BigJakk

Not with the car at the moment, but essentially my phone contacts are all on my Google account. Each contact on the phone has one entry, e.g. 'Dave' - on the phone Dave will have one telephone number listed and also a WhatsApp call icon. In the car , when I ask it to 'Dial Dave' it will bring up that contact with a message 'contact has multiple numbers' (or words to that effect) with two identical phone numbers listed within the contact. I haven't set up any default numbers etc. As I've never had this issue on any other cars. It's definitely related to WhatsApp as uninstalling that application or denying it access to contacts on the phone makes the problem go away (unfortunately not practical for my purposes) Hopefully I've hit upon a fix above but I'm not holding my breath.

So, interesting update - having done a lot of googling I found a few things squirrelled away on the XDA forums that suggest that WhatsApp has difficulties with contact telephone numbers where there are spaces on the number e.g. '01234 123 345' I've been through and edited all of my contacts to remove the spaces - e.g. '01234123345' The Huawei contacts app wouldnt allow for this, I had to use the Google contacts app to update the details on my Google account. Having reconnected to the car a couple of times there no longer seem to be any duplicate contacts, although I am wary that at some stage WhatsApp will re-sync and it will happen again.

I've had the pillar trim off a couple of times, once for a dashcam and once for a panoramic roof leak and the clips are infuriating. I found the easiest way to get the off was to leave the clips as they are in the A pillar rather than try to unclip the trim. Then to try to pull the trim upwards and off the clip, then once the trim is removed the clip spring can be compressed and the clip just removed from the A pillar. From a Golf forum it seems these are 'security' clips apparently intended to stop the pillar trim turning into a lump of shrapnel in the event the curtain airbag deploys. I get the need for them but dare say they're a touch over engineered like many things on newer cars These were refitted by the garage after the sunroof job and judging by the remaining clip haven't been fully seated all the way back into the plastic slot on the trim piece. Must have worked it's way free over the last couple of months and rotated just enough to drop into the hole as soon as I dared to lay eyes on it!

Top marks, never thought to try a different vehicle prefix. Ordered a spare just in case too. Thanks again folks

Thanks chaps, Unfortunately the access into the A pillar is tiny, none of my needle nose pliers are slender enough and i do have a telescopic magnet but its too wide to get in there! Its so annoying as i can see the thing in there as well! I've ordered a flexible slimline magnetic pickup tool in the hope i can fish it out - dont mind not having the pillar trim on for a few days if i can retrieve it - knowing my luck if i just replaced it it would start rattling loose! Thanks for the part number - push comes to shove i will just replace it, oddly googling that p/n there are loads of american sites sell them but i cant find any UK based at all (not even eBay) so may be a phone call to TPS or god help me the dealers. Cheers

Hello again folks, Come out of work tonight to find my nearside A pillar trim loose, when I've had a look one of the clips at the top of the trim piece has come free from the trim and has of course proceeded to fall into the cavity of the A-Pillar itself I've given up on trying to fish it out, it is lodged part way down however i dont have any tool small enough to get to it and even then it would then resemble a very sweary game of operation trying to hook it back out through one of the cut outs in the pillar. As such, does anyone know what the part numbers are for these little blighters - i have had a google but have struggled to find anything matching. Picture attached if it helps. Thanks (again) in advance

Hello Folks, Wonder if any of you can help with a bit of an annoying issue with the infotainment on my MkIII Octavia. I personally cant get away with touch screens while driving due to the lack of physical feedback, i find them distracting and much prefer buttons or voice control. I've been using the voice control to make calls however I've noticed that with a lot of contacts it will say "The contact has multiple telephone numbers", forcing me to then have to use the screen. Looking at it, it seems that all of these contacts are people who also feature in my Whatsapp contacts list. Removing Whatsapp from my phone solves the issue, however this isnt really an option as I used it a lot for work stuff. Phone is Android (Huawei) if that helps any. Bit of a nuisance given my 14 year old MkII with a £90 parrot kit could make calls quite happily with no such issues. Thanks in advance

