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Hi everyone, I recently bought a 2014 Superb II facelift (2.0, 170 HP, DSG, 220,000 km). It’s a very good car for its age. So far, I haven't had any issues with it. All the best to everyone!

thanks for the suggestions. Pollen filter totally dry, no sign of any damp on passenger (N/S) of car. As the carpets are dry above floor level, it would seem the water is entering very low down. I have checked the scuttle drains and they're flowing fine. One thing that puzzles me (above the rest of this!) is how the rear passenger footwell has got so wet. Assuming the water (which is clean and odour-free) is entering the driver footwell, I cannot work out how it reached the rear, as there appears to be cross member under the driver seat and the carpet in front/on top/ immediately behind it, is all dry.

I had 1.0 litre Octavia a few years ago. Did the occasional run to the airport with 5 up and stuffed with suitcases. No problems at all.

Brief update on this - after some more testing: Talkmobile monthly SIM (Vodafone network) works in both the CarStick and via mobile tethering O2 Classic PAYG SIM doesn't work in the CarStick, but does work with mobile tethering So it seems that O2 PAYG isn't co-operating with the CarStick, or vice versa. Which is a pain because O2 Classic PAYG is a very cheap deal that's no longer available - it barely uses any credit. I don't think it's anything with the vehicle itself, which rules out taking it to a dealer as Skoda Connect suggested.

@joek666 If you scroll up just a few messages, the version you're refering to is already out, posted and tested since June.

New version appears to have been released recently - latest versions of all regions is CW 35/2026 now on the Skoda update portal

Rain saps power in ICE cars similar to EVs it is that EV have far superior data systems we can measure small difference in energy usage. ICE vehicles ars so wasteful of energy, most themselves energy goes out of the exhaust pipe as waste heat, that a mile per gallon list in rain is no big deal. Wgen chraging it is easy to monitor the electricity going in to the Joule, program to stop the charge on battery level, which i do alot. Just got to make sure one does not pick up an idle charge. Worse than downloading more power than one intends, at big expense, is to be charged dosh for being connected but not charging up, that would hurt. Never had that thankfully.

That's one thing that does not happen with liquid fuels, just saying.

Just because it's free and easy, drop your pollen/cabin filter out and see if it's full of water. Again, on the cheap and easy. have a sit in the car and get someone to go round it one area at a time with the pressure washer, and see when water comes in. Probably won't be an external leak, but it's the easy place to look.

Further to my previous post I can confirm that it does show all three lanes on a motorway.

The MK3 has a removable lower glovebox, evidently, whereas the Mark 2 does not. Access is the whole issue here, not what you do when you have it. One day I'll get round to doing the job.

Finding the more modern the more electronic problems and dealer only fixes. I would stick with the one you have although 220k is fairly high. I suppose it depends what you would get for it if selling? Alasdair

Done that too.

Just came home 160 miles in torrential rain and was getting 2.8 miles a kWh. I stopped at 80 miles to charge a little as showing only 50 mile range. Charged more than I ment because I only wanted £3 of charge and ended with £12 as busy talking chargers and how bad they are. Left charger and no rain and average speed cameras and 3.2 miles a kWh. 75 miles range left, so money wasted from gabbing on.

Hello everyone, I have pretty weird issue with my bending (AFS) lights, they dont bend anymore 😁 I don't have any error code on dash, and when connecting VCDS I don't see any error messages for headlights either. I tried testing the ligths bending left and right with vcds and they work totally fine both of them bend left and right. I also run learning usin VCDS basic coding, and it said: learned. I also checked a 10Amp fuse, switched it with another 10Amp fuse for AFS and it still doesn't work. It feels like AFS is simply switched OFF, but googling arround I found out that there is no simple switch off/on for AFS. I did switch off cornering lights with fog ligthts using VCDS, and set washer headlights to off, but that shouldn't switch bending lights function? Did anyone had similar problem? Am I missing something, maybe I can do some sort of AFS reset or there is a setting to switch them on/off?

Yup. All working spot on.

And?... Does it work as expected? I hope it does, as a reward for all your efforts! 😉

Same here re locking nuts. There awful. Tyre service snapped the only adapter which looked like some kind of alloy not steel and it was a nightmare to get stud out. Local garage welded a nut on the end to remove it as dealer wasn't very helpful re replacement and I needed tyre changed as it had lost shape. I remove them if their fitted. Nice tread pattern on tyre. I do prefer the herring bone pattern. Works better in my opinion in wet. Alasdair

I have no fear of anyone wanting my 16's lol.

