PetrolDave

As someone has already said the model year (MY) changes after the summer factory shutdown, and is not the same thing as calendar year. So: MY22 cars are built from approx August 21 to July 22 MY23 cars are built from approx August 22 to July 23 MY24 cars are built from approx August 23 to July 24 - which is why MY24 facelift(?) cars will be available in 2023 Of course cars unfinished due to missing parts can leave the factory at the same time as cars from the next MY - confusing?

Worth pointing out that on the 1.4TSI and 1.5TSi the water pump doees NOT need changing when the timing belt is changed - it's on the other end of those engines to the timing belt and in the 6 years I've been active on briskoda and owning Octavias I can only recall one member reporting water pump failure of those engines.

@BugginbobWhich part of Devon are you in? I ask because I had problems having sensible conversations with Marshalls Barnstaple when I let them service my previous 1.4TSI.

Not only manufacturing but also getting Type Approval, with so many options and variants the cost of Type Approval soon mounts up. This is why car companies like Kia have always offered a limited number of specs and options.

I bought one of them last month (which I'm loving - the extra performance over the 1.4TSI Elegance I used to have is welcome as is the DSG), at the time there was another one on Cazoo?

Totally agree - I doubt there's a single household in the country(ies) that actually pays the 'typical' amount, so until we know the costs/kWh and the standing charges it's impossible to know what this new 'cap' will actually mean for us individually.

Exactly that, for many people it's only about me, me and me

I agree, the trouble is that there are so many impatient drivers who will just follow the vehicle in front and hope they can get past the parked vehicles too.

Um... you?

And is very dependent on where you charge (home, paid public, free public) and when at home whether you are lucky enough to be on a tariff that offers cheaper overnight unit rates. So those costs will be very personal and may be not be relevant to another owner whose charging pattern and home tariff is very different.

I've just bought the under bonnet insulation for an Octavia 3 from eBay, that's a flat sheet but arrived as a roll via Evri and on unrolling went perfectly flat again.

There are several 2FA apps available to download on the Google Store and Apple Store you need to know which one OBD11 expects you to use.

The range indicator can produce spectacularly silly results too. The range is based on the consumption over the last few miles, I as told 20 when I asked. So if you go from an urban commute week and then fill up before a motorway or dual carriageway drive then the range will increase as you drive dur to the lower fuel consumption on those roads. I saw this happen many times on my RS4, the most ridiculous was when I started with a range of 250 miles (from a 70 litre tank!) drove 100 miles and was then told I had a range of 300 miles! It all depends on the shape of the tank, if the tank is basically a rectangular box then the gauge will be more linear, but most tanks are shaped to fit around the suspension, etc. so are very far from being a simple rectangular shape.

Are there maps for India available for the MIB3? If not then that would explain why sat nav is not available. Are there any Octavia 4 (or any MIB3 equipped cars) in India with the sat nav working?

Someone should tell the NHS that, two examples in my own family: - my older brother has cataracts in both eyes but the NHS refuse to operate to cure them as "they're not bad enough". - my uncle had one cataract operation done in March 2022 and was told to expect the other eye to be done "within 3 months". It's now 6 months later and there's no sign of his local hospital calling him in for the other cataract operation.

This is an important factor that nobody has yet commented on. According to 1 ophthalmologist I have the very beginning signs of a cataract in one eye, and it's been very clear that I notice oncoming headlights slightly more than I used to even when properly dipped. So it's entirely possible that even with Matrix headlights working properly an oncoming driver will perceive them as glaring.

I've had this on every car I've owned over the last 40+ years - fuel gauges are not linear and the mileage to 'first movement from full' is usually large. On both my Octavia 3's it's been 80 miles before the gauge moves, and on my previous Audi RS4 it was over 100 miles - even on my previous Toyota Aygo it was 70 miles.

So the new unit is coded/configured for Canton, does your Octavia have Canton?

Terraclean can only offer at the very best only a short term improvement, so it's not value for money IMHO. Get a scan done with a VAG specific fault code reader (e.g. VCDS, OBDEleven, etc.) as generic devices often miss many faults and usually give limited information.

The climate control uses servo motor controlled flaps for air temperature and distribution, these are all under the dash. These can get stuck due to problems with either the gear mechanism (which is what I had happen) or the actual flap. The one you need to look at is the one that controls the amount of airflow to the front vents. You'll probably need a section of the repair manual to locate exactly where that is. BTW VCDS can run an output test which tries to exercise all the climate control motors and is worth running even if only to hear where the noise comes from when it tries to exercise this flap.

You will have to do a lot of rewiring too, to move the speakers from the amp to the main unit.

Do you have Canton, and do you have a MIB1 unit currently (MIB2 was introduced during 2015 so an early 2015 - like my previous Octavia - will have a MIB1 but later builds will have a MIB2)? If you have a MIB1 then IIRC you will also need a new Canton amp.

I first heard this back in 2002 when I was given an A2 loan car while my S3 was in for service - I commented that it sounded like a diesel and learnt that it was typical of a direct injection petrol system so any FSI, TFSI, etc.

What matters for drag is CdA i.e. Cd multiplied by effective frontal area - so a low profile car and an SUV might both have the same Cd but the SUV will almost certainly have a larger effective frontal area and hence less range for the same battery capacity.

Android Auto in wireless form does an initial connect via Bluetooth but then switches to WiFi - the data transfer rate required is too high for Bluetooth.