PetrolDave

You ned to do an Auto-Scan when you get your VCDS cable to see the fault codes - which will tell you which sensor(s) are causing the problem.

GPS will confirm the location of the camera in case the other party denies they were at that location.

That's the point, most people won't use the manual level control (I would bet that most don't even know what that control does...) so with bright Xenon lights the requirement for auto-levelling is an acknowledgement that having the levelling done automatically is necessary because most drivers won't do it.

Sounds like a ROI vs. UK spec difference as our 2015 Elegance does have a drive mode button.

I ordered my previous car (an Audi RS4) with the auto-recirc option but found it very often didn't work when we needed it - the sensor only detects unburnt hydrocarbons (i.e. unburnt fuel) not diesel smoke, fumes from road resurfacing, etc. So while the auto-recirc is better than nothing (it was a cheap option) I found over the 10 years I owned it that I would use the manual recirc button very often - this I believe shows that having easy & simple access to the recirc button is something that I, and many others I suspect, regard as essential - something which the multiple buttons presses required on the Octavia IV fails to provide. IMHO it's not the touch screen that's the problem it's that the recirc button is not on the top level and ALWAYS accessible.

Do you have the A5 camera or the 20 camera? A5 = yes, 20 = no

The LEDs certainly won't have an isolating transformer built-in, so that means they will almost certainly have 1 conductor straight through and the other through a voltage reducing circuitry (possibly switched mode for efficiency). The LEDs are most likely wired in series rather than parallel (again for efficiency) so one side of one of the LEDs is almost certainly going to be directly connected to one of the incoming terminals. It would be interesting to use a DVM to do a resistance check...

In the UK the distinction between line & neutral is well observed and all wiring is supposed to be checked to ensure they are not swapped over. Indeed the standardised European wiring colours were specifically designed so that even a red/green colour blind person could tell the difference between line & neutral. In the US, where I have relatives, they often have counterpoise where both are "live" but 180 degrees out of phase - both 55V from ground but with 110V between them.

Corrected that for you 😃

But is that a couple of volts about the neutral potential or a couple of volts below the line potential? One is 2V above ground and the other is 228V above ground...

Normal cruise control on the Mk3 was also on the top of the indicator stalk, but adaptive cruise control was a separate stalk.

I use a mixture of the 5E0 and 5L0 Skoda SD cards with my MIB1 Amundsen - both work fine. What I do is download the zip file onto my PC hard disk and unzip it there - that results in a folder called "markets" and a file called "DBinfo.txt", you just format the SD card (or delete all the files from it but format is quicker) and copy the folder AND the file to the SD card. If you've got a folder called "Maps" then I suspect you have downloaded the wrong map file for your MIB1 Amundsen.

See this thread on Briskoda My Favourite Oh Sht Moment

I too always keep the button depressed when raising the handbrake.

Sounds to me like an over zealous implementation of the need to get permission of all those in view when using a CCTV type camera Guidance on the use of domestic CCTV

I would add that in the 40+ years I've owned my own cars (which have all been manual not auto, and on counting back is more than15 different cars) the ONLY car where I have ever had the handbrake release by itself is my current Octavia. BTW it fully released, the handbrake was down, so it wasn't the case of hot discs cooling and the pads gripping less. Based on that experience, and those of some others here, it does seem that the Octavia handbrake system is less effective than most cars.

There are no hidden files. You either need a genuine Skoda SD card, or buy one from @Rustynuts on here

Same here - Firefox on all our desktops for many years. On mobiles I just stick with Safari but have Chrome installed for "if and when" but never had to use it.

I was taught by BSM in 1975 in Guildford (which has quite a lot of steep hills) and was always taught to leave the car in neutral and apply the handbrake when parked.

As a Chartered Electrical Engineer since 1988 I have to say that any claim that you can make a live connection/disconnection without generating a spark is probably made by someone who also sells snake oil.

I spent several years working on a system that electronically cancelled boom caused by 4 cylinder engines - at first it was really surprising how many people just don't hear the boom, but it seems that some people just aren't sensitive to those type of low frequency sounds.

When jump starting it's always advisable to connect the +ve leads first and to the battery terminals, then the -ve leads to somewhere on the body or engine away from the battery so if there are any sparks they will be away from any hydrogen produced by an unsealed battery.

When you put the new card in it takes a while to read and check the data on it is maps and is OK. There's nowhere for it to be downloaded to in the Amundsen, the maps are read directly from the SD card so it must be left in the slot all the time.

I've got 3 Skoda SD cards (all bought off eBay for a fraction of the official price) and use them in rotation - works like a charm.

Had the handbrake come off once, in the Aldi car park in Bideford - hasn't happened again since.