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2011 model 2.0 TDI 170hp DSG Automatic 119k miles Cambelt and DSG oil changed at 92,000 in 2021 Full service history MOT July 2025 Full leather heated electric seats. 18" alloy wheels Remote central locking Automatic climate control air conditioning Cornering bi-xenon headlights Auto headlights Auto wipers Columbus Sat nav Rear parking sensors 4x electric windows Aluminium roof rails. Both rear springs and shocks replaced in July. Removable Thule towbar. Full size alloy spare wheel. Lifetime warranty on battery 2 remote keys Some marks to boot lid and rear bumper from loading etc. £3800 ono Located in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. This has been a great family car over the last few years and never let me down. Only selling as I've bought a VW Sharan.

Agreed. If the battery is below about 50% power capacity, then the car's system will shut down what it considers to be secondary functions. For example, cruise control, stop/start, Bluetooth. A new correct battery will re-start all these functions.

No, the narrative was set out years ago and dissent ruthlessly suppressed. "We"? The 70 million people in the UK? Infinitely less of a problem than the 1.4 billion people in China? It's like sweeping the deck of the titanic instead of fixing the hull. Ooh! Is this one of those posts where you say you want to force people to change their lifestyle to suit your ideology, then shortly afterwards object to me pointing out you're trying to force people to change their lifestyles to suit your agenda? I'll say it yet again: Stop trying to force people to adopt your ideology. Persuasion would be acceptable, force is unacceptable.

Mine says 8500 miles when I fill up and it does about 20K+ before I fill it up at 1500 remaining. I would say its normal, don't expect 6500 remaining miles to be 6500 miles worth

I did. Both ABS rings on the back wheels looked corroded (using a boriscope) so they were cleaned with some break fluid as good as possible while still on the car. Changed both rear ABS sensors also and problem solved. Decided to do all this in one garage visit rather than going back and forth to the garage as sensors not that expensive. Didnt do anything with the fronts as the ABS rings not as accessable. So cause could have been corrosion on ABS ring, faulty sensor or combination of both. If diagnostic for you is saying rear left then change the sensor but also try look at the ABS ring for corrosion and try clean it as best you can. My diagnostic didnt identify a specific wheel.

4x 16" 5x112 VW Dover alloy wheels from MK7 Golf with 2x 205/55/16 94 V XL Continental AllseasonContact 2 and 2x 205/55/16 94 V XL Michelin Crossclimate 2 tyres. These will fit Octavia, Yeti, Superb etc . I had these fitted to my Superb, but they are unfortunately the wrong size for my new Sharan, otherwise I would have just swapped them over and kept them. 2 tyres are Continental AllSeasonContact 2 205/55/16 94 V XL Around 6.5mm tread on both tyres. Dated 0124 and 5323 2 tyres are Michelin Crossclimate 2, 205/55/16 94V XL Both are around 4.9mm tread. Both tyres dated 4721 I thought that these really suited the Superb. £300ono collected from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

Hello! It’s been a very long time since I was last on an online forum (mainly thanks to Facebook 🙄) Recently purchased a rough round the edges 1.9 tdi (red i) to get me back on the road after the timing belt snapped on my mk5 golf and wrote the engine off. it’s a 2003 (53 plate for our UK members) it’s currently sitting on 169k and in certain aspects it’s definitely starting to feel its age. the headliner is sagging all the way round the sunroof right back to the tailgate. The sunroof leaks (looks like blocked drains so they will be getting cleared ASAP). It’s got an intermittent fault with the dash lights either taking ages to come on, or flickering like mad. It’s got a boost issue when it’s cold, if you try and accelerate hard from a junction or a set of traffic lights, or even try and overtake on the motorway it cuts boost. Someone in their infinite wisdom fitted a 420 degree potentiometer and wired in an Evrymod (which is absolutely dire) so that’s getting removed soon too. Other than that, it’s just things like knocks from suspension bushes etc so it’ll get a suspension refresh when the better weather comes. The most important jobs for me, are to do the timing belt, give it another service, sort the boost issue and remove the Evrymod. then I’ll be looking to sort the interior out and potentially change the seats for some heated ones, they’ll get wired in properly using factory looms etc.

Mine wasn’t working yesterday so I pulled the two relevant fuses for 5 minutes and it reconnected.

