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It’s 4 electronically controlled shocks. I appear to be in the minority as I don’t think it’s worth the £1000 extra it costs on the SportLine. I find my car completely acceptable and if you want the best from it anyway you are better off spending some of that money on aftermarket components. You seem to be in the same quandary I was when buying - SportLine and SportLine Plus doesn’t have quite enough options as standard and well optioned cars are hard to come across but the L&K is a bit too stately for me (I’m 26 lol) and not available in the best colour. In the end I found a car with most of the options I wanted and I can build from that. It’s the perfect colour as well haha

Lane assist in these cars always has an audible warning even when it does have the adaptive guidance to keep you centred in the lane. Every now and again if it thinks you haven’t got a grip of the steering wheel it’ll bong at you. It will assist you in lane without bonging though. Good luck finding a SportLine with it, I couldn’t, most people didn’t specify it so I bought a facelift SportLine Plus with the dynamic light assist as standard do you get the A5 camera which means lane assist can be coded in. I just haven’t done it on my car yet. Traffic Jam Assist is a separate option and wasn’t available on the PFL Superb but you can have the Passat B8 parameters flashed onto it with VCP and TJA will then work. All it does is keep lane assist on below 40 mph with the ACC on. There is no separate button for this, only on the 2021 model cars.

Improves the audio slightly

At the top there is a tab you can pull and split it. Will take pics of mine tomorrow when it’s apart again.

The magnet on the inside, I appear to have one magnetic strip but 2 slots for them, once the rear cover in clipped in place it pulls the batteries out so they don’t make contact and it doesn’t appear to charge. It works with regular AAA’s in it though. More investigation needed.

Have seen this on a couple of cars I’ve done cameras on, seems a bit of a flaw but luckily the estate isn’t so afflicted. The only flaw with mine is the torch doesn’t appear to work, the magnet pulls the batteries out so it doesn’t work 😂

There’s a 1.5 150 DSG SE-L estate in Business Grey for £18690 in Vindis Bury St Edmonds and Trans City Skoda in London have several SE’s and SE Tech’s in for under £18k, some 1.6 DSG and a petrol blue 2.0 150 manual. Not near Liverpool but click and collect plus delivery will be available. I went from Bangor to Reading to get mine. If you do get one and you want some extra mods adding or a camera fitting I’m not far away from you and can add those things

2019, have seen a good few facelift SE-Tech’s for that money. And an SE-L in fact

There’s some wiring and coding to do, all will be shown when I fit to mine soon

Mine has about £4500 in options as well so it was a £39,991 car when ordered so even then and with 6500 miles they are a decent price as a nearly new at the moment. You’ll not pay much less for a much older one at the moment. There are plenty of 17 plate ones up for £17-18k still 😬

End of 2019. I paid £25,500 for this one 2 weeks ago for reference. First SE-L models are dropping below £20k and the SportLine Plus’ are getting there too but they have a wee bit less kit than the L&K and have the smaller 1.5 TSi so those are a bit cheaper anyway. The hatch is available for a lot less than an estate as well, the delta appears to be growing.

I waited 9 months from mentally checking out of my Octy before actually collecting a Superb but I’m so glad I did as I never could have afforded a facelift car then. As well as the matrix lights you also get more standard equipment across the board, so you now get KESSY on the rear doors too, scrolling rear indicators, lighting animations, all LED interior lighting including the footwells and door bins (though I am swapping them out for RGB a la Audi to match the dash and door strips), L&K spec has increased to include the virtual cockpit as standard and heated + ventilated massage seats and heated steering wheel as standard as well. You also get the SportLine front bumper and rear diffuser so the facelift L&K has taken what was a really solid spec and made it a killer spec. I love my SportLine Plus though and would definitely recommend one now the spec has improved over the PFL - always thought it was missing a few essential things for a car of this price with the PFL.

When scrolling through Adaptations in VCDS it doesn’t have sub menus, so you’ll need the next set of instructions for the menus you are after, all of which are there, anything related to Fernlichtassistant which is HBA in German. For Skoda Surround you need to enable text mode or experimental coding or you can change that coding string via copy paste but change Byte 11 from 01 to 04.

You’ll be able to activate basic High Beam Assist if it’s not already active if that helps at all. If you have the budget or can wait, I’d really recommend a facelift as that has Matrix LED’s with Dynamic Light Assist as standard from SE-L and above and it’s amazing!! I have it on my SL+ and it’s absolutely awesome.

My old vRS was the same, was a maintained lease through Lex and everything but routine service went to Kwik Fit as they were the authorised service partner so all the tyres etc included as part of the maintained lease were done by Kwik Fit. Routine service was at a Skoda dealer but otherwise all the stuff was done at Kwik Fit. Mine had under 70k when I got it, sold with 133k on it 3.5 years later. Was flawless but it never went to a Kwik Fit after it left Lex haha

Will likely have been to Kwik Fit a lot as it was a probably a maintained lease and they would have been the ‘approved’ place to take the car.

You’ll have to check in dim light or in the settings for it as it’s impossible to tell from an external photo in the day, the lights look the same. As above, it’s a £100 option on the L&K up to the facelift when DLA became standard on the SE-L and above with Matrix LED. SLA is for the Xenons, it works slightly differently.

As Rob says, remove the plastic clip, reattach that clip to the rubber and then clip back into the car.

My Octy had 19’s as well and I’ve never been in a Superb that doesn’t have 19’s, I’m very happy with them and the ride is a huge step up from my lowered Octy. I’m not bothered about the nth degree of ride quality and I will sacrifice it for style, I don’t find the Superb hard, quite the opposite in fact so I’d imagine 17’s would be very comfy indeed but I’m happy with the 19’s.

Do you have a MIB2.5? The implementation of the DQ381 could be phased rather like other cars in the range where some engines got it before others. For sure by MY19 they all have it, MY18.5 150 TDi I drove also had it, perhaps the 190 4x4 had to wait for MY19?

I wouldn’t worry about it myself, the lip around the edge that isn’t part of the braking surface will start to rust anyway. I use my ACC a lot of time, it’s brilliant!

Depends when in 2017 the car was built. If it has the MIB2.5 (all glass screen) it’ll be the DQ381 7 speed. If it has the earlier MIB2 it’ll be the DQ250 6 speed.

Because it uses the rear brakes to slow the car down rather than regular cruise or your foot that you disengage and let the car coast.

It’s quite a doddle with VCDS to unwind the handbrake in the caliper tbf but yeah that’ll probably be why.

Yeah, ACC is the abbreviation for adaptive cruise.