Hi All,

I've got a problem with the electric memory drivers seat in my Superb.

About six months after I got the car (from new), the drivers seat memory started playing up. I can memorise a position (and map it to my key), and it will be fine for several weeks. Then, for no obvious reason, the seat backrest position will get set so the seat goes back until it's resting against the rear seat cushion. On several occasions my daughter has been sitting behind the drivers seat, and has nearly had her legs crushed.

The height and front-rear position of the seat is always correct, it's just the backrest position that gets messed up. More to the point, it's always messed up in the same way.

This problem also occurs, no matter which of the two keys you use, or which memory you use. At one point, I've actually had all 3 memories suffering from the problem.

I've taken the car to the dealer 5 times (twice to the same dealer, and then to 3 different dealers), and none of them have got a clue what to do. Skoda Technical simply tell them to do a reset of the system (remove the battery for 10 minutes, in other words). This obviously clears the problem when they do it, but it always comes back.

On my most recent trip to the dealer, Skoda Technical blamed the problem on the fact that I've got a non-Skoda stereo installed (it's actually a Pioneer satnav unit). They say that the absence of the stereo is causing the control unit to misbehave because it's failing to detect the stereo. They've now said that they won't do any further investigation until I refit the Skoda stereo.

Personally, I think that's a load of bo**ocks. If the design of the electrical system is so bad that it can't tolerate the absence of a component (particularly something so unimportant as the stereo), then I'm not convinced I want anything to do with the car.

I asked the dealer why the stereo was a factor in this, and they couldn't give me a satisfactory explanantion. I also pointed out that this stereo had been in place for 6 months before the problem actually started.

In addition, they also blamed the 10 fault codes the car was reporting on the missing stereo. When I asked them what the codes were, they said they couldn't remember. I then asked what they had done about the fault codes, and was told that they had just cleared them!

If anyone out there knows some more about the control system, and could give me some advice here, then I'd love to hear from you. I'm currently considering whether I should complain to Skoda customer service, but I'd like to be sure of my facts before I do.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Bagpuss.

P.S. All of this happened prior to the replacment of my instrument cluster, which I've mentioned in another thread.

Well, the only things that comes to my mind is the following: There are some CAN BUS wires that goes conected to the factory Skoda Radio. Could it be possible that when you conected your Pioneer satnav unit, you conect these CAN BUS wires to that radio and this is causing the malfuntion? Or are you sure you leave does wires not conected to anything?

When the Skoda Dealer Conect the VAG tool, the tool tell them that your radio is not installed or eaven tell them that you change yor radio eaven if the new one is also a Skoda one..............So they know somebody have been playing with the car:rolleyes: Belive me, I see this with my own eyes. I took out the Symphony cassete radio from my Skoda Octavia and install a Shymphony CD radio and when the guy hook up the VAG tool, he toll me that the Car computer says the radio is not the one factory installed...................

Now hear this!!! I read long time ago in a Chevrolet Corvette Forum a similar problem like yours.

This Corvette guys intall a upgraded radio on his car and then when he got to the

Chevrolet dealer to fix another issue that does not have nothing to do with the radio, they toll him a sililar bull$hit to him that the absence of the factory radio is causing the car computer unit to misbehave because it's failing to detect the stereo.......... And dont want to do any further investigation until the guy refit the factory radio.

So this guy do the following, he fit his factory Corvette radio on the trunk compartment of his car, and conected with longer wires the CAN BUS wires to the radio and also some wires to power the radio...............So the car computer sees the radio is hook up.

So when they hook up the computer to his corvette again, the dealer computer read that the factory radio was installed:D

Maybe you can do the same and them!

Good luck

Isaac

Can you tell me from this what is the mapping to the key bit, does this mean indiviual keys can set the seats as you open the door?

Can you tell me from this what is the mapping to the key bit, does this mean indiviual keys can set the seats as you open the door?

Yes.

The missus key will set the seat to her position. And yours will set it to your position etc.

Not come across this problem myself. I would have hoped it cant be alot more than a faulty switch pack for the relevent seat.

Im allways working on them and catching the seat switch though and before I know it the seat is fully reclined.