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I say keep the MK3.5 and start saving for the new car now. You can save a fair bit in 3 years, and I assume you already have some savings.

And a few of the gardens............

We'd hoped to see the Battle of Britain Memorial flight today but Coningsby was all closed up (they might be staying in Duxford?) so we took a ride to Waddington and arrived just in time for their return! 1460650~4.mp4 1460707~3.mp4

For anyone that comes across this with a slightly newer model, I just followed these steps and fixed the heater element for the seat base on my 2016 Yeti and it all went smoothly. Some (minor) points to note : 1) The seat is heavy and bulky but definitely easier to get to everything if you take it right out. 2) I couldn't get to the spline nut behind the seat belt stalk to remove the seat-back but I found just removing the two lower ones (one each side) I could rock the base forward to create a gap and remove the old element and pass the new one's cable etc through easily enough. 3) The height adjustment lever seemed to have a little clip on the inside face that needed to be pressed in and then it slid off easily. 4) The rear-most connector in the floor under the seat (the small black one) was not at all clear how it came apart - keep fiddling and you will work it out! 5) Pressing the seat cover retainers into the C-clip was easy and didn't require helping hand. It took me two hours including tea breaks and occasional cursing - now I have a warm rear end after putting this job off for more than two years!

Curiosity got the better of me on a drive back from Somerset yesterday and I decided to leave the gearbox in ‘sport’ mode which isn’t something I’d really used much before. Low and behold the car goes and returns my best fuel consumption figures to date and I wasn’t exactly driving like Miss Daisy either 👀

I first bought a cheepone off amazon but had problems with sound from Waze and Google maps, changed to an Ottocast Pico, thinking the button may reconnect easily, but that isnt the case, i have to have bluetooth on to connect first, then it uses the wifi , when the nav app sound doesnt work i just remove the ottocast and reinsert it, the sound then starts ( found it is the same with the cheap unit i had too

@Davema, I have the same car. I have towed a lot with other vehicles although not this one as yet (no towbar), but I doubt you'll have any issues if you stay within the towing parameters. The 1.4 8sp is a beautiful combination and I have to say much more flexible and relaxed than jerky 7sp DSG in my previous Golf. The towing specs always have a small built in margin, but stay a smidge under and you should be fine. You can also get portable weighing scales to use at home for the boat/trailer if you can't get to the weighbridge, not inordinately expensive. Be especially careful with the ball download, stick well within the 80kg to protect your rear suspension and sway control. The HR square neck towbar would be my preference with the height adjustable ball mount, you don't want the fixed Euro style one in case it's set too low for your rig! Let us know how you get on, I for one would be keen to hear of the outcome!

Deer at Calke Abbey this afternoon 1010338~2.mp4

I have had my car for about six months. Was getting bugged with the repeat updates that lately appeared every day. Today I have been offered a proper system update, hopefully that will get rid of the constant small updates. The files it's downloading is :- M013_EU_SKMQB_P33400P... 0/3602 MB. Fingers crossed it's improving it. Cheers Bart....

Been a bit busy managed a few random shots before heading to Ireland via Bristol

Hi New member here. Drive a 26 plate Octavia 1.5 TSI 116 horsepower

You may have put fuses back in correct place and the steering should come back after a drive. Quite normal after battery change you get a few warning symbols Turn full left and full right and take it for a short drive and steering light should go off. When you checked the wipers was the bonnet open. Skoda in there wisdom disable wipers if bonnet is open for some reason. Caught me out before. Alasdair

Wash and vac, bring it on

Firmware 0334 ist Last one for this HW

^^^ Perfect. Fixed Regime chart not accurate in all. But as far as Extended Scope the idea is @ first 3 years then each 2 years. As Brake Fluid used to be, but now they say each 2 years. Not all DSG are at 40,000 miles. Cambelts also changed advice.

Our (daughter's) Kamiq is just coming up to 3yrs old too and dealer service manager said (by emai) that it's an oil lubrication service. Which I believe is literally just an oil and filter change and some basic safety checks (lights. horn etc). That's different to what the Skoda website says, which says at 3yrs/30K it should have a "Oil and inspection service with Extended scope". The first two services were included with the deal for the car and I'm sure I recall reading that they were just oil services, plus pollen filter at year 2. That would fit with what the website is saying for year 3. There's a quite ridiculous difference in price between the oil service and oil plus inspection. Especially bearing in mind the car will be MOT'd too, which is a pretty thorough going over. I'm annoyed to have to pay at all - slipped up really, should have had the car left on longlife servicing so it wouldn't even be due for its second service yet. Having said that, I'm not mad on the car not being looked at for 2yrs, and leaving oil in for 18,500 miles probably isn't a good idea.

Keep getting the update repeats on the wife’s kodiaq. Hopefully they will get a proper update soon too

I always back off the accelerator once I’ve got some nice momentum going.

The link for the exact one I got is dead but I think this is the newer version of it. https://a.aliexpress.com/_Ex5BdpG

Has anyone fitted a towbar to their Enyak and can offer some advice. I’m not sure my car has the preparation kit from factory. Would you recommend Skoda or an independent kit and would there be coding issues? Thanks

Worth checking out until help comes along.

