New Octavia ....when? How Much?

[brenno]

I'm not just comparing to the Fabia, which was reasonably firm btw It feels like the rear is over sprung and the tyres are mismatched. Just poorly tuned I guess.

[MJKooLio]

DEEEEEEEELAY in the Tech Pack builds of the RS....

Might be built in June.... (so a few week delay)...

[GTR27]

Hopefully it doesnt affect tech pack orders for other models (i.e. mine!)

[readerr0r]

DEEEEEEEELAY in the Tech Pack builds of the RS....

Might be built in June.... (so a few week delay)...

Yeah your dealer has to adjust the orders codes to either be the tech pack w/ RVC (October build) or the Tech Pack w/o RVC (June build). Thats what mine called me about yesterday, anyone with an RS on order should give their dealer a ring if they haven't called yet.

I don't think it'll effect other Trims with tech packs since they don't have RVC

[GTR27]

Anyone that has actually got theirs now - how long did it take before the dealer told you what build week you were allocated? Or did you just wait until the dealer called and said "it's here!" ?

[MJKooLio]

It has something to do with the unavailability of the Adaptive Cruise parts/sensors as there is a higher demand and parts are unavailable so there will be a delay in the tech pack builds... Not sure if it's all models or just the RS.

[vEnOm_oz]

Skoda isn't doing themselves any favours here. How they could have expected a low demand on the car from around the world, let alone the European market amazes me. The conspiracy theorist inside me wants to think the parent company has a hand in this .

I was looking forward to adding a performance ECU software upgrade on my car but it seems the Octavia RS uses a tricore encrypted version of the Bosch MED17.5 series ECU. Which means we can only reprogram the tune by a benchflash/BDM process which requires removing the ECU from the vehicle. There goes the warranty sigh!

It has something to do with the unavailability of the Adaptive Cruise parts/sensors as there is a higher demand and parts are unavailable so there will be a delay in the tech pack builds... Not sure if it's all models or just the RS.

[MJKooLio]

Big words and some science you used....

Will that make an APR tune harder to do with ecu?

[Dzl_Dubba]

I was looking forward to adding a performance ECU software upgrade on my car but it seems the Octavia RS uses a tricore encrypted version of the Bosch MED17.5 series ECU. Which means we can only reprogram the tune by a benchflash/BDM process which requires removing the ECU from the vehicle. There goes the warranty sigh!

More info? APR are already testing the tune in Europe on a RS. I think your warranty will be gone even if the ecu didn't require removing.

[donweather]

I think your warranty will be gone even if the ecu didn't require removing.

Exactly!!!

And I always wondered why Skoda seemed to have no encryption and yet the majority of the VAG cars had encryption. It was like Skoda wanted you to remap!!!