LostShepherd

It'd be price of a new car if I got at it 🤣

I feel exactly the same way I just use my trusted local one man garage for everything I can, only go to the main dealer for things I have to. I got totally sickened when the main dealer would not fix some rust that was bubbling up from the inside on the boot lid, swore I'd only use them when I had to after that and would never buy from them again, car was only 4 years old!

It's just shameless there's no way things legitimately cost that much more nowadays.

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread! I got DSG gearbox oil done today by the only official Skoda dealer anywhere near me on my 2015 Skoda Superb Estate Elegance, and it was a cool £279. Is it fair enough or am I being price gouged on this just like in every other aspect of life nowadays??

I don’t think he’s doing repairs etc anymore 🙁

Result! Well I don't quite know how but it's working again! I used the 3 finger salute this time and it gave me Two red highlighted lines top an botton The system is not able to startup please insert swl-cd I inserted the dvd then it gave me the white pop up rectangle 'SETUP SOFTWARE LOADING APPLICATION' It completed that then after a minute or so, popped up a msg in the middle of the screen SWL Initialisation in progress..please wait this msg disappeared abruptly and after point at that point nothing else happened the screen stayed blank and no more msgs popped up, I listened and the cd/dvd was not spinning or anything just seemed to have stalled totally. I left it like that for about 5 minutes then turned it off and back on as it seemed totally dead. When I turned it on again the Skoda Navigation image appeared on the screen and I got the system starting msg, it was slow to start but all the functions appear to be work DAB \ Radio \ Bluetooth etc. The software was still in the drive so it did eventually pop up that it had found a SWL-CD and would restart to load it, but I removed the disc and let it restart and it came back up as the normal system. So, to my eyes, it never really loaded the software but whatever it did seemed to have cleared the boot loop it was stuck in. I did find it interesting that the Skoda Navigation display appeared first when it restarted, I'd never seen that logo on the unit before and this was what it was stuck on the whole time. I wanted to access the menu that allows you to reinstall the same or lower version of software but couldn't get to it, I held the setup button and it gave me AM/FM/VERSION but even after holding a further min or it showed nothing else? is this menu available in all cases? I just wanted to set that option when its working again so its done if I even need to try and install the software again. Pics attached of current version info. At any rate, thanks all for the great advice on here, I am sure you have saved me a substantial lump of cash. I'll keep you posted on whether it lasts or this is just a temporary reprieve, Cheers, LS

Ah I get you now the 3 fingered salute is holding the top cd eject, microphone and setup buttons?

Cheers yes my first disc was just a plain CD, the second I tried was a DVD, neither worked for me. I'm not sure if the burning methods makes a difference ? I used cdburnerxp in both cases and for the DVD I used the track at once option rather than leaving it on the autoselect.

I gave it a shot at any rate but no use, it did sound like it was trying to read the disc i.e. the dvd drive was spinning but the HDD was clicking a lot too and the unit just continued to turn off and on with a black screen in some sort of boot loop. Its much easier to see this at night as the lights blink on on the Columbus then off again, this was definitely causing my battery drain. The only other thing of note is that it seems to be stuck on the Navigation option from the central steering column although this might just be because it was the last thing on before it corrupted. I'm just wondering now if its worth having a try at replacing the HD myself or just send it off somewhere to be fixed, I don't really care about upgrading it to SSD or anything and refurbished pata 30G ide HDD seem pretty cheap online. Any swapped the HD out successfully? I'm reasonably techy and have the tools to do it just gauging what the success rate has been.

Hey that would be great if you could I have a burner and some old blank cds lying around, it would certainly be worth a try 👍

Hey thanks for responding! I think the DVD drive was not ejecting for me which could be an issue, I'm pretty sure there is a CD in there already. Is it possible to do the boot off the SD drive? Where do you get those firmware dvds? Cheers, LS

Hi there, Just wondering if you could do anything with my 3T0035686L. A few days ago the screen went black intermittently flashing a white line, its ends up draining my battery as it seems to be permanently on. My mechanic removed it and battery is fine since, not sure if it could be a boot issue or something. It's original and never had any unofficial software loaded into it as far as I am aware. Thanks, LS Hi there, Just wondering if you could do anything with my 3T0035686L. A few days ago the screen went black intermittently flashing a white line, its ends up draining my battery as it seems to be permanently on. My mechanic removed it and battery is fine since, not sure if it could be a boot issue or something. It's original and never had any unofficial software loaded into it as far as I am aware. Thanks, LS

Hi all, Skoda Superb owner here! looks like a good resource this forum. Happy to meet you all. LS