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I use ACC a lot. Mostly on motorways but also a roads. Often when the path is clear too. I set to a speed, say 40, then drive faster as required for the road. Occasionally it trips over itself and warns of a bend. One occasion it caught me well, a big bird flew in front. No harm done, but did think afterwards, imagine a deer or something on the road at night. Radar… clever. lane assist, that can just get lost.

@phazed in the reply editor, as you go across the icons just above, you should see <> 😀 [gif] 👁️ then the bolt. If on a mobile then it's possibly just off screen, rotate to horizontal, click it, then go back to portrait.

Try me Please read this: All adverts should be as comprehensive as possible. this helps you, us and any potential buyer. I'd say the ad as it stands won't generate much interest, or it might, you can never tell. We put the template in place so it's easier for you Nice motor though, I have the hatch equivalent. Very under the radar I was looking for an estate when I got mine. Does it have dcc, canton?

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I do like the look of that… graphite paint and hydro carbons… not a bad last hurrah before electrons.

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What's the drop on the springs compared to stock? Thinking there have been a good few lowered octavias over the years. Might not be on Racing Line... but might be similar drops/changes, just a thought

Nice clean looking Fabia. Always good when it's a time for a change. I've moved to for sale, after all you might not be leaving... unless it's a done deal. We automatically remove emails addresses, the internet isn't like it used to be. Interested parties should send a message ( You will get an email telling you this has happened ) or reply in thread.

I've finished my 🍺 for 2023. Now onto far harder stuff. I had an amusing thought... to get the topic back to electric cars... this is perhaps more for @Lady Elanore petrol veins... Sound up of course for the reference play through... Watch that Now I was thinking how could it be remade for the electric generation... It's surprisingly easy. 1. turn the sound right down/off on the video, or leave it up a bit, for the faux noise generator effect. 2. Open your favourite music player, start Ray Stevens cannonball run 2. Click replay We'll need an AI to alter the paint to green of course at 0:58. Then at 2:16, well that was a cheeky supercharger 350 top up, big solar farm just off shot, easily missed... However I've been wracking my mind how to deal with the 3:04 dialogue where car 42 is in pursuit for 2hours... Just go the next supercharger Now the LP500, a 4.8L v12 had a 0-60 of 5.6seconds, no idea of fuel economy, not a lot so many hydro carbons released, anyhow will cost you north of 775k today. MG4, 3.8seconds for <40k. However probably not going to make it to Arizona in the remake. I'm still set on the next car being electric; swmbo lease has to be, however I'm really still torn on what happens the '19 superb. Kind of want to get it done now, early '24, nothing VAG is doing floats my boat, fossil or electric... Odd interlude, yesterday I decided to cycle to our little cycle day out meet up & cycle back. So I saved myself 90km of petrol burning by getting up early and getting back late; although 3hours in the rain kind of dented the elation. I might of blown some of the 'saving the planet' mojo on a hot sausage roll, some flapjack, mars bar rice crispie thing... but it's all part of the grand plan. Also read of a chap, cyclist, being killed on the road, a road I know well as driver and rider... A city at 6am is lovely, a city at 6pm in the rain is horrible, RIP fellow human enjoying yourself amidst the steel monsters. If the deadline does slip back I'd be wary of infrastructure push equally slipping. Recent travelling I've seen a lot more ev's charging, but never quite full stands. Only one or two cars away from being full though. So I keep flip flopping back and forth to a euro6 diesel, although fully aware the ulez of the future will come for diesel first. i've pushed my local trips on foot out to an hours walk, upto 10km for cycling where practical. Well aware thats all good because I can, or have the time. When I need a new hip or whatnot, time will cheap, pain will be a great friend. Anyhow hopefully back to the ins and outs of EV, if we can please. I've got ma whisky to savour. Slange var.

