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Got a 2017 SEL exec 1.4 TSI Do you have the part numbers of those Bilsteins?

You don’t have to have a valid MOT to drive a vehicle to a prebooked MOT! probably only helps if you rebook an MOT somewhere who quote you a much more reasonable price to change the shocks if they are actually required! I would ask to look at them myself too or see pictures of the fault too to see if their opinion is “honest”

Probably because is the same as any other DOT4 fluid and 150% of the price of other reputable brands!

They are rivets they are not pop though, just "Plastic Rivets". Rivet is a general term for a device to clamp two surfaces together and that's exactly what the plastic rivets do. Pop rivets, by the way, are so named after the popping sound they make when installed.

For Info I hit a deer recently (low speed as I wasn't going too fast, sadly not low enough for the deer which had to be put down), The cover over the radar came off so I unplugged the module and bagged up an zip tied the connector so it wasn't being drowned in rain and peppered with stones and road salt. having straightened a few bits up refitted the radar module and cover yesterday and went out to test it, The fault on the dash for cruise not working etc all disappeared and everything works as it should without having to plug in and clear anything with VCDS or recalibrate anything.

Obvious questions I suppose ... 1. Did they deliver as expected? 2. They seem to be based in .cz (Czechoslovakia) and claim to be UK VAT registered with no extra VAT or customs charges, is this what happened for you? 3. Where the parts genuine Skoda parts? 4. How long did they take to arrive? Thanks for any info. Sadly I recently hit a dear so in need of a new radar cover, which for a small plastic cover for some unfathomable reason seems to be about £200 in the UK, and a much less unreasonable, though still expensive. €93 delivered. The dear sadly didn't make it, my thanks to the police and Lincolnshire Deer rescue came an put it out of its misery.

Gendan one is the official Ross-Tech cable, they are one of three UK official Ross-Tech re-sellers. They do have the most appalling looking ancient design true eyesore of a website however! here are the four UK distributors as listed on the Ross-Tech website. U.K.: Gendan Limited Unit 8 Llys Caer Felin Felinfach Swansea SA5 4HH +44 0 1792 588002 ilexa Onboard Diagnostics Truro Cornwall TR2 4YF UK p: +44 01726 884 010 email: [email protected] Marshall's Industrial Ltd. Volkswagen Power Systems & Components IMPCO Gas Systems Beadle Estate Hithercroft Road, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK OX10 9DG p: +44 (0) 1491 834666 f: +44 (0) 1491 839777 email: [email protected] V-Tech UK Ltd. 181 Forest Road Hainault UK IG6 3HZ Tel: +44 0800 195 1245

https://www.skoda.co.uk/apps/manuals/Detail?model=Superb_3T&edition=05-2014&market=&manualLang=en here is the user manual for your car, from your details looks like you have a 2014 Superb 1.4TSi so that would be the Supperb II So the specified oil is VW501 or VW 502 It will be available (if you dont go to the dealer) in a number of different grades. If you car does'nt use much oil you can use 0W20 (thinner at high temps) if you want otherwise stick to 0W40 (thicker at high temps) the former will be very slightly better of fuel consumption due to lower pumping energy requirements, the latter will use less oil, which on a 2014 may be more of an issue. 3.6 Litres only so a 4L can will do.

