on the new replacements 🤣) Located in Derbyshire Tyres will be swapped onto my new wheels so will come as bare wheels. Why am I selling? Well, people will say I'm mad replacing very good wheels with brand new, but the car is heading on for 10 years old now (6+ in my ownership) and it's immaculate - always garaged and never had so much as a parking scuff. I was debating whether to sell the car and buy something newer, or commit to keeping it and spend some money upgrading and... well I've decided I won't get anything better than my 230, without spending silly money, and I still love it... so I'm keeping it. Ideally for another 10 years at least. I've done a few of the mods I always wanted to do but didn't get round to, and I'm replacing the wheels with brand new while Skoda still has stock. My new wheels arrive in a few weeks and so these will be available once I've had the tyres swapped over.

Yep, heated screen and self parking (which IMO is a gimmick) I think are standard equipment on L&K

Make & Model: Skoda Yeti 2.0 TDI 170ps 4x4 6 speed manual Laurin & Klement Colour: Jungle Green metallic Mileage: 114,000 Price: [SOLD] Description: Our family transport, a much loved Skoda Yeti - owned by us since September 2018. This is the top spec L&K so has pretty much everything you could want. This car originally belonged to @Gizmo so has been in the club from BRAND NEW. Any chance we can keep the car in the club? This has been an amazing car, and was my wife's dream car - but sadly she's now fallen in love with the idea of a Jaguar iPace so the Yeti has to go to a new home. With this car being the 170ps L&K it has pretty much everything you could ever want. My favourite parts are the panoramic sunroof (WHICH DOES NOT AND HAS NEVER LEAKED IN OUR OWNERSHIP), the brown leather heated seats memory function (so my wife has her position programmed to her key, and I have my seat position programmed to mine), and of course the off-road button which means it can tackle pretty much anything you throw at it. Condition: Used - very good Minor mark on the rear silver bumper trim. Other minor age related marks but overall in excellent condition and well above average for a 114k mile car Sun roof does not leak and has never leaked Couple of minor marks on the wheels, but again - very good for the age. I give them a polish & wax before I put them away every winter Everything in good working order to the best of my knowledge, including ice cold air conditioning Note: currently sat on winter wheels & tyres which can be negotiated as part of the sale This car has NEVER had the emission "fix" recall done, so it's 100% reliable and does not suffer from frequent EGR failure like most do! 2 keys Service History/Receipts/Recent Service work: Maintained regardless of cost Folder full of receipts, including original purchase invoice and ALL receipts under our ownership Originally serviced on flexible schedule, with Skoda dealer under @Gizmo ownership and since then we've had it serviced on fixed service schedule by an independent VW group specialist. Last service May 2024 at 104k miles - it's just pinged up that it's due in the next 800 miles on mileage, so will try and get this done before the sale Cam belt & water pump in October 2023 Haldex February 2022 MOT until June 2025 Front wishbone bushes in 2023 New rear brakes & caliper in October 2023 due to binding caliper Summer tyres are 2x Hankook Prime, 2x Michelin Primacy - I will get depths when I can Winter tyres are 2x Nokian WR-D4, 2x Bridgestone Blizzak - I will get depths when I can Repairs under our ownership: Replacement driver's headlight due to LED failure New fuel filler cap actuator New clockspring Firmware re-flashed onto the Columbus head unit Extras: Rear mud flaps Tyre pressure monitoring Electrically adjustable memory driver's seat Spare wheel Heated washer jets Luggage nets in the boot Columbus unit updated to latest maps We also have the following for sale which I'm happy to negotiate into a deal: A set of winter tyres on steels and genuine Skoda hub caps (which the car is currently on) Genuine Skoda roof bars Genuine Skoda reversible boot mat Fluffy Yeti teddy Collection: Derbyshire, UK In daily use until, will be available on 12th December when we get our new car Photos are all from this year but when I get chance after the storm has passed, I will give it a clean and take some fresh and more detailed pictures.

Yeti is a 2014 L&K The adjustment motor / actuator has gone. Wing mirror is otherwise perfect (the painted cover on the back has no damage and the puddle light, indicator and folding functions are all working). I can find loads of threads for people replacing smashed off wing mirrors, but nobody talking about broken adjustment actuators. I'm trying to work out the most cost-effective way to fix it. Can I buy just the actuator / mechanism? Could I get a part from a breaker and swap the motors? Or should I be looking for a whole new mirror? If anyone has the parts diagram from Skoda, that would be super handy. Thanks in advance!

Apologies, only just seen this! Glad you got it sorted Yes, I enabled traffic sign recognition as mine has the front view camera, nav & colour maxidot. Not much else though as I already had Carista (which for simple things I still prefer).

