The CR engine in the Superb's has no track record of excessive oil consumption

Never had to do any of this, and no DPF problems on CR superb in 3.5 years, same as many others

 

 

All VAG engines use oil to some degree, some more than others, it's the way they are designed,

 

Just because yours hasn't blocked there are millions of users of all makes of cars whose has, I'm trying to give the lad some pointers to help him.

Edited 15 June, 201412 yr by Supurbia

Well, all I can say from personal experience and one that is shared by a large number of the Superb owners on here, is that H2O has ordered a very good and reliable car in the Superb. Once your car arrives and after spending more time on here you'll see that there are very few inherent issues with the Superb and most prove to be very reliable.

Forums by their very nature attract people that have issues seeking assistance, so you tend to see a disproportionate amount of issues, however, as you see here fortunately for us owners and soon to be owners, the Superb is proving to have a good track record in this respect.

Cheers

Steve

Well, all I can say from personal experience and one that is shared by a large number of the Superb owners on here, is that H2O has ordered a very good and reliable car in the Superb. Once your car arrives and after spending more time on here you'll see that there are very few inherent issues with the Superb and most prove to be very reliable.

Forums by their very nature attract people that have issues seeking assistance, so you tend to see a disproportionate amount of issues, however, as you see here fortunately for us owners and soon to be owners, the Superb is proving to have a good track record in this respect.

Cheers

Steve

 

I agree.... Forums are a natural way for people to find information on faults... very rarely will you here the good news, the happy motorists

 

I am sure to get my Superb in the next couple of weeks, I hope, I have read all the issues with DSG gearboxes, but it did not put me off, I will hopefully be one of the 100's maybe 1000's  that never have issues... 

Well, all I can say from personal experience and one that is shared by a large number of the Superb owners on here, is that H2O has ordered a very good and reliable car in the Superb. Once your car arrives and after spending more time on here you'll see that there are very few inherent issues with the Superb and most prove to be very reliable.

Forums by their very nature attract people that have issues seeking assistance, so you tend to see a disproportionate amount of issues, however, as you see here fortunately for us owners and soon to be owners, the Superb is proving to have a good track record in this respect.

Cheers

Steve

Well said Steve. No car is perfect and will have its issues from time to time.

I am sure I will have more questions as the time goes by as it's quite a few weeks until September. I have even downloaded the car manual and started reading page by page to try and calm my excitement.

I got my dealer to lend me their show room model manual while waiting for it to be delivered. It did take 17 weeks to arrive from ordering.

Well, all I can say from personal experience and one that is shared by a large number of the Superb owners on here, is that H2O has ordered a very good and reliable car in the Superb. Once your car arrives and after spending more time on here you'll see that there are very few inherent issues with the Superb and most prove to be very reliable.

Forums by their very nature attract people that have issues seeking assistance, so you tend to see a disproportionate amount of issues, however, as you see here fortunately for us owners and soon to be owners, the Superb is proving to have a good track record in this respect.

Cheers

Steve

 

 

I haven't said it isn't a good car, what I have said previously is the VAG group isn't the greatest to deal with and the B6 Passat is basically a lemon,

 

I'd like to think if you've taken time to read what I've posted it's all been either an objective 360 degree look or simply help, now I don't need to own a VAG car to know about them, I do however know most of the problematic things about any modern day diesel, this is why VAG prints a warning the DPF cars aren't suitable for urban use and iirc has stopped selling diesels in the Channel Islands *unconfirmed btw* so with this in mind I was trying to help H2 avoid issues as I bought the s/h Insignia 12 mths ago and haven't seen the dpf light yet (touch wood) but a friend bought brand new and needed a forced re-gen after 3 months,

 

You should hoof any diesel once a week anyway, this clears egr valves and pipes, injectors, turbo veins which soot and jam in no time at all,

 

As we're being a bit more civil now and I hope you read this the right way after those 12 months I have no regrets going home to VX, I won't rule out a VAG again and I'll be very interested to see the next Superb and the MK1 is still in my heart in a way as that was a fine automobile, the deal for me is I lose 5mpg in my use pattern and gain £3000 off the screen that way come replacement time all things are about even but my exposure is payg rather than has to be met and as I said earlier I like to sit up rather than low down how the VAG models are set up,

 

So I'll repeat my not aimed at you warnings, keep the dpf clean, use the right oil and check it regularly, and now I must scoot down to the BMW dealer as I fancy a 5 next

Well my last car was an insignia and the cabin had more creaks than the outback and as for the stated 50 plus mpg I averaged 37 mpg without kicking it's head in and don't get me started on those rock hard seats, so here's to hoping the superb will be much better.

