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Serviced and MOT'd today. 6 years old and 30k miles with a few advisories carried over from last year (rear pads, front shock misting and corroded front springs) plus a new one for front disc wear. About to be taxed for another year so altogether that's £560 out of my wallet this morning 😬

Haldex after two oil changes and just under 30k miles. 12k of that was towing a caravan. First oil change was done by dealer who refused to clean filter. Second by local indie this morning.

When I started the car after the battery swap the dashboard lit up like Blackpool illuminations (well, a couple of lights came on including the steering symbol). The fitter had me turn the wheel full let lock then full right lock and back to centre and it cleared all the errors. I presume it re-calibrated the steering position once it had been told the extremes. I then had a stop/start error whilst driving home but that cleared once I stopped the car and then restarted it.

Loss of power shouldn't be an issue. When mine was swapped the dashboard errors cleared by turning the wheel full left to right and back followed by a short drive and restarting the car at the end. Only thing lost was current trip computer stats.

We all want to know where it got to and how it came out. Don't leave us hanging

First time I've been in the car for a few days so I tried ejecting the card and reinserting it later. I still had a doubled-up folder so back to copy/format/copy back for me.

+1 for this. Usually happens in damper weather and not specific to the Superb.

I worked in IT for 28 years. Of course, why didn't I think of turning it off and on again Thinking back I tend to just jump in the car and eject the card without going into the menu and selecting the safe removal option (we're not running Windows 95 any more...) so I'll go through the full on/eject/off/insert on process and see what happens.

I've a 2016 Superb with the Columbus head unit and I've used a 64GB SD card (a microSD + adapter) in slot 1 to play music since a few days after collecting it. Over time I've updated the contents of the card with no problem using a card reader on my Windows PC. The last two or three times I've added new folders the Columbus has doubled them up. For example: Before The Best of the Nolans Timmy Mallet's Greatest Hits I pull the card, copy across The Black & White Minstrels and put the card back in and expect three folders. Instead I get a duplicate of the new folder. After The Best of the Nolans The Black & White Minstrels The Black & White Minstrels Timmy Mallet's Greatest Hits If I select one of the Minstrels folders it shows the correct number of tracks but plays the first track twice, then the second twice etc. At first I put this down to copying a folder and renaming it on the SD card afterwards so avoid this. However yesterday I copied a new folder over as named and today I'm doubled up again. The only way to overcome this seems to be copy the music off the card (where it looks as intended - no duplicates), format the card and copy the music back. Then it's happy until the next time I add folders. Any clues? I know that there are some limits (10,000 files?) but I'm only up to about 7,000 so don't think it's that. I'm guessing some sort of index/database corruption has occurred on the Columbus.

I've had Quatracs on my 280 for three years, albeit I've only done 10k miles in that time so can't comment on longevity. I did tow our caravan 1200 miles during the first year (the old C-19 put paid to that from 2020 onwards) and I'd go with the same ones again when I need to change. I felt that they had better dry grip than the original Pirellis even during spirited driving. They do understeer slightly when pushing hard round tight roundabouts on damp roads but that's more excessive approach speed than a tyre issue

During the petrol panic I needed to fill up as I was on fumes and only 95 RON was available. There was a noticeable change in responsiveness after a while so I'm sticking to 99. Fortunately I don't do many miles (only 4000 in the last 12 months) so not a huge cost difference to previous diesel cars year on year. Over Christmas I had to have a new battery fitted and strangely my fuel economy has improved by 2 or 3 mpg over the same routes. I can only put that down to the alternator being required less to keep the battery at the optimum condition.

Just over 57 litres.

I've used them on and off for the last three cars (Octavia, Mk II, Mk III) after the warranty expired. I've stuck a note in my calendar for the day of the service to ask for a photo. It's the end of Feb so will be a few weeks.

Bickertons wouldn't do it when I asked them as it's not on the Skoda to-do list. I'm booked in for a service/MOT next month with an indie and they're happy to do it (for a fee, naturally).

Admittedly not as exciting as new brakes or other upgrades but I did fill it with petrol this morning (Tesco Momentum in case you wondered). 88 quid! 😲 I almost fainted. Maybe next time I fill up I'll start a gofundme page

Strangely stop/start generally worked on my car right up until the day the battery died completely. It works more often with the new battery (unsurprisingly). Have you tried charging it with a smart charger such as a CTEK? If possible leave it on for a few days even after the charger says it's complete.

I have a 64gb card formatted on a PC (so probably exfat) and all my files are MP3 format. No problems here. I'll caveat that by saying recent folder renames after copying files has caused a couple of duplicate entries but that's the first time in almost 6 years.

I had to change the battery yesterday (5.5 years old, few miles and short journeys for the last two years). I pulled forwards a couple of feet to get better access to the boot before stopping the car again. When I came to restart I had a dashboard full of lights and a half a crank before it all died. I also had the "12v low. Charge by driving" warning which was too little too late. The local Green Flag garage came out and jump started me then it was off to Halfords to get a replacement fitted and coded. Not happy about paying more than necessary but the whole dead-to-alive episode lasted less than three hours including being the call-out and being stuck in traffic en-route to the fitting. Worryingly the lad who came out was insistent that a new battery wouldn't need coding ("as we never do on any cars we have in") and I should charge the battery without using the BCM earth tag 😬

Called out Green Flag as the battery is as dead as a doornail. Annoying as it was charged about a week ago. New battery time it seems.

I have it about once a year and no faults are logged. Hitting Set twice seems to reduce the chance of an error.

It may just shut off when it detects that it's no longer blowing hot air. Just a guess as I used it the other day and realised it had gone off after a while.

I don't know about more recent years but they were an option on the 2016 L&K spec. I'd imagine that they've always been an option though.

ACC works for me with the factory fit towbar so could be mis-coded.

I trimmed off a few mm of the front door strip as I started having the problem a few months ago on my 2016 reg. I also (carefully) took the front chrome off strip and repositioned it as that was catching then realised that the rubber strip was catching behind the rear door chrome and popping it off. Unfortunately mine was spotted too late as the rear strip had already bent out of shape so every few days I have to push it back into place 😒

I tried method 1 and felt no difference either (2016 reg.) I'd hazard a guess that any method is just a placebo.