Seconded. This is what I was going to say.

Right so did it all! It's fully working, no error codes. Wanted to share some tips / tricks and what went wrong so it might be useful to someone else. It goes without saying that this is a risky process - only start if you are comfortable with what you are doing, and can fix it (or afford to pay someone to fix it) if you break it. It's also worth noting, I tried to do this myself to save the ~£160 cost of unlocking it at a dealer, but I ended up having to pay £90 for ODBeleven in order to complete the job, so didn't really save that much money in the end. Note that my car is a MY2016 with MIB2 Amundsen. Remember, your car might be different. Step 1 - Research The first thing I did was read as much as I could, watched as many videos as I could, to make sure I knew as much as possible what I was doing before I started fiddling with anything. Step 2 - Update firmware Before doing anything else I wanted to update to the latest firmware for my unit - in this case I was running 0241 but the latest is 0253. Thanks to @varooom I got the latest firmware for my unit. I simply put this on an SD card, put it into the unit in the glovebox in place of the nav card, and ran the firmware update process on the MIB (press & hold MENU, then navigate the options - pretty straightforward). Step 3 - Unlock "Green Engineering Menu" / GEM I have a basic ELM327 OBDII-bluetooth adapter, and Carista - so I unlocked the green developer menu using that. In the Carista options, it said it was for "Discover Pro" only (which I think is VW's equivalent of the higher end Columbus) but it worked anyway. This video might help you understand how to do it, although it's based on OBDeleven, not Carista: Step 4 - Load the "MIB toolbox" This is pretty much the same as updating the firmware, but instead you need to load on this software https://github.com/olli991/mib-std2-pq-zr-toolbox/releases/tag/v1.2.1 . I encourage you to read the readme on https://github.com/olli991/mib-std2-pq-zr-toolbox - for my version of the firmware (02xx) it was necessary to copy some files around, before putting them on the SD card and doing the firmware update process. Check out this video: Step 5 - Unlock Smart Link Next, use the toolbox software to unlock Smart Link. Here's a video that explains it better than I could: Step 6 - Dispare At this point, from everything I read it was supposed to work. I had Smart Link in the menu, and it no longer told me to contact a dealer - but I couldn't get it to connect to my phone, no matter what I tried. A bit confused I had to do a lot of research. It turns out I had 2 new problems I needed to fix: 1) Turns out there is an extra step to code the stereo to activate Android Auto & Apple Carplay 2) An error code - now the car is running updated firmware, it throws an error code as the version doesn't match what it thinks it should be running I was trying to get away doing this without OBDeleven or VCDS, but turns out these last 2 steps are impossible without one of those tools. So I ended up buying the OBDeleven Pro Pack for circa £90 from their website (it's 30 cheaper than Amazon). Step 7 - Activate Android Auto & Apple Carplay This video explains what you have to do in VCDS or OBDeleven to enable these options: Step 8 - Remove the fault code logged in the stereo There was a permanent fault code logged in the stereo as the stereo was running a newer firmware and something didn't like it. Another video to help fix this: Step 9 - Android Auto And voila! It works! Hope this is helpful. I wouldn't have been able to do this without firmware from @varooom, the fantastic MIB toolbox or the excellent videos by mr-fix on Youtube.

I have decided to try and unlock Android Auto on my MY2016 MIB2 Amundsen. I believe I can follow these instructions: Before I do anything else, my first step is to update my firmware so I've just requested this here: I'm interested if anyone else has tried this, has any advice or gotchas. I will of course update here if I manage to be successful (or not).

Hi, Is there any update available for this? Also - I'm planning to see if I can unlock Android Auto - any one with any advice would be appreciated Thank you!

Damn it, too slow. If @Steve5312 doesn't have them, I will.

Not sure how far it is from you but I'd recommend Sunset in Derby

My 230 is the same. In fact my wife's old 1.2 tsi Rapid was the same too, so maybe it's a Volkswagen group petrol engine thing? Just sometimes feels like it's occasionally misfiring at idle. It's always done it and never been an issue.

