skomaz

I realise you are pretty certain it's the seal around the tailgate button that's letting water in but if yours is an estate I'd suggest a more likely place for water ingress is the rubber grommet around the rear windscreen wiper shafts. They are a common failure on VWs and I've had the issue on my Kodiaq (and the mk2 Octavia previously). Any water getting in at the wiper shafts would drip onto the button for the rear hatch.

No it could be me getting it wrong. I think I was thinking of a mk2 estate... But I guess it could still be the case for a mk 3 estate. Best bet is to find the workshop manuals which should be a sticky post somewhere in the Fabia mk 3 section.

I'm pretty certain the third rear brake light can't just be popped out. If you do a search on here there are instructions somewhere and I believe it involves taking a cover off on the inside skin of the rear hatch and then sliding a retaining plate across and only then can the light be removed from the outside.

I wasn't aware of that I always thought there was some sort of pin from the backing Into the friction material even if that wasn't visible from the front.

The TPMS system doesn't measure direct pressures, only the difference in pressures between tyres via the ABS sensors, so if all tyres are down on pressure by a similar amount it won't register an issue. I can't comment re the rattle but it's likely just two dash parts knocking together so maybe just needs some packing between them.

That's not good at all... I'm surprised there was no mechanical connection between the friction material and the backing (ie rivets etc). Are you sure they were genuine Bosch and not knock offs?

Welcome to the forum! Your Kodiaq looks a similar colour to mine, business grey, albeit yours has more snow on it than mine 🤣

Yeah I think blue and green, or at least some shades of bluey green ot greeny blue are definitely seen differently by different people. Like that paint... I'd call it an eggshell blue but I can see why some might call it green https://www.pantone.com/uk/en/connect/14-4809-TPX

That seems to have a very slight hint of green in it.

That's definitely a blue grey... No green in it at all... Blue again from where I'm sat

You may be surprised on that one... Many people who change cars regularly such as those on a PCP will be the type of people who are also likely to be influenced by 'trend' and black and white have been 'on trend' for a few years now which has probably influenced car colour choice recently too. Personally I don't like white cars... Black is slightly better but not much.

We had one that kept popping out on the middle seats - I think in the end I realised it was the seat padding that wasn't sitting right at the base of the backrest causing it to pop out. I gave it a good squash down and it seems to have been OK since.

Have you had your battery checked? A lot of weird things can be caused by a duff or failing one.

On a similar subject a couple from Chatsworth House Christmas Lights...

We had a Morris Marina too (predecessor to the Ital) - now that WAS crap! That was in addition to a succession of Ford Cortina's - one of which regularly needed the spark plugs drying out on the kitchen hob after it failed to start due to the variable venturi carburettor flooding the engine...

You mean the EU are trying to be protectionist?

The battery passport things sounds like a 'jobs for the boys' project that no-one will really care about other than some legislator that came up with the idea... And the data within it sounds like it'll be very spurious anyway.

We had an Allegro and its predecessors the Austin 1100 and 1300s - they rusted faster than we could repair them but they never let us down and were great in the snow / bad weather. I know they had a bad reputation but our experience was somewhat different.

Avon ZV7 are not All Season tyres that have relevant 3PMSF / 3 Peak / Snow Flake certification - they are simply a high performance Summer Tyre that can be used year round should you so desire Avon ZV7 - Avon Tyres Avon's true All Season tyre is the AS7 AVON AS7 ALL SEASON (avontyres.com)

Not in my experience of Osram Night breaker +150s

Yes - I regularly check to see if they are certified for my Kodiaq (they are now in certain countries) and am aware the list of approvals is getting longer all the time - all of which suggests to me they will be a good replacement for halogens in many reflectors, even if not currently certified.

Touche re the diversity of comments. And no I have no personal issues or problems at all but clearly I touched a nerve and, by your response and your argumentative and aggressive tone in many of your posts, you do. There will be similar issues to those I mentioned in OE classic (Felicia / Favorit etc.) car parts so my points are still valid (I note you've chosen to go on a personal attack rather than address the points I made - shame)

If the light concentration and pattern isn't good then that probably points towards poor quality LED bulbs. Good one from the likes of Osram and Philips that is street legal (Osram Nightbreaker LED / Philips Ultinon) should give a virtually identical pattern and cut-off to that from a good halogen.

I believe that just relates to HID or above 2000lm. A Halogen-based projector won't exceed that so won't need self levelling and washers.

ISO9001 is a quality management system standard - it relates to how you manage your quality management - as opposed to how you manage the quality of what you produce.