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When checked it will be obvious that the Speedo is over reading now, so the speedo might become nearer accurate with the slightly bigger circumference / total radius tyres fitted, and it is easy to check if it is and not under reading.

The 6 speed filter is always changed with the oil during the service. On the 7 speed the filter is not as easily accessible and requires additional time to replace. It could be done during the service but for an extra cost.

The Skoda Citigo IV that was trailed for long enough and is now discontinued but is still available around the UK should have had the charging cables, charging available and software and software updates sorted out before delivery and quickly after the 'issues' reared their heads. 'Simply Clever' is a term that seems lost on Skoda. They need not only to be Simply Clever, they need to be a bit quicker dealing with issues and have the parent company deal with them as well. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/486062-citigoe-iv-ambition-se-charging-at-72kwhr http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/483719-any-citigo-e-iv-users

Personally i really liked the Kodiaq, But i just couldn't think of six other people that i liked so i bought the Superb.

Hello mates. My name is Cristian, from Santiago of Chile. Was seeking for a mk3 to make it faster.... ended up with this toy. 2014 CTHE 40.000 KM Because of covid, the prices went up and I already have a Karoq for the daily driving routine, but needed a track/daily so, posted a history in my instagram page and here we are. Mods alreeady done. GFB DV+ Whiteline bushes (ended upp killing one in the first trackday) whiteline swaybar links Toyo r888r for the track in 205/40r17 Meyle hd TT RS ball joints 2.5 BRM inox mid pipe exhaust, original backbox OZ formula HLT 17X7.5 Goodyear eagle f1 asy 5 daily tires RCD360 Headunit Mods not yet installed/arrived POLO GTI 9n side skirts (need repair) bilstein B16 coilovers Powerflex black series rear control arm bushing whiteline rear anti roll bar creation motorsport catch can audi TT rear brake mod Porsche boxster 986 front calipers FUTURE MODS Skoda alcantara steering wheel WIECHERS strut maybe TCU REMAP PROBABLY ENGINE TOO TVS OR RTMG THE PLAN Make it AS RELIABLE AS POSSIBLE I always had some fear to own a fabia vrs with all the bad fame earned in the years but, here I am, enjoyin every time I jump of the Karoq to this. Hope you like it. Cheers!

