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The designers of cars have considerable problems when trying to set up the seating position for all shapes and sizes of drivers. I'm not being sizist, but a car has to accommodate the tall and the short (I'm the latter) the slim (that's me again) and the increasing proportion of drivers who are overweight. If you are short in the leg (me) then you have the seat fairly well forward and possibly set higher than someone of more substantial girth. So, opinions about how a car fits a driver are almost wholly dependent on the body dimensions of the driver. One size definitely doesn't fit all. The relative positions of the seat, the armrest, the handbrake lever, the gear stick, the steering wheel and the pedals are all a compromise designed to fit the "average" occupant and with the best will in the world, will not please everyone. Like the OP, I find the armrest doesn't move far enough forwards when I'm on a motorway, but when I'm driving on other roads I slide the armrest right back as I feel it gets in the way when I need to use the handbrake. And no, I don't know of any way of extending the armrest forwards.

If anyone wants to follow the other (main) thread about this, see 14 pages of posts from here on: And there's no solution in sight yet!

Spoke to Lookers Skoda Stockport on Friday. They say they have been told it's "a global issue connected with data provided by satellite" and I need to contact Skoda support if I need more information. Round & round we go in circles! Has Russia turned off a satellite by any chance? 😉

In my case, I ncould actually see droplets of water dripping down from inside the bottom lip of the dashboard onto the wheelarch carpet, which suggests it's coming down the inside of the A pillar. But door seals are still worth checking as water can travel in odd directons!

My 2016 car seems to be able to handle any amount of rain or hosing down when pointing uphill or is level, but when pointing downhill by a reasonable amount, then water leaks into the footwell on both sides. I suspect water is simply running forwards and collecting in the channel to the point that it gets deep enough to leak out through a join or something that's normally ok when there's little water present. But, I've tried adding water to the channel at home, making a dam to get it to collect, and have totally failed to reproduce the problem. Weird! So, I just don't park facing downhill.

Went to fill up today, could I get the filler flap to open? Pushed gently as usual on the trailing edge, nothing moved. Tried locking the car & unlocking it again, (several times) still wouldn't open. Clearly no sound from the solenoid (or whatever locks/unlocks it). Gave up & drove to my Skoda dealer. Guess what. It worked perfectly! Doh! :'(