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The barbecue is a very good analogy, I think. I've had several enthusiasts go on and on at me about their fancy gas and electric rigs, with their main selling point being how their cook-outs are instantly on and fired up, with all the cooking done and everyone finished eating within half an hour, allowing you to go get on with something else... I'm not sure what else they'd want to be doing at a barbecue, but at this point I will usually bring up the aforementioned adult analogy, liken it to their relationship and suggest how disappointed their partner(s) must be if their bedroom life is anywhere near as brief, dull and soulless an experience as their barbecue!! I then like to move on to their claims that they are supposedly able to cook things to absolute precision with the absolute control that their absolutely wonderful (and absolutely expensive) gas/electric rig provides... as the only time I've known food cooked with timing down to the second like that is the crap they serve in McDonalds. Whenever I've actually accepted their invite, it's never been anything like as good as they promised. For many people, a barbecue is a big all day event, with people showing up and socialising around the fire, things being cooked in rounds, skills being both learned and exhibited in the actual cooking, and in the provision of accompaniments, plus all the other social stuff that people only seem to do at such gatherings. Double that if it's a braai. So again, the electric version seriously diminishes the main event of the whole experience.

Came across a few notable cars in Belper (my first car was a VW Derby, although this one was far from stock)

Ordered a white colour edition with a few exras on 25th Feb. Car finally ona channel ferry Sat 11th. June. Hope to collect car in 22nd June. Finally received new car on 30th. June. All well so far.

tbh - a lot of after market warranties aren't worth the paper they are written on, so i hadn't even given a second thought to the RAC warranty. I am more interested to see if it has been serviced well in previous ownership. I also need to find someone my way (South East Kent) who can undertake the Haldex service properly (i would bet my left nut it hasn't been done with this car, so will need doing)

In the case of my vehicle it is how they released it, exact same engine with 2 levels of (programmed) tune for either 108hp or 140hp, done almost certainly for taxation bands, in the case of my country all the tax loading is up front at the point of first registration. My "Stage 2" remap has given supposedly 189hp on another vehicle featured on their promotional videos, the factory 170hp variant uses a different turbo, mine feels like 170, not sure about 189 but in any case its perfect for my needs and is so smooth I suspect it is the factory 170hp map perhaps with a little tweaking. What has made a positive difference to the fuel economy and driveability was the recent removal of the emissions fix.

I think some of this is generational - we grew up with ICE cars around us, learned to drive in them, fawned over the nice ones from a distance, etc. My children I suspect will have a different view of ICE vs EV when they get to driving/car buying age. We have some emotional attachment to the idea of ICE because we have a lot of memories linked to them. I have had a Superb II CR170 Combi for the last 6 years (a manual for a bit over a year until it was written off in a collision and a DSG for the last 5) and I have to say it's an excellent car, fast, roomy and handles pretty well for its size and weight. But apart from the power delivery and economy, there's nothing special about the engine, it's up there doing its job but the noise it makes is nothing special - I'm aware there's an engine up there but that's it. It could easily be replaced with a hybrid or electric drivetrain and it would make no difference to the car, and I will be replacing it with one of those drivetrains when the time comes. I get out of the car and it's "good job car" but there's no longing to jump straight back in and go for a drive for the hell of it. Now some of this I can say because I have the luxury of also having a recently acquired Porsche 944, a car which would not be the same at all if it had an electric drivetrain. There's a real sense of occasion from the moment the starter swings over to fire it up, there's a fruity exhaust which lets you know it's there all the time, and once it's warmed up it performs the way only a highly strung petrol engine can, screaming up the redline then a pop on overrun at gearchange. I never get out of that car without a smile on my face, and that's just because of the car/drivetrain. I'll take the long way home just to drive it a little bit further and enjoy the engine a bit longer. A while back at a Cars&Coffee meet a few of us were discussing this exact topic, and one of the lads made an interesting comparison to horses. At one point, horses were every day transport for the masses one way or another, and most horses you saw were unremarkable working animals pulling carts or carriages or ploughs or all of the other things that required *ahem* horsepower. Horses existed for sport/leisure too but that was a marginal use case. Nowadays, ICE (and increasingly EV) have completely replaced horses for working purposes, and leisure/sport use is all that's left, but that's still there and is a bigger industry than it would have been a century ago. This is most likely where ICE will end up, leisure/sporting use and if horses are any indication it won't be going away any time soon.

i've my eye on the V8 Ford Mustang... i have always loved the sound of american v8s. I went to see (and drive) the new Mustang Mach1, it's amazing. Not for the performance, but for the overall experience. I know it's a complete different car from the Superb. But you can't rule the heart. There's only a problem, my daughter doesn't like the Mustang at all, and she is trying in every way to dissuade me from selling the superb 😅!

