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I'd already negotiated over £1000 off. I'm sure if I'd paid the asking they'd have delivered for free.

From the dealership it's about a 600-mile round trip. Because they do their own delivery rather than an independent transporter, they deliver directly rather than collecting and delivering round the country. With the 10 hours plus driving and then the loading and unloading they were budgeting for 2 days with an overnight stop. Looking at it that way it sounds like a realistic charge; 2 days labour, 600 miles on the van and a night in a Premier Inn (allowed as the delivery is a commercial activity) The lad and myself will have to do the round trip in a day as COVID rules do not yet allow us to have a hotel room or stay with friends, but it'll be an adventure... Even doing it ourselves with a fairly economical car it'll cost about £150 in fuel, and with a couple of detours we're taking on the way back we'll be driving about 1000 miles that day between us. Actually, all of a sudden the £330 doesn't seem that bad!

OK, as we got the Kent variety of the virus announced on the day after I slapped down my debit card and we then went into lockdown, delivery didn't happen in January. Nor February. And not March either. Now planning to collect from the dealership (saving £330 delivery fee) on Good Friday. If it's snowing at Easter, I apologise. It's my fault.

I own motorcycles and have spend a fortune on unnecessary trinkets (and unnecessary whole bikes to be fair) so I'll not criticise too loudly :-)

I expect so, and might make sense if being done in addition to a front brake, suspension and wheel/tyre upgrade but on their own not necessary. You also hit the issue of modified car insurance, which I remember was a headache when I wanted to upgrade the brakes on my Yeti.

plus the cost of the specialist pipes (or are they cables) that need fabricating then the fitting cost so likely nearer £750 all in.

It looks like a nice enough kit, but my main question would be "why?" The Citigo/Up! doesn't feel underbraked and there's no noticeable problem with front-rear brake balance. Unless I'm mistaken even the Up! Gti has drums. The only issue I have is that the pads can get stuck to the drums if parked with the handbrake on for an extended period. If it 's for style when looking through alloys then fair enough, but it seems to be trying to solve a non-problem

I previously got caught with their 12 year (IIRC) anti corrosion warranty - I got rust, it got repaired under the warranty, the rust reappeared but was no longer covered as the repair was only covered for a year...

As Skoda have been involved in the process - dealer called skoda to ask advice on how to resolve problem - I'm comfortable that I can push skoda to resolve if the problem recurs

Yes, still under warranty for another 4 or 5 weeks.

It's a 2018 car with about 25,000 very gentle miles on it (perhaps that's the problem) Yes, it's a 1.4TSi so it would be the DQ200. I'm guessing that it's fairly rare in a Superb as most go for the larger engine with the different gearbox

Having had a "gearbox in emergency mode no reverse gear" message and fun at the dealership last week I thought I'd pop in here to see what the mood was. Seems like there's a lot of discussion about the Mechatronic in the Octavia/Yeti/Fabia subgroups but not in the Superb group. Odd. No idea why, anyway, having had the car for a few days, the dealer nor Skoda found anything to replace so did a gearbox reset and sent me on my way. Glad it happened and was recorded with Skoda just before the warranty ran out rather than after, so if it happens again I can go and give them my best Paddington stare.

Great news, thank you I alway like having Driving data -> Range displayed on the Maxidot. When using adaptive cruise and stop start, every time the engine restarts (in stop start traffic), the maxidot moves to the next one of the driving data displays; range -> av consumption -> consumption -> speed ->avg speed -> distance -> travelling time -> range Pity

Does the bumper/tailgate have captive nuts for the numberplates? I'm looking to change my plates and want to know if it's a 2 minute job or a half day scrabbling around in the cold. Can I stop the vehicle information display changing when using the adaptive cruise? Every time I stop in traffic and restart it skips to the next display. Any way of showing the ODO rather than the trip when cruise is on?

Not sure this was the right week to add a large capacity touring motorcycle to the fleet. Delivery in Jan

Confirmed this morning - drove to work and within a mile or so the oil temp gauge started to move above 50C and the water temp gauge on the digital display didn't move even though the water temp on the clocks rose happily to 90. A quick flick from the dials to the (ridiculous) lap timer and back and the water temp was then showing 90. Driving home after lunch, I fiddled around with the gauges after starting the car, and within 2 miles the water was at 90 and the oil was about 60. So I now know the oil and water both warm up nice and quickly but the fancy display doesn't work reliably. Ho hum.

Thanks both - what I expect I have is a software bug or dodgy sensor (likely the former as I've no warning lights etc) Took it out this evening and within about a mile of slow driving in town (slow, but no traffic) the temp was showing over 50C and rising. Considering that I deliberately did a couple of long climbs at lunchtime, the latter with the throttle buried in the carpet and the display happily showing 110kW and 30 something boosts (can't remember the unit but the gauge was all the way round), I can't believe that the oil temp didn't reach 50C I checked the oil level and that's fine, so it seems that turning it off and back on again has answered my question - the oil temp goes up quite quickly :-)

You say that like it's a bad thing :-)

Noting today that the water temp is almost immediately up to the magic 90C, I thought I'd have a look to see when the oil got up to a decent operating temperature. I was somewhat surprised that even at the end of my 10 mile drive home today (14C air temp), which included climbing the nice and steep Birdlip hill in Gloucestershire, the oil temp gauge on the (stop laughing) Sport display hadn't started registering.

What are the 2.0 petrol and diesel like for wheelspin pulling away? I need to be quite careful starting off in my 1.4 TSi Sportline estate, especially if it's cold/wet/up hill/on a corner as I can get a fair amount of wheelspin which means the getaway isn't as quick as planned. Coming from a remapped Yeti 170 4x4 which would just grip and go, it's rather disappointing. If I was going for a larger engine than the 1.4, I would have thought getting a 4x4 variant would be a must.

The plastic shapes that are part of the official spare wheel kit have "pockets" either side of the wheel. The boot floor that's part of the official spare wheel kit has "hinges" to allow the floor sides to fold up to allow access to these pockets. By opening up these flaps, the suitable depth for the bag holders is restored and harmony is reestablished. Of course this also relies upon you not having a boot full of junk or a boot liner that stops the flaps from being raised. You beat me to it!

Now gone!

That's what I wasn't sure about - so there is fluid in there somewhere

I could be wrong but I thought the Citigo power steering was electric. If it's leaking, it's leaking electrons

And err... ours too. I could have sworn it was adjustable, but I've been out and looked and no!