Graham Butcher

It sounds likely that they need to be correctly adjusted, they are great lights when properly setup.

Interesting, mine has had a similar effect, saving me around 25 to 30%, not worked it out properly yet, will do that tomorrow when I get back home. Not 100% sure if the car is doing the saving or insurance has come down in general.

I'm keen to go and get mine now its all insured and taxed, its a bit of a bummer though, going from £35 a year to £195 and then blow me if I miss out on half a months tax, still I think it could be worth it as the Superb, as comfortable as it is, its killing me ever time I get in or out of it.

Correct, it's the only one I can comment on as I have never had a car with high beam assist, so I know zero in that area.

Also, if you have the LED headlights on a SE L model, MK1, then I think you should have the AFS as well, but for it to function, you need the light switch to be on AUTO position and the drive mode not to be in the ECO setting. This caught me out when I first got my Mk3 Superb.

I can't download pdfs off posts some unknown reason at the moment and I know I'm not alone but it's not the Briskoda site at fault as others can download them. I think the failure to download PDF files is something to do with your computer settings, you need to delve into the settings and tweak them a bit think 😉. No sorry I don't have a video of it failing, sorry. I just got message on the infotainment screen telling me that it was not charging and to stop the car, which I didn't because I knew I had a full charge in the battery and I was only a few miles from home. As I used to refurbish alternators in a previous role as an auto electrical engineer, I knew that the alternator would have either brush problems on the slip ring, or the sliprings where worn out and would require a lathe to fix which I didn't have, or a have at least 1 failed diode, none of which I had. I also could not have physically removed the old alternator myself, being unable to do many of the things I used to do so I knew what the cure was, get someone to replace it for me. From that previous role I also knew that some of the information that you advising others to do was technically incorrect and did not need doing or could have caused expensive problems with the modern electronics. Before with the earlier cars then your advice would not have been an issue but since everything today relies on communications between various units , then it is extremely easy to upset those communications and make problems a lot worse. As it was, in the process of doing the alternator, they managed to lose the comms to the A/C so it was nothing less than a heater and they had to come out again and make that good.

Let me just say this, no way on earth was I ever humouring you, as always what I say is factual, the alternator did indeed fail on me and as you will see from the receipt below, I did use ClickMechanic and this was on the 23rd of last month. 😁😁. I thank you for providing me with a big laugh. booking-receipt-15955496.pdf

Maybe or maybe not, I was just using that as an illustration of the requirements needed to increase the throughput of work. When the existing facilities are already at full stretch, then new ones need to be provided to cope with the demand, something that is far easier said then done. 😁 I do know for instance that some places are trying to speed up the process of doing MOT tests by installing computerised testing stations.

Sorry but you are distorting the position I was referring to into a completely different scenario. I know that pre covid I could get a MOT done within a very short time period, now that is no longer the case. It might be totally different in your neck of the woods, all that I can speak about with any authority is my own personal experience in my locality. Recently I had a front spring break and that was causing the car to emit horrible vibrations and disturbing noises every time brakes were applied or the steering wheel was moved causing me to get a recovery truck out to take my car to the only garage that could actually offer any glimmer that they might be able to assist by snatching a few minutes here and there working on the car whenever they could. Another time recently, my alternator packed up and needed to be replaced, the alternator was freely available from many motor factors in the local area but all garages were fully booked and the first slot that they could offer me was the best part of 4 weeks away. I had to resort to the services of Book Car Repairs by Mobile Mechanics & Garages | ClickMechanic That still took a further 5 days before somebody could attend to fix the issue and they have loads of independent mobile mechanics on their books nationwide, such is the demand for the services of mechanics in the area. I will say one thing though and is that it is refreshing to see that you admit to being human and making the mistake of misreading/misunderstanding things at times, and I also admit that I too do the same thing, but others never do that do they.