Back in March when I got the Tesla I was asked if I would do a post about how it was going. Obviously events have meant I have yet to get much driving done, though we did manage to fit in a trip over to Belfast so I do have somethign on which to report. First up, having driven a Leaf for the last two years I am used to the instant torque and crazy accelaration, though the model 3 takes this to a level where I have yet to have the nerve to fully floor it. It is that powerful, mine is the base version so it only has 245 bhp. Handover was in the first week of lockdown, so it was totally touchless. I had to wait outside at a distance, they brought the car out, and then went back inside before I could approach the car and drive away (having paid the night before). Firstly, you'll have heard of issues with build quality. Right now it seems that Tesla haven't a clue about quality control and it is a lottery whether you get one that's perfect or a nightmare. In fairness most of the issues are related to the bodywork and the cars are driveable. It's not like a mechanical failure on an ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicle. Mine had:- 1) a scratch across the boot 2) a mis aligned bonnet (frunk) 3) the nose of the car hadn't had dirt removed before they painted it so it needed a new front end 4) driver's door misaligned 5) driver's door window wouldn'tclose properly 6) a rear quarter panel mis aligned 7) and it later emerged there was insufficient coolant in the battery cooling system (more of which below) These were all reported at handover - something you do via the app, and then attach photos. Tesla then allocate a repair appointment. The repair process is actually very slick though it was not great to have so much chance to witness it. Having had 10 Skodas starting with an Estelle and finishing with a 2015 Octavia I have never been accustomed to this level of defects. It was also filthy inside, covered in dust and grime from transit. I put this down to the fact that they were trying to minimise exposure to covid. The first appointment available due to COVID was 2 months later. 8 weeks passed and at the end of May they took the car in (touchless again) . They fixed the door and the window but the rest would have to await parts. More weeks, and then months, passed and since the defects were by now just cosmetic I didn't chase them. Last week, at the end of August, the car started whining and buzzing really loudly. It sounded like there were fans running and there was a lot of liquid gurgling sounds. I asked on a Tesla forum and was told off by Tesla fanboys - "all normal", "stop moaning". Basically don't question the sacred Tesla, if there's a fault I was told, the car will tell you via the screen. Except it didn't and there really was a fault. I logged it with a video. Within 12 hours an engineer phoned, they had connected to the car, run tests and established that the coolant level was very low. Seriously impressive. So a service appointment was booked, and I asked about all the other faults. "Faults? We've got no record of any faults?" Turns out they had forgotten totally. The merits of dealing with a new company that is selling cars as fast as it can make them. They then fixed everything within a week. So this week I have had my car fully repaired, everything looks like it should and they have filled the coolant to the level it shoud have had when it left the factory. So what to make of it? Well it is phenomenally efficient. EVs measure economy in miles per kWh (Tesla use Wh per mile but they just have to be different it seems). My leaf was pretty good and in the Summer would get around 4.5 miles per kWh, in the winter 3.8 was normal. So far since March I have been getting around 7 miles per kWh in the tesla. The equivalent in MPG terms is somewhere in excess of 200 MPG - Impressive. I can't comment on the supercharger network as they are few and far between in Scotand and I have been using the standrad Scottish Government chargers instead. Not all of them though because again Tesla haven't complied 100% with standards because quite a few of the older chargers simpoly do not detect that the car is connected. Driving it is different from any other car I have driven due to the large central screen, but you quickly get used to it. It's not though as good in many respects as Android Auto which I had in the leaf and the Octavia. Yiou ahve to pay £120 extra per year for data connectivity to use spotify or Tune in, no other apps are available. I used to use waze and pocket casts but those are not available to me. Elon says there's no need. Spotify is available but it si not as good as normal spotify, your music is in an entirely random order, nothing as boring as being in alphabetical order. You can of course use voice commands exceot they don't work anything like as reliably as google's version.One example, today I said "play Radio Scotland" to get the radio retuned. It played something called Hooked on a Feeling by a Swedish folk band. Don't even try asking it to navigate "command not understood". I aksed it to navigate to Drumnadrochit (ok that's a tough one but google can do it) - it thought I was trying to say something about a drunken doorkit and said it didn't understand. The excuse given to justify the 15 inch screen instead of buttons is that yuou'r esupposed to use voice commands, but in my experience they work only around 20% of the time. I can turn the heating up and down but pretty much nothing else works. ANother issue is that the sat nav is, well, pretty random. Not all the time but a heck of a lot of it. I asked it for a route from my house to my parents, around 12 miles. It suggested a 70 mile detour to the other side of Scotland. Like I say, random. When we went to Northern Ireland, the obviosu route is via the M77 and A77 - not for Tesla, It suggested a variety of B roads. Often re planning the route produces a more sensibke route but the point is if it is doing this on routes I do know how can I trust it when I am in strange territory? Answer is I can't. So i have gone back to mounting my phone in a cradle and using that as my sat nav. speaking of phones, like many people I have 2, one for work and a personal phone. In Skoda and Nissan I could connect both to bluetooth at the same time. WHichever one rang it was OK I could answer hands free. In the tech marvel that is the Tesla?? Sorry, only one connection at a time. Baffling. Speaking of Northern Ireland, that was somethign of a nightmare. We have done the trip in a leaf without issue, but the leaf uses the much older chademo charge port, rather then the eurpen standard CCS which is in the tesla. For unknown reasons Northern Ireland has only 14 rapid chargers, that's bad, but only half of them have CCS, the other half afre CCS and chademo. To make matters worse many of them are in shop car parks and these are locked shut when the shops close. In a SUnday you can only charge from 1pm to 5pm. More of a criticism of NI than Tesla but coming from Scotland where we have a very pro EV governmen and charging hubs springing up around the country it was a shock to the system. So how would I sum it up? It is an amazing car, probably the most advanced car I have ever owned, and yet lacking in every day tech like a sat nav that works or smart phone integration. Telsa want you to use their system and pay £120 per year extra for it. It is also badly let down by the abysmal quality control. Quite how they can send cars out of the factory with dirt underneath the paintwor is beyond me. Taking 5 months to fix it? Well it was cosmetic so didn't stop me using the car but it is hardly ideal. I had been due to buy a VW ID3 but they messed me around no end and couldn't guarantee I would get a car so I jumped ship. Now that the ID3 is arriving I am feelign a touch of regret. The model 3 is bigger than I really need and the VW would probably be a better fit with my needs. And yet 0-60 in 5 seconds is fun when you have a BMW M3 trying to ride your back bumper. Bottom line though is that with the SKoda Enyaq coming in December and more models likely in 2021 they are going to face a lot more competition. Even now cars like the e niro have a 7 year warranty and on a 50 kW charger it wil actually charge faster than the Tesla (don't tell the fanboys but this is true I have seen it with my own eyes).. Actually that last part may change on my car now that Tesla have actually filled it with the collant fluid it should have had from day 1, as I understand it that is used to both warm and cool the battery to keep it at the optimum charnign temperature. SO it's a mixed bag, it is impressive, and frustrating. I'm in a £40k+ car where I have to use my phone to navigate and a bluetooth headset to ensure I can answer both phones. I had to wait 5 months to get the car in a state which it would have been had there been a proper PDI carried out. But the way you can ghet a diagnosis remotely from a Tesla engineer is very impressive. But competition is growing and Tesla won't have it all their own way for long. Polestar 2 is starting to arrive in numbers and VW will be delivering at scale by the end of 2020. Would I buy another one? On balance, probably not. PS I forgot to add, not only does Spotify cost you an extra £120 a year, the car comes with no spare wheel, no tyre repair kit and you're advised to take out separate recovery as Tesla recovery will only recover you within 50 miles of a Tesla service centre (there's none on Norhtern Ireland and only one in Scotland (ie 33% of the UK land mass)

