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Update - B107c14 or 1080340 Park Assist Speaker Open/Short Circuit this was the parking buzzer. if anyone has the same issue, in the Near Side black B pillar behind the seat belt is the buzzer pop the pillar trim off, pop the inside bit of the plasic lugs out, just push them all the way through, then swap out the buzzer and replace. whole job took about an hour, but the bulk of that was hunting behind the carpet for the plastic pin in the plastic, and having to do the job twice because the metal clip popped off and wouldn’t hold the trim. next job is the 0343, which I think relates to side light/interior bulbs, which would make sense as it seems that there are 2 that are blown. Then the antenna, which may be a replacement, may be a broken antenna cable or from a quick trawl of forums may just need the nut tightening, we shall see when I get that far.

The Roomster's parking sensors have just stopped working, no beep, nothing on the display, nada. Fortunately my wife realised and didn't keep going backwards. I ran a scan and got the following error codes B107c14 or 1080340 Park Assist Speaker Open/Short Circuit Also there was another code: Head Unit (MMI) 00856 Antenna on the radio And Onboard supply control unit 03434 My question is does anyone know where the speaker is located, I have been trawling the web for an hour and cant find anything useful, I have seen some people say it is in the B pillar on the passenger side, other things seem to suggest that it is in the boot below the window on the passenger side. Does anyone know? I assume the antenna is a short, but not sure where to start looking, No idea at all on the Onboard Supply control unit. If anyone can point me in the right direction, that'd be really appreciated

The only car I have driven other than this for size was a bmw 3 series estate, but there was no rear leg room for the others, plus it’s a bmw and I like having an indicator stalk 🤣 the fact that a few of you are saying 30 odd is about right makes me feel a lot better about what I’m getting. BigJohn, the simple answer is to do all of the driving yourself 🤣 mine is the 1.4Tsi saloon/hatch it’s great, just hate the lack of rear visibility, I really wish the s model had parking sensors… it’s on the hit list

That’s probably alright then, I live in Devon, some days my commute is about 3 or 4 miles other days it is 20 odd, but Devon miles so hilly. I appreciate that the superb is a big old barge, but at about 6’6 I need a car that I can drive comfortably. I was just surprised to see the FE so much lower than the fabia was despite the size and weight differences. I know I have a very frugal driving style so didn’t want to go trying to chase down problems that don’t exist. I have no idea about when the spark plugs were changed, that may well be a good shout. It was “serviced” by the dealer when I bought it, I doubt the sparks were done but would assume the air filter was? A while back I had a Peugeot 1.5 diesel (no turbo) that thing was amazing it took an age to get to speed, but I could hit 60+ mpg with it round Devon. Shame the rest of the car fell apart, because the engine was rock solid

Hi all, I know this is a difficult to answer question because it depends on a whole raft of external factors - driving style, terrain, length of journey etc Back in August I bought a 63 plate Superb II 1.4 s on a long motorway journey I can get about 49mpg however on the more local stuff I am struggling to get much above 30 For comparison all other things being the same, commute, driving style etc my previous 1.2 Fabia SE estate was doing late 30s early 40s on shorter journeys. (Never did any longer trips in that) I wondered if that was normal, my El Cheapo OBD error reader from Aldi didn’t pull any error codes, wondering whether to get OBD Eleven to probe further, book it into a garage or do nothing. It’s costing me about £150 to do 750 miles at the minute, just wondered if anyone else was able to report their usage or suggest some things. Most others on Fuelly are diesel and as the car has always been this way since I have had it I can’t go off historical numbers

Test it when you pick it up, my S trim doesn’t have them, but on my wife’s roomster the white monochrome lines appear as you get closer to the obstacle, I think they appear from maybe 50cm and beep solidly when you get to around 5-10cm I think. She has the swing radio not the bolero though. Make sure you test them and mention it to the dealer if they’re not working, if you had a picture that may help too