Yes, but that does not strictly correlate back to garages carrying out routine services, repairs etc, all of which require not only increased trained staff but also an increase in the space to build new inspection pits or to build new ramps, when there were already at full capacity prior to the lockdowns. Then also add in the fact that for many it would mean having to relocate to other premises and then get planning permission etc etc.

Agree 100%, they just trot out the same old lies and sound bytes and many people will fall for it because they are being told that it is true anyone would think that politicians only ever speak the truth and they do actually understand the real world and that they do live in it 🤔

Well that is just where you are wrong, firstly you were trying to tell me that the back log of MOT tests, repairs and servicing etc had nothing to with Covid, when it has everything to do with it, nobody was able to do anything during the many lockdowns. Then you tell me I don't know business and how it works, yet more BS. I have been involved with many businesses of all sizes and the one constant message coming down the line to those at the coal face, getting orders or getting orders made and shipped out is the constant need for leaving no stone unturned in getting orders and moving mountains to get orders out and invoiced because of the need to constantly grow.

Have you looked at EV SUV's lately, they are all massively high things like a bleeding Range Rover Velar. Honestly, take my word for it, there is a wealth of difference between 6Ft and 6Ft 4", and when I was many years younger, I used to drive Mini's (the old original minis) with the floor mounted starter button and the long spindly gear lever and had great fun chucking it around. Wait a few years until your get to be a pensioner, unable to get to down low, legs painful as f**k, even getting up from a sofa hurts like hell then maybe you'll see just how silly some of the comments you make are. I know that when I was younger and my late Mum was in her seventies I used to say some things to her about do this or that, now that age, I fully understand just how she must have felt, embarrassed because she couldn't no longer do the things she used to do, and also must have been mega pi**ed at my total lack of respect for her plight. She was a very keen gardener and had a large garden and 2 allotments that she used to spent hours every day, in winter and summer tending to, growing all her own organic fruit and veg, no lawns or flowers, just food, root crops, fruit bushes, runner beans, salads, small orchard, blackberries, strawberries etc as well as having around 2 dozen hens. I can no longer do my own decorating, I started to decorate my hallway, staircase and landing 3 years ago and it is still mocking me and I'm going to have pay a decorator to and and do it for me. This is why I'm saying goodbye to my much loved ICE Superb this week because it doubles me up in pain every time I get in it or out out of it and saying hello to an ICE Kodiaq as I just have to open the door, swing my legs out and let them hit the floor and then it is as if I am actually standing up with my arse still on the seat, and is heaven, far less painful (it is my left leg that is the problem) so with the car being right hand drive, it is my right leg that takes my weight in the Kodiaq, whereas in the Superb or my sons Audi A5, both legs and back really suffer. So much for Japanese K cars, there bucket loads of really large humongous Japanese cars around and even more in Japan itself, good luck getting a Sumo wrestler into a K car. Here are just a few of those large cars and google for them and you find masses of them.

Have a look at the car settings on the infotainment screen, I know that on the Superb with the Xeon lights there is one setting there that controlled when the lights came on automatically. It had 3 settings, early, normal and late I think, so find that menu and play around with it to find which suits you best. Some models came with Halogen, the next model up came with LEDs and came the full LEDs with AFS and or Matrix.

Are you sure that you have the lighting switch in the "AUTO" position? This allows them switch on the lights automatically when the daylight begins to fade and saves driving without have the proper lights on. If you turn then on and off manually then the headlights will operate just other dum lights with a fixed beam. Check out the SE L spec over and above the SE spec on page 22 and you will see that you should have the AFS function. Skoda-Kodiaq-2017-UK-.pdf

While it is true, it is and has been happening, that does not make it either right or safe. I have heard of people who have had legal action taken against them by the local council for running a power cable out to their car to charge their 12v battery as the local authority deemed the cable to be unsafe, especially given that if a person trips over a uneven or broken pathing slab, they themselves can be sued by the person tripping. While this is not a widely known issue at present it will be in the future. Can I run a cable to charge an electric car across the pavement? | This is Money

Can someone please tell me just how this is even considered to be a safe option for charging your car at the roadside? Not only is it a hazard to partially sighted and blind people but so many people do not even have any idea just how dangerous electricity is and the cables will be getting cuts and scraps possibly even down to bare conductors and this is bad enough when it is on your own driveway, but to allow this sort of thing going on in the public domain is just pure lunacy. This is one reason why so many people these days don't clear snow and ice from their pathway, because if they do and someone has an accident, the homeowner is liable. However they are not if they leave it uncleared.

