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Welcome to the forum. The age old cambelt debate, to kick start the usual discussion, please let us know what engine is installed in your car. But I will start by saying if it's a TDI then fives years is generally the most "popular" time to change it, the tensioner and water pump. Estimate around £650 at main dealer or £400-500 at indy garage. TDI. I will also add ( but sorry, not wishing to dampen your excitement of a new motor😄), check the colour of the coolant in the expansion tank, and also if you have an even heat coming from both passenger and drivers side vents when nice and warmed up. There is a well documented issue on this forum (including my own 2016 TDI @ 55k miles) with a bag of silica that's in the expansion tank to extend the protection of the many types of alloys used across the engine cooling system and emissions management, that can splits and blocks the heater matrix. Any sign of horrible colour (it should be nice and pink) in the coolant expansion tank "brown" or rusty looking is a good indication it's gone south already. Looking forward to more cambelt replies. Regards.

Yes extract can take a while. Logos aren't that important. I've never updated them as they are all ok.

Do I get Bank holiday rates today....😄

I don't think we actually established Amundsen or Columbus...sorry I don't know what two SD and cd player model you have. Download whatever map you can fit on the card you can see listed, once your vin was entered on Skoda Portal. It shows the maps highlighted in green if can download one. But petroldave hinted 5 year life for downloads.

Trying not to be patronising here. First make a copy of all the folders on your Skoda SD card to your PC as a backup of your maps folder on the card. Then you can read these instructions. You have to know the size of your SD card (windows will show it) to know which map file you can fit on it. Formatting the SD card does not erase the special file Skoda have on it to know it can work in the car. You cannot put map files on any other card.

@TheWanderer. Given you cars history and the amount of time you've been without it, get the Skoda Warranty without a doubt as suggested by others. Just looking at a few dealers websites , just 1hr of diagnostics is ~£130 (some list £60 for first thirty minutes) then labour on top for any repairs. You'll have that value back even at @ £338 per annum with one fault in that time.

Station logos can be downloaded, not sure if this link still works? Worth a try. Pop it on an SD card. From a few threads on the forum, station logos might only appear when you "preset" the station.

I'm sure I've seen a thread where someone fitted these exact speakers. The good thing about them is they have a surround that has a lip to direct water into the door and out the drains. I remember in the thread they fitted other speakers with with aftermarket spacers that let water into the cabin! I still have some of the two way 165mm Focals from my old Seat, they were excellent, a good choice for sure. I was going to put them in at some point, but didn't as i'm happy with the sound (always biased to only the fronts though). As a guide, I was quoted around £400 a few years back to change the fronts to some component Pioneers with some additional sound deadening on the door skins, dynamat etc. Good luck.

The key to your problem you need a ferrite ring around the power cable. And importantly, the power cable needs to be looped through and around it once to reduce interference of the DAB signal as shown in this link. https://nextbase.zendesk.com/hc/en-150/articles/360018064857-How-to-fit-a-ferrite-core-magnet-on-a-cable

Its telling you its due its "annual inspection" which is not the same as the "Service" interval reminder. Go to Car "settings" scroll down list to " Service" and it will also tell you when (days/miles) when your "inspection" and oil "Service" is due Quick Google and i think this is in the manual too. Follow the steps below to reset the inspection warning Press and hold the long button below the dials labeled 0.0 / SET until the dash lights up Whilst holding this button, turn on the ignition and continue to hold Keep holding the button until “Reset inspection service – are you sure?” is displayed Release the 0.0 / SET button and press it again to reset the service interval warning. The dash will display “Service Reset” Turn off the ignition and now start the car, you’ll no longer be greeted with the inspection warning. Try that

MOT rules from .Gov website, makes it pretty clear halogen to LED will be a fail.

might be some help in this thread and some diagrams too.

My infotainment, Amundsen MIB 2, has an option to turn off the drls , go to "car" settings, lighting. However you should still be cautious about changing from halogen to led from an MOT perspective

And in winter, I'm sure I've noticed (when left on) the idle been increased due to the additional electrical demand.

Would have to first question whether it is possible for you to take it to somewhere that can check the alignment properly and against factory parameters. Rather than trying to fix alignment yourself. Why is the alignment out in the first place, accident damage or something else? Manual adjustment (even more so for LED lights) is not really recommended as it could cause blinding of other road users.

Great video, love the fact at the end they discuss the ticking time bomb "MIT Silikat" Roughly translated it means, we made our engine so sensitive to corrosion we had to stick a plastic bag of special crystals in the expansion tank that, in about 5 years time, will split and block the heater matrix😄

Classic sign of the heater matrix being blocked. Lots of threads on this on this forum. Check the colour of the coolant in the expansion tank, if it looks rusty then it's contaminated and the silica bag in the expansion tank has probably split and blocked the matrix. you need the whole coolant drained out, flushed and new heater matrix installed. Wherever you bought it from did they provide any warranty, if so take it back to them for them to fix as soon as possible.

@Mattk53 To find part no so we can find out if you have Mib 1 or mib 2: Press "menu" button. Press "setup" by scrolling left and right through the screen menus. Scroll down the setup list to "System Information" And get to my last picture.

when you say the other two settings, do you mean in the middle so not to the left or the right. Mine is in the middle and not rockered to the left or right to work the doors.

@Mattk53 With the infotainment off, Just push the SD card in a bit and let go and it will pop out the slot. if it's got a label with Skoda on it then that's the map data. Standing corrected by others above, if it's an Amundsen then maps can again be updated via a Windows computer easy enough. You can only put new Map data downloads on the genuine Skoda SDCard, you can't just use any old SD card.

@cheezemonkhai can I presume you know you need to code it to the car once fitted?

CD player certainly means Columbus, but I was not aware it had two SD card slots, but I think the earlier versions were HDD for Nav Data and Media, and then they moved to SD for the Nav data and then you can put media on the other SD, @Mattk53 do you have a Genuine SD card in Slot one, if so then this will be your NAV MAPS card which you should be able to follow the link above to update.

I don't have Columbus in my car I'm afraid but this is probably the best link to find out how to update the maps on one. I'm not pretending to be any sort of expert, but I don't remember any Amundsen units with a cd player from reading the forum for the last few years and Bolero units don't have satNav function so hence my conclusion it's a Columbus. 😄

It's not clear which Ctek you're using in your post , but out of interest, did you try it on AGM maintenance charge? Then again though, if it's 7 years old then it's done well really. Time for a new one. I did a maintenance charge on my 5.5 year old efb with my msx5.0 ctek and it took about 6 hours to finish, and my car gets used 600 miles a month even during the lockdown period.

In your glove box do you have a grey box with a CD player and SD card slot, or two SD card slots, 2015 leads me to think Columbus Mib1?