I've got a couple of little niggles with my VRS.

First off the indicators work more often than not, but every so often they just stay on, instead of flashing. As it's intermittent, I bet it won't happen, if I try and show the dealer the problem. Is it obvious what causes this?

Secondly, there's occasionally a little hesitation as I accelerate. It's not lag, it's pulling, then for about a second or so, it feels as if the acceleration drops off, then it picks up again. Any ideas what's going on here?

for the indicators try changing the hazard warning switch /indicator relay ,owned two skodas and had to change this item on both cars

In my experience, both of the symptoms are common.

The indicator relay is a known fault, and if it's still under warranty the dealer should replace it for you.

The hesitation you describe happens on mine occassionally. I am going to try cleaning the throttle body this weekend, but I think there are a few things that can cause this behaviour. Try searching the Octavia forum for "stutter" or "hesitation". You should find quite a few theories on the subject.

Acceleration could be due to the n75 valve. Mine became noticable when I had the remap done, looking to get to a stealers soon and pick a new one up, see if that helps.

Agreed about the indicators, and if you want to know how "old" the issue is, my dad had it on a 1970 Vw Beetle (around 1975 or so).

Mine has a little stutter too more noticable in second or third. I will also try to clean the throttle body when i get time.

How do you clean the throttle body? I fact where is it?

In the first 3 weeks I've had the battery, the interior light and the glovebox light replaced, there's a new hazard switch on order, the windscreen has picked up a stone chip and one tyre has picked up a nail. I haven't really chased the hesitation cause there's been so much other crap to deal with.

My Octavia's replaced an old Civic which only went back to the dealer for one failure in the first year and never ever failed to start or get me to where I was going in 8 years. I've already had to have this car jump started when the battery died, on top of all the minor niggles. Inevitably I'm wondering if the Skoda was a mistake and whether I should have stuck with Hondas?

Have I got an unlucky car? Will it calm down? Modern Skodas are supposed to be reliable aren't they?

throttle body

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/ask-tech/cleaning-throttle-body-1-8t-auq/72505/

this will help you but i ain't gotta picture

it's the thing in front off the inlet manifold it's got a big black pipe which comes from your wing into it

For stutter look here http://www.briskoda.net/forums/octavia/splutter-doing-my-head/58708/ there are diagrams etc.I cleaned mine at weekend and it runs perfect now.

hey, you are describing exactly the same 3 major problems as i had with my 02 vrs. 1. the hazard light switch will cure your indicator problem. 2. the hesitation, exactly as you describe, was solved on mine with two new hoses, admittedly 60 squids for the pair but feels like a new car now, and 3. the battery death, i had the same problem and it turned out to be the courtesy light in the drivers door was staying on 24/7 down to corrosion in the door loom

ive had no problems since, all in all it cost me a ton in parts but it was all DIY stuff, apart from the corrosion issue, im lucky enough to be good at soldering...

dont give up, ok so it cost me money to get mine back up to scratch but its all worth it when you consider that permanent smile you get when you floor it

if you look closely at these forums you'll find a wealth of information and hints and tips, my entire knowledge base about the car has come from here, with a bit of help from jody at midland vw, and its all stuff worth knowing.

BTW, anybody with the same wiring corrosion issues is welcome to bring their motor for some professional reworking, im in the staffordshire area.

When you say "driver's door courtesy light", you mean the red one set into the door bin, not one of the ones by the rear view mirror?

thats right, bottom corner of the drivers door, you'd never notice if you werent looking for it, but mine was stuck on even with the door shut

Not sure what they are called, but I'd not have called them that (and have had cars where you had conventional courtesy lights above the B-pillar seatbelt mountings, so that sort of name would have applied).

The new hazard switch was delivered to the dealers today, so I took the car in to have it fitted. When I pushed the switch in, it stayed in. They had 2 new switches in, so they tried the second as well and had the same problem. The new switches had no gap at the base of the triangle, where they were sticking. In the end they had to swap in a switch from another car to get mine working.

I'm now getting paranoid about reverse gear. Often it takes several attempts to select reverse. I thought I just wasn't pushing the clutch down far enough, but now I'm starting to think there's something wrong :-(

On the plus side the door lights are definitely turning off when the doors are closed.

My old Xantia had that "couldn't get into reverse problem" a lot. It was just down to tooth to tooth contact on the revese gea cogs somewhere. The "fix" was to put the car into 5th and let the clutch up a bit, then back down, and try reverse again.