Silverage

I’m glad to hear they fitted your car OK.

I like my creature comforts so I was looking at L&K models. All the ones I saw were 7 seaters.

I’ve almost had my Superb III for three years. That’s the longest I’ve kept a car, possibly forever. I bought it with less than 200 miles on the clock from a fellow Briskoda’er back in November 2016. Now it’s time for a change. We got back from a holiday in the US a couple of weeks ago and I enjoyed the SUV we had as a rental car, so I thought I’d try one in this country. First thought was the Kodiaq along with its Taccora and Tiguan Allspace stablemates, but I eventually decided I didn’t need 7 seats. Today I’ve put down a deposit on a brand new regular Tiguan which I will be collecting on Sunday. On the whole I’ll miss the Superb once it’s gone. It’s not been entirely fault free. I did manage to get the dodgy wiper stalk replaced eventually, but I gave up on ever getting them to sort out the creaking rear suspension, which was still singing away when I took the car out this morning. Latterly a few more creaks and buzzes have appeared in the cabin. The car has only done 30,000 not particularly hard miles but it’s certainly not as tightly built as it was when it was new. From the start I’ve been on here, not a regular poster, but checking in for a read most days. Always a welcoming and friendly forum to visit. I hope the Tiguan equivalent is as good. Cheers guys.

I had the same a couple of months ago. Mine failed shortly after the start of a 20 minute drive to collect my son from school. Whilst I was waiting for him to come out with the engine off, about 15 minutes, it sorted itself out. Been fine since.

We’re just back from a holiday in the US. Whilst there we had a Chevrolet Suburban as a rental car and I’ve come back with a bit of an SUV bug. I’m currently in a 2.0l petrol DSG Suberb III L&K, which has been largely fault-free and has served me well over the last three years. I’m considering the Kodiaq with the same engine and trim. I know I’ll struggle for economy, but I’m only doing about 10,000 miles per year and I don’t really want to ever own a diesel car again. I have no real need of the Kodiaq, nor is there any pressing need to get rid of the Suberb, but I fancy a change. I’m seeing nearly new ones on Autotrader at around £33,000. A quick stab of mine on We Buy Any Car comes back with £17,000, so I hope a £15,000 swap might be on the cards. I’ve looked at the various YouTube reviews and they come out well, so I thought I’d pop over here from the Superb III forum I’m usually on and seek out a few pros and cons from those that have gone before. What advice do you have for me?

See my “Haunted Wipers” thread if you want an account of how this system shouldn’t work. It’s been working properly since they replaced the stalk a few weeks ago.

Just had an hour out in the car trying to fix mine. I managed to pop the unit out very easily using a cut-up library card (special tools). Then it took ages to get the connector on the cable apart. It was that little metal tab that was hanging on for dear life. Finally got a tiny flat blade screw driver in there and pushed it back. With that out of the way, I found two other pieces which had fallen inside the vent when the tab piece came off. I then managed to get the vent itself apart to give better access to the back of the fins that the tab fixes to. It was then I discovered I had lost the little metal piece - it was no longer in my cupholder along with the tab. I managed to get the three other pieces reassembled around the fins so the tab was able to move them up and down and left and right again, but it’s a bit floppy compared to its neighbour, presumably because of that missing clip. On the whole I was pleased to have sorted out a job which had been waiting for me to get around to for 6 months. I just hope the slightly loose vent doesn’t become a new rattle.

When it finally arrived, the stalk was replaced while I waited (90 mins) and the wipers have behaved correctly since.

A couple of weeks ago I got into my car and the entire central bit was dark. No display at all no matter how I fiddled about with the controls. I’d been going a minute or two before I realised, so I completed my journey. Next time I used the car, later the same day, it was all fine again. It had never played up before or since.

I wouldn’t expect you’d be able to just buy the missing piece. I would think you’d be looking for the whole chrome strip.

Then you should treasure them. It cost me £22 for the loan car yesterday, which is a bit annoying especially as it still has to go back to have the faulty part replaced after yesterday’s diagnosis session. Oh, and it will take 2 weeks to get the part in because it’s on back order.

