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Having covered 22k and owned it for 12 months I thought it time to write up my experiences on this car, some of the logic behind my choices and then some of the good, bad & ugly! The car:- ~~Skoda Superb Laurin & Klement 2.0 TSI 280ps 4x4 DSG estate~~ Extras/Options:- Panoramic sunroof Cooled front seats Space saver spare wheel Heated steering wheel Retractable parcel shelf Rear view camera What I've done to it:- K&N air filter - something I always do to my VAG vehicles! Enabled High Beam Assist - amazing that this £300 extra can be enabled with coding, it's pretty awesome too Fogs on with High Beam - more light on country lanes please Enable KESSY to lock the vehicle with the engine running - ace for frosty mornings (although not strictly essential with a heated front screen) Enabled teardrop wipe front + rear - can't think why this isn't standard Enabled undertaking with Adaptive Cruise Control - this one bugged me like mad, 2 motorways merging or a filter lane off at a junction were always a PITA Disabled Start/Stop - thank goodness. Turned off boot closing 'beeps' - not sure if this is sensible or not, can't make my mind up! Enabled refuel qty in Maxidot - just because I could! Enabled fan (blower) speed in AUTO mode - again just because I could! (As you can see, mostly coding/VCDS tweaks) So, firstly let's deal with some of the justifications of the Options! Pano sunroof:- having had this as standard on my Hyundai i40 Tourer I couldn't (and still can't) see myself owning another car without one - I agree, this will be a totally personal thing but I absolutely love the airiness & light that it brings to the vehicle and is worth the £1k to me (obviously not to all!) Cooled Seats:- SWMBO is always freezing & I'm always boiling! If she can dictate heated seats & steering wheel, then I'll have cooled ones thanks!!! Spare Wheel:- a bag of jungle juice & a compressor on the side of the M4 yesterday wouldn't have sorted my shredded tyre............. Best £100 you can spend IMHO Heated Steering Wheel:- SWMBO's orders. Retractable Parcel Shelf:- think I got diddled here - fairly sure this is standard on L&K, but it appeared as a £100 extra on the invoice from the dealer.............. perhaps someone will be able to clarify! Rear View Camera:- partly SWMBO and partly because it was standard on my old i40 and found it jolly useful! Secondly, let's deal with the actual vehicle justification! L&K (nearly) had all the things on my must have and nice to have list... As the title suggests, I'll be having this car for a long time and will be doing 22k+ per year in it so it had to be something decent. My other car is a Leon Cupra 290 so the 280 Superb seemed a logical choice! It was a tried & tested engine as far as I was concerned and the DSG box is just awesome every time I've ever driven a car with it. The 4x4 was partly because it 'was there' but also because I decided my next car was going to be 4x4 as the Leon Cupra just has far too much power to be delivered efficiently to 2 wheels - burning through tyres isn't my idea of fun! The KESSY was also pretty crucial as it was on my i40 & I found it incredibly useful. Thirdly. the Good, the Bad & the Ugly! The good:- find me a 4x4 300bhp estate car with this amount of room for passengers & luggage alike, with this build quality, with this spec for this money and I'll say you've got a Superb. No other car can come match it as far as I'm concerned. The bad:- An annoying subtle clonking has crept up on me - seems suspension related... intermittent and elusive so far!! The ugly:- It's 'only' a Skoda... So, what now. Well it appears I have an itch I need to scratch! @superbtte's absolutely stunning work to his (now sold) Superb is really, really winking at me! To justify another £x,000's on this car will be difficult, but it still winks! I'd probably do something like:- new exhaust, lower it by 30mm, new turbo, remap & leave everything else stock!

