Hi everyone,

My car (MY19 Octavia 1.5 TSI) was hit in a parking lot a month ago, and I got a letter from my insurance company last week that they are not going to repair it. Instead they are offering me a new car. I could get the old Octavia model i.e. the same as my car, heavily discounted, but paid a little more to get the new Octavia instead. It's a First Edition 1.5 TSI Estate, Manual, Titan Blue with a "premium pack", Columbus, 18" wheels and some other specs I may not have chosen myself had I ordered it from the factory - however, this car is already in the country, so I'll get it soon (not too keen of spending the summer without a car..).

 

I hope the "nose dive"/kangaroo-problem won't be present in the new Octavia. The main reason I didn't chose the old model is that mine did have some problems with hesitation at low revs. Anyway, will keep you posted!

Good luck with your new car Anders, they haven't even launched it yet in the UK with all the chaos from the lockdown over here!

 

 

I've got a mark 3, 2019, 1.5 Octavia Estate, all that Skoda did with that car was to offer a software update which more or less cured the hesitation/ roughness/ stalling when pulling away in low gears. My car had the update and since then its fuel economy has dropped by around 10%. Hopefully they've made a few more improvements to the engine software in the mark 4 Octavia.

On 17/05/2020 at 19:26, Anders74 said:

Hi everyone,

My car (MY19 Octavia 1.5 TSI) was hit in a parking lot a month ago, and I got a letter from my insurance company last week that they are not going to repair it. Instead they are offering me a new car. I could get the old Octavia model i.e. the same as my car, heavily discounted, but paid a little more to get the new Octavia instead. It's a First Edition 1.5 TSI Estate, Manual, Titan Blue with a "premium pack", Columbus, 18" wheels and some other specs I may not have chosen myself had I ordered it from the factory - however, this car is already in the country, so I'll get it soon (not too keen of spending the summer without a car..).

 

I hope the "nose dive"/kangaroo-problem won't be present in the new Octavia. The main reason I didn't chose the old model is that mine did have some problems with hesitation at low revs. Anyway, will keep you posted!

Sometimes a bit of bad luck can lead to a better outcome. As already mentioned fingers crossed with the Mk4 Octavia because we had the hesitation problem on our early 2018 Karoq, thankfully fixed with the software update last October. Looking forward to seeing pictures of your new car.

Thanks guys, yes I do hope that the hesitation/kangaroo problems will be gone by now. Something has obviously changed, since the "new" engine apparently has slightly lower consumption (and hence lower co2 emissions) compared to the engine used in the Mk3 Octavia. I will get my new car in about 2 weeks, so we'll see. Will post pictures!

Main difference in the Mk4 compared to the Mk3 is the new car is much better aerodynamically so hatch is 0.24 drag so uses less fuel.

Edited 22 May, 20206 yr by shyVRS245
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14 hours ago, shyVRS245 said:

Main difference in the Mk4 compared to the Mk3 is the new car is much better aerodynamically so hatch is 0.24 drag so uses less fuel.

 

That's true - didn't think about that. It would however be interesting to know if any changes have been made to the 1.5 engine, other than software updates.

14 minutes ago, Anders74 said:

 

That's true - didn't think about that. It would however be interesting to know if any changes have been made to the 1.5 engine, other than software updates.

Although our 2018 Karoq suffered from skippy for 18 months after the software update I would say it is 95% gone just occasionally rearing it's head. However although I thought it was using slightly more fuel that was disproved recently when I managed a 63.6mpg commute (27 miles/42km) beating an earlier pre-software 63.2mpg best. Last tank it averaged 51.88mpg (468 miles on just 41 litres) which is excellent for a 148bhp petrol SUV IMHO.

8 hours ago, shyVRS245 said:

Although our 2018 Karoq suffered from skippy for 18 months after the software update I would say it is 95% gone just occasionally rearing it's head. However although I thought it was using slightly more fuel that was disproved recently when I managed a 63.6mpg commute (27 miles/42km) beating an earlier pre-software 63.2mpg best. Last tank it averaged 51.88mpg (468 miles on just 41 litres) which is excellent for a 148bhp petrol SUV IMHO.

 

That's very good! I think I managed about 59 mpg at best with my Mk3 Octavia.

Any updates on this? 

Anders?

 

Sverige?

Sorry, yes my car is scheduled for a software update next Tuesday (something to do with the airbags). They may not need to replace the fog lights after all, not clear why they changed their minds about this.

That must have been some carpark shunt to write off a one year old car?

 

What is the connection with the fog lights?

Yes, they said that they would fix it at first but I guess the insurance company said no.

 

Don't know what the story is with the fog lights on the MK4, apparently it's not a problem anymore....