taurean7

So are you glad you changed to Koni Special Actives, was it worth the huge financial outlay? I have a Sportsline Plus 190bhp DSG 4x4 and I find it doesn’t handle speed bumps or badly rutted roads - very unsettled. what’s your findings after changing?

To try and help me understand, in the absence of being able to test drive, have you driven over a cobbled road - if you have how was it? on a motorway are they comfortable, but when you get on twisties at speed do they stiffen up?

5k in 2 months 😮. What did you do just stop to fill up? based on that mileage do you rate them then, over the standard?

Out of curiosity what model is your Superb? To know what standard suspension you started with, assuming your now running the Koni’s yourself. I’m starting from a Sportsline Plus myself which is weirdly quite firm, but over speed bumps and broken road surface is abnormally soft 🤷‍♂️ I am looking at something to achieve better comfort and more control. Been on a number of forums and Koni’s seem to be a popular upgrade.

Isnt the B6 classed as a sport shocker? In which case it isn’t directly relevant to the special active, it’s more relevant to the Koni Sport shocker - isn’t it? not sure if the comment was made by yourself or someone else but is the Special Activ like a dual rate spring where part of it is configured for softness and then when the reach of that is achieved then it hits the stiffer element and becomes less compliant. I have a Sportsline Plus 4x4 and I find it drives sporty, but over broken road it is unsettled. But the bigger issue is speed bumps. It thuds up them at anything but really slow speed, and depending on the width (if it falls within the frequency of the suspension bounce/recovery) it decks out 😣 this makes for an unnerving experience and quite upsetting for a modern vehicle. I have never had any car do what this car does, either normal or sports car - don’t know who engineered the shocker parameters but they have got it very wrong

I’m very tempted, only just got car, so between swapping towbar over and the eye watering road tax am a bit brassic. But I am aiming for them, any recommendations for a source and who fitted them for you - anywhere near Manchester?

can you tell me what age of cars you had before (and now) and apart from the shockers did you need anything else when you had them fitted (outside of springs and tie rods as they won’t be necessary for me) I mean changing of bump stops or shocker top mounts?? can’t remember if I’ve asked this of you but where did you get them from, and fitted by? And approx cost?

Hi there Now you've had them a while what is your opinion? I am interested in improving the driving dynamics, but not bothered about lowering as I want to tow a caravan and lowering wouldn't help (neither would the speed bumps round where I live) I assume that if I am not lowering I can remain with standard tie rods as the arb wont be pre-loaded??

I must admit I was sceptical myself, but I find it weird that when I first set off the gearbox seems to slip quite a bit under light acceleration, but this improves as you drive. Not quite sure its clever but there is something going on. With regards the tuning of the gearbox, I am dubious of that as (like the ECU) it could record the amount of times it is flashed, and in the event of a fault where significant work is required there are times you would be eligible for a goodwill gesture from Skoda - if modified this wouldn't be an option. Recently read a post on Facebook where this has happened to an owner.

the garage told me the new 7spd wet clutch gearbox was an intelligent system and it had the ability to learn. I’ve heard about such systems on other cars, but don’t know how it works on Skoda’s Am curious as to what exactly a DSG tune does, ie, it’s benefits?

I’d be interested in your opinion 1yr in on the shocker change (without changing springs) still the right way to go ? also when you had the DSG tuned what difference did it actually make. Mine is 7spd wet clutch, and I’ve been told by dealer it learns my driving style and adjusts itself accordingly 🤷‍♂️ All I know is that when setting off it changes to 2nd gear with a milli second, then feels to clutch slip it’s way upto 4th (if I didn’t know better I’d think it was CVT)

That is a suspicion, but I did try and drive the car every few days to avoid that. I have a caravan so I am aware of that has an issue, and bought plastic trays shaped to the tyres for it and I park it on them which spreads the load to avoid flat spots. The car I thought I was doing enough to avoid 🤔🤷‍♂️

Those are the next areas of suspicion for me, car being serviced this week so will advise what I’ve done and ask them to look at those places as it is spoiling the driving pleasure I used to have with this car. Especially as I’ll be looking to upgrade to a newer one sometime later this year.

that’s the strange bit, the tyres have been on 3yrs - I had done about 5k miles on them before I got made redundant in Dec 2018, then I did little mileage for 2yrs (about 4K but only at upto dual carriageway speeds) because of choice and COVID lockdowns. Now got a new job, and doing mileage again, especially motorways and this vibration has appeared from nowhere. it’s very strange.

