As per title, I've just bought a Superb and want to improve the ride quality as it is a world away from the comfort offered by my previous car.

 

Any reason why a 16" wheel with 205/55/16 tyre won't bolt straight on?...this is what the entry level cars came equipped with and I assume all Superb have the same size brakes etc.

 

TIA

 

Chris

Yes the spare in mine is a 205/55.16 steel wheel and fits on mine has the biggest disc 312mm size available.  (excluding the 3.6)

The difference between 16 and 18" is very very noticeable on comfort😎

Edited 9 October, 20196 yr by DEL80Y

I have the same spare and set of winters 16” 7J x16 with 205/55/16 tyres fitted fine.  Even my Octy 2 Vega alloys 6.5j? X 16 fitted with same tyre size. 

Thanks very much gents👍

12 hours ago, DEL80Y said:

Yes the spare in mine is a 205/55.16 steel wheel and fits on mine has the biggest disc 312mm size available.  (excluding the 3.6)

The difference between 16 and 18" is very very noticeable on comfort😎

which one are more comfy? the 18?

if so why?

2 hours ago, mbgar said:

which one are more comfy? the 18?

if so why?

The 16" due to the height of the sidewall 
With the 18" you feel every slight bump in the road ( But they do look better)😉

15 hours ago, Chris_VRS said:

I've just bought a Superb and want to improve the ride quality as it is a world away from the comfort offered by my previous car.

 

Out of curiosity, what was this vastly superior / comfier car!?

17" are good compromise

Edited 10 October, 20196 yr by jafo

16 minutes ago, jafo said:

17" are good compromise

 

+1

6 hours ago, silver1011 said:

 

Out of curiosity, what was this vastly superior / comfier car!?

 

Mercedes S-class😒

 

5 hours ago, jafo said:

17" are good compromise

 

Will I notice a significant difference between 18" and 17"?

2 hours ago, Chris_VRS said:

 

😒

Will I notice a significant difference between 18" and 17"?

 

Softer and cheaper tyres than 18" - and better looking than 16"

6 hours ago, silver1011 said:

 

+1

+2

On 10/10/2019 at 20:42, jafo said:

 

Softer and cheaper tyres than 18" - and better looking than 16

but more expensive significantly than 16" and looks are subjective.

5 hours ago, superbdreams said:

but more expensive significantly than 16" and looks are subjective.

Mine originally had 16s (don't know why someone put them o  an Elegance spec car - probably to asset strip it) I did appreciate the comfort but thought they looked terrible, partly because they weren't very nice wheels but mainly due to size (IMHO). I swapped them out for 17s (off an Audi) and think the car looks way better. Not much difference in comfort although I could have gone up in profile on tyre size but no complaints 

My poverty Superb came with 16" wheels as standard and the ride is really good indeed although mine might be a bit better because of the light 1.4 tsi engine. I was in a that was a higher spec Superb II (I think with 18" wheels) and I remember thinking the ride was much worse and road noise was more noticable (subjective as I wasn't familiar with the roads/surfaces I was on). 

 

However the ride and level of road noise rather improved on mine when I changed my tyres to a full set of Michelin Crossclimate tyres (16") - As mentioned above a compromise might be 17" with something like the Crossclimate tyre fitted, just a thought.

 

PS another side effect of having 16" wheels - the tyres last over 35k miles!

Edited 12 October, 20196 yr by bigjohn

S-Class to Superb. Why - out of curiosity? You do not get the air suspension. With that you drive on the rims.

12 hours ago, 26DIPP said:

S-Class to Superb. Why - out of curiosity? You do not get the air suspension. With that you drive on the rims.

If I had to guess, I'd say massively lower running costs.

I swapped from 18" to 16" about 18 months ago now. The difference in ride comfort wasn't as big as I was hoping for (but the roads around me are bloody awful anyway). The difference in "looks" has never bothered me: I can't see it when I'm sat in the car, and when I'm not sat in the car I'm not spending time looking longingly at it! (I've had it for more than 9 years now, so the honeymoon is long over).

 

The biggest positives for me have been length of life of the smaller tyres (considerable difference in my case - they're lasting at least 4 months longer than the 18" ones), reduced cost of the tyres (especially if you're trying to put decent quality tyres on the car) and, most significantly for me, far better fuel economy from the smaller tyres (going by the MFD, I'm getting about 25% better fuel economy - the difference in my fuel costs over the time more or less backs that up).

I too noticed the difference in ride with bigger wheels when I replaced my 1998 Rover 620d 15" wheels (it did 250,000 miles before it blew its turbo its one and and only breakdown in 14 years) with a mkII Superb 18" wheels.  Motorways etc, no difference, but anything the slightest bit uneven (and I travel a lot onthose bloody awful British and French back roads), and whereas the Rover just smoothed 'em out the Skoda seemed to revel in letting me know about them! I never thought about swapping them out though; maybe I should have.

 

I noted a comment above about a decrease in comsuption too; how much better was it really? I know the MID display is a bit optimistic, in my case reporting 58 mpg+ whereas a proper measure. tank full to tank full (brimmed at that), would calcuate at 50 mpg, suggesting a 16% over read.

Mine is 5% out in general (by "out" I mean it is telling me  that consumption is 5% better than it really is). 

 

That's a driving  mix that is heavily weighted on the extra urban and motorway side.

 

 It is closest to actual when the driving is evenly split across urban, extra urban and motorway.

 

The odd time I have had a lot of urban driving, it's 7% out.

Before I recalibrated it, mine was out by +14 % (MFD economy was 14 % higher than actual), measured over 18 fillups. If you have VCDS you can recalibrate it using adaptation channel 1B on the instrument cluster. To measure the inaccuracy, reset MFD 2 each time you fill up, and note the average economy on MFD 2 the next time you fill up: this is the computer's calculation of your average consumption over the tank. Use the usual calculation on a fillup to get your actual average economy for the tank. You can then calculate the variation. Doing this over multiple fillups will get you a good average discrepancy which you can then use to correct the computer.

Now you have really lost me. What is VCDS, and

 Where would I find it?

7 hours ago, cmp1951 said:

Now you have really lost me. What is VCDS, and

 Where would I find it?

It's a diagnostic tool for VAG brand cars made by Ross-Tech. More at www.ross-tech.com

There is also a dedicated section on Briskoda for VCDS...

 

https://www.briskoda.net/forums/forum/23-diagnostics-amp-vcds/

I fitted a higher profile tyre on my 17's.

 

Best of both worlds, improved comfort, increased pothole protection, and they help fill the arches.

 

The speedo reads spot-on...