I missed that yours was an intermittent fault too, my mistake. If the rear brakes are like on my wife's 2015 Fabia Mk3 then the pads and discs were the second easiest I've ever replaced (not that I've done many), easiest were the Fabia's front discs and pads but I'd guess the Superb has more complications around the wheels. As before it could just be a coincidence or was present before you done the work, or you might have caught something perhaps. Another coincidence ,is I've just finished watching the following video (I'm a Subscriber), check out the first car, I like this chap as he checks and double checks stuff and doesn't mind saying or putting when he's made a mistake, might give you an idea of somethings to check. I also like he uses good basic things like a headlight bulb for load testing where appropriate and wiggles wires and connections (hot, cold, wet, damp, etc. can also make differences especially to intermittent). HTH a bit. -

If you kill either of these circuits when the car doesnt expect them to be, chance are youll throw a lot of fault codes into the system and possibly bring an EML light on. Everything is done by networking now and it is not like an old car where the start button is linked to the starter motor. The starter motor is controlled by the engine ECU via multiple other modules. Your best bet is to go for a ghost immobilizer - tried and tested by many and these modify the network signals sent around the car to prevent fuel/starter/spark or a combination of the above, almost undetectable by anyone looking to quickly steal a car as they can be hidden anywhere with a canbus link (that is the entire car).

Octopus is very keen for Intelligent Go customers to hand over control to Kraken take control so they can optimise which hour you get the cheap lecky, presumably if the wind is picking up or dying. I prefer to have my own total control for those nominated 5 hours. I trust Octopus generally put still value controlling such factors myself.

I really do feel that the EV cause would be greatly enhanced, if there was less governmental pressure on trying to enforce this change on people and the full pursuit of net-zero instead of going for a reduction in carbon emissions. As @Stonekeeper has already pointed out Thursday at 22:46 In 2023, the United Kingdom became the world’s first major economy to halve its emissions relative to 1990 levels. We are miles ahead of the curve so we could really afford to take our foot off the throttle a bit and wait for the rest of the world to catch up. It is not like the cleaner air of the UK stays in the UK, it gets blown all over the globe, and in the same way, we also heavily polluted air for the rest of the world transported here in the winds, just as we get fine sand particles deposited here from the Sahara and other places. We would be far better served by ensuring that we as a whole country, not just Scotland have energy self-sufficiency so can continue to exploit our natural resources and not cap in hand to other countries to help us out and potentially play ring into the hands of an adversary like say Russia where they could effectively turn off our source of energy and bring us to our knees even without a single shot being fired. They would only need to wait until we have most of the transport being electric and then a dunkelflpute and we would be an easy target. Russia has vast reserves of oil and anybody is of the impression that they would not exploit that for their own evil benefit, needs to wake up and wise up, in my view. I still say the electrification does indeed have a place in the modern era but that place where it is the dominant means of transportation needs to come along when all pitfalls of the batteries and our grid fragility and energy capacity needs to grow rapidly to cope with the demand and the issues with people not having off-road charging capability, resolved to ensure that the country can still continue to function normally under the harshest conditions imaginable. That to my mind of paramount importance and needs to come way ahead of virtue signalling any green credentials.

It will be the "hottest January on record", you wait. 😄

Going to stop over tomorrow night at my brother's in Haverhill and he has not got a wallbox charger so taking a "Granny" three pin plug charger. Have one already but it is only 10 amp so ordered another on Amazon whilst in Tenerife and it arrived lunchtime. One of the newer types that I have seen which is switchable in the range 8 amps through 10, 13 and 16 amps if I can get the input. I have been building Commando 32 amp leads and running the spec via my electrician son in law. 13A can get quite hot on the 13a plug after a while. Granny 3 pin was only £89 from Amazon but has detailed display with amps, volts, temperatures of device and host(?). Now got a much better charger when visiting. Pay the donating house say 33p per kilowatt, offer to do so, and we are both quid in. Bro is on Octopus Cosy tariff so he gets cheap night time tariff like us on Go etc. I referred him so we shared £100 intro amount. Worcester to Felixstowe going to be longest journey yet and glad to see the warm spell which will help the efficiency of course.

Hilarious!

Mines back working now.

No smoke without fire, if this is true, we could be caught out big time, or is it BS? One thing it does do is make you think and perhaps makes us realise just how close we could be sailing to trouble.

I have a tough choice when handing the Zoe back. R5 like so many go for or maybe the retro R4. Same chassis but more practical boot.

I think your assumption that the CC isn't working because of the battery is unsafe. Better to scan and look for fault codes that may relate more directly.

