Hello,

 

I bought the car in October 17 and the place I bought it from MOT'd it without mentioning the fog light but I have just failed as it is on the wrong side. After searching it would appear this is a programming thing as there is only one bulb and the ecu controls the power to adjust the brightness,is this correct? (I haven't changed any ecu settings!) There is a working bulb, I have switched the bulb from the otherside and it stays the same (nearside brightly illuminated, offside lit but dimmer).

 

Which then leads to my second question, is there anyone in Portsmouth/Hampshire area that would be kind enough to fix this for me or do I need to start hitting up skoda dealerships to get through the MOT?

 

Many thanks!

Chances are the car was used abroad for a while. A lot of Octavia's were bought using the MOD's discount scheme and stationed in Germany for a year or two.

 

There are garages that specialise in prepping the car for use overseas.

 

It would have been simpler for all involved if they'd simply enabled both rear fog lights instead of swapping them over.

 

Just sign up to Carista, use their dongle and make the change yourself, it's dead easy. £16 delivered to your door with one months free access to the app...

 

https://caristaapp.com/pricing

 

 

 

 

As I understand it if your car is a facelift model then Carista, VCDS and OBDEleven will not be able to change the rear foglight side. I would like to enable both rear foglights on my Octavia MkII Facelift but even though I own a genuine copy of VCDS I would need to find somebody with VCP or ODIS-e or pay a friendly dealer.

 

This is what a facelift front end looks like to tell if yours is one

Thanks for the quick reply, that would be an amazing easy fix! Does it definately have the ability to toggle the fog lights across? Is the software relatively easy to pick up? (sorry for all the questions, I had an ancient saxo with bolt on everything before so didn't really have to deal with ecu issues!)

 

Thanks Liger1956, just checked and I'm pretty sure I (thankfully lol) don't have a face-lift model as my front fogs are circular and my headlights don't look to wrap around as much so I may give Carista a go for £16!

On a 2007 (07) plate it is definately a pre-facelift.

 

The activation of twin rear fog lights is doable using Carista, plus loads of other stuff, cornering front fog lights etc.

13 hours ago, silver1011 said:

On a 2007 (07) plate it is definately a pre-facelift.

 

The activation of twin rear fog lights is doable using Carista, plus loads of other stuff, cornering front fog lights etc.

I may be wrong but as far as I can see the OP has not stated the year the car was first registered. She said in the first post that he bought it in 2017 but not the age of the car. However I am pleased that she has found a relatively cheap solution.

 

Edit: I was wrong, the clue is in the title of the thread.

Edited 22 January, 20197 yr by Liger1956
I was wrong!

46 minutes ago, Liger1956 said:

I may be wrong but as far as I can see the OP has not stated the year the car was first registered. 

Check the post title ;-)

Sorry my mistake. Cannot see the wood for the trees sometimes.

Thanks all, ive ordered a Bluetooth obd connector off amazon as the carista one is unavailable at the mo and will download the app when it gets here. I'm looking forward to messing around with a few settings (and sorting the MOT!) Hopefully this will help if I have any fault codes come up too, I've come across a lot of garages that have tried to take advantage so like to sort things myself where I can (I suspect its because I'm a woman... Maybe I'm just paranoid lol)