I have Now completed the first (40,000 mile) oil change on my 6 speed dsg box I will attach some pictures and information that may help others tempted to do the same though I have seen a recent post that stated they have been quoted £175 at a garage to do it so at that price it may not be worthwhile. For me there was little choice as Blade group will never get their hands on a vehicle of mine ever again. I purchased a " Sealey VS70095 Transmission Oil Filling System 3ltr instead of the vag6262 tool. " (use text between quotes to search) which cost me £69.49 (can be done cheaper without a pump but its slower) I purchased " 1 x Genuine VW DSG Gearbox Oil And Filter Kit (G052182A2, 02E305051C, N910845) from "Lancaster volkswagon" at a cost of £111.92 I already own Vcds (£270) So without going any further - if you can get it done for £175 then do it as even now I have the required equipment It will still cost £112 and a couple of hours of my precious snoozing time in another 40,000 miles time. Still interested...here we go then. I couldn't find an online video of a skoda superb dsg oil change but I did find a very good video of a vw model from a site covering their turbo diesel ( or was it "myturbodiesel" wink wink) search for this "How to change and drain the DSG transmission fluid in your VW w/ VAG6262" and select videos. The car needs to be level but there seems no where to measure the levelness of the superb so I measured the drive level and made blocks of wood to sit under three of the wheels. The oil would drain easier if warm but unless its the depths of winter I wouldn't worry about this too much, the oil is not very viscous. Step 1. jack one side of the car up slightly so that you can reach the furthest and middle of three TX45 screw that holds the engine drip tray up, remove those three tx45's and 8 TX20 (torx size 20) around the edge. (put the 11 screws in the tray and put it somewhere where you can trip over it and send the screws flying) Step 2 Identify the DSG box oil drain plug and slightly loosen it. do not remove it yet You need a size 14mm hex drive and a long ratchet or torque driver I have rung it here in green for you. (viewed from car front) Step 3. Lower the car, lift the bonnet and disconnect the battery . 2 @10mm Pull the battery fleece off (if fitted) Undo the battery retaining clamp. 1@13mm and remove the battery ( the battery tray has lips at the nearside edge so if leaning over the wing, lift and push away from you to disengage. Step 4 Remove the electrical connector from the air cleaner pipe and the smaller rubber pipe. The connector has a small grey peg at the side of it, pull this peg up slightly and then hold it against the connector as you pull it up. Step 5 remove the air inlet pipe from the air cleaner assembly Remove the top of the air filter box and take out the air filter. You now need to remove the lower part of the air filter housing, it is held down by two rubber push on nipples ( highlighted yellow on the 2nd picture below) and one TX30 screw (coloured green 1st pic below) and the air pipes. There is also a ribbed drain tube that goes down through the engine bay to the void in front of the wheel. it is connected to nothing so just pull it up and free. It will make sense when you do it yourself but it requires a yank upwards to lift the filter housing off the nipples and then twisting with the right hand side up in the air so that you can release the left hand U shaped tube. Step 6 Remove the battery tray, it has two 10mm bolts situated under where the battery would be (green and labelled here) and a 13mm bolt above the right hand rubber nipple for the air filter assy. In the picture above you can see the rust marks where this bolt was (just below the red wires) You can now see and easily get to the Dsg filter...It has a 24mm nut shape in the top of it and it is a one piece dome of plastic that is torqued up to 23NM. (My torque wrench starts at 48NM) As its unlikely you will have a torque wrench capable of measuring such a low value it would be wise to mark the top at say 6 o'clock and count the revolutions as you undo it. It is sealed with an O'ring so does not want to be overtightened. Clean around the filter case and then unscrew the cap, very little oil will spill if any at all. You will now see the filter which can be removed by pulling up, have a suitable container nearby to put it in as it is full of old oil. Put the new O'ring on to the cover, smear some oil around it and on the rubber gasket of the new filter and re fit both. Step 7 Re fit all the parts you have just removed apart from the engine tray and sump plug. Spend a moment looking down at the dsg filter cover and come to the conclusion that it should be possible (next time) to replace the filter without removing all this stuff, depends how strong your grip is but I will try that next time. Step 8 Drain and Fill By now the car has resettled after having been jacked up and as it is now back down you have limited room to work underneath, this is why you loosened the drain plug as it is too difficult to do later. Get a suitable container to drain the old oil into, I used an old 15kg tile adhesive bucket with an internal diameter of 280mm cut down to 130mm (the old oil filled to a height of 100mm) Put the container under the drain plug and ....blah blah blah Some oil will come out but not that much, not until you get your 8mm hex drive and undo the snorkel....let it drain.. then replace the snorkel. The VAG kit and the sealey have the correct size adapter to screw into the Dsg box and the sealey has a quick fit push connector and isolating valve so you waste less oil when passing the filling tube down through the engine. The sealey says it holds 3 litres, it either doesn't or my new bottles of oil were overfilled, not that important so just fill it up and pump it in. you need to keep adding oil until it spills back out through the snorkel ( you did re fit the snorkel didn't you?!) check for overspill at approx. 4.5 litres pumped in. Once it starts trickling back out you can connect the Vcds and start the car, as the video shows -pass through each selector position pausing for a few seconds and then back to park. as the oil warms it will expand and you will see more draining out , on Vcds select control modules, dsg automatic transmission and then measuring blocks and click the top left up arrow to get to block 19 , here you will see the dsg oil temp and when that reaches 35c you can turn off the engine andput the sump plug back in, torque up to 45nm Re fit engine tray and rejoice (hide those three extra bolts leftover...bound to be ok without them huh?)

Received a letter direct from Skoda Auto today asking me to make an appointment to have the towing eye from the boot replaced. Apparently they have discovered that some were supplied with a faulty weld. Our Citigo is a 2017 Colour edition. They advise removing it from the boot and keeping it elsewhere to avoid its use.. its also logged as a Safety Recall.