I have just read this thread again after posting earlier in the day. I cannot believe the responses suggesting read the manual, search the forum, don't waste our time, blah blah blah.

 

You do have a point but personally if my car smelt of burning the last thing that would come to mind would be to go indoors, sit down and ask on the internet....

So what would you do? Stand next to it and wait for it to spontaneously combust?

 

The OP got his answer 6 minutes after asking it. You'd still be trying to pop the bonnet and thumbing through the manual.

 

For those having a whinge at a member daring to ask a question that may have been asked before then may I suggest that you don't open a thread you know is the same as a lot of the others.

 

To most the thread title is clearly DPF related. If it annoys you so much just move onto the next thread and save us all your negativity.

So what would you do? Stand next to it and wait for it to spontaneously combust?

 

The OP got his answer 6 minutes after asking it. You'd still be trying to pop the bonnet and thumbing through the manual.

 

It takes you 6 minutes to open the bonnet?? Sweet Jesus!

 

For those having a whinge at a member daring to ask a question that may have been asked before then may I suggest that you don't open a thread you know is the same as a lot of the others.

 

To most the thread title is clearly DPF related. If it annoys you so much just move onto the next thread and save us all your negativity.

 

Lol, the only person here I see annoyed is you!

silver/junglejames/milbil - I have to admit that what I find most frustrating about this, is the lack of self-reliance. Of course you can go onto forum and ask the question but why not try and work it out yourself?

Then, next time, you will already know where to look for the info you need and can help yourself.

Isn't there a some kind of saying: you can give a hungry man a fish to feed him, or you can give him a fishing rod and show him how to do it and he will be fed for life?

Fair enough, this might be a bit too deep for a motoring forum but I hope you can understand where I am coming from.

Most cars you can spec things like:-

 

Smokers Pack

 

Summer pack

 

Comfort Pack, etc, etc

 

Should Skoda perhaps do a Fire Pack,  Bucket of Sand, fire blanket, Fire  Extinguisher and a Mobile to ring 999     :think:

Neily- You can usually tell if the burning is serious. If it smelt and looked serious, he wouldnt have been logging onto this forum. He'd have been putting a fire out. He has smelt an odd burning like smell, but with no smoke. It quite obviously wasnt a fire, but was still unexplainable, and quite scary as you dont know if your car has just broken itself. He has looked through the manual and couldnt find an answer, so eventually logged onto here. Answer given, some abuse given, and he is happy (well at least partly happy that he got an answer).

Bichti- The best way of learning is to ask. We all learn from others. I only knew about what the regen could be like because i saw it on here. I had thankfully been looking on here at the right time to see it mentioned. Now yes, you are right with your saying, however think about it, he has used the fishing rod he was given. Its called the Internet. A fantastic learning tool. He was obviously thinking sensibly as well, because he asked somewhere he knew would probably have the answer. There is no lack of self reliance. If you dont know what something is, you have to find out (just like you have to be shown how to fish for the first time). He used his fishing rod to first open the manual, and when he couldnt see anything in there, he used his hook to switch the computer on. He was using everything at his disposal to find the answer, and in the end he used the best tool out there. A Skoda Forum on the World Wide Web. He wasnt asking you to feed him (definitely no chance of that now anyway). He was using his rod to fish the answer out himself, and he fished in a very good place for getting the answer. Now im sorry if you think fishing the answer out yourself means nobody telling you the answer, but that isnt always the case. Otherwise nobody would ever learn. Ican just imagine you as a school teacher. "Sir sir, how do you do this?"- "Work it out for your bl**dy self ".

Fair enough mate...can't agree on everything I guess - it would be boring.

It takes you 6 minutes to open the bonnet?? Sweet Jesus!

 

 

Lol, the only person here I see annoyed is you!

 

I said you, not me. And, if you read it again you'll notice that included locating the manual, finding the page and then deciphering the broken English it is written in.

 

Yes, I'm annoyed, almost as much as the poor OP - for daring to come onto a motoring forum, specifically a Skoda forum and ask a perfectly reasonable question about his new Skoda.

 

What a welcome. It would have been far easier to say nothing than to take the time to type an unhelpful and antagonistic response.

 

I'm done. I'm off to find a thread that I can help with.

Edited 11 January, 201412 yr by silver1011