Join us at the Donington Historic Festival 1st weekend of May 2021. The full grid line-up for DHF 2021 is: The Amon Cup for Ford GT40s FJHRA/HSCC “Silverline” Historic Formula Junior Championship Historic Touring Car Challenge with Tony Dron Trophy & Sixties Touring Car Challenge with U2TC – for ’60s, ’70s and ’80s Touring Cars HRDC ‘Jack Sears Trophy’ for Touring Cars 1958-1966 HRDC ‘Dunlop Allstars’ for pre-’66 Sports, GT & Touring cars Jaguar Classic Challenge for pre-’66 Jaguar cars ‘Mad Jack’ for Pre-War Sports Cars The Royal Automobile Club Pall Mall Cup for pre-’66 GT and Touring Cars, pre-’63 GTs and pre-’60 Sports Cars Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy & Stirling Moss Trophy – for pre-’56 and pre-’61 Sports Cars Don't know about this festival? Here's the website: http://www.doningtonhistoric.com/ We'll have a club stand(spaces limited). Of course you're welcome to attend via public parking and be a part of it, skoda or not. We're a broad church after all You can attend either day, or both. Early bird prices are £21 per day, or £40 for both. Skoda is a historic brand, in more ways than many of us know. Early V8 pioneers, Rallying exploits, even a forerunner to the classic air cooled bug! I think we all need a good day out Fingers crossed. So, if anyone has been before, as a visitor, club member etc, please do reply with tips and advice... Any questions, please do just ask. News: Our club stand ( pending approval ) will be net free to display on. I'd like to get a mix of vehicles from all ages. There is no restriction and a new one next to an old one is a fine contrast. See below for more details on the 'free stand offer'

Don't forget the Roomster if you need space for carrying stuff.

hi i just realised after posting it that there are many, many factors to think about.

Personally didn’t think the canton was worth the extra money/time for delivery as I got a vrs that had already been built and the standard system is actually quite good. VRS is really well specced out as standard, only option I opted for was spare wheel.

The efficient Oil temp is around 92*oC, that can go up to the low 100*oC plus in summer in the UK, under load etc. Maybe take a cold start easy for 5 miles or more and until 50*oC shows as an indicated temp. That will change in winter and might take longer. 70*oC & above is OK. The engine is not made of chocolate and really does not need treated with kid gloves, especially since the NSL is 60 and 70 restricted speeds. Be sure to have your oil level in the Area A as shown in the Owners Manual when checked at Normal Operating Temp, so that is around 80-90*oC. Do not wait for Low Oil Level Warning Lights. Know where the At Operating Temp / Hot level is, then check where that shows when cold.

