brettikivi

Other observations: it's possible to freeze the towbar in place if the weather is right. Only answer is to thoroughly defrost the car. Snow in the rims is a persistent problem in the cold with fluff snow; getting to them is a pain because of the discs. Prefer the open designs because of this but it's still a pain. Need to create something that can slowly melt snow at -25C. Mudflaps really do help keep the crud off the car. Rear ones seemingly more so than the fronts, as I've not hit any point where you can't read the plate this year and previously this was common. The rear discs rust easily Front brakes are more distinctly affected by rain / water than I would like. There are mosquitos (dead ones) in the rear lights in the tailgate. But that's watertight.... The centre armrest is lovely and I will miss it. Personalization also doesn't really mean much on this gen of car without the electric seats. Intrigued if this works better with the Kodiaq - my offspring drives my car and needs different mirror / seat height settings and I want to prove these will set with "their" key; wife has one key, I have another, offspring has third. Looking forward to active cruise, rear camera, that higher seating position is nice. And the DSG... this will be my first automatic car. Driven lots of automatic rentals, but this is the first one that's mine. Wondering how much this car will get "borrowed" by said offspring for weekends away at the local ski resort. Quite a lot, I suspect, especially if I get roof bars for it, we have the ski holders already.

I'm happy with the general volume level in the Superb. Could summarize, maybe.....bear in mind that nowadays, I do 400km at a time, 1 way, to the office. Same day return, mostly empty roads. Minimal town work, mostly 80/100/120km/h limits, 80/100 in winter. Summer tyres are Bridgestone Turanza 005s, Winter Hakkapellitta 8s. Both in 215/55R17. Car spec includes heated seats and wheel, Bi-Xenon, Amundsen, Webasto. I've done a tick over 73500kms in 2.5 years. Average according to Spritmonitor is around 6l/100. Average speeds tend to be high with summer limits, like 100km/h high. Plus: - like the ride. Very comfy. But this car also has the rough road pack (+15mm) - noise-wise, pleasantly quiet, even with winter spikes - manual change not too shabby - winter tyres still have 6mm left; summers still have >5mm left. Both sets were new at the time of buying. - it powerslides beautifully in ESC Sport mode without allowing rotations... but you can still eat snow - the range is lovely, with 1200km no issue and 800 in a day absolutely standard with a 1/3 tank left. Dislikes: - used the heated screen so little it's weird. Webasto very effective, so that got used instead. - bit floaty over the bumpy stuff, would have fixed that with B6s all round - sound system is pants, but I fixed that --> DSP + Amps + Sub. Took some boot space, excellent sound as a result. - Bi-Xenon underwhelming, I fixed that too --> Lazer 18 Elite will also be added to the Kodiaq - Range on the Webasto remote was small. Can't stand on the runway at my local airport and turn the Webasto on reliably.But this is a standard feature of these remotes, so... What broke / was replaced? 1 wheel bearing. 1 lower control arm ball joint 1 set of front disks + pads oil, 3 times Haldex oil, once Adblue system bits, once Battery, once Kessy start button, once Overall: solid 8/10. Can't argue with the tyre wear; it's done a very good job of keeping costs down and eating the miles. Haldex is very nice now the fluid is changed - previously you could tell when power was going to the back, now it's just sliiiiiiide and no apparent movement of power.

.. and fixed, looks like someone cracked the oil filter housing by overtightening at the last service or something along those lines. Anyways, fixed for now, car will be swapped tomorrow. Replacement is a business grey Kodiaq from 2018, 110kW 4x4, 5 seater, leather, DSG, nav, LEDs, heated front and rear seats. Should be an interesting swap.

cursed at it, very loudly. It's marking its territory with nice not-so-little pools of engine oil. The one in the hall where the car was for 4-5 hours is about the diameter of a pilot pen / bic. I'm supposed to be trading it in on Tuesday at a dealer 300km away... the orange light binged at me Friday last week. I filled 1l, then today for the hell of it, I checked oil level - 1/3 of the way up the dipstick (and the hall is close to level, with 0,1 degree). realised after coming home in another car that there's a pool on the gravel outside and then when I moved it tonight, there's another in the hall. Now it's at the mechanics and I will be over there first thing in the morning to see if they can do anything for me...

get the correct one. It's covered elsewhere on the forum. I was going to do this on my car. Pick also whether you want to go Ali or OEM route. It's going to be a multi-hour job as you'll have to take the entire cladding off the tailgate.

