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I lost the same trim on my 2016 Superb a few years ago on the motorway in France. I heard a sudden rattling noise that quickly stopped and found it was missing on my next stop. They'd come loose occasionally before this, but I'd always noticed and pushed them back on again as you hear a twang as you open the door. This time it was after we came off the ferry and with all the noises and lack of much light, it went unnoticed

I went to continental Europe last year in my 2023 Superb. I only changed the speed to KPH and left distance etc in imperial. I don't usually use the display you're showing and I don't remember seeing this dual display anywhere. I'm off to Lithuania in the Superb in April and I'll look then to see if I can see this display. I'd be quite happy to see both shown on the display so I know my speed in a measurement I'm more familiar with.

Yes, it came up when I turned on the ignition for a few seconds and then went to the usual start up display if I remember correctly. With age not on my side and a house move since it happened, it's difficult to remember precisly!

I had this warning on my 23 plate Superb last year, which surprised me as I thought the battery would be older before it'd lose power, but I suppose the batteries used when the car is new could have come from old stock. I changed the battery as a precaution and it hasn't happened again yet.

I only ever use the radio, but I find that the volume sometimes goes to zero if I cancel a traffic report by pressing the left hand wheel on the steering wheel. It's a bit annoying, but I just turn the volume back up and live with it as I've no idea if it can be resolved.

Hi dsgman The only issues I had with AdBlue were in the winter when I wasn't using the car to go very far during covid when the DPF warning light came on. I drove up and down the Brecon bypass a few times to clear it and when I traded the car in at 8 years old, it was running fine. Apart from when covid prevented us from travelling, we'd make occasional trips trips to Merthyr Tydfil and Hereford from Brecon during the winter and this was enough to prevent the warning light coming on. I filled AdBlue up with i0 litres when the gauge showed it'd take that much and followed the procedure exactly as described and never had any issues.

Looking back at my annual trips to Lithuania which average around 3,300 miles per trip, in 2024 the last time I went in my 2016 2.0 TDi 190 it averaged 55.3 mpg and the first time I went in my 2023 2.0 TSi 190 in 2024, it averaged 50.2 mpg. With the current price of diesel in the UK about 10p more than petrol and with the added cost of AdBlue, the savings of running a diesel are negligible for me. Also, as I'm now retired and make many more short journeys around town between the occasional long trip, there would be no point in me buying a diesel.

Can you make a claim against the council or whoever is responsible for maintaining the road where it happened if you submit a photo of the pot hole and evidence of the damage caused? This is a possible recourse in the UK, but I guess you're not UK based as you mention your speed in kph rather than mph.

I'd been unable to link to my Skoda Connect since I bought the car in October 2024. I was living in Brecon then and the car was supplied by Sinclairs of Swansea and I waited until it needed a service in June this year as it wasn't worth travelling all that way to fix it on its own. Sinclairs tried to link it when it was in for a service, but were unable to do so and details were sent to Skoda Support and they reported that the car would need to go back to Sinclairs to have the issue resolved once they'd found out what the problem was. Our house was being sold at that time, so I deferred it until we moved to Lincoln and yesterday it went into Hortons of Lincoln. It's all working perfectly now! I was very pleased with Hortons as they didn't supply the car but attended to my problem as if I was a long standing customer.

I was packing boxes ready for our move this afternoon and I've found the invoice for suppling and fitting a new chrome strip and it was a bit more than I though at £71.56 including VAT.

At 74 I do very little maintenance on the car now, but I can remove and/or replace the window trims easily, so any mechanic should be able to do it, provided they can get the part. The Skoda dealer in Swansea obtained the trim from TPS Swansea, so your mechanic may be able to get one from TPS London.

I had the same problem on my 66 plate L&K and the leading edge of the trim on the rear windows would occasionally ping out when a front door was opened, but I pushed them back into place when it happened and never took it back to the dealer to be fixed under warranty. I lost the same door trim in Calais, France on the A16 3 or 4 years ago on the way to Lithuania. We were on our way to our first night's stay of our journey after I'd spent time to get the car looking at its best, so it had to stay like that for the rest of our holiday. I think it's purely cosmetic, as we drove over 3,000 miles through various weather conditions and there were no leaks. It was due for a service after we returned and I asked the dealer to replace it. I think I failed to spot that it'd come lose and push it back in as it happened after we got in the car on the ferry. The lighting on the car deck isn't very bright and it's also noisy, so I wouldn't have heard it coming off. I'm not sure of the cost. I've probably got the invoice somewhere, but we're moving house next week, so it's packed away somewhere if I've still got it. I think it was somewhere between £30 to £40? I don't know how often the French clean the motorway verges, but mine may still be on the side of the A16 if you want a free one or maybe you can find yours if you know where it came off! Only kidding, of course, as the fine for stopping and searching for it would be far more than the cost of a new one.

Not me, as I have a MKIII and have no experience of a MK4.

Did the car come with the optional smokers pack? I assume with this you get lighters rather than blanks and ash trays that can be used as ash trays rather than the standard storage areas.

We're not required to have one in the UK, but I bought one in 2012 before we went to Belarus as they require one to be carried in the car and I thought they may check everything in detail on the border or if we were stopped by the police, but they didn't check anything. I've still got it and its next to the spare wheel, though its probably date expired by now. I'm not sure how effective these small extinguishers are on a car fire. If you have a fire under the bonnet and have to open the bonnet to try and use the extinguisher, this could be very dangerous and I'd rather get away from the car quickly and call the fire brigade. I'd rather lose my car than my life! I remember in the early 1970s I parked near a Jensen Interceptor and was admiring it when I got out of my car when I noticed what I thought was steam coming out of the bonnet and thought that he maybe had a leak in the cooling system. It was getting worse and then I realised it was smoke and then one or two flames came out, so I rushed to the nearest phone box (no mobile phones, of course) and dialled 999. In the few minutes it took for the fire brigade to arrive, the fire had increased and I was standing well away. They levered open the bonnet and flames and smoke poured out that would cause serious injury to anyone with a car extinguisher trying to put it out. By the time the fire was out, the car was in a mess and probably written off.