Even after 20years I still find new ways to type it wrong. brisk skoda - a skoda driven briskly. in hind sight skoda forums would of been easier, but way less brisky

Anyone else need a beer? there is no planet b We’ll find a way. Although we may still be disagreeing about it long after my beer is done. We’re getting into a bit of tit for tat vs something interesting to read. Hopefully by time I’ve finished my second beer… we’ll of turned a corner… 🍻

Sadly it’s the better offs that prime anything. who had horses for pleasure riding vs walking. who had cars vs horse, walking. who have planes vs boat. who has helicopters vs everything else who has rocket ships… vs saving the biome. It always starts at the top and trickles down. A few exceptions might be “developing” countries that get a hundred year leg up. But 90%; made up figure, still walk and a car is an impractical dream. electric trains, trams and cars were around before/as fuel was developed. Technology has caught up now to redress the imbalance. It’s happening.

I think a V anything is nicer than 3,4 in-line. 5 pots might be an exception. the superb is a nicer place to be. both are in the range for repair and maintenance works. Arguably the Octavia has gone through its worst. Depending on your commute, be wary of diesel with dpf filters. To short a journey and they begin to cause problems. I suspect Australia given the Holden comment … good roads till they are not from what I’ve seen on telly programs. Is awd a need? I like it here mostly for damp/wet but don’t *need* it for 10 months of the year. The superb will drag its heels and use more fuel to boot. Very roughly the “awd” steals 20% in trans losses. Plus weight. Mine also wears out rear pads more than fronts, stability control I do enjoy driving my superb around A and B roads. But really it’s a mile muncher on motorways. The Octavia is a better b road package. Hence my rear pads get chewed as the computer does it’s thing on b roads. Neither are fantastic, youth defining fun. Bit of power to overtake. Don’t stir the soul like a three/two door might. however they have a fab boot. The superb trumps the octy. Unless you need the estate format. The superb in that gen goes indeed have the “twin” boot. Looks like a saloon but it is both. I used it occasionally. I’d prefer an estate. However have had two superb hatches and coped. Hope that helps.

“The fact that rain was reported as falling on the Greenland ice sheet — which in 70years of reporting has NEVER happened before — is without doubt a WAKE UP CALL to humanity.” BCS journal winter ‘21. We individually need to do what we can. Everything has pro’s and con’s. Even scattering my ashes will upset the ph balance. So I suspect cremation will be on the watch list soon as well. I think, from catching up on this thread, that a small war of words is in progress. May I suggest; gently, that neither side can win, and both sides can and will loose. I do have a side, but I’m trying to be nice. Sometimes we have to agree to disagree and move on. I applaud the research and time taken to gather so many articles. Alas I work and don’t have time to digest it all. It appears impressive but could thanks to the internet all be ai hyperbole . Too many groups with interests beyond this biomes future. Even “ev” makers are tied into the destruction one way or another. We just have to minimise, pay the debt, hopefully give humanity a chance to figure it out and rectify. I’ll take my chances with an ev. I’m ready. Although I have to destroy my front eco patch so I can charge it. Thanks road traffic act. in case we got lost on my ramblings, play nice please oh great keyboard warriors.

Thanks for the tips. The widget and cables are fine. Had the same phone for years. Plausible a cable may of gotten wet, water bottles in the west are not uncommon. had a dash camera in during lockdown that killed the battery as it was meant to be a temporary thing. In one of those didn’t move the car in a month, months it killed it. kind of a silly thing to have it permanently live. Or at least without a switch. There is a switch for most everything else

Thank you @UndertheRadar I've finally had enough of mine creaking on anything lowspeed. Be that bumps, and humps, to manouvering. Even noting it with a little speed, <20mph. My local Indy also said not much can be done as they all do it. I've been putting it off as it's only noise, but it didn't do it when I brought it so even the worst mechnaically minded person should figure out thats a change in behaviour. I'll see if they are willing to change the mounts, otherwise a new local indy will be sought.

Figured out why my cigi socket stopped working; only been a year or so... In the process found the old cigi usb adapter I thought I'd lost, plus a plastic five pound note; pays for the replacement adapter I'd ordered. Amazing what that glove box holds! Not quite sure how a 20a fuse would of blown from a usb accessory. Now to find an overpriced fuse and repeat the glovbox emptying, maybe I'll find a ten pound note, pay for the fuse.

