Hi everyone, been inactive for about 10 years on the forum after owning a 2012 Octavia vRS Blackline that was definitely a Friday afternoon car which put me off Skoda for years.

My partner and myself currently own a 2023 Mk4 Octavia vRS which we both like and has been pretty much fault free (touch wood) minus the drivers wing mirror which would click when folding in/out but that was just internal cable routing which was rubbing when folding but was fixed under warranty.

I've currently got a Land Rover Discovery Sport which is starting to cause me some issues (it's 8 years old so is starting to be expected for a JLR product) and after enjoying the current Octavia one of the cars on my shortlist is the new Superb. I do 15k miles a year ploughing up and down the A9 in all weathers which the Land Rover is perfect for (when it's working) so I'm looking at a 4x4 version of the Superb which limits me to either the 193 diesel or 265 petrol. I'd be looking at a second hand car that's between 12 and 18 months old so a big part of the depreciation has passed and there seems to be a lot of the diesels round and very few petrols, the petrol ones that are about are significantly more expensive than an equivalent diesel.

Basically I'm looking to see if there has been enough time for the diesels to show any common faults they might have as I can't afford to have a car that's always off the road being repaired, I'm fairly confident that the petrol will be robust as they've been around for years in various forms and power outputs but I don't know much about the current 2 litre VAG diesel units that are fitted to the Superb.

I've got a few other questions about the car in general:

1. What sort of real world MPG do you get out of the 193 diesel and 265 petrol?

2. What common problems are there with the Mk4 Superb?

3. What are the service intervals for the haldex and DSG? The current Octavia is a manual and FWD so don't have to deal with either of them.

4. Any other pertinent points that I should know about the Superb (good or bad) before I make a decision on what the Land Rover will be replaced with.

Many thanks for any replies that you give, I'll stop droning on now as I'm sure you'll be falling asleep by now 😂

2L diesel in a 4x4 L&K.... since I've owned it (almost exactly a year), average is 48.92mpg across all the fill-ups in that time. Best tank-full was 57.21mpg (mainly motorway miles), worst was 41.35mpg (almost exclusively stop-start local journeys).

Common issues? Well, a trawl through this section of the forum will reveal most of them. Mainly software related...

Edited 29 May29 May by gareth71

I have a 2024 2.0 tdi 4x4 l&k estate and my real world figures are almost exactly the same as gareth71 above. Have a few annoying software issues with the infotainment system doing things I don't want it to, and more severe issues with my third party towbar, but the 193 4x4 diesel engine is punchy and accelerates well when you need it to, and has performed flawlessly running up and down the A9 between inverness and Glasgow, in the almost 2 years I have owned it.