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Cheers for the help guys. I’ll keep my eyes out on what’s available.

Cheers Rooted, I am wary of dsg but I believe the dq 380 and 381 are better than the dry clutch ones. Superb would be an ideal car for me and there seems to be more tdi and dsg available.

I’m seriously considering getting a Superb estate, mainly for the boot space and rear legroom. Looking at 2020 onwards models, I’d quite happily have a 1.5 tsi but there seems to be a lot more available with diesel and most seem to be dsg. Does anyone know the difference between a 150 and 200ps engine, is it the same engine mapped differently or a different turbo or engine altogether ? Also are all the dsg boxes 7 speed now and would it be the wet clutch version with a tdi ? cheers

I think that sounds like what is actually the main coolant pump, they are expensive as it is integral with the thermostat housing, and it is quite an involved job to replace them. The term auxiliary isn’t really correct, there is also an electric auxiliary pump, but no belt involved so it sounds like they are referring to the main pump. From what I’ve read on here the price sounds right for changing the main coolant pump/thermostats. eg : https://www.onlinecarparts.co.uk/hepu-8334403.html?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&tb_prm=20068253496&gshp=1&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAsburBhCIARIsAExmsu6PWabBNVU9JP0iJabrBYbxUklm4Q6nkuyVozQvC6zhbxMc5AKq_aoaAr7ZEALw_wcB

All I can add is I’ve read a couple of threads on here where people have tried to rebuild these cuna or cupa engines and it has ended badly. One guy never replied again after his rebuild had obviously gone badly wrong. Therefore, I would go 2nd hand unit.

If you look in your account settings there is an ignore user feature. Hope you get it sorted, it does sound like the clutch dragging.

I would take it back to the person who did the mechatronic repairs last month.

I use Opie oils for service parts and oils, currently they have a 20% off sale. Bosch or Mahle are good makes used by manufacturers. https://www.opieoils.co.uk

Unless someone has put different rear brakes on your car than those it was built with, then the new discs are wrong. Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve had trouble with brake parts before, including GSF insisting the pads they gave me were correct when they were physically too small. For that reason I tend to pay the premium for genuine parts.

I didn’t have to remove the carrier when I replaced my rear discs recently. But regarding the bolts I would get them from a Skoda dealer.

Could even be the silica bag burst thing. Does the expansion tank say “mit silica” or similar on it ?

I’ve had the same issue last week with cr2025 on my normal (non kessy) keys. Car put the “replace key battery” message on but key was still working ok. I changed it for a new cr2025 which I had that, like yours, was still within lifespan date on the packet. It locked the doors once then didn’t work, I put the old battery back in and that didn’t work even though it had been working perfectly…. Looked on here and read about fitting cr3032 instead. I put a new cr3032 in and it worked but I couldn’t get the case to clip shut, so I bought a new Duracell cr2025 and it worked straight away no issues.

I would repair it and keep going with it, but what about a 2.0 tsi Superb 4x4 estate. If you think the Octavia has space, these are on a different level.

I didn’t know that about vcds. I’ll see what mine has done next time I plug it in.

I test drove a Karoq with act about 6 months ago and it got me interested in how it works because it was regularly going into 2 cylinder mode and I really couldn’t feel the change over at all. Apparently the system closes the valves when the cylinder is in the middle of its exhaust stroke so it is basically half full of exhaust and the piston then pumps up and down easily. It means that the shut down of the 2 middle cylinders is actually in two stages as each one reaches the middle of its exhaust stroke. It “shuts down” one cylinder before the other. When cylinder 2 is halfway through exhaust and it gets its valves closed, cylinder 3 is halfway through compression and does one more power stroke before it shuts down when it reaches the middle of its exhaust stroke. It only seemed to operate under fairly light engine load, as soon as you demand any real power it went back to 4 cylinders. It seems a lot of extra complexity and I wondered how will these changing loads affect the crankshaft long term ?

I guess a lot of the difference would be the random differences of use between vehicles. 190k miles in 6 years 8 months is above average, do you use stop start a lot or disable it or don’t do very much urban driving, there’s so many variables. Someone else might get 10 years but somehow their use is easier on the battery, and whilst you have noticed it only just started many drivers wouldn’t.

Check out the MG4 at 2:10 😀

Sounds like a reasonable possibility.

A good few threads on the Octavia section of Octavia 3 models destroying themselves by fire. No shortage in my experience of jcb fastracs destroying themselves by fire. All vehicles road, rail, water, air, whatever have set on fire. If it’s on fire then the diesel tank will eventually go bang, if it’s petrol the tank will eventually go bang, if it’s electric with an x tens of kw battery that will eventually go bang, jet aircraft will explode. Now, horse and carts, they’re pretty safe fire wise.

It is sad to see a good working car driven into a scrap yard but it looks like you had many good years of reliable use out of it. I did seriously consider buying this off you but I was looking at £1500 max and didn’t want to bid so far under your asking price. Just checked back to see whether it was still available and saw your updates on the ulez scrappage and that is a no brainer if you get £2k plus the scrap value.

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Sunak never said it, that was a couple of PMs ago ! The Tories saw that ulez effect at the last by-election and that’s the straw they’ve grabbed.

I thought, ironically, this brings us into line with the eu. Isn’t their new build ban date already 2035 ?

They aren’t cheap ! Check the new price from Skoda first. I needed a new rear light unit and the used prices on eBay were actually more than the price of a new one from the dealer….