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18 minutes ago, john999boy said:
My thoughts were that the PDI unlocks the full set of features. (I haven’t the videos yet so may well be wrong)
I'm guessing I'm naive 😀
Skoda CZ implement "valet mode" on every vehicle leaving the factory; OBDs can't unlock it because it's encrypted (or whatever).
Car turns up at the dealership unthrashed; dealer pumps in his code, the vehicle VIN and is given access to break the valet mode in readiness for the customer handover.
Everyone's a winner, surely?
Unless you're the mug punter buying the vehicle in my original post, of course 🙄
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27 minutes ago, Skoffski said:
VW dropped Das Auto and went for honesty.
Many vehicles will get thrashed to transporters,
thrashed at a PDI to get fuel, thrashed as a Demonstrator, and as a 'Management car' before being sold used at 3,000 miles / 3 months or more.
Vorsprung Durch Technik.
My Focus ST has something called "valet mode" that I can set, using a passcode, and it restricts what third parties who have access to my car (airport parking lots, MOT garages etc) can do with it......I can limit the max speed, the rpm, even the stereo volume.
Are Skodas not factory shipped with this functionality (so that vehicles can't be thrashed before they reach the dealership)?
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Ah, I didn't know they had "form"?
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Interesting responses, many thanks.
I edited my original post for no other reason than repeatedly redlining a car with 12 miles on the clock at a temperature of 4C with a cold engine whilst, to me, is thrashing it, I do understand that others mileage might vary.
I'm guessing that particular car was sold as new and some poor mug punter parted with £40k and was totally oblivious to what had happened to it 😟
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3 hours ago, Skoffski said:
Welcome.
Do Dealerships / Skoda UK if in the UK have the full spec of MY20 Kodiak and can orders be placed now?
I believe on the VRS for MY20 there is an option of 20" Ignite alloys but can't see that on the Skoda UK configurator so maybe the UK website hasn't been updated?
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4 hours ago, Hendohimself said:
STILL sitting at Emden, been there since 28/5 and has missed 3 boats to Port of Tyne. Frustrating!
Mine took eleven days from UK port to dealership so anytime soon for you I think 😀
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WHY, as a dealer, would you put something like that on YouTube? 🙄
Title edited because my definition of "thrashed" might be different to others 😀
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22 hours ago, Hendohimself said:
What have they said when you’ve asked them?
It's difficult for me.
English isn't my first language and I suffer from Tourettes Syndrome so talking on the telephone is not really an option as I tend to end up profanely insulting someone's mother or threatening to set fire to someone's children.
Emails, forums......I'm fine. But face to face or anything verbal and I get feral. It's quite debilitating.
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On 02/06/2019 at 19:13, David@GAPInsurance said:
Either way though, if there’s finance outstanding at the time of claim, the finance company get their bit first and “you” only see the remaining funds leftover.
Exactly this; and if you're paying a silly interest rate (I think Skoda are currently on something stupid like 5.5%) and your car gets trashed quite early on then you need to factor that into your equation.
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On 03/06/2019 at 13:29, s2kmy said:
Mine arrived in Sheerness on 28th, no idea when it will be at the dealers, but hopefully soon!
Mine was in Sheerness on 17th May and reached the dealer on 28th (so eleven days).
I still haven't had notification from the dealer that they've received it, yet alone that it's ready.
I'm hoping they're backed up with work and not that the thing has some damage that they're repairing on the quiet 😒
Another forum out there says PDIs don't take any more than a day tops so I'm beginning to assume my car has been bashed about.......guess who's taking a bodywork expert with him to the pickup (when it actually comes about)?
The slightest hint of repair on a new vehicle and it's a reject jobbie.
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On 31/05/2019 at 20:27, Skoffski said:
Which Company?
'Renewal' might be the key word. Taking the Michael with a 'Renewal' price is not unusual. Get Quotes from insurers wanting your business.
Or MTAs (mid-term adjustments).
My existing insurer want £197 to change my cover from a Ford Focus ST3 to a Kodiaq VRS for the five months remaining on my insurance term (which includes a £40 MTA fee).
I can get a full year's cover for the Kodiaq for £173 from another insurer.
Guess what I'm going to do?
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I work in the insurance industry and the official line works like this:
Say you bought your car for £18,000, which depreciates at roughly 20% per year.
By year three, it’ll be worth about £10,800 at market value.
If your car is stolen or written-off at that point, then your insurer will only pay out the market valuation of £10,800 and it's unlikely that this'll be enough to buy a newer equivalent model.
If you’d taken out GAP insurance on an RTI (return to invoice) basis when you’d first bought your car, you’d get £18,000 (£10,800 from your insurance policy and £7,200 from the GAP cover).
This would mean you’d be in a better position to get a suitable replacement without having to dip into your own pocket.
Well that's how it's sold anyway.
