Steviedakota

2024-06-10T13:29:17Z

Look at the state of this thing!

Friday at 10:28

27 minutes ago, Blue8793841 said:

Is it an ex Arnold Clark? I find anything from Scotland or Arnold Clarke are the worst 😢

Arnold Clark Glasgow is correct!

Friday at 09:52

16 hours ago, Danoid said:

Christ, I can see why you wanted to replace your brake dust covers now.

Do you live near the sea like in the sea? 😂

Strangely enough no, but the car spent its first two years in Scotland where are the roads are heavily salted in winter so that could be the problem.

Thursday at 09:46

Car is nearly 9 years old and the calipers sure look it. So wheels off and with a combination of drill and Dremel with a wire brush took all the rust off followed by 5 coats of UHT Silver paint. Didn't bother masking off the pads as they are due for replacement. Happy with the results and with new rotors, dust shield and pads going on shortly will look much fresher.

4 June

Paid €1200 for clutch and flywheel recently. Keep looking as you will find a better price.

A lot of garages make a big deal out of this job, but I watched the two guys (albeit pros) working on my car and they had the whole job completed in 1.5 hours.

31 May

Cheers Pete, think I will pass on getting that done, but great to know.

31 May

Just PM'd you.

31 May

Thanks Pete, seems a bit mad that it doesn't need replacing but maybe I'm from a bygone age!

31 May

Does anybody know if the fuel filter is worth replacing and if so where are they located on the car? There is very little information online that I can find.

Thanks.

24 May

On 23/05/2024 at 11:00, J.R. said:

Rear removal and replacement is very simpl eif you make one cut which is held together rigidly when the new disc is bolted up, the old ones you can usually tear off with your bare hands.

@Danoid They will be far gone if visibly "pretty rusty" likely only the original paint holding them together, you would have to remove them to spray paint and I have always paid less than €10 for new ones, until the Dutch company Action opened shops in France it would have cost me more for an Aerosol paint than the brake backplates!!!

Could you illustrate where are you make this cut to make installation of the rears easy?

23 May

Thanks folks, bummer to hear the back one is the tricky one as those of the two that are particularly rusty.

22 May

Mine are pretty rusty and given that I need to replace the disks and pads soon was wondering if this an easy enough job to install the new brake disc shields or is it more involved job, like taking the hub off?

Pic for reference.

17 May

On 16/05/2024 at 04:36, JR RS said:

+1

i've been using AliExpress metal caps on Gandalf for almost 6 yrs now, no rust/corrosion whatsoever.

not faded either as the car is garaged.

I read this as a humble brag about your wonderful climate!

23 April

As above, just fitted one and it works perfectly.

18 April

Replaced the boot switch as the old one was acting up. The same switch failed on my wife's Superb about a year ago. Very simple job and part is available on Amazon for €20.

2 April

Our two 1.4's now 120K and 160k. Nothing unusual to report on either (touchwood).

26 March

15 hours ago, martinowen09 said:

@ApertureS do you still sell these parts ?

Mine just failed yesterday, you can buy them on Amazon for cheap.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B1845DN9?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

25 March

The water pump on the 1.4 TSI is that the opposite side of the engine from the timing belt so no, they wouldn't have replaced the belt while they were doing your water pump.

22 February

On 21/02/2024 at 11:35, Superbsport said:

Hi all

Reviving this topic as I am still suffering the clutch judder issue and wondering if anyone else has any further updates. Made it through another year, but it is still the same. Apologies I never reported back post service last year, the garage just commented they noticed very slight judder, but short of strip down and likely full replacement of clutch and flywheel, nothing they can or will do. The cost is just prohibitive, certainly from a dealer and I'm worried if it doesn't cure it.

What I cannot understand is how it can do it sometimes and not at other times. For example, gave it a motorway run earlier this week for over an hour, when I initially set off from home it juddered a little, then it went away, then queuing to get on to motorway it started again and did it in traffic when I came off the motorway. Driving home later after being parked for a few hours, it was perfectly fine!

Yesterday morning fine from cold, last night coming back from work juddering from cold! It has also been fine for the last couple of weeks up to this week. None of it makes sense to me, surely if there is a fault somewhere with the clutch it should do it constantly.

Any ideas?

Mine was also intermittent, sometimes pulling away at first it was terrible, and other days nothing at all. Replacing the clutch and flywheel 100% solved it. A bit of shopping around and I got it done for €1000. It took two guys 1.5 hours to do, so if you find someone who knows what they're doing it, shouldn't be prohibitively expensive.

On 11/01/2023 at 23:56, bigjohn said:

Does the manual 1.4 even have a Dual Mass Flywheel - could be a Single Mass Flywheel with the smaller engines?

The 1.4tsi 150 manual is a DMF.

8 February

1 hour ago, Esseesse200 said:

You could buy a full set of mini special actives for that. 100% do that and it’ll improve the ride quality no end

Say what? Link to whatever those are?

6 February

Just replace mine but on a manual so can't really advise on cost but LUK is the OE and they are very good, and not crazy money either.

6 February

If they are non DCC that is way too much. Shocks are around €200 (Monroe) and fitting is straightforward. Should be more than €400. No need to bring this to Skoda, any independent can fix this for you.

1 February

8 minutes ago, ed5000 said:

Update, car is ready for collection. Faulty crankshaft sensor.

Trying to understand how a crankshaft sensor could throw up all those codes but you never know. Hopefully it is fixed once and for all.

31 January

15 hours ago, simonpa said:

Hi

Skoda superb 2018 2 litre 190 diesel with 6 speed manual.

I am trying to change the gearbox oil and cannot find the fill plug only the drain plug.

My question is does it have one?

I found a YT vid for 2016 passat same engine that has a fill plug but on my box casting there is just a flat with no hole in the place where the passat has one...

Haynes skoda superb manual is useless just has a generic instruction but it does mention some vehicles are filled from a breather valve hole on top of the box

Does anyone have any experience - tips?

oh and please dont say its filled for life - I am an engineer and dont believe in fill for life advice, plus i am planning to keep the car for many years

Thanks in advance..

simon

Can't help with fill and drain on your engine, they are pretty easy to spot on my 6 speed manual (1.4tsi), but you're absolutely right it is well worth changing. I did mine a couple of years ago and it came out in pretty poor shape. Can't say I noticed much difference in quietness or shifting but it was good to know that it was back up to spec.

8 January

My creaking was eliminated by spraying white Lithium grease onto the anti roll bar bushings (accessed from under the car behind each wheel arch). It lasts a while but needs redoing from the creak returns.

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