Moving from a Superb to Kodiak which models have the heated front screen cant seem to find it in the specs?

 

Thanks

 

 

None of them, at present. It's a factory cost option on all models.

 

There is a high chance the Laurin & Klement (L&K) will have it as standard, but specifications and prices haven't been announced by Skoda UK yet...

 

 

Edited 14 October, 20187 yr by silver1011

Checked the Norwegian option list now and its not standard on anyone of the trim levels, 293GBP option.

In the UK you have to have it in conjunction with the heated windscreen washer nozzles.

 

£305 for the heated screen, plus another £35 for the heated nozzles...

 

3 hours ago, silver1011 said:

In the UK you have to have it in conjunction with the heated windscreen washer nozzles.

 

£305 for the heated screen, plus another £35 for the heated nozzles...

 

And to me worth every penny. I had the heated screen on my 2012 Superb, and was not sure I made th right choice. In use it was well worth it, in spite of the irritating lines I could see in some light conditions. However on the Kodi I had wondered if they fail to fit it as there is absolutely no sign of the lines. But the switch is there, and when switched on it clearly works. I wouldn't be without!

It kind of annoys me that I could go out and buy a second hand Ford Focus up to 10 years old and would have an 80% chance of it having a heated front screen but trying to find a VW, Audi, Seat or Skoda where somebody has actually paid for it is like looking for hens teeth. 

Yep, one of the reasons we went for a factory order.

Oh well best get the deicer out then so useful on the Superb cant believe its not standard fit

 

It could be standard in some countries far north, but in UK I guess you can drive most of the year in many areas without need for a heated windshield. More equipment as standard means the initial price goes up, which is their selling point. They advertise with "prices from ####", and the lower the better. That way you give the customers the decision. I suspect you don't find a lot of cars in many parts of Europe with heated windshields.

 

As a resident of Norway, I was definitely getting it.

Heated windscreen has another advantage - IR shielding. Which means it doesn`t get too hot inside the car in summer.

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Edited 9 January, 20197 yr by FlyingSpanner

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Edited 9 January, 20197 yr by FlyingSpanner

19 minutes ago, VWGDT said:

Prob due to Ford owning the rights to the concept and only allowing the Sharan (Galaxy) and some Swedish Passats to have it.

The restrictions have now been lifted which is why my Superb has one and lots of new cars now have the option.

I had an 03 4 Motion Passat and retrofitted a heated front screen using a genuine screen £62 on TPS clearance site (they had four but others were snapped up. Genuine loom (which had Ford inscribed on its connector plugs) and the correct switch in the dash.

Worked a treat on icy mornings in the Alps.

 

That's pretty cool, I just wish VAG would take a leaf out of Fords book and start making it more of a standard fit, even if it was just on the upper trim levels.

 

 

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Edited 9 January, 20197 yr by FlyingSpanner

I'm not sure about the Ford thing. I have heard it a few times but I remember Range Rover having a heated front screen back in the eighties. I also know of other VW group stuff having it in the early noughties. Ford trademarked Quicklcear so no-one could have called it that, but did they really have a patent? It's really hard to patent something as broad as this, they may well have had patents on using a certain formulation of wire, or a certain way of including the wires in the intermediate layer, or on the method of connecting all of the wires together at the ends.

Researching on the 'net I didn't find anything conclusive, just lots of people saying it's the case, and a few saying it isn't. My 2012 Superb had one too, so it's enlightening to see experts saying in 2017 that the patent had only just expired.

Our 2004 Land Rover Defender had heated screen.

 

Unfortunately, it completely blocked the sat signals to the TomTom, which we had to stick to the back end of the driver's side window!  Not the easiest place to see it.

7 minutes ago, DaveMiller said:

Our 2004 Land Rover Defender had heated screen.

 

 

Given that Ford owned Land Rover in 2004 there are lots of them about that have it

My 2001 Caterham 7 had a heated screen. 

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Edited 9 January, 20197 yr by FlyingSpanner

Vag has its own patent now on heated screens they are chromaticaly heated now no wires in the viewing part of the screen contacts top and bottom and the heating element is laid into the windscreen interlay as  clear conductive coating between inner and outer layers of glass these heat quicker than the old style 

And no annoying wires in front of you