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Rustynuts is your best man for this. Great guy to deal with too.

As with many things they are my responsibility when they are not done. Or not done properly.

I only found out due to an irate phone call from my wife earlier in the year when she thought she'd missed an appointment due to the clock not being set correctly. When I checked found it was only correct for my key. You don't forget that kind of thing in a hurry!

When you change from BST to GMT (as we did a couple of weeks back) you simply turn the daylight saving from off to on which is good. BUT if you then open the car with the other key the setting will revert, or more accuratly will be whatever is set to that key. It's only a small thing but easy to forget and I can't understand why its not a global, "car" setting rather than "user" setting. I guess if you are the sole user of the car you could have one key set to winter and the other for summer but i'd have thought most users would use both keys interchangably or one for each user as I do (so that the the seat moves automatically). In any case I don't understand why it's not automatic, particulary in a car with GPS/Sat Nav'. It's is on my other car, which surprised me as it's an analogue clock and that does not have GPS. Mind you it doesn't do many things which the Skoda does so not comlaining

IIRC it's in the MFD, but it is also key dependent do you have to do it for each key. Same for daylight saving, nave been able to figure that one.

OK thanks, I guess the 103kw quoted in the first post should have been 103BHP.

So did they run 1.9 & 2.0 engines at 140BHP concurrently or is my 2.0 actually a 1.9?

, Thanks for pointing that out Wino. I don't think my tablet has auto-correct, more like auto-make-a-fool-of-me. It constantly 'correct' me to words which don't make any sense of don't even exist. I think I actually wrote "without as much 'grunt' low down" but your correction makes as much sense

I keep mine in a draw in my office!

Was the 1.9 used in the Superb II? Mine is a 2008 and a PD as far as I can tell but is a 2.0 not a 1.9. It's a 140BHP which is circa 103kw. Must say I like the characteristics of it with good Los down grunt. Never driven the later engine but believe it it more linear without as Michael low down.

Bloody he'll now I'm beginning to wish I had read it! You'll be telling me next not to drive with the bonnet up.

Having to RTFM would take half the fun out of ownership.

Filled up last night and did a 273 mile trip today, when I got back MFD was indicating 64MPG, filled up again, took 22L so just over 56MPG in reality. Seems that the MFD is getting even more inaccurate but as I'll net £113 for the trip, can I be bothered?

Don't wipe it on the curtains, the Mrs will go mad.

Bit like Red Rock Cider then? It's not Red and there's no rocks in it according to Leslie Nielsen IIRC

I've seen lane assist on several cars but it never seems to work right. Surely when a car's system detecs that its driver hasn't got the capability to stay in a lane it should park itself up as soon as it's safe to do so and remain imobile for sufficient time for the driver to recover (8 hours or so) any repeat behavior should result in the system reporting the driver to a law enforcement agency.

Just been out and checked the latest fuel consumption it's 53MPG (probably 48 actual) over the last week/300miles. In that time I've not driven it, all the miles have been done by my wife, she normally doesn't get such a good figure as she's doing 16 miles a day to work (and the same back home again) just over half of which is motorway. I'm wondering if the recent change of brake calipers has improved it. Perhaps they were dragging more than I thought. I've got a 270 mile trip on Thursday mainly motorway, be interesting to see what that returns.

Or maybe worse due to additional emissions twaddle?

Had a go at this at the weekend. The underside of the new bolt is not serrated so should be the 200NM +180°, I managed to get the torque but no way was I going to get that extra 180°. Managed about 45° that was with an extension on my breaker bar, maybe if I'd had a 10' scaf' pole handy I'd have had a chance, suspect something would have broken first though. Although the original bolt was serrated this was not very tight, don't think it was even the 70nm. Anyway, I can't see it going anywhere.

Just throwing it out there guys, seems there are owners with petrol engine claiming good accuracy diesel owners claiming poor. I'm not claiming any knowledge of what's in the box but I'm assuming fuel use is measured by the accumilated injector open time if there is an additional squirt for DPF re-gen this may just nothe get counted. It could arguably require more code to do so. On the Mazda 6 diesel my wife had the computer was dead on but it was the only thing about that car which I'd praise. To put it into conext we kept a 10 year old Superb (and not even a very pretty one) in preference to a 2 year old Mazda.

Why? The ECU knows what extra it is adding it would be simple for a computer to exclude it's extra in its MPG calculation and I guess the argument would be that this fuel is not being used to provide miles but a cleaning service.

I have wondered if the include the extra fuel they use for DPF regeneration on the display. This would also explain why petrol engine cars don't suffer so much.

Most of my mileage is motorway, I don't particularly take it easy as I get paid a good rate for it so my speed is normally limited by traffic flow and I like to "make reasonable progress" when getting up to speed but I normally get between 55-60 indicated MPG which in reality is around 5MPG optimistic (around 10%) As I don't drive everyday (work from home) we've decided to have a primary and secondary car so my wife is now using it also, her driving is more A road so MPG is around 50 indicated / 45 actual. But as the other car has a 5.5L V8 petrol engine this is still cheaper. I'm disappointed in the maxidot accuracy but then we do know what kind of relationship VW has with the truth don't we? Other than that I don't really care, personally I think this is not bad going for a large car and slightly better than my previousl car which I had no complaints about. I only really keep an eye on it in case it suddenly changes which may indicate a problem. Mine is a 2008 140BHP car which will be the pre-CR engine I believe. Don't know if this is better or worse than later engine for MPG and even though it's only a 140 (and I like my powerful vehicles) I actually like the power delivery.

My bolt has no serrations so it looks like it needs the big torque, that's nearly twice as high as my torque wrench goes! And then another 180* on top, seems a bit OTT to me. You'd think it was holding a battleship down!

Sometimes mine will just about pop up, other times it will raise all the way. Seems to do better when warm, maybe newer gas rams would improve it but I can't really be bothered.