Street_Triple

I did Bilstein B14 coilovers. Love them

I paid $1700 but I think they are around $2300 no on Sydney shock absorbers website. Inflation hey...bought mine in 2020 but only just got round to installing.

Yeah the timer only wants $700 Labor costs so not worth doing myself.

How did U go with the upgrades

https://motorolasound.com/audio-products/android-auto/ma1 Works for me

Hi all, long time reader and have been considering upgrades to my Skoda Superb 280 TSI 4.4 wagon for quite a while. I inadvertently stumbled into buying this car. In 2019 was looking a brand new Octavia RS wagon as a replacemnt for my Peugot 306 2L diesel wagon. What made me think of the skoda. My wife had a 2017 Octavia wagon which i liked, but i wanted a bit more sportiness, hence looking at the RS. In the car dealers they had this 2019 supurb demo with 3,000km for the same price as the brand new Octavia RS. I took it for a test ride and thought......this is plusher, this has 4x4 and is bigger than the Octavia....i might have this. It was initially concerned with the big lumbering nature of the car...noting that Tasmania has lots of corners and not much autobarn like freeway. But i did like the plushness of the interior, the amazing boot space and the rear passenger side shades. With 2 under 6yo this was good. I also have a 2018 Triumph Street Triple 765 RS motorbike so i am no stranger to accelleration and giving it a squirt round the twisties. After having this car for a while i realised the suspension is just, quite frankly sh!t. Its like a pogo stick over speed bumps and has so much body roll on the corners. On Tasmanian roads it is quite frankly dangerous. Mod #1: Bilstein B14 shocks This totally revolutionised the handling of the car and provided so much more confidence in the drive. I am still amazed at how much this has improved the handling. It has even improved the drive as the suspension hardly ever bottoms out any more under bumps on the road. I am willing to push the cruising speed higher plus it has added around 20kph to my natural cornering speed. Note that i was a bit of a hoon when i was younger on motorcycles and lived in Northern Territory when there was no speed limits, so i am quite happy to cruse on a motorbike at speed....there are some lovely parts of Tasmania with sweeping 160kph corners and squirts upto 260kph in between. This means i am happy to cruise my cars at 150kph on Tasmanian roads (police risk permitting). I now feel confident doing this in the Superb with this suspension. Mod #2: H&N rear sway bar I purchased this at the same time as the shocks above but cant install it myself easily as i cant get the car high enough to juggle the bar through the gap it has to go. I will get this installed professionally along with Mode #3. Mod #3: Tune So after driving with more confidence, i now find other cars on the road are annoying me more. In Tasmania we have most major roads as two lane roads (one travelling in each direction) with lots of bends. Where there is a little straight overtaking will be permitted but most overtaking manouvers occur on the infrequent overtaking lanes (where there is 3 lanes...2 in one direction and 1 in the other). Now most speed cameras and police laser setup points in Tasmania are on these overtaking lane areas so you cant really speed on them, you can maybe go 108kph in a 100kph zone but not more. We have heaps of tourists and old people driving these bendy roads who travel at 60-70kph round the bends because they are unfamiliar with the road, not used to driving out of the city and quite frankly are scared. But.....when they get to the overtaking lane they speed up to 110kph because it feels safer and reminds them of their hometown freeways with 110kph speed limits. Essentially you can't over take them on the overtaking lanes unless you want a speeding ticket....and that is why the police setup on these overtaking lanes. SO..... I want to overtake them on the short straits between corners. Now i am used to riding a high powered motorcycle where i can blip past cars almost anywhere. So despite the 280hp 4x4 superb having quite a bit of power....it is not enough to be confidently over taking on the short straits. My logic is the faster i complete an overtaking manouver the shorter period of time i risk an oncomming car rounding the next corner when i am in the "overtake committed" phase of the overtake. I dont see the speed i get up to during overtake relevant as i am happy to drive at high speeds if i dont get caught by police, and if i was to hit an oncomming car with a 200 or 300kph differential in speed the outcome will be the same. So....i want more power. I have pulled the pin on the following upgrades: Racing Line R600 air intake Racing Line Silicone Inlet Hoses Racing Line Muffler Delete Racing Line High Flow Turbo Inlet Bend IE Downpipe IE Intercooper Galano Custom Stage 2 tune and DSG tune (https://www.galano.com.au/) E85 flex fuel conversion I found it really hard to find a tuning shop that would take on the Skoda. Most didnt want to know, some strung me along for a while before giving up. Mostly it was because for S2 they insisted on turbo back exhaust and couldnt find any premade for the 4x4 superb. Exclusive Revo dealer couldnt do it, exclusive racingline dealer couldnt do it. I was left with Rhenhaus Tuning in Hobart who were responsive and explained his preference for the Galano mapping. With tuner fully booked until mid November, i guess i will have to wait until the work is done. Then i will give you an update and some pictures.

I get similar thing. Solution is to press the mute on the steering wheel then scroll the volume up on steering wheel and it works again.

Yeah used a super thick superglue with activator. I have been building an aquascape for my marine fishtank so just happened to have 4 thicknesses of superglue and activator on hand. Put a couple of strengthening layers on the sides after first setting the plastic back together. Fingers crossed.

It snapped when I hyperextended the bottom suspension arm to get the spring out. Ball joints are good and free moving and the superglue held up for 10 miles of bumpy road. Fingers crossed.

Luckily in Tasmania there is no MOT. You can keep driving a unroadworthy car until a policeman decides to pull U over and check your car over. The sensor is like $300 (150 quid).

Thanks JR. I don't have DCC suspension. I will try superglue on it and check in a couple of days to see if it has set. If not I'll buy a new sensor (assuming U can't just buy the arm. I don't drive at night much so if the lights are not adjusted correctly it won't impact 99% of my driving anyway.

Hi there. I have been installing Bilstein b14 coilovers on my 2018 Skoda superb 206kw 4x4. When I tried to move the bottom suspension arm on the passenger side I snapped a plastic arm on a sensor attached to the arm. Does anyone know what this sensor is for?