This 2022 PISTONHEADS review should give you a reasonable flavour of a 2025 Flavia Monte Carlo model with the 1.5litre motor. https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-driven/2022-skoda-fabia-monte-carlo--ph-review/46209 The Specification information at the end of the review contains inaccuracies (the transmission should read "7-speed automatic, front-wheel drive") and - for the latest 2025 model - there will be minor changes in the rest of the data. This link should provide more up-to-date fine detail. https://www.skoda.co.uk/_doc/775d73bc-eb9d-4a50-911e-863d73b99333 The 1.5litre TSI ECO2 with ACT+ motor is referred to in this 2024 press release. https://cdn.skoda-storyboard.com/2024/02/04_Press_Kit_Skoda_Scala_Skoda_Kamiq_Media_Launch_Powertrains_05cfd9f1.pdf

I think that's good enough isn't it? As long as the build days wasn't late '21. Thanks for looking.

I have a memory telling me upgraded water pumps are available, but I can't be any more specific than that. I don't even know if the "upgraded" pumps are any better than OEM. I think water pumps are almost regarded as a consumable now. Certainly when I had the cam belt on my Ford Fiesta changed, a new water pump was part of the cam belt kit. I know this because I asked for it to be changed with the cam belt and they told me "It's all part of the kit.". I'm going to get mine inspected at the next service, I have had a little drop in my coolant level, so I might have a leak somewhere.

Plenty of things u could do cosmetics wise.... - black foglight surrounds - front lip - side skirts - rear diffuser - rear spoiler - black wing mirror covers Have a look in the Pictures thread - will give u plenty of ideas of wat others have done.

EV running costs might well be cheaper but your 10 year old superb still has some value in it a 10 year old EV likely to be worth £0000 because the batteries are done and cost 70% of the cars cost to replace, so scrap yard time 😭

it's likely the NOx sensor that needs replaced, they are expensive to buy the best option is to get it coded out, usually along with a remap it will save you buying adblue, so depending on the mileage you do, you might get a fair bit of the remap cost back but more importantly no more adblue problems 😀

Given that the conversation has, momentarily and not unreasonably, moved to NCAP following my refence to the new Duster, perhaps it would have been equally pertinent to comment on the other model I mentioned .... the Mazda CX30. It has a rather commendable set of figures to its name and if I may snip a quote from elsewhere ...... exceptional 99 per cent score in the Adult Occupant category – making the Mazda CX-30 the first vehicle to ever achieve this near-perfect score. It also earned maximum points for frontal full-width impact, as well as the maximum for both barrier and pole side impacts. But whilst the Dacia's less than stunning NCAP rating was picked up (understandably enough) no-one here took any notice of that. For those that take notice of the NCAP ratings I'd have thought the Mazda figures were pretty outstanding.

Heated front screen with the associated heated washer jets.....absolutely awesome, and as a real safety feature, should be standard on ALL cars IMHO. First time I've used them in 'anger', and didn't disappoint.🥰

New battery requires to be adapted (coded) into vehicles BCM if you have automatic idle stop (Stop/Start) and if ANY details of its specification are different to original battery. Coding is also advisable to inform vehicles BCM that battery has been replaced so that any recorded battery defects, that may be limiting charging rate, are deleted.

Don't be surprised if Yuri doesn't answer, Kevin.

Hello, I am happy joining to the community. I have a skoda octavia 1.9tdi from 2002. My father was the first owner of the car, and now I am using it. We are at 660.000 km. Will it make a million?

It's a well known 'impact' of not fitting the NCAP point scoring electronic driver aids that most people switch off when they get in the car, rather than the structural strength of the car. I'd consider one.

Chinese build quality is not beyond question. "China Insider" has thoughts to share on the issue.

^^^ But the Postie still get around, and The Home Delivery Drivers and little old men and ladies in their Kia Picanto or even Mazda MX5. What matters is what car the Snow Plough driver drives to get to work and what tyres they have.

It will undoubtedly be a hard act to follow. I am hoping my Superb will see me through to mobility scooter stage 🤞 I went from one extreme to another swapping my lovely little Yeti (no space even with the seats removed) for the Superb to enable me to take my frail, elderly Mother and Stepdad on holiday and to accommodate luggage for 3 and all necessary equipment (wheelchair, rollator, mobility scooter,travel commode). “Superb” car 😬

Why are you considering an EV when everything is fine with your car? For me there isn’t any benefit to go EV, especially now EV’s will be paying hundreds in tax, you’d think the government would have kept it free but Labour hate us “rich” people who own cars so hardly surprised

If you are thiinking of having winter tyres on the front and the factory-fit summer tyres on the rear, you will end up with a dangerously unstable car.

