Otispunkmeyer

Ok cheers man!

Hi fellas, I have a question I want to ask on behalf of a friend of mine. He is getting a yeti as his next company chariot. It'll be a 1.6 TDi greenline (as befits the silly tax rules in the uk) and he was given a build date of October 30th. Now the question is will this be a face lifted version or not? He is hoping for it not to be as he rather dislikes the new snout. If the new brochure has only just come up for grabs maybe he'll be on the tail end of the last batch of originals. Does anyone have any insights into this? Thanks Alex

If you want a mile muncher.. superb is literally superb. Sure its got its problems, but what car hasn't these days? theres always some weird oversight that gets missed in the design stage. I would go for a diesel superb mile muncher though, and not the 2.5, that 2.8 is going to be super thirsty lugging the superb around. Its not a light car. Re the handling, 80mph on the motorway is simply awesome. The car just floats at that speed. Dont take it for a cant down a country lane though, unless you want to feel like your riding in a 60mph bouncy castle. If you are prone to a bit of motion sickness, it will get you. The amount of room in the car is absolutely stellar and if you wanna be taking people out an about, they will really appreciate it.

Yep, I had a guy actually shout out the window to me "f**king pull over and we'll sort this out...." what happened? He entered a roundabout where there are 2 lanes in and 2 lanes out. You can go straight over the roundabout (so second exit, typically) in both lanes. He entered before us as he was in a queue waiting for the roundabout to be clear, he was in the outside lane. We approached in the inside lane and by the time we got to the roundabout there was no traffic to wait for, so we go straight onto the roundabout in the inside lane. Now as we were going a lot faster having not stopped we caught up to this guy just before mid-way round the roundabout. We are well within the confines of the lane on the roundabout. He however has decided that, at rush hour its fair game to be lazy and basically not follow the lane confines around the roundabout. As such he is now drifting across and straddling both lanes...... just as we are pulling along side. Now obviously the minute he suddenly realised there was another car next to him in the inside lane, shocked him. But was this his fault that he'd nearly drifted into the side of our car causing a crash? oooohhhh no, not by a long shot. What followed was agressive horn blowing, tailgating and by the next roundabout his window was down and he was shouting all sorts of crap and telling us to pull over. He was clearly in the wrong, you dont drift into another lane without looking on the motorway, so why is it ok to do it on a roundabout at rush hour? it isnt. But he didnt think so.

Hopefully gonna give this a stab this weekend. Theres a VW dealer 5 mins from my house so i'll check there tomorrow for the mastic strip stuff, see if they sell it. Would a VW dealer actually do the work on the car just out of curiosity? I'm usually all for trying things my self but various haynes manuals of the past have taught me that nothing is as easy as it seems. (nearly all haynes manuals make out like changing a head light bulb is about as easy as breathing..... yeah if you have flipping dwarf hands maybe, but a normals mans hand a) wont fit in the space and doesnt twist in that way!). Are there any particular tools I will need if doing this myself? screw driver type/size? sockets? ( i dont have any tools, so I will have to pop over to halfords or B&Q). Found the official VW letter regarding the fix, here http://briskoda.net/forums/blog/18/entry-62-superb-mki-water-ingress-cure/ So I could maybe print that out to help or help explain the poor sod behind the counter that, this is what needs doing. Curiously it has labour time codes at the bottom of that. Anyone got any idea what they equate to? Cheers for the help rotodiesel I hear the MK2 also has similar problems, I've been reading in TG mag that their Superb lifer vehicle also had issues with the inside of the windscreen freezing over during winter. Hinting at moisture in the car, though as others have pointed out it could easily be all the snow they trudged into the car.

Ok and if things need replacing? Will a decent skoda garage stock the parts in their spares dept?