My car is due for delivery wednesday they offered that date then when i chose it they asked if i could delay delivery further as they are trying to reduce their carbon foot print. I kindly pointed out i've been waiting for over 12months for the car so thats offset his carbon foot print and to give me my god damn car!

Congrats on the new car @Lady Elanore 🙌 My M4 is also long gone, I had a spell in a JCW after an unfortunate incident on the M60 in rain 🙈 and then onto a 2020 M135i (new shape with Carbon everywhere) then finally I jumped to the other well liked German make (back in a vag)

And a few more birds (and bees!) from Belper

Visited the River Gardens (at Belper) yesterday, mainly to see the Peregrines nesting on the old Mill building

Very nice analogy. Each to their own. I own a really nice auto-winding full mechanical Omega, and smart watches. I can see the attraction of those watches, it's very nice bit of kit. But ultimately functionality of smart watches won me over from very early Pebble smart watch to Apple watch now. You could say I'm a tech-head. My hobby are in PC gaming, VR gaming, home automation and photography. Did you say fridges? Now let me talk about all the things I'm researching on heat pumps and home battery For automatic gearboxes, it was absolutely fine when driven with moderation and with it in mind. But ever since gotten used to driving EV, my right foot no longer have any filter, I expect the car to behave the exactly reflect my right foot. That means I have many times forgot to account for gearbox downshift (and with DSG, very slow down shift 2 gears a few times from cruising at 50mph) when trying to slip into faster lane. This usability deficit became frustrating and thus developed into my undesirable to drive it (among other things such as running cost).

If someone at Hendrys really gives a toss about a customers 2 year old car with the outer edges wearing then they must be new employees there.

We don't know you that well. Our combined experience is that tyre edge wear is usually an issue with cornering technique and/or slightly low pressures.

2002 Rover 75 Connoisseur SE, with the BMW M47 Diesel engine. Possibly the most underrated and needlessly maligned car ever built (just because it was a Rover!). Beautiful beige leather interior, it was the first car I had that I couldn’t resist looking back at after parking it... I bought it ex-lease at 3 years plus forecourt time with 87,000 miles, kept it for 5 years, sold it at 154,000 miles to my son-in-law, who ran it for 10years, selling it with 268,000 miles under its belt to another owners’ club member. One new clutch, original exhaust.

well, i have been running as often as i can manage, including tonight when i did the whale run again. i also ran laughtnafrankee from the sth side of the powers the pot link road a couple of weeks ago. its just uphill and back down. not fun as the geound is very boggy in spots, and the trail has a lot of big loose rock and stone on it. makes its slippier on the way up and tougher to pick out good foot fall points on the descent. probably wont do it on its own again tbh, as the reward vs effort equation is unbalanced, but i had it picked as a target and got it done. fun fact, strava now has Trail Run as an activity option spent last week on the bike sunday, tue, friday, up my favourite woodland mon areas. nothing blistering pace wise as its been a few weeks since i was on the bike, but they were fun evening ride outs. ive also started an extra little tactic to regain muscle condition. incidental exercises during the day. everytime i have a minute or 2 during the day im yrying to do something quick, like - waiting for the kettle to finish boiling or while waiting a for a phonecall to get answered - do 20 squats and 20 lunges or 2 sets of 15 press ups against the kitchen counter and 20 calf lifts. just a simple little muscle workout, but several times a day adds up to a decent number of reps without costing time out of other things

