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Very good article I thought..... https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/electric-cars/inside-race-50mpkwh-secrets-long-range-evs Well written and Warwick uni giving good clear info on the subject..... The next big efficiency race for EV makers is to be the first to achieve 5.0mpkWh. This figure is important because, for a typical 50kWh battery pack, the difference between 4.0mpkWh and 5.0mpkWh is 50 miles more range. So there’s a prize to be won.........

That looks like an indication that possibly the Advertising Campaigns affect to switch off, fit less energy using bulbs and appliances etc etc and the price of electricity and a change in winters with it even being milder in Scotland. Also the loss of some heavy energy user industries. Now the electricity can be produced cheaper and might get used for Electric vehicles while less will get used in the few Cracking Plants & refineries in the UK or certainly at Grangemouth. Less in the UK Steel industry as well.

Either the picture angle, or you don't have lockers! The cap heads all look similar, but the actual body that goes over the bolt is hexagonal on the normal ones and circular on the locker.

OK with that, Zoe probably gone by then, maybe a R5 or 4 or just have the Scenic. Don't mind paying something, might be retired by then and watching the pennies more but at least it is going to a Labour Government rather than a Con one.

The download link now functioned. The problem is solved. Thank of all

Many thanks! That link works for me!

I can as well now but not 10 minutes ago not. It's MartiniB's first post on this thread. # ECE 2024.06 28 Gb version:{"major":1167777,"minor":24032,"build":0} Škoda portal: https://infotainment-cdn.skoda-auto.com/base/maps/OI_P129_EU_202448_Offline_Update.zip Files inside: 2024.05.24 Downloadable: 2024.11.18 Published: 2024.11.2? Basically, their file servers must have been down. MartiniB publishes the direct link rather than wrapped in a webpage.

What's the engine code of your car? Belts still need checking, and other things related can need replacing but in general in Europe they weren't changing at 5 years like in the UK, same engines.

@FranzMT, For the offline update of the Sat Nav DB, please find bellow the related thread: Good Luck!

The new February edition of “Car Mechanics” magazine includes a “how to” guide for timing belt renewal on the 1.5 TSI evo engine, with lots of pictures and the special toolset needed, for anyone interested.

I've had emails from VAG dealers (Skoda and Audi) advising me that cambelts needed to be changed on cars with engines that had chains not belts - so don't believe anything the dealer tells you!!!

Go for wireless and charge the phone on the cigarette lighter. The car USB doesn't put out enought power and you phone will be struggemeing between a low charge and heavy usage for the navigation. It will end up burning hot. Wireless dongle + cigarette lighter charger is the best combo for you phone

What it needs is for a big push to come from generating companies and government to have panels installed on all houses etc that are suitable for them. I live in a HA house and have panels installed on my roof at no cost to me. This was done with an arrangement with the HA who agreed to offer the roof space FOC to a company who fit solar panels so that any tenant who wanted to have them could do at zero cost. The tenant is free to as much of the power generated FOC and any unused the company would sell back to the grid. I have had them installed now for something like 9 years. I think if the generating Co's and the Government got their heads together, that between them, they could fund such schemes and the power Co's could simply collect any unused power to feed it directly into the grid and in turn release the enormous amount of land lost to solar farms, back into farming land so the that the farmers could produce more food here in the UK to reduce the amount we have to import. The problem with that is that it takes joined up thinking and that is something that we have, over the years, demonstrated that we seem incapable of doing. I would have thought that the cost of doing such would be far less than the cost of building a new power station.

Did not know it have type approval yet, cannot imagine it would pass an pedestrain impact testing. Personal imports not subject to same rules compared to Commercial mass importing but an exceptional outright ban to Cybertruck seems like a good move to me.

Ironically, the one way the drop in demand might be sustained is if awkward sods like me don't get an EV and so don't put additional strain on the network. Unless I transition into an affluent middle-class person, and put solar panels on my house, add battery storage and perhaps pop a wind-turbine in my garden. 😋

I think what would be useful, if it could even be gathered but probably can only be estimated, is how much power, what percentage of total consumed in the UK, is now coming from home owners and businesses own source, I suspect it is reaching 10% or so. This figure will continue to climb I am sure until it could be a third or more. UK population has grown massively in the last decade or so with mass immigration ie up to a million a year so the fact the grid is going down is quite amazing. Just shows the change to lED light bulbs etc has had a big effect perhaps. More people generating their own could be good if there are successful attacks on UK power infrastructure.

Interesting...

