Everything posted by PetrolDave
- Dsg 1.0 tsi Octavia
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Dsg 1.0 tsi Octavia
Same here but with a 1.8TSI, just leave your left foot on the foot rest and use only your right foot on brake and accelerator. I live in an area where I have to do lots of hill starts and find the few seconds while the car holds the brakes on for me is plenty enough to not need to either select N (with stop/start the engine turns off so there's no concerns about clutch slip) or use the handbrake. I only use the handbrake (along with P on the selector) when parked on a slope. Very occasionally, mainly for smiles, I tap the selector back to D/S which switches the DSG to Sport mode that holds lower gears and increases the rpm point for upshifts. Then just tap the selector back to return the DSG to Drive mode.
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How to start a new categorie
How many people would read the sticky? Almost on a weekly basis people are posting in the wrong forum on this site for their car. I've reported many posts for being in the wrong forum so admins can move them to the correct forum so they get advice from owners of the some model. I don't see how a 4.5 forum or sub-forum will help this situation?
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Front wipers and washer have stopped working
I would trace the fuses controlling the other open circuits first - just maybe, the wiper control module is powered by one of the same fuse(s)? Don't condemn the module until you know the fuses and wiring are OK.
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2019 Octavia RS245 throwing many errors
If the vehicle has AFS and/or auto high beam those systems also require vehicle speed to know when to enable/disable. As previously said I had ALL those faults when it was a wheel speed sensor, so I am as near to 100% certain as it is possible to be that this is also the problem for @SimonBest84
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Timing belt and water pump kit
He needs to check again, the 1.5 is an EA211 engine type where the water pump is on the opposite end of the engine to the timing belt.
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2019 Octavia RS245 throwing many errors
All of those systems rely on knowing vehicle speed. I had exactly the same list of faults when the right rear wheel speed sensor failed on my previous 2015 Octavia. So I have to disagree and say that in my opinion and experience the problem is a failed wheel speed sensor.
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Latest Satnav maps
MIB1 was fitted in production until April 2015, so a February 2015 will be a MIB1.
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Adaptive cruise control
I've had "normal" cruise control on all my cars since 1999 and liked using it when I could, which with our increasingly crowded roads became less and less frequently, otherwise I had to keep turning it on and off and resetting the set speed. So when I got my first Octavia 3 in 2016 which had ACC I loved the ability to safely use it much more frequently as it really de-stressed long drives as it adapted to the speed of the vehicles in front. I agree with @NamePlate that I now wouldn't get a car without ACC.
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Timing chain change at 100k miles?
@Evolution13 Since KPMONKEY has a TSI there is a chain (all EA888 1.8 & 2.0 TSIs have a timing chain) so I'm puzzled why you say there isn't a chain?
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Timing chain change at 100k miles?
VRS TSI is a chain, VRS TDI is a belt.
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Head unit and touchscreen
It depends on your definition of "too much hassle" from a MIB1 Bolero. Do you have Canton? @pab567 can advise.
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Head unit and touchscreen
@pab567 Is there a fuse on the rear of the MIB glovebox units? There has been a fuse on the previous generations I have dealt with (RNS-E, etc.).
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Head unit and touchscreen
Did he check to see if there is a fuse on the rear of the glovebox unit?
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Rear Seat Release Mechanism Issue
I've got that problem on the left rear seat, on investigating the outer of the bowden cable is no longer clamped in the seat back so I need to work out a way to reclamp it while working in the small space available through the opening in the seat cloth.
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Amundsen MIB2 Firmware Update
I suggest you two take this discussion offline, it doesn't help those less skilled than yourselves to read this debate.
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Tappety noise from belt area of engine
A 2015 Octavia won't have a clutch mechanism on the AC pump, it's a variable displacement pump.
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"Christmas Lights" OBD11 OCA
The language of this forum is English, please post only in English
- Amundsen MIB1 Firmware update finally completed - MSTD_EU_SK_P6230 MU0490
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Has my car been updated?
Skoda don't publish release notes so there's no official way of knowing what new features and bug fixes are included in any release.
- GPS losing lock
- Window Regulator
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Cracked Headlight Casing
If the headlamps are that fragile then they haven't been designed to meet the conditions in the real world such as potholes and speed bumps.
- OBD Fault Code Reader
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DAB radio cuts out when switching on rear screen heater.
Has it always done this? On older models there was an isolator in the feed to the rear window heating elements which were also used as one of the radio aerials, this was a known point of failure causing this sort of loss of radio when the rear window heater was on. Does anyone have wiring diagrams for the Octavia 4 and can confirm whether this is also the case?