I got used to Autos having had a DSG as my first and then a combination of auto and DSG type gearboxes after that. The current ZF in my BMW is amazingly quick, almost as quick as a DSG (DCT in BMW speak) and also extremely smooth. It does take a tiny bit of a leap of faith when you first go over to autos, but I don't think I'll ever go back to manual, partly because my knees aren't as good as they used to be and things like 2 hours of stop-start crawl around Heathrow just about does them in. Electric is fine for going to the shops though, I don't mind that at all, but there is no enjoyment in it. It's a bit like having a Swiss built, clockwork chronograph watch or a digital battery one. The battery version keeps time better, which you can easily argue is the point of a watch, but the analogue masterpiece of beautiful engineering is the one to covet for many. I don't own either myself, but can see the attraction for the artisan built jewel of a timekeeper, the battery one however is merely a thing with a function that I would feel attached to in the same way as I'm attached to my fridge. I like my fridge, it's really useful, it's where I keep my gin, but it could be any old white goods box as long as it performed adequately.

Owned: My current car, 2022 Audi RS3 Vorsprung Edition… accelerates like nothing you could imagine in the same category, it’s comfy and if you try you get decent mpg (but who’s gonna try that lol) Driven: My work steed, Supercharged Ariel Atom 3… when I say the RS3 is silly quick, The Atom is something beyond that…. 0-60 in around 2.7 seconds, no bodywork and go kart handling… what’s not to love

If you are after a map for better economy then I would not bother. You will spend circa £350+ for a reputable map to gain a few extra mpgs. If you work out how many miles you would need to recouo the cost of the map before you start making savings it would be around 4 years or so worth of driving. I dud have a formula to work it out but cant place it. However if you are just after better driveability then I would say do it. Mine is mapped by Superchips Bluefin and is very smooth when driven normally. I can easily get 55mpg+ when driven sensibly. Like any other car if you use the power the mpgs drop. Personally I think it improves the car and makes it how Skoda should have released it.

Only a week before did I decided to get off my arse and do Scotland's Nc500, 500 miles in a turbo/supercharged fabia combi on scenic long roads by myself? Hell yeah! Sorry for the picture overload, I've kept the pictures as low quality as possible to try not kill your browsers. Lets have it! Loaded up the fabia will fuel and essentials and headed off, My first 3 hours would be spent just getting to the start at Inverness. Reached Inverness In no time and proceeded up the east coast of Scotland while visiting a few places on the way before reaching my accommodation( Bower Wig Wams) in Wick Dunrobin Castle, Golspie Second day seen me travel the whole breadth of the North of Scotland form east to west, I've seen most of Scotland before but this place will stick in my memories forever and I seen my first puffin! As you travel from east to west the beaches and views only get better. Dunnet Bay, Thurso. 2 miles of pure white and aqua blue water.....Best beach in Britain in my opinion. As you make your way across the north coast through the Bay of Tongue and towards Durness the beaches continue to be as spectacular however the landscape get a bit more rugged. Ardvreck castle from above Decided to camp up on Balnakiel Beach for the night, Had the whole beach to myself...... To my surprise I woke up to the sun splitting the sky and some visitors.......Yep its 7am and the cows are crossing the beach to reach a fresh water stream, Apparently a daily occurrence Leaving Durness Your pretty much in the most north westerly point in the UK, Visited a few places before heading south down the west coast and entering Wester Ross(Game of thrones fans will grin). Smoo Cave The landscape changes dramatically on the west coast, Huge rolling mountains start to appear as I headed south towards Ullapool,Gairloch and Applecross. After staying in Ullapool for the night I was off sharp in the morning for another spectacular drive south west, Passing the Kylesku bridge and hotel for some well needed grub! From here I continued south through Wester Ross at which point he NC500 heads to Applecross then Back to Inverness, I went off track and headed home via Skye, Fort WIlliam and Glencoe When reaching Applecross you encourter the "Bealach Na Ba" mountain pass, Regarded as one of if not the best roads in Britain with views of the Isle of Skye to the West and The mountain pass on the other. Deciding I could probably be home for midnight I cut my last day short and blasted the 6 hour journey home passing "Eilean donan castle" and the might " Buchaille Etive Mor" mountain in Glencoe. So nearly 3 tanks of fuel and 960 miles later I made it home, Car was awesome, Weather was awesome and the scenery was even better! Would highly recommend anyone to head up north and just do it, The road conditions are perfect and if you get the weather......I don't think may places in the world could top it. I'll hopefully have a drone vid posted up soon. Thanks for reading.

Who knew it was this easy…now to keep it lol.

