OCTAVIA III Owners discussion thread

[pjam73]

And cannot not work out how to "set bit0-2 to 03" to enable high beam assist when long coding, as is instructed in the excellent Briskoda forums linked earlier.
I can select byte 02 as instructed, and bit 1 is enabled. Bits 0 and 2 are unticked. What exactly do I tick/select here, to set bit0-2 to 03?
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Well, if they mean set it to 3, that's the first two bits set - bit 0 and bit 1. In binary, bit 0 has a value of 1, and bit 1 has a value of 2. 1 + 2 = 3. That's my educated guess.

[Smart1]

From memory to get the comfort indicators to change setting you have to reset the lights after changing the coding for it to work.

i found 5 too long and settled for 4.

[Spinifex]

How do I "reset the lights"?

[Spinifex]

Well, if they mean set it to 3, that's the first two bits set - bit 0 and bit 1. In binary, bit 0 has a value of 1, and bit 1 has a value of 2. 1 + 2 = 3. That's my educated guess.

I can understand your educated guess..... that's what I thought too.
BUT..... it says set bit0-2....... so my understanding is I have to set bit 0, bit 1 and bit 2.... all to a value of 03?
I need to set bit0-2 to a value of 03..... but not setting byte02 to a value of 3.

What happens to the other pre-ticked bits 3&4..... so I have to untick those and only tick bits 0&1, to get a result of 03?

Sorry to be such a n00b..... don't wanna mess things up!

[pjam73]

A question for those of you with a current model Octavia with a manual gearbox...

Do all your changes feel 'smooth' in respect to the movement of the gear stick? In doing 1st-2nd changes, quite often it feels like the gear stick is hitting the sides of the gate as it goes into 2nd. It does get smoother after a few minutes driving, so perhaps it's related to oil temperature?

In going from 3rd-4th, does it seem to stick slightly just rearwards of neutral, requiring a futher push to get it into 4th? It's never happened yet but part of me thinks one day I'll be slightly distacted and it'll jump back out.

I must say the car has only done 1400KMs so it is still bedding in, and I'm slightly OCD about my gear changes so I'm probably over-reacting...

[Mysticality]

A question for those of you with a current model Octavia with a manual gearbox...

Do all your changes feel 'smooth' in respect to the movement of the gear stick? In doing 1st-2nd changes, quite often it feels like the gear stick is hitting the sides of the gate as it goes into 2nd. It does get smoother after a few minutes driving, so perhaps it's related to oil temperature?

In going from 3rd-4th, does it seem to stick slightly just rearwards of neutral, requiring a futher push to get it into 4th? It's never happened yet but part of me thinks one day I'll be slightly distacted and it'll jump back out.

I must say the car has only done 1400KMs so it is still bedding in, and I'm slightly OCD about my gear changes so I'm probably over-reacting...

My Mk2 with a DieselGeek short shifter is absolutely horrendous when its cold...
The Mk3's I've driven have been good. But they've all had less than 200km!
My advice would be to keep driving it, and see what happens. It'll probably be fine.

[Gerrycan]

1st to 2nd on my Mk3 manual (1.4tsi) has never been as smooth as it should be, and often baulks although if I rev out 1st more then the change improves. I consider the gearing gap on my mk3 between 1st/2nd is too wide and contributes to the problem,

The manual gear change on my 5 speed mk2 1.9d diesel was much better, but I thought the overall gearing between all gears was better too.

I have adapted to my style to 'pause' slightly in Neutral on the 1st/2nd change but the other gears are fine for me

I drove a manual Focus (1.0tsi) in the UK last year and the gear change was superbly buttery smooth, especially 1st/2nd. No notchiness, no baulking, it just slipped easily across. Unfortunately not all things perfect as the clutch was too light and it was difficult to know when it was actually engaging.

I have also driven other cars with much worse gearchange issues so I can live with it, but yes it would be nice if it were better.

PS 30,000 kilometres and 30 months old

[HPRS230]

Dumb Question,
but do the MkIII's come with floor Mats? As in, be standard with the car?
Cheers

[Jondalar]

They were standard with my car in April from the Brisbane Skoda dealer...

Dumb Question,
but do the MkIII's come with floor Mats? As in, be standard with the car?
Cheers

[HPRS230]

They were standard with my car in April from the Brisbane Skoda dealer...

Thanks for the reply, cheers.