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I think its called the nit pickers thread

They may have improved later versions, but the tsr on my 2018 Superb frequently is wrong. It very often picks up side road signs in urban areas telling me 20mph instead of the 30/40/50 that the road actually is. It is hopeless at picking up the small signs on lamposts that show higher speeds than the default urban 30mph. Often it will not pickup the overhead gantry variable speed limits and most annoyingly it rarely will recognise the national limit sign on those variable limit gantries which can leave me wondering why everyone is whizzing past me on a motorway. Most annoying is it sometimes will tell me the limit is 50 or 70 in a 30mph zone. I haven't worked out why this is.

The driver in the 2nd video didn't seem too worried, I think he said "Just a small scratch, it'll polish out" 😂

Here's one way

It's possibly dangerous in the sense that people might simply reset it and not service their cars when they should, so possibly risking damage to engines with oil not changed or overlooked inspection of brakes etc Dangerous to the profits of the service departments certainly and to the poor sod buying the car second hand that's been serviced, but not really, just reset

Recent threads are some people having problems again with the 1.5tsi, so the 1.0tsi might be a safer bet anyway. Whether it will "cope" depends on your expectations. Of course it will go up and down hills with a full load. Just may take a little bit more planning to overtake going uphill with a load on board. You'll soon adapt.

Incorrect, using E10 it's 90% fossil fuel powered

This thread is interesting in that it brings back memories of the many problems reported with the 1.5tsi in it's early days. Strange random elevated idle speeds (seen that myself), kangarooing, stalling, poor and/or delayed pickup when pulling away etc I thought all this had been resolved by now especially as the latest 1.5tsi engines are apparently now a generation 2 iteration, VAG quietly fixing things again without admitting the earlier problems. Which brings to mind recent discussions about why cambelt changes are so expensive on this particular engine. It turns out that because the 1.5tsi uses a Miller combustion cycle (as opposed to the conventional Otto cycle) it is very sensitive to valve timing. This is measured during the factory build and setup in the factory with laser etched codes on the cylinder head showing its calibration settings which must be used if any work on the cam drive is carried out. A detailed explanation can be found in the following document, pages 38 onwards. 821223.pdf Even with tight production tolerances, angle deviations can happen in the camshaft housing and crankshaft drive. However, when calculating cylinder fill rates, precise valve control timing is needed, especially with the 1.5L engine that uses the Miller combustion process. The time that the intake valves close has a very large influence on the cylinder filling. The piston speed is still very high with early closing, while it is relatively “slow” with closing of the intake valves near bottom dead center. The valve control times are precisely measured during production and stored in the ECM I suspect some engines have not made the grade and/or not been set up correctly in the factory, or somehow the timings are out or have drifted off. Vag will never admit it though

I assume its a DSG car. Sounds like stop/start in action. Its normal, you don't need to restart the engine manually. It will restart automatically when you touch the throttle or move the steering wheel.

The correct size battery for the non-kessy Superb remote is CR2025

The auto adjusters get stuck, the handbrake levers in the drum corrode and stick. Time to strip, clean etc the drum brakes (as they almost always get neglected, the brake dust has nowhere to go and the slave cylinders leak with age and thats not a good combination. Probably quicker and easier to change the complete lot, last time I looked it was about £75 for a complete kit of shoes, springs and slave cylinders.

Google maps is far superior to the Skoda Navigation. You'll of course need a reasonable smart phone and to connect it with a cable, but once you start using it, you'll not want to use Skoda Nav.

Maybe its an antenna issue. A scroll through the system information menus might shed some light. Perhaps Russia is planning to invade the Shetlands and is jamming the GPS 😉 The red globe at the top is either no mobile signal (for internal sim) or the Skoda servers are down (quite common)

Front 20mm new, Rear 15mm new

Have you removed the SD card?

ACC actively brakes to maintain both speed and distance to the car travelling in front. It does seem to use the rear brakes more than the front to do this. Our Superb mk3 on 56,000 miles, mainly motorway, rear brake pads are 60% worn but front pads only 10% worn

Afaik there are no reports on Briskoda or anywhere else of cambelt failure on EA211 engines. The only issue I recall are a batch of early 1.0tsi engines where bolts in the top pulley cam phasers came loose and allowed oil to leak out. Even then I think the cambelts survived. Removing the top timing cover would pick that up. The novel oval/tri-oval CTC crank pulley does a good job of reducing repetitive torsional tension issues. The cambelt is wide, uses latest material technology and doesn't drive other things directly, the water pump being located/ driven at the opposite end of the camshaft. Pages 38 - 43 in the following document explains the requirement for extreme precise cam timing on the 1.5tsi 821223.pdf

IIRC a faulty brake switch is a well known and common fault on the Mk1 fabia and other sister models and the symptoms are a unresponsive throttle and engine management light. IIRC way back when I had a mk1 Fabia, Vagcom diagnostics used to report " implausible signal" (the 2 poles didn't agree) As @sepulchrave says, get it changed. Its a dual pole switch, one pole for the brake lights and the other tells the ECU that braking is taking place so restrict the throttle signal. Its not expensive, quite easy to change, but sometimes requires a bit of adjustment once fitted. Make sure you get the correct version for your car.

Well what a surprise! Sean from ECP has contacted me and requested I pop the pads into my local branch and they will send them to Bosch for analysis. Will keep you all updated of anything transpires.

Its UK £1,100 just for the cambelt change, you need to appreciate whats involved. Good job its not actually required as the 1.5tsi cambelt is considered a lifetime part.

The error code is what points you to the fault Without the error code no-one can second guess whats wrong.

£1100 allegedly requires very special and expensive tooling and much longer time to complete on the 1.5tsi

It all changed 1st July 2023 If you have any doubts please feel free to contact your Skoda dealer to confirm.

Try here https://onlinerepairmanuals.com/workshop/skoda/octavia/skoda-octavia-workshop-manual/3328 This I think is for mk 1 Octavia though

Checked mine, can't fold them.