I have to be quite tough on my 2020 vRS hatch - most people fail to close it when they first try (it has had new struts, etc). I'm quite careful with the doors/boot/bonnet and frequently fail to close it fully. It's just one of those things, although it is a pretty large panel. Regarding the spare wheel well filling with water - the MQB platform has two vents on the inside of the bumper, designed to reduce pressure in the car. I had them replaced on my Leon, before discovering a badly repaired smash was causing the ingress. The photo below is a Golf, but it's the same thing. My guess would be these vents have gone (or, more likely, the seal around them) and the stiff boot is a coincidence. My Indie got some 'modded' vents, and whacked them in with some sealant from inside the boot, without taking the bumper off. It's a very common issue on 2012ish-2020ish A3/Golf/Leon/Octavia.

I think that's been happening regardless @Ootohere. I'm on hardwire broadband and I have had the odd double/treble post. A look at an EV breaker's yard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgpw7DlC5ec

I'd avoid second hand, you just don't know if someone's given them death with an impact gun when they've been tightened. The originals are probably made by Febi. Their catalogue says the part number is 46632, a quick google says they're about £2 each. They also list the bolt covers. https://partsfinder.bilsteingroup.com/en/search?t=a&q=karoq&make=Škoda&model=Karoq+4x4+2017+-&page=1&group=Wheels

Agreed. They serve a purpose that is unknown to many, if you ever have no choice but to drive through a deep flood then removal of said flap will prevent water being sucked up into the cylinders through the much lower air intake and wrecking the engine, this is more a problem with a diesel engine than petrol.

Does your car have collision avoidance / auto-braking and can it be turned off? If it still does it with it turned off then it points the finger at the gearbox.

I have the same problem - there is a click when you touch the light, but nothing happens. I am not sure whether it happens all the time or it is intermittent, because I don't often sit in the car for long. Opening the door works, but that turns off the infotainmaint unit, so if you were sitting in the car to finish listening to something, you end up with light but nothing to listen to!

No pics I’m afraid, but it can be done reasonable easily. I ran it down the Rubber door seal down the A pillar then the same around the edge of the carpet, up the side of the rear seats and under the boot cover trim, following the same procedure up the tailgate seal. The only bit I don’t particularly like is the loop from there to the tailgate. There has to be one to avoid constant use ruining the cable. Alternatively you could get it professionally installed. IIRC, on SWMBOs car it was only about £100.

It is all zero as BEVs are butterfly zero. I am trying to think of a circumstance where anyone would have a reason to move the relaxation date other than the obvious tax avoidance in sliding the coming of paying some actual VED as far in to the future. So UK Gov will get a quarter of revenue ie Q1 of 2026, some will push it in to March no doubt. Thought Jan 2026 was far enough for me even though Jan a touch month but Feb is great as short and Feb and March no council rates so bit more cash around.

Both EVs now "retaxed" until 2026. Odd procedure, give the V5C details, say cars already "taxed" until September, go on to retax them for 12 months so both will now come up for taxing in Jan 2026. Just odd. Should not be able to taxed once they are already taxed for a period, whether it is zero tax or not. Wonder if Dept of Transport will close this loop hole soon as there must be millions slipping through their fingers and UK gov are going to miss out on their £16 a month, current figure, as EV owners in their hundreds of thousands slide their 2025 renewal month in to 2026.

Is there a list of mileages for the various engines can run until the belt change is needed? The above seems to cover our 2019 Karoq but would be interested in other engines. incidentally, am I reading the table above correctly that a petrol engine Karoq doesnt need a belt change in low dust countries and even in high dust places its 120000 km?

It doesn't.

He he... Excellent... I wonder what the 'profile' of the driver was but good on the police for pulling them. I dread to think what damage a cybertruck would do to a pedestrian if it hit one...

I honestly thought I would have used the varioflex seating more than I have. In fact, come to think of it, I have never had the seats out of this car and it will be celebrating its third birthday in April. I did have better use out the varioflex seats in my previous 2018 Karoq, especially in Covid times when I took them all out and the car become a small van for deliveries! Like you, I can do without the speed monitoring thank you very much.😄

Either email back to them the screenshot Ootohere has put up or tell the receptionist her computer is out of date - you could also ask them how many others they've conned in this way or take the email to something like Trading Standards or whatever the equivalent is. This boils my blood as we were ripped off when my wife's Fabia was 5 years old, just the UK doing it, if we were in USA we'd all be on to VW and get our money back. I've attached a pdf of the 1st July 2023 change, that's 18 months ago more than enough time to up date all paperwork and computers. Cam Belt Guidance change (1).pdf

My engine management came on a month ago and it was just the A/C module, but this could be nearly anything. You'll need to read the code again and take note of it so it can be properly diagnosed. Also are you still servicing annually? Even if the cars only done 15k miles it still needs an oil change once a year.

