Sheriff

Thanks for your reply. As a bit of an update, I waited until Monday when everything had thawed out and tried it again. The boot opened and closed ok but still beeped at the top, but at least it closed straight away and automatically so I thought it may be ok. Unfortunately on Thursday night whilst out shopping I forgot and opened it accidentally. This time it opened half way and stopped and beeped and wouldn't close, so I had to do the manual close again. Car is due a service in 20 days so I'll get the garage to have a look, but I'm worried that the electric struts are knackered and I've seen on another thread that they are £700 a pair plus fitting and VAT from Skoda!!

Cheers for that and it has crossed my mind. At the time it was parked in a massive exposed work car park, it wasn't that it was that cold temperature wise, but the wind chill was bitter. I'll wait over the weekend and see on Monday when it's thawed to see if it's the same. It might do the trick, otherwise I'll book it in with the garage and see what they can find.

Afternoon all, opened my tailgate last night and it raised fine as usual. However when it reached full height, it beeped and then when I pressed the button it continued to beep and wouldn't close. Ended up having to manually force it closed. The beep sounded like it was coming from the boot lock area. I searched on the Octy 3 forum as they have had these a bit longer and found that some folk have micro switch issues with the boot lock. Anyone else shed any light on this? Cheers

Morning all, I have the same problem with mine. I opened it last night and when it reached the top it beeped and then would not close remotely but continued to make the beeping noise which appeared to be coming from the area of the boot lock. I had to manually close the tailgate. Has anyone else had this problem and managed to rectify it? A search of the forums on the Octy 3 side suggest that it could be the micro switch in the boot lock playing up? Many thanks.

I'm no where near on length of ownership or mileage and I moved onto to a Mk3 Superb about 18 months ago. I kept both my Mk2 Octavia's for 5 years each. Both are still going strong with over 200k on each according to the DVLA MOT data

It may be just down to the current cold spell and all the associated use of fans, heated windscreens and mirrors etc that's just keeping the battery etc charged. I've noticed that my stop/start isn't cutting in much at the moment. If it's a regen, you'll notice the gear indicator telling you to change down etc.

Needs to be done with the cam belt so around £500 mark in the U.K.

Don't think you can use the SMF on the 2.0 engines only the 1.9's.

I would agree in reporting the garage, that is seriously rotten and no way that has happened in 8 months. I would be asking your local trusted garage to give it a full check over as you might not be so lucky next time.

Water pump failed on mine. Losing water but no visible leaks. Garage said when they took it off and span it, the bearings were knackered and rough as hell. New pump and cam belt sorted it and no problems since.

Water pump failed on mine on it's 4th birthday. 112k on the clock, so had monies worth out of it!!

I paid £9,000 for mine in Sept last year. 103k and 3yrs 2mths old. 150 tdi Sel. So I think £11k is a good price, maybe the others are overpriced?