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That's why you buy from somewhere that knows what they're talking about and are reliable and honest (unlike VW) Classic Car LEDs dealers with the VW Transporter (T5) Camper lot so has some experience with VWs. You can ask what's in the bulbs on offer, on the site it used to warn about VWs being awkward but speaking to the chap reassured me. The factory fitted 21w incandescent DLR bulb on my wife's car had a singed socket, which the car's computer system hadn't detected or warned about when I noticed how discoloured the bulb was. Yet twice the same system gave a warning and amber triangle of doom for a brake light, then just went away of it's own accord, first time I checked and changed the bulb just in case, second time I just left it as one of the VW computer's brain-farts and it hasn't returned since. But it's another reason I don't go for the very bright bulbs as their bottoms can get as hot as the incandescent bulbs which takes away one of the LED advantages to my mind. Saw the back of 74 plate something modern oversized "small" "SUV" tank thing, great display of bright rear lights even on bright sunny day but when the brake lights came on you could see the indicator light - brilliant aesthetic design maybe but not practical.

😄 Sorry, I'm very I forgot the link then thought I'd posted it. Classic Car LEDs is a good and knowledgeable company selling good products (cheaper Chinese crap is of course widely available) I put LED daylight running bulbs into my wife's 2015 Fabia from them and it was fit and forget. I prefer to reduce electric load on the thin wires and lower quality VW bulb fittings so I'd never go for the superbright to blind other road users and pedestrians LED bulbs. If you want/need a chat phone them. Warm white LED bulbs are a lot nearer incandescent appearance but brighter. Classic Car LEDs Ltd. - https://www.classiccarleds.co.uk/ Good luck let us know how you get on (I've no idea what's on a 2011 Superb, been so mean headlights fashions with the car manufacturers and the German marques have usually been one step more (unnecessarily) over-complex than others.

Have you looked in other forums on Briskoda for more info, perhaps 'Classic SKODA Projects' or 'Skoda Favorit, Skoda Felicia, Skoda Fun and Skoda Forman'. Favorits would be nearer Estelles than Felicias I'd have thought but VW engine swaps are common across ranges of VW brands, a 130 might be pre-VW takeover though. 'Classic SKODA Projects' - https://www.briskoda.net/forums/forum/206-classic-skoda-projects/ 'Classic SKODA Projects' or 'Skoda Favorit, Skoda Felicia, Skoda Fun and Skoda Forman' - https://www.briskoda.net/forums/forum/90-skoda-favorit-skoda-felicia-skoda-fun-and-skoda-forman/ HTH.

You might be better looking and/or asking in the relevant Superb forum(s) on this site (also, do bear in some people aren't as good as measuring as others ETA: I don't mean tavs, and I've no idea, he might work to laboratory standards for all I know ). - Škoda Superb forums - https://www.briskoda.net/forums/forum/171-%C5%A1koda-superb/ HTH.

You can give a shout out to a member by putting an @ symbol at the start of their members name, example - @nta16 = @nta16 or if you Quote them in your post. If it's a bug it must be with your machine or programs/Apps as it's only your posts, I have a recent bug with downloading pdfs from posts but others don't so it's not the Briskoda site with the bug. I don't know what you see on your machine but I just use the white reply box under the last post (bottom of page for me) or top of the thread page there is a button which is a green box with white text "← Reply to this topic". Hope that helps.

It was DerekU that gave all the details. Do you have any idea why you get duplicate " Quote in your posts. To quote a section of a post you can highlight the bit you want to quote then you should get a black box with "Quote selection - as an example - Or for the whole post you can use the " Quote button.

Prevention is better than cure, if you wait until the damage is too much then you'll not get the best recovery. I'm not sure, but even unlocked most things will go to sleep after a time anyway/ - no doubt someone will know and even perhaps have proof - ? @rum4mo ?

Mann equivalent FP 26 021 (Biofunctional FreciousPlus) - https://www.mann-filter.com/uk-en/catalogue/search-results/product.html/fp26021_mann-filter.html Interesting to see the photo with "cheaper"/cheaper(?) brand Valeo filter fitted from factory as last VWŠkoda Dealership cabin filter change on my wife's Mk3 it was a VAG labelled filter (now gone to the "recycling" (tip, hole in the ground)). That factory one and that Dealership fitted one for my wife's car, appear to be the more expensive type of filter, rather than the less expensive "paper" types. In the photo there's a nasty bit on one of the fantastic-plastic pieces of car, DIY adaption or VW's not so finest work, and some right rough finish to another (Temu) bit, obviously out of sight out of mind build philosophy.