I read on here before about updating the firmware on the ottocast to correct some issues. No idea how that’s done. My Ali express one connects within a few seconds and auto plays from where you left off. It’s been plugged in permanently for nearly a year and had no issues whatsoever.

Well after some investigation I have purchased a new door speaker and replaced it the audio is back to normal and no distortion, no idea why other speakers were also distorting. But we shall see how it goes long term but for now it's all good again.

Does Coasting work in sport mode??

@lol-lol but that is true of any company, their reputation etc is all down to the staff, they can make or break a company. Sadly all too often, staff is not appreciated by the bosses.

Probably should’ve said on the post and now it won’t let me edit it but it’s a 1.5 DSG (25 MY)

Quite similar to my very good Renault - Dacia dealer called Savilles, single site dealership, best customer service i have ever had but I know Renault would insist on all sorts of things, bigger showroom, take models that probably would not sell ie those big cars Renault are not really reunion for. Sad and like many marque they end up with multi chain delearship that do not seem as caring. That said I gave found Startin of Worcester good but that is down to one great salesman I deal with !

I bought that one because Bink said it worked and cheap, been faultless

MOT today. 5 years old and 48,000 miles. No issues at all.

I've been getting this too, from posts elsewhere it would appear that a download is being rolled out in batches of VINs. Today I got the message and was driving the car long enough to actually get the download downloaded and then theres a message to install it which takes 20 mins,, after that theres a further message to install the Apps which can be done in the background.

Where the door wiring loom passes from door to A pillar is definitely a know cause of door related electrical problems and is usually only a matter of time before continual flexing of the drivers door loom (which obvious gets used more than other doors, except I guess in a taxi) causes a wire to break and give problems. Mine went at 93K miles at the start of COVID. Just shut off main speaker in driver's door (initially thought I'd gone deaf in right ear :-) but depending on wire that breaks, can affect any door as I believe main module for controlling all doors lives in that door. There is a design flaw in original door looms where the wires are slightly too short and hence flex excessively / kink rather than bending smoothly. So if one wire has broken, very good chance others are not far behind. Hence, rather that face a future of playing whack a mole chasing ongoing breakages and faults, had complete new door loom fitted. The new door looms have been redesigned with slightly longer wires to overcome the known problem so in theory should last life of the car, I've certainly done another 88K since then without further problems so fingers crossed the redesign has worked. You can buy repair looms to splice into loom just before it leaves the door which in theory fixes all wires in one and you essentially end up with the redesigned loom. But a lot of effort to solder all those wires and so makes sense to me that once you have the door opened up that you do the job properly and replace complete loom as a single plug and play operation. Before you do anything though, recommend you get the car scanned to get full list of fault codes as whilst the door loom looks favourite here, there could be other issues at play (e.g. genuinely faulty control module).

Running costs may be cheaper but the cost to change is still very large and takes a long time to recoup. This is what matters to most people. I'm sure you'll mention cheap PCP deals on EVs but they done matter to many people buying through savings or second hand.

Nice colour!

Would you believe that I'd just started to draft this response before you posted your reply, then had to rush out before checking and posting it?? I know precious little about the Superb 2 Estates but I did have an SEL one for a brief while... It seems like on one else is answering, so here's what I've churned up from what appears to be quite a common issue witth Superb 2 Estates with Electric Tailgates.... Hope that it is of some use, however small? I'd strongly suggest having the car VCDS scanned as this will (hopefully) throw up any hardware issues and likely help point you in the right direction. Electric tailgate intermittent problem: Posted on 23rd November 2017 https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/441420-electric-tailgate-intermittent-problem/#comment-571933 Skoda superb electic tailgate issues: Posted on 25th September 2022 https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/507305-skoda-superb-electic-tailgate-issues/#comment-5857802 It already loks like you've done a half-decent job so well done for that 🙂

So after googling and a bit of youtube, had a look at the left hand side and found the green wire broken and the yellow on the way. Hadnt got any wire the same size and was a job to get the boot back over but two pieces soldered in with heatshrink and the boot now works as it should.. Will do for the time being, but will eventually get a couple of replacement struts when it goes again..

Nice evening one from our hotel in Menorca...

From this evenings walk............

I did this with carscaner. But in vcds you can also Superb 11/23 Vcds Gateway module 19 - Long coding - FPA function freilauf defaultON change value to "not active" Carscaner In bajt 9 uncheck number 4

Looks very classy to me. I'm sure you will have a great time with her. Mine still surprises me with the performance and boot space. 🏆🏆

Unhappy Swan............... Not a bad sunset earlier...............

Sunset a few nights ago..........

Our Kamiq was a bit late for its second service as the dealers leadtime was bonkers. Dealer assured us it'd be fine (famous last words). However if the car was on longlife servicing then it could go 2yrs between services (18500 miles) so I don't see why it should be problem. I suppose, as the first service is basically just an oil change and the second is a more extended inspection, then they might say the inspection is overdue.