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I would suggest not to worry, they are pretty good at looking after themselves. Years back people might have suggested to drive the car in 3 rd at constant revs to get the DPF hot enough to "regenerate it" but really the system will monitor it better than doing that and intervene when required. the first light is a warning When the car does an "Active" regeneration, it'll get the DFP to around 500C or more to burn off the soot accumulated. As the light has gone out again its happy for now. If you feel an active generation (revs increase to 1000rpm when idling, fans on and stinking of burning) all I would suggest would be to ensure it finishes fully by not turning off the engine and interrupting it. I get an "Active" generation routinely once per tank full or more depending on driving and do around 600 miles a month of mixed A roads and B roads, I just let it do its thing and don't worry about it. Service at the dealers should check for diagnostic fault codes stored, you could tell them warning light came on and you'd like to know if any faults have been registered in the DTC log.

Hi Totally agree with above comments on, if serviced well, 90k is not an issue for this engine with REGULAR maintenance. I would add that 15k per year is likely to be a good thing as its been used and not just done the school runs and shopping so the DPF will have been taking care of itself nicely with active regenerations. You're never going to know "how" it was driven by the previous owner but the 2.0TDI is a strong engine with lots of torque that makes it very easy to drive.

Are any of the posters here TDI's with any other mods such as mapped engines or Dsg remaps or are they all stock? I've the 150bhp 2.0 TDI and did find transition from a manual to the Dsg "challenging" and having to feather the throttle to the right position to get it in the right gear when approaching roundabouts/junctions. Mines got a bit clunky of late, so will be getting some vcds time in this week to try this. I'm still not sure I've really sussed out how to drive it as smoothly as it can be after two years of ownership, despite reading posts here and other forums.

Should be bright pink through the wall of the expansion tank, and your tank has Mit Silikat written on the side which is the evil tank that can deposit granules into the heater matrix and block it up. Check heat on drivers side vents, might be tricky as it 25C at the moment, 😃 if they feel cooler than the other side, its a new heater matrix to fix it.

Just a thought, are the static regens smelling like a regen with the fan on full tilt too. With warm temperatures the demand of the air con can increase rpm at times too. I have seen a picture of that sensor somewhere on the forum before where it had melted and that "extra pipe" was not connected to anything. I seem to remember from that thread it being just to measure a differential from atmospheric pressure. Those values look normal from my checks on my 2016 2.0 TDI with vcds. I'm at 71k and my oil ash mass is 25.6grams. soot mass calculated reaches about 25g to trigger a regen. Motorway runs is reputed to be unlikely to get exhaust hot enough for passive regen, I've seen VAgdpf screen shots in the thread sticky about "my car smells of burning" and temperatures get to 500c to burn off the soot. Trundling along at 70mph in 6th just ain't gonna get the temperatures up, https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/301020-my-new-diesel-smells-like-burning-rubber-andor-the-fan-stays-on-after-engine-is-turned-off/ One day I'll get round to logging a regen in vcds.

Agree Picture is not that clear but one will be rain sensor for auto wipers (if your wiper stalk has four teardrop icons then you have auto wipers) and the other would be auto lights. Auto wipers will operate at a variable rate depending on which position you put the top switch too on the stalk. I find the third one to be just right in all conditions.

My 2016 2.0 tdi is euro 6 emissions compliant and would go into all zones listed on the .Gov site. (£30 car tax too) Pulls like a train, with 150bhp and (I think) 340nm of torque which is spread over a longer rev range. You can stamp it in 6th and it will overtake and want more I don't feel that given your weekly longer distant journeys would give the dpf any issues, it should take care of itself and actively regenerate when it needed to. I do 500-600 miles a month of mixed A roads and B roads. Get 50mpg or more and it usually does an active regen at least once per tank full which is very normal.

If you click on the map links from @PetrolDave added, it will "show" you members of this forum that have VCDS diagnostic tool that might be able to help, just zoom in on the map near your location to find someone. It shows in the list of users someone in Hull. Then send them a private message to see if they might be able to help you by getting fault codes read from the car.

@jd29 I think you owe @langers2k some virtual beer tokens, but that aside good to see your efforts succeeded and got it all up and running again. Must be quite a relief to be able to reset your TPMS again too! Enjoy having VCDS, quite frankly it's the best diagnostic tool for any VW group enthusiast.

Quick web search as a suggestion (but I don't have Carplay) What got it working: With iPhone connected, went into the car menu and chose the CarPlay app, it immediately popped a balloon on my iPhone asking to Allow CarPlay.

