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numskull

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  1. Congratulations on the brilliant fix, Komap!! In the 16 years of owning Superbs, I can honestly say I’ve opened the hatch once, in the MKI. It had an early “Simply Clever” idea, which was a built-in, but removable ski cover, so that one’s family wet skis didn’t drip all over the inside of the ones car!
  2. Is it connected to main beam only?
  3. Holy Beams Batman - that’s £500!!! Here
  4. You are, without doubt, a nutter! You know a couple of hot water bottles would’ve been a lot less hassle!😂 But huge respect for doing it AS; you have balls ‘o’ steel my friend! 👏
  5. That’s good new, as SUK will only consider goodwill payments against those vehicles which had been serviced and/or repaired within the franchise network and I certainly wish you luck on getting a big contribution to the cost of that £3,500 part, which cost VAG £18 to have made including devcost. It’s utterly immoral what they charge.
  6. 1 And all you need to do is tap the accelerator and it starts, missing all of one or two seconds and two passing cars and then to switch it off. 2 Hmmm, well fortunately for those like us with a DSG gearbox, as it says in the Manual, “For vehicles with automatic transmission there is no automatic engine shut-down when the system detects a manoeuvring action due to a large steering angle”.
  7. Probably a good idea to add your general location in the world to see if there are members in the area who could ad the coding?
  8. Wonder why it’s so annoying for some, to remember to disable stop/start with that thing… ermmmm…. what is it….. it’s on the tip of m…. YES, I remembered; it’s A SWITCH?!? You don’t forget to turn a key or press a button to start it, so why is pressing the Stop/Start disable switch such a faff?
  9. Ignore me; been up for 37 hours and zero sleep….
  10. Given where you’re getting the alignment undertaken, was the dealership in question Hendys?
  11. Ours is a 2016, so thankfully it doesn’t change the driving mode to Normal after switch off. Never could fathom the reasons behind that decision, which was much to the annoyance of of Skodians who’d discovered the “feature” once purchased. 🙄
  12. I recall the telephone unit failing on our MK2 and a new unit was £700+vat which was utterly ridiculous. I bought a used unit for £170.
  13. Ahhhh, right. Do you know when it was introduced?
  14. Is the electric element auxiliary heater an option in the U.K.? In my experience, our 280 heats-up within one mile regardless of the outside temp.
  15. Given all VAG vehicles have Bosch / Aerotwins fitted, they probably are costing them 15c a unit.
  16. If only this was true! TBH, I now replace the blades not the entire wiper. Still working fine after two winters, but I think I’ll be changing them again soon.
  17. Careful, the “Ditchfinder” brigade could be along momentarily… Oh, I agree with you btw! All tyres sold in the U.K. are covered by strict performance regulations (until Westminster decide that anything will be allowed as long as it doesn’t have a metal ring as the tread and is wider than 2”!).
  18. It’s designed to try to maintain the position of the wiper blades to be at right angles to the screen. You’ll note the arms sometimes go up or go down slightly, both when they’re switched off and when they’re in operation too. When they finally park, their position is moved so it’s opposite to where they were last parked, so if they previously had the blades facing up, they move the arm up so the blades to face down. Good idea really.
  19. Did both the 220 and 272 have 7 speed DSG?
  20. Unfortunately, 99% of dealers nor independents do not have the experience, expertise or time to remove and replace a windscreen and that’s why they too use a screen replacement company
  21. ^^^^ What he said, 100%. What you don’t accept is for them to scotchlok them with a bit of cable; you want a new connection to the sensor unit. Thats what happens when you send an untrained tech to do a job like this. Also check they’ve fitted the bottom of the screen correctly too. I saw a Superb a few weeks ago, which had its heated screen replaced and it’d been fitted using so much bond that 2/3rds of it was 3mm proud of the plenum shroud, which meant the NS of the screen from top to bottom could not possibly have been fitted correctly. That was an Autoglass bodge too.
  22. I think the P7’s are great quite honestly, and they’d be pretty-much perfect if they were a bit quieter. Having said that, on a good tarmac surface they’re fine.
  23. To be fair, he only had to open the boot to find the torch! 😁
  24. I just removed the cool-looking Team Heko wind deflectors, which I fitted a couple of weeks ago. That’s cos they’re noisy above around 40mph and bloody unbearable at 70 and utterly pointless too, because they don’t deflect the wind but, apart from that they’re great! I’ll be ebaying at the first opportunity.
  25. Hey ApertureS… “it’s the connectivity module behind the display it still should be near that!” Should that be “still should not be near that”?

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