MikeStoner

Took it to my local independent Skoda specialist garage. They found that the linkage arm between the turbo actuator and the turbo had seized due to corrosion, so cleaned it up and refitted it. This seems to have resolved the issue (fingers crossed). Total bill was 3 hours labour.

No they didn't. At the time I didn't have the odb details, so the fault was vague and they just quoted 1 hour.

'18 1.0 TSI estate 27k miles Got a yellow EPC warning two nights together with start-stop error (disappears on disabling start-stop), and a few minutes later the yellow emission warning light. Contacted my dealer who said "that will be £120 for us to take a look and our next appointment is in a months time". Subsequently paid a well-known national chain of tire battery and exhaust changers to get the fault code read. Didn't get any sort of printout or picture of the codes for my £25, just the description "turbo actuator fault". (I would hope it's possible to "get better" service elsewhere....). They did at least test the battery for me and said it was fine. When driving home I could feel that there was no turbo boost whatsoever and the car was sluggish, but it would get up to 70 on the motorway and wasn't misfiring, and having driven fairly fast on the motorway and back the emissions light wasn't coming on 1) Has anyone else has this issue with a 1.0 TSI? How painful is it likely to be? 2) If the turbo is disabled in the ECU is any damage likely to result from driving for a month while waiting for the dealer?

Nearly one year on from buying a March 2018 se model with similar mileage. My model had been driven for a few months and then left parked for the rest of the time as the Skoda fleet users had nicer cars to drive once they'd run it in. The net result was that having been flattened a few times the battery wouldn't hold charge. It showed low battery warnings when I test drove it but I was assured that it would charge up under driving and I ended out having to call out Skoda Assistance to replace it under warranty after one month. I moved to the Fabia from an '07 Octavia and I found that the ride is a little firm. I deliberately sought out a Fabia with 15" alloys rather than anything larger as a result - make sure you are able to experience traffic calming. Start-Stop on DSG is annoying. It's triggered when you move into neutral with the brake pressed down, but the engine restarts the moment you lift your foot off the brake - make sure that you're able to try it and see what you think, and that you can find the "off" button for it

I've got a classic trim '07 Octavia, so there's no central fuel flap locking - you push the flap to pop it out and then push to get it to lay flat. Its fine generally but when I took it to a car wash the brushes managed to lift the flap away from the body and thrash it around. Having recovered from the shock I took a look and there doesn't seem to be any spring or other mechanism to hold the flap down flat against the body - it just rests against the black "button" that pops in and out when you push it. Is this normal, or is something broken?