Im not an expert on the head units, so I've taken a photo of the software info:

I've got a Mk3 now - updated signature but must have forgotten to change my profile. Definitely has Canton, head unit looks like this (not mine, just a google image search), i thought that was a bolero but may be wrong:

Its not a constant issue, only very occasional - it only seems to really be highlighted by speech rather than music and then only at certain pitches of voice. I'll try and get a recording of it and upload it

Hello All, I listen to a lot of podcasts in the car and have noticed the last few nights quite a bit of distortion coming through the front centre dashboard speaker which seems to be really prominent when playing speech and at certain frequencies of that speech. I've had a fiddle with the various settings, reset the equalizer to flat 0's across the board and reset the fader to dead centre, I've also disabled the front/driver focus as well as canton surround. The aux and bluetooth volumes are set to medium although i have left the subwoofer at 8. This seems to have helped but hasn't eliminated the issue entirely, wondered if i am missing anything in terms of settings? The head unit is the billy basic Bolero - it has a few daft issues (reguarly forgets where it is in a playlist etc) so im guessing its on quite an old firmware - i understand this cant be readily updated without a trip to the dealer though. Cheers

Hello guys, After my recent experience with my leaking panoramic roof on my new (to me) VRS - fingers crossed foxed now - i have decided to very much keep on top of the maintenance for the roof. I have cleared the various drain points and applied gummi-pflege to all of the rubber seals (I know VW recommends krytox for this job but the stuff is very expensive - from my reading it seems the gummipflege isn't as durable but i figure that gives me a reason to reapply it and re-check the roof more regularly). I have invested in some of VW's lubricant paste which is referred to in the workshop manuals (again this must be made of unicorn tears given the price of it). Having checked the Skoda workshop manual the greasing procedure seems much simpler than the process listed in the Mk7 Golf and Leon workshop manuals and refers only to greasing the rails and a short length of runner. I have greased the rails this afternoon, but cant work out where this runner is that is referred to. I have attached a clipping from the workshop manual showing this but wondered if anyone had done this procedure may be able to direct me to it with photos of the area as it looks in the real world? Thanks again

Hello Folks, Bought myself a 64 plate Octavia VRS MK3 two days ago, it has a panoramic roof. I bought the car from a very good friend who I have known for donkeys years through thick and thin. He looks after his cars and I am certain had no prior knowledge of what I have discovered tonight, when I've told him about it he was genuinely gutted. The car has pretty much sat on my drive over the weekend, during which time it did of course lash it down with rain. Tonight the missus and I decided to take the new car to visit my daughter who has been in intensive care In hospital the last few weeks (2020 can go away already). On getting into the car there was a musty smell with SWMBO complaining that it was coming from her side of the car. With the AC on and blowing fresh air the smell was fairly quickly dispelled, however when we returned to the car after visiting hours the smell was back. Checking under the mats the whole nearside floor was damp, particularly the rear. Upon returning home I wet vacced a ton of water out from the nearside floor. The driver's side of the vehicle appeared dry. Given the effective operation of the AC and the fact the service history shows the cabin filter was recently changed my first thought was a possible issue with the cars panoramic roof. With darkness drawing in I opened the roof and poured water into the channel around the glass panels. I started at the rear and found the water drained away quickly and could be seen draining from the rear wheel arch area onto the ground. I then poured towards the front of the car and the water seemed to take a while to drain out of the channel and I couldn't determine where it drained away to, as there was no evidence of any water fall on the ground at the front of the car. I then checked the interior and found the driver's side to be dry, however when checking the passenger side there was a fair bit of water trickling out of from the bonnet release area. I poked around a bit more and couldn't find any evidence of damp around the headliner. I also found that the passenger side carpet is dry around the upright section which goes up the back of the firewall, suggesting that the water is coming in fairly low down. I also culdnt find any moisture around the glovebox so I don't think it's a cabin filter/plenum chamber issue. Unfortunately it then started to get a bit too dark outside to investigate any further. I was hoping someone may be able to point me in the direction of a possible fix or even suggest where I should start to look first? Thanks guys