so if I remember correctly, the way it works is this: - the blade needs cut to suit the actual physical lock of the car, giving you emergency entry or so, depending on the spec (my A2 still has 1 physical key hole visible, the Octys and Superb don't, but it is still there) - the transponder needs to be coded to work with the lock / unlock function --> this is the re-sync with 2 keys and is generally possible without too much hassle and what locksmiths can generally do (i asked about a replacement key not too long ago and was told this was possible), as it's about syncing the rolling codes with the lock / unlock list in the car. - the immobiliser is different and cannot be cloned, as each key* car probably gets a specific seed value for the crypto... there are generally 3 key slots available on the newer vehicles, and the dealer (or your friendly programmer with dealer-level tools) gets to assign one of the keys to the space in the car. Then some fancy stuff happens and the key is known. In other words, I think your key for €7 isn't going to work, but a key for €107 may. If you are 100% sure the frequency of the key and the car are the same (part numbers!) then there's a good chance it will all work. You will unlikely be able to clone a working key to another without dealer tools (NFC reader or whatever it is, must be something along these lines) and the software to go with it. Looks like Ali has these things but at 600+999 for the software. I suspect strongly that you'll need to strongly authenticate (2FA with real names in an official system) against the VW systems before adding new keys going forward. The reason the up! got canned is security protocols... another reason why the cars are going to go cloud-based. * thought this through some more: car-based seed makes way more sense. For a replacement key, decode the seed in the key through the key responses to a challenge, copy to another key, tell the car the result of XOR seed + key serial - boom - done. Too easy IMO.

... and the deal looks complete. Kodiaq should be here next week at some point, maybe still this week, let's see.

the start / stop buttons do die sometimes, my Superb had its replaced a year or so ago. Not spectacularly expensive., of the order of €35 for the part and an hour or so fitting IIRC.

interested to hear what you're replacing it with. looks like I will be driving a Kodiaq soon not a Superb, and I have a decent system for that, but not 3-way, not with a centre, and with a big ol' 10" sub. @KoenG

Yesterday: spent several hours in it trekking to the east to view a car that ... did not live up to my expectations, at least not on the outside. Next! Today: off through the snow down south to look at a Kodiaq. I would like this whole thing off my plate as I have a busy spring / summer ahead and if it's not going to work out, I'd like to know that sooner rather than later... Superbs are thin on the ground, super thin on the ground. 3 in the correct price / mileage class in the entire country and I've driven 2 of them and rejected them; the third is elsewhere but I think I've settled on the Kodiaq. Decent equipment - towbar, electric seats, leather, heated rear outside seats - but not too much. No BLIS, but ACC; no Dynamic LEDs but high beam assist, nav and traffic sign recognition and a reversing camera. At least speed limits are coming back to summer ones in part, that will turn my commute from 4h45 including coffee to 4h dead including coffee. It was super fun to slide across a mostly-empty car park this morning with ESC Sport. Wasn't long but it was satisfying. ooo-er!

the car should be told about the new battery to ensure it charges it correctly, in terms of voltage. Assuming you replaced like with like (an AGM with an AGM) then the issue isn't that serious but I would still get it done to ensure maximum battery life.

turn the wheel from centered to lock right, then all the way to the left, then to the center again before driving anywhere. See if that helps. (i had exactly this after we removed the amp etc from my car on Tuesday. Turns out the clock spring position got lost because of the temporary loss of power. going from lock to lock solved it without VCDS and in about 1 minute). . Bret

well, i've preliminarily agreed a deal to swap it for another one. With far fewer miles and better kit. Tuesday to get the hifi out and then hopefully Wed / Thu we can complete the deal...then the new one goes for cambelt and probably an oil change and a look-over.

I used the fronts from directly behind the glove box. Be aware the numbering of the connectors doesn't make sense (doesn't go FR+ FR- FL+FL-, it's weird). Check the electrical diagrams (available from ErWin) for the colours you need. Going to have to do this again in a few weeks, so... and that car has Canton. But I've heard it and I'm not impressed, and I have the gear, so...

Interesting. I got told DSG is 60k kms, fixed interval, no time limits. Reading some more, that's for DQ250s. DQ381s have 7 speed and 80000kms. And yes, 2018 - the paperwork I can find for the 2018 MY Superbs here says 6 speed DSG for the 19 0 TDI 4x4 I'm looking at. Haldex I would now personally do every other year, but I hammer mine (snow has been lying since November and more is due) so I wasn't surprised when someone commented how dirty the filter was. One of the cars I'm currently looking hat has under 60k kms but is 6 yrs old, so I was talking about the maintenance schedule with a garage I trust, not a Skoda dealer.