i had a drive in a superb estate cr170 dsg. very nice.

if i can get to the price i want i think i might order one. any recommendation on options from other superb owners

probably go for a elegance 170cr dsg as the base.

tinted glass?

flappy paddle gear change?

wood trim?

hill hold?

Forget the wood trim, I suggest a heated screen. I was glad I ordered one when the big freeze happened last winter.

Got to agree - dont like the wood trim, the standard silver is much more modern.

i added Heated Windscreen, Heated Washers, MDI, Tinted Glass, Spare wheel and Matts to my 170 4x4 estate...

Al.

I chose:

Electrically operated boot

Park Assist

Wood decor (personal taste this one, but silver trim doesn't look 'right' in a large car IMO)

Auto dimming rear view mirror

Sunset glass from B-pillar back

Variable boot floor

Heated washer nozzles

Floor mats

Spare wheel

'Luna' Alloy wheels

Wooden trim looks nice especially in conjunction with an ivory interior. Aluminium looks rather weird in this elegant car IMHO.

Forget the wood trim, I suggest a heated screen. I was glad I ordered one when the big freeze happened last winter.

On order:

Skoda Superb Estate CR140 DSG Elegance

• Steel Grey & Black interior
  
• Heated washer jets
  
• Heated windscreen
  
• Spare wheel
  

I'll second the heated windscreen. As I cannot garage my car this will prove to be a big improvement on scraping and waiting for the vehicle to heat up before leaving in the morning. I also went for the heated washer jets as all my previous cars have had them except my current Honda Accord. I had a whole week without working windscreen washer jets this winter, frozen solid.

Another downside of the Accord is the absence of a spare wheel, space-saver or otherwise. Total pain in the behind when you get a flat, luckily I was at work so had access to other vehicles to sort it out. On the open road it will be a recovery job unless you are lucky enough to have a best-case puncture that the bottle of gunk and the compressor can sort out. The other issue is I believe once a punctured tyre has had the gunk squirted in it is a right-off, no repairs possible which is ironic. As far as I can tell it is only effective on a repairable puncture. At the next service the dealer noticed the bottle of gunk had been used and asked if I wanted a replacement; I told them not to bother as it was a complete waste of time ... they agreed.

I haven't personally bothered with MDI, Sunset Glass or Paddle Shift steering wheel. I had two 24 hour demos in cars with sunset glass, the second with my 5 & 7 year old boys in the back for a 90 minute journey on the motorway. They didn't like it as it hindered them looking out of the window. As they would be the main beneficiaries it wasn't worth the £230. Paddle shift seems a bit redundant in an estate; I went for theDSG so I could forget about the gears. Having driven manuals for 20 years it was a complete revelation once I had got the hang of it and well worth the £1,000+ extra. A colleague at work has an Audi A5 with paddle shifts, he reckons he's used them once in 24 months.

MDI might be worth considering, certainly makes playing audio through the head unit flexible and I believe the iPod integration is pretty good. That said you have 20GB of hard disk space and an SD card slot which will be good enough for me. Shame MDI isn't standard as it is on most of the VWs.

Best regards

David

It will be interesting to get some feedback on how you members are enjoying your superb estates...my wife and i are seriously thinking of purchasing one in the near future, and it has to be an automatic due to my wife finding it difficult to change gear on our present older superb. I did look at the new superb hatch back...and although slightly cheaper than the estate version...i have to think about putting in a wheel chair and other luggage when the holiday times arrive.

From the members who have already purshased an estate...what are your thoughts? regards andy

I chose:

Electrically operated boot

Another thing I had on demo cars and decided against despite my Accord having the feature as standard. For me there were two issues with the Skoda implementation:

1. It was soooo slowwwww, much slower than the Accord.
   
2. If you decided to close it manually, the mechanism resisted so it wasn't much faster than letting it close itself. The Accord doesn't do that as it is designed in such a way that closing the boot manually is like closing any other boot.
   

That said the design of the Superb estate does seem to cause the tailgate to be rather high in the open position. I believe the electric operation has a feature to control the opening height which maybe useful to some people.

Best regards

David

Forgot about my Park Assist i added! - thought it was "ok" value at £500, as the front park sensors are £300 alone...

Al.

It will be interesting to get some feedback on how you members are enjoying your superb estates...my wife and i are seriously thinking of purchasing one in the near future, and it has to be an automatic due to my wife finding it difficult to change gear on our present older superb. I did look at the new superb hatch back...and although slightly cheaper than the estate version...i have to think about putting in a wheel chair and other luggage when the holiday times arrive.

From the members who have already purshased an estate...what are your thoughts? regards andy

Probably a bit soon for me to feed back but I collected my Estate yesterday and am very happy with it. It’s well-equipped, comfortable, spacious, quiet, handles fine and is quick enough. In mixed use today in town and A-roads without heavy traffic, it averaged 40 mpg.

