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Yes, I am also going back to this, which I never looked it back as I was (still are) pondering about what to get, if the VCDS or the OB11. As Langers has said, the long code will be the same and there is a thread where they put it up. My Skoda garage here in Finland is looking at it and to give me a price. So if they come back with it, it means it is possible with my 2016 L&K camera.

Hi people. Last week the battery died in a combination of short rides, Webasto heater use and unusually cold weather (-18C) for Helsinki. Bottom line was that I went to take my son to football training and the car didn't have enough juice to start. Unluckily, even my power pack was in its last legs (although checked in Autum and had a full charge) and although it had one dot out of four in the power indicator (and the manufacturer claimed that it would give you up to three tries to start the car), nothing happened. Later I saw that the selector was in 16v, but I can't really swear that that was the case when I tried to jump start the car as I pushed the selector several times later and if this did matter at all. Anyway, bottom line was that I had to charge the battery with my MXS 5.0 (thank you CTEK for your lovely chargers) and once fully charged, everything was back to normal apart from the sunshade comfort closing ceasing to work (and a weird freeze and reebot of the infotaiment en-route that I don't know if it is related). My car is a 2016 that had the comfort closing of the sunroof disabled by Skoda due to a malfunction with the anti-pinching setting in some of the cars. But the sunshade comfort closing was left alone and you could close the shade by long presssing the close button in your remote. The windows comfort opening and closing work as usual. I have tried the reset of the sunshade by long pressing the forward button for 10 seconds of so, but it doesn't open-close, just make a bit of noise and like it tries to goes forward and just stops. Other wise function is fine. Any ideas of how to bring back the comfort closing, before I mention it to Skoda when I need to take the car there?. Is it possible to do something through coding?. I might be getting an OBD eleven soonish to add the road sign recognition and if the sunsahde comfort closing can be sorted from there, I won't bother with the "stealer". On another note, could the disabled panoramic roof comfort closing be brought back with the OBD eleven coding?. Thanks.

So it seems that European tyres have Treadwear marking. In the Pirelli P7's case is 260. Anyway, I found a very interesting comparison between the usually three top sport tyres in 18" for summer: Continental 6, F1 assim. 5 and PS4. https://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Article/Pilot-Sport-4-VS-Asymmetric-5-VS-Premium-Contact-6.htm Also it was interesting to read a cuople of articles in Finnish papers from 2016 where it seemed that both Nokian and Pirelli were providing "special" tyres for the tests different from the ones that the general public would get in the tyre specialist shops. So I wouldn't be surprised that ADAC and the lot are not only biased towards their own "national" companies, but also turning a blind eye to this kind of practices. In Finland, unsurprisingly Nokian tyres come as top or second in all the reviews, so I think that what BAP33 says is nearer to the truth.

Sorry, Goodyear F1 Eagle assimetrics, not something like this :

