BarneyMike

I got an email from the dealership that I bought my car from saying that it was due a service. It was registered Feb 2020 and I bought it back in April with 3,000 on the clock. I was thinking that the service requirements were 10k miles or annually, so as it's only covered 8,300 miles I was expecting it to be due next Feb. When I contacted the dealership they said they had serviced the car on 13 Dec last year so it was due a service next month. According to the infotainment panel, it's not due for another 154 days or 8k miles? Does anyone know whether or not if I wait until Feb to get it serviced it would affect the warranty🤔

I've found that for a number of places that I'm going to such as caravan parks, retail units etc it doesn't recognise the address as they don't tend to have street numbers and just using the postcode can be way off your destination. Can't see that using the phone would be any easier than using coordinates 🤔

The job is sorted! Found a conversion app on play store that works a treat and shows the location on a map so that you can double check you've got it right. It's a shame that the unit won't accept either format but hey ho, life's too short and all that 🙂

So I've been looking around the web and it appears that there are two coordinate formats, Degrees, Minutes, Seconds (DMS) and Decimal Degrees (DD). So I'm now going to look for a table to convert to DMS and hopefully that will do the trick.

When I try to set coordinates in my Amundsen sat nav it won't allow me to enter some digits and when I move the map to the location I want, the coordinates displayed are totally different to the ones shown on the destination details of the location. When I choose to pick a location on the map it presents me with three fields each for longitude and latitude: Degrees = 2 digits ' = 3 digits . = 4 digits but I can't fathom how to enter a coordinate from the web with a format like 53.1486 -1.2957 Can someone tell where I'm going wrong?

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Finally the problem is sorted! It was two weeks until the dealer could fit and code the new wiring kit. They had the car all day and when I went to pick it up they said that they'd fitted the wiring but couldn't get it to code, saying that the tow bar centre must have damaged something! As this was Friday evening they kept the car and said they would hook it up to the UK technical centre on Monday for them to sort out. Late in the day on Monday they said that the UK technical centre couldn't find the fault so they were going to raise the issue with the factory in Czechoslovakia. 3 days later the dealer phoned to say that the factory had managed to code it but didn't tell them what the issue had been nor how they'd resolved it. So after a more than a month of too-ing and fro-ing between the towbar centre and the dealership, £450 for the towbar fitting, two missed caravan trips, £240 for the Skoda wiring kit and £635 fitting and coding it by the dealer, I finally have the "2021 Tow Car of the year" that I can actually tow with. 😉

@unclerichy Well it didn't work, the same warning lights are back on the car albeit they're taking about 15 miles of driving after a restart before they reappear. I've ordered a dedicate wiring kit from the dealership and will get them to fit and code it when it comes in. The tow bar fitting centre have been excellent fitting me in at very short notice to try and sort the problem and are taking their wiring kit off, decoding it and refunding me the cost today. I feel certain that the dealer will hit the same problems but hopefully they'll have the resources to finally sort it out and I can finally get down to enjoying the car and trips away in the caravan.

So it's taken a week to make any progress - here's an update to the flashing Glow Plug and ACC dash warning lights. Took the car to the tow bar fitting centre last Thursday and they tried several times to recode the dedicated wiring kit and even got an updated code from their supplier but although it seemed to code ok, when they went back in after coding, a couple of lines of code had dropped out. They said that there were some fault codes showing on the car, one something along the lines of 'Exhaust High Temperature Sensor'. As these didn't clear when they decoded the bar and disconnected the wiring it appeared that it was a fault with the car. The Glow Plug warning came back on as I drove home so I contacted the dealer to arrange for them to check it out. They couldn't look at the car until this Monday gone and sods law the warning light went out the next time I drove the car. When they did the diagnostic check they said that the fault codes had occurred on the day I'd been at the tow bar centre. They cleared the codes, reset everything and test drove the car for about 40 miles and everything was good. I asked them if they would reconnect the tow bar wiring and recode it but they wouldn't as it wasn't an approved loom. I asked them for a price to fit and code a Skoda wiring kit and they quoted £240 for the wiring kit and another £650 to fit and code!!! Went back to the tow bar centre this morning and they connected the car up to a remote coding centre via the internet to code the wiring. It coded without problem and everything seems to be fine however I've only done about 25 miles so far and the warning light didn't come on after the original install until I'd done about 50 miles so I'll be driving around over the weekend to make sure all is well. I'm keeping everything crossed that it's sorted as I'm booked to go away with the caravan next Thursday

Thanks for your comments, I really hope it is something as simple as recoding, I'm taking it back to the fitting centre first thing in the morning. I haven't tried unplugging the dashcam but that's a good idea to try and also check that everything is hunky dory with the fuse box.

I had a detachable towbar fitted last week with 13 pin dedicated electrics and recoding and the fitter demonstrated the electrics working correctly using his test towing lights board. I've not driven the car until today but when I was on my way home from a 50 mile journey (not towing) I had two amber warning lights come on in the dash. The glowplug diesel pre heat coil symbol was flashing and the ACC light was also illuminated but the car drove normally. When I got home I stopped and restarted the car and the warning lights went off, however a couple of miles down the road both warning lights came back on. Not sure if this is a problem relating to the towbar fitting or just coincidence? The only other thing done on the car since having the towbar fitted is that I've hard wired my dashcam into the rear wiper glovebox fuse using a piggy back fuse holder but I can't imagine that this could be the problem. Has anyone experienced similar problems and if so was it associated with the towbar electrics or did you have to take it to a dealer to sort it out.

I'm new to Skoda Superb ownership and still getting to grips with the various systems and settings on my 2020 SE L Diesel DSG Estate. I've adjusted the tyre pressures and thought I would double check the TPM to see what it was reading but all I can find is a screen asking me to confirm that the tyre pressures are correct. Is this as much info' as you can get as I was expecting to be able to see the readings from each wheel?