Ashmount

I've been driving Superbs since 2011. Love them. Last Superb (2019) had Columbus, two umbrellas and the little ,magnetic boot light. I stuck with the standard Admunsun system this time round which is ok, and with the digital dials as standard the satnav now displays there. Noticed the little magnetic light was gone, but no loss. Didn't realise that there was now only one umbrella supplied and complained to my dealer. Not sure he realised either because he supplied me with a second one with an apology. If you're new to the Superb you don't notice these things. I personally miss the Columbus system, but I know many drivers liked the physical buttons. At over £1000 as an option the Columbus is not worth it. If the 2023 images of the Superb in motor magazines are anything to go by, this will be my last Superb. I won't need as large a car in four years and I think the current design is both attractive and understated...a bit like myself 🤣😂

Coincidentally our dealer called yesterday to say my wife's new facelift Karoq SE L is in the dealership, PDI'd and ready for delivery. It was ordered on 17 February 2022 the day facelift orders were opened. No extras other than metallic paint. I ordered my new Superb on 23 March, (my fourth - love these cars). Very different story there. Dealer said it may be October before I see it, perhaps longer. He said Skoda had adopted a policy of under promising and where possible over delivering on lead times. My wife was due a change in June and ordered early based on delivery lead times and strong residuals. She had a build week confirmed by end February. @RCC49 - Happy motoring! 😃

My wife ordered her new Karoq on 17 February 2022, the first day for Karoq facelift orders to replace her nearly 4 year old model Her PCP is up in June and we wanted to get a decent lead time on the order, but the dealer was quoting 8-10 months. Wife got a call to say build date is agreed and her car will be delivered in three -four weeks! Its a standard SE L. She ordered in brilliant silver and then changed her mind and went for graphite grey. Dealer came back to say the car was too far along now to change the colour and it would require a new order, putting her at the back of the queue. She has stuck with silver. The residuals on her Karoq were so high it was a good deal. I was sufficiently tempted by high residuals at the moment that I'm ordering a new Superb now, even though I've another year to run on my PCP. Dealer is anticipating a long lead time for that delivery - possibly up to a year. 😟

My wife and I had exactly the same experience as you described...same everything... The ones I tried were new well in date Duracell and also the battery in the spare fob which worked fine in it wouldn't work in the main key. Same thing, took it to dealer who took it away in the back to fit the battery - hey presto! and she had to pay top dollar for a new battery.

Yes...good reminder. She carries both keys in separate faraday bags. Just on that. We both have faraday bags for our kessy's. Usual ones from Amazon. Being me, I test them from time to time and I have had failures. Don't know why. Might be some science behind this or just cheap bags. Like the batteries now these little bags are also tested and replaced. Ash

And I see the brave are also wise...

Hi, I meant to update this thread and forgot. My bad. See my posts above for the full story. My wife took her fobs to an arranged appointment at the dealer on 4 September - that's about three weeks after the incident and after I had done the key fob battery swop test. In she went and the guy said he was going to change the batteries first, as if it was a battery problem and he did the tests first and found there was nothing wrong with the fob there would be a £100 charge. My wife said ok, but my husband has already swopped the batteries and they both work fine in the spare fob, but neither works in the 'dud' fob. In go the new batteries and hey presto - both were working again. She felt a bit of a fool. The guy just said that both fob batteries need to be changed every year. She said she had no warning the battery was losing power, but he didn't seem too clued about that. So both fobs still working. My wife is carrying them both for a few weeks just in case the main one dies again. Not at all satisfactory .

