mr_awol

Cool thanks. Having researched it a bit more (and given apparent restrictions from providers from giving data to cars) my plan is to set the car to take max charge anytime, the home charger to electricity co cheap rates, and the work system to excess solar only (and will boost it if it’s really sunny). Unless I get home solar in which case I will have to factor that in too, but I would probably only have about six panels anyway so would probably just charge car at night and sell any surplus solar at SEG rates which are higher than night charge rates anyway

Confirmed today I have an 80x Sportline Plus Coupe on the way - delivery in the next couple weeks. Hopefully I can sort a charger by then - otherwise I’ll have to go have my pants pulled down at the local fast chargers a couple times a month - which will eat into the planned cost savings. Looking forward to it having only driven the standard 80 so far

Not got my Enyaq yet but….. I have a zappi at work. If I plug in there, I want it to use excess solar mostly but our panels are on three strings so it will only really ever hit 3.1 from there. The system is 12.5 so if o set it to fast charge, it will hit 7.2, possibly drawing ok the battery but in the summer we have loads spare anyway. if I get another zappi at home, I’d want it to charge at the cheap 7p rates from octopus. Last thing I want is ot drawing full fat from when I get home. so do I need to tell the car I’m at home or work? Or can it have separate settings? Last thing I want is to have to mess about with options every time I plug it in, depending where I am. am I better off getting a different charger for the house?

So Skoda lent me an Enyaq last week, and picked it up today (perks of looking at a business lease is you get a seven day test drive albeit you have to arrange your own insurance for it). really liked it. It was the standard RWD 80 in suite trim and coupe body style. Looks great from the side and rear, ok from the front. It had ‘just enough’ power for me - I’d be happy as it is but as I’m looking at the 80x which should have a little bit more go-go to it, I’m assuming I won’t be disappointed. I managed about 2.8 m/kWh on average, albeit I was hooning it around quite a bit and it’s cold. Quite a lot of my journeys came in Les than 2 so maybe I’d hope for 3 or so in ‘normal’ driving. Having no home charger I had to go and have my pants pulled down at 85p/kWh at the local BP although it delivered 35kWh in 18 minutes so I guess you pay through the nose for convenience. Public charging generally was expensive and frustrating but I’ll get a wall box and in the summer we have lots of spare electricity at the office from the solar (normally 30-50kw per day exported to the grid) so hopefully charging costs can be kept low with only very occasional trips to a public charger. lane assist, heated steering wheel and seats etc all there. Full leather which was probably an option and preferable to the suede/leather of the sport line I’ll be getting, but not something I’d pay a lot extra for. Still confused about which features come as standard though so I’ll need to get a full spec sheet from the dealer. The adaptive cc and pre-emotive braking at junctions or in traffic was good. Traffic sign recognition is ok but tiny, less than a quarter of the size of my current car or the wife’s Ford. I’d have expected more cistomisation of the behind-wheel dash, and settings generally. Some of the features like cc and settings aren’t exactly the most user friendly. Still not sure what the push button on the right hand side scroll wheely thing does. there were a couple of things that weren’t quite as premium as my current discovery sport - wipers, washers, etc and no illuminated door sills. Not sure on the visible paint around door interior either. Missed having a ‘turn the lights on’ button but that and the sills it being really picky. only thing I felt was a bit poor was the braking. I get that it’s all about regen but I didn’t have full confidence that in an emergency stop situation it’s perform anywhere near as well as other cars I’ve had. pretty sure I’m going to be getting one - depends on the final numbers, what I get for (lose on) my car, and the final lease costs. Also whether there is flexibility on extending the lease - a lot of EV cars have long lead times. I don’t really want to be negotiating on/ordering my next car before I’ve really settled into this one and I feel like I’d need to do that if I was going into a two year lease. still tempted by the BMW i4 but thinking a 2 (or 3) year Enyaq lease and then worry about what’s on the market afterwards.

