Dann2707

It's such a stupidly bad design, and makes sense why the FL version has the ballast fixed to the plane 90° to the original so water doesn't trickle into it. I'm not posting in this thread again because since posting...my other one has failed! But I did re-fit the covers last week to that one so i'm assuming water has struggled to get out and just gone into the ballast... great! Not sure how i'm going to sort this now without taking THAT side out as it's a bit of a PITA to get to.

Had this recently on mine, turns out the headlights have water in them and where the ballast is located (directly under the headlight) means that it just drips directly into the ballast. I recently changed my ballast a few weeks ago, and it failed within 2 days. I took the headlight back out and low and behold the ballast was full of water again! I allowed the headlight to fully dry and blasted it out with compressed air and a fan to get it all out. Dried the ballast too and unbelievably it came back to life after a few days and touch wood its been spot on since. Do you have all the headlight cover caps on the back of the units? I think there are 3 per headlight on the pre-facelift.

Yes they should do mate

Does anyone know if you can fit those to a car without the electric struts as standard? So a retrofit.

Not a bad idea at all that. My issue is (and solely my problem) is that I need the car daily and it's winter so would need it now. I may have a gander in summer time perhaps.

No I haven't mate. I daren't risk it with it being such a big task. If it was a simple swap it wouldn't be so bad.

Think I have a thermostat issue, I changed my DSG stat last year so don't think its that. I'm not even getting to operating temperature in November on A, B and motorway roads after a 30 minute / 17 mile drive. How long roughly does yours get to bang in the middle doing average driving at this time of year? in terms of time and/or mileage Thanks

Think i'd still be wanting a validation check of that the coolant temperature sensor is working though. There's not much else to change and not having 100% confidence in the sensor wouldn't sit right with me. Thermostats are pretty basic pieces of equipment so if that's working, nothing else should really be effecting operating temp.

Where did you order the badges from? or are going to?

I ended up flattening my curved badges somehow, probably with a hammer. They're still on a few years later, although the paint has flaked away.. probably from the hammer

At least i'm not doing something wrong then! Cheers for that. It does seem a rather strange way to go about it!

A bit of a weird one. My heated mirrors only come on when the dial is selected on the drivers door, which is annoying as I expected it to come on when I press the heated rear screen. I usually have it on the L position as it helps with reversing dipping the mirrors so having to move it to heated each time is a pain, on other cars the heated mirrors come on when the rear screen heater is on. Am I missing a setting or is this how it is ? On a 2012 superb estate Thanks

Hi, My Mk2 has the common fault where the heated seats aren't working, i've changed the module with no luck and put it down to the wiring in the seats. A replacement set is looking at £180+ for one seat... which i'm not paying. Has anyone had any luck with any others from Aliexpress or anywhere else? The parts in question are: https://www.skoda-parts.com/spare-part/3t0963555af-insert-for-the-heater-seat-leather-skoda-26837.html https://www.skoda-parts.com/spare-part/3t0963557q-insert-for-the-heat-up-backrest-leather-skoda-29544.html I wondered if something like this could be retrofitted https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006482145381.html?spm=a2g0o.tesla.0.0.2b91YxnhYxnhdk&pdp_npi=5%40dis%21GBP%21%EF%BF%A159.38%21%EF%BF%A129.69%21%21%21%21%21%40210385a817558600276202665e2404%2112000037367679053%21btf%21%21%21%211%210&afTraceInfo=1005006482145381__pc__c_ppc_item_bridge_pc_main__1aLhYdp__1755860027733 Thanks Daniel

Well aware i'm talking to myself but it may help people in the future... there's nothing worse when people complain about an issue but never update the final result on a forum. More wires have failed in the left hand side tailgate wiring which is what is presumably causing my issue!

As per the above comment, check the windscreen seal too. Mine has failed and lets water in at the top