100andthirty

Thanks all for the feedback.

My 220 TSI flagged 'low coolant on 31 Jan. When I got home I checked by the level was between min and max. That was lower than usual so a little had been used. I topped up to max and then drove my family and a roof box though France to the Alps and back with no trouble. This week the alarm has sounded again, each time when Ieft the drive. Inspected this morning and level is low - below minimum, and I topped up about 400-500ml. I can't see any signs of leaks. Any ideas folks? Dreaded water pump failure, perhaps? If so might it be covered by Skoda 'all parts' warranty? In any event, I'll book it in for attention after Easter. Thanks in advance for any advice.

After parking this afternoon the person who drove in behind me asked if the red car was mine. She said there's something hanging down. When I looked it was a panel roughly under the read left side footwell with one corner adrift. Oh drat (or words to that effect) why does this happen when I have a longish trip tomorrow? Anyway at about 16:00 phoned local Skoda dealer. Very polite but apologetic: "it needs to go on a ramp and we're booked up for the next 5 weeks!" Then drove to a local VW-Audi independent - Inde Tech - who said "give me the key and we'll have a look". 15 minutes later it was fixed with no charge - just a fastener had come adrift. I've used Inde Tech before and always thought their customer srvice was good. I'll be back.

You'd be better off looking/asking in the Superb Mark 2 forum as there's an awful lot that's significantly different from the Mark 3

Just completed 1500 miles to/from the French Alps. 4 adults and a 5 year old, A full loadspace and with secondhand Mercedes roofbox with 4 pairs of skis. Weather on the way out was very windy in Northern France - horizontal windsocks, but improved on 2nd day. Arrived at destination just as it was snowing, but got away without snow socks or chains. On the day of the return journey, there was 6 inches of snow on the roads at 12:00 but by 16:00 when we left, it had gone and the roads were dry, such is the strength of the sun at that altitude. Typically drove at 75 mph on the autoroutes as wind noise from the roofbars/box became excessive at the legal 81 mph. Otherwise, there was only one short traffic jam on the A43 travelling west from Chambery. We have one of those Peage 'T' tags and as far as I recall we only had to stop once at a peage and then only for a few seconds. The worst hold up was for British/French border control at Folkstone - about 30 minutes. The car is an absolute joy to drive especially on the run up to the resort. There's so much power that the steep gradients are taken in their stride, even when heavily laden. As always, the busiest roads were in the UK - M20, M25, M1.

I suffered for moths with a tinkling noise that I was convinced was coming from the nearside of the car, probably low down. M passengers couldn't hear a noise on the nearside. Eventually I located it as the zip fastener pull toggle on a sunglasses case knocking against the inside of the sunglasses holder. This taught me two things. One, that it's tough to gauge the height of a nose and two, that the noise might be closer than you think!

For me it was a double sided (rubber/carpet) boot mat and brighter LED lamps for the lights on the inside of the tailgate. My magnetic GB sticker was useful but I now have to replace it with a UK sticker.

My car has a Columbus unit and twice in recent months it has "woken up" having wiped the memorised DAB stations. It's easy enough to re-programme them, although one or two station logos aren't in the database and they have to be added manually. Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening?

Having now examined and fixed RSB's SD card on my Windows 10 PC, it's now sorted. Windows 10 saw two logical disks/partitions on the SD card. One with all of RSB's music and one which Windows wanted to format, but couldn't. The latter was a partition just 20MB in size. The music played fine on my PC but not on my car. I deleted the 200MB partition. Didn't help. So there was no real choice but to delete the music partition as well, AFTER I'd copied all the files to my computer. Then it was straightforward. In Disk Management, I deleted the music partition, initialised and formatted the card (exFAT) and copied the music back. It now worked in my Columbus. Hopefully RSB will have the card back in a day or two. It was an interesting challenge. I'd never seen a card with two partitions before!

Interestingly I bought my car from a salesman who'd come to Skoda from Audi. When I test drove the SIII that led me to buy mine I wondered aloud "why would anyone bother with an Audi". He privately agreed with me. A year or so later I had a long journey in an Audi A6. I didn't change my view!

Mine 220TSI was due for a new belt at 5 years and was duly booked in for the work. Fortunately they didn't change the chain and I saved £550. The apologised for their ignorance which I do believe was on the booking side and clearly not with the technicians!

Fingers crossed that we can get this sorted!

That works for me with two SD cards and occasionally a USB stick

Me too. Found this via search hoping for answers! Will be patient

All fixed now, faults cleared and "software updated". My pocket is now £276 lighter - 😪