OCTAVIA III Owners discussion thread

[aalin13]

While i love my new RS i have a certain gripe with it. Put the lever in sport and off she goes, but when it comes to putting it back to drive i have to select normal mode via the VRS mode button. Why couldn't they leave it as it was with a separate gear selection for D and S?

If you pull back again on the lever it will toggle back to D again

[Dzl_Dubba]

Wow big congrats on getting your car!! This makes it even tougher to wait till Christmas as my specs are very similar to this... Is that Candy White or Moon White?

Thanks! Candy white

If you pull back again on the lever it will toggle back to D again

Sweet. Thanks for that

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[Polo GTEye N9]

98 Octane Fuel in the RS only guys?

Not if it is a diesel lol

[occy]

While i love my new RS i have a certain gripe with it. Put the lever in sport and off she goes, but when it comes to putting it back to drive i have to select normal mode via the VRS mode button. Why couldn't they leave it as it was with a separate gear selection for D and S?

My Elegance switches between sport and drive or eco and drive, depending what mode you are in, using only the gear lever.

[Gerrycan]

103 TSI manual. First thing in the morning the first hundred metres out of my garage along the back lane are in 1st gear and progress on a steady throttle is quite jerky. Mornings have been 5 to 10 degrees but once I am on the road and have revved through a couple of changes and 300 metres to the first junction then things are fine for the rest of the day no matter how long it is left (temperature is warmer then).
Anyone else experiencing this?

[k_rider]

Yes, my Octavia II vRS (147 TSI and DSG) does the same occasionally. I've only really experienced it in the carpark at work, going home in the evening. Probably because it's flat, I have to keep the speed down and it's cold. Most of the time it will change up to second, but from time to time will hold first and is then jerky on a steady throttle - well what I perceive to be steady! Maybe the "fly-by-wire" throttle is a bit more sensitive to slight movements in the pedal? I simply put it down to driveline lash and movement in the engine/gearbox mounts.

[Gerrycan]

If like me you only have the jerkiness when cold then it must be the car and not your twitchy foot.
My car has only done 3000 km, the jerkiness is recent but getting worse so I will have to contact the dealer. Not something that is easy to demonstrate though so I can only hope a fault registers.
By the way your K100RS must look great, I always thought the JPS Lotus was the best looking F1 ever with the gold piping on black, just a pity about the product it advertised.

Update: Booked in to be left overnight in a couple of weeks time. Main recommendation was to use 98 octane on my next fill up which I was going to do anyway.

[brad]

You don't use 98? What are you using?

[zei20t]

4. Radar distance sensor actually works. Warns you if you need to brake urgently and will do it for you on the appropriate setting (which I haven't tried yet)

unless you have the 'too close' indicator active, it will brake for you to almost a full stop, then it will tell you to apply the brake.

the loaner MK3 I had for a week did that. when I drove down the coast, mostly it wasn't complete stop traffic, I let it accelerate and brake for me almost the entire time. was weird, and I hovered over the brake pedal a lot. but it was VERY smart about it, and kept the distances I was selecting.

when I eventually get a mk3, ill be optioning it with the adaptive cruise for sure!

[Gerrycan]

You don't use 98? What are you using?

To date I have used 95 octane with no problems at all, runs well and get good fuel economy, but in the last month it has developed a 'stutter' when cold. Still runs great after the first 300 metres or so.
This is Adelaide and the fuel is only as good as what comes off the boat.