Well obviously it’ll cost me about £300 per month for the lease (after VAT and tax back, but on an average so including the advanced rental). However I’ll be saving over £200 per month by not having to pay for servicing, Insurance, MOTs, and as long as I home charge it at 7p per kWh in fuel savings. So when all is said and done I’ll be at most £100 per month worse off, in the pocket, than I am now. My current car loses a lot more than £100 each month in depreciation. In fact most do, unless you’re running a car that’s lost most/all it’s value. Of course if they increase the BIKs on company EV cars, it will change everything - but for now it’s a no-brainer. (BTW there are some calculations where it works out pretty much ‘free’ - based on someone with two kids earning c£58k to £62k. Now that’s some good maths)

I’ll probably mainly charge at work between March and October as we have solar panels and generally have a spare 50kWh per day which we only get 15p per unit for. Maybe at home if I can get power to the side of the house for a home charger without cabling being too visible but although it’ll curt the charging cost in half it’s a struggle to justify the cost of a charger on that basis. In winter maybe a fair dose of public charging. Very rarely at expensive fast chargers. on the AWD front I’m wondering if it has much/any genuine off road capability or if it’s purely for the tarmac (tyres aside)

I’m looking at leasing an 80x sport line (or 85x). Basically depends if the one they have waiting at the port suits my colour and spec choices. I’m a bit confused at what is standard equipment on the sport line. As far as I can tell, parking sensors are an option(!). I’d expect them as a minimum on any car. A car like the Enyaq, I’d expect AEB, traffic sign recognition, auto park, etc etc etc too. I will get a full Spec from the dealer I’m sure. I traded my Octavia VES for a discovery sport and TBH it’s been a bit of a mistake. I love the discovery, but it’s had ‘a few’ issues and I don’t trust it really. Plus it’s not a cheap car to run or own. because I will get half the VAT back and save higher rate tax etc, the Enyaq (two year lease, averaging £500/month including the payment up front) will cost me Les than £300 net. I’ll also save about £150 per month on fuel, and won’t have any road tax, servicing, etc (based on two year servicing at which point I’ll probably just get a new one at the end of the lease rather than device it). That’s got to save me another £50 per month so all in it’ll cost me about £100 per month to rent a new car every two years. so I’m almost certainly gonna do it anyway - but I’m interested to know peoples’ thoughts on their Enyaqs. Although I rarely use the 4x4 capabilities of my current car, it is handy for the odd rough track, deep puddle or flooded road, parking on the grass, not getting stuck in the snow, etc. although the Enyaq is 4WD I’m assuming this doesn’t give anything like the benefits I currently enjoy - or does it? is there anything you added but wish you’d never bothered with - or did/didn’t get but now think is a must-have? The whole point of this is cost saving so I don’t really want to add the max pack as it probably adds about another £100 per month to the net cost, but I also don’t want to be regretting a missed option and counting down the months til I can hop it in

I've gone full Chelsea Tractor - Discovery Sport. 0-60 is marginally slower than the VRS but it feels a lot slower, due to the size etc. It's also a different beast so no chucking it into corners on the country lanes etc. It also needs refuelling at more regular intervals! It has seven seats though, and with four kids, the Octavia didn't really cut it any more if we wanted to all go somewhere as a family, in one car.

