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If you're based in EU then you can update to 308 and then from there to 332. 324 is not the latest. If you're not EU, then the RoW (Rest of the World) files are a little harder to find.

Interesting. Wonder if yours is simpler being slightly different design on the pre-GPF. I was looking at this; bit of a chavvy name but I'm not fussed. And annoyingly Racingline do a Stage 3 for the Gen3 engine but not the Gen4 that I can see yet 😬 Anyway, Short-term: Spray lower arms with grease to see if that's the culprit Longer-term: New rear drop links, front drop links, new lower arms, potentially new top mounts/bearings, subframe mounting kit, might as well do front arb. If that doesn't do it...

Cheers - Got the rear arb already but kept reading mixed messages about the OE droplinks being both cheese and fine. So will chuck those on the list too.

Welcome to the old world! Enjoy your hols I'm starting to notice losing a few mm height on the bottle level so will look at this as either culprit or potential...if they have them on the Gen4

Scheiße Right I’ll start with the lower arms and get lubing. But I’ll look at replacing the bits I haven’t done so yet. Lower arms (Superpro etc) are fairly straightforward but considering dropping the subframe for the front arb opens a massive can of ‘whole you’re there’ worms seeing as I’m still trying to mull over a downpipe which needs the subframe dropping…. Bit of planning needed I think. In the meantime, KY it is

All good so far buddy?

Alright I’ll give that a go. It was all silent from the factory - I even wonder if everything was tight from there, and being taken apart has just allowed something to loosen up or some contaminant between surfaces. Just makes the car feel so cheap at the mo.

I’ll agree they’re different cars. It’s not as if the Superb is a S-class luxobarge though. It’s bigger and will be heavier but it’s the same chassis and same lack of refinement and sound-deafening compared to Seat upwards. Mine is the L&K so old-man version rather than Sportline Plus but there’s not much aside from ride height in the handling department. Either way, it’s definitely built more for a motorway slip road than b-road. But @OccyVRS makes a good observation. I looked for Petrol AWD Auto. Had they made an Estate AWD Octavia like the Golf and Leon I probably would have had that. Or at least considered it.

Funnily enough Russel Road and Racing has just been mentioned in an MQB Tuning facebook group and a lot of love for Kalam and his skills.

History is that since the coilovers were done, the front-left top mount has aways creaked on turning; classic top mount sound of juddering movement. I've tried rotating the spring a little in case that's a difference but I need to do try some more just to make sure I haven't forgotten anything. In the meantime, the front right has developed a creak which is different. It's a heavier creaky rubber feel to it which is triggered on minor movement/weight shift. Going over speedbumps obviously makes it happen, but just the start and end of the motion i.e. when the wheel starts to move/change direction. Just normally pulling away causes a little noise too. Gross movements don't make it sound even worse - if that makes sense. I leant on the front right with the bonnet open and really thought it sounded like it was coming from the top mount, but have I really got 2 duff ones in different ways?!? They're OE parts from Skodaparts which are the Arteon spec ones which seemed to have good feedback compared to Superb ones. Maybe the coilover setup is harsher on topmounts than B6/Eibach? So perhaps replace with the thinner Superb items? Alternatives (in case the noise is travelling) are LCAs or ARB bushes. Is there anything I can do to test or eliminate one item over another? Cheers!

That's an incredible difference in power and torque on the old remap. Remind us all not to go for....who did that old remap? Glad you got it sorted. Sounds classy in the clip too. Enjoy!

Not sure what those software versions are. Have you looked on mib-helper to check they are correct? Where are you located in the world?

I think this is the right place; On the rear camera view, when you start to get close to objects, you get a plan of the car slides on the left with the colour-changing bar indicators around. It’s sometimes transparent which is fine as I can still see through it. But it mostly appears with an opaque black background and as the screen doesn’t shift to accommodate it, it covers up the rear left corner of the car. Is there any way to turn this off? Or keep the transparent version consistent?

Well if doing two versions works, then that might be the key to it. Either way, good stuff.

0w-30 is the spec for 504/507 which is in mine (the 280) but to add confusion the standard used to refer to 5w-30 and was lowered. The oil will still lubricate and transfer heat; but I’d drain and replace with all of one type to be on the safe side.

There is v332 out @Maty - I've got it here which is the version running on my car.

Found this absolute nugget of data by accident: 2026 SDSs for lots of suppliers For anyone not familiar, Section 3 has the key active (aka dangerous) ingredients, Section 9 has the properties such as pH, look, scent, boiling point etc

Cheers for that @UndertheRadar - good to have it sorted. I guess thinking back to old carb with choke days, it’s running too lean when cold as it thinks the engine is hotter than it is…?

Cheers for these and the hospitality @Tankdave - yes will see how it goes in the winter. I do find I can’t tell if the car behind is an unmarked copper but I’ll just get used to that. For the heat and light benefits for the kids it’ll be worth it. Boot mat going to be tested tomorrow as the Mrs does a tip run…

There’ll likely be people who offer multiple providers. See if you can find a RacingLine ECU tune and TVS TCU tune?

Thanks for the pointers @leolito - tbh I'm not sure I'll ever need to take out the screen except to clean the inside of the rear window on occasion. Mine smoked at the rear so making sure minimal heat effect from there with the kids in the car would be very useful!

My guess is that the more generic TCU tunes alter the shift points and increase the clutch pressure to cope with increased torque. TVS look like they go into more depth with it all. Any named brands will be generic ECU flash maps. How good they are depends on the experience of the coder (Racingline OEM+ used to be Shark Performance which had a very good reputation and has the main guy still there) and also how close to their generic tuning the engine is. As said, nothing beats a custom tune, but the pitfalls of it are: Probably more expensive as time taken to do it and tweak it Any time you change parts, the tune is compromised because it was setup for the existing setup. Having said that, only as compromised as a flash tune but then you might as well just get it flashed and be done with it. I think I'd only ever get a custom tune when I know I'm not going to do anything else to the engine.

Lucky you know someone with the cable already...

EA888.4 280 here. I went Racingline for TCU as I bought it along with Stage 1 ECU and I bought the dongle (PDM, not PCM) to self-remap which means as I progress with the tuning the additional maps are free. However, the TCU remap does involve a bit of mucking around as the shift points are right at inconvenient points for town driving and there aren't a bunch of features that TVS seem to include. If I was to do it all again, I'd go for TVS TCU Stage 2+. I haven't found anyone have a rubbish experience with their product although they were awful at getting back to me when I enquired direct - possibly some of that a language barrier. Best to just find a decent place that is a TVS dealer in Warsaw and let them do it all. TVS do an ECU so you could get a combo but I don't know how good that is.

Well as much as I love my car for me, its also a family car and a bit of a loadlugger on occasion (so the boot mat would be useful) and the rear screen will be good to make sure the kids are comfortable too. Should be good depending on the traffic on Sunday!