Graham Butcher

I think the sensor that you are talking about is not a blind spot sensor as that is radar sensor behind the rear bumper. Those sensors at the corners that you are looking for are the ones used for the parking assist which is not always present as I think it is now an optional extra.

You're correct about its tax status and the SORN statement, however, that does not actually mean that is the real situation. When I went to Mansfield to collect my current car, I had to tax it before I could drive it home. I paid the tax on line and it was a few days later before the DVLA updated the status of it so any police car could have pulled me over if they had their ANPR cameras switched on. All I had to prove that it was taxed was the online receipt email on my phone.

It all depends on how well anyone knows that road, having pulled out and seeing what is ahead, you have a split second to decide if its safe to back out of the overtake or to press on. Personally if it was a road I didn't know, I'd be happy sit behind and follow them, but each to their own ideas.

Absolutely, clearly shows who's to blame, also helps to stop insurance companies wriggling off the hook.

Me too, but I'm afraid we'll have to wait a bit longer yet, their still in China.

Great job, thank you for the input. As I expected, the two side vents are hotter than the two centre ones. I think it works on the same principle as air curtains on shop doorways, they are always the hottest to warm up any air coming via that way as it will be colder. Once the engine is upto normal running temperature, I now sit in the seat and toast quite happily, the same for all other seats in the car and the 3 zones can all operate independently just as it was designed to. I wonder how the flaps came to be out of calibration in the first place? Is it right that the two wedge shape vents on the top of the dash, above the side ones are not controlled? Are they part of the screen vents for demisting etc?

OK, I just have dropped SWMBO off at her place of work and returned home so I gave that a go and it really seems to have made a massive improvement already and I can now feel hot air coming from all vents when I set it to HI and when I set it to LO I can feel the temperature drop instantly and if I turn the A/C on it drops even lower, equally, with A/C on, set it HI and the hot air is emitted instantly (because the engine is already warm). Just going to have my breakfast now and I'll repeat the test with temperature probes and meters and see how balanced the vents are, watch this space. 😀

Is what you was thinking of, the face button and the A/C together briefly and then the 2 LEDs start flashing and then seconds or so later the calibration is finished?

Yes, it is the full climatronic system with controls for both front seats and yes, both were set to the same temperature as I had the sync button switched on. If I plug the VCDS in, I take it I need to interrogate address 08, correct? The photos I posted earlier, the first 3 are for the front, 1st photo is both set at 22C, 2nd photo is with both set to HI and the 3rd is with on LO. If you're correct and the sensors do not agree, do I take it that I need to remove the dashboard in order to gain access to the sensors then, hence your last point regarding removing the dashboard, I hope that is not required?

Yes, I did this test, both on HI and LO and here are the results. Front Left 59.6C & 32.1C Front Centre Left 48.4C & 32.5C Front Centre Right 37.6C & 31.7C Front Right 43.3C & 31.6 Rear 51.5C & 32.2C There is most certainly a huge difference.

Should I get some sort of signal when the reset request is accepted? If so what is it?

Sunday, my son and I went to the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford and for a couple of spells in the afternoon it poured with rain and of the problems there is, that there is never enough shelter available for when that happens, so we both got soaked right though to our underwear, despite using umbrellas☹️ When we got back to the car, I quickly switched the heating on and after a while my son was complaining about being to hot and he had to turn side down, but myside was sending cooled air. I also had my seat heater on, which did warm me up, so much so that I was comfortable all the way home, some 140 miles. When I got home, I discovered that I was still soaked and was able to wring the water out of my sweatshirt (not so sweaty after all then 🤣). Today I decided to look into the apparent lack of heat and it was true as the photos show (note the yellow meter reads lower temps then the orange one) and I discovered is that the drivers (my side) does indeed take far longer to deliver any heat but the cooled air is about the same as the passengers side, The rear vents are working just fine. Now I'm assuming that there is only 1 heat exchanger for the entire car with 3 ducts coming from the heater box, 1 for each zone with their own flap. I also assume that the same is true for the cooled air? VCDS shows only 1 fault, and that is a bad air quality sensor for the rear vents, so is my problem likely to be a bad servo on the heater flap or a bad control unit, but I would have expected the scan to pick that up, any ideas?

No problem, I will do that and hopefully it will help others in a similar position 👍

I have already bitten the bullet and ordered them so I'll find out in due course if they do fit or not.