Followed above advice and it's all sorted. New wiper motor from a breaker on eBay. Touched up the tiny bit of missing paint around the window frame frame. Vacuumed out all the shards of glass Autoglass came out to fit a new rear glass for the cost of the excess with no questions asked. Job's a good'un

Just thought I'd add a very very late update to this. This corruption of the boot image got progressively worse and more glitchy over the last 2 and a bit years until just lately the unit stopped working entirely and wouldn't boot whatsoever. So I sent it off to @Rustynuts for repair, who worked some magic and now we have a fully working Columbus AND a non-corrupted boot logo! 🎉

Hi all My mum has reversed her car into her garage door while it was partially open. The area of impact was the glass on the tailgate, so there is no damage to the external bodywork thankfully! The damage is as follows: * The rear heated screen is entirely smashed and needs replacing. * The wiper has been pushed in. It looks like the fixings on the wiper motor housing are designed to be sacrificial and these have been bent so will probably need a new wiper motor. * A very small (I mean small) amount of the metal on the tailgate around the window opening is bent. This is an area normally entirely hidden behind the glass. I'm 99% certain you could just bond a new piece of glass and not bother fixing this as it's not seriously bent and you would never see it. What's the best way to deal with this? Would it be covered under the glass cover on the policy or is it a proper "accident"? If she wanted to fix without making a claim who would we call? A windscreen place or a body shop?

My xtremes have similar. RIght now they still look good unless you really inspect them close. At some point in the future they'll get worse though. My current plan is to wait until I can't bear it any longer, then get them powder coated black (no diamond cut). An alternative option I'm considering: you can buy single wheels from a Skoda dealer via ebay, and about twice a year they do a 10% code off any purchase. 2 of my wheels are worse than the other two, so I'm tempted to buy two new diamond cut wheels when the offer is next on and swap them over. By the time I've sold the old ones it's not going to be that much more than a refurb and I can retain the diamond cut "look".

I had exactly the same issue but on our Yeti. Dealer wanted £480 for brand new unit. Bought a Magneti Marelli aftermarket one (new) for £280 instead. Genuine second hand units weren't any cheaper. We compared the new Magneti Marelli one to the ones on the car - both say "Automotive Lighting" (just like your pics above) on the side so are clearly made in the same factory. I looked it up and "Automotive Lighting" are owned by MM. See my original post:

Can't comment on the Octavia / 184 specifically so take this with a pinch of salt, BUT I have had several VAG diesels remapped before. The main benefit IMO with a remap is the improved driveability / throttle response. With a remap it's just so much more linear and instantaneous. Obviously it makes the car quicker too, but to be honest I've never given a toss about 0-60 times or **** wangling at the traffic light grand prix. Just how it "feels" to drive and whether it's fun to have blast down a quiet country road. On that front I've never regretted getting a map. Also ran mapped cars for many miles and not had any issues but obviously YMMV.

I wish I could say I was surprised. The way they do business is shocking. We had a really similar issue - cold starting problems on our old Skoda Rapid that turned out to be the fuel pump. To get it sorted ended up taking 4 visits to 2 different Skoda dealers over the space of 2 months. Along the way one dealer accused us of putting diesel in our car (when that was clearly untrue) and tried to charge us thousands for replacing the entire fuel system. We had to pay out of our own pocket to prove otherwise. All the while our nearly new car would intermittently not start in the morning when my wife needed to get to work. We ended up with 2 x Skoda assist breakdown reports, plus a report from an independent garage stating the issue was the fuel pump. Even despite this evidence, they were STILL refusing to fix it. They eventually begrudgingly fixed it but only because I was literally screaming at Skoda UK and the dealer. It was an absolute nightmare. The car itself has been absolutely perfect since, now belongs to my Dad. But I will never ever buy a new / nearly new Skoda with warranty again. Still a massive fan of the cars (we own two) but I buy 3-4 year old and maintain them using a trusted independent VAG specialist. Which is dumb on their part, because if the service and warranty was up to scratch we'd probably be in new ones on PCP / lease. Idiots with a short term view trying to save costs. If you fancy reading the full saga check this out:

In fact, presumably it will just look like a facelift car?!

Cheers - any pics of how it looked then?

Considering improving the stance of my RS 230 with lowering springs & possibly spacers. Obviously plenty of threads on here about what's best, but I haven't read anything about running spacers at the rear only. Wondering if anyone on here is running that kind of set up? If so, any pictures? Does it look odd? Right now it's really only the rear that bothers me & I'm not super keen on running spacers at the front because of the change in steering geometry.

Our FL Yeti Outdoor has ISOFIX. We have a Reacro Monza Nova 2 Seatfix and a Recaro Zero.1 for our little ones, and both seats fit absolutely fine. I've not noticed anything unusual about the ISOFIX points compared to other cars.

Well that's me told 😂 Thanks everyone

This was my first thought, but: I'm sure the usual water trickle from A/C is normally towards the front of the engine bay, isn't it? Pretty sure there's no A/C components in the region of the driver's footwell although happy to be proved wrong! Car had been sat for at least an hour and I'd have expected any A/C water to have evaporated