First couple of services I think are purely oil and filter, can't remember when cabin filter is due but failry sure thats down the line. Air filter is three years or 60,000 miles and hydraulic fuids (brake and clutch if not auto) at 3 year then 2 years cycle after that. PS you will probably be told "Skoda UK recomends" that cam belts are changed at 5 years or 60,000 miles. Don't believe a word of it. I do my own servicing so paid for access to ERWIN (Skoda's on line comprehensive Mantainence manuals) for a day and printed the lot out (you can't download or pdf them sadly but you can print! the acutal Skoda enigne manual for my 14. TSI ACT 2017 states Cambelt should be inspected at each service after 5 years or 60,000 miles for damage, cracking, fraying etc) and relplaced if there are signs of damage or at ...... Don't beleive the dealer if he says your car can only do fixed servicing like mine did (on the 1.4 Tsi ACT) ! Check the build sticker under the boot carpet and in your printed handbook. It will probably have a QI code of either... QI4 = Fixed interval servicing = 15,000 km = 9320 miles! or QI6 - ESI Extended Service Intervals if it says QI6 you can have it set to extended service intervals as the code means you engine has an oil quality sensor and as long as Long Life (VW 508 00 spec) Oil is used at the service they just need to tell the car "High Quality Oil" was fitted at the service and you'll be on the extended service intervals. Note when your car comes back from sevice it will take about 300 miles of driving before it comes up with an estimated distance and time till your next service. this will adjust depending on how hard you drive it and ambienct conditions, how much combustion products build up in the oil etc. untill 300+ miles it will just show --- as the miles to next service and same for time.

its a piece of **** to inspect. top cover on left side of engine as you look at it under the bonet near the coolant reseviour, unclip a cable undo a couple of fasteners and you can see the outside and inside of the belt, flick the starter a couple of times you check it all around and your done. PS on the 2017 1.4 TSI ACT its not required to inspect until 5 years old and then its a check for wear, damage or cracking of the belt. After 7+ years and almost 70,000 miles mine look brand new, there is not even any dust collected on the inside of the cover. replacement is not based on time at all just condition and from memory the km's limit was somewhere over 200,000 km! thats from SKODA ERWIN their online maintnence manual for the CZDA engine..... the octy 1,4 from 2014 is probably a different version but check the engine code and pay for a days access to ERWIN to find out the real VW truth not the Weasal words of self enriching importers and dealer "Skoda UK recommend that....."

Anywone else had several dealer enriching lies told to them? When I first bought my 2017 SEL 1.4 TSI it was just over 2 years old. Went if for its first service and asked for it to be put on Extended Service Intervals as I had on my previous Mk II Superb. Service team said fine but when i got the car back it wasn't done and I had the pathetic less than 10,000 miles to go (it's 15,000 KP or 9230 miles!) Bananas I thought so in line with the paperwork for Horton Skoda lincoln I e-maile Oliver the dealer priciple to say I wasn't happy as what I was promised hadn't been done. I got a curt virging on rude reply telling me my car wasn't able to have Extended Service Intervals. In answering a question on this forum I looked up the user manual on line for which oil spec was required and poingin out you only need VW 508 00 for the Extended Service Intervals (ESI) if your car supports it and while its your choice you only need VW 502 00 oil. I came accross a few pages later in the manual to codes that tell you what service intervals our cars support on where to find them (build label in your handbook or under the boot carpet). QI1, QI2, QI3, QI4 all replate to different service intervals in km for fixed servicing, QI4 being the 15,000km one, QI6 is the code for ESI basically meaning you car has an oil quality sensor and works it out based on the envirnmental conditions and how you drive. So finally checked my car (1.4 TSI ACT) and its QI6 so the dealer plain lied or doesn't know his ass from his elbow, or was covering for his incompetent service team? If you read this Oliver feel free to tell me which it was! The next set of porkies was at just over three years old when the dealer tried to pursuade me with 40 odd thousand miles on it that it was due a new Cam Belt! Given my superb II 2.0 TDI had been due at 140,000 miles or 9 years I laughed an told him I would check whats required myself and to poke off for now. Dire warnings were given to try and pursuade me, which I ignored. When I checked the handbook it stated..... Nothing at all, as Skoda no longer published a maintenance schedule for all items just the time/mileage or ESI service intervals and nothing about when extra items like cam belts are due. did find reference online to .... Škoda Cambelt Replacement ŠKODA UK recommends that all timing belts are replaced at 5 year intervals. This is *******s however. they aould have to make them of chesse to need changing that often, my High Compression Mk2 Superb 2.0l Diesel was due at 9 years or 140,000 miles! I went back to doing my own servicing and so paid to access the official Skoda maintenance info system online "ERWIN" erWin Online | Škoda Auto | This told me after 5 years it needs inspecting at each service for condition and in the abscense of any visible damage or cracking of the belt it doesn not need replacing till 240,000 km I think it was anyway 140,000 miles + change in UK units. its a simple single wire to unclip and coun;t of fasteners and the top cover comes off allowing you to eyeball the belt, its a simple 5 minute job. Also bear in mind on the 1.4 TSI ACT the water pump is at the other end of the engiine driven by its own little rubber toothed belt so the cam belt isn't having to drive the water pump as well meaning is has an easier life. The inner toothed bit also looks to be something advanced like kevlar material wise so I think its pretty damn tough. So all in all not impressed by Skoda UK or their Stealers honesty!

