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Pollen filter is behind the glove box - drop the glovebox down by unhooking the arm on the left and there's a little cover underneath the dash as you look up. Old filter slides out and the replacement slides in. I used a piece of card cut from the new filter's box to slip in underneath the filter during the swap to avoid any crud falling down into the pipework. I bought Bosch air and pollen filters this year and changed them myself before the service - saved a few quid on labour and my local independent garage were happy to update the Skoda records accordingly.

Well thanks for making me feel especially old now. You kids with your Myface and Spacebooks and Clock tocks.... IRC is Internet Relay Chat (Internet Relay Chat - Wikipedia) - a number of server networks that hosted chat rooms that people could join. It also had a reputation for sharing 'warez' (a precursor to torrents for sharing software etc.) through bots in dedicated rooms. Here endeth the history lesson

The car I'm fondest of was the red Peugeot 106 I inherited in 1993. It wasn't quick but once you made it up to speed you didn't need to slow down for bends as it cornered like it was on rails. Being more youthful back then I also drove it quite hard (as young 'uns do) and achieved some surprising speeds driving back over the M62 late one night... It was also the car I was driving when I met the missus. We'd first started chatting via IRC (back in the day where it was all 14.4k dial-up; none of this nude selfies lark; and people used LOL and ROFL) and I drove over to her house to dig out her car before we drove down to Wolverhampton for an IRC meet the next day. It lasted up to the point where I gave one of her daughters her first driving lesson. She panicked and hit the accelerator instead of the brake and drove it into a wall 😬. I still have the repair invoice for that and I've threatened to frame it and give it to said daughter for her birthday one year 🙂

Due to the train tomfoolery this week I found myself enjoying a 4 1/2 hour round trip over the M62 on Thursday to pick up family members. Due to the M62 being northern Britain's favourite car park I found myself sat in stationary/crawling traffic on a number of occasions. At one point the car binged at me and flashed up an orange message saying that blind spot detection and rear traffic assist were unavailable due to "no sensor view". At the same time the trip distance changed to an icon that looked like the orange blind spot symbol that is normally present on the wing mirrors. When clicking the assist button on the steering wheel both were unticked and ticking them again just caused the error to reappear. About 10 minutes later I tried again and they both switched on and blind spot was certainly working. Apart from an unresolved topic in the Octavia section I didn't find any other reference to the error on here so am I the first Superb owner to meet this new electrical gremlin? 🤔

It's not just you, my daughter has just arrived and her car was hit by a stone from a lorry en-route so new screen required. It's her second replacement since she bought the car (a Ford) last July.

Due to a change in personal circumstances I hardly use the car at all now. Unfortunately I have to make a 200 mile round trip at granny speeds this Thursday to pick family up since the train they had booked is cancelled... I always used Tesco Momentum but now my daughter has CostCo membership I'll be using their 97 RON to save a penny or two. I say save but that's gone up 20p a litre since my last fill up.

If it's not used a lot then it can get stuck rather than dropping down. When that happens I spray some white grease on the joint and wiggle it up and down a bit.

You youngsters with your Internet humour As the car has hardly been used the 12v message was no surprise, that's why it had been placed on charge once a month. In fact the week before it had been on charge for 8 days and the day before there had been no message at all and stop-start was working when I used it at a couple of traffic lights. That day I started the car to move forwards a few feet to open the garage door then turned it off. Minutes later I came to start it again and it was dead as a dodo.

Happened to me between Christmas and New Year a couple of days before a 200 mile trip. No warning at all apart from an occasional 12v low message for a year which cleared after a trickle charge. Had Green Flag out to get it started and off I went to Halfords. Changed my own battery in the MkII but those DIY days are gone now

I'm still hanging on before I update my maps 😀

I always used DCC and steering set to Sport and the rest on Normal. Not sure about later models but Stop/Start isn't automatically disabled when towing so turn that off too. Setting the drive to Sport is just going to create a lot of noise and drink fuel.

"We should put a feature in that saves the wipers wearing out or damaging the screen " "Cool, and so we'll fit high quality wiper blades too yeah?" "Hell no, we'll put the cheapest on that we can find."

@Berisfordin Eco mode does your current gear display change from D1, D2 etc to E1, E2? My MY16 shows E in front of the gear number unless it's coasting then it just says E. The revs also drop to idle and when I accelerate again you can feel the gear engage and the revs increase.

You don't say whether you have DSG or not but if you do then it always coasts in eco mode (subject to not tapping the brake, obviously) otherwise it can be enabled/disabled in the Individual settings under Drive Mode.

Not just me who has had this then

What did you do to them in particular? Must admit I don't see a huge difference (sorry ) I'd planned to snow foam/wash/strip wax/clay/polish and wax but I didn't have the energy so it's had a quick wash instead. Bit blowy here so I've mainly jet-washed myself.

I would have thought move the wedges up not down so they press harder on the equivalent rubber wedge on the boot lid 🤔

Rectal temperature probe for rear passenger comfort? 😆

Not long before I'll have to do mine by the feel of it 😒

I went through a phase of accidentally opening the boot by squishing the keys when putting on my shoes in the morning. I now leave the keys out of my pocket during such activity 😆

Didn't get around to checking for a while but nope, looks clean when viewed on my PC. Strangely I also had one doubled up folder which didn't then play each song twice. Chuffed if I know. I'll just format the card each time I think 🙂

My UK spec March 2016 L&K has a tv tuner as standard though it was dropped to being an option not long after. It also has Android Auto as standard too though I think it's wired only. I tried it once then never used it again. Maybe you won't need to change anything?

Caravan has gone now but I used Mayday via the Caravan Club whilst we had it. Fortunately never had to use it but I think the CC bit meant they'd also take longer caravans or some such.

My March 2016 L&K has Android auto (wired onljy as mentioned above). No idea how well it works as I tried it out briefly then uninstalled the app soon after, EDIT: that's the Columbus with physical buttons.

I think it's only supposed to detect moving objects. I'm not convinced that's the case though as there are a few narrow roads near me where you end up quite close to parked cars whilst following a sharp curve and it's screamed at me to put the brakes on. Ask you wife to jig up and down a bit