I have just bought a used 53plate Octavia VRS Estate, which I am very very pleased with.

I filled it up with Ultimate and the fuel guage went to full. After 60 miles the guage was still full, wow I thought these things are economical. After 100 miles it was still full!!!

On the journey I keept fiddling and resetting the trip computer. From what I remember each time I reset the needle seemed to go back up to full.

On the test drive I remember the guy telling me not to hold in the reset button in a panic. This was obviously the first thing I did when I drove away and continued doing it most of the journey.

Is this normal, is it some kind of calibration you should do after filling up?

Or is there an electrical gremlin?

I can't find anything about it in the manual.

First time I hear about this. It is not unusual to have a fuel gauge that remains on Full for the first 100 miles (if you drive like a granny though). Holding the reset button will only reset the trip computer, so I don't quite understand how it interacts with the gauge itself.

Guages are not linear, personally I would wait until 200 miles, then give the dealer a poke. Is it an early 53plate or has it got some warrenty left on it?

mine has been known not to move upto about 70 miles which i find normal as my clio did the exact same thing.

If it was me id give the stealers a call or drop in and try and catch a mechanic

Thanks,

I wait and see and report back.

On the test drive I remember the guy telling me not to hold in the reset button in a panic. This was obviously the first thing I did when I drove away and continued doing it most of the journey.

I though doing that reset the service schedule if the car was was on fixed servicing???

Just for comparison my derv stays at the full for about 100-150 miles.

I though doing that reset the service schedule if the car was was on fixed servicing???

Nope that resets the trip computer

Talking of random things, you got a turbo yet

the reason it dosn't move for such a long time is probably because of the amount of unmetered fuel that is in the filler neck of the tank. and the gauge sender cant read that high.

turbo - my @r$e. Westover skoda were going to pull my job card and phone me back about 2 weeks ago, but you guessed it... the they can't be bothered :-(

(I have never reset my trip computer!)

Sounds like it's getting to the stage where you may as well just take your car to allards and be done with it now :(.

Didin't you say there was a specialist around ringwood way.

I phoned then just now, and he only pulled the card for the day when they swapped the n75 and showed it as working!!! He was going to pull the card for the following day (when they told me I needed a new turbo) and get his chief mechanic to phone me back (within an hour), but as yet on phone call (I called them at 11.00am).

I think my turbo is fine.. it is some sensor / pipework / etc that is causing this almost parmament fault....

Yeah but they will probably be able to diagnose that too i would have thought

probably....! Still I guess I should give Westover one more chance. I assume they like to keep their phone bill as close to zero as possible, as out of at least 10 times they have promised to phone me back they never do. Well maybe they did once... when they wanted £750+ to fit a new turbo!!!!

yay... they phoned! Booked in next Friday at 15:15 on the 15th... oh dear!!!

The previous owner may have caried out a "ventectomy" on the car, although this should only really be done on diesels:

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/fabia/ventectomy-summer-safety-fuel-filler-thingie/57173/

After I removed the vent valve on my Golf & also on SWMBO's Fabia, then because of the extra 10 litres or so of fuel retained in the expansion tank the fuel gauges don't start moving until about 100 to 150miles after a refill.

You can check by looking for the black nipple (see the pictures I posted in the thread mentioned above) poking out just inside the fuel filler pipe if it's there then it's not had a "ventectomy" if it's just the white surround with no nipple then that's maybe your answer !.

it's started moving now.

Just suprised me at how long it took to move down and how economical the car is.

Next stop remapsville :rubchin: