I am thinking of selling my Superb Sportline 280 4x4 and looking for your views on a starting price.

 

It is a MY2017 with 104k currently on a private plate but will go back a 17 plate. 

 

I am the second owner and have done 37k in just over 3.5 years. 

 

It has full service history all at independent garages using genuine parts. 

 

WBAC offer was 7k but no way is it being sold to them! 

 

I would have thought it is worth over 10k

What is the asking price on Autotrader or anyplace else for the same or similar.

 

WBAC are buying it to sell,  at a price more than they buy it for.   Obviously that need not be your ASKING PRICE. 

They have places to sell cars though, lots of places, where there are lots of buyers.

 

You have BRISKODA Cars for sale. 

Hi, I recently picked up a 2016 280 TSI L&K estate with 60k miles from a dealer for £17k. I would suggest you should be asking 12 ish as a private sale.

Edited 16 February, 20251 yr by Steveetee
Mileage.

Bought my 66 plate L&K estate for 10k last June with just over 103,000 miles, has comprehensive Skoda service history throughout and bills for recent haldex pump amongst others so a very well looked after car. The car is in superb condition throughout but had numerous stone chips to the bonnet and a small amount of corrosion to the alloy wheels, stone chips now touched in. A highly specced car with panoramic glass etc. I do feel I had a bargain when compared to other cars available and it helped that it came from a Skoda dealer who sold it for a customer, if someone offered me 10k for it now I would be keeping it. 
If your car is in excellent condition both mechanically and physically, I think you should be nearer 12,500  and be prepared to negotiate from prices I’ve seen since I bought mine. 

Not a price expert, depends on additional options over standard Sportline as not L&K plus colour may have a bearing. Estate commands more over hatch. GLWS 

Update: I listed on eBay for £12500 was getting offers of £5k! At that point I took it off sale and part ex it.

Now a proud owner of a Tesla M3P

The Skoda is for sale here https://www.anchorcars.co.uk/used/cars/skoda/superb/2-0-tsi-sportline-hatchback-5dr-petrol-dsg-4wd-eur-4539

@the_wiley curoius about a few things is that a model 3 performance. Why did you pick that one the LR has decent performance?

What age and miles did you go for been browsing one myself as cannot find a L&K Superb 280

Will you miss the boot space and size of superb?

Everything good with the old superb for any prospective buyer. It’s not a canton spec’d model?

Thanks

@gav_is_con I test drove the Performance I ended up purchasing. I did look at a few long ranges but their part ex offer was a lot less than the performance and some garages weren’t even interested in my Superb hence why they offered bottom price.

My performance is a 2019 with 37k 1 previous owner.

It is immaculate condition for a 5 year old car.

I didn’t really use the Superb to its full potential on a daily basis and only needed a big boot for the odd car boot sale or holidays. Yes the Tesla has a smaller boot but I have a 470 litre roof box for holidays anyway.

The Superb didn’t have Canton sound. I see it has now sold.

Main reason for changing is the Superb cost me nearly £3000 in 18 months on a full service, water pump, heater matrix, new battery, 2 new alloys due to pothole damage and costing nearly £250 a month in fuel!

I will miss the Superb as it was the best car I ever had.

I’m loving the M3P so far and saving a packet in fuel!

7 hours ago, the_wiley said:

@gav_is_con I test drove the Performance I ended up purchasing. I did look at a few long ranges but their part ex offer was a lot less than the performance and some garages weren’t even interested in my Superb hence why they offered bottom price.

My performance is a 2019 with 37k 1 previous owner.

It is immaculate condition for a 5 year old car.

I didn’t really use the Superb to its full potential on a daily basis and only needed a big boot for the odd car boot sale or holidays. Yes the Tesla has a smaller boot but I have a 470 litre roof box for holidays anyway.

The Superb didn’t have Canton sound. I see it has now sold.

Main reason for changing is the Superb cost me nearly £3000 in 18 months on a full service, water pump, heater matrix, new battery, 2 new alloys due to pothole damage and costing nearly £250 a month in fuel!

I will miss the Superb as it was the best car I ever had.

I’m loving the M3P so far and saving a packet in fuel!

Appreciate the detailed response. Someone got themselves a nice Superb. Good luck with the Tesla sounds awesome.

On 14/03/2025 at 21:28, gav_is_con said:

@the_wiley curoius about a few things is that a model 3 performance. Why did you pick that one the LR has decent performance?

What age and miles did you go for been browsing one myself as cannot find a L&K Superb 280

Will you miss the boot space and size of superb?

Everything good with the old superb for any prospective buyer. It’s not a canton spec’d model?

Thanks

Considering selling my L&K 272 estate at the minute. Haven’t listed it yet as still looking for a replacement car. 2019 with 45k.

58 minutes ago, UndertheRadar said:

Considering selling my L&K 272 estate at the minute. Haven’t listed it yet as still looking for a replacement car. 2019 with 45k.

@UndertheRadar I really wanted the 280. Not as easy to come by. PM me with some spec details and location and price guide, pls

11 hours ago, gav_is_con said:

I really wanted the 280. Not as easy to come by.

Zero difference in real-world performance, so why the desire for the 280 over a 272?

4 hours ago, numskull said:

Zero difference in real-world performance, so why the desire for the 280 over a 272?

It’s the 6 speed vs 7 speed DSG, read more issues about 7

Ahhh, right. I think it’s all a bit overblown, as there’s going to be ‘000’s of units with no issues at all.

