Everything posted by Danoid
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What bulbs are fitted to the S3 & upgraded bulb recommendations
This is inside before and after after this is what I bought with BF discount https://autobeam.co.uk/collections/382-p21w/products/led-382-reverse-unit-set I reckon we’d get the Wow factor with the ones JR RS uses but only in Australia and I suspect shipping is crazy. No errors on dash though which is good, maybe if it was pitch black it would be better but not many times I’d be reversing when it’s pitch black
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What bulbs are fitted to the S3 & upgraded bulb recommendations
So results in, better but no blown away before after it looks nice and bright there but inside can’t really notice much difference
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Air Quality Sensor fault
It shouldn’t but I’m sure someone last year said there’s did
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What bulbs are fitted to the S3 & upgraded bulb recommendations
Hold that thought! I’m literally replacing mine tomorrow and will update with before and afters around 5:30pm and hopefully saying no errors
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Service Indicator Reset
It was unlimited, I did see 3 vin but if you want more you need to buy a 10 vin then from 10 you can go to unlimited. The 3 vin, I guess that’s in total as oppose to 3 every 12 months or so?
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Service Indicator Reset
Ah mines on yearly, so hoping it’ll stick to that. Keep meaning to get VCDS but at nearly £500 my arse gets a headache
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Service Indicator Reset
Hello, I don’t have VCDS etc yet but I do know you can reset the indicator without tools, any cons to doing it that way?
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Noise moving the steering - Official dealer estimated 3k€ repair
Yes remove it, then turn the wheel and listen
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Is this a good price for the Superb L&K Saloon
Wise choice, getting called from them is only in their interest. I kept getting called from my local dealership saying “Your car is in demand, we’ll give you a great deal” I said unless it’s a direct swap for a brand new one stop cold calling with your fakeness, been quiet ever since apart from rubbish in the post about “VIP deals” it’s so fake it’s annoying and childish. OK rant over haha
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Skoda superb mk3 coolant silica bag split
I suppose really whenever people get their timing belt changed, get a new reservoir and use G12 coolant
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What have you done to your Superb III today?
I’d say it was probably 30meters at least on high beam With 1 full turn I think it’s just about right, no blinding at all but I’ll find out in march with the MOT
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What have you done to your Superb III today?
I went for a doggo walk earlier and was pitch black when we got back Got two more pictures, I do think they’re getting brighter slowly as I noticed more on the motorway, still only 2 hours I’ll do another light post around mid December as I’ll have more then 2hours use by then
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What have you done to your Superb III today?
A lot of people say differently so time will tell quite literally I can’t find anything official about burn in tines, so could be just people’s eyes adjust 😁
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280 4x4 wheels and tyres
If you cancel your tyres check out Goodyear Assymetric 6’s, lovely and quiet and grippy as hell
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What have you done to your Superb III today?
I tried a 6mm and that was too big, 5.5mm too small hmm
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What have you done to your Superb III today?
Car was unloaded and flat as could get it on my drive. I must admit I didn’t do any measurements as it just didn’t make sense to me, so one turn and I noticed the beam on the garage go up 2cm or so. Shouldnt be an issue blinding people because it was so darn low anyway. One thing I’ve never noticed on my car is the beam changing shape depending on what speed I go, I can see the left/right swivel but that all. I suppose with street lights it’s hard to tell anyway
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What have you done to your Superb III today?
I’m hoping it’ll be better the more I use them, but no way are they brighter yet, but I was expecting to see more straight away
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What have you done to your Superb III today?
Also I just adjusted my headlights 1 full turn and seems a bit better Note to self and for anyone else Turn screw ANTICLOCKWISE to HIGHER Turn screw CLOCKWISE to LOWER Weird that clockwise isn’t higher but there you go 😩 What I done to mark it’s original position was mark it with a gold permanent pen, on the black plastic and on the screw itself (btw what size is the screw nothing would fit so used a philips screwdriver which wasn’t great) If I find it’s too high I can turn it clockwise half a turn, then if it fails MOT turn it another 180degrees clockwise to original value
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What have you done to your Superb III today?
I reckon yours will need new bulbs and aim adjusted too. I’ll see if I can remember to take some pictures in a few months time after 10-20hours, I rarely do much driving as it is especially nighttime. Saying that I am doing a 4 hour drive each way soon, in the day but I might just set my lights to be on to help burn in
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Upgraded your OE Xenons? Goodho - What’s your Opinion?
