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Looks like they are making some progress as nothing but good things to report from me! My Octy managed to 'swallow' my phone on the way to Edinburgh when visiting family. I had put the phone on the lid of the ashtray and a bump in the road made the flap go open, resulting in my phone sliding BEHIND the ashtray, unable for me to get to it. Panick all round as it had address details etc in it. Phoned my company's leasing company who said: 'driver error, not our problem'. So there I was somewhere between York and Edinburgh without a phone. We searched the net (on my wife's phone) and found AC in Edinburgh as being the most convenient one. Went straight there and I must say the servic was amazing. Ok, we couldn't see the service department at first so walked into the showroom where they were super friendly and helpful. Service team came out and they again were really nice. They prepared me for worst case scenario (an hours work with relevant labour costs) and asked me if it was ok for me to wait in the s****y showroom with the great view across the firth (which I gladly did as I really needed the phone). In the end, they managed to get it out very quickly and I was able to continue my journey. Overall it was an amazingly pleasant experience. Great service, nice people and excellent result. Thumbs up from me for AC Edinburgh!

Just to understand if I have this problem or not. Is this 'droning' noise always there? Or is it just at a certain speed? It's because I have a noise coming from the rear passenger side but only round the 65 mph mark on certain (mainly rough) road surfaces. Go slower or quicker and the noise dissapears...

Hi (First post here, long time lurker but as I had nothing sensible to say I kept quiet) Anyway, I have had my Octavia Estate 1.4 since the summer and clocked up 6500 miles so far. Generally very happy with the car only one minor niggle which I THINK may be the 'droning' mentioned here but I am not sure. Basically, when I hit 65-ish (sometimes less, sometimes more and seemingly dependant on the type / smoothness of roadsurface) there is a vibration noise from the rear passenger side of the car. Difficult to descibe the actual noise but It hink it's almost teh sound you hear when the bass on the radio is too low and the speaker is of low quality. (Hope that makes sense). So, could this be the droning noise mentioned here? Does it happen that it's only on one side of the car or should I expect this on both sides or both front and back on a certain side. Does the droning generally happen at a certain speed? Cheers