Putting energy into anything carries a risk of fire. When I was maybe 8, I remember filling a paint can with diesel and putting it on the bonfire. The petrol one before was a superb display. The diesel one considerably more boring. Nothing was happening. Of course in later life I found out thats not dissimilar to driving a diesel 😛 What I needed was an accelerant, or in my younger head, something to see what was going on. Tada a long stick. Prod, um, prod, um, tap, um, I must of put the lid on well. Whack, there we go... A few years back, I got back; too briefly, into model aero. Lithium had replaced nicad and the world was awash with warnings on recharging lithium in your house. Ideally in an old ammo container under plastic bags of fine sand. So if the battery was damaged or failed, any fire would be snuffed by said sand. Not by your laundry basket. So I guess statistically I've seen more ICE car fires than ev fires. Then again when I was thumping the paint can, I'd seen more petrol fires than diesel. A few years later I saw a man emptying a dust extractor from a MDF workshop, taking the bag, about 200l in size, to the well alight bonfire. It; the bag, never made it all the way. One set of crispy eyebrows later, I'd seen as many people on fire as I had diesel filled paint cans. None of these events put me off using petrol, diesel, anything with a lithium battery, however I refuse to use MDF. So perhaps there is nothing to these words other than, fate. I'm fated to now have an EV. Perhaps I'll build a car port and cover it in sandbags. One final thing, I do remember whilst sat on the roof of the shed, waiting for the diesel paint tin. That was arguing with my friend about how long to wait/prod it. Neither of us knew about the science behind paint tins filled with fuel, but we had a good old ding dong around it. If we'd carried on I'm sure I'd need not of prodded the tin at all before it went up. I'm sure I' was trying to make a point here, however now chuckling, thinking back to that dam can, fizzing away. Don't repeat this at home, this was all done in a field a safe-ish distance from abestos roofed buildings. Now to check the fuel price to top up my paint can...

Moved the topic for you to the citigo area. the heater controls I can’t help with. the rear wash, assuming there is fluid and you can hear the motor as mentioned. See if any fluids on a dry day appear. if you use strong screenwash you might be able to smell it if leaking internally. It’s possible the pipe has either become blocked, or disconnected. In other models they can and do come off in the weirdest of places. If it has come off that fluid will be going somewhere. Good luck. Might be good to have a friend in stalk duty, or a stick given how compact the car is

Just edited the title to clarify as it’s a fabia specific, well engine specific query.

Have moved to the octavia II section, hopefully a good outcome can be found.

@DLanor you can repost a new photo. We don't allow edits after a certain period of time for new posters. Bad actors abuse it, sorry.

Have moved your question to the MKIII owners area. Hopefully more members can have a look under their cars and advise. Gaffa tape and zip ties is the quick fix. Possibly failed on age, or has been impacted by something causing the break. Any clean plastic should help. Park it up on a raised kerb should give you a little bit of wiggle room. Or take a few notes to a local indy garage for a look.

If I've got the mind to I'll over take anything and everything. If I've only got a few miles left to go I won't. But 20+ miles I will. The camper could of been one of those 35 everywhere, sure big junction coming up, I can wait, or I can get past and not have to trundle along on a big road later. There are a few moments I've been in a rush, but chosen not to over take something. Then later, and normally just as you enter a section impossible to overtake, they change style or slow down. Had it last week in the highlands, lovely long straights, french car. Happily doing 55, ok I can live with that. got to a section that is difficult to pass for many miles, they slowed to 30 and still braked for many corners. Fair enough, french, left hand drive, perception different. I'm always very nervous overtaking multiple vehicles. I count to 5 if in a line, if no one is making use of that opportunity, I will and normally make myself very visible, flick of main beams inc twinky. Equally a few when I've gone, thinking I was up next and just clocked a bike or similar that wasn't part of the train. So easy to judge from a computer, we've all done similar in one form or another... So I'm not. tl;dr; Red on Red, should polish out.

Hi, I've moved this to the octavia MK II section as it's much more likely a MKII owner will know this. If you find them elsewhere, please do share too