Im at pretty much half that. Tight as a drum mechanically. There is a few niggly issues, one parking sensor is dead, passenger door speaker works when it feels like it and theres a condensation problem which I need to get fixed. But other than that I believe the only thing thats been changed apart from the tyres, is the break discs and pads. Original turbo, flywheel, clutch etc etc. Great car, and great engine.

This morning, windscreen looked like it had been rained on, but on the inside!!! Got a guy valeting it at the moment however. How do I get to the pollen filter then? is that vast expanse of plastic hard to take off? put back on? Should I just take it to a skoda garage to have a look at? I dont really wanna spend that much on it because its a cheap car, its seen a lot of miles and owners and Im wanting to sell it soon, but I cant sell it if its gonna keep doing this. Whoever buys it will be back round my house in no time!!!

Right, it did it again this morning, however it coincides with a very abrupt weather change. Its been quite mild here lately and then last night temps dropped like a stone in a pond. Enough to leave my car with a thick crust of frost + ice all over. Every window was steamed up, though not as baddly as last time. The blower was starting to clear it, but as the car is an old diesel lump it was taking ages to get warm and I had to get going so I just wiped it with a towel. Ill have a good look in the footwells again, under the plastic trim and ill have a look around the pollen filter area. What is it exactly with the pollen filter? a blockage or a seal going duff? Fingers crossed its just something trivial, like the abrupt change in weather, dragging snow and ice into the car over winter or this vents thing. I think i nearly always leave the climatecontrol on, or at least I have been lately so if its had the AC on for whatever reason and then ive just switched off and left the interior vents wide open then moisture from the AC will get inside. Will try shutting the climate control down after my trip home today and then check in the morning to see whats what. Should also note that this behaviour also coincides with a distinct change in use of the car. I was in South Africa for 3 months and the car didnt get used much, but when I returned I also quit my job and the long commute went with it. The car now only see's occasional use and shorter trips.

I'm coming up to selling my skoda and recently its been having a very strange problem with condensation On occasion I will go to use the car and then discover that the windscreen (and sometimes the rear window too, but not the side windows) is almost completely opaque with heavy condensation. Its a really dense coating and when you go to wipe it away you can easily end up with a soggy towel. Im not sure whats causing it. Its started happening after a recent battery and coil spring replacement and so initially I thought "its that water ingress problem I've seen on the forums!". But Im not so sure it is. I cannot find damp or wet areas anywhere in the car. The boot is dry, seats dry, footwells drive, headlining dry, everything is bone dry. Theres no smell of mould or any other evidence that I have a water/moisture problem. So Im scratching my head. Now the day before I came to find my car windscreen soaking wet on the inside, I'd been to the swimming pool in it for training and when I got out to go home I put my wet kit on the back seat instead of in the boot (i have a mesh sack will all my pool kit in, like pull bouys, hand paddles, floats etc). I myself will of been a bit damp and also pretty warm ( 2 hours training in a 28 degree pool). I know for a fact if you fill a cold car with a bunch of swimmers fresh out the pool you quickly end up not being able to see out of any windows. So Im wondering, Did placing some damp wet items in the car for the ride home cause my condensation problem? makes sense right? Sunlight during the day evaporates the moisture from the upholstery and then as the sun goes down and the temperature drops (quickly as its winter) the glass suddenly becomes a nice place to condense. I'm gonna use the car again tonight to go to nottingham, Ill put the heaters on full and really give the interior some heat and then ill vent it out through the windows before I park. See if that cures it.

ive sent the car back to them to fix the noise, is a scraping noise and im 90% sure its something lodged between pad and disc. i drove it last night and after the rust was cleaned off the disc the sound still persisted. when i got back to my house i had a look at the disc and it didnt take long to see the concentric score mark roughly mid-disc. its not quite a groove yet so hopefully the disc/pad isnt damaged too badly and wont need replacing. and yes, other sources tell me that the likely culprit for the warning lights is a connection thats not seated properly or that was forgotten to be re-connected.