If you are regularly doing long trips you won't need a regen. It's certainly possible that you are close to life on the dpf if it wasn't driven very well (short journeys) prior to your ownership. 75k isn't overly long for a dpf. I think they should last well north of 100k. Especially if driven correctly.

The Outdoor is already raised compared to the standard setup. If you go to the thread I linked a few posts back you'll see the data there for it. Check the build label for the front damping PR code - I would guess it's G57 which indicates 10 mm above standard ride height. There is another higher rough road setting which is 20 mm above standard but I haven't been able to definitively identify the component set for it. In the research I did, I came across 4 sets of damping PR codes: 1JA which is standard, 1JB which is listed as heavy duty, 1JC iisted as sports (also used by the Greenline) and 1JD listed as 'Higher Chassis' which is +10 mm. I'd hazard a guess that the heavy duty chassis might be the +20 mm setup but I'm not really sure - it doesn't share parts with any other setup. It's also possible that the heavy duty setup is the one they offer for police vehicles only and may not be available to regular customers. Assuming yours is the 1JD setup you have 4 weight range options available, and if you're going to replace springs and dampers, it's worth going for the highest. To get an indication of what's currently fitted, you can jack up the car and make a note of the paint mark colours on the rear spring. I can cross reference that with the front damping PR code and give you some better guidance then.

So 'just the usual BS, as they' have no idea if i have an extension cable to a caravan or camper or greenhouse heater plugged into a 3 pin socket in my home with no smart meter and no off peak tariff. I have a 3 pin charger and am not buying another.

Can confirm no customs charges, paid Eur 12 for Fed Ex shipping to door. Ordered Thursday 12/5 and sent Monday 16/5 but had also ordered the Skoda rear seat protector which was out of stock at time of order. Off the top of my head received order on the Wednesday. They are very good quality. The set I ordered had the 4 locking covers as well but didn't come with the cap 'puller'. As I put in previous post found one in the car tool kit! You won't be disappointed with Amazing Alloys, cracking job. Mine are 19" Trinity's and decided to go with the solid Anthracite (original colour) but without diamond cutting. Photo picked up reflection of next doors car on drive 1D560119-9DCC-45A3-8D4F-617046BD8AA1_1_201_a.heicBA1DB2E9-AD66-4216-9D29-8C918595BD93_1_201_a.heic

no comment 😳 70 mph top speed…..

Here is the photo from the final procedure:

Oh yes, was not in my car archive but in Google Drive, i saw it when i was searching for another member to help him for A/C and there was a mixed-up and i thought was from the photos that the mechanic send me via Viber, also the fingers are not mine nor his. Sorry.

COD can activate when driving stready at 70mph along a motorway. If you're gentle on the pedal, it'll even work maintaining same speed going up a very slight incline! When descending a hill with my foot off the accelerator, the 2cyl indicator 'eco' on my digital dash actually goes out. ( with the instantaneous display reading 300mpg ). I'm now on my 3rd COD VWgroup engine - even ran a 2017 1.4tsi Skoda without COD whilst also owning a 2017 1.4tsi SEAT with for about a few years. I found no difference in economy. And why should I, COD is only ever activated for very short periods of time - must be a fraction of a percent of the whole journey. You'd never notice it. There's a simple test we owners ( so that excludes Root ) can carry out to see for themselves how COD works. If driving a manual car with warm engine then as long as you're in Normal mode, if you drive along a level road at a constant 30mph in 3rd gear, the display should indicate you're running on 2cyl. Keeping the speed constant, change down to fourth and you should notice the engine returns to 4cyl mode. PoloGaz - when you say others suggest keeping in lower gears for deactivation to work - sounds to me like they don't know what they're talking about. Do any of them drive cars with COD? Same holds true for Automatic - whatever gear your car is in at a set speed, when you see the 2cyl mode, flick the paddle down a gear and you'll be back on 4cyls. COD does not like low revs and that's why those who set their car to run in ECO mode rarely see 2cylinder deactivation - ECO mode changes down gears early which means the engine labours more hence COD doesn't kick in. That begs another question tho - what's more economical at a set speed - an engine running in 2cyl mode or slighly labouring engine running in a lower gear? PoloGaz - Set the display to instantaneous mpg and do the above test. Whats the higher mpg at 30mpg - 2cyl mode or 4cyl mode? It proves what those others said isn't true. I can only assume COD exists because it produces less emissions, but if anyone is claiming you'll save fuel as a result... who knows. might be the start of a new VW petrolgate.

