Tim Powys-Lybbe

Hi, I have exactly the same error message of: "Error: no data available. Please insert a source with software update data or check the source." I too have tried several different mans of transferring the update files to the car (Superb Mk III of early 1918): SD Card, USB stick, online download. All give the same result. Any suggestions anyone?

And the manual still has it wrong in 2018: it says "Press the SET A Fig. 84 button and then, within 10 seconds, press the desired memory button B. Storing is confirmed by an acoustic signal." The garage I got the car from took the car in for two days to find the problem, said that it was OK then were astonished when I showed them what the manual said. The manual is, of course, correct for a S2 car which is what I had previously.

Superb answer, juux. My iPhone has not been charging for a week on any of the leads I plugged in to it. So today I had planned to go to an Appleshop and set what it would cost to get it fixed. But late yesterday I saw this diagnosis and tried it out with a steel pin this morning and a humungeous hunk of fluff popped out. It had me and my wife in kinks. Many thanks for this excellent info. PS I'm back here again as I'm about to take delivery of a new S3, after 5 ½ years with a S2 and never a single dropped beat.

GaSelle wrote: Quite easy: I did say "A lot of my journeys are 8 miles there and back which I would expect the battery and alternator to handle OK" and therefore some of my journeys are long ones. And I am still looking for an answer to whether the alternator can charge the battery when the engine is running at 1200 rpm when the car is doing 40 mph. If it won't charge at those revs then either the DSG is faulty for allowing the revs to go so low or the alternator is faulty. Which is it?

My battery has just expired in my 2012 170 Superb, so it was just over two years old. Halfords, who I got to change it said the alternator was OK but the battery duff as I did not drive enough miles. A lot of my journeys are 8 miles there and back which I would expect the battery and alternator to handle OK. But the local journeys are mostly on roads with a 40 mph speed limit. At that speed the DSG goes into 6th gear and the engine is doing a mere 1200 rpm. I wonder if 1200 rpm is enough to get the required juice out of the alternator. Any comments anyone?