PetrolDave

£2500 is an absolute rip-off for a cambelt and water pump replacement - search on here and you will see MUCH lower prices paid by other owners of diesels. If your son REALLY has to go to these rip-off merchants then this should be the one and only time they get his business.

He needs to find another garage! Not only don't they know that petrols have a chain not a belt, but £2500 for a belt replacement is outrageous!

Depends if @Biggles33 has a petrol or diesel VRS (he doesn't say) - petrols have a timing chain but diesels have a timing belt.

All Audi's (S3, A4, S4, RS4) and Skoda's (Fabia, Octavia) I've owned have had the low fluid warning including those without Xenon headlamps?

I hope it's strong enough to withstand being run over by lorries such as bin lorries?

@NJD91 is it a late Octavia 2 or an early Octavia 3?

Has this been reported to Ross-Tech, and if so has it been confirmed that this is a VCDS HEX-CAN problem? If it is indeed caused by this method then surely Ross-Tech are the people to ask for help as their support is excellent?

VCDS keeps a copy of all changes in two files in C:\Ross-Tech\VCDS\Debug called CodingLog.csv and AdpLog.csv which you can open with Notepad.

The comment about the water pump being in the same area is only true for some of the engines fitted to the Octavia 3 - it is NOT true for the EA211 1.0, 1.2, 1.4 and 1.5 petrol engines where the water pump is on the other end of the engine!

There isn't a "one size fits all" answer as it depends on driving style, environment, etc. Which is why VAG as a whole advise a time/mileage after which it should be regularly inspected.

It's not that the parts are being made better it's that Skoda UK were out of step with the rest of the VAG empire when they were saying 5 years. It seems they were forced to get back in line when the cambelt replacement costs on the ACT versions were so much higher than the non-ACT versions.

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Sometimes on the MQB platform, which includes the Octavia 3, this process needs to be repeated up to 5 times to reset the one touch.

Was it made with 25.3 as requested? The header wasn't posted and I'm no expert at spotted the output of hacked versions of VCDS so it's not clear to me.

Either 2 failed modules or a fuse/wiring problem?

That's the thing with OBDeleven apps - they do lots of other stuff "under the hood", sometimes, as here, it's not a problem but other times (especially where Skoda have changed the firmware in a module) it has unexpected and unwanted side effects. This is why some advise to not use the scripts but do everything manually.

Are you 100% sure that the VCDS is genuine? 12.12.3.0 is 13 years old which is very strange as updates to VCDS are free. Did the VCDS cable come with software on a CD? If so then that's a very good clue that what you have is a pirated clone.

If the sensors are monitored for open or closed circuit (I don't know if they are just raising it as a possible issue) then this would cause fault codes to be stored.

If you are a skilled professional you have to work where the jobs are, when I headed a department of 60 professional telecoms engineers in Surrey over 50% of them had moved from north of Birmingham because there were no jobs in that profession in places other than the South such as the Thames Valley and Cambridge. They had to adapt their location to meet their employment needs not vice versa.

When still working I looked into commuting by bus instead of driving. The problem was that bus routes were all radial from the town centres so to get to work meant 3 buses taking nearly 2 hours (because of poor connections) and 3 bus fares. Driving took 20 minutes most days (more when there was an accident on the motorway) and fuel cost of less than 20%. But it was 4 hours per day instead of 40 minutes per day that was the deciding factor!

It's a real drawback that the price we pay for electricity is linked to the world price for natural gas, it seems without good reason as so little of our electricity is produced by burning gas (at the moment according to grid.iamkate.com it's 26.7%). Then when you take into account the upfront costs of switching from a gas boiler to a heat pump (even allowing for the very mean grants available) it's not something that many homeowners can afford to do. If there really is a climate emergency then there need to be MUCH better grants for the majority to install heat pumps, solar cells, battery storage, etc. Until that happens I for one will have to stick with my gas combi boiler and 100% usage of grid electricity.

I meant resolution, but thanks for the clarification.

MIB1 screens have a different screen refresh rate to MIB2 screens and glovebox units - so using a MIB1 screen with a MIB2 glovebox unit doesn't work.

They're both VWs, I don't think the screen won't fit an Octavia as the shape/size is different.