Everything posted by Guest_
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Flat tyre, but no problem found
The thing is that the OP is that all tyres had a pressure drop which as Tom sung is Not Unusual and why tyres need checked. Then after the pressures are increased one goes flat. Time will tell what is the reason if nothing has been done other inflating again the one that was flat.
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Seat El- Born / ID3 variant
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1st service due ?
The Fitter / Tech put your can on Fixed Service intervals at the PDI. So really a waste of a Service from your plan unless you are a driver that thinks it is good to have vehicle inspected annually and the oil and filter changed annually even with low mile cars. (Especially with low mileage cars.)
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When would you manually activate the parking brake?
We are posting in English and reading manuals in English, if others are finding the ENGLISH terms in Owners Manuals difficult then tell SKODA UK who import the cars. Skoda UK can not even sort out Configurators and the Sales People in Dealerships might not even know the correct name of features or functions and have little knowledge of the product so there are often issue. They do not even know sometimes as they order or sell vehicles what is what. The scary thing is they drive the vehicles for 3 months / 3,000 miles before selling Ex Management cars and still can not vocalise to a new owner how things can work, do work or how you can choose to have functioning.
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1st service due ?
? How many miles has the car done? ? Did the service package you bought say that the car had to be on 'a fixed service interval' ? It means the car is due an Oil & Inspection Service and there are no Oil Services & separate 'Inspection services' just a crazy system that Skoda/ VW have that shows that an Skoda Dealaership staff have on cars at the PDI and do not correct. ? Did you ask to have your car put on Fixed Service Intervals of 9,400 miles / 372 days rather than left on Variable Services of 24 months /18,000-20,000 miles as it left the factory set at and arrived at the Dealership on? This will be what should be done 1st year and 2nd if a Fixed Service Regime. (Same if a 1st Service on Variable @ 2 years, plus pollen filter.) Fixed Servicing @ Year 2 a pollen filter replacement should be done as an extra.
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Flat tyre, but no problem found
I take it you topped them up NYE and also reset the TPMS. Maybe a tear on the valve as you put air in & when the Tyre fitter checked for leaks they missed it was losing air there. It was losing air someplace since you inflated the tyres, ? Is the TPMS reset now when all the tyres are cold and at the pressures they are at? Did the tyre fitter fit a new valve for you?
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My first service - what do I need?
Someone here can help you with getting it online hopefully. A Dealership or Skoda UK CS can provide it to you. It is a shame the seller never printed it out. You want to see any Servicing, warranty actions or service campaign actions carried out from new. A Brake fluid check done for H20 content is good enough.
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My first service - what do I need?
Are you sure this is the first service. Or just you having it serviced for the first time? That was due at 24 months old 18,000-20,000 miles. A pollen filter change was due then. @ 3 years it is a brake fluid change. ??? So what does the cars service record show as done at 1 year or sooner if done then or at year 2?
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How disable alarm without remote locking?
Is there are turn off alarm button on the drivers door? The one that is needed if leaving animals in to the car. Or on a ferry or car transporter.
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When would you manually activate the parking brake?
@Routemaster1461You are calling it the Autobrake. Where do you see Skoda calling it that? it is 'Auto-hold'. The Manuals and videos are on the function which is Auto-hold, and the on / off button to enable or disable the Auto-Hold function has Autohold on it. Introducing another name for it does confuse the easily confused.
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Electric vehicles and charging
F in cars playing up now. Sitting parked waiting at airport. First thing was I noticed that I had done a very good 4.1 miles to the kWh. Then sitting listening to the radio that cut out. Now the car does not want to sit powered up ready to go but without it actually READY having put my foot on the brake. Also it thinks it is in ECO. Shortly when it goes for a blast it better buck up its ideas or it will be suffering the indignity of getting dropped off at Arnold Clark where it will learn all about abuse. EDIT, car had done over air updates. New features appeared on screen and it now on a 100 kWh charger just to see if it would take a proper rapid charge and all is well.
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Electric vehicles and charging
I went on a BP Pulse 175kWh charger at Harthill Services Eastbound. There are 4 chargers with 1 OOO and 2 that would not start a charge on my car which can charge at 100 kWh. So with only 26% on arrival it was charging at no more than 40kWh. So I knocked that on the head and moved on. No idea yet what that cost me but at 50 pence a kWh I took 10 I think so I will a fiver. Moved 16 miles to a PodPoint 50 kWh charger that put out full power at 26 pence a kWh. So that's another fiver spent. There is BP pulse chargers at Edinburgh Airport which still might not be activated yet but no way will I be paying 50 a kWh unless they actually charge at a good power to at lease 80%. Edit. The crappy setup that needs attention. While charging you can get a Regular Coffee or Hot Drink for £1 in the very expensive shop. Pity the advertising pieces around the bollards catch the heavy cable and make things awkward. EDIT. 7/1/22 The cost was £6.03 & that was 12 kWh & the speed it was delivered at was 33 kWh which is pathetic on a charger that displays 175 kW and being used on a car with 100 kW charging capacity. (the usual charging speed on a 50 kW charger from near empty to near full is 33 kWh. but faster if charging from near empty to 80%.) on the PodPoint 50 kW charger it cost me £5.51 and that took 39 minutes to get 21.21kWh.
