PetrolDave

Yes, depending on year of registration TPMS was made mandatory. The TPMS on the Octavia 3 uses the ABS wheel speed sensors, not wheel pressure sensors. What is the code telling you?

I think the exact opposite - push forwards to downshift allows the momentum when braking to assist you changing down gears, and pulling backwards to upshift means acceleration works with up when changing up gears. My Toyota Aygo worked this way, and I wish my Octavia 3 DSG did also.

Two factors here: 1) Cars without start/stop generally don't have any battery management 2) For reasons known only to themselves VAG have two different implementations of battery management - one as a subset of the CAN Gateway at address 19, and one as a separate module at address 61. In every case I have seen an Octavia 3 that has start/stop has the subset of module 19 as the battery management implementation.

AliExpress no, I don't use AliExpress. I use a CPlay2Air which is only for CarPlay, can't advise on an adapter for Android Auto as I use an iPhone.

None of the infotainment systems in the Mk3 Octavia have a wireless option for AA or CarPlay, you need to use a third party wireless adapter plugged into the USB socket.

Neither, Skoda UK used to say 5 years but have recently fallen into line with the rest of the world and now only recommend inspections at an interval I can't remember. @Rooted always has the correct information!

Some soundbars also have a line in connection which you can connect to a headphone output from a TV.

IIRC car manufacturers are required to make key components (whatever that means) for 10 years after the end of production - how critical that is depends entirely on the meaning of "key components". BTW Skoda stop updating sat nav maps only 5 years after the particular infotainment system is no longer used in production, so clearly they don't regard being able to find your destination as critical!

Here's an extract from the VCDS scan of my 2016 L&K showing the RLHS as a subset of 09.

That's my thoughts too... earlier versions of the shark fins were notorious for letting in water and stopping working as the GPS amplifier in the base of the antenna became waterlogged.

I've never seen a reverse camera with an optical MOST connection???

I heard it's to make the noisier diesel engines quiet enough to pass the drive-by noise test that's part of Type Approval, so not needded for the petrol engines.

Neither my previous 2015 1.4TSI nor my current 2016 1.8TSI had the bonnet insulation - I have also been told that it's only fitted by the factory on diesel models. That said I purchased the bonnet insulation and fittings for both and fitted them myself - took me less than 15 minutes.

Does the vehicle location move when the car is moving? If not then I suspect that there is a problem with the GPS antenna (in the roof mounted shark fin) or the wiring to it.

Sadly that's not the first time this has been reported on here, and I very much doubt it will be the last. PDI checks do not seem to be carried out throughly enough by every dealer on every car, maybe time saving?

A typical dealer response, meaning they don't want to do it - as for invalidating the manufacturer's warranty, that's something that a bull drops onto a field 🤥

On that we agree.

So the front of OPs car is parked in the carriageway - hence my suggestion that he declare parking on the road (even if it's a private road it's still likely to be a road in the eyes of an insurer).

What's the "white" line of border stones shown near your house? That to me suggests an intended separator between private space and public space?

Not just older properties, the deeds for my 2022 build property show my boundary in the middle of the (soon to be adopted) road in front.

Where is your car parked when you're doing this, and how long did you wait after the factory reset? The signal from the satellites is very weak, so you need a 360 degree reasonably clear sky view to see as many satellites as possible. In addition after a factory reset the GPS needs to see at least 4 satellites with a strong enough signal to get any fix at all, and that fix will be very coarse until more satellites come into view which can take quite some time depending on how clear the sky view is (some satellites can appear very low to the horizon and be easily obscured).

Theft from drives likelihood is IMHO postcode dependent - I've lived in south London, Surrey, Norfolk, Hampshire, Devon and Wiltshire and never has a car been stolen from the drive of any property close by in any of those places. Which I guess is a contributor to the insurers logic that damage in a garage is more likely than theft from the drive?

As are all boundaries based on such maps, the thickness of the boundary line itself is equivalent to several feet (metres). A former colleague who lived in rural Norfolk had a dispute with the local council who claimed that his front wall (which had been there since the house was built in the 1850's) was too close to the road (a very quiet rural back road to nowhere) and it ended up with them taking legal action and forcing him to pay for them to demolish the wall. We took him to the council buildings (in an Audi stretched limousine we were working on at the time) in Norwich to pay, with the cheque attached to a brick from the now demolished wall!

@Winston_Woof your superimposed photo shows part of the car outside of the green area, so I would play safe and say parked on the road.

Cars have been damaged when in a garage by heavy things falling on them requiring expensive repairs, so many insurers have assessed that the risk when parked on the drive is lower than the risk when parked in a garage.