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Is that 330bhp at the wheels, Mario? Did you install the JB4? If so, how was it?

Not for me but good on you; nicely done!

Thanks again MartiniB. Bought and replaced. Thankfully SUK had one in stock; it only took about 20mins to dismantle and reassemble. 👍🏻

Re the trim no, nothing will work I’m afraid, other than replacing the trim. On the glove box door, unfortunately the textured plastic has been damaged and again, nothing will bring it back to an original look.

Both rubber mallet and loosening-up the wheel nuts work, with the latter being much less effort.

Yep, it reacts quickly. I was approaching a blackstuff gang earlier today, travelling toward it quickly and even before I smelt it, the recirc came on. It’s kicked-in with smoke and diesel too. No idea about slurry spreading though!

“...but you do imply that the a/c switches in and out of recirc. It doesn’t.” It may not on a 2002 Octavia TDi110, but it does on a 2016 Superb L&K. I quote from page 122 of the owners handbook... ”If a considerable increase in concentration of pollutants is recognised by the air quality sensor, recirculated air mode will temporarily be switched on. When the pollutant concentration decreases to the normal level, the recircula- ted air mode is automatically switched off.“

Seriously, I suggest you read a post properly before you start hitting a keyboard in a misguided response. Please highlight where I said I keep recirc “permanently on”? BTW, I think it was something like doing 6 impossible things but I don’t understand the analogy with this and THG anyway.

Hmmmm, but I never have the windows open, always have AC on and the filtration system will switch on the recirc if needed, all of which will keep most grot out of the cabin.

No, the new battery doesn’t need “coding”; ours was replaced with a new, higher rated unit by the RAC two weeks ago after the OE one - which was five years old - was dead.

...breathing in all that lovely pollution... Ahhh... I’m pleased to see the 1960’s are as alive ‘n’ well in South Wales as they are in Ireland....

Personally I wouldn’t buy a Superb with a sunroof due to the potential for it to leak now or in the future; seems inevitable that it will. Also, the fact is you might actually only use it 2-3 times per annum. My wife has an electric sunroof on her runout MKI 2003 2.0L Focus and she never uses it, except to dump air from the inside of the car when it’s hot, but you can just drop the windows on the Superb to do the same thing; the Focus does same too BTW. And yes, it has leaked, just once about 10 years ago which I fixed. But what I really dislike is they’re sooo noisy when they’re open. I understand that some people like them but given the climate ventilation system on the MKIII is, well, superb, so the use of sunroofs are all but irrelevant these days.

Well, that’s utter boll@#ks, if ever I heard it!

Thanks MartiniB. I’d rather stay original, so would you be able to sell me your original, or give me some help to dismantle the unit?

Thanks again langers2k.

Brilliant, thanks langers2k. I expect dismantling will be.. ermmmm... interesting!?

So some barsteward has clipped my drivers door mirror when it was parked and broken the little indicator tell tail on the end of the door indicator repeater. I found the bit but it’d been run over so it’s ruined. Does anyone know if the indicator strip is available as a spare or, (don’t tell me...) it’s a whole new bloody mirror housing?

I replaced all ours with Skoda logo units. I used a wide head slot screwdriver. You pop the head into the side of the unit at a 45 degree angle and lever it out. I did the same on our MKII; they’re the same units.

Can’t Skoda supply the OE Monroe units? (Well they’re Monroe on our 2016 car). Bloody poor that one has failed after only 4 years in any event.

Cheers langers2k. So, there isn’t a difference; SmartLink and SmartLink+ are the same? When I entered the VIN on the app it stated the car wasn’t compatible, hence why I thought I’d need to upgrade it and the app doesn’t show up on CarPlay when I open it. So now, like many others it’s seems, I’ve no way of getting the service history on the car. What a crock!

Anyone??

I can’t see the MySkoda app on CarPlay when I launch it, so does only work with later versions of the Columbus unit, or am I missing something or need to update the FW?

I’ve reviewed my behaviour this afternoon and yep, as you both suspected, it’s completely OE! I have been pulling the gear lever back too hard and the DSG has correctly been going into S. What a twit I am! So thanks for your help and patience.

Thanks guys. Newbie69. Yes. When this occurs and the car starts, it shows S in the dash and drives in S (revs are up, held in gear, need to manually change up) even though I’ve left it in D mode when I parked up. AFAIK, it is just the DSG which has been changed, not DCC or other changes. The gear selector is in D. I have to change the drive mode, from what’s shown as being in Normal on the Columbus, to Comfort, Sport, Eco, Individual - doesn’t matter which - and then back to Normal to correct it. I have not tried moving the gear selector to S and back to D; I’ll try that. KennyD. No, I can assure you the selector is in D.

LOL. Well, it’ll start in sport mode if that’s where it was left when I parked it or Individual mode is set to Sport too, but this is only when it’s in say in Normal, Eco or Individual and DCC and Steering are on sport but DSG on normal etc. It could be a gear selector issue I guess; it that a software or hardware problem or both? I’ll check tomorrow to see if I can consciously replicate the issue, as its quite intermittent and occasionally random at present.