To add to the big internet because I could not find a lot about it; I fixed my virtual cockpit with the help of parts from uncle Ali. I also found out that with an MIB3 there is no MOST cable, as it is running on Ethernet. The display started showing lines: After a few days it was dead. Reason I assume is that the car handler I bought the car from used water, which dripped down in the display. Bought the car with damage and without waranty. The design of the cockpit isn't the best, because all connections of the display are at the bottom of the screen. After it was dead the display also gave a red exclamation mark and a B200041 error. I took the risk of ordering only the display. The part number is LA103DV1(SL)(01). Multiple resellers can be found on Aliexpress. Removing the cockpit is quite easy. The same as an Passat. The cockpit can be removed and opened from the back by removing all the torx screws. Flip it over and take of the front. Now you can disconnect the flat cable and take out the display. Disconnecting the flat cable is done by opening the connector and taking the flat cable out. A fiddly job, multiple examples to be found on YouTube. Then it is the reverse order, connecting the flat cable, mounting the new screen, assemble the cockpit again and put it back. The result is: And the redexclamation mark went away.

Is it not D?

Velvet red, traded in our faithfull Karoq. Lovely car, 1.5 SEL with a few extras. Just about gotten used to gear selector!

I have bought the car today and drove it home some 20 miles and found it excellent , autobox was superb, but on going through the old invoices there was a main dealer one that related to.multiple clutches replaced at 30,000 miles in 2019. As it has now done102,000 and the autobox is so good I presume no problems. I will spend a day trying to understand the owners manual, so many gizmo's and I am rather aged. Other bonus apart from £20 annual road tax is a £250 reduction in my insurance premium [my previous car was a Ford Focus 1.0 L Ecoboost]

A good idea to put on all four tyres of the same model to keep handling even and balanced as far as the tyres go. The tyres need to suit your car and you, the amount of annual mileage doesn't really matter other than perhaps if you're concerned about how quickly they wear if you do very high annual mileage but even then as the tyres are a very important part (and component) of braking, steering and suspension you what the best reasonably suitable. 8k-miles isn't too low and isn't high. Handling, incidents and accidents can happen regardless of mileage. Driving a big heavy car like a Superb (a L&K at that) personally I'd want the the most suitable tyres for that type of car and Churchill brand tyres may include a model in their range that is suitable to some level, the level might be high or it might not I don't know. What you really need is a 2016 Superb owner that uses four Churchill tyres on the car and has very similar driving situations to you and then also drives in a similar way to you with similar expectations of the tyres as you. This is why general tyre reviews have to be taken as a generalisation. I possibly have higher expectations of tyres than an average VW / Skoda owner but that doesn't mean I'd turn my nose up at any tyre just because of it's country of manufacturer but the day of me being able to afford to buy tyres and give them 1,000 miles and change them if they didn't suit me are a long time in the past so personally I'd not take a chance on an unknown brand unless the qualifications I put earlier were meet. Churchill is the type of brand name that Chinese companies would use to see to the British market. Doesn't make them god or bad tyres just possibly good marketing for the market. This from F1 tyre places. - https://www.f1autocentres.co.uk/tyres/manufacturer/churchill From Bond "UK’s leading independent tyre wholesaler " and they seem to promote Churchill on their vans.- https://www.bondint.uk/tyre-brands/churchill

They are in the Car Trade Business. A deposit is one thing, and paid on a credit card for protection, but if their business is wanting paid for a vehicle still In Trade or maybe not even with them as the Registered Keeper they are not getting my money. They could be in Administration overnight. At least 'Skoda Approved Used', HPI checked. Get them to send the Report from the Rigorous Workshop Checks of the vehicle, and the Full Service History. The Body Check report etc. Thanks @Gaz for these from your Skoda Approved thread...

This is the difference between Manual and DSG. Not impossible to stall a DSG. I have been in an automatic (torque converter) that was stalled by a colleague. To this day I have no idea how he did it. tom

I'm just removing the pads when not in use as shown in my last picture above. The frame stays on, the pads are removed in seconds with a push button. Whilst the OEM ones do look neat, they don't look big enough to me.

This is the right way round! The downside is they don't fold back out of the way but they're easily removable when not needed.

the Kodiaq has it too. suppa duppa expensive to get them, IF u can find someone that sells them!!

Modern VAG temperature gauges are very misleading, they will show 90 when the actual value is 77 and still show 90 at a real 116 but then when the real value hits 117 the gauges shoots up to a ridiculous value. The effect of this is in 99.95 of cases people do not fret and obsess about the minuti of the gauge readings as they used to with observations like "it just reads over 90 and then just under" so it just sits there reading 90 and no one notices or cares which is what VAG want. BUT if you do get an issue such as the electronically controlled cam belt driven water pump failing, the real temp goes up and up to 100 or more but until it becomes a major issue, you don't know. Then when it hits 117 (and I have logged this), the gauge goes goes FSD and the dash goes crazy scaring the **** out of you; personally I would prefer an accurate gauge, forewarned is forearmed.