My Mk1 Fabia and Seat Altea both allowed the electrice windows to be opened or closed by pressing and holding the Unlock or Lock button on the key fob. This doesn't appear to work on my Rapid. Is this no longer supported. I like this feature during the summer months as it allowed me to open the windows a few minutes before going out to the car to allow the interior to cool down.

Cheers,

Paul

All the new Skodas I've had came with this function too.

Maybe it's a car setting?

My Mk1 Fabia and Seat Altea both allowed the electrice windows to be opened or closed by pressing and holding the Unlock or Lock button on the key fob. This doesn't appear to work on my Rapid. Is this no longer supported. I like this feature during the summer months as it allowed me to open the windows a few minutes before going out to the car to allow the interior to cool down.

Cheers,

Paul

I got disappointed too. All first versions of Rapid seems to lack the "Comfort System" (I think that this is its name), that this, closing all windows with the remote key and giving the driver the control to operate all windows from his door. I think all Rapids that have and will be made since May 2013 have this feature, that was not even an option in the first ones:( Skoda realized this great big mistake, fortunately however. C'mon Skoda, this is a very low-level and basic feature in any modern car!!!

Take a look: http://ws.skoda-auto.com/OwnersManualService/Data/en/Rapid_NH/05-2013/Manual/Rapid/A05_Rapid_TechnicalChange.pdf

I hope this can be retrofitted in our Rapids at a very low and symbolic cost!!!!

Does this mean our Rapid (due to be built in a few weeks) will come with things like 4 electric window buttons and the auto-window opening/closing?

I think it can be done using vcds. Hoping to come to Maidstone meet so gizmo can fiddle with settings

Well, I don't know much about it. What the man in the Skoda's authorized shop told was that the ECU (here in Portugal we say "centralina", I don't know if "ECU" is the correct translation) hadn't this feature. So, one must change the ECU to have the 4 buttons and the auto-window opening/closing. I hope, I really hope, that this "upgrade" will not cost me so much!

Does this mean our Rapid (due to be built in a few weeks) will come with things like 4 electric window buttons and the auto-window opening/closing?

Well, I've got my Rapid in May, and it didn't, cause it certainly was produced before May 2013. Let's hope yours come with it. When you receive your car tell us, please! Thx

My mk1 fabia vRS doesn't do that!

Sent from my iPhone on the toilet!

Does this mean our Rapid (due to be built in a few weeks) will come with things like 4 electric window buttons and the auto-window opening/closing?

The 4 buttons should be fitted from week 22 onwards so you should have them.

New 1.2tsi fitted with newer engine too - just seen one be pdi'd at dealer as mine was in for a valet again.

New 1.2tsi fitted with newer engine too - just seen one be pdi'd at dealer as mine was in for a valet again.

What engine code?

That's outstanding (and a bit gutting) if so. I thought the CBZB unit would be used for the lifetime of the Rapid!

No idea but the engine is the other way round lol

Does this mean it has the EA211 1.2 TSI now? That should also give a change to the mpg and co2 I'd have thought.

With regards to the windows in the past this has been changeable using VCDS so it could just be that it's turned off by default for the Rapid?

Apparently yes - new 1.2 as used in Octavia and Golf etc.

No idea but the engine is the other way round lol

So it's in the Boot then

VCDS is needed to activate the windows, I believe any Skoda Eletric windows can have this function. If you stick the key in the drivers door, unlock and hold the windows go down, lock and hold and they go up. ( once comfort has been set )

So it's in the Boot then

Like a proper Rapid!

Knew the Rapid would get the new generation 1.2TSI but didn't think it was due yet..

Something to do with the Greentec stop/start stuff maybe?

So are the 86PS TSIs 8v and chain driven in all the Rapids up to now? Are the 105PS TSIs 16v?

Can't really find that much info on the net really.

I think the new 86PS EA211 will be 16v (and of course belt-driven).

http://www.volkswage...as_engines.html

100% sure my 105PS is 8v/chain. Engine code on the boot sticker says CBZB, which is not listed as an EA211 engine here

All EA211 1.2 TSIs (i.e. both power outputs) should be 16v and belt driven

This is what I mean, the likes of Parkers and Autotrader (not necessarily the most reliable sources of information , I suppose) cite the current 105PS as being 16V and the current 86PS as 8v.

Also, are these EA211 engines limited to greentecs? Only reason I ask is because of a paragraph here, third paragraph. It says 'Two systems integrated in the MQB strategy which play a key role here are the modular petrol engine system (MOB) with the new EA211 engine series (60 to 150 PS) – this range includes the world’s first four-cylinder engine with cylinder deactivation (ACT)'.

Does the word 'includes' mean all, or some?

I'm pretty confused..... as usual...

Wow, not only do I not know if I get 4 windows I can control from the driver seat, I now don't know what engine I'm getting!

Why on Earth make so many changes so early in the car's life.

Can't be helping production costs.

Wow, not only do I not know if I get 4 windows I can control from the driver seat, I now don't know what engine I'm getting!

Why on Earth make so many changes so early in the car's life.

Can't be helping production costs.

Well mines been/being built this week so I'd rather have this new engine if possible, but who knows! Skoda you're 'avin a mare!

the 1.2 tsi is definetely the 8valves one.

will be very dissapointed if they fit the new 16valve 1.2 tsi in the Rapid anytime soon.

i will kinda feel like i got fooled....