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Nice to see you decided to keep it on the road, suppose you were expecting some cost as it is nearly 20 .

I have noticed in these winter evenings that the interior door handle on the drivers side has light , illuminating it so you are not groping round in the dark I have spotted that the passenger one is not lit up so guessing the bulb/s have gone, I have scoured the net to try to find a) what bulbs are used, & b) how to remove to replace. I dont want to remove twice, want to get bulb/s 1st Can anyone help ? Thanks 👍

I got 1 from my local garage who has a contact with TPS ( they supply VW / Skoda /Audi parts to Dealers) Find a local VW specialist to see if they can get 1 from TPS . Price is about right & they are very easy to self fit

I bought a mk3 L&K 138k miles 2017, 2l diesel,DSG as long as it has full service history paperwork, if its DSG the oil is regularly changed you should be ok, the water pump & belt change has saved you around £500 already. Provided you continue to get service done regularly these older diesels are good for over 500k miles. I would strongly recommend you test drive the car for at least 30 min, again if its DSG, if you feel ANY gearchange then it will be a new clutch in the near future ( had to do mine 😞 )

correct, its registered. as manufacturer build quote.

OH - take the sportline, its 4x4, you can remap to approx 220 and the 4 wheel drive will just manage the torque.

To answer both your questions in 1 word - YES . I recently bought a 2016 L&K & traffic sign recognition just needs to be activated using VCDS, also did you check if the leds on the fan dial lit when knob was rotated, some were not so, these would need to be coded on as well. If you want the paddles you will need to buy the paddles with wiring loom to connect in, then this will also need coding in with VCDS. Its easier for the VCDS owner to do both paddles and traffic at the same time. Price the whole job up 1st then decide. Personally if you have the DSG why bother with paddles, might as well just have a manual. When I bought mine, I have a friend here in the South East who has the full blown VCDS and knows his stuff, to plug in and check for errors, he activated everything that could be & even permanently switched off the stop start ( so I do not have to press the deactivate button every time I use the car) . Word of advice If you want anyone to do any VCDS work on your car make sure they come well recommended and have done paddle fit before, get this wrong and it can cause major problems, just 1 setting out and you can have very strange effects. ( I fitted a MFSW and when it was coded in the horn stopped working was very simple to fix as the guy knew what he was doing ). good luck on your choice

Only way I could do mine. Had to be done on a PC - dont use a MAC download zip file. do not unzip . Open the zip file, then Copy / Paste to the fully formatted SD Card.

I Have the original Skoda supplied SD Card, have you reformatted the card @ FAT32 and tried. Get your chassis number from the car and make a note of it. ( usually in a little window in either driver or passenger side of windscreen ) Goto the Skoda downloads site and put in your chassis number. Download the latest maps file onto a Windows PC ( not a MAC ). extract the downloaded file onto your reformatted card. Insert the card and follow the on screen instructions .

Recently accquired a mk 3 Superb and the parcel shelf strings are missing 😞 Having looked around I can see why , the peg in the shelf is a massive weak point so I want to use what they use in the Fabia / Octavia, the heavy rubber ball on the underside the shelf. So having spent too may hours trying to find out the length of these strings, does anyone know - How long the genuine Superb strings are ? ( so I can make my own up if the Fabia / Octavia ones are too short ) How long the Fabia / Octavia ones are . ( I may be able to get from a write off if they are ok.) Thanks

Driver and passenger sitting in back seat directly behind passenger seat must be around 2 M , the size of the cars. 🤣🤣

I have just spent a bit of time researching before I bought my Superb, looking at 15 / 16 plates , Diesel hatches with 50-60K on the clock, private sale are £12,500 - 15,000, depending on condition, and service history, and lower end price if they have been 2 owner ( most likely pre reg cars). Estates were approx 500 more as there seems to be less of them around. Dealers were £16,000 - £17.500 Experience has shown that there are a few people who are not keen if the car has had pets in, as animal hair is a real B... to get out of the carpets, also just be aware that you won't get anything back on boot liner or cage price wise. Also just a thought, you say that the cage was specifically made for the car , so taking it out and selling it separately will be very time-consuming convincing a potential new owner it would fit their car. Any buyer will take the bootliner, specially in the estate. Personally with such low miles + being an Estate I personally would set sale price at £16,499 , and not take less than £15,900 with cage you would sell but not too quickly unless there is someone specifically looking at your spec. and you - WILL - get chancers offering you £12.5 - £13, using low miles not being good for engine / its had a pet - personally tell them to get lost. Quick sale - No offers £15,000 When you do put it up for sale, expect the following questions, Whats your very / Best price ? Will you take £ {stupid offer] ? , What do you want for it ? Specially from our easter European residents ( sorry if you think this is a racist or whatever comment but its a fact). Also beware if you sort of agree a price they turn up to have a look and then suddenly drop their offer , making up any excuse. Just say goodbye and walk away from them. I am telling you this based on recent experience selling my winter wheels from the Yeti, and my son selling his car to buy my remapped Fabia VRs. Set your sale price above your real wanted price and stick to it.

Recently picked up a 2015 Superb L&K , Gizmo has used his magic VCDS to activate all that can be 👍 Many Thanks. The boot is humungous , very comfortable , amount of toys is like being in an electronics toy store . The Fabia vRS is a great car and I will miss it,( gone but not forgotten) but its time for comfort.

I have my 2nd MK1 VRS, which blew a turbo and replaced with a PD150 fitted as the car is remapped ( has 160k miles), could have had a refurbed PD130 which should be fine as a replacement for the unmolested you have found, Try and find out if there is history with it, check when water-pump and belts were done ( should be 80 k / 5 years), As long as it has been serviced regularly, engine is bulletproof. Check carpets are not damp / wet otherwise it has the dreaded leak and replacement of ALL door seals seems to be the best fix as it can be virtually impossible to track down where it is. Plod at 130 kph on European motorways and you can get 48 - 50 mpg, rack it up to 160 kph and you may be lucky to see 45 mpg. If you want decent handling on the B roads either strut brace front and rear, or invest in a decent suspension that lowers car 20 - 30mm, beware with suspension you get what you pay for ( I have Bilstien Sport S2 which are not cheap but excellent). The stock head unit with speakers is not good, replace it with a know brand unit, even the Sony single. DIN actually show how pretty decent the speakers are, I have a Pioneer Android Unit with stock speakers and sound is pretty good.

Dont understand why you would mess about putting on and taking off the remap just for a service ? Unless whomever is doing your service dives into the ecu to check the configuration of it, they will never know. or they drive the car and notice the increase in torque. I have had 2 Skodas that were remapped and dealers never said anything after service, about warranty invalidated . Unless you were trying to get over 200 BHP from your 150, then this will stress parts and cause failures, Any decent person who does remaps would kill their business if they did maps that caused damage.