That's what I expected. As it turned out, it (mis)performed correctly to show the fault by wiping with the stalk in the OFF position, so I didn't have to push this with the service guy. That will be a useful check I suppose when they say they have fixed it.

Thanks for that. That’s what the service guy said. I dropped it off this morning fully expecting it to behave perfectly and make me look like a raving idiot, but within a five minute test drive the wipers fired off by themselves three times. They are now diagnosing the fault whilst I blip round in their Fabia loaner (at 24p per mile plus £10 for insurance).

Just a quickie - can someone with autowipers (turned on in the infotainment) confirm what I have said above is correct, i.e. if, with the windscreen dry and clean, you move the wiper stalk to the INT position, nothing should happen. It should just go into standby waiting for rain.

I asked them to look at this during the service, but no fault found of course. I’ve been living with it but it’s getting no better so I’ve booked it in for this Friday. The dealer is still saying they have to see the fault for themselves. Today I have discovered by accident that if I set the wipers to INT that produces a single wipe instantly, even with the screen dry and clean. Autowiping is enabled in the settings, so INT should do no more than enable the rain detecting wipers. I imagine this is a manifestation of the same fault and is at least something I can show the dealer on demand.

Not very impressed with my local dealer on the servicing front. Always top price, wild charges for a loan car and trying to push add-ons like aircon servicing. My car will be 3 years old in September so that will be the end of the warranty and my visits to this dealer I think. I’ve currently got an annoying intermittent fault with my wipers which I’d like to get sorted under warranty, but they are refusing to do anything until they see the fault for themselves.

I too have it for “free” as part of the L&K spec. I’ve used it once, shortly after I got the car, just to see if it worked. I was messing about getting it to bay park while my son was at football training. It got there eventually, but I wasn’t convinced. Never used it again and had just about forgot about it till I saw this thread.

That sounds more promising then. I must admit that while I was out watering some new grass I’ve laid yesterday evening I was looking at the brakes through the 18” alloys and there did appear to be far more than one inch clearance from the rim each side. Maybe I will get the new wheel out later and give it a test fit. For those interested, my Skoda dealer did the wheel and the accessory set (jack etc.) for £172.

Ah, I see there is an 18” space saver available. I think that’s what they should have got for me.

So what size should they have got me then? Do they do a 17” version? If a buyer of a 220 or 280 Superb specifies the spare wheel option, what do they actually get from new?

Here we go I found it: Looks like it is the wrong size and it will have to go back to Skoda.

It’s a 205/55 R16 fitted to mine. I’m sure I recall a big thread on here about winter tyres and how those fitted on 16” wheels would not fit on the higher performance models because of the larger brake calipers.

Yes, I could do that, but it’s a hassle I could do without on a hot day if someone here already knows the answer. Even though the wheel is full size, I notice the tyre is still limited to 50mph if that makes a difference.

I know we’ve covered this one before, but I can’t find it. I had my 220 L&K in for a service earlier in the week. One of the issues raised was that my can of puncture gunk was going to expire in the next year. I took this as an opportunity to enquire about getting a proper spare wheel for the car as I’ve never been happy with just the gunk and the inflator thing. I went to collect it today and I was surprised that it was a full size steel wheel rather than a space saver, but a bit concerned that it was only 16”. I thought 16” was too small for the 220 L&Ks and that they would not clear the brakes. I asked the parts guy and he was sure it would but I’d like to be certain before I find myself at the side of the road with a puncture.

Update of a sort on this. I didn’t think it justified a special trip to the dealers so I thought I’d leave it until the next service. That’s due later this week so I’ve asked them to check it out. I mentioned it when I booked the service and someone called me back a couple of days later to (incorrectly) tell me that my car has auto wipers fitted that will run regardless of the stalk position even if the screen is bone dry. So my hopes aren’t high. It’s done it a couple more times on a short journey just today, so we’ll see what they can find on Thursday when it goes in. I guess if nothing else at least the fault will be logged as existing before the warranty expires in September.