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I went from a 2017 SEL Exec to a 2020 SEL. Both 150 TDIs Screen is smaller and you lose the hard drive (I never used it) but gain KESSY leather adaptive headlights and blind spot monitor. Used to do 25 k a year but only done 2k in this one since it arrived in September so there may be other differences I haven't found yet. There is a thread on here about it

Having driven Skodas for 9 years out of the last 12 the only one above that bugs me is the water pools either side of the tailgate, where the water collects dirt collects - the car stands on the drive slightly nose down so it is my fault. - Heated mirror switch - never bothered me and I have also run two Passats so have had it for 17 years. It tends to get left on that setting, no one else drives the car. - buggy software.... it isn't buggy as a bug is a defect. It just doesn't do what you want it to do but it does do what the designer wanted it to do. If you want bugs try an Audi, VAG try all the new stuff out on Audi drivers and have most of the bugs sorted out by the time it reaches Skoda. If you don't like the screen interface then look at a Saab 9-3, there seemed to be hundreds of buttons. They even recognised this because there was a button that turned the lighting of in about 90% of the buttons.

Enjoy it, we are on our second S3. Last one did 63k in 3 years but this one may not even get run in . . . only been in to the office 3 times in the last year and only put diesel in it 3 times since getting it in September. Wife fell in love with the dragon green car they had in the showroom when we were looking four years ago but doesn't like side bolsters on seats so that ruled out a sportline - ended up with the more conservative petrol blue SEL.

This is the third car I have had with TPMS, all Skodas (ABS sensors). The wife has had 2 with it - Vauxhalls (Sensor on the valve). All of them have gone off with a loss of 1-2 psi. I don't see a regular loss from all tyres either, they will hold pressure for months or one will need a little air regularly.

I don't bother anymore, there are so many speed camera sites around us it would beep every minute or so, there were three sites between home and my daughter's flat two miles away. Instead I set cruise to a couple of MPH below the old ACPO guidelines and relax . . . . . . not been caught since 2011. Sooner or later you will find a van/camera that isn't in the database or an unmarked car. Speeding regularly isn't worth the risk.

If not take as much trim out as you can and get into the car and, with boot and doors closed of course, have someone direct a hose at the boot seals, lights etc to work out where it is coming through. It may have been accumulating for years.

The attitude of too many drivers these days is that stability control and traction control will keep them out of trouble. The electronics can't defeat the laws of physics.

Wasn't a problem with the lack of power you got years ago. Remember getting a second hand Sierra in 1992 which had 80 bhp, 10 up on the one it replaced!

There will be a permanent live fuse you could use if you want the camera powered all the time.

As above. I believe the rules are changing/have changed and some that have been legal will no longer be legal for new fitments Although I will live with VWFS advertising on their car!

Skoda make cars, not windscreens. Any screen fitted is likely to come from a manufacturer that also supplies Skoda. There are not many car windscreen manufacturers.

Not noticed but the mileage I am doing it will never get run in! Only used 2 1/2 tanks since new and I used to put that in each month!

No My last one (April 2017 registered 150 Tdi) did not. This one (September 2020 150 Tdi ) does.

Had a puncture two years ago - went in to a tyre place in Winchester (08:15 am) who didn't have one in stock, the tyre was delivered to them by 11:00 and fitted by 1pm when I went back to collect the wheel. Most tyre places don't carry stock but have very good logistics. On the subject of cheap tyres when I went back the guy in front of me in the queue was pricing tyres for his 3 series and his wife's X3, for four tyres one was £1600 and the other £2400 - mine was £160 for one! Goodyear DO list an Eagle F1 Asymmetric 5 235/47R17 on their website - Goodyear.eu though finding a supplier might be difficult. Wife once had an Audi A2 on Michelins and looking for a matching tyre everyone said "we can get one for tomorrow" but no-one could, it was such an odd size (185/50 R16 IIRC, skinny and low profile) that there were none in the country.

If he tows he needs to check which Kodiaks you can tow with.

Don't believe the MPG figures in the trip computer - it lies (isn't accurate). I have never reached 1000 miles on a tank, I always chicken out at put some diesel in, but based on what was left in the tank when filled I would have managed it had I had the courage to risk it.

My dashcam (must get it installed in the new car) came with a cigarette lighter plug on it, I got a matching socket from, the now defunct, Maplin and it fits in the space above the fuse box near the glovebox with a feed from an used outlet in the fusebox.

The spare doesn't just sit in the well, it is fastened in, you don't want it flying around in the car if you have an accident.

The key is the mileage, petrol cars generally don't do the miles so there won't be a comparable petrol car with 100k on it. Any car at over 100k miles is getting to the stage where the driver's seat has sagged and suspension bushes are approaching end of life - I have had a couple at that mileage. If you intend to keep it then be prepared to spend some money on it. The cars with less mileage wouldn't need the money spending on them If you can guarantee doing 200km runs every few weeks you should not have problems with the DPF but at 6k a year the recommendation is generally petrol. I am just coming up to the end of the tank of diesel I put in in mid September (lockdown and wfh) and in a month it hadn't had a run of longer than 3 miles (maybe twice a week) and no sign of DPF warnings although I have been expecting it, the run to Costco on Wednesday (25 miles each way) probably cleared it out.

That is my point, he didn't give you critical information until it was too late and can't rely on it now.

Check the tread yourself - most tyre gauges dealers use have 2-3 mm ground of the end so they can upsell worn tyres. My last Superb still had an original rear tyre on when it went back at 65k miles. Still 3-4mm of tread on it. It had been repaired 3 times though.

If this is aimed at VAG then we are provided with a certain level of warranty when we buy a car (Skoda is 3 years and you can buy more). Some manufacturers provide more warranty because they have to in order to sell their cars at that price point. Some cars sell even when they are known to be unreliable (alfas). Rolls Royce have the reputation for fixing things because "Rolls Royces don't break down" but that is covered in the price you pay for the car. In the UK we have a reasonable level of protection, not as much as in the US, but if we want more then the price of cars will rise. If it is aimed at the tuner then he should have told the OP that the turbo was "weak" and only gone ahead if you agreed to accept the risk. He can't argue later that a weak turbo was the cause of the problem. The OP went to a tuner who should have known what he is doing but apparently didn't and should have told the OP the risks but didn't. OP can't now go back to Skoda but could go after the tuner.

Had a Passat with the "visible wires" heated windscreen and a tomtom worked fine under it, as they did in a couple of Fiesta's the wife had with similar heated screens. Never tried a tomtom in the Superb but the phone GPS works fine under it as does my Nextbase dash cam. Had a Renault Laguna pool car a few (many) years ago with a heat reflective screen and my Bluetooth GPS receiver didn't get a signal under it. If I get some time will charge one of the old TomToms up and see what the difference is.

I had a slipped lumbar disc several years ago and the only place I could sit for more than 10 minutes was in the car (a Honda Accord). Months of exercises sorted the disc out and now my lower back is fine. The lumbar support in the Superb is a little low for me but I haven't found a car that isn't, even Volvo's (and my father has had a sequence going back to the '71 144 I learned to drive on, currently he has an S90), I generally find the superb comfortable. My advice would be to get the lower back problem properly sorted - See a physio, not a chiropractor. Chiropractors business depends on repeat visits and the one I saw hadn't a clue despite being shown the MRI diagnosis of a cervical spine issue.

Staffordshire Police (UK) have some estates (Jam sandwiches). Not had a close look at one so don't know what the engine is.