The strain on the network is so little at the moment as I reckon most EV owners charge up at night and operators like Octopus can charge one third of day time prices so one can charge to full for a fiver for 250 miles of range !

The UK sales brochure says that Fantasy Green was not available as a saloon, so I think the only ones are LHD cars in the EU.

That related to a failed or failing Exhaust Pressure Control flap.

The lady in the Youtube said Country Wide. Exactly, black out England wide might get the Government and Councils back end into action. One must remember that as well as a Global Oil Crisis there was a War and in the UK a Miners strike. So there is several wars, oil prices just in the UK looks like rising & energy workers might well have strikes planned in time for next winter since their employers make such huge profits and are not inclind to share the wealth. BP job cuts coming, profits not dropping. PS. Internet / AI & Data Centres, that is the Heavy Electricity user that the Labour Government is backing or so they say. So they better get these Small Modular Nuclear Reactor sites approved and get the investors in and building. Odd if stuff is profitable people hesitate with investing and building and getting profits, must be toi do with Governments chopping and changing ideas and taxation. ............ Personally my interest in the Energy Industry has nothing to do with being Green & the knowledge i have gleaned about Oi & Gas comes from involvement from being employed in the fabrication of equipment business for oil and gas in the past and many family members in it since the 1970,s. Currently my son and his step brothers are out there on rigs or up turbines. (One will mostly be hanging off a bridge today.)

Hi Davva, and welcome.

I got the 1985 update free apparently over the air. I had a message pop up on the display asking if I wanted to download an update, so I clicked the UPDATE button on the screen. Then the next time I stopped the car I had another message telling me the update was ready to install, would take aprox 30mins, and that I shouldn't be using the car while it installs the update - the message even said I should get out of the car and leave it for 30mins. Fine, took the dog for a walk, and when we got back to the car and started it, another message popped up on the display saying the update was complete.

Adjust the lock keep plate like they should have done after fitting new seals. To be fair they probably slam everyones doors and tailgates with the same indifference/contempt so may not have noticed.

As I have previously posted, I spent over a year looking at replacements, Like you I ruled out the Kamiq. I also fancied a change from Skoda. The car I really liked, (and wanted), was the Toyota Yaris Cross, particulary after I had a test drive, (I was a bit sceptical about the CVT, but it was fine), However they had only just come out and there was a waiting list of about 8 months. By chance, (review in Which), the Kia Niro dropped onto my radar, (last of the previous models). Had a test drive and really liked it, also very impressed with the self charge hybrid set up, (...again very sceptical initially, but I would not buy another "straight" ICE that was not hybrid). I understand the latest Niro's are actually a bit bigger than the previous models. I also wanted something with a good (7+) year warranty for a bit of piece of mind. I have been more than happy with my choice for the 2.5 years I have now had the car, and my next car will either be another Niro, or I may just have anothe test drive in the Yaris to see how it compares!!

No firm lead time given, other than the dealer said it should be ok before 1st April. That said, on the order the hand over estimate is 20th April which isn't ideal. My understanding is that the dealers are on a jolly down to Milton Keynes at the beginning of Feb, before cars arrive in the showrooms. Everything seems a bit fuzzy at the moment and i suspect even the dealers don't know for sure whats happening. I'll be calling in at the dealer next Friday to see if I can get any updates.

To circumvent that, when I was ordering my new company cars, I would always go for factory fitted options which would result in a 3 to 4 month waiting time for the build to be scheduled in and the car to be shipped and PDI'd and delivered, I had zero interest in getting an almost instant delivery of a car that had sat in field for many months getting dirty, attracting corrosion and the brake fluid etc absorbing moisture.

This might shed some light on your problem and offer ideas for a solution.

Car unlocked, doors shut, windows up, key not in car and bonnet up. Remove negative first and positive second and refit the reverse way round. OBDeleven to code the new battery. Set the new AH if different and change the serial number. Just add one to the original number. Turn steering full lock both ways. Reset clock. Drive round the block. First clue to a poor battery is that the stop/start never works. Battery:- EFB 027 Try Tanya Batteries when you need one:- https://www.tayna.co.uk/search/efb 027 Thanks. AG Falco

The nut cover on the locker is different from the normal nut covers. You can tell just by looking. But for me on day one of new car ownership is to remove and wheel locks anyway. Thanks. AG Falco

For anyone who has the same query, the 03C906036N variant is not a direct swap for CAVE engine. They were issued in CTHE engines and have different connector plugs. They can still be fitted, but the connector plugs for the wiring loom have to be changed first.

VCDS

Have to say... I much prefer that new front end...

Version 1985 Update files available to download with installation guide available here: