Skoda Superb

Thanks to Boff and to Kennine for your reassurances about the Superb

I wouldn't attach too much importance to a reassurance from K,  it will be a completely different vehicle/caravan/motorhome that he recommends by next week/tommorow/5 o'clock.......

Hi

We have been caravanning for 16+ years, both around the UK and in France and Spain, usually towing about 5k miles per annum. We currently tow a Coachman Pastiche 460 (MPTLM 1350kg) with a 16 plate Superb III SLE Estate 190 manual. For the previous 5 years I had a 2010 Superb II estate 170. They have both been excellent tow-cars. There is plenty of power and torque when you need it and they are extremely stable, even in some vigorous side winds.

There can be some confusion about ‘kerbweights’ with Skodas. The brochure quotes a ‘kerbweight’ without a driver, whereas the owners manual quotes an‘operating weight’, which includes 75 kg for the driver. (The two do tally.). The latter operating weight including a driver should be used as the ‘kerbweight’ for matching purposes.

With the 170 we towed a Coachman Pastiche 460/2, which had a MPTLM of 1420kg, which was a 92% match. I never had any indication of instability (and I tend to tow fairly briskly). I believe that the Superbs are particularly stable towcars, which has contributed to them winning towcar awards on several occasions. Thus it is probably safe to exceed the 85% recommendation by a margin.

As regards the two different diesel engines in the Mark III Superb (150bhp and 190bhp), many on the Briskoda forum believe that the only real difference in practice is power at higher revs, which you will hardly ever use when towing. Thus I am pretty certain that the 150, like the 190 we own, will have the guts to tow your van anywhere with panache, as ours has done.

 Go for it.

Cheers

Paul RT

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Cheers

Paul R T