I got told some rubbish by the dealer and looked it up and found reference to Skoda UK recomend replacing at 5 years old or 100,000 miles. Then as my dealer had tried to get me to do this at just over 3 years old and 40 odd thousand I resumed doing my own maintnence. To that end I bought access to the online officia Skoda servicing info including the specific Engine (2017 1.4 TSI ACT) (CDZA I think from memory but don't quote me as I may have that wrong). As I only had access for 1 day I printed whole lot out (a lot of paper, sorry enviroment) but you couln't download it or print to PDF! The official Skoda maintnence on this engine states it need inspecting from 5 years at every service, and if there is no sign of cracking wear or damage you can leave it alone till 210,000km! (130,000 miles and change)!! Skoda UK's "We recomend" is their money manking scheme and is not a requirement for this engine at all. Notice the weasel words "we recomend", "not replacement is due at"!! My car is now over 7 years old about to service it again myself and last year the belt (easily accessible buy removing the top cover on the drivers side (UK) of the engine bay near the coolant explansion tank, unclip a wire and undo a couple of fasteners and you can inspect the inside and outside of the belt easily, mine at 7 years and over 60,000 miles looked as new, no dust in there from wear, no cracks, marks or other signs of damage or any wear at all! Needless to say I won't be going back to the local stealer any time soon. I do need to do all the brake fuids again this year and am going to do oil and filter on the DSG too. In other news the dealers lies about not having extended servicing on this engine turns out to be pants too. Code QI6 on the build label in the boot tells me my car has the required Oil Quality Sensor and so can run extended service intervals (ESI)! VW 508 oil and filter ordered and will be adapting with VCDS to tell me car to swtich to high quality oil which will switch it to ESI and mean it doen need oil changes till it say so not every 9,320 miles!!! Not impressed with my Dealer of Skoda UK!

Well after 7 and a bit years and closing in on 70,000 miles with start stop active the whole time (me and the original owner) my 1.4TSI is still on the original battery, start stop wroks perfectly and has never failed to start immediately you touch the throttle and euqally the starter motor has never missed a beat. So I think your concerns over reliability and impact on the battery life were groundless and VW (Skoda) had designed the system components well. Ideed the only failure i've had in all that time was the seal on the water pump to engine clock started leaking. I replaced the whole pump myself though the old pump was fine just the seal failed. Easyish job as its the other end of the engine than the cam belt, replaced its little drive belt while I was at it. Getting the right coolant and realising all the special tools (to draww a vacuum on the collant expansion tank) and process were un-necessary as it purped itself and drove the air out just fine like any normal car.

