GregorSamsa

No, I haven't had the chance to check the car myself yet. We both drive the car equally, and there were no warnings before the incident on the dash from either the oil level or oil pressure sensor. She'd be the kind to pull over and phone me even if the washer fluid level warning light came on 😉

I'm possibly using incorrect terminology. The starter motor made its "chuuugh-chuuugh-chuuugh-chuuugh-chuuugh" sound. The engine itself never sprang to life. I should have mentioned this in the OP, but the mechanic confirmed that there was no oil in the car when he checked. I'll also note that there was no sign of any oil on the road behind where the car stopped, and we've never had any drips in the driveway.

So my wife was driving our 2017 Superb Combi 2.0 TDi home the other day, when it suddenly cut out going up a hill. She tried starting it again, and while the starter motor would turn over, there was nothing from the engine at all. Bit of drama, because it was on a busy rural Irish road in a dangerous spot. Luckily some passers-by stopped and helped direct traffic around her. She called her breakdown assist, and got the car towed to his garage. On the roadside, he suspected injectors or "a diesel issue", but when he got it back and inspected it properly, he now says that the engine seized up due to lack of oil. I did get an oil level warning light come on one time last year, but I topped it up and it never came on again. The car was then serviced in a Skoda dealers in December 2022, and last time I checked the oil was probably 2 months ago, and it was fine. Like I said, no oil level or oil pressure light came on before this incident. So now the car needs and engine swap. He's looking for a donor engine now. Just wondering, has anyone come across this before? Engine failure due to lack of oil with no warning whatsoever?

Get the Kopacek ones. They’ll work. I have their LEDs in my Combi boot lid.

Nice one, well wear. Not many L&Ks about in Ireland, and feck all on sale at the moment, so importing was a good move.

It’s a bit stupid that the two have very similar icons that don’t actually represent either function very well (an A inside a circular shape). I have to think hard to distinguish between them. They’re easily confused.

Not every trim level has heated rear seats. You’d have the buttons if yours did. Mine (2017 Style spec) has heated and ventilated front seats, but not rear heated ones. It does have the 3rd zone aircon controls in the back, though (buttons with the blue and red lines in the image above).

My post was in English. Other than Irish, which no-one would understand, I don’t know any other languages. 🤷‍♂️

A 2016 Superb would have come with a MIB 2 infotainment system. Maps on VC are only supported by MIB 2.5 versions, which are found in later models (or MIB 3 on the very latest facelift models). Did you upgrade your infotainment system to a MIB 2.5 version too?

Is you car an automatic? “Assistant for emergencies” (as it’s called in the manual) is only available on Automatic cars:

Not mine but here’s one to get things rolling.

Wow, that’s mad! Bet you didn’t expect to see your own photo (incorrectly, it turns out) used in an attempted to answer your question!

I don’t have VC myself, so I can’t comment from personal experience, but I saw a post on Facebook today from a page that does remote coding for VAG cars. They had facilitated a VC retrofit on a 2017 Superb. Some of the photos shows a clock in the top centre. However, others has the traffic sign recognition display here, so maybe it’s an either/or thing.

OP is from Glasgow, and the offer was extended to them, so I guess it only really matters whether they’re familiar with the locality or not. As for me, I always look up placenames I’m not familiar with, so I learned something new 🙂

I think those bars in Convenience Consumers show the proportion of fuel consumption for each system in relation to each other, rather than a distribution of electrical power. In any case, it’s interesting because when I turn on the switch for my heated mirrors, it doesn’t show up on that screen - confirming that they’re not working at all.