Pooroldcodger

Thanks nicknorman for your insights. Thanks for the explanation about the heated seats and the dimming display. You are quite right about the headlights. My old car had the active headlights but these are really nice. I am nor sure about the aux-electric heater. I am not sure if my car has it, or if it does, if you need to do anything with it, or if it needs to be activated from a program somewhere. I have never been sold on KESSY but again it's personal choices and preferences. What did you mean about the mapping of the DSG?

Hello all. I bought a 2016 SEL 2.0tdi Estate in black, manual shift with 19" wheels when it was 2 years old with around 8k on the clock. It has been the best car I have ever owned in overall terms. Hard to better. Spacious, smooth, ridiculously economical, quick enough in real world motoring, and good to look at. So once it reached just under 50k miles recently I decided that the only thing to replace it was - another nearly new Superb! I have bought a '23 plate L&K hatch 190 tsi, dsg box. As expected, the tech is more up to date, but there are a few things that to me indicate that some costs have been cut along the way since my earlier car. My old car had lovely thick front mats with "Superb" embroidery. The new car doesn't. Just a small point but presumably a money-saver. The old car had cooling air in the glove box as well as the centre console. The new one only has it in the centre console, unless I am missing something. My old car had luggage nets, which I am not sure if they were standard or not, but I miss those. On the tech side, I made the mistake yesterday of turning down the setting on my heated seat whilst sat at some traffic lights. Immediately the navigation map on Apple car player that I was following disappeared and was replaced by a graphic showing how many lights were illuminated on the heated seat. This seems unnecessary to me. On the plus side, both front seats on the L&K are electrically adjustable and seem a bit more comfortable than my old SEL. The DSG gear box changes smoothly up and down , and changes can be made manually very quickly. In traffic I could drive more smoothly with the manual, albeit with more left leg action required! The Canton sound system is definitely a step up, but overall, I feel that the plethora of electronic gizmos such as virtual cockpit are very obvious, but they do not for me , and this is only my opinion of course, represent a step forward, and the 24 model with its "ipad plonked on the dashboard" as made popular by Tesla looks even worse to me. It is still a highly competent car of course. I would love to know what others think.

Thanks for the replies guys. Very good of you. So I have lowered the glove compartment door and the fuse box is straight ahead (see picture). So when you say they slot on to the side of the fuse box, where do you mean exactly? Do I get to that via the glove box or do I have to take the side panel off the dashboard? Or somewhere else? Sorry if I am being a bit tick...

Hi all. Being a newbie I posted this yesterday but realise now I put it in the wrong place. Sorry for that. I have been the proud owner of a 2016 Superb Estate SEL estate 2.0 tdi in Black Magic. Currently on 44000 miles. It is one of, if not the best car I have ever owned, when everything is taken in to account. It goes well enough, is amazingly economical, has loads of space and comfort, and looks pretty good too on its 19" wheels. One thing that has puzzled me from when I bought it as a low mileage 2 year old in 2018 from a VW dealership, was why a bunch of fuses kept falling down in the passenger side footwell. See picture attached. The dealer just shoved them out of the way, but every so often they fall down again. The car does have a detachable tow bar (which I have never used), so I was wondering if this little block of fuses is to do with that. Anyway, my question is, are these standard and where should they be tucked? You can see just to the left of the fuses a white fixture which looks like it would fit this block of fuses, but they slide out again. I would just like to get them properly stowed away if anybody has any clues! Thank for reading.

Hi all. I have been the proud owner of a 2016 Superb Estate SEL estate 2.0 tdi in Black Magic. Currently on 44000 miles. It is one of, if not the best car I have ever owned, when everything is taken in to account. It goes well enough, is amazingly economical, has loads of space and comfort, and looks pretty good too on its 19" wheels. One thing that has puzzled me from when I bought it as a low mileage 2 year old in 2018 from a VW dealership, was why a bunch of fuses kept falling down in the passenger side footwell. See picture attached. The dealer just shoved them out of the way, but every so often they fall down again. The car does have a detachable tow bar (which I have never used), so I was wondering if this little block of fuses is to do with that. Anyway, my question is, are these standard and where should they be tucked? You can see just to the left of the fuses a white fixture which looks like it would fit this block of fuses, but they slide out again. I would just like to get them properly stowed away if anybody has any clues! Thank for reading.