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I am off early tomorrow to see if i can find some snow on the roads if there is any that has not been ploughed to the black top around the Cairngorms & to see how the CrossClimates i have fitted perform on the e-Corsa. They have been a treat on very wet roads compared to the ditch finder Primacy 4 the car came with. Also in the dry i tried some 0-62 mph times using Dragy and manged quicker times as the wheel spin was reduced greatly. EDIT, the roads were nice, not white, but wet and cold in places. Steering a bit heavier with the CrossClimates on.

Can the steering not be set to have less assistance as on other Skoda Models, they can be set to have more assistance for 'Disability use', as can the Brake Assist. eg http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/236545-power-steering-adjustment http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/294303-vcds-steering-assist-polo-gti-setting http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/366759-power-assistance-value-weight

Even easier. one move back for going back, another move back to go no place (or rolling down a hill if no parking brake used), another move back to go forward, and yet another move back to go forward and have the rpm going higher before changing gear. Once you have done that you can go the other direction with the shifter.

The beads of Steel Wheels can get corrosion and the air can leak just the same. Or the valves can at the seating. Often a tyre fitter might try running sealer around a bead after having given them a clean up and still there can be an issue. Over the years with cars i have just bought and that have a slow leak i let the tyres down and re-inflate with Tyre Weld (Copy of) and then fully inflate and job done until i get around to deciding what i am doing with the vehicle or the wheels / tyres. Never had any issue doing this as long as the leak was at the bead and nothing wrong with the tyre.

Welcome to the forum. EDIT, Sorry i misread. So now i have my specs on. You want to fit the parts from a Mk1 Fabia vRS to your Octavia.

Fife Council are starting to do as Dundee Council has and are going to be charging to use the EV Chargers they own.

If there was a Hand Brake then you might know how far up you pull it. But it is a finger brake now for the e-brake / parking brake. Foot on brake, move shifter to 'P', Parking Brake on as on a slope you do not want all the pressure on the pawl that is holding the car when in P. If really concerned it will be back to the future and the need for Blocks / Bricks / boulders or Chocks in front of the wheels in the coldest of weather.

The figure of 50,000 starts in an engine life of a non stop start vehicle needs some thought. Obviously there are Taxis, Courier / deliveries that do lots of starts every day. If a vehicle is used every day of the year and the vehicle is started 6 times that is about 2,200 times. multiplied by 22 years that is 48,000 times or so.

There are quite regularly people looking for a used standard exhaust, like the member with a wanted ad posted now for a Mk2 exhaust.

@NJRJ No not a dig, it is sensible to keep them covered from sun, rain, ice and snow. Also hidden away from thieves, as the good summer use wheels & tyres are not insured while not on the car.

@K100RS It was engineers that developed the engines, systems and components. Times move on. Sometimes to keep politicians happy, and sometimes just because engineering, technologies and materials can move on. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/stop-start-long-term-impact-your-car-s-engine

If you want to go back to cars built more than half a century ago plus a decade or more then you might well be needing to do that. But move to 3 decades or actually the 1970's so half a century back and things were improving and that was the past, as it is your stick on rear demister well in the past now. Pity 20 years into a new century and European Car manufacturers have not got to grips with European weather and people travelling in cars and breathing. Wind Deflectors still needed with many a car if you intend sitting in them when stationary and not getting soaked.

^^^ Top tip. Also cover the tyres on the car at all times that sit around exposed to UV for years on end & are exposed to sodium, petroleum, acid rain etc etc.

When @Tony60said that he / she had the exhaust checked i did wonder if it was by a Fast of Foot Tyre & Exhaust fitter just putting it on a ramp and looking up, or by someone that did that and opened the bonnet and used all their senses and experience so their eyes, nose, hearing & touch.

There must be plenty on here that run cars through many years and seasons that had no A/C and yet they did not have steaming / fogging up interior glass and windscreens like you get with VW Group vehicles with all the choices of AC / Climatic Control. Dry fresh car interiors with good ventilation and door / hatch seals.

@BoxerBoy The 5 hour journey would be 6 hours including charging. But then that would mean being charged before leaving and charging again after getting back Maybe it is too much hassle for you,, but i do trips like that every week or 2 and for the hour or less i stop and charge on route, usually after dropping the passengers off or before collecting them & instead of paying 26 litres of fuel i do the trip at no cost in electric. Its just £30 but it is £30 i have not spent. (I do quite a few 400-450 mile round trips to Edinburgh, Glasgow or Aberdeen Airport / Heliport.) I have spent less than the cost of 2 gallons worth of fuel at commercial chargers in the past 4,000 miles covered since the 10th of August. Sitting an hour or less on a heated seat posting on here while charging is no different to me from doing it from inside a building. The New Charging Hub at Forfar will make A90 trips quicker as the chargers in and around Aberdeen are not great or currently on the A90, and you can travel from Perth missing going to Dundee. A Costa Drive through, McD's & KFC just 50 yards from the Public Chargers, and the new EG Filling station where the Costa is going will have pay and go Rapid Chargers. PS, when the snow is falling and the usual nonsense is going on i will be buying liquid fuel and heading off the main routes to get places and home again.

The batteries and motors are getting more readily available in the UK and there are kits to assist with the conversions. But to have enough space for batteries to give the car any decent amount of range and to have a car with the suspension and brakes i would want, it would not be a Fabia that would be getting the conversion doing to it.

Do what ever you desire. I was only suggesting it is maybe easier for you to try than others to guess what happen with your car.

Turn the car off and move the wiper stalk and it will park in the 'Service Position'. A Post It note to remind the good lady to press the Stop / Start button to off. (It is not wearing out the engine or the starter.)

Try putting your heating / temp to the highest it goes and put on the A/C.

Or set to Low, 16 or 18 or what ever you like the cars interior to be. A cars temp set @ 21 degrees would have me needing to take off my vest

My Garmin watch is totally reliable and has never lost the GPS signal. I have by mistake switched it off but i use a Tracker on my Smart Phone when cycling and it is never switching off or losing data.

When the AC is disabled because the ambient temp is low you can still have no fogging of the screen or clear it without the assistance of the AC. & with some EV's like with Heat Pumps the AC is not needed to de-mist the windscreen or stop it fogging up because you have 'Hot air' almost immediately blowing from the outlets with no need for the Engine or Coolant to heat.

The Air Filter does not count at a service @ 2 years on a 2 year old car because they were on the Schedule @ 4 years / 40,000 miles, so the 2nd Major Service. Now they are showing them as at 6 years / 60,000 miles, so at the 2nd Extended Scope Service. @ the ripoff £45 for an Air Filter. Skoda UK are the ones that changed things this year from Minor / Interim & Major to the new set up. In the UK the Schedule / Guidelines are still for changing a Pollen Filter @ 2 year interval, but it is chargeable over and above the Oil & Inspection Service & the Extended Scope. £35.

The 1.5TSI manual issues are well covered in the Karoq section, as are the engine Software Updates, early ones when there was denials over any issues, then the later ones, all covered by TPI's, there are also DQ200 DSG software updates again covered by TPI's. Bob Flavin was talking about Software Updates which were already available for various vehicles with 1.5 TSI / DSG's before the Scala was even launched and available to Motoring Journalists, and so before the Kamiq's were launched and delivered. Vorsprung Durch Technik should have applied here, but might well not have.