Yeah, I’ve update my post to reflect that. In the intervening 4 years, they almost doubled in the option cost.

Don’t know about anyone else but I find mine weird. When you first turn it on you get a lovely surge of cold air and then it just seems to not be obvious to the point it feels like it’s not working. It’s only when I turn it off I realise that the seats aren’t getting hotter. I just wish I could have that initial surge all the time.

Sure is not the way you "feel" it?

I initially thought like you, but then I see traveling long journey, thus with enough time to try well all three settings, that there is no variation in the "flow", o "suction", so probably is the heat impression we have ...

On 22/08/2025 at 14:09, travs said:

I think there could be some with Gen3 EA888s in facelift cars as I thought the Gen 4 wasn’t being used until some time in 2020.

I remember reading that FL brought the 272 engine version, without the flaps, and then in some moment it became again 280 with the GPF, with a 'D', but I believe the first two are 'C' thus Gen3.

4 hours ago, leolito said:

I remember reading that FL brought the 272 engine version, without the flaps, and then in some moment it became again 280 with the GPF, with a 'D', but I believe the first two are 'C' thus Gen3.

The gen3 are CJXA for 280 pre-GPF and DNUA for 272 with GPF; both pre-FL.

The intention probably would have been to coincide the introduction of gen4 DNFE with FL but it’s not guaranteed that the last pre-FL off production would have been gen3 and the first FL would have been gen4. I just don’t think it definitely goes as smoothly as that.

No ... I always imagine those moments with the typical boardroom meeting and someone asks the head of stock

- "how much is left of the old stuff?"

- "plenty!!"

- "phase it out evenly then!"

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25 minutes ago, leolito said:

No ... I always imagine those moments with the typical boardroom meeting and someone asks the head of stock

- "how much is left of the old stuff?"

- "plenty!!"

- "phase it out evenly then!"

*board room circa 2005…

“So our mk2 Octavia is ready to start production”

“Is there much leftovers from the mk1 production?”

“Probably another 10thousand shells and all the panels, trims etc. we’ve thousands of engines left over too”

“Hmmm… seems like a waste…”

“I know, let’s just build em anyway but only sell them to taxi drivers until we run out!”

*board room circa 2010

“So, we started our mk2 Octavia Face Lift sales last year.”

“Great”

“Oh and we finally ran out of mk1 parts!”

“Thank Jesus. Now start designing the mk3 version.”