BloodWorm

Where, what, how does it lock? Mine has never locked but I’ve never looked too closely into it to work out what actually does the locking 🤣

That helps. Thank you. I’m hoping to have this car last me a good 10 years so it’ll be a very mileage if it lasts that long 🤣 from what a few places have told me - timing belt varies between 105km and 210. I might err on the side of caution with that. DSG 60, Haldex 60, service 15. Any advice on the diffs? I’m picking mine have never been done then - at almost 290,000km How does one establish if their Haldex has a filter? Couple places I rang (including dealers) say there’s no filter but I know some did so want to make sure that what little I get done by garages is done right. I intend to get a garage to do the Haldex this time round as time, mileage covered and lack of BCDS working against me 🤣 I guess I better get me a VCDS cable.

It does.

Any idea what colours are the heating pads? I don’t appear to have any heating on mine (based on a cursory 5 min button press in summer 🤣)

Doesn’t sound too bad then. Mines pretty beat up paint wise already so not too bothered if it gets a scratch or 2. I’m picking the missus won’t want to get her hands dirty to help me 🤣

Long(ish) post, sorry in advance. Probably been done to death. Is there somewhere I can find out what service intervals are for various things? Manual doesn’t tell me squat. I know I’ve got (according to the dash) 10,000km til next service, and that the DSG oil and filter was done by dealer recently as well. Can’t see any mention of Haldex anywhere but haven’t finished going through the records from the 4 years the previous owners had it for. Was serviced at dealer though so I’m hopefully. Only done about 60,000km in that 4 years, where as I’ll do that in 18 months. I also know there’s 103,000km on the current Cambelt. Im reasonably mechanically minded (tinker with classic cars so it’s in the blood) so Will probably do a lot of general maintenance work myself but leave more involved things like Cambelt to the mechanic. Is it worth getting a VCDS? What does it enable me to do and at what cost? Do I need it to do stupid **** like reset the oil change reminder? (Bloody hope not) 2014 Superb Elegance, 2.0 125 TDI, DSG. 285,000 on the clock. Anything else I should be looking out for? It has a couple little things I need to sort - interior lights (which seem to be a common fault), sticky buttons, headlight trim etc. It also has a thing where now and again the temp gauge drops briefly. From 90 to about 85, and then back up. Not fast, and not for long periods so doesn’t suggest to me a bad thermostat. Reading elsewhere has told me the diesels take a long time to warm up (Škoda easily takes 3x the distance of my Holden Colorado). New Zealand based if that makes any difference. Picking there’s different intervals for different countries environments Thank you in advance.

Should try mine I guess. Only had it 5 days and it’s summer so I never thought to try them lol

Have you done the whole bumper off job to swap the bulbs?

Hi All I’m really not having much luck finding a solution to my problem, so hopefully someone here might know. I have a (literally just purchased) 14 Elegance estate. Of course that means it gets the flash bi-xenon dancing lights. However, the chrome trim ring for the ‘eye’ has come off (or unclipped) and has fallen down over the lens (see pics) blocking the light. My question is - has anyone come across this before? Can you open up the light enough to fit it back or do I have to try and split the lens off the housing? I’m hoping not the latter as I’m paranoid about breaking the light and can’t find a replacement anywhere for love nor money. Skoda isn’t a huge market in NZ so what few cars there are around being wrecked aren’t the facelift model. Any ideas or suggestions or solutions gratefully appreciated thanks

Recently acquired (as in 4 days ago) 2014 Elegance diesel. 280,000 km on the clock. Black Magic with black interior. Purchased as a cheap runabout so good family wagon doesn’t get hammered at work.

Hi there thanks for welcoming me. New to Skoda ownership, just bought a 14 Superb Elegance Estate. As for me, middle aged, no kids, lots of pets, live in New Zealand. Hi! 🤣