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It’s great that your consumption figures are so good. However, how are you actually measuring the fuel used? Filling to “first click”, may be more accurate than the supplied data, however it’s not “accurate”. I can’t imagine a manufacture would knowingly underscore their mpg figures by over 10%, any more that they would over score the figures in any way. I could believe that they underscored buy 2/3 %. They do have a legal obligation to tell the truth (diesel and immersions scandals are hopefully a thing of the past) 🤞🤦‍♂️. Of course, if your driving economically is warm weather on decent roads with minimal traffic. The figures will be great. Friday evening, I returned home from Shepton Mallet via the A39/37 21 miles. Normal consumption 53-58mpg, depending on traffic temperature and time of day. The car recorded 52.4mpg on the way (hotter temps but the end of the busy period), and 62.1 on the return. There are hills, villages with 20 mph limits, traffic lights, and it’s a bus route. Not what you’d use to prove your consumption figures. My point is your figures are great 🤩, but possibly only as accurate as the cars data. As were mine 🤦‍♂️

Exactly, you need a proper diagnosis. It may be simple, but I doubt it, the car will auto reg en during a 2 hour drive without the higher revs. If the car ticks over at the normal 800ish rpm you may be lucky. If it’s still at 1k rpm. I personally would get a known DPF Competent shot to diagnose the issue. Most garages either don’t have the required equipment to correctly diagnose the issue. Don’t take the “delete dpf” offer as if the garage is one of the majority it won’t help in the long term. Someone like Baz is what you need

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That was the same in my previous VAG motors, both A3 and Passat. However it’s a simple job, I change mine when I renew the road fund licence.

Mine is a June 2025 build date. It does have all the latest EU mandated safety features a UK requirement as well. I switch off lane assist on most journeys over 5 miles. This stops the car letting you know you’re changing lanes without indicating. In real life it just means that if you move out a bit to pass a parked car and cross a white line there is no feedback from the car. The motorway issues can be reduced but not normally removed. If you use cruise control, shorten the distance setting between you and the car in front gives you less time to react, but critically also reduces these occurrences where your not in danger and are moving to a safer possible overtaking position. The cruise control will also follow between the white lines. It will, let you know if it thinks you are not: Looking alert through the windscreen Firmly holding the steering wheel and adding inputs (turning the wheel to keep in the middle of your lane. If it thinks you’ve been taken ill OEM unconscious, it will make a noise in the car, then brake, apply the hazard lights and pull in and stop.

Regen every 100 miles isn’t normal, unless your trips are all short. Do you do longer journeys say an hour on the motorway? If not try this first. DTC clear isn’t helpful as it can hide/delete some of the required info. I’d recommend visiting a garage where they fully understand the DPF and all its related system and faults. Most garages definitely don’t. Baz Merideth and O’rileys autos are 2 YouTube channels worth looking at. One of these may be local to you

Cam belt wear depends a lot on the vehicle usage and quality of the fitted product. My view is that changing early is a form of insurance. The cost of a catastrophic failure far exceeds the cost of an extra cam belt change. If you change your cam belt every 50k that’s 1 extra over 140k miles. How many keep their car that long for so many miles?

Whilst I agree with your comment on what’s officially advised. I would NEVER leave my cam belt that long, be it a belt or chain 😱

No problem with Spotify premium, it continues where I leave off and runs/plays flawlessly. I dropp Apple Music a few years ago

That’s strange, I use Spotify premium (courtesy of my eldest) and it plays random as it should . I stopped using Apple Music a few years ago.

My mk 4 2.0 TDI 150 bhp, at just 5k is now averaging 53.9mpg The 190 bhp would give a bit less.

I see the same problems around East Bristol. Road works related speed reductions don’t take more than couple of days to show on my 2025 Superb. They can take a couple of months to revert to standard after the works are complete. I haven’t yet seen the issue with truck speed limits (where different) showing on my screen. I do however see some unrestricted country roads showing a 30 limit. I’m happy with that, the lunatics who fly round single track roads, continue to do so of course.

Hi All, This evening, I saw the red blob on the top left (ish) of the infotainment screen. On checking it said that I had a software update, gave a code that didn’t show on the System Information screen. However during my journey home it updated👍 The only entry on the system info page updated was: Navigation Data base from 26.4 to………… 26.5 - This wasn’t the info shown on the “available update screen” I hope this is helpful. Does anyone have an idea of the update content? IE traffic signage, speed camera updates, you get the general idea😁

On my 2025 Superb, it required an abnormal amount of input regardless of having my eyes yon the road, side mirrors and rear view mirror, talking to my Passanger and having full control of the wheel. If the motor was empty, straight as a die, I still had issues with it telling me to take control of the wheel, gripping harder didn’t have any effect, I needed to move the wheel a few mm left/right to stop this. Following between the lines was ridicules, it would over steer for even the most minor adjustment moving from one side of the carriage way to the opposite. However, I think there has been at least 1 minor update. Yesterday I drove from East Bristol to West Swindon, set the speed to 66mph. For the first time ever no ridiculous warnings to open my eyes or take control. No more steering flaws. It worked as flawless as the older version in my ex Passat. Finally, I’m happy to use it. I’m all for safety systems, however, don’t release the software until it works properly every time you use it. Switching these services off is safer than using unpredictable systems. Driving around some of Bristols narrow roads with a solid line of cars on one slide of the road, almost always results in the bright red imminent crash warning light and horn sounding. This is an every day occurrence for me!