Know its an old post so no need to dive in but the advice given was wrong (VW504). The correct spec comes from the Owners Manual availablle to download from skoda if yours isn't handy. And here is what is says (with screen caps) I reply to the original posters question but the screen captures cover all the engive variants. For cars with fixed serviice intervals the 1.4TSI needs VW502.00 spec (often but not always VW502 will also meet VW507 but the latter is for non DPF Deisels so as VW507 spec may not also meet the VW502.00 spec you should be looking for, so make sure that VW502.00 (sometime VW502 00 which is the same thing) is on the container. Std viscosity would be 5W40 for the UK but 5W30 is OK for an oil change as long as yours doesn't use much oil (5W30 is thinner when hot than 5W40). If your car is on Variable Servicing (My 2017 1.4TSI ACT is not) you have a different oils spec but its all in the manual available to download from skoda if you want to look. Full Spec's from the manual ...... The manual also details the codes on the build sticker that details if your car is fixed (QI1-QI4 for Fixed or QI6 if its variable servicing as an option. NB if you choose to use the fixed service intervals on a car that can use variable, you do NOT need to use the Long Life (VW508.00) oil, you can use the VW502.00 instead. Unless your using the extra life of the higher spec oil for Vairiable servicing intervals (VW508.00) your wasting money buying the higher spec oil and throwing it away at fixed more frequent intervals. Won't do any harm of course and your choice if you want to spend your money on the higher spec long life oil anyway, especially if your on one of the very sporty engine options kicking out the high 200 HP's. NB Dealers use (and charge for) the higher spec oil VW508 regardless of what your car can use, the factory does the same, it saves them having to stock so many oils, part of the reason your servicing bill is higher than it needs to be is many of you are paying over the odds on the oil to save some space for your dealer! Effectively your dealer has two 50 gallon drums of oil one VW508 for Petrol Cars and one VW507 for Diesels, rather than 4, to cover all the options. (and probably a spare of each). Needless to say they charge premium retail prices on the service invoice as if you were buying it in 1 ltire bottles but they buy it trade in fifty gallon drums! And to find out which you have look under the boot carpet for the build sticker and the following details Finally here is the link for the Skoda Superb Mk III Sallon manual. https://www.skoda.co.uk/apps/manuals/Detail?model=Superb_3V&edition=06-2023

For Info I have a leaking water pump (Skoda superb III 1.4TSi Engine code CZEA) Sept 2017 54,000 miles. having traced the small water leak to the water pump housing, (was a pig to find the coolant lurking under it), and looked it up in the workshop manual, I can confirm its a complex and separate water pump at the opposite (transmission) end of the engine and an expensive part (£206 from Skoda). Will change it and its drive belt. There is a Youtube video showing this change but note getting the air locks out of the system looks from the workshop manual to be a bit of a chore! While I was at it i inspected the Cam Belt which is easy to inspect, one bolt and two spring clips unclip some pipes from the cover and manoeuvre it out. The belt look like new after 6 and a bit years and 54,000 miles. The workshop manual just states its condition should be inspected at every major service. I have been doing this since I now do these, and so i check it annually as its a simple check. the manual does not quote a mileage limit but 160,000 miles seems believable as the stress of driving the water belt it eliminated and so its a less convoluted path with less turns and stress / load. Pics of the timing belt attached.

Hi first suggestion would be take it back to Skoda dealer and point out that you have statutory rights and they apply to cars too. under the consumer rights act goods have to be of merchantable quality and last as long as a reasonable person would expect them to last having regard to their price and nature. This applies to parts of cars not just the whole. goven what satnav media units cost (to replace a reasonable person would expect them to last the full 6 years of these rights. therefore Skoda can’t blank you on this. if the dealer refuses ask them to refer it to Skoda UK who should know your rights. If bot get trading standards involved. technically under the act you might get charged a portion of the repair costs based on you having had the use of the part for say three years (based on it being a 2018 car) but surprisingly most companies don’t know the act well enough to realise this and replace for free when pushed! good luck whatever you try!

My previous mark II (Black paint) had a beige leather. Wouldn’t have it again. After 10 yrs and 180,000 miles was quite grubby despite cleaning and conditioning. 67 MK iii is black metallic with black leather. Much prefer it. due to work I often have to climb in dusty and dirty, black leather is the best option for me xxx

Nice looking sportline looks really good in black.

Gorgeous pic don't recognise the alloys, are they new on the Sportline or L&K? nice colour hope you enjoying the superb. They are a lovely car and well spec’d for the money vs the Passat ?