Lots of detail here about this problem : - All the parts looks similar. HTH. Thanks. AG Falco

I agree absolutely terrible design for when it fails. It's like they have managed to shoe horn the actuator into the most inaccessible space. In my case the electrical plug was facing upwards and the assembly right up against the bulkhead.

My old 1.9tdi and newer 1.6tdi are 105hp which is less than the 1.0tsi. Torque on my diesels is 250NM which is higher than the 200NM of the 1.0tsi but reckon as long as your not towing you wouldn't notice. Alasdair

Thanks for the response. The car doesn't have a sunroof, so we can rule that out. Need to try to lift/remove carpets to get the underlay out, which holds water like a sponge apparently. Haven't worked out how to do that yet.

Superb still has a good sized tank ie 66 litres, and has not suffered so much of the trend of smaller fuel tanks on B and C segment cars. Cars was modified with non standard tyres ie more energy efficient ones, had the Greenline smooth underfloor, something EVs have as fairly standard now and who knows what else. Probably cooled fuel to reduce volume ie put in a fridge before the run and the absolutely brimmed like I would do when I use to get my Tescos 5p /8p off tokens. Still and impressive mileage and especially as set on roads and not track like when an RAF team near doubled the miles travelled compared to WLTP ie over 480 miles compared to 250 miles WLTP but that was done at Thruxton and average speed was 20 mph not not really practical and therefore must have taken nearly 2 days, must have been a lot of fun, not. Couple of other points. Diesel is 2.25 Euros per litre so fuel tank would cost about 150 Euros to fill ie about £130 so not cheap compared to ICE home or destination charging costs or even some public charging costs at the right times. That 66 litres of diesel 2.5 GJ of energy and burning it would produced 177 kgs of CO2 being added to the Earth's atmosphere. Energy per mile would be 1.42 MJ per mile, normal driving and normal car would be around 3 MJ per mile. An EV would typically average about 0.9 MJ per mile so way more efficient than even the most extreme effort to be efficient. EVs are at least twice as efficient as even the most extreme ICE effort, on average more like 3 to 4 time more efficient. Running costs similarly so.

Hi, welcome to the forum. There are lots of posts over the years about water ingress so worth doing some searches. And if you resolve the problem it is always helpful to post what you found and how you cured it as it may help others. I'm not an expert so what follows is what I've picked up from other members over the years, If you have a sun roof don't rule that out. There are a lot of posts on this forum and elsewhere about the chassis that holds the sun roof cracking and that allows water to drain into the car - we did have extremely heavy rain recently. There are suggestions of d-i-y fixes using Capt Tolley's sealant but with variable success and no indication of whether it gives a permanent fix or just a temporary breathing space. On older cars the consensus was moving to sealing the sunroof so it can't open but at least gives a waterproof glass lid that lets the sun in. If you don't have a sunroof you can breathe a sigh of relief as replacements are wallet straining. From what you describe I'd be thinking along your lines - someone's interfered with the aircon and immediately after that you have a problem. Bit gross I know but did you sniff/taste to see whether the liquid in the well was likely to be water or something containing chemical compounds? It might have helped reduce down the options of what the problem could be. As you've been able to partially dry the carpets unfortunately that's not an option now but if the water keeps coming in worth thinking about. On the cars with sunroofs there are four drain tubes that run down the corners of the car. I'm not sure if they are there on cars without sunroofs but someone may be able to help with that. There have in the past been reports of these getting blocked and water getting into the car. From memory a common suggestion was to carefully thread a long thin cable from the accessible outlet holes at the bottom up the tubes to dislodge any debris. I say carefully as you don't want to puncture a tube part of the way up and make matters worse. (Just a though but these days you can buy endoscopes for a few pounds on eBay; don't bother with the ones that use your smartphone, they are usually rubbish. Possibly they are narrow enough to fit in the tube and feed up and see if there is an obstruction. The tubes are, I think, around 2m long so you'd need a "snake" at least that and maybe a bit more. If it fits not only would it let you see if there is an obstruction but also the head is unlikely to snag the rubber of the hose. There is an irony here - I had one with a 5m snake and found it clumsy to use so recently gave it to a charity shop when I bought one with a more manageable 1m "snake". I hope i don't live to regret it). Sorry I can't be more help but unfortunately most of the really clever guys that knew their Yetis inside out have moved onto new marques and models taking their expertise with them but you might be lucky because occasional one or two look into the forum and post replies. Good luck.