As long as it's about right it's another thing to gauge by, as I tell my wife they call them gauges and not accurates and you need to add reference and prospective, indicated 60 mph might not be fast on an empty motorway but scary on a wet, dark, twisty country road and you might want to ignore the TwatNav directions when you can clearly see you will be driving into a river, judge how to use any information wisely.

Best to get it in writing, what's said (verbal) is often forgotten and disputed and even the written contracts can be open to interpretation and dispute, but that's the fault of the company that drew up the written contract. Car companies, Dealerships, garages, financial companies, etc. have had many decades (into centuries) of experience so should be getting it about right. It would also help if they employed Plain English principles at least when dealing with England. Of course there are two sides to this, as well as bad companies there are bad customers that want something for nothing and given an inch will want a mile but unfortunately in my decades of experience with the English motor trade it's often more likely the English motor trade in the wrong, or even ripping-off or conning their customers. Not that VW has ever done that . . . 😄

So your 2019 has a digital coolant gauge, my wife's has a needle dial which is good enough as if I want to know when the engine is up to temperature I use the digital oil temperature gauge which can be displayed in the maxidot display. I like the term comfort, first time I've seen that. On British "classic" old over-priced and over-valued cars with the truer reading mechanical dual gauges you could watch the gauge needles move with the actions of the car, or rise if stuck in traffic (not that what they displayed was always accurate) but you got used to normal readings for your car and with these unbiased gauges only inexperienced owners would worry about the numbers others got or whether the needle sat in the middle or on 'N'. A V8 engined owner put sitting in traffic for a long time on a hot day he had the 'water' needle go into the upper section of the 'oil' without any engine overheating issues, some inexperienced owners would have called the breakdown services. How modern drivers interpret any 12v battery gauges in their cars I've not seen reported, I don't think (could well be wrong) they're on the Fabia Mk4(?).

To be fair to VW engineers - on the (UK) MK3 Fabia the cabin filter change is very straight forward, easiest of the very few different ones I've changed. Still a pain in the knees and back getting into the front seat passenger footwell for oxygen-thieves like myself.

You can get a 0.2v or 0.3v drop just from the car's computer systems doing their stuff parked up, more if extras are added to the car. Taking a reading just after the car has been driver could give a false high reading Measure of battery voltage can involve other variables. I think battery gauges are going back on cars but modern drivers might not understand them and older drivers forgot how to read them. The coolant temperature needle gauge has for a few decades been biased to read 90c for driver reassurance rather than the real variable reading, in the 70s the markings were removed from coolant gauges to stop drivers worrying about the variables, same would go for 12v battery gauges. 1970s 1960s

Always amused me (not) that "quality" (maybe last century) marques such as the German ones like VW could only offer 2 then 3 years warranty in the UK yet the "cheap" marques/brands were able to offer 5 then 7 years warranty. I was pleased in the mid-1980s to get 2 years warranty from Škoda when BL and others were 1 year but this was before corporate VW took over Škoda. We in the UK allow these companies to get away with far too much, that's why they sell here, we're a soft -touch. Much of the UK motor trade has been at best dishonest for all of my 50+ years experience with them and it doesn't seem to have got better more recently, attitudes to paying customers absolutely stinks.

There's not much simple from VW engineers, for various reasons it's usually beyond them.

If you can't get it done you might be able to consider LED bulbs that don't require it, you get good advice, service and products from this company and they're used to the fussy German VW marque. My wife's 2015 Fabia has LED daylight running lights from them that don't upset the German engineering over complex computer programs without ballast resistors, but I've no idea about their headlights bulbs on VW products if you contact them they might be able to help as they sell to VW Transporter (campervan) owners.

You can only ask, perhaps they visit your area or you could meet them somewhere or advise on where you could get it done.

