PetrolDave

I only use the handbrake when stopped/parked on a steep hill - as backup insurance for the park lock. The only times I use P while on a journey are when a stop is going to be a long one (so I don't have to sit on the brake pedal and annoy the car behind) or when I'm stopped on a steep hill (when I also use the handbrake as mentioned above) - a good example is when sitting on the Leap Gate road at the traffic lights at West Ashton on the A350 for those who know the area. I always move the selector swiftly from D to P, there's no need to move slowly.

I thought the 1.8 and 2.0 FSI engines in the Octavia have a 5th injection in the inlet manifold to avoid this issue? My previous car was a direct injection 4.2V8 with some owners complaining of power loss due to carbon buildup, but on proper investigation the power loss was due to vacuum leaks in the variable inlet flap system. So my experience is that power loss due to carbon buildup is greatly overstated.

Sadly that means currently a BEV is not for the many millions of people who live in cities and have to park on the road - often nowhere near their own house, so any charging point they can access will be a public one.

VCDS 23.11 won't work with generic cables, only VCDS-Lite works with generic cables. To work with VCDS you need a genuine VCDS cable (NOT a clone if you want support).

My stepson said yesterday that the insurance on his Tesla Model S is just over £1500 - he has a clean driving licence held for over 20 years and lives in rural Hampshire so it seems a ridiculous amount.

Price per kWh going down, but standing charge price going up.

This is something I've pointed out several times on here, many owners seem to think that updating the visible infotainment software updates the whole car - it does not! So quoting the infotainment software version when discussing many other problems e.g engine or ABS is irrelevant.

VAG/Skoda don't update maps for more than 5 years after the infotainment system stopped being used in production. A 2014 Scout will have a MIB1 Amundsen which was last used in production in mid 2015, hence the newest maps are 2020/2021.

Not VAG but... when I had the timing belt replaced on a Vauxhall 1.6 16V engine the dealer didn't replace the tensioner. One week later the tensioner failed causing the timing to massively change and 12 valves hit the pistons requiring a new head, 16 new valves and 4 new pistons - glad I had taken out an extended Vauxhall warranty.

Ross-Tech currently in negotiations with VW about adding SFD unlocking to VCDS.

That open circuit voltage measurement tells you nothing about the internal resistance of the battery, the only meaningful test is a load test.

How does the car's WiFi get coverage? - using the terrestrial mobile network (not satellite), so if there's no or poor mobile coverage then that's unlikely to be any better.

Off Topic warning Wasn't much help to those people in the Peak District who had no power for over 24 hours after a storm, and had to drive several miles to get mobile coverage. With new builds not having any copper feed, only fibre, there are an increasing number of people reliant on often patchy mobile coverage to make emergency calls - be tragic but interesting when the media get hold of a story about someone dying because they couldn't make a 999 call following a power cut...

Which includes the Mk3 Octavia L&K TSI.

No is the simple answer. Variable servicing interval is reduced from the maximum on driving style, not on oil condition which there is no sensor to measure.

The Amundsen sat nav on my Mk3 Octavia shows the altitude - all be it incorrectly as Skoda couldn't be bothered to convert metres to feet correctly and simply multiplied by 3!

This highlights the problems of charging infrastructure capacity not keeping up with demand, and high costs per kWh of public rapid (whatever the correct term is) charging points. For most ICE drivers to consider the change to EV the speed and ease of "refilling" needs to be (near) identical.

In the 25 years I've owned various VAG vehicles (from a 1.4TSI to a 4.2FSI) I've noticed a pattern of zero or low oil usage up to 10,000 miles after a service, and up to 1 litre per 5,000 miles after that. Which is a great argument for servicing intervals no greater than 10,000 miles despite what flexible servicing may say.

There's a microswitch builtin to the boot lock which tells the boot is open and turns on the lights - sounds like either the wiring to it is faulty, or microswitch is faulty or has gone out of adjustment.

Sounds like an intermittent connection between the satellite antenna and the head unit.

One, or more, of the wheel speed sensors has failed. Get a diagnostic scan done which will tell you which one.

Sounds like either there is a problem with the connections to the OBDII connector(could be power, ground or Diagnostic CAN), or the CAN Gateway has a problem. I think you need to get a wiring diagram and do some old fashioned wiring testing.

A dead short on the CAN bus at the diagnostic connector indicates a short on only the Diagnostic CAN, the CAN Gateway acts like a CAN equivalent of an EWthernet switch so a short on the Diagnostic CAN does not necessarliy mean there is a short on any of the other CAN buses in the vehicle (Powertrain CAN, Comfort CAN, Infotainment CAN, etc.)

As previous posts have mentioned, Skoda tune for the lowest emissions rating not for drivability. Drivability has never been the main concern of car manufacturers, 35 years ago when I worked at an automotive consultancy and engine management was relatively new client car manufacturers didn't want drivability just low fuel consumption - the only difference now is they want low emissions.

MY23 refers to cars made from approximately July 2022 (usually after a summer shutdown but not always) with a VIN year digit that indicates 23 as the model year.