Lee123

I have driven my superb 1200 miles to and from Slovakia a number of times. My wife likes to cram the car FULL of stuff for the trip back (and the trip there this time for that matter. I don't know what the exact weight was, but I would guess it's somewhere near this limit. I normally drive top speed without the heavy load through Germany (around 140-150 as much as I can), but kept my speed to a limit of 120 with the heavy load. No problems at all and home safe and sound.

So it doesn't matter about the wattage then. Guess I'll just look for whatever looks good and hope for the best

No worries man, been a great help anyway, thank you. Hopefully someone else can shed some light on it?

Ahh thats perfect - so are they really that bright then that you have to cover 2 banks up? I'm also looking for an alternative to my reverse lights, i know they're meant to warn other drivers that i'm reversing.. but would be nice for them to give off enough light so i can see where i'm going if i'm reversing down a dark lane, for example.

Forgot about this thread - so took it to the skoda dealers in slovakia (zvolen). Cost me €53 for diagnostic and wheel balancing on all 4 wheels (we hit something in france which caused a huge amount of vibration) AND scrubbing all the rust off all 4 hubs under the wheels, absolute bargain. Initially they couldn't find any of the faults (not even the airbag fault came up). It turns out that it just needed to be plugged into the diagnostics to reset everything, the whole light system worked perfect after this.

I'm not even sure how to answer this. I'll just say if you don't understand it, don't comment.

These look really good... I'm assuming you remove the entire housing for these to fit in? How do they connect up inside?

Hi guys, I have a question about the number plate lights. I purchased a set of 3*1w Cree xpe number plate lights from one of the main bulb supplies and I have to say I'm hugely disappointed with them. I would go as far as to say they're not even as good as the standard type Osrams I previously had in there, plus they were meant to be canbus and of course they flagged an error only being a total of 3watts (3*1w Cree). So my question is this. I have found a few high power 5 watt Cree bulbs online... Obviously I'm going to find the best I can. But because they are 5 watt output, will that mean they will not flag an error on the dash? Or am I missing something? Really longing for that crisp white number plate look, without the error.

Okay, I'll go check that when I get the chance. You know what I mean about the travel mode not working though? You can see the light beam start to move, which happens for maybe a quarter of a second and then goes straight back to its starting position again.

Hi guys, having a problem using my travel mode on my superb. I've travelled to Slovakia for a little break and have recently taken my car out of garage having a lot of work done. Sent it in a few weeks ago and has taken so long that in the end the job was rushed and few other problems have arisen as a result. My biggest concern is the headlights. I flicked it to travel mode the second I got off the train in France and had no idea it wasn't working until it started getting dark in Germany. Once the headlights came on I started to get a lot of flashes off people, some of which were really nasty about it and followed me for several mile with the full beam on before giving up... Not really appreciative of this since I have a baby in the car, however at the same time I understand the reason they're ****ed off. Anyway, after this happened a few times I pulled in to check on the travel mode thingy. Went into settings and checked it was on, said it was so I turned it off and back on again. On the wall in front of me I could see the pattern try to change (literally moved a couple of mil) and then go back to its original pattern again, so something is definitely up. Had no choice but to continue our journey as our hotel was still a few hundred mile away. When I start the car the lights do the little self test dance so I'm really stuck as to what the problem could be? The law in Slovakia states that I have to have my headlights active at all times day and night so this is an issue I really need to sort out as soon as possible as I can't keep driving like this. On top of that the drive back home is going to be equally problematic. Would really like to know what the problem is and if I can fix it myself as would rather save the money as i've spent well over £1000 on it over last couple months and SWMBO is already tired of me spending money on it. Many thanks in advance!

Apologies for the late response to this, really busy with baby and building a new living room. Anyway, I have just finally got it to the garage and I think the guy is trying to pull a fast one. First of all, it isn't a leak he pushed a screwdriver into the valve and it looks as though the refill I had a few months the back is still there, pumped out it did. Now, he claims it's the compressor valve... Which is fine, but he also claims vag group do not source the valve separately and I will have to buy the whole compressor (£300!!!). I have sourced one quickly on eBay for like £37 but am unsure if it is the correct one. Does anyone have the part number or even better, can someone point me to a link where I can buy this part from? Taking the car to the guy right now and yes gonna double check to see if it is the valve, will also let him know I have found the valve sold seperately on eBay, but would much rather give him part number or let him know where he can buy it from. Thanks in advance!

Okay will do, is it expensive to fix a leak? And do you reckon this is what it sounds like to you?

Hi guys. Been having a problem with my aircon for a while now. It started cutting in and out randomly about a year ago with the awful smell that comes with them sometimes, so last summer I got it regassed, was really low according to the guy. It worked alright for a couple of days but then went back to cutting in and out again and has been like that ever since... Of course with that awful smell as well.

I was thinking exactly the same thing. You could get it chipped for a tenth of the price and have a much more notable performance increase...I'm really not sure what their idea was there.

Okay, panic over. I have resolved the issue. For future reference and for anyone else that has the same problem, the resolution is to hit the microswitch under the boot latch at the bottom and to hold the right button under the boot (to switch to hatch mode) for 2 seconds, the side locks will pop back out like they should.