Replying to the rest of the thread, spec comprises:

Steel grey

Black leather

Wood decor (again, personal taste and it doesn’t look bad for plastic)

Panoramic roof (brilliant)

KESSY (i have keyless entry on my other car and find it very useful not having to fumble for keys)

Park Assist (used it a couple of times already, bit of a gimmick but works well, astounds the kids and not much more costly than the front sensor option)

Auto dimming rear view mirror

Heated front screen

Heated seats all round (bit warm for those today!)

Sunset glass

Sound system upgrade (shame the door trims are too flexible to handle it properly)

Variable boot floor (levels the boot floor, protects the bumper and creates a useful hidden space underneath)

Heated washer nozzles

Floor mats

Boot nets

Towbar preparation

Spare wheel

Has anyone who uses Polarized sunglasses/glasses got the heated windscreen?

Is the screen clear or is it like the rest of them where you can see the 'patterns' in the glass?

You can see the element inside the screen and it annoyed me for the first couple of days (I wear glasses) but I have got used to it now and it is not a problem.

The heater elements are not as "thick" as they were on the fords. My Old folk's Transit had a heated windscreen, and it gave me a head ache as i was continuously looking at the wires.

I've had my 4x4 170 Estate for about 10 weeks now, it's got 4,050 miles on, and every one was a Joy. - I've never drove the auto, so cant really comment about it's use or performance, but, over the last 2000 miles since i tripped the clock, my 4x4 has averaged around 45 mpg. This is a bit of everything, popping to the shops, motorway and city mileage. (compare to the 31 MAX i used to get out of my Sorento, it's SUPERB!)

Big boot, comfy seats and quiet (even in Elegance spec with 18" wheels) - nothing has stopped working "yet" either... which is nice!

Al.

Did you drive the 140CR? I havent found one to test yet, Have driven the 170 but if the 140 is OK will go for that and save some pennies!

On order:

Skoda Superb Estate CR140 DSG Elegance

• Steel Grey & Black interior
  
• Heated washer jets
  
• Heated windscreen
  
• Spare wheel
  

I'll second the heated windscreen. As I cannot garage my car this will prove to be a big improvement on scraping and waiting for the vehicle to heat up before leaving in the morning. I also went for the heated washer jets as all my previous cars have had them except my current Honda Accord. I had a whole week without working windscreen washer jets this winter, frozen solid.

Another downside of the Accord is the absence of a spare wheel, space-saver or otherwise. Total pain in the behind when you get a flat, luckily I was at work so had access to other vehicles to sort it out. On the open road it will be a recovery job unless you are lucky enough to have a best-case puncture that the bottle of gunk and the compressor can sort out. The other issue is I believe once a punctured tyre has had the gunk squirted in it is a right-off, no repairs possible which is ironic. As far as I can tell it is only effective on a repairable puncture. At the next service the dealer noticed the bottle of gunk had been used and asked if I wanted a replacement; I told them not to bother as it was a complete waste of time ... they agreed.

I haven't personally bothered with MDI, Sunset Glass or Paddle Shift steering wheel. I had two 24 hour demos in cars with sunset glass, the second with my 5 & 7 year old boys in the back for a 90 minute journey on the motorway. They didn't like it as it hindered them looking out of the window. As they would be the main beneficiaries it wasn't worth the £230. Paddle shift seems a bit redundant in an estate; I went for theDSG so I could forget about the gears. Having driven manuals for 20 years it was a complete revelation once I had got the hang of it and well worth the £1,000+ extra. A colleague at work has an Audi A5 with paddle shifts, he reckons he's used them once in 24 months.

MDI might be worth considering, certainly makes playing audio through the head unit flexible and I believe the iPod integration is pretty good. That said you have 20GB of hard disk space and an SD card slot which will be good enough for me. Shame MDI isn't standard as it is on most of the VWs.

Best regards

David

Did you drive the 140CR? I havent found one to test yet, Have driven the 170 but if the 140 is OK will go for that and save some pennies!

On order:

Skoda Superb Estate CR140 DSG Elegance

• Steel Grey & Black interior
  
• Heated washer jets
  
• Heated windscreen
  
• Spare wheel
  

I'll second the heated windscreen. As I cannot garage my car this will prove to be a big improvement on scraping and waiting for the vehicle to heat up before leaving in the morning. I also went for the heated washer jets as all my previous cars have had them except my current Honda Accord. I had a whole week without working windscreen washer jets this winter, frozen solid.

Another downside of the Accord is the absence of a spare wheel, space-saver or otherwise. Total pain in the behind when you get a flat, luckily I was at work so had access to other vehicles to sort it out. On the open road it will be a recovery job unless you are lucky enough to have a best-case puncture that the bottle of gunk and the compressor can sort out. The other issue is I believe once a punctured tyre has had the gunk squirted in it is a right-off, no repairs possible which is ironic. As far as I can tell it is only effective on a repairable puncture. At the next service the dealer noticed the bottle of gunk had been used and asked if I wanted a replacement; I told them not to bother as it was a complete waste of time ... they agreed.