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17 minutes ago, moondevil said:
I'm in the same position. Mine has arrived in Grimsby, enroute to Lincoln, which is 150 miles one way for me. However, Carwow discounts were so good couldn't turn it down. Hoping to get it in the coming week
. Ordered so long ago, it's going to be a surprise! (September 2018)
You ordered nine months ago and are only now thinking about taking delivery?
Jeez, I must have got really lucky with my build (28th March order, built and in the UK by 17th May).
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ASDA have 10 litres of the stuff for £10 plus I can get 10% off via staff discount.
Is £9 for 10 litres a good price?
Apologies, never had to buy it before.
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On 01/06/2019 at 14:46, shyVRS245 said:
Hope you can collect it soon. Long drive ahead though across the country.
Yeah, I am *not* looking forward to travelling halfway across the UK to collect......in fact, the only silver lining about the whole thing is how much I'm looking forward to driving it back home.
Just wish DriveTheDeal had a wider network of dealers. Having said that, mine and my wife's Fords were both bought through them, were from two different dealers and both involved very disagreeable journeys to collect.
I guess if you want silly discounts you hve to make sacrifices 😬
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1 hour ago, Flatjack said:
Going off topic perhaps but the reality here is that Brexit is going to destroy the new car market.
You weren't part of Cameron and Osborne's "Project Fear" scriptwriters, were you?
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9 hours ago, YMe said:
If I order a new Octavia in the next few weeks and the delivery is not scheduled until after our alleged departure from the European Union is it likely that the deal will be honoured at the price the dealer and I have agreed - does anyone know the rules if the price is forced up outside of Skoda's control?
I ordered a Kodiaq VRS in March and the dealer specifically told me that if Brexit caused any change in import taxes then Skoda would pass them on to me.
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On 30/05/2019 at 11:57, macbun said:
the closer it gets, the longer the wait would appear. Sadily i think about another 10 working days or more before we get anywhere near the cars!
Mine arrived in the UK on 17th May and arrived at the dealers on 28th May.
No contact from them as to when it's available to be collected though 😟
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1 minute ago, MrTrilby said:
Given the petrol version can be around 300kgs lighter than your assumption of 1800kgs, you might be pleasantly surprised.
Point taken 😣
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Can a 1.5 petrol engine lug around 1800kg of metal effectively?
I'd be surprised and even more surprised at those who bought a Kodiaq with anything other than a diesel engine.
It's what diesels do well......haul weight.
It's why you won't find a petrol powered train?
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Apologies if this is a dumb question, just assume I've beamed down from Mars 😀
My Kodiaq will have a sim card slot together with two sd card slots. I guess one of the sd slots will be filled with a card providing the satnav with data.
Why would I use the sim card slot? I'll get into the vehicle and it will sync with my phone so all good there......what function does any additional sim afford me?
Is it something along the lines of my wife being able to take her tablet with us on a journey and connect to the internet via that route?
Thanks for any advice and apologies again (I can't keep up with this technology!!)
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My VRS is sat in the compound at Sheerness (and has been for a week).
Hopefully it will move soon, Skoda Live Chat (who were very good) told me it was all about "allocation slots" which I assume means they wait until they've got enough Skodas to fill a transporter going somewhere close to my dealership (and those closeby).
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33 minutes ago, Wino said:
Err, what does that last line say?
Behave.
If you facilitate an internet forum then you, unfortunately, do attract "fanboys" whose whole raison d'etre is to promote the brand at all costs and at all expense of reason.
Those users need to be purged because, as I said, they create unrealistic expectations of the brand and their views are nonsensical.
They are immune from my earlier observations.
A newbie browsing this site who sees posts claiming (a) 50+mpg from a chipped 220TSi or (b) 50,000 miles from a set of tyres is only ever going to end up disgruntled because
(a) he/she only ever getting 27mpg and
(b) he/she only ever gets 17,000 miles
Most grown ups are capable of smelling bull$h!t.....I'm more fascinated by why people feel the need to spread it?
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On 12/05/2019 at 18:51, Flek said:
@SkodaVRS1963 I would be willing to consider myself as Skoda fanboy. That's why I am reading this site after all. I am not Skoda employee in any way, but I have ordered Kodiaq RS (should arrive in December). I didn't notice anybody labeling others as trolls, and I am quite surprised about requests for 'proactive removal of posts'. Can you mention posts that upset you so much that you want them removed so nobody else can read them?
I don't think I have, in fact I know I haven't, ever used the phrase "proactive removal of posts"?
I'd never ask for a post to be removed just because it doesn't fit with my point of view; it's called freedom of speech.
You might want to retract your statement.
. Ordered so long ago, it's going to be a surprise! (September 2018)
"Thrashing" a brand new VRS!?
in Skoda Kodiaq MKI (2017-2023)
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Not sure I agree with you about it being a light commercial diesel engine 😀
My company buy quite bulky Ford Transits (they can shift a hell of a load of weight effectively) and they're only rated at 170PS.
5 year PCP on my VRS but at that point I'll be thinking of retiring so will probably keep the thing until somebody puts my lifeless corpse into a furnace!