Such dribbling guff in this thread, he wants to change TWO springs, not two hundred. ANY old Chinese rubbish will get two springs done if greased first.

Yep, the tt comps do fit as I have them myself. They are a little wider than standard alloys and sit flush with the arch.

What size tyres have you got fitted? 225/40R19 or 225/45R19 ? If you have 225/40R19 tyres, then fitting 225/45R19 tyres will improve the ride...especially if you lower the tyre pressures by 3psi (0.2Bar). The reason that you can lower the tyre pressures by 3psi when changing from 225/40R19 to 225/45R19 is because the higher sidewalled tyre can support the same amount of weight using 3psi less tyre pressure. This is reflected in the different load indexes of these two tyre sizes. 225/40R19 has a load index of 89 (580kg) @ 44psi, whereas 225/45R19 has a load index of 92 (630kg) @ 44psi. For example, 580/630x35psi=32psi. To do the maths, you form a multiplier by taking the load index of the original tyre and divide it by the load index of the replacement tyre. You then use this multiplier to multiple the original tyre pressure...which gives you your new reduced (and more comfortable) tyre pressure. The 4x2 Karoq when fitted with 19" wheels has 225/40R19 tyres, whereas the 4x4 Karoq when fitted with 19" wheels has 225/45R19 tyres. The standard tyre options on new Karoqs in the UK are either 17" or 19". https://cc.skoda-auto.com/gbr/en-GB/trimline-scenic?_ga=2.210707863.348432214.1608996413-0a2cf681-cbb9-4a54-988d-1bb2bc4df8a8&activePage=trimlines&color=K4K4&configurationId=&extraEquipments=&id=GBR%3Bskoda%3B2021%3BNU73B5%3B0%3BGYO2YO2%3Bmda20200804034704%3Ben-GB%3B%3B62001%3B62061&interior=AD&modifiedPages=&snapshotVersion=e0456e00-f767-4c80-854f-216feb5b3ce1&trimline=NU3|SE6206162001&visitedPages= 19" Crater Rims 8Jx19 ET45 https://eshop.skoda-auto.cz/cs_CZ/kolo-z-lehke-slitiny-crater-19-pro-karoq/p/57A071499++HA7 Even with a change from 225/40R19 to 225/45R19, the 19" rims on the Karoq are 8J. This is the width of the rims, ie. 8". This is wide for a 225/40 or 225/45 tyre and stretches the tyres' sidewalls which makes the ride harder. As a comparison, the Skoda Octavia will often use a much narrower 7J rim when fitting 225/45 tyres albeit in 17" format. Even with the 225/40 size, the Octavia still uses narrower 7.5J rims.

My preference would be for Sealey over Hilka. You get good customer support from Sealey, and they do a nice line of trolley jacks. However, the Hilka one that you linked to on Screwfix, looks exactly the same design...probably made in the same factory in China. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SEALEY-2-PCE-CAR-COIL-SPRING-COMPRESSOR-KIT/191412238567?epid=1840770360&hash=item2c910ef8e7:g:114AAOSwGAhfs6su Sealey AK3841 (Short version) https://www.sealey.co.uk/product/5637175238/2pc-coil-spring-compressor Sealey AK3846 (Long version) https://www.sealey.co.uk/product/5637175243/2pc-long-reach-coil-spring-compressor

Totally agree with you, its a shame that the blinkers are not LED. I suppous that is not that hard nor expensive to make the drl blink orange instead of white.

If you need something to support the hub against the spring while you unbolt stuff, a bottle or trolley jack will do the job fine.

Nope too long ago. The cheap ones are all very similar, like the screwfix ones you linked. Just grease the threads well before use. Mine have probably done a dozen or so springs without any probs.

If you haven't used one before please make sure they are on right you don't want it springing off 🤕

Search the phrase "mikes back" exactly as written, including quotation marks.

