Hi

I managed to get my Superb elegance just before christmas (23rd)

unfortunalty the car was ordered wrong by my lovely fleet manager ^&^&%^%*

so far though very impressed with it very suprised at how quiet the 140 cr engine is and she seems to be losening up nicely

it does feel a bit flat at 60-70 in 6th needing some time or drop a cog but sure it will be fine

also love the colour Steel grey it looks a little bit bluey to me and really like it

mine came with V7 sat nav software and what realy suprised me ws that my 3 year old Blackberry 8310 synced up first time and downloaded full contact lit all 1474 of them and has not hickuped since V impressed although its not working rsap it still works well and better than any HF car kit i have ever had !

ok so theres some poitives now the rubbish !

Not skodas fault but placed my order with our fleet for Elegance 140 combi park assist elec boot mdi priviacy glass mats and spare wheel

all confirmed etc no problems bearin mind i order this first week of August

car was deliver 11am on 23rd 60 mins before we finished for christmas !

none of the factory options fitted ie no pask assist no Mdi no elec boot

fleet manager very appolagetic then hid in his office !

so rest of car is spot on although not had a big drive yet and on first tank avarege is 38mpg but this is aroun town and i do have a heavy right foot

so what can be retro fitted by the dealer

I guess elec boot is a none starter which is not a problem

but would realy like MDI and front sensors

can the front sensors be retro fitted and wired in to MFD ?

as i do like the look of this

cheers Andy

Ps sorry for spelling still hung over !

lol

The MDI is dead easy, you can do it yourself. The leccy boot and park assist cannot however be retrofitted. TBH you wont miss park assist, my car has it as I bought the car secondhand and it was already there and its been used twice in 10 months. Both of these occasions have been to show off that a car can park itself to a few mates. Park assist has a tendancy to shred alloys as one of mine shows, due to the fact it parks level with the car in front. If the car in front is narrower than yours, then you either end up on the kerb or with kerbed alloys.

Park assist has a tendancy to shred alloys as one of mine shows, due to the fact it parks level with the car in front. If the car in front is narrower than yours, then you either end up on the kerb or with kerbed alloys.

Not sure how true that is?

I used mine for the 1st time last week and the car in front was about 12" from the curb, the car behind was approx 6" from the curb, yet the park assist parked mine level with the car behind.

It was pretty scary to use (for the 1st time) however as i was sure I was about to hit the car in front with my front N/S corner - it didn't though!

The MDI is dead easy, you can do it yourself. The leccy boot and park assist cannot however be retrofitted. TBH you wont miss park assist, my car has it as I bought the car secondhand and it was already there and its been used twice in 10 months. Both of these occasions have been to show off that a car can park itself to a few mates. Park assist has a tendancy to shred alloys as one of mine shows, due to the fact it parks level with the car in front. If the car in front is narrower than yours, then you either end up on the kerb or with kerbed alloys.

cheers for reply mannyo

yeah not that bothered about park assist but would like front sensors

mdi retro fit, could i get the dealer to do it, what do you think, fleet manager already hinted that they would pay to rectify problems to some extent anyway as these options were over a 1000 pounds

now all i need to do is work out why my shift keys not working lol

andy

Hi first real run in her today

down to gatwick via halesowen and isleworth !

254miles

reset trip on m40 sat at 70ish on cruise

avaeraged 61mpg on mfd

on a car with 600 miles on clock

now thats impresive

so far ive avareged 51mpg around town plus this run which is excellent, well i think it is as iam carrying around 250kg in the boot as well

140 elegance

cheers Andy

Don't rely on the MFD, mine over reads 3MPG

There are quite a few companies out there who will retrofit front parking sensors, the trick will to be finding one who will be able to code them in to show the image on the radio screen.

Ian

Don't rely on the MFD, mine over reads 3MPG

+1

There are quite a few companies out there who will retrofit front parking sensors, the trick will to be finding one who will be able to code them in to show the image on the radio screen.

Ian

As long as you change the PDC controller to the front and rear type, there is no coding trouble. It is simply a question of mounting the front sensors and routing the cable harness to the rear of the car and replacing the PDC. Oh - and remember to mount the PDC switch in the gearconsole.

Sorry to hear that your car wasn't quite what you expected. Details for the MDI retrofit are at the following link including part numbers:

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/169172-mdi-retrofit-help/

Normally MDI is retrofitted to the glove box rather than the arm rest storage bin.

Best regards

David