i got back from working in south africa on saturday, to find my car completely unresponsive to the remote problem... completely dead battery. pushed the car out of the space to get another car in close enough to jump start it and then realised the next problem. the front left suspension has collapsed. closer examination revealed a sheared coil spring. i got it to a tanvic and had it repaired. i've just got it back and now i have ABS and TC warning lights on constantly (i assume orange triangle with exclamation mark is TC?) and theres a funny sorta chirpy noise coming from the engine bay those three things were not present when i gave the car to tanvic. now, i assume the warning lights to be 1 of 3 things: 1. they just need a reset after the battery was changed 2. tanvic forgot to reconnect something 3. there is an electrical fault - perhaps due to water ingress 3 might have some merit. something drained the cars battery, and when i dropped the car off at tanvic, when i shut the drivers door the maxi-dot on my dashboard remained on, telling me the door was still open. i was unsure what to make of this since the battery really didnt have enough juice to even show the dashboard properly so put it down to the on board computer being confused by flaky voltage signals. as for the noise coming from the engine bay. i have no idea. so what do you guys think the problem might be? should i take it to a proper skoda/vag specialist?

Skoda Superb 1.9TDi PD130, 131k miles Ok the otherday i was driving with the windows down and noticed this odd noise. I will try describe it. it sounds like some one clapping 2 10 pence pieces together between finger and thumb..... its a short duration, high frequency noise with that kind of metallic quality. try clapping 2 silver uk coins together, its a kind of plinking noise but its not sonorous. i guess another way to describe it might be a sudden burst of high pressure air escaping through a nozzel or something.... for only a few milliseconds before its stopped. like if you had a leak in a pressurised air hose and you use your finger to quickly cover and uncover the hole....you get that repetitive psst, psst, psst noise. im not sure what it is. it builds with engine revs under decent engine load...... im not sure if its a weeping valve, one of the injectors is beginning to go, something to do with the air handling system (turbo/intakes). the car doesnt seem to be any worse off for it though, its just an odd noise that i noticed...its not a normal noise and noises, for me, are often a way to diagnose problems. any ideas?

i believe the temp gauge trick is used on purpose to stop people bringing cars in worried that they arent warm enough or are getting too hot. im sure i got told somewhere that ford made their gauges climb to the middle faster than the engine actually got warm because people started being worried about how long it was taking to get to temperature. it does no harm, as long as youre alerted that its actually getting too hot then just having it point dead center whilst in a comfortable range is ok.

well, yes of course it will have power steering, i dont think there is many cars sold today without PS and im pretty sure the ones that are sold without it are crummy little econobox's from korea or india. as to the heavy-ness..... well in my 1.9TDi i think the steering is quite heavy and dead feeling. it does feel a bit under assissted, but it helps alot on the motorway. this is a heavy car remember, and yours, with the V6 is even heavier. you got a big lump of an engine over the front wheels so thats going to make the PS system work hard..... you should try steering without the engine on....the wheel is very very hard to turn then!!! so far as i can see, the heavy steering is just a trait of the car.... however if you think its overly heavy then have a check of the power steering fluid (im assuming this car still uses hydraulic PS), do you have enough? its not contaminated? or overly viscous? failing that, the PS pump could be on its way out... with the golf, was it a diesel? and its a MK6.... brand spankin, latest tech, it likely has electric power steering which can easily vary power assistance levels, i.e. at low speeds its highly assisted to help the driver maneuver round tight bends, this mode can feel eerily light.... and you can do it with your pinky finger. at higher speeds, the assistance drops and the steering becomes more weighty for high speed driving. my civic has electric PS and while it doesnt vary its assistance, it is miles lighter than the superbs. the superb MK1 was about when the gold MK4 was still current so it wouldnt have had access to such tech for the price.... as comparison, pretty much all the octavia's i tried before i bought my superb had heavy steering, thats diesels (1.9 110bhp) and petrols (1.8T 155bhp)