MrRich

Four wheel alignment is what you need if having the rear tracking adjusted (ideal to have four wheel done when doing front too). The challenge is finding someone competent at doing it!

Update, replaced the latch and tailgate now functions as it is supposed to.

Now back to it misbehaving as it did before, so my punt trying to save money didn’t work. I guess latch next as nothing else should cause?

Just to expand on my comments, the tailgate soft close latch operates but occasionally doesn’t pull it completely shut and so the tailgate is on the second latch and resting on the seals. Before the struts would give the tailgate a proper thud to close and latch would work fine.

I took a chance and replaced the struts with the £200 a pair aftermarket ones available on eBay. Function restored so indicated fault with detecting position on the strut or both struts. Issue I now have is it looks I need to reset the lowest position as it sometimes stops a few mm short of the latch being able to pull the tailgate closed. How do I do this?

Hi, If your car has parking sensors and blind spot etc. then you may find that you need to go down the route of the proper harness and coding otherwise it could trigger these and / or disable other functions (reported on here to affect cruise control etc if not happy).

All Seasons are fine for UK winter and probably better suited as full winters operate better in colder conditions, so All Seasons cover that gap between Winters and Summers. Newer ones also get alpine rating so okay for use in Europe in winter.

Running Continental PremiumContact 6 as summer tyres and then AllSeasonContact for during winter.

Franchise workshop will charge £140 initial diagnoses / code read. Is there an alternative way to diagnose if the fault is with a strut or latch sensor? I have found that the latch sometimes operates when the tailgate has not fully shut? I also find the fault occurs if the car has been sat for several hours but if been driven it appears to work fine. Does this point it toward either the strut or latch?

Would expect DPF on a Superb 2.0 diesel to last at least 150k miles. Mine is just over half full at near 120k miles. Others on here report getting near 200k before the DPF nears capacity. Older generation DPFs predating the Superb mk3 were more problematic.

Hi, The powered tailgate has an intermittent fault. It is sometimes stopping part way through the movement either opening or closing, usually in the same position each time it does it. I’ve reset the open position setting by holding down the tailgate button and waiting for the beep, but it still has the intermittent issue. Any pointers? Thanks!

Is this still on the factory DPF, injectors, egr valve etc?

Mine makes the same noises when it's been dry for a while, always took it as a "they all do that sir" based on comments on here and never really looked into it. In 60k miles it's not worsened either.

If the battery is on its way out then the winter is when it’ll show the most, batteries don’t like cold and it’s also when the car will have the greatest power load for glow plugs, cranking a colder engine with thicker (cold start) oil, heated seats, electric heater for initial warm air in cabin etc.

Clicking could be clock spring? Rubbing noise sounds like back of the steering wheel rubbing on the column plastic covers?