Totally agree with @ahenners I'm interested in cars, not a petrol head, and certainly a" function, over form" type of person. Of all the cars I've owned my l Octavia estate has been nothing but a pleasure since I purchased in 2019. A few VCDS Tweaks made it all that better in subtle ways. It's just got bags of features that you just can't find elsewhere. My 2.0 TDI dsg eats miles driving for work, has a versatile, (variable boot floor) huge boot for all manner of jobs at work or at home. You can have a bit of fun with the torque it can deliver, or sedately trundle about if you feel like it. Not being a VRS it's not amazing to look at, but I'm inside it not outside 😃 Tech is just right on my 2016 SEL. I'm probably one of the very few on here that don't even mind the way the SATNAV is operated/performs you just need to RTFM....over and over for a while! I love the dash layout, I looked at much more expensive Passats before I took the plunge and they were just so bland.. Even the indicator tick makes me smile (but that probably because my wife's Citroen has the most irritating tick ever). Stick with and stick around on here, you won't regret it... we'll keep telling you not to leave

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On a slight side note in your quest to revive your multimedia, I would recommend that you create "controller maps" of the whole car before making any changes with VCDS even if you are confident to do so. This is a backup of all module codes and all adaptions that each control module contains. You might be able to reset the tyre pressure warning in basic settings of the ABS module, without a working infotainment screen @PetrolDave@langers2k might like to able to add to this suggestion? If you require any instructions on how controller maps are created please let us know and we will guide you. PS auto scans are automatically saved in the SCANS folder in the root folder of VCDS. I love this read me file in the folder that Ross Tech added, made me chuckle. "Files in this folder are automatically created, because we got tired of hearing, "Yes, I did an Auto-Scan, but I didn't save it." Regards.

I've done loads of driveway sessions on many cars, old and new, well maintained, not so well maintained and been hooked up on and off with each mod and never had any trouble with a low battery. (Laptops run out though, so have an inverter running on the cars I've coded). On my own Octavia MK3 downloading all the Controller Maps took a while and the central electrics had several thousand lines of code and it started fine after. Second @Gizmo for the CTek units they are excellent bits of kit, £65 for an MSX 5.0 just in case perhaps, and do a deep maintenance charge once or twice a year depending on car usage.

Hi using the forum "Search" facility is always recommended as a first. In the Octavia Guides section you will find this excellent write up.

Oh well, at least you know when the oil needs changing by 10k. It's stupid the ease with which the trip button can change the oil interval when it was set to variable. It should be locked out from altering that if on variable. If you want to pop down to Brighton I'll fix it for you to expand my vcds knowledge.

One thing i forgot to add, In the Controller Map application, you need to tick "adaptions" box before asking it to create the Admap. This outputs all the adaptions into the CSV file. As @langers2k mentions the Admap is a backup file of any changes you make to Adaptions. Do one before you make the changes.

Hi @langers2k might be able to add some further assistance on this, and i will be honest I have never done a reset myself with VCDS on a variable serviced car. From my understanding of your issue, you need to change the ESI adaption channel "Oil quality" adaption back to "Good Oil Quality" to get variable oil distance back but there may also be other adaptions that need to be changed to get the days right too. Control Module 17 will be "Instruments" open and look for Adaptions and put in the search box Oil, click on the drop down and it should find the channel in question. Attached you will find my Admap of my 2016 TDI before I had it put on fixed interval oil changes. If you open this in excel and look at line 27 you will see ESI oil Quality and also listed will be miles to next service etc yours may be different so I attach as an example. If you want to get this file yourself from VCDS, run from VCDS then open, Applications> Controller MAPS, tick "Adaptions" and put 17 where it says Single Controller Address, it will output the below file into the VCDS LOGS folder on your laptop. Hope this is of some use to you, Regards adpmap-17-5E0-920-951-B_-20200528-1725.csv

Great writeup @CormacVrs. You must have a big kitchen to get the car in there for such handy work. .

Agree with above. Mine (2.0tdi 2016 non vrs) does that from cold and then it lessens once warmed up. It's well documented as the vacuum oil pump. Nothing to be worried about.

Correct, You certainly won't be getting a cordless angle grinder into this location from under the car

Skoda is part of the Vw group (which is Audi VW Skoda Seat) Parts are all the same.

@FrankNicklin Not quite on topic but I just had my A/C serviced by a very experienced independent I found locally. It was still good and cold but needed 200grams of gas to refill to 500grams. So just because it's cold does not mean all is necessarily ok.

@e-Roottootthat links gone to wrong thread for some reason. Considering the colour of the coolant when I took it in, they did a good job of it as it's still bright pink today after 3k miles and certainly didn't rip me off. The silica bag had split when they took it out the tank.