Quick note to site admin - i know this is against the rules, but there's a good reason and (i think) it's in the interest of community spirit for you to allow it, so I'm hoping you will be lenient. I've deliberately separated this post from the one above in case you feel otherwise and decide to delete - that way you can just get rid of this reply and leave the one that doesn't commit any crimes against the forum. I dont know who to message, otherwise id have asked permission. As mentioned above, my LE wheels, like so many others before me, went a bit wonky. I was lucky enough to find a thread on here from a guy who had the same issue and swapped his wheels out. Many years of happy motoring later, i had put the best four wheels of the eight i had on the car, and one buckled. The others were stolen off the drive and a saw some new shape ones on ebay so off i went and bought them. I therefore have four (largely kerbed, it must be said) original LE wheels, one with a good tyre, three with either heavily worn and in one case i think illegal tyre. They are no good to me, i put them on ebay for collection only, and no interest other than someone in Scotland and i was reluctant to courier them. I figured i'd leave them in the shed and if i either scrapped or p/x'd the car, I would put them back on and flog the nice mint condition ones i have on the car now. The car goes in tomorrow p/x and I'm getting a good price, they know it has the 'new' wheels on and i feel it would be bad faith to swap them now. As such, the LE wheels are going back up for sale. Now I'm not going to register/pay for freedom just to flog these wheels, given I'm no longer a Skoda (or even VAG) driver. On the flip side it could help out an LE owner who just wants some cheap wheels as theirs are buckled. So, perhaps you would be so kind as to let this post stay, so any LE owners can PM me if they want to buy them. If you're feeling really charitable, you might like to let me know it's ok to bump a thread for LE wheels in the sale/wanted section with my details. If not, then i understand. It's a bit of a flyer anyway. The main motivation is the wife wants them gone, and i want to stick a few quid in my back pocket - and let's be honest it's only an LE owner with buckled original wheels who would be interested in these.

Number 492, about to be sold to Adamsons Motors in Deal (former Skoda dealer now general used sales). Great car. Been absolutely solid since i bought it in 2012 from Jewsons Skoda in Oxford with 30,070 miles on the clock. Looked after very well mechanically, although i did play cambelt roulette for a while, leaving it quite a bit longer than Skoda originally recommended. Driven carefully with kids in the car most of the time, with a bit of 'spirited' driving when it's just me in it (never, not even once, had the DPF light come on). V5 says 3 former keepers, but i believe it was pre-reg by the garage that supplied it, then owned by its only other actual owner, before i bought it in the (now ex) wife's name. She transferred it to me when we split, so actually only two owners so far. The original wheels went a bit wonky, i bought a spare set from a nice bloke on here, and then one of them went wonky too*, so I put some of the new shape diamond cut alloys on it a couple of years ago, and three of those are pretty much immaculate, with one having a slight bit of kerb rash. I dont know whether the dealer will bother fixing that, TBH, given the age of the car and how light the damage is, but that's up to them now. If you're wanting a very good, reliable, example of this car, go buy it from them. If I'd been on the ball and planned this ahead, maybe I would have registered for freedom and sold it privately for a little bit more, but c'est la vie. * see post below (if it survives)

OK so most of you probably dont know who i am anyway. I was a lot more active on here, a long time ago, and haven't really posted for years now. After 10 years and nearly 110,000 miles in my current TDi Octy VRS, and a couple of years in a petrol version before that, the time has come to bid farewell to the brand - even the group. I will soon be driving something completely different, and a very well looked after 2009 Limited Edition hatch will be adorning the forecourt of my local used car showroom. I'll update the LE register thread in a mo (my main reason for returning, only to say goodbye, if I'm honest, although i dont know whether that thread still rumbles on or not, until i go check it out). I can only hope that the new motor will be anywhere near as reliable, and cheap to run, as my current one. Picked it up with 30k on the clock, didnt get the cambelt done until last year/£128k miles, and the only thing to go wrong with it other than the odd suspension arm and the original wheels going wonky, is the air conditioning compressor. Virtually big bills, discs and pads last forever, still on its original clutch and DMF, pulls like a brand new car. I seriously considered keeping it until it turned to dust. Que estes bien, amigos.

6 years/55k is amateur cambelt roulette. I kept putting mine off and finally got it done February 2021 - on a car registered September 2009 and with 120,000 miles on the clock. The guy who replaced it for me was shocked id pushed it that far and i asked what condition the old (original from new) one was in. He said it was 'pretty worn'.

Nice! I'm now considering popping some in the old Octavia, depending on fitment. Will research later.

I've never had an issue getting part numbers?

Hugely unlikely. The octy system is nowhere near that sensitive. A tyre has to drop substantial pressure (not quite double figures but not far off) before the system even notices