PetrolDave

Just collected my Octavia 1.8 L&K hatch, replacement for the1.4 Elegance estate that my ex got (and AFAIK has now sold). Really enjoyed the drive home, it my first DSG (7 speed) shame there are no steering wheel paddles but beggers can't be choosers! Now to start doing many of the tweaks I had previously done.

Sounds like it's not seeing the Infotainment CAN connection - all those things send messages over that. Time to check the connections at the back of the main infotainment unit, and if it's not that get a fault code scan done.

it's visible at the bottom of the windscreen.

Summer shower, slight dip on the A14 Newmarket bypass with blocked drains, water across all 3 lanes. Saw the car in front panic brake and go into a tank slapper only narrowly missing the artic in the next lane, I just lifted completely off the gas and went straight though the puddle with no drama before braking to avoid the panic stricken driver in front.

Gave that one a miss and went for this one instead which I pick up on Saturday. 2016 (16 reg) 1.8 TSI Laurin & Klement DSG 5dr

Price definitely matters, but trade-in for the Aygo is good too, had two quotes of over £13,000 for the Aygo so I'd actually get a tiny bit of cash!

When I collected my Octavia the tool was in the front centre armrest!

Skoda Octavia 1.8L Laurin & Klement TSI Previously had a 15 plate 2015 1.4TSI Elegance estate but that went to ex as part of divorce settlement, now looking for something to get me back into Skoda ownership instead of my Toyota Aygo x-clusive.

That's not true with Google maps - when at home on your WiFi you can download offline copies of map areas onto the phone. Then when driving the only data usage is for traffic information as the map data is on the phone. I have Google map data for the southern half of England on my iPhone which means I never have to use mobile data for maps in the areas I drive in - and always have maps even in "not spots".

Blame Dieselgate for that, cars have to startup in the mode used for the WLTP emissions testing now, which means Normal mode.

Has the BCM been correctly coded and, even more important, have the (several hundred) adaptation channels been set correctly?

Side is always taken as viewed from sitting inside the car and looking forward, so drivers side UK is right.

Note that if your 2015 Octavia has a MIB1 sat nav the latest maps available will be 2020 as new maps are only available for 5 years after last production date, which for the MIB1 systems was mid 2015.

Related issue showing how GPS can jump between right and wrong speed limits - I have a Road Angel Pure speed camera warning device which until a SW update about a year ago always showed the correct speed limits when on major roads, but since the SW update frequently jumps to the speed limit of a parallel or even crossing road so I'll be doing 68mph on a 70mph road and it will suddenly tell me the speed limit is 30mph and then 50 yards later revert to the correct 70mph limit. I've learnt to ignore this annoying SW created false alert, BTW Road Angel have not even responded to me reporting it as a bug. This shows how the explanation that @KenONeillhas suggested is not only entirely plausible, but is actually present in other GPS devices.

A gentleman and a legend who inspired so many of us to own a Mini (a real one, not this BMW monstrosity). RIP Paddy

On the EA211 (1.4 & 1.5) the water pump has never been driven by the cambelt, it simply can't be as the water pump is on the other end of the engine! The reasons the water pump is changed at the same time as the cambelt on other engines, such as the 2.0, is that it gets disturbed during the cambelt change and there was a problem in earlier engines so it made sense to do a preventative change.

I refused it on the basis of "if it ain't broke don't fix it"!

Service plus cambelt change (refused the water pump change as it's on the other end of the engine on the EA211 and doesn't need changing at the same time) was £568 in 2020 at Marshalls in Barnstaple.

There has been much discussion (and many opinions) on this topic. Skoda UK recommend a cambelt change after 5 years but other importers recommend longer intervals or even no planned change since VW originally said that the cambelt on the EA211 was "lifetime". So I guess it all depends on your attitude to risk, this is an interference engine so if the cambelt snaps or jumps valves will hit pistons and a big bill will result. I'm risk averse so I bit the bullet and had the cambelt changed at the 5 year service on my previous Octavia 1.4TSI.

The difference is that you can do them from an app, hopefully using someting like IFTTT, to adjust the TRV settings automatically (based on time, date, who's at home, etc.) rather than having to walk round to every radiator and adjust them manually.

Older deliveries have older hardware and not all have had the latest firmware updates - which seem to be what has fixed the problem for most owners of older cars, and seems to no longer be a problem on the most recent deliveries? As has been said often here, Skoda started deliveries while the firmware was still not properly tested (especially in RHD countries) - but VW did the same with the Golf 8 too, so it's a wider VAG problem.

Sounds like the gear linkage needs adjusting.

Surround or adapter you're both talking about the same thing, just using different words.

I'm in a similar situation, most of my drives are less than 50 miles per day but I regularly, about once a month, need to make a 200 mile cross country trip where currently I only pass one EV charging station and that's quite near to home. So a pure EV with a GUARANTEED in all weather conditions 200 mile range would require me to unnecessarily lug around a heavy battery 30 days out of 31, which would mean a range extender EV with an electric range of 70-100 miles would be environmentally better.

Check the markings on the headlights, if they are halogen bulbs then that will confirm they are only Type Approved for halogen bulbs, that means that fitting with HID or LED bulbs will be an MOT fail (as well as being of questionable legality). The headlamp bulbs will most likely be an H7 for main beam and an H15 dual filament for dipped beam and DRL - that's what they were on my 2015 15 plate Octavia 3. I suggest looking at brighter, but shorter life, halogen bulbs such as Osram Night Breaker or similar. The vast majority (all?) exterior bulbs are monitored so replacing any of them with LEDs will generate a bulb failure warning, but these can be removed by changing the appropriate adaptation channel in the BCM to tell it that the bulb type is LED.