To be honest, “getting rid of it” won’t necessarily leave your engine trouble free. The main issue is finding someone who fully understands the issue. It’s possible just a blocked pipe, or yet again much worse. I’d find someone who defiantly has the knowledge and ability to resolve it properly. Just removing the DPF May not resolve the issue at all. Occasionally if you’re very lucky a 1 hour run out at 2,000 revs constant can resolve the issue. I would try this first. This issue is normally down to lots of short runs and no long running combined with poor maintenance. Have a look at baz merideth, on Utube

Pete, I found your post not to reflect my experience or expectations. To this I emailed Skoda Bath, included you comments but no personal data. As you can Imagine I received a prompt reply. I have included it below in full apart from my details. Hopefully you’re not put out by my actions. My only hope is that it’s the last time this occurs. Enjoy your Toyota, decent motors 👍🏻 Regards John Good afternoon John, Thank you kindly for bringing this to our attention. I’m thrilled to hear you continue to be pleased with your new Skoda Superb and the service from us. Sadly the below comments fall well below the level of service we look to provide and are disappointing to see. Whilst I understand we were short staffed last week and Sara was already engaged with another customer (out on test drive) during the enquiry I will investigate this further. I’m sure this could of explained professionally and an alternative approach offered. Thanks again. Kind Regards, Keith Atkins Sales Manager Platinum Škoda Bath Lower Bristol Road Bath BA2 3DN 01225 485400

The EU updated their rules (that we comply with) making a few more safety items to be active every time you switch on. That they can’t be. Permanently switched off. Go figure….

I have only once in my life used Mr Clutch, (thats because I have only ever needed 1 replaced). Admittedly it was a few years ago with a Passat Estate 2.0tdi 140 mapped to about 186. The car had done about 86k iirc before I noticed a slip whilst towing. The were quick, did a good job, also told me that on my last cam belt change the Garage had failed to torque the fan belt pulley correctly, but they had done that as well. 30K later when I swapped for its younger brother all was still well.

I’m not anti EV, I run a 75 plate Superb 2.0 TDI by choice. Many of the journeys I do would be close to the maximum of an EV, I don’t have Solar or heat pumps and my home is a recent build 2017. However the pain that could be involved queuing for a public charger and the lack of many local to me has kept me on an oil burner. If/when the UK mandates EV only, how is the country going to produce enough electricity on a cold winter, minimal from solar, no Wind, no help there, to keep the homes of everyone warn and dry as well as charge all the Vehicles and batteries overnight. Don’t forget that they are also trying to phase out gas heating and cooking. Of course things over time will get resolved. The most cost efficient method runs around continuing to extract from the North Sea, develop better wind solar and ground heat options. Invest in the Small nuclear reactors for each major city and industrial areas of the country before reducing the options left open to the general public. In our older towns and cities with narrow streets and insufficient parking, how are people going to charge EV’s? In around 15 years, the future will be much improved (only if the Government spend OUR money wisely of course) Then pushing the higher polluting vehicles off the road makes sense. We have the other issue of weight of vehicles and corresponding increase of damage to our roads. Local councils don’t have the monies to pay for the ever reducing time between major repairs, they have never in recent decades managed to keep up with minor repairs either. Goverment policy needs to be changed to prioritise what’s needed for the majority of the nation/s population. Not the current Huge amounts of spending that’s wasted, monopolising Government spending. Will this be the end for historic vehicles in the UK?

It’s very strange that owners experiences can be so far apart. I’d have expected them to be quite similar. My used car experience has mirrored the new car experience in my vehicle use. In my younger years, the cars were driven harder faster for longer, carried more weight (3 kids/holidays in Europe and trips to from Germany/UK). Nowadays I drive a bit slower, do less miles about 10/11k per year, carry less weight in the car. What does remain the same is the regular oil changes at least 1 per year, more if it’s heavy mileage 16K plus. Any and all work is done as soon as it’s noticed, some by me, other work I pay a (normally) local VAG specialist. I find quality and honesty to be much improved over the average dealership. I’d find it hard to believe that anyone who goes to the effort of signing up to a forum dedicated to their car, would willingly not look after their car. I must have been very lucky up to now with the cars I’ve bought 🤞

I have an SE L 2025 Superb with the Alcantara ventilated massage seats. Only 4K on the clock. Both my wife and I find the front seats more comfortable than the mk8 Passat it replaced, I’ve never used the ventilation, I hope it’s needed in the next couple of months. I drive on average 21 miles each way, with shorter and longer every month 95 miles each way and local journeys. The seats are very comfortable for me at 6 foot tall and slim, the adjustments are easy to setup and work every time you exit/enter the vehicle. The massage options are a boon for my aging back, offering relief over the medium and longer journeys. The only minor issue with driver comfort for me is the centre arm rest is too low down and not adjustable for a comfy rest for my left elbow. I’m used to it now and it’s not really an issue, but initially I missed the adjustability of the Passat centre rest.

20 years old this year, learned to drive at 17? You’ve put some miles in there mate 😎😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Very nice indeed🤩

I’ve done 4,217 miles in my 75 plate 2.0tdi 150 Superb SE L from new. I changed oil and filter at 1,213 miles - no oil consumption visible on the dipstick. Today at 4,268 miles Of 50% A roads and motorway, the rest B roads and small country roads no sign of oil consumption on the dipstick. I can only think that those with noticeable oil consumption drive at higher revs at low oil temps than they need to……….. Or, I’m very lucky with over 30 years of VAG oil burners from the first diesel Vento to this Superb. I have never had significant oil consumption in any of the 7 cars in that time. VW, Audi or Skoda 🤷‍♂️ What do you think?……

The Hyundai Ionic 9 Htac, looks absolutely bl**dy awful to my eyes as do a lot of the large slabs of EV’s. It’s almost as though designing a good looking large EV motor ans style are totally incompatible