Wheels off and arch liners out 100%, check the “what have you done to your superb today thread” I’ve updated recently with my fun at changing the bulbs. Does your car have SLA headlights? If so it should be a breeze with anti clockwise release, clockwise lock. If not be prepared for hell…
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What have you done to your Superb III today?
I got them from Amazon and verified them £144 for two bulbs the price has already gone up since a few days ago. The one Graham posted is D4S but ours is D3S https://www.amazon.co.uk/OSRAM-BREAKER-Generation-brightness-66340XNN-HCB/dp/B0BBN98YTY?th=1 So the results are in, and i'm underwhelmed! but I was expecting it because it needs to burn in but here's a before and after OLD NEW Same camera, but the top picture almost looks like LED's which it didn't look that white and annoyingly some plonker has parked their van there ruining my pictures as the other vans always park in the same spot 🤣 Tomorrow i'm hoping to do half a turn adjustment on each headlight as it's still far too bloody low, i'll do it without maths and hopefully it wont blind people, if it does i'll turn it back a quarter turn and see how it goes. What I plan on doing is getting a marker so I can draw a line at the top of the screw and on the screw itself, that way I have a reference point as to where current settings are and can easily go back. I just need to find something thin and permenant, something like a yellow pen will do as long as it's visible on white and black plastic
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What have you done to your Superb III today?
So another update, just took the drivers side arch off as nice weather and felt sick to know that the silly prongs are still on the right side of the bulb and not the left and the clips were even more inside the housing than the passenger side (I'm in UK) but i've managed to get them done, turned on the lights and they're working phew! Tonight i'll go for a drive to see what they're like and i'll take the obligatory pictures. I do have some from the other night, so i'll take some tonight using the same phone and same location (it's not a pitch black road and has street lights but best test for me) Question anyone else who has changed the Xenons bulbs, non SLA with the two metal prongs, did you struggle? I'm wondering because i'm left handed my brain physically couldn't understand the clips, like I know top clip is down, forward and a bit and up, bottom clip is up, forward a bit then down, but I still struggled. Wondering if people who are right handed it just makes sense and works and for left handed people tough, either that or i'm a bit thick haha P.S The pictures tonight will be previous bulb from I believe factory 2016 and approx 44k miles, compared to brand new Osram Night Breaker Laser Next Gens at 0 hours old. I might be able to put about an hour on before I take pictures of the new bulbs, but I do know these Xenons can take like 20hours to fully bed in and only get brighter & whiter, so i'm guessing I'm going to feel a little underwhelmed to start with
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What have you done to your Superb III today?
It is silly, like even something as simple as an access panel for the lights would help, VW and Audi have these but clearly beyond the minds at Skoda. I'm not sure who benefits when they make things awkward these days, is it really the dealers? Yes they get more money to change simple things, but it also takes so long they could have more people coming in at a time. Once this is all done, I'm just hoping A it works still and B it's been worth it. From what I've heard & seen the latter should be true
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What have you done to your Superb III today?
So an update on my lights... Removed the wheel arch liner on passenger side (UK), got to the old bulb oit, then couldn't get the STUPID metal clip things to lock on the new bulb, I don't have SLA which is simple anti clockwise to unlock and clockwise to lock. So I put aside my new bulb and used my old one to get hang of getting the clips to lock, nope nada couldn't get it to lock, it then decided to hammer it down which got me in a mood, then it stopped so went again and still couldn't get it to lock, it then decided to hammer it down but I was in full Hulk mode and carried on, eventually got it to lock by doing bottom metal clip first then top. Then it decided to rain even harder and I left it at that. Today I tackled it again and got my new bulb in as I kind of got the hang of it, and put the wheel arch liner back, so passenger side is done. Now just hoping the weekend is good, so I can do the drivers side. It really is not an easy task especially due to not having SLA version headlights. On another note I asked about foam insulation on wheel arch liner a while back. My 2016 SEL does NOT have these. I rang Skoda only to hear that they'd be on back order and not in factory so would basically have to be made, but I'll do that next year when the weather is a little bit more predicable, even though it is UK
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What have you done to your Superb III today?
The aim from factory is rubbish as well, if the throw doesn’t improve after new bulbs i’ll manually adjust them in small amounts to bring the aim up higher. There is some maths involve but don’t believe it’s beeb explained in really really simple turns, so i’ll wing it My car is 2016 and still on original so I suspect yours will be too