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Brake or clutch switch stuck on?

I use the Skoda reversible boot mat which works well for muddy MTBs: Superb III Combi - flip-folding boot mat

33k, it happened while I wasn't using the car for 5 weeks in February and March. A few weeks of frequent use including deliberate hard braking since then hasn't cleaned them up so I decided to replace. The old pads were hardly worn but there is a bad lip on the discs.

Replaced the front discs and pads as they'd rusted beyond recovery. Very pleased with the improvement in braking power and pedal feel.

Do you want to swap boxes with me? I leased mine as a 7 speed but it only has 6!

A solar charger plugged in to the lighter socket is working well for me, the car started up normally even after over a month out of use.

The problem is that you're manually releasing the park brake while in Park. The park brake will release automatically when you drive off, compensating for the gradient as needed, so you can just start up, select D and drive off whatever the gradient. Similarly, when parking up all you need to do is select P and switch off. It's a myth that holding the car on the parking pawl will damage it - that's what it's designed for!

Sometimes the TPMS seems to get upset for no apparent reason and repeatedly give a warning when all the pressures are ok; this warning doesn't point to a particular wheel . We've had four recent-ish SEATs and Skodas and they've all done it occassionally, often soon after fitting new tyres. The system does work though, we've also had genuine warnings that correctly identified tyres with low pressure. Keep resetting and it gets the message eventually.

I'm another satisfied Carista user; I've used it for brake pad changes and coding tweaks on a couple of cars. It cost £30 for the dongle last autumn which included a month's subscription to the full app and was the cheapest option at the time.

It all sounds normal; the first front assist warning will be uncomfortably close at higher speeds, I rarely see it. It uses the same radar sensor as ACC so if that works, so does front assist. You can activate/deactivate the manouevre braking in the Parking and Manouevring menu, I think white is on so perhaps you have it deactivated by default.

You can haggle on the buy back figure, and buying would save you the excess mileage and any damage charges

Because estate rear washers spray mostly outside where the wiper clears, it's hopeless!

I expect your car is coming up to 12 months old, at which point it will be due a service on a time rather than mileage basis. While delaying this almost certainly won't harm the car, it probably is worth your while getting it done to maintain a full service history. Perhaps a local dealer could collect the car to minimise the risk to you.

Yep, 300mm for a 150 tdi

Check the brake discs, especially the rears, aren't rusty in the region where the pads make contact, inside and out. They easily get so bad that normal braking won't clean them up then the rusty discs wear the pads out prematurely.

Try setting ACC to Eco in the Individual drive mode settings, it backs off much sooner then and rarely needs to brake.

Yep, it's a simple as that with solid discs, you might well have to remove the carrier if you have vented discs. The only trouble I had was that one of the discs took some persuading to come off the hub, turned a 20 minute job into 30 while penetrating oil did its job,

Looks familiar. The disc comes out with the carrier in situ Now my front discs are looking and sounding bad after a long period of little use

You do have to push the pistons back after putting the EPB into service mode. It's a straight push, no need to wind them back. The video shows TRW calipers on the Audi, it's quite a bit easier with the ATE calipers on the Superb - no need to remove the carrier for a start.

@FyllCeeFront Assist does seem to be working - the 'you're too close to the car in front' indicator you've seen is the first level of warning and proves your radar sensor is working - level two is a chime and message 'Apply the Brake!'; level three is an automatic brake application which can be late and very harsh. Your experiments with the box will have triggered the automatic braking for low speed manouevres that uses the parking sensors and works up to 8km/h, the radar sensor won't see a stationary box.

This popped up in my Youtube recommendations, thought it might be of interest: 2056km mit EINEM Tank?!

Thereabouts IIRC, it would happen quite often. The screen was a really loose fit in the dash as if there was some padding missing.

No, I never did. In fact, I replaced the car a few weeks later for another Superb which, I'm pleased to say, is totally rattle free to this day.

It's as easy as this job can be. You have to use a diagnostic tool to retract the electric park brake motor, I used Carista, but no other special tools are needed; the disc comes out without needing to remove the caliper bracket and you push the piston straight in, no need to turn it. The hardest part for me was separating the rusty disc from the hub.

Mine had rusted before the car was delivered new to me. If I'd done some heavy braking then and got the discs properly cleared, they would have lasted normally.