On my MY13 FL there on options on the Display to open either one door, one side or all doors with the key. I currently open one door, then a double press of the unlock button opens all doors. I appreciate that isn’t quite why you’re after, but I think it may be the closest you’ll get, that said I’ve only had mine less than a week so I may well be wrong

Thanks, I did give it a try and it sort of worked, although clunky, like you say. I also discovered that I can pair a different phone to the Handsfree than the audio. This will please my kids no end who always nag me to play their “choons”

That’s all you really need I reckon, as I don’t tend to go too far too often I’d probably use my mobile for GPS. If I get a reverse camera I’ll likely fit that where you have put your phone. Just went for a spin, wasn’t able to get the steering controls working with BT 🤷 tried with hands free and premium options. I assume that is one of those things I’ll have to live with.

That's good to know, they're all words I'd heard before, but if I'm honest I've never really motivated my self to look up about them. I like things that are cost effective to fix and don't require an f1 pit crew

It looks like it has previously had variable servicing, but only has about 70k on it, It'll be done annually from now on. I was only getting around 43-45 from the 1.2 Fabia so that would be an improvement to be honest. There is a lot of things I like, the "ambient" footwell and "cats eye lights" for a start, the boot is unbelievable in terms of space as is the rear leg room. It's a 63 plate FL 1.4 as well so probably very similar. My level of knowledge on mechanics is not that good to be honest, I know a DMF is a dual mass flywheel but couldn't tell you why that is or isn't good, the same goes for the external clutch slave cylinder 🤣

Hey bigjohn, thanks for the reply, I was looking at the difference between hf and premium was to do with rsap, iOS doesn’t support that apparently. I have a mount thing that does wireless charging, but I’m not sure I want to hang it off the air vents like I did in the fabia, so I’ll take a look. I think the S spec is surprisingly good for the base trim, although I am finding the lack of parking sensors a pain, I’m considering either upgrading the Head Unit and then wiring in a camera, or just getting a wireless camera and seeing how that goes. In an ideal world I’d do all three but that’s not really an option

That is a good question, I was only messing about whilst stationary with the engine off, but ignition on. I’ll give it a go tomorrow and see if that makes a difference. It’s the sort of obvious thing I’ve been missing all day today, so it wouldn’t surprise me if it sorted it. Thanks for the suggestion

Hi, I have just acquired a 63 plate Superb, which is a bit of an upgrade from the fabia I previously had. It is a the “poverty spec 😉” S trim, I have paired my phone (iPhone xs) and that works great, however in order to get Bluetooth to play audio I have to initiate it from the phone first, which is no huge issue, (the fabia used a BT adaptor connected to the aux) but I can’t seem to skip to next track or anything using the steering wheel controls or the Swing radio. I have deleted the pairing on the phone and the bt kit in the MFD. It’s bugging me as it should be simple, if it just doesn’t work then that’s fine too, I even resorted to reading the manual and that suggested it should work. If it helps I’m using the Apple Music app.

I did take a few pictures, but then mrs bear came to help, she borrowed my phone as she’d left hers in the house and that was the last I saw of it. I decided that I’d give it a go with the bumper off, having never seen what was behind the bumper I was concerned (unnecessarily) I’d go through something I shouldn’t. From looking at the roomster it seems like the reverse sensors may have changed in spec at some point from the 26mm to 16mm and they have both markings stamped on the inside, they are only a few cm off from each other so I don’t think it’ll matter all that much to be honest, it threw me for a bit though, but we’ll see. I didn’t test it in the end, opting to fit the sensors anyway as I knew I had to do that but. Then I figured I would test before I tapped into the loom. The speaker is really loud. As for point 6 you have to remove both lights if removing the bumper in order to access the T30 bolts hidden beneath them. Thanks for the feedback about tapping into the loom, it was about 9.30 last night when I’d got that far and I couldn’t really be bothered to go any further, I figured being tired I’d make mistakes.