2 hours ago, numskull said:

Ahhh, right. I think it’s all a bit overblown, as there’s going to be ‘000’s of units with no issues at all.

Indeed but it fills me with dread there is a post today by Gammyleg about a fault on 7 speed.

There's more than one type of 7 speed. That post is about a DQ200 which isn't fitted to 280/272

Edited 19 March, 20251 yr by AlistairCookie

Gammyleg has the dry clutch DQ200 box, which is very high mileage at almost 200,000 miles.

Both the 272 and 280 come with the DQ380/381, which are superb boxes - they come in the vRS, GTI, R, S3, Cupra and more. A lot of people put well over 500nm through them with nothing more than a TCU tune. Indeed, TVS do a sintered clutch pack to take you over 900nm - they are very strong boxes.

280 came with the DQ250 6 speed, 272 comes with a DQ381 7 speed.

I ran my DQ250 up to 624nm with no issues before upgrading to a DQ500.

28 minutes ago, Awesam said:

280 came with the DQ250 6 speed, 272 comes with a DQ381 7 speed.

I ran my DQ250 up to 624nm with no issues before upgrading to a DQ500.

That’s interesting… got to be the most power going through a DQ250 across the VAG range?

The DQ250 is strong however i think if you pusher anymore then it will start to fail, i believe the tuner limited the torque to a safer limit. Otherwise if i was looking to go for 700nm plus then the recommendation was to upgrade to a DQ381. However I decided to get the strongest and got a DQ500 instead.

It's all taken with a pinch of salt IMO. The DQ381 has a max torque, according to VW, of around 420nm (aka the torque of a Golf R). Around what, half of these cars on the road are running a map of sorts, meaning they are likely at 500nm or more, and have no issues.

I read somewhere that the reason all the new hot MQB cars have the exact same engines is both for cost cutting, and because they're all being axed after this generation, and VW didn't want to invest money in their development.

What sort of power are you running? I'm guessing by now you're on different turbo, etc? Be keen to see some pics! There seems to be a fair amount of people taking Superb/vRS cars to the limits, but not many on this forum! I'm approaching 400bhp on my Octavia, which is enough - for now, anyway.

Edited 20 March, 20251 yr by OccyVRS

15 hours ago, OccyVRS said:

I read somewhere that the reason all the new hot MQB cars have the exact same engines is both for cost cutting, and because they're all being axed after this generation, and VW didn't want to invest money in their development.

I bloody well hope not.

The Stage 2 TVS map for the DNF-engined cars (Golf 8 R, S3 8Y, Formentor etc) is on stock engine and runs to 415bhp and 560NM of torque. Same gearbox. They don’t mention having to map the dsg for it although you’d be silly not to with them; RacingLine and APR both mention a reduced torque version without a DSG map though.

On 21/03/2025 at 06:22, travs said:

The Stage 2 TVS map for the DNF-engined cars (Golf 8 R, S3 8Y, Formentor etc) is on stock engine and runs to 415bhp and 560NM of torque. Same gearbox. They don’t mention having to map the dsg for it although you’d be silly not to with them; RacingLine and APR both mention a reduced torque version without a DSG map though.

Do you know if TVS limit the torque a little, regardless? 415bhp and 560nm is quite interesting - mine peaked at 350bhp and 540nm before we took it down to a more sensible 330/490. That's an EA888.3 with some hardware and a TCU tune.

Frankly I think you should be doing a TCU tune with any ECU tune, but that's just me. Anything stage 2+ I'd also be looking into some physical gearbox stuff - DSG boxes are great, but when they do go bang, they really do go bang. It is quite interesting that TVS don't mention their sintered clutches or anything, even on their stage 3/4 pages.

On 21/03/2025 at 06:22, travs said:

I bloody well hope not.

The Golf Mk9 is en electric model, with the Cupra Leon/Formentor, vRS, etc almost bound to follow suit. The end for these cars isn't near, it's here. They did announce the EA888.5 not too long ago, so fingers crossed Cupra/Skoda/Audi will get their hands on them, as otherwise it's only available in this sack of sh-, er, joy.

2 hours ago, OccyVRS said:

Do you know if TVS limit the torque a little, regardless? 415bhp and 560nm is quite interesting - mine peaked at 350bhp and 540nm before we took it down to a more sensible 330/490. That's an EA888.3 with some hardware and a TCU tune.

Frankly I think you should be doing a TCU tune with any ECU tune, but that's just me. Anything stage 2+ I'd also be looking into some physical gearbox stuff - DSG boxes are great, but when they do go bang, they really do go bang. It is quite interesting that TVS don't mention their sintered clutches or anything, even on their stage 3/4 pages.

The Golf Mk9 is en electric model, with the Cupra Leon/Formentor, vRS, etc almost bound to follow suit. The end for these cars isn't near, it's here. They did announce the EA888.5 not too long ago, so fingers crossed Cupra/Skoda/Audi will get their hands on them, as otherwise it's only available in this sack of sh-, er, joy.

Yeah the DNF engines (ea888.4) all seem to be the same hardware so the remaps level the playing field by making one map for all of them (essentially making them all DNFX if that makes sense) which does mean a huge bang for buck for the DNFE (moreso than for the others as it’s the lowest standard output).

The RacingLine one is lower torque. I flashed at home so my figures are theoretical rather than measured but should be around 420bhp/520NM with R600/induction/intake piping.

Agree that TCU should be done - RL do a low torque versions of theirs but I think it’s a missed opportunity. Not sure if TVS limit their torque - but hopefully they’ve all done some fairly rigorous testing.