Hi, Gabriel, yes I'm Spanish as well myself and I had a bit of nightmare time when we bought our previous car (Volvo XC60 2.4 AWD) while in the UK, as it was the same situation: 3 Pirelli Scorpio and one Pirelli P Zero Rosso. At least same brand. In the UK and other countries (Finland in this case) you are allowed to mix and match as long as the tyres are of the same specification, ie, summers or winters, same speed rating and same width-wall ratio percentage. Obviously I knew about the rule in Spain of not being able to mix tyres and we always were going with the ferry back there for holidays in the summer, so I was wondering and pondering what to do until a friend of mine that work for the green chaps (Guardia Civil) told me not to worry, as they usually don't look at that, but also as a foreign plate car I am not obliged to follow that ruling as long as the MOT (ITV in Spain) was OK and in date, basically legal in your country (EU countries only, by the looks of it). Anyway, I have read a bit more and it seems that before if the diameter of the tyres had more than a 3% diference, then it could be a problem with the diferencial and AWD systems, being Subaru a very picky one that would give you troubles no end until either the offending tyre was changed or the AWD system would pack up. And apparently having same size (235/45 18 in my case) doesn't warrant that as there is manufacturer's difference even amongst their own different models within a given brand. But also the pattern of the tyre matters as well. The P7s and the Ventus 3 seem to have very similar ones and apparently (correct me if not right), the Superb MKIII Haldex is gen 4 or 5, but in both VAG got rid of the problems they previous generations had with very tight operating margins meaning that the Haldex will fail if you were not running same tyres or the thread difference would be more than 3mm in any given tyre or axle combination (can't remember). Anyway, after all the reading and research I think it will be safe to just do what I thought, which is match thread depth next year with the missmatched tyres in the front, so they wear off quicker and then hopefully be able to change the 4 tyres at the same time. We don't do many kilometres (5000 so far since January) and mainly in highway with no crazy speeds (Finland has a mainly 80-100kph speed limit with some 120kph motorways nearing Helsinki and a fair amount of speed cameras). Unless, that is, the car starts veering from the perfect straight line that is doing now. Still want to hear from you guys about your experiences with summer tyres. The Michelin PS4 is deffinitely an option (thanks BAP33), although the most expensive one. I was thinking of Goodyear F1 assimetrics. I had them before and were quite OK. I also had Dunlops SP Sports that were also OK. Thanks and sorry for the loooooooooooong post ;).

Hi guys, Maybe not an usual issue in the UK and other southern countries, but here in Finland and Germany upwards there is a legal requirement to swap tyres from "summer" to "winter" unless you have an approved set of all seasons. I know that every country has their own rules and that they change from time to time, but as a rule of thumb wheels need to be changed when required and that is a perfect oppotunity to rotate them if needed. Now, the winter ones are not an issue as they are directional and only allow the front to back swap, but with the summer ones I am in a bit of a pickle for next summer. The previous owner did not have much of luck in the sense of even wear and the tyres I inherited are three Pirelli Cinturato P7 and one Hankook Ventus Prime 3. Two Pirellis in the back and the Hankook in the front left. The situation as per last month (after a painful nearly 1000€ service of DGS, Haldex and engine oil changes plus brake fluid, spark plugs and bits and bobs) was the following: front left (Hankook) 6.5mm, FR (Pirelli) 4mm. RLeft 6mm and RRight 5mm (both Pirellis). The question is, next summer which kind of rotation should I do?. I am tempted to swap the FR and RL only so it will be an even set in the back and rear thread wise and then replace one pair once the thread reaches 3mm, but will that create a bigger imbalance rather than doing a cross change FL-RR / FR-RL?. Or just a straight front to back?. In other order of things, should I carry on with the Pirellis or change to Hankook, or is there a consensus of other tyre that works fine with the Superb?. Thanks guys and guyettes.

Actually, you're right. The new dongle is quicker and will support other cars, not only VAG, they say in their FAQs that they are starting with BMW and will add more brands as they strike rights agreements with other companies. It is also kind of reasuring that VW is endorsing them. The only issue is that the pro version is 99€ with 200 credits on it. If long coding is free, I can't see myself expending the credits any time soon, as most of the other customizable extras are already in the car, but I guess that just the traffic sign recognition is worthy the dongle cost if it really works. Thanks again Sasha for the advice. I might pick your brains again later after the service when I order the dongle, so I don't mess it up when activating the traffic sign thingy. Cheers.

Hi Sasha, thanks for confirming. Have you coded with the OBDeleven?. Is it the same long code than with the VCDS?. Also, it seems that there is a new version of the the OBDeleven. Looking at it, the main difference is that the new one can be managed through an iPhone as well as Android, but nothing else?. So maybe the "old" one is enough as I have Android and also is cheaper?.