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Winter roads, ice, snow and wet or dry driving in an EV..
Larry. Still showed 99 miles at 5am, and 60 miles later was showing 45 miles range and 40%. Displaying 2.7 miles kWh. Right onto a 50kWh charger and charging quickly for free and should only need 30 to 40 minutes on here. 3 degree C so not too cold. Dry and salted roads. EDIT. Charging speed about 33 kWh on 50 kW chargers when taking the battery up to near full..
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Delivery times?
They maybe had employees completing builds of already built cars waiting on minor parts, or just the Paper work / data being processed. Not the factory line running.
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Noisy Auto Gearbox on Scout
So a 6 speed DSG. How many miles has the car done, & has it had DSG oil changes every 40,000 miles or sooner? What mileage was that oil change done at on the DSG? When had it been done before? When was the Haldex Oil changed, pump / filter cleaned etc etc.
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Felicia fuel tank capacity and TC-6 measurements
Thank goodness things are so easy these days no matter how old a vehicle is. All that is needed is measure accurately the fuel you put into a vehicle and use a GPS to check, even a sport watch / phone GPS, distance, elevation changes, temperatures and any other things that concern you. Run a vehicle, be responsible for servicing, tyres / pressures, fuel used & have a good memory or keep records and job done.
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When would you manually activate the parking brake?
@Routemaster1461 signatures at bottom not visible when on a phone, well not mine. Sorry but 'autobrake' is not a term i am familiar with when referring to e-brakes/ parking brakes. Autobrake is something i have on my car and others, but that is with Front Assist so another thing altogether. 'Automatic post collision braking system' as VW called it at some point. Translations & systems is an issue here.
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Winter roads, ice, snow and wet or dry driving in an EV..
-20 concentrate in and it only went to minus 2 last night and still it would not spray for an hour after the temp was above freezing. Luckily the roads are lovely and dry and no slush and salt coming off other vehicles. The rear washer works fine and actually sprays a bit too long and uses too much washer fluid. EDIT. Sitting with the 99 miles showing at 89% before sitting parked over a cold night. Not going to pre-heat as not charger available, So an early start at below zero degrees and 70 miles until on a 50 kWh charger to get enough, so about an hour, then 100 miles to the next, about 70 mins charging. A further 100 miles and onto a 100 kWh charger & home on Thursday. Best laid plans of man and beast and EV drivers in cold weather. (Alternate chargers checked already within 10 mile or so of each planned stop, various other chargers near these are showing as possibly OOO.)
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Octavia Lift Kit
Roads onto UK farms can be rather different with fences either side and a hump in the middle. Even boulders / stones on the yump that even softroaders might be able to get along. Then there are speed bumps that there are the likes of Superb Drivers asking if the can raise the suspension of there taxi to go over them faster.
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Octavia Lift Kit
Worth looking at roof height excluding roof rails or include roof rails if all have them. Reason being 'Underbody protection'. That affect Ground Clearance as per VW Group / Skoda figures. Like with Greenlines in the past. The Clearance numbers were low, the tyres brought the car lower as did plastic panels. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/452062-why-is-my-octavia-combi-so-high Yet you compare the roof height and it might not be 15 mm, 10mm or what ever lower. This is the same with Scala & Kamiq where different countries had different magazines and reviewers testing cars and mentioning clearance or suspension. They were even testing cars with standard suspension and talking about the optional suspension which the vehicles they had did not have fitted.
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Octavia Lift Kit
My main point is the word 'Significant'. We can leave all checking to you. Can i ask again what you do as a job and does it involve mechanical engineering or tyre fitting?
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Winter roads, ice, snow and wet or dry driving in an EV..
The washer nozzles are really hopeless where they are on the back edge of the bonnet and with the pipe running up by the hinge and under the insulation on the bonnet of a car with no heat in the engine compartment.
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Mk1 Octavia 4x4 1.8t - What drivetrain?
Many are because they are just driven at speed bumps.
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Mk1 Octavia 4x4 1.8t - What drivetrain?
It does not say much about the speed bumps if on a 30 mph road and they were there to have traffic slowing.
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Interesting advice on cambelt change
What a pity that even by Euro 5 engine VW group had not got chains or tensioners shorted after decades of failures. Same with other engine components, software, gearboxes etc. But then ever since VW went from aircooled and cars with metal roofs rubber has not been their best understood or developed material. They have yet to get the hang of seals, belts, tyres etc. Sourcing quality parts is the issue as they do not manufacture stuff they just buy as cheap as they can get stuff. Anytime there is an issue with VW they blame other manufacturers. They just design and put together parts from anywhere made by whoever. Even if VW own the manufacturer they still blame others.