PetrolDave

I always download the PDF files and save them to a NAS drive, then I've got them whenever I need them.

They used to be accessible in the MySkoda app, but for some unknown reason they have been removed from the updated merged MySkoda app - several of us have open "discussions" ongoing with Skoda about this silly omission.

I just had a reply from Skoda UK Customer Support telling me that it takes 24-48 hours fro the service history to be update, so I had to REMID them that the service was done on 2nd September - which is a whole lot more than 24-48 hours ago.

More likely something isn't turning off when it should - which usually suggests a CAN bus issue, I think you need to get a proper fault scan done and post it here.

I agree had this happen to me soon after we got out Octavia and found that I had pressed the softkey on the map to fix the map display.

Did the previous driver use a turntable to help them get onto the seat and then turn into the driving position? That could put unusual load/stress onto the seat base.

I said 50 miles from a LARGE town e.g. Exeter, Taunton, etc.

Yes, I did - fingers didn't keep up with brain!

Even when connected to the car with Android Auto or CarPlaythe phone uses it's own GPS. I found that I left the phone in my pocket the GPS was very poor so now I get the phone out of my pocket and put it in the centre console.

In large conurbations possibly, but out in rural areas where the nearest small town can be many miles away and there is no rural bus service then personal mobility is still going to be the norm. Where I live we have no takeaway delivery services (Deliveroo, Uber Eats, et al), the nearest medium/large supermarket is at least 15 miles away and getting a delivery slot is a lottery, the nearest DIY stores carry such a limited stock that you have to drive the to nearest large town nearly 50 miles away for even some basic home maintenance items - you get the picture?

I think one reason is the way that with DSG it can stop the engine while the car is still slowly moving (at least that happens on the Octavia III) which leaves you with power steering.

That WAS true until 2018/2019 models when VAG deleted the software that looked at that voltage value (and also deleted the other hack that changed a temperature threshold). So the simple fact is you CANNOT disable start/stop with software tweaks anymore, the only methods are to disconnect the battery current monitor from the sense wire on the battery negative or (where the start/stop switch is a physical switch) by adding a third party memory module.

2007 Audi RS4 4.2L V8 - engine code BNS

That can't happen with stop/start as VAG have removed the ability to disable it from their firmware - because of emissions reasons and Dieselgate means they can't be seen to be allowing anything that will increase emissions.

My previous car came from Audi with an oil temperature related rpm limiter - the OE setting was 40 Celsius before the 4000rpm limiter was lifted to the 'normal' rpm limit of 8250rpm but several tuners changed the setting to 70 Celsius.

Definitely either front door, can't say I've ever looked to see if the rear doors turn on the front light?

You keep drip feeding us new information! That certainly sounds like the switch contacts in the roof light are 'iffy'.

The interior bulbs aren't monitored so getting CANBUS ones isn't necessary.

Three stalks isn't nonsense - if there are 3 stalks then the Octavia has cruise control, check the type of stalk to see if has ACC (has a distance adjuster on the top). I think it's pretty clear you have either been ripped off, or more likely yet another dealer with appalling car knowledge thought the car had ACC when it doesn't. ACC requires a FeC (Feature enabling Code) so the only way to retrofit it is if Skoda do an official retrofit kit - and AFAIK they don't.

You can't, and why would you want to? On UK roads adaptive cruise control is so much more useful than normal cruise control - having gone from a car with normal to a car with adaptive I would never go back.

The switch is built in to the door lock, it's not a separate switch like in the old days.

It would have been a good idea to sort out all the software bugs in the ID.3 first - there was a big patch this month and another possibly even bigger one scheduled for February. Personally I wouldn't consider ANY car with as many software issues as the ID.3 has at the moment - it makes the problems with the Golf 8 and the Octavia IV look very minor.

It's a requirement to get Type Approval for speedos to read between 0% and 10% over, typically most manufacturers calibrate them to read 5% over to allow for tyre wear and different wheel/tyre sizes without having to recalibrate.

Always? If always then the timer has kicked in to turn the lights off to prevent battery drain - so the problem is with the door open switch in the drivers door.

Sounds like the battery management system thinks the battery is in a poor state of charge?