Hope not and have not seen evidence but perhaps not seeing those big council building where they would be. On the positive side the EV delivery vans are popping up everywhere.

Looks goods, I think you will get some goods news soon that the car is on the way to you 😉

Early versions of our engines (CAYC) had injector problems and later ones used a more reliable different make. Injectors can still fail at high mileage. As the fault code said, injector 4 is the culprit or its associated wiring. Here is a video showing how to do the tests and replace the injector. It was made using a different car make but the process is basically the same. As you say you are not handy with a multimeter I suggest you use a trusted garage.

That's right, I haven't touched the gearbox sensor.

think the biggest change is actually supplying the cars!

No head unit replacement but a long awaited SW fix that incorporated 3 updates over 2 days.

Like others, I am thinking of vacuum lines. Particularly the ones with external fabric armour, because the rubber under the fabric can collapse and fail without any visible evidence.

The only thing I associate with ICE is 2000's Top Gear. But soon after I passed my driving test, I got fed up changing gears in traffic and started driving automatics. Now I associate ICE with loud, vibration, slow to react and polluting. The first few points are especially obvious when jumping between EV and Octy 2.0 TDI DSG, a great motorway cruiser, shame about the DSG...... I loath driving it every single time on local roads, now only ever use it for long trips until I can change to a modern long-range EV (Tesla Model Y on order). EV, on the other hand, I love the feeling driving it. Mainly the effortless instant and non-stop torque and refinement from lack of noise/vibration. It just feels like I am directly controlling the car. This may reads like blasphemy, but I'm really looking forward to ever increasing levels of autonomy with cars. I heavily rely on ACC whenever possible. So do I love EV's or its powertrain? No. I'm staying in a Skoda forum because I found there are like-minded people who want to save money while motoring. So I suspect you may get a different answer on a car enthusiast forum, less people that thinks like me, where more people may see maintaining mechanical parts of cars as a hobby and EV are totally closed off blackboxes.

Finished the TT/LCR/S3 quick rack and suspension conversion earlier today along with poly bushes, new steering arms, ball joints etc... My god what a game changer! I can only confirm what's already been said about this mod, but it's night and day! To be fair the front suspension on mine was pretty worn so a refresh was well overdue anyway but the result is so worth the effort. I also replaced the power steering pump as mine had developed a leak behind the pulley and I deliberated on sticking with the 95 bar VRS or go for the 105 bar TT pump. I stuck with the VRS one, and again I have to agree with what others have said and the steering although a little heavier it suits the car well and feels superb through the steering wheel. The old girl also got treated to EBC yellow stuff pads all round, new discs on the rear, ATE Type 200 brake fluid, HEL braided brake lines, and gearbox fluid change. I got carried away with the oily stuff, and this is the only photo I took I'm afraid!

Yes it will.

This is fun and the brake test is very unexpected, at least by me

I think you miss understand how KESSY works. It does not unlock when you are near the car, you have to grab the door handle with the key on your person same as you have to touch the indent on the door handle to lock, it doesn’t automatically lock if you walk away. Correct method on using KESSY in previous post.

Can you explain that one to me please?

The difference 20mm would make is negligible and no more than the car being fully loaded. now if you were to put a stupidly large spacer or stack spacers you’d start putting a lot of pressure on the bearings but this kind of amount wouldn’t cause any issues.

Lol I think you should just do a DAZA engine and DQ500 conversion as a compromise! 🤣🤣

Don’t forget that you can disable the car from receiving a signal by locking from the fob and then touching the dimple on the door handle within a short time afterwards. 🔑

It does, but it’s not necessary. You can switch the ignition off while you change the discs and pads.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/448064-car-service-including-fuel-system-treatment http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/472295-oil-and-fuel-additives Plenty Service Desk Staff in UK Main VW Group / Skoda Dealerships will try to sell you a Fuel Treatment at even the first service, 1 year or 2 year old cars.

In my car, it's a 20 Amp fuse. It may vary for you.

Skoda Superb, out standing in it's field! 😁