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Thanks for the comments, sorry for the delay in replying but we have been away for a few days. We decided to take the Fabia as it doesn't get alot of use and longer runs - I really enjoyed driving the car which as you say is my wifes. Bit disappointed that it didn’t come with an umbrella given that it was quite expensive with all the extras. I should have checked when we first got the car but hey-ho!

Possibly a blockage in one of the smaller pipes. Sadly if a couple of longer runs don’t resolve it you may need someone who is an expert in DPF’s most garages and dealerships don’t really have a clue Take a look here, he is good https://youtube.com/@orileysautos?si=yawAXYQ-RRBloGeD Don;t get the idea a quick delete will resolve it. Most likely it won’t

I started digging deeper into the issue and noticed that the measured soot mass is increasing twice as fast as the calculated soot mass. That’s where the problem lies: either one of the sensors is malfunctioning, or they need calibration.

It's probably a taxi. My 2020 1.5 TSI petrol does 30k a year.

BlueWagon Thanks for the response...... I thought so too. There's always that old adage...'If it's not broken, don't fix it'. I've ordered one controller for £32 odd on ebay....... I will fit it when it arrives and report back. Thx again, BlueWagon for your response. Regards Tom

Thanks for your help both, all sorted.

What he said ^ I wouldn’t bother doing it every 5k - it’s not remotely a performance engine and with newer oils, you get a fair bit longer before degradation. I just use the standard C5 0W-20 in mine. I spent a fair while thinking about swapping to 0W-30, before realising it didn’t really matter and I wasn’t really bothered. As long as you’re using decent oil (Millers, Castrol, OE, whatever), you’ll be fine. Opie Oils has some good information.

Hello everyone, I would like to give feedback to this topic: https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/534598-overheating-problem-skoda-superb-year-2018/ Brothers from the Skoda Superb Facebook group in Turkey solved my problem. The problem was the lower bumper grille shutters. They were stuck. I removed the shutters, and now the coolant temperature no longer rises above 90°C under normal driving conditions. It reaches a maximum of 100°C when I drive at 230 km/h with an outside temperature of 26°C. The oil temperature is still quite high, but I think this is either a different issue or simply normal for these cars. Best regards

Thank you, but no. I'm in Portsmouth, Hampshire.

Yes they are , Ive ordered off wheelbase a set of oz super t in matt graphite . I reckon 16s for winter will keep an eye for genuines on Ebay , will hang on to stock wheels for putting back on future wise 👌 I think 17s a better compromise . Watch this space 👌👍

Anywhere near N Dorset? Thanks. AG Falco

They were, by 20,000 miles. The schedule is 4 years / 40,000 miles on the spark plugs. I would say especially with a 1.5 TSI ACT 40,000 miles is long enough before replacing.

Hi Jackel, Yeah, roads are bloody awful at moment, spend most of your time dodging potholes! I have noticed that they're also quite jarring in the 130 if you go in one... I've been searching for a set of 17" steel wheel to fit winters on but hopefully winters a long way off yet! Are the OEM 18" wheels 7J x ET51 do you know?

Hi. SWMBO is looking at getting a Kamiq but a quick question. Is the seat base angle adjustable on models with electric seats? Thanks in advance.

Personally am not in favour of banning ICE but emissions must be tightly controlled to bring down the number of shortening of life / death due to vehicle emmissons. I am quite convinced the ever increasing economic strength of argument EVs will increasingly have companies, drivers etc choose EVs over ICE. No need to outright ban.

Just back from the garage. Full boroscope inspection done and a wisp of oil in cylinders 1 and 3. Everything as normal otherwise, no scoring. Also compression test done and only cylinder 3 was slightly down but still within tolerance. Small amount of oil in turbo intake pipe but turbo boosting properly. Mechanic says there is excessive suction at the PCV despite a new one being fitted and he can't get his head around it. He's phoning a VAG specialist friend tomorrow for his opinion on where to start with that. He says that is where the oil consumption will be happening. New spark plugs fitted and the car seems to be driving better than before. He says the ones in the car were well past their replacement due date. They were only 60k miles old as well!!!! So hopefully it's not piston rings or turbo.