Hi guys, fell like I kidnapped a previous post and wanted to create a new one to get a stright answer. What I wrote in that one was: I bought a 2nd hand 2016 L&K TSI DSG 4x4 280bhp estate with 72K kms on it in Finland. The car had the windscreen with quite a big stone chip and was replaced by the seller (well known and respectable 2nd hand car selling company here in Funland). No dramas with lane assist, ACC, and the lot, all working fine. The only thing is that the car came so loaded on specs that I lost track of what it had or not and at a later time, when looking and fooling around with the menus, it seems that traffic sign reconigtion is not there, which seems to me strange. Anyway, fast forward and here it comes the first service, which is going to cost an arm and a leg, as I was relying on the family specialist (my father in law) to detect any potential areas that needed pointing out before partying with our well earned money. Now it seems that no DSG oil change was done, brake fluid changed, and by the looks the Haldex will need also servicing. When yesterday I went to our local Skoda garage to book the car in (780€ likely if nothing else needs changing), I mentioned the traffic recognition missing and he looked at it. Apparently, that, the compass and something else was left out when the car was configured and he said that it could not be added on now as Skoda makes it so that once a car leaves the factory with the costumer's specs, it is pretty impossible to add it back (at least in respect of official garage's minds). I have been reading the coding posts and it seems that it is possible to add it in via VCDS. Now, I am not particularly inclined to expend £200 or os on a cable that probably will use for one or two things. Most of the things that can be done are in my car already and I feel too nervous to do other coding that I don't quite know if the result will be benefitial or not. I came accross the OBDeleven and it seems a bit of a fool's proof thing. Yes, it doesn't come with all the versatility of the VCDS, but it can do long codes and I would just need the one for the traffic sign recognition, so my question (at last!) is, is it possible to activate the sign thing with OBDeleven and has anyone done it?. Also and completely of the subject, why the garage did not mention anything about the Haldex servicing?. I forgot to tell them, but they didn't mention it, and by the looks of it in other threads, it is somewhat important to have it done if you want to keep the unit sound. Thanks and sorry for the biblical proportion post.

Forgot to say, it is a June 2016 born model.

Hi guys, on this topic, I bought a 2nd hand L&K TSI 4x4 280bhp estate with 72K kms on it in Finland. The car had the windscreen with quite a big stone chip and was replaced by the seller (well known and respectable 2nd hand car selling company here in Funland). No dramas with lane assist, ACC, and the lot. The only thing is that the car came so loaded on specs that I lost track of what it had or not and at a later time, when looking and fooling around with the menus, it seems that traffic sign reconigtion is not there, which seems to me strange. Anyway, fast forward and here it comes the first service, which is going to cost an arm and a leg, as I was relying on the family specialist (my father in law) to detect any potential areas that needed pointing out before partying with our well earned money. Now it seems that no DSG oil change was done, brake fluid changed, and by the looks the Haldex will need also servicing. When yesterday I went to our local Skoda garage to book the car in (780€ likely if nothing else needs changing), I mentioned the traffic recognition missing and he looked at it. Apparently, that, the compass and something else was left out when the car was configured and he said that it could not be added on now as Skoda makes it so that once a car leaves the factory with the costumer's specs, it is pretty impossible to add it back (at least in respect of official garage's minds). I have been reading the coding posts and it seems that it is possible to add it in via VCDS. Now, I am not particularly inclined to expend £200 or os on a cable that probably will use for one or two things. Most of the things that can be done are in my car already and I feel nervous to do other that I don't quite know if the result will be benefitial or not. I came accross the OBDeleven and it seems a bit of a fool's proof thing. Yes, it doesn't come with all the versatility of the VCDS, but it can do long codes and I would just need the one for the traffic sign recognition, so my question (at last!) is, is it possible to activate the sign thing with OBDeleven and has anyone done it?. Also and completely of the subject, why the garage did nt mention anything about the Haldex servicing?. I forgot to tell them, but they didn't mention it, and by the looks of it in other threads, it is somewhat important to have it done if you want to keep the unit sound. Thanks and sorry for the biblical proportion post.