Thedempsey

You guys are early adopters, as am I, the things you talk about now will make no sense in 10 years as technology will have moved on to be unrecognisable, and who is to say electric cars are the future anyway. If big tech have their way we will be all sat at home deteriorating in our vr suits.

Car allowance and salary sacrifice users far outweigh business users when it comes to electric cars, so they choose according to taste not efficiency - other than Tesla the ranges are all pretty similar. If we went down the road of efficiency and task orientated then wouldn't we all just be driving round in the same flat white cars with cloth interiors, 15 inch wheels and no sunroofs - bit boring? Surely car enthusiasts consider more than "status symbol" don't you think? The car industry is just part of the big capitalist cog, along with everything else we consume in large numbers.

These look amazing mate, very brave choice of alloys but looks spot on with the white paint. Probably one for another thread but interested to see what your shorter springs did to the ride.

Well, thanks for the pics, you never can tell if smaller alloys make a car look stupid or not, I had some 18s on a seat Leon back in 2012 and it looked under-rimmed, maybe I had a hang up on that! Although 17s looked great on my Saab 9-5 and 18s looked ridiculous. I'm not sure if the 3.6 superb would have any grip issues with thinner tyres though? Assume for winter it would be fine on the basis it won't be going fast anywhere...

I've just ordered a BMW IX, the 40 which is the base spec, M sport trim - £74k. It's using my car allowance as I wanted to take advantage of the low BIK and is one of the very few new cars you can fit 3 full sized baby/toddler car seats on the back bench. There is no chance I would ever spend this amount of money on a car, let alone an electric one. My thoughts on this is that it was the only one that felt "premium/different", and I had tried the Tesla 3 performance (good bye licence), the Jaguar I pace (didn't think anything of it), Mach E (quite liked this), E-tron 55 (fine, but boring, felt like my Q3 inside). I had the IX for 4 days to try it out, range - no where near as stated, more like 200 miles and this was temps between 6-10C. I had times where the range would tank for no apparent reason. Luckily it's not needed for very long journeys, so not that concerned. I don't know if this is my age, but modern car designs and interiors just don't do it for me, they're like clones of each other - boring and a bit tacky (diamond knobs/ copper plastic vents/ fake diffusers/ fake exhausts/ fake noises/ "soft plastic"/LED light bars)...I guess we get what we ask for. I've had my 3.6 superb for about 5 days and I'd sooner jump into that than anything electric and/or modern, bar the very silly end of pricing for the latter.

Interesting, they don't look like 16's at all, I thought the car would drown alloys that small out but it doesn't look bad at all....are you running these for winter or are they your daily's?

Hi guys, I'm new here, but I'm looking forward to being active on the forum. I am considering a second pair of alloys and then having one pair shod in winters, but I was interested to see if anyone has put any other alloys on the superb from the VAG family, or gone for darker colours... What's everyone wearing? Pics? Cheers Demps

I have just bought a superb (2011) and I was going through the receipts at the weekend and I've seen an air con fix that was just a new "hose" and fixings - £250, main dealer though, so I would def go to a specialist instead!

Hi all, I flirted with the idea in 2019 but never pushed the button, but the impending arrival of baby number 3 pushed me back towards the big barge! I'm now the owner of a grey 3.6 estate, 2011. 170k miles so taking a bit of a punt, but it's a 1 owner and has a full Skoda main dealer history to 2020, just missed last year's but putting her in for a major Skoda service as spark plugs look to be 3 years old. 640 quid tax though! Ouchy. I'm coming from a resto 3.2 Alfa Romeo GT busso, which I still have, but it's got to go as I can only fit one kid in it - and it's an old Alfa, so it's constantly putting it's hand in my wallet. Before that I had a tuned Saab 9-5 aero and before that a Mk5 golf R32, so I'm familiar with the vr6 engine. Feels a lot stronger in the superb for some reason. Nice to meet you all 🙌 Demps Will add some pics when the car is clean!