What did you do to your Octavia today?

[woofy]

My car would be available for pickup finally this week, but with some faffing about won't be until I'm away tomorrow. So organised to pick up Wed next week. Today I get the call, the Finance person doesn't work Wed so can we change the day. FFS they knew the delivery date and only now tell me. They don't work today either and noone thought about this yesterday when we could have done something. Add this to the 2-3wks now they have taken to get back to me about adding in two other items. Still don't have an answer for it either, so can't even work out the total amount owing and what will be deposit. And I will be mostly out of contact the next two days and we have a public holiday Monday. The salesguy quitting and moving to another dealer last week. And the manager being away so everyone is working blind. Oh and they can't tell me where the car will be delivered yet, as they are moving showrooms and not sure exactly where.....how hard can it truly be.

[parisfrance]

Try SuperSkoda.com they have non-aerosol touch-up paint for 10euros.

[MickeyB]

I had found when washing the car that I was getting dribbles of dirty water from both sides, just behind the front wheel arches: I had suspicions that my car had sat outside for an extended period prior to my ownership, as every time I washed it I was cleaning significant amounts of crud from all the boos and crannies: the gap under the rear glass, the side bump strips etc.

So yesterday I decided to loosen the inner front wheel arches and see why I'm dealing with:






It was the same on both sides: heaps of dirt and leaf litter: not sure if this is a common occurrence, but probably worth checking for those with 1z bodies- it takes a couple of minutes, and you only need to rove 4 screws on each side. It had obviously been there for a while: the dirt was caked on and took a fair amount of scrubbing to remove...



No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy

[Lucas_R]

Nice work mate - i had a similar level of crud in my Mk6 GTI front guards when i bought it 2nd hand. I spent the 1st week doing a full detail inside, outside, and under.

[garat05]

My OBDeleven arrived, activated Traffic, Laptimer, Dimming DRLs when blinking and tear drop wipe front and back, also trailing auto lock when the keyfob is outside of the car and the doors are closed to see if i like it. All pretty straight forward and worked first time.

Couple of tips if you are thinking of getting the ODBeleven because it comes with zero instructions:

Changes sometimes take a little bit to show up, i figure the car needs to reinitialize everything. and you need a to have reception on your phone (or be within range of your wifi) to get the OBDeleven to connect .. i sat for about 40 mins in my parking garage trying to get it to connect before i thought to try it out on the street, worked first time.

Also ignition needs to be ON.

Worth the $80 IMO, very cool being able to turn new features on your car

[tenyearguarantee]

Try SuperSkoda.com they have non-aerosol touch-up paint for 10euros.

My brother-in-law is in the UK at the moment, he picked up one from a dealer for $20 so am going down that route.

[woofy]

My OBDeleven arrived, activated Traffic, Laptimer, Dimming DRLs when blinking and tear drop wipe front and back, also trailing auto lock when the keyfob is outside of the car and the doors are closed to see if i like it. All pretty straight forward and worked first time.

Couple of tips if you are thinking of getting the ODBeleven because it comes with zero instructions:

Changes sometimes take a little bit to show up, i figure the car needs to reinitialize everything. and you need a to have reception on your phone (or be within range of your wifi) to get the OBDeleven to connect .. i sat for about 40 mins in my parking garage trying to get it to connect before i thought to try it out on the street, worked first time.

Also ignition needs to be ON.

Worth the $80 IMO, very cool being able to turn new features on your car

I haven't come across the auto lock when keyfob is outside, where did you find the settings for that?

[garat05]

I haven't come across the auto lock when keyfob is outside, where did you find the settings for that?

Its in the "Apps" section when you add your car to the app. theres a bunch of reconfigured tweaks you can make that cost "10 credits each" its simple to get 10 credits by opening a few ads within the app, takes all of 30 seconds.

[Reichter]

Just dropped off my MY15 RS for it's first service at Essendon Skoda. The loan car cost $25 and got a Fabia 81TSI.

[woofy]

Finally picked my RS wagon up today, only 8mths wait! One thing I thought odd as did the sales guy was that the key still is the flipout kind? I thought they would have the hidden key inside, or is it because I have the auto tailgate? Most things are familiar to our 2008 RS including the same colour, but a few changes. No storage box under the front passenger seat is an obvious one, and lack of the sunglass holder with the sunroofs now due to more sensors or something sitting up there instead now.