Re. the tailgate seal is a candidate for leakage. I was amazed at the amount of rubbish I found in the upper reaches esp. near and at both coiled cables in the guttering. It's obvious that Skoda have ignored these two areas.

Understood. Thank you.

The driving mode emphasizes eco-friendliness rather than safety. It resets itself to prevent the use of modes that harm the environment (sport, individual, etc.). It would have been smarter not to reset it if the driving mode is ECO. However, Skoda kept the implementation simple by resetting to normal regardless of the last driving mode. :|

Here's the wheel well after removing the water. Now the leak hunting fun begins.

Thank you.

How much engine oil is being used? Have a compression test done on engine.

Home or low tariff charging is damn cheap travelling by car. Simples, and then for Business use there are the saving in Tax to take into account. Simples. Many New BEV,s no matter who bought or owned them are now with others. Bought as 2nd hand / Used / Cherished vehicles. As long as there are First Registered BEV,s there are are growing numbers on the roads or SORN'd / In Trade. Maybe time that SOLAR PANELS discussions and Battery Storage etc and the technicalities had a thread of it's own.

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No one is denying that there will be many private buyers of EVs, just as no one was actually talking about the numbers of them being company cars until @lol-lol mentioned it. It is perfectly logical that there would be significant numbers of them in private ownership in the same way as there are loads of diesel cars in private ownership. There are many parallels between them I suspect, and that from the very start there was some private owners who actually chose to have them – yes, that's right, chose. For many people, the entire debacle of EVs is all about the right to choose, and for many, I suspect that decision was made upon the realisation that there could be much cheapness to be had from home charging and the other aspect that for lots of early adopters, their actual transportation requirements were more about local drives to and from work, shopping, taking kids to school and other such relatively short journeys with the promise of being able to top the battery up to full again overnight. I seriously doubt that global warming or air quality was uppermost in their minds at the time. When the narrative switched to climate change, I accept that some will have become converts at that point. When the WEF and WHO got behind them, the emphasis suddenly switched, and governments started to encourage businesses to make the switch by way of inducements, just as they did with diesel. In my own case with diesel, although I had a car shortly after being able to drive legally, I have always had petrol, although there were a few diesel cars around in the 70s, but mainly they were converted to use engines made by Perkins, and they tended in the main to be taxis; there were a few large luxury cars such as Jaguars converted, not for the performance, I add. My introduction to diesel cars was while I was working for Crabtree Electrical, who switched their fleet over to diesel because the UK government introduced incentives to companies to switch to what was then claimed to be the fuel of the future. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? At that time I was spending 5 days a week driving lots of miles, crisscrossing London to visit electrical consulting companies working on some very interesting projects, and I was impressed by the way that they transformed driving in London's heavy traffic with their low-down grunt, pulling the car along in slow traffic with ease, just by using the clutch only. That first car was a Vauxhall Cavalier, and I became hooked on diesel from then on. Now I fully expect that the lion's share of people on this forum who have EVs as their own private transportation share the same route, starting with their companies either adopting electric for their fleets if it suits their needs or via salary sacrifice schemes and lower BIK rates. Many of you have made no secret of the fact that you love the instant torque that the electric motor gives you and lightning-fast acceleration, allowing all of you to get to the next set of traffic lights or up to 60 mph before any ICE cars. Now I also suspect that many find that aspect so addictive, combined with the promise of low running costs, that when you were going to buy a private car for your wife, or when you retired, it became a no-brainer to continue with another EV so you could enjoy that performance and much cheapness. This is borne out by the discussions about solar panels, storage batteries, periods of electricity being almost free and the elaborate plans some of you come up with to grab as much of that as you can and stuff it into storage batteries, even down to choosing cars with V2G technology to garner more cheapness and now even looking at balcony solar and heat pumps.