Well my last car was an insignia and the cabin had more creaks than the outback and as for the stated 50 plus mpg I averaged 37 mpg without kicking it's head in and don't get me started on those rock hard seats, so here's to hoping the superb will be much better.

 

 

Was that an exclusiv model by any chance?

 

I've got an SRi and the seats are like sofas with extending tiltable squabs,

 

Fuel wise VX's tend to be average urban and quite good on the motorway, the Insignia does 7mpg more than my old Passat did on the run, the Passat did 2mpg more urban, the 1.8 petrol VX is ***t though,

 

In all honesty and without wanting to fall out I find VX offers so much more equipment wise for the pound, I had that lovely looking Sport Passat and they couldn't even fit cruise control to it as standard, latest Octavia you can't have an armrest unless you buy the premium spec etc etc, for £10500 vs £15000 like for like when I last changed cars I got Sat Nav, CC, Seats that have more adjustment, nicer ride quality and a better looking car, my only sacrifice was a few mpgs which I would never get back anyway if I'd spent the extra 6K, VX also gave me £1500 more in PX than bothe Skoda or VW offered,

 

Without a doubt the Superb is a hell of a car so don't think I have anything against it, if like the MK1 it was priced sensibly S/H I would've probably bought one, but Skoda dealer are on Mars with pricing, it's a good car but it ain't that good if you get my meaning,

 

When I bought the MK1 it was basically neck and neck with a Vectra price wise, today the gap is £4000 apart, silly thing is the Insignia is about double better than the Vectra was in every way, don't get me started about Fords

Had a astra gte 16v and a cav 4x4 turbo which I really liked very much, of the recent vx I've had a zaffy gsi and the insignia srinav (company), and they were both woeful in build and refinement, imo vw have always been a couple of notches up especially in build and refinement over the vx and todays vw diesel engines are far superior to vx, put it this way if you offered the man on the street a choice between a vw or a vx I bet 9 out of 10 would choose the vw.

Had a astra gte 16v and a cav 4x4 turbo which I really liked very much, of the recent vx I've had a zaffy gsi and the insignia srinav (company), and they were both woeful in build and refinement, imo vw have always been a couple of notches up especially in build and refinement over the vx and todays vw diesel engines are far superior to vx, put it this way if you offered the man on the street a choice between a vw or a vx I bet 9 out of 10 would choose the vw.

 

 

I think we'll have to agree to disagree on friendly terms on that one buddy

 

When I had the MK1 Sup based on a Passat B5.5 I thought how much better it was than my Vectra had been in both refinement and fit, however enter B6 and that made the Vectra seem Rolls Royce in terms of build,

 

I've had another mate switch from an Octavia MK2 to and Insignia exclusiv and she's really pleased she did, another mate is in the process of losing the Octavia for an Insignia now as well,

 

Trouble with people is the believe all they read in mags,

 

New you'd be silly to buy an Insignia over a Superb/Octavia/Passat, used it's the other way around,

 

Most people in the UK would buy a turd if it had made in Germany written on it because most people have no idea what to look for overall in a car, if they did Hyundai and co would never sell a single car here,

 

I just find it hard to believe you found the SRi seats uncomfortable and that the thing rattled, the only rattle I get is a damaged rear shelf that was done prior to me owning it, the B6 however has a list of known creaks in the cabin, maybe it's just you got a bad one, Zafira build isn't good I will admit, I had several Cavaliers like your 4X4 one and they were about as good as it could get,

 

As for the engines thats a moot point tbh, my 160bhp is way smoother and faster than my 140bhp PD was, CR is smoother I believe, my 140 developed turbo troubles early on and gulped oil throughout, personally I don't think ether has the edge on either through the last 15 years,

 

VAG build quality is on par with Mercs and BMW's tbh, they trade on an image but the reality is they aren't any better than each other and no better than pretty well anyone else tbh, it's the German placebo good marketing effect at play, you have a look at the major fault history of VW cars it'll make your toes curl, even more so when you see how VW handled it, it took pressure from a group of owners to get VOSA to insist VW recall a very dangerous injector that they were happy to just ignore until they had to do something about it, same thing with rounding oil pump drives, look in the Sup 1 section for the guys I used to chat with here who had the pump fail and a £4k bill to put it right,

 

To sum up, the Superb is a great car, it's as reliable as anything else but VAG aren't the holy grail they'd have you believe.

