jon_r

Hi all. I’m open to sensible offers on anything here. Also I’ve got loads of pictures, so I’m more than happy to send them on. Thanks.

Hi all, my Octavia goes back to Skoda next week and I’ve therefore got a few bits for sale: SOLD- Steering wheel. Flat-bottomed MFSW, VRS steering wheel. Has the flappy paddles. Lovely wheel. Only used for 18 months and 15k so in excellent condition. Comes complete with the extra wiring harness needed. Really simple to fit, if i can do it anyone can! Might need coding in, or might be plug and play depending on your car. SOLD Bootmat. Genuine Skoda Octavia 3 boot mat. Really good quality. Excellent condition. £40 + postage Travall Dog Guard + Boot divider As new really. Dog guard and boot divider for Octavia 3 Estate. See here: https://www.travall.co.uk/skoda/octavia-estate-2013-/travall-divider-tdg1404d £165 + post. Thule Wingbar Edge 9584 Used a few times but in great condition. Cost a small fortune, but they are the best of the best. They are almost silent and don’t really effect mpg. Silver version. Come complete with all keys, box and the tool to fit and remove. £Sold Im based in Durham if anyone wants to collect. Happy to negotiate a deal if you want more than one thing. Postage will be at cost. cheers.

Thank you, I'll have a read! Yep, I suspect 3 booster seats would be more than fine. Sadly mine (newborn, 2 and 6) have massive seats! If if you're just after a 4x4 for 4 people then at the price point it's at it's brilliant.

I went along last night to my local dealer to see it. The car was everything and more I expected, fabulous... but, it's no good for us. The middle row of seats is very much a 2 + 1 (2 full seats and 1 hump). Sadly with 3 kids there isn't room to ISOFIX 3 seats in place side by side. No problem, you think, there's seats 6 and 7 out back. You'd be right, but with a seat isofixed in place, you could actually access the back row. I'd send son number 1 in through the boot, but I don't want to have to unpack the boot everytime he gets in. Sadly this rendered it as practical as my current Octavia. I left slightly deflated. If they'd have made it a dedicated 7 seater (like a Discovery or even an S-Max) i'd have been on the phone this morning confirming my order. I appreciate my family is a fringe scenario, for 95% of people it'll be great and I'll be very jealous seeing them all appear on the roads in 4/6 months time.

I can't comment on the Octavia, but I use this setup on my VX220 that gets stored for the winter months as the battery is not that easily accessible. It's a great bit of kit that works very well. It's decent value from Amazon as well, though I did find I had to buy the extension lead as the standard cables aren't that long.

I bought one for my Black Edition with the paddles and buttons. I've never managed to get all that to work, but the steering wheel is so good i've kept it fitted the last 10k miles. The car goes back soon, so it'll be coming off and being sold. Saying that i'm ordering a Kodiaq, so i wonder if it fits!

Yes please!

I'm about to sign for one thats the same spec as that, but it's 3x24 at £320 inclusive. 36 months works out the same. I'd rather be paying £281 though, that's a hell of a deal. Edit, is that the 4wd? I can get a 2wd in that spec for £303, or the 4x4 for £320

Yeah it'll say 'out of range' or similar and the wheel buttons will be as dead as a doornail.

Sorry cross posted...see my other thread. Component protection put me off it all, I have everything else already (save the highline, as like you, I found 800 different part numbers.)

As mentioned via pm, I was warned about component lockdown when fitting a new Gateway to a MQB platform car, which means it's a Skoda only job (so I was told). I'm not sure if this has changed since, but I remember reading a few of the Golf guys had had similar issues.

Mine does this as well. It'll often change stations by itself, then plot a route to a random destination before finally freezing completely for my entire journey to work. Add this to the rattling B pillars that vibrate away right in your ear, this car is beginning to irritate me.

Do you know of anyone up north capable of doing it?

Worth saying its a VRS flat bottomed wheel with paddles and MF buttons. Cheers.

Thanks for the help Andy. It's in relation to my other thread on here regarding fitting a MFSW to my black edition. The wheel and loom have been fitted but the specialist couldn't activate the wheel as the car had a Midline gateway just controlling the Sat-Nav, cruise and DSG. The guy seems confident he will get it to work but I'm unsure if he's done a car of this generation, do you think it's possible? Also, would any of those part numbers suffice then? I'm unsure why one part would have so many different part numbers? Thanks for your help.

Hi there, I'm having difficulty finding out the correct part number for a Highline Gateway for a current generation Octavia. I'm ideally after one that controls Sat Nav, MFSW, DSG and Cruise. I've found a parts list on ROSS-tech but I'm unsure these are for the correct platform Thanks for any help!

Mine went in for the first service the other week, but it also had a recall at the same time that was explained to me as a instrument cluster update. Not actually sure what they did.

Further update. Wheel got fitted today along with the harness but the Midline Gateway doesn't want to play ball. I'm now trying to get hold of a Highline Gateway. I had a reg of a 2015 VRS that supposedly had DSG, MFSW and SatNav but it came back with part number 5K0-953-549-C which seems to be a midline again!! Ross-Tech says the Highline version is 5K0-953-549-B. I'm slightly confused as there are later versions listed on Ross-tech and I can't work out why the car doesn't have one of them fitted. http://wiki.ross-tech.com/wiki/index.php/Steering_Wheel_Control_Module_Versions Further investigation needed, though it's quite tricky.

Just to keep this up to date, I had the car plugged in this lunchtime and it's come up as a midline-gateway. I'm unsure if this will work, but for the sake of the £30 harness I'll get it and try my luck.

Yeah the reason I'll probably keep it if it all works as planned is that I might give the car back in a couple of years time and get a Superb, so this can all be put back to normal and sold on if necessary.

5E0 971 584 A is £29 + vat so not bad at all really.

Cheers, thats what I figured I might need to do. I've booked the car in at a local place that seem happy to help. I should know more next Wednesday - fingers crossed.

Thanks for the help guys. I am hoping the car has the Highline already (how can I find out?) I'll be ordering the wiring today, I believe the part number is: 5E0 971 584 A

Ok so I've taken the plunge and bought the wheel with the paddles. Has anyone had a go at this since the thread was originally started? Cheers

I did over 800 miles in mine this weekend and the B pillar buzz drove me mad. Short of turning the radio up louder no amount of tapping, whacking or shouting at it would get it to stop. I shall try the lithium grease idea. I also get the dash binnacle rattle occasionally, but a gentle press on the corner of it stops that one. Ho hum.