I've had a variety of cars down the years and wasted too much money on BMWs and Mercs. Good cars but with too many issues for a so called prestige brand and with running costs far too high. In 2011 I bought my first Skoda Superb after a nightmare winter in 2010 driving a Merc estate with a boot loaded with bags of sand and a couple of breeze blocks to keep the rear wheel drive working in the snow. Rather than revert to another Merc or Beemer I decided to test drive a range of cars. One of those was the Superb, based on the Driver Power Survey in Auto Express where Skoda's were coming in the top five cars, rated by customers. My 2011 Superb was a 2.0 150 TDI Executive DSG 4x4. It was the dealer principal's car and he took me for the test drive. I immediately fell for the car. It was just in every way, well...superb. I aimed to keep that car for 36 months and change. I put a minimum deposit on it. I've never bought out a car at the end of a PCP. Well I bought that car and kept it for nearly seven years. It cost me £7000 to buy it out and I drove it for three years and got £8000 for it. It is the best car I've ever owned. Hands down. When it came to change, I didn't even look elsewhere. I bought a demonstrator 2.0ltr 190 Sportline which, sadly, was written off from under me in 2019. Again, I went straight back to Skoda and I'm driving a Superb SE L 1.5TSi and its a continuing love affair. I have a general interest in cars and I'm abreast or the competition. Nothing touched Skoda for value for money and a car that exactly fits my lifestyle. Come the time when my wife wanted to change her 10 year old beloved Mazda 3, I did the rounds of many makes and dealerships with her. The Karoq had just launched a few months earlier. Driving past the local Skoda dealership on a whim I asked if she would like to take a test drive as the reviews were good and she agreed, more on the basis of 'well I've tried everything else' rather than any enthusiasm. We had already test driven Mazda, Vauxhall, Seat, Citeron, Peugeot, Toyota, Ford and Nissan. She test drove a Karoq SE 1.5TSi and made her decision there and then. We were both hugely impressed. Eighteen months on she still loves her car and this is the first 'blip' (no pun intended). I live in Northern Ireland and in the last five years (from memory) the Skoda UK Dealership of the Year has been an NI dealer. I have found them really helpful. So I hope your confidence won't be dented. You have chosen a great car and I'm sure you will have a good dealer experience too. Ash

Yes, that's my understanding too. The only thing they look for is user damage; immersed in water, cracked etc., which might invalidate the warranty.

Steve, Yes, agreed. I'll update on this once I've been to the dealer. Sounds like you need a trip to the dealer too. That's just weird. You may need your fob re-programmed by the dealer. It has certainly knocked my wife's confidence in the fobs. I've had two keyless entry Superbs and not a problem at all. Ash

Wife contacted local dealer this morning. She has an appointment in early September (!) to bring in the fobs to be tested. This apparently takes an hour. Have to check the fob has not been damaged by owner, apparently. Then reorder and collect and program to the car. She was also asked if she had checked to see if the battery was the right way up. She wondered aloud since there was no need to check the battery until the fob had died, how the fob might have worked with the battery the wrong way up since June 2018...no answer to that one. Interesting to hear your fob experience starting the car. Good to know that the car eventually did start. Hopefully, neither of us will have to put this into practice again. Ash

Last night, my wife went out to her June 2018 Karoq SE to get something. Opened and locked the car using the door handle. Key in pocket. About an hour later she was going out and the fob would't open the car door. First thought, dead battery. The spare opened it just fine, but me being me, thought I'd switch batteries in the fobs to check if it was a fob issue. Wife had no in car warnings about a battery problem in the fob. By switching batteries I found that both batteries were fine and worked in the spare fob, but neither battery worked in the main fob. So, looks like fob failure. Fortunately this happened at home. I'm assuming it can be fixed under warranty. It left me considering a scenario where the same thing happened miles from home. My wife returns to a locked car and nothing happens with the fob. Using the fob key she knows how to clip off the little cover to reveal the keyhole, (surmising here). Surely the alarm would go off? Then what? Both she and I would have been clueless about holding the key against/ close to the start button to see if the car would start. If not call the helpline I presume. Anyway, as I said fortunately this happened at home and in daylight, but it has certainly dented my wife's confidence in keyless entry. Mine too tbh. Ash