Those "Visual Health Check" (lies) ticksheets are more of a confidence trick than not, trying to rustle up additional chargeable good revenue and profit work for Marshall's. I was showing my wife's her instance of Marshall's conning only last night - of course Marshall's would say the one for my wife was an administrivia oversight and then have an explanation for the following oversights and bang the con back on. No doubt they trued it on with my wife as she was a woman and wasn't repeated when I was contacting them. They will get out of it by saying it's their recommendation (eta: though as you put they don't make it clear that's it's THEIR recommendation and not VWŠoda's) which is fair enough if they have been doing annual checks of the belt, tensioner and perhaps water pump which they won't have otherwise they would have detailed it and charged you for it. You are luck they put 70% and 80% remaining for your brake rather than just 70and 80% perhaps suggesting that is how much they're worn. The lie sheets can be amusing seeing issues completely disappear in only 20 days and a number of hundreds of miles, and tyres increase in treads depth in a few months, reports on non-existent spare wheels - all administrivia mistakes I'm sure. You could ask Marshall's what evidence they have for picking 5 years change recommendation (other than wanting the revenue and profit).

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/516188-fusebox-opening-on-mk4-fabia/#findComment-5847128

If you mean cabin filter have a look for your model and year on the Mann catalogue, also shows fitting instructions which come paper printed in the box with the filter. Choice of three qualities of filter too. - https://www.mann-filter.com/en/catalog.html HTH.

Fully charging the battery is a good idea and clearing the error codes as computers are extremely dumb and easily confused by their own messages (an error codes). It would probably pay to keep on the on the battery state of charge as the battery really has to be hammered to get to a state where it can't start the engine on modern cars. As you have seen well before that there should be warnings and lots of (unseen error codes). The battery has been weakened by this experience and if it's an original factory fitted battery it might have had its useful life shortened. You really need to know what caused the battery to be so low, was there a drain, a mistake made with leaving something on when the engine wasn't running, or is there a VWŠkoda fault with the car. See my first post here to possibly help avoid the same situation reoccurring too soon. Also consider preventative charging using a charger, best to get the battery to full even if it takes more than one session and going lower and slower will get more of the Henikein effect. Good luck, let us know if this returns.

The Adobe program was already updated today so it's possibly that but just for the sheer 'fun' of it I 'modified' it and then a 'repair' but no joy. Chrome is up to date. I expect the problem might have started with an update of Adobe or Chrome and will probably sort itself at the next update of one or both of them. Thank gawd we don't have these things on cars. 😄 I can download oxop(?) file from a post here. I don't understand why you put the bill up, I was joking of course I can believe you had an alternator failure, and enjoy the irony of that, but I see so far it's been downloaded 8 times (unless you done 8 test download, covering possibilities). Yes I remember your previous job well, hence the remarks before, and you echoing the troll and breezy sniper but you always seemed better than that to me, and possibly an 'amesome fella for your ancient years, sorry how the years and perhaps other stuff have affected your body, I know exactly how that is. If I put something wrong you'd be right to correct me and/or give your different opinion or belief. I can't think I deliberately said anything technically incorrect or caused expensive problems unless someone done the things wrong, and things that might not need doing can still be done and give overall improvement on a wider band of vision rather than narrow one-off direct issue, I'd have thought you might have trained people in your past and understand this. As you didn't have this Superb from new you can get out of the alternator killing, tho' perhaps not giving it an easier life. I doubt they lost the comms more likely their scanner program and/or VW's programs on your car, you put far too much faith and worry about these car communication and other computer systems, don't let your marque brand loyalty blind you too much to all their flaws. 70 odd quid sounds very reasonable. I should have a few wisecracks in mind for Ghost Auto coming out and doing the work, but nothing, been far too hot for far too long (self-discharging) bound to be some puns at least, perhaps others will give them. Sweet dreams.

Hi, welcome. Have a look at the following post to find the map and see those near you that may be able to help you, see when they last posted, make a judgement, as you can't direct/private message them put a post back here by giving them a shout out by putting an ' @ ' symbol just before their member name. e.g. - @nta16 = @nta16 List of VCDS Owners (Previously known as VAG-COM) & VCP Owners -https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/262215-list-of-vcds-owners-previously-known-as-vag-com-vcp-owners/#comment-3091029 HTH.

@pab567 probably knows all about this and may be able to help you.

I can't download pdfs off posts some unknown reason at the moment and I know I'm not alone but it's not the Briskoda site at fault as others can download them. I totally believe you could have an alternator fail on you, it's the irony of it with your previous work and dismissal of some of my advice to others about battery and potential effects on its partner the alternator. If you have a video of the alternator failing I'd be please to witness that, it would humour me greatly. 😁