I haven't personally bothered with MDI, Sunset Glass or Paddle Shift steering wheel. I had two 24 hour demos in cars with sunset glass, the second with my 5 & 7 year old boys in the back for a 90 minute journey on the motorway. They didn't like it as it hindered them looking out of the window. As they would be the main beneficiaries it wasn't worth the £230. Paddle shift seems a bit redundant in an estate; I went for theDSG so I could forget about the gears. Having driven manuals for 20 years it was a complete revelation once I had got the hang of it and well worth the £1,000+ extra. A colleague at work has an Audi A5 with paddle shifts, he reckons he's used them once in 24 months.

MDI might be worth considering, certainly makes playing audio through the head unit flexible and I believe the iPod integration is pretty good. That said you have 20GB of hard disk space and an SD card slot which will be good enough for me. Shame MDI isn't standard as it is on most of the VWs.

Best regards

David

You can see the element inside the screen and it annoyed me for the first couple of days (I wear glasses) but I have got used to it now and it is not a problem.

Is that with polarized lenses or without (i was told polarized lenses and heated front screens do not work together very well)

Did you drive the 140CR? I havent found one to test yet, Have driven the 170 but if the 140 is OK will go for that and save some pennies!

I was in the same boat as you, eventually i drove a 140CR Yeti as i could not find one in the Superb either, but i was so unimpressed with it i ordered a 170CR.

Is that with polarized lenses or without (i was told polarized lenses and heated front screens do not work together very well)

I use photochromic varifocals. I doubt if they are polarised.

Has anyone who uses Polarized sunglasses/glasses got the heated windscreen?

Is the screen clear or is it like the rest of them where you can see the 'patterns' in the glass?

I use polarised sunglasses (the darkest level 3) and the heated screen causes no problem.

I also wear contacts and suffer no ill effects with the screen.

I use polarised sunglasses (the darkest level 3) and the heated screen causes no problem.

I also wear contacts and suffer no ill effects with the screen.

Hmm, you have got me thinking now........... the only reason i didn't spec the heated windscreen was i because i was told (not by a dealer) that they are not compatible with polarised lenses,

can you see the coloured 'pattern' in all of the other windows with your lenses?

Hmm, you have got me thinking now........... the only reason i didn't spec the heated windscreen was i because i was told (not by a dealer) that they are not compatible with polarised lenses,

can you see the coloured 'pattern' in all of the other windows with your lenses?

Yes, I can see the pattern. My glasses are definitely polarised - I use them for fishing.

I too read scare stories that the heated screens cause problems with glasses, sunglasses and contact lenses - none of which I have foiund to be true.

I suppose it may be down to the individual, but I asked my wife if she was affected by the screen wearing her polarised glasses and she said she hadn't even noticed the screen heating elements!

Try and find one in a dealer and try it - or go to a Ford dealer as most of their models seem to have them.

It will be interesting to get some feedback on how you members are enjoying your superb estates...my wife and i are seriously thinking of purchasing one in the near future, and it has to be an automatic due to my wife finding it difficult to change gear on our present older superb. I did look at the new superb hatch back...and although slightly cheaper than the estate version...i have to think about putting in a wheel chair and other luggage when the holiday times arrive.

From the members who have already purshased an estate...what are your thoughts? regards andy

Have had my Superb 170bhp DSG estate for 2 weeks now and just done 1000miles. I am really chuffed with the thing! The engine is flexible and powerful and the DSG auto box is the best I have ever driven. The cabin is very comfortable and refinement is first class! It is also averaging 50.2mpg and I expect this to improve further as the engine loosens up. The car is Mocca with ivory leather, wood trim and black carpet - friends agree it looks really stunning. I also went for the false boot floor and electric boot which adds to the convenience of the massive load space. The Superb Estate makes a great stablemate for my Honda S2000 - I love it!

Have had my 170 DSG Elegance estate for 6 weeks and have put 3000 miles on it (it was an ex demo and was 5 weeks old when I got it). I am just back from two weeks holiday in the Lake District and Peak District which accounted for 1200 of those miles, and nearly half that with a large caravan hanging off the back.

The Superb was....well.....superb! It was a great towing car, effortless and stable. The DSG box worked really well and I only resorted to manual selection for a couple of long downhill stretched to keep in a low gear.

The boot space was more than we needed, and with the side pockets and raised floor allowed us to stash stuff out of the way. Sat Nav was as good as the Garmin I normally use and the phone system great!

My previous car was a 140 A4 Avant which was just too small for us (we have two young kids). A new one was too expensive for what it was, and an A6 was more than I was prepared to spend.

I found the Skoda almost by accident, and it is undoubtedly the best car I have owned. Build quality is right up there with the Audi (maybe even better) but attention to detail leaves the Audi behind every time.

So far this car has exceeded our expectations at every turn. It is well built, spacious, luxurious, and just a nice place to be.

Edited 18 July, 201015 yr by Hillhound

And now i have ordered one! going to be a long wait :(