Same here, no other solution found than driving with 90km/h....

Free Display Stand Offer Some more info on costs for the weekend and how the 'free bit works'. Tickets will be £21 per day, or £40 for the weekend. This covers car + driver on the stand. Additional tickets available for family, friends, public/non stand parking. For stand parking, briskoda will be covering the costs via a post event claimback (voucher or similar). Easier to organise than paying for 15/25empty spots. So those on stand will have to order and pay for a ticket, but then claim back. I'm only covering the driver and car on stand; children under 12 go free... I've initially said 15. I'm sure this can be modified. I've no idea how many would want to go, although this is a pretty sweet offer I think. I could do with a volunteer to be an on site contact/organiser for the weekend (1st/2nd May). We'll cover stand costs, or public parking if not on stand, hotel and food ( think premier inn not hilton & not drink I'm afraid ). Link to Club/Stand tickets available soon. Reply to subscribe and keep up to date on this event.

Bulk update as I've missed a few... 2nd service on my '19, with the pandemic, hardly made more than a few thousand miles on it. Mentioned a creaking in the front suspension, speedbump, manouvering etc, noticeable more on lock. They removed and lubricated bits n bobs; service bulletin for superbs. Creaking almost eliminated. More-so if I recall the pre-power steering days of only turning while rolling. Fitted a superskoda boot lip protector; gloss black for sportline tie in; fitted when it was warmer <10min job. I already have a DIY boot protector in the form of an old wool blanket. I fold it out when I open the boot, and I put it back in on top of whatever I put in the boot. It's held in place by the boot tray and emergency triangle... makes for a nice warm thing to sit on after a walk. Would double up as warmth if I got stuck, I guess if the 4x4 truly failed me I could lay it down to get out of some mud... On thursday decided to go for a early morning walk, parked up in the 'wrong' layby, facing traffic on the right, about 20m before a blind corner. Excited to go for a walk it was only when I was on the hill it dawned on my that to pull out I'd have to drive the wrong way, with about 20m to the apex of a blind corner, on a 50mhp a road, "stupid boy" rang in my ears. The next layby is where I normally park, I was just half asleep. When I got back, I warmed the engine, while finishing my ribenna, nudged myself back and forth to get a good angle out; dam superminins parking really close boot to nose. Wound all the windows down, when only the sound of trees was heard, went for it. Given the layby was gravel/mud and the road wet, air temp was 0.0... I was happy to be out and across, happier still the 4x4 works I'd been worrying about that 'manoeuvrer' for 4hours while walking. Less happy at the muddy backside It has.

Hello everyone. I've just picked up my new Superb Estate 2.0 diesel 190bhp sportline, and she is a beauty. Ive had a seat ibiza, fabia, 2 passats and now to the Superb. I will be doing some tinkering and will pop on some better pictures shortly

Hydraulic transmission jack, hummmm, I'd think that you would need to either be working over an inspection pit or have that car quite high up in the air to benefit from having and using one of them. I've replaced front springs on Polo and Ibiza 3 times and I have not got a hydraulic transmission jack. So, short answer, no you don't need one of them.

It's the gesture control. I drove me mad at times. You can switch it off in the settings menu. One of those ideas that sounds good but in fact is just a pain.

I have the Columbus in my Kodiaq which has gesture control, so if you wave your hand in front of the screen it will scroll through the radio stations. Perhaps yours is the same and is picking up your hand moving in front of the screen.

You can't, and why would you want to? On UK roads adaptive cruise control is so much more useful than normal cruise control - having gone from a car with normal to a car with adaptive I would never go back.

Hello, I got this beauty and i would like to share some pics of it with these nice summer wheels and the Maxton diffuser i just installed some day ago.

GL4+ doesn't exist as a gearbox oil standard. It is just a glorified GL4 oil using the marketing techniques.

Use High Performance Gear Oil (GL4+) SAE 75W-90.