Lol everyone has their tastes superbia but vxs are cheap for a reason and there's a million reasons I wouldn't buy another.

Lol everyone has their tastes superbia but vxs are cheap for a reason and there's a million reasons I wouldn't buy another.

 

 

You're right there is a reason they are cheaper,

 

GM sell 10 times as many as VAG and don't starve the S/H market by buying back all their up to 3 year old stock to artificially keep pricing high and that's it in a nutshell as I used to work for VAG in the VW/Audi guise and that is how VAG keep the depreciation lower on the forecourt, when you PX it's a different story though,

 

We had a member here who had issues with his Superb that Skoda failed to sort, in the end he sold the car back to them iirc and the depreciation hit for an 8 mth old faulty car was astronomical,

 

Btw having owned a few VAG's and VX's if any of them had hard seats it's the VAG's, I could go for it if you'd simply said the VX seat gave you backache but VX seats compared to VAG seats are quite soft not hard.

You're right there is a reason they are cheaper,

 

GM sell 10 times as many as VAG and don't starve the S/H market by buying back all their up to 3 year old stock to artificially keep pricing high and that's it in a nutshell as I used to work for VAG in the VW/Audi guise and that is how VAG keep the depreciation lower on the forecourt, when you PX it's a different story though,

Oh dear, last month GM sold 81,745 cars in Europe compared to 290,199 for VW alone. Representing just 7.5% market share compared to 26.5%.

It also lost $284m last quarter, so roughly about $1000+ for every car sold.

Oh dear, last month GM sold 81,745 cars in Europe compared to 290,199 for VW alone. Representing just 7.5% market share compared to 26.5%.

It also lost $284m last quarter, so roughly about $1000+ for every car sold.

 

 

Fools and their money easily then innit

 

 

I find that hard to believe tbh, there are more fleet sales for VX & Ford than anyone else normally as they price to sell which then translates in the used market as a £27K retail car that went on a fleet for £17K has £10k of dep gone out of it already,

 

You choose what you want to drive I'll choose what I want to, I'm in a car 11 hours a day and I can assure you the Griffin is nicer than the VAG stuff, the VAG may hold it's money better but you get less for more and on current generations a complete lack of ideas when styling comes into it, bland is probably the best word for it.

P.S

 

You had an Insignia didn't you Steve?

 

I'm sure I've seen your username over on Insignia i.e before?

 

If you did and it wasn't for you I guess this is why you keep trying to pick me up on things?

Edited 17 June, 201412 yr by Supurbia

Never had an insignia or vauxhall before and certainly never been on a vauxhall forum. I'm sure there are numerous steve's steveg's, stevehg's etc. on lots of forums that are not me

You are obviously not aware of it, but you often post things that are wrong. Correcting a fact is not picking on you. In addition, you post on practically every thread in this section, I only post on a few, so I'm not sure how you get that impression.

Cheers

Steve

Never had an insignia or vauxhall before and certainly never been on a vauxhall forum. I'm sure there are numerous steve's steveg's, stevehg's etc. on lots of forums that are not me

You are obviously not aware of it, but you often post things that are wrong. Correcting a fact is not picking on you. In addition, you post on practically every thread in this section, I only post on a few, so I'm not sure how you get that impression.

Cheers

Steve

 

 

Fair dues it isn't you then,

 

So with the rest of your post in consideration should I penalise the other members by not assisting them as I'm always wrong according to you or carry on posting cos I know the sight of my username annoys you so much?

 

Hummmmmm :->

 

Is this cider name fella one of your alias btw, he kinda makes the same mistakes as you do when replying to me,

 

Y'know what Steve, put me back on ignore mate, you're the only person in 7 years of being here who likes to take issue with me, I won't be answering any more of these stupid prompting posts any more even when you jump over the top of me when I've already posted like you did yesterday in a thread I'd already helped on,

 

You and your cider friend obviously have a pre issue with VX cars and that's what's prompting you to put them down every time, nobody here is going to ditch their Skoda for a VX because of what I say but you seem to have this defence thing going on,

 

For me it's not about saying a Skoda is a bad car cos it isn't, it's about people being aware they still go wrong but benefit from a media campaign that makes them look bombproof, and telling people of the common reasons they go wrong to save them an £80 diagnostic fee,

 

Do me a favour, lets stay away from each other in future eh?

I don't know steve from adam btw, also I don't have the time to know how many cars vw and vauxhall sell. What I do know is from experience vw make better cars than vauxhall imo, now your acting like a child because I happen to agree with a couple of steve's posts, honestly some folk know everything about everything....