I have come across a seller on eBay claiming to have some tabs that look as if they might be a replacement part that does not require to to extract the entire air vent to replace / repair a broken tab. I looks like it slides over the vane and clips onto it in a similar fashion to the American maker I referred to in my original posting. Here is the listing 16Pcs Car Air Conditioning Vent Center Dash A/C Outlet Louvre Blade Slice Clip | eBay which claims to be suitable for all Skoda's and with other VW group cars. Has anyone any experience of these at all? I accept they may well have slightly different appearances to the originals, but if they fit and do the job OK, you could always replace all the tabs so they all look alike?

@ColinD Many thanks for doing this.

A problem with lowering them is the greater chances of bottoming out on speed bumps. I have loads of these pesky things around me and with my mk2 (not lowered) if I was carrying 3 or 4 passengers it often bottom on some of the bumps. I had the springs and shocks checked out by the dealer and they were perfectly OK. I have yet to bottom on my mk3 and that was one of my concerns with the car as it has the DCC fitted and I have it set for comfort so I would have thought it was more likely. Does the mk3 have a higher ground clearance than the mk2?

It could be partly down to the throttle body being dirty, I had issues with mine and after having it cleaned I really noticed a massive improvement in the performance. I have also had the throttle sensor occasionally fail on me in a couple of VW Passat's, and was extremely scary every time it did so, it was while overtaking on a normal 2 lane road with another vehicle approaching fast in the opposite direction. Since I switched over to Superb's I have not had that happen, and I have had Superb's for longer than I'd had Passat's. So it could be either or a combination of the two.

Thanks for sharing these photos, its clearly obvious that the Superb was always the flagship of the range even from 1936 and the 1940 model shows its importance and position within the marque, it was always intended to be a limousine and hence its current day huge rear legroom, which was what drew me to switch from Passat's to Superbs and now I'm on my 5th model and I have not regretted it once. 😊

Err, just one small problem here, I never said that it was dangerous normally, but I can see how some would think it was. My case, the first time I encountered it was in a hire car and the previous hirer of the car had left it switched on and I was totally unaware that the car even had it fitted. I had the hire car because my own mk2 Superb had just been written off for me by someone doing a U turn right of me, and my car, which I had, had from new for some 9.5 years did not have the system, so I was not expecting it. Just for the record, my new mk3 Superb does have it fitted and I have it switched ON by default.

Hmm, let me see, 1. Not too sure just what you mean here, but I did try and change lanes without signalling and you could feel the car resisting, but unless you're not holding wheel it will still allow you to change lanes. 2. I agree, it is logical that you're going to return to the left lane after overtaking in the UK, but what if your not in the UK, then that would mean that you're going to enter a faster lane and therefore possibly putting yourself in grave danger, the car does not know what side of the road it should be driving on. 3. Yes, there is a chance that your wheels might drop into a flooded rut, but I refer back to 1, you can still easily override the cars steering attempt, it will detect that you are still in control and allow you move the car. 4. The same as above in 1 and 3. 5. Agreed, but equally lets look at say a dual carriageway and you're in lane 1 (left hand lane) and you stray over onto the cats eyes, that means that your car body is already partly over the line that the cats eyes are in . Now consider that there could also be a car in the faster lane and it too has strayed over onto the cats eyes, that means that if both cars are in the same proximity to each other they will or could collide with each other. As it has already been pointed out that currently you can always override the system, or elect to disable them altogether, it is currently not mandatory to have them switched on.

I can see that the system would not be dangerous in the ideal world, but here in the UK at least we don't have that ideal situation with many of our roads looking like they have had cluster bomblets dropped on them. I remember my first time with lane assist was on that Qashqai and I was joining a major trunk road from a side slip, looking in my door mirror for a safe gap to slip into and when I saw one moved to fill it. The car resisted most violently I thought and it gave the impression of driving over loads of potholes and the steering to the left before I realised what was happening and took corrective action. I never even knew that car had the system fitted so I can see why some think it is dangerous.

Would that be driving a Octavia then? Thats what we use here is Essex for the rapid response cars.

Wow, that's great, I have always thought it must be great to be driving with the blue lights on. I'd love to be able to do that. Also, I can understand why you emergency drivers turn it off because you are always having to change lanes and over coming the systems trying to keep you in a lane is one thing you can do without. However I still think for the average driver it is a possible life saver. If our roads were properly maintained, even those that vibrate the steering wheel, before taking corrective action action would be great as well.

Although this question was asked before but either it was ignored or was missed, what emergency service do you two drive for, and I'll add another question to that, what vehicles are you driving?