First of all, some theory: And another bit of theory: The conclusion is this: you need a GL4 gearbox oil given you live in a hot weather region, you need a 80W90 oil My recommendation is to buy 3 liters of this oil: https://www.mannolegypt.com/products/manual-transmission-oils/universal-80w-90/

@JeSko nice one ! what the size of the wheels? is it lowered? on my black one,i got 19" bbs lm reps with 225/35, but i took them out because of the gap with the arch need to be lowered , i'm in from Belgium too (south) and i need this f* paper of the install ,i always lowered my cars by my self and never have a single problem, now i need to pay a guy for the installation and writing a paper for the technical control... ps:to the admins ,sorry for the double post ,but i can't find the modification button :/

FTFY.

nowt as fancy as the OP but.. santa brought Spud sr a Celestron 70mm compact telescope and lego! nipped out the back earlier to see how the sky was, pretty clear so did a rapid set up. . photo taken with my mobile held as still as i could to the 10mm eye piece. spud may have another new hobby!

The OP has another thread running. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/488385-how-much-have-you-paid-for-dsg-service-dq380381-7-speed-wet-or-cambelt-change

No, that's just the cut of my trousers 😮

Sorry slightly incorrect. Car was connected to phone but phone was using home WiFi as close enough to get a signal on drive so no issue with huge downloads. From memory it took hours to download the data as The update covered most of Europe. I updated the other items as well the same way

I just fitted one to my Yeti last week. Without doing any back to back tests in similar conditions, I think the oil temperature is coming up a bit more quickly. I bought it on eBay from these folks in Latvia. It arrived 5 days after purchase. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/viesturs_autoparts/m.html?item=113730511503&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 However, I see that Superskoda are doing one for the lower grill so that might be next.

Love this 911 and on the A93 which is a perfect road for it or the perfect car for the road.. (Route for Blairgowrie / Braemar passing through the Glenshee Ski centre.) What a load of guff really. You can drive the A93 when the road is dry in any car with not much power and FWD or RWD or AWD and tyres that are not bald and get around the bends (60 mph NSL & maybe a bit more) as quick as the 911 is going in the video while staying on your own side of the road. On the twisty bits you need to be ready for sheep, photographers, walkers, cyclists or other road users on your side of the road while wondering about, talking, looking or making videos.

It can do that as it may be moving to another station from a different area but on the same network - think stations like Capital. Also if DAB drops out then it might be set up to revert to FM.

The current problem with EV charging is that the good fast chargers are not on existing trunk road service stations. Ecotricity Electric Highway was funded by Nissan-Renault back in 2014-ish time, it sports slow 50kW chargers for Chademo (leaf) and type 2 (Zoe). Later CCS was added to support other cars but it's known to be buggy. Ecotricity seems to have some sort of exclusivity agreement. So we don't see any other more reliable providers at these critical locations.

I do like that colour combination but still not sure about the 2 spoke steering wheel though.

Emerald green metallic with the beige interior

It will adapt to your driving style (singular, not plural) over a period of time. It will drive with you in mind in the control logic. Should someone else jump in then it will begin to adapt to how they drive. The topic was in the self study learning documentation for DSG transmissions, it formed part of the master technician training program that I attended some years back and is regularly quoted by the technical team in MK when folk are suffering with driveability issues especially in an instance like I quoted above where two identical vehicles are compared because they appear to drive differently. I drive mine to death, the gears hold in corners and it will rev right up until it changes even in D rather than S. The throttle is also very responsive. I drive my Parents Kodiaq and it will shift up the box as fast as possible, it feels sluggish in comparison. Same engine, same gearbox and both AWD but I drive like a nob and my dad drives like a pensioner. I'm quoting what I've come across over the years and what's been said by those who know more than I do. If it sounds difficult to believe then feel free to ignore it 🤷🏼‍♂️

No offence but where does it say it has a 'historic' memory of driving styles? I only read it adapts to your driving style (on the fly) with how aggressive (or not) you are with the throttle. Mine does that all the time, shift points change with how hard I mash the throttle. Works very well. my dsg6 gets driven quite gently for months and then balls-out for periods when required. In 5 years I have not known it react in the slightest bit differently to how I use my right foot depending on what it has done in the weeks or months previously. I can understand the gearbox can need a reset to compensate for use and wear made worse by some driving styles

Yep, but when there is no one to indicate to I don't need to use the indicators hence why its tried to kill a few cyclists