That is just guff IMO. The reason why it is sometimes impossible to get anywhere near to your own house (unless you have your own driveway, big enough to fit your car(s) onto is because these days there are more families sharing the same home, i.e. children still living with mum and dad, even though they are married because so few youngsters today cannot afford to buy or rent their own homes and true social housing is almost nonexistent. Yes, cars have also got so much bigger, they have had to, in order fit all the safety equipment in them. Add the fact many people in the western world are physically larger then most of those from eastern countries. Just how would you expect for instance to fit my family into a original mini when there are 3 of us living at the same address who are 1.93m tall and a 1.7m into a mini, especially when I'm 76 this year and have mobility issues, hence why I have a almost 5 metre long Superb, which is being replaced this week with a almost equally large and high SUV because I am in agony getting in and out of the large superb and a mini or a "K" car would be game over.

If you are talking about large national chains etc then you may have a point but when I'm talking about local businesses which are family owned and run with the family actually working everyday in the business then I'm afraid you talking nonsense, I know many of them well, having been their customers for well over 20 years. The main garage I have used for years has been in the same family since 1919 and there is absolutely no way on earth that they would have survived and still be a proud independent business or even still in business today, if they were to treat their customers in the fashion that you seem to think small garages do. We have plenty of such garages around here and many of my extended family have sworn by them for decades and these garages will if they can humanly squeeze us in when things go south, then they will do so. On one occasion recently I had a front spring break on me and they told me that if I can get my car to them, and leave it with them they try and squeeze it in when other customers were arriving late or maybe cancelling for unforeseen circumstances, and they did it for me in a couple days, when at the time they were fully booked up for 4 weeks. Believe me, these are not the same sort of garages/dealers that you seem to be having experiences of.

What business do you know that will actively decline to take work on if it means that they don't have to recruit extra staff to do it. This was not the case pre Covid at all. Even driving tests are taking longer get one because of it.

That is a typo, it should read "lane", helps to keep the car in between the white lines.

It means the owner had a personlised number plate fitted and later on when they purchased another new car, transfered that plate to the new and the old car transferred back to its original number plate. It happens a lot, my neighbours do that all the time. I'm not that vain and can happy live with what ever plate the car has.

Exactly, it is a snapshot in time, when mine was due in april I it booked with 4 weeks grace incase anything needed to be done. After trying about 8 or 9 centres, the earliest I could get it done was days before it expired. Covid cost us all dearly and I think MOT is is looking at making inspection at 2 yearly intervals to catch up. Even emergency repairs here are taking up to 3 to 4 weeks before they can even look at them. 😳

Yeah TBH if it was a Skoda dealer selling the car then I'd expect them to do that but it's just a medium sized family run general car sales place. This was not the first one I'd had a look at, but this spec of car is rare, most are 7 seater, which is not what i need. If a dealer just hands you the keys says take it for a test, on your own, then they are confident about their car. The others have all hovered over me like hawks. That rings bells in my head when you know they are there all the time, what are they trying to hide from you?

All of that paper trail comes with the car and I have already had a look through it and it is pretty comprehensive and all is approved dealers. All of the errors and omissions can be equally applied to paperwork trails as well, in short the only real way to be 100% certain about anything is to carry out all the work for yourself and even then, if your are not a fully trained mechanic or expert then you can be just as royally screwed. Sometimes you have to place your trust in the hands of others.