Have seriously damaged a wheel on our Superb 3 L&K and need a replacement.  18" Pegasus anthracite type.  £452.40 is the best price I have been given so far - seems a rip off.   Anyone know where I can go to get a better price?  I can get a full set of Wolfrace wheels for this price.

https://www.skoda-parts.com/spare-part/3v0071498hha7-alloy-wheel-pegasus-18-l-k-skoda-32355.html

 

Also quoting the correct accessory part no to your dealer (see above link for part nos) used to get them for £179

Edited 14 January, 20197 yr by xman

43 minutes ago, Hedinbag said:

Have seriously damaged a wheel on our Superb 3 L&K and need a replacement.  18" Pegasus anthracite type.  £452.40 is the best price I have been given so far - seems a rip off.   Anyone know where I can go to get a better price?  I can get a full set of Wolfrace wheels for this price.

 When manufacturers quote prices like that it invites cars or components being stolen to order and that benefits no one apart from those advertising items they don't yet have on Gumtree of Facebook selling pages.

Alloys are serious ripoff at dealers... 

On 14/01/2019 at 21:39, xman said:

https://www.skoda-parts.com/spare-part/3v0071498hha7-alloy-wheel-pegasus-18-l-k-skoda-32355.html

 

Also quoting the correct accessory part no to your dealer (see above link for part nos) used to get them for £179

Thanks for the advice.  Any idea why there are 2 part numbers quoted for the same item?  Is one for OEM and the other for the same item as a spare?

3 hours ago, Hedinbag said:

Thanks for the advice.  Any idea why there are 2 part numbers quoted for the same item?  Is one for OEM and the other for the same item as a spare?

 

Don't know

 

All the information you require is here in the accessories brochure.

 

superb-accessories.38e740bb9f4e71fe87777ab9f444d8a2.pdf

 

Should be available from your dealer, Horton Skoda parts shop will sell them give them a ring

 

http://www.theskodashop.co.uk 

 

Also try our Briskoda Parts guy who should beat them all for price....or least I hope

 

 

Edited 16 January, 20197 yr by xman

Thanks for your help everyone.  I took the advice and bought the wheel as an accessory rather than a spare.  Cost £200 delivered which was fine for me, especially compared with the £450+ that I was originally quoted.  Now I have a new issue.  The original wheel is cosmetically damaged but is useable.  So I have a tyre fitted to it ie I have a 235/45 x 18 tyre on a 8" x 18" Pegasus wheel.  I want to keep that as a spare in the car rather than have just the puncture repair kit.  What I now find is that this combination does not fit in the well in the boot of the car.  There is a plastic ledge running across the rear of the boot floor near to the catch for the boot lid.  This ledge is stopping me from dropping the spare wheel into the well.  I think that if I cut that ledge back, I should be able to drop the wheel into the well.   Before I start cutting chunks out of my precious car, I want to ask whether anyone has done this before with success?

See pics, although some have cut the trim back not sure it will fit under boot floor.

Thanks Bud.  I was afraid that would be the case.  It looks as though the tyre is only slightly oversized for the well but that little bit is enough to stop the wheel going in.  I think my next idea might be to deflate the tyre slightly and see whether it will squeeze in.  Need to be careful not to deflate the tyre or distort it enough to break the seal on the wheel.  Then if I do need to change whilst on the road, I can use the inflator pump that came with the car.  Will have to try it before I can tell whether the tyre will squeeze enough.  I wonder whether anyone has any alternative solutions for stowing a full size wheel and tyre?

2 minutes ago, Hedinbag said:

Thanks Bud.  I was afraid that would be the case.  It looks as though the tyre is only slightly oversized for the well but that little bit is enough to stop the wheel going in.  I think my next idea might be to deflate the tyre slightly and see whether it will squeeze in.  Need to be careful not to deflate the tyre or distort it enough to break the seal on the wheel.  Then if I do need to change whilst on the road, I can use the inflator pump that came with the car.  Will have to try it before I can tell whether the tyre will squeeze enough.  I wonder whether anyone has any alternative solutions for stowing a full size wheel and tyre?

Just don't do it? I am shocked that you're so enthusiastic to get spare tyre in your car... How many times did you have to change your tyre with spare??? This is soo rare these days... Makes no sense to spend so much time/effort just to add a full size wheel in your car... If you ever have emergency the emergency repair kit will probably be enough. If not there is always road assistance... For that once in 20 years..... 

Edited 24 January, 20197 yr by JackySi

You would think so Jacky but maybe I have just been unlucky.  Have had the car for just over 1 year and have had 2 tyre failures, both of which could not be fixed with the on board repair kit.  Interesting that I have been driving 20,000 to 40,000 miles every year for many years and whilst I have had the odd puncture, have never had serious failures like this and now I have 2 in 1 year.  Maybe as I say, I have just been unusually unlucky but it does get me a bit worried.

5 minutes ago, Hedinbag said:

You would think so Jacky but maybe I have just been unlucky.  Have had the car for just over 1 year and have had 2 tyre failures, both of which could not be fixed with the on board repair kit.  Interesting that I have been driving 20,000 to 40,000 miles every year for many years and whilst I have had the odd puncture, have never had serious failures like this and now I have 2 in 1 year.  Maybe as I say, I have just been unusually unlucky but it does get me a bit worried.

I understand. If you're going to do this, you should not just put tyre in though. It can be super unsafe in case of crash. Spare tyres are always screwed into the floor for very good reason (things at crashes can fly at very high speeds killing passengers inside the car). I would think safety first. For the size issue deflating to some point may be a solution, but in worst case you will end up on side of road with deflated spare and punctured main. Might end up same issue as without having spare. I really wouldn't bother with full sized alloy if I were you. That's just my opinion. I never tried deflating car tyre to fit some where, not sure how much it shrinks if anything at all.

P.S.: I'm also unlucky with cars so when ordering my S3 I took 17 inch spare tyre so I really do understand what you mean. 

Edited 24 January, 20197 yr by JackySi

We have two cars, both with space savers.

 

On neither will the wheel that you take off fit in the well for the space saver.

 

In the last 10-15 years I have damaged a sidewall on a sharp kerb (in France) and she has had 3 sidewall blisters - we could not drive on any of these.  At least the space saver will get me home, catastrophic tyre failures may not happen often but Murphy guarantees that they will happen at the most inconvenient time and with the longest wait for roadside assistance you can imagine.

 

She had 2 A2s a few years ago with a smaller version of this

The wheel that came off wouldn't fit in the boot and the car came with a large white Audi branded bin bag for the wheel you took off to keep the inside of the car clean, god knows what you did if the car was full.

On 23/01/2019 at 17:48, Hedinbag said:

I think that if I cut that ledge back, I should be able to drop the wheel into the well.   Before I start cutting chunks out of my precious car, I want to ask whether anyone has done this before with success?

 

Yes, see my post from 13th April in this thread:

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/442912-full-size-spare-wheel/?page=2&tab=comments#comment-5040277

 

I did subsequently trim a fraction more off as it was still a bit too much effort to lift out. I found otherwise, the lip would get into a tread line and make it really hard to get out, especially when having to reach into the boot.