The vibration I had was through the steering significantly, we have rebalance all the wheels again, and checked they ran true, and the failure I had was on the rear so it was the rear tyres that had been replaced. when I rebalanced the wheels I had the wheels swapped rear to front - so the new tyres are now on the front, and the mega vibration has gone. But there is still something not quite right. I don’t know about VAG as a whole but in all my cars I had I have always fitted the new rubber to the driven wheels.

The nearest one to me is 25miles away 🤯 Also the company I use is used by most dealerships in the area, as they are very well respected and trusted in the field so the dealers don’t need to buy tyre fitting gear and train staff - they just nip to this fitter) They fit and repair tyres for anything from go karts to McLarens, I’ve even see a Merc SLR McLaren in there. in fact when they did mine they had just done an Audi S5 and Alpina V8T (BMW 5 series on steroids - nice 😎) We rebalanced all the wheels, and paid particular attention when spinning and all ran true - we also moved the newly fitted wheels from rear to front, and the significant vibration has gone, but there is still something subtle there, but now the large vibration has gone there is also something else that I can’t put my finger on - it’s just not has solid feeling as I remember it.

The tyre that failed was on the rear, and both sides fitted at same time by me within first year I had the car now 4yrs later. I’ve done about 15-20k and they where due to be changed - the failure brought my plans forward a fortnight. Never had a puncture, so no repairs, I had had them balanced 2 weeks prior to failure for the vibration with no change, but we looked at the tyres and no bulges or mis-shapes and wheel spun true on the balancer 🤷‍♂️

I don’t agree, until before lockdown 1 when I was working the car was almost air ride like, when set to comfort it floated over potholes and only when set to sport it would go over with a firm solid thump - but it felt ok and more comfortable than traditional suspension setups I’ve had. I was made redundant and had a year out, then wanted to return to work and COVID hit, so that was another year 🤦‍♂️. So for 2yrs I pretty much only got upto 40mph. Then I got a job in April that meant driving on motorway, and straight away had the vibrations so have no idea where it has come from. I have got rid of most of the vibrations by having the front wheels moved to the rear, and having them all rebalanced AGAIN 🤯 if it was the wheels I’d expect the wobble to be now coming from rear. It’s ok, but there is still a feeling that there is something not quite right - a feeling which is unfamiliar and unfortunately hard to describe 😩🤦‍♂️ And I am unable to replicate it consistently. Which means getting it diagnosed by dealer will be almost impossible.

they where balanced by an independent tyre place, been around for years and very trusted by garages all around. they balanced last time - I saw the machine say OK readings against all conditions against all wheels. this time they put them on the machine and they still showed not balanced 🤯 did them again and this time fitted backs to front and viva versa. I took it for a drive and the wobbly feeling has gone 🎉🙏🏻, but this car has DCC and should float over bumps and poor roads. Mine doesn’t, it more crashes over potholes. Floats, but wallows a lot too. has anyone had poor experience after a number of years with their DCC suspension systems.

I was going to put the new tyres on the front anyway as I always do, but as I said I get vibration through wheel AND bum, so it feels like both ends is affected. will see what happens when I swap them

I thought that but wouldn’t that show up on the balance machine? I did look at a few of the rims when they where done and they looked running true to me. also the vibrations I feel through the steering wheel and through my bum - as a result I can’t determine whether it’s front or rear that’s the problem. whilst I have heard about wheels buckling, they have always been big 20+ inch wheels with really low profile tyres. Mine are the standard 18” rims can it happen to this size

I have a mk3 estate dsg L&K so it has the DCC has anyone experienced any bad vibrations starting at approx 60mph and get progressively worse, sweet spot is between 70-77mph and then you can drive through it to lessen but not eliminate 😡 I have had all 4 wheels balanced, no change. I had a tyre wall fail (no warning and no damage to cause it) and have had two brand new Goodyear F1 Assy 5 fitted. no change, if anything it “might” have gotten worse 🤷‍♂️ any ideas would be welcome 🙏🏻 Neil

I have recently started driving distances after being out of work during lockdown. At motorway speeds I have noticed a vibration through the steering (and pedals) and can feel it through the seat (like from the rear). I thought wheels out of balance so had them done. They where massively out of balance, so expected it fixed. Whilst it did improve, it didn’t correct it all. whilst in lockdown I had my cambelt change done, but drove very few miles after this happening. I am struggling to think what could cause this problem. To the point I am even considering flat spots on tyres as car was parked for weeks at a time as nowhere needed to drive anywhere. can anybody else advise possible options to investigate. thx

That’s brilliant info - many thx with regards the camera, that is the one feature my cars missing (became standard feature on my spec of car 6mths later 😩) was it easy to fit? Do you have the link to what you bought?

what did you use to deal with the Electronic Parking Brake and how much did you get the brembo kit for (if you don’t mind me asking so I have something to aim for) ?