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Exactly the best reasons for forums. If it’s not from the pothole it could inadvertently tell you your alignment is out

This is from the Superb 3 tried and tested thread: “Increased sensitivity of the throttle pedal Controller 01- Engine 07 - Coding Byte 0, Bit 0-2, Change from Škoda (01) to AUDI (02) this will dramatically reduce lag on pressing accelerator pedal. If like me and many other owners you think the std throttle response is pretty dead, then this will dramatically change the way the car drives, the power is now instant just like on other cars. IMO this is the best free mod you can do!” I did it the other day. No errors, just removes the lack of response on the throttle pedal, most noticeable in ECO profile.

Tried a few bits and came a cropper on a few: Fog lights as coming home lights, doesn’t include dry and eyelashes. Also, the xenon’s give a flash which I’m not overly keen on. Have spotted I didn’t include eyelashes always on so maybe worth doing that to see if it works. Automatically changing clocks to dst didn’t seem to work. Both setting to Europe and Auto both disabled the menu tick (ticked but non-responsive) but the clock went back an hour so permanently wrong. Enabling fan speed on auto mode - guide states changing bit 6 from 01 to 41 but Bit 6 on mine was 0D so wasn’t sure what’s changed but would rather not muck about with that. Changing the interior colour - seems there is a channel for each colour(1-10 and 11-30) and hue(rgb) to amend, but I also noticed an additional channel for each hue with “lin” in the title. I changed the blue and green for colour 2 (seemed to be the colour for Comfort mode, although not the second colour in the palette so good knows what order they’re in) and the colour just became inactive until I put the numbers back to original. Was in a bit of a rush so couldn’t be as systematic as I wanted but wonder if I need to change the “lin” channel value too. Otherwise not sure what’s not working.

You can slightly move the steering wheel too. Or on cars with ACC, radar triggers the car in front moving off and starts the engine.

Lateral shields up. In all seriousness I don’t know. Haven’t seen it on mine which is a year old. Might be new software?

You can also dial it out with VCDS by raising the minimum required voltage so the ECU never thinks it has enough juice in the battery to activate it.

As above, just output of the engine; kW as a unit of energy rather than anything electricity-specific. Bit odd it not able to be changed to other units such as bhp. Interestingly a mate with Leon Cupra 290 has the same bits a % of max power output.

Rec'd VCDS cable today so set about looking through all the settings that can be changed. DRLs in menu, Throttle response set to Audi (lol), can def notice that. Rear DRLs on. Couldn't get the traffic signs to work but not fussed. Comfort lights to fog didn't work so need to do the further adaption on that. Enable fan speed on auto - couldn't work that but not too bothered. Heated set memory done. Tailgate beep ditched. Auto changing clocks to DST didn't work. Both Europe and Auto disabled the menu but threw the clock back an hour Pulsing startbutton. Now need to sit down with a particle accelerator and astro-physicist to sort the colour palette And changed the rear wiper. Had the juddering. Haven't run the new one yet but the difference in pliability of the rubber was night and day so reckon solved.

Cheers chaps - good to know.

That'll do. Cheers Gary

Sorry if a repeated topic, I have searched for this but only found posts to do with the rear wiper juddering or the wipers not parking properly when ignition off. The other day I noticed when the wipers were on auto, that the left one doesn't park all the way between sweeps, it stops slightly short of hidden under the bonnet-line, if that makes sense. If you turn wipers off, it then parks. I think if the wipers are running continuously I think it only sweeps to the same place but I just wanted to be sure it wasn't something that needs looking at.

Although I know you'll know the 'yellow' surface on the westbound M25 between J9 and J8. My last 3 cars have had 19s and different tyres and all made the same noise. Agreed I'd rather have an all-round tyre and sacrifice a bit of ultimate grip for comfort/noise and...well...price comes into it when compared to compared to PS4s. Blackcircles shows over £50 difference per corner.

Valid - I guess phone numbers have always been better tracked, especially when mobile numbers started. They could at least start using numbers that have been confirmed. Start with the known and all that. Oh well - big shame I reckon.

This is the thing though - the Cinturato is a touring tyre. The Pirelli website talks about economy and acoustics. Sport is the lowest rating by their own measure. Looking at Michelin, Primacy looks a much better comparative. No point comparing P7 to a top-end sports tyre.

Cheers pal - I have insider knowledge that numskull picked up both so congrats to him. May have to look at these though...

Good to have an update. I’d be erring on a new item but my guess is that’s an extensive option…even most likely you can buy a new one on somewhere like eBay and it’s the subsequent needed at the dealer that then costs.

There’s no option for MY21 280 as opposed to 272. Does it cater for both or should a revised version be expected?

So the rule as I understand is that once a registration mark has been decommissioned and the car scrapped the reg never gets resurrected. Amidst all the chat about people loving their first cars etc, what about the number plate? My first reg was nothing special but I’d pay to have it for it’s sentimental value - pretty sure I’m not alone in that. Could probably help DVLA coffers too. So would it be really that hard for DVLA to leave reg marks dormant for a few years and then reintroduce them into circulation?

Agree the Superb is not for hooning around and therefore the Sportline doesn’t tick enough of a box. Tbh I would look at a Leon Cupra 300 Lux or Cupra R estate for that (Golf R but with DCC as standard and the Cupra R ABT pack is bloody good). The Superb has space and refinement on tap and is for more for swallowing up miles than b-road bashing. Sports seats would feel nice but…vented seats are infectious. A little while ago Audi did the S8 (5.2 v10) and the 6.0 W12. Both similar in performance, just slightly different interpretation. I think of the Sportline/L&K as a (much lower performance) comparison. You’ll love both I’m sure. whoops - bit late to the party…

280 4x4 hatchback. Get around 33mpg on longer trips but could push that up if I was to drive a bit more conservatively.

What differences are there between Superb and Golf engine? Given the latter is 300 to start with. Also, they started with 280, then went to 272…but then went back up to 280? That’s what mine is on a 2021 plate… Def agree on the q-car thing. Love that. Enjoy the new car @RedLineZ

Very positive then by the sounds of it. Will get in touch with the dealer.

Ok brill - will give it a go!

Thanks both @brettikivi - interesting to note but I'm on the other side of that fence; spotify has been faultless for me and aside from that incident which then followed by a full-on MIB3 mute-a-thon its not been an issue. I'll keep an eye out though, thanks. @fencer - ok, will give the local lot a call. I've been meaning to get in touch as I need them to verify me for the Skoda app so might kill a couple of birds with that one stone.

The pop - I've never heard it when holding the button down to reset so just wanted to make sure I'm holding the button long enough. I read sometime/somewhere you need to hold it until the Skoda logo appears but if I need to hold it for longer to wait for a pop then maybe that'll be more successful.