SkodaVRS1963

Lee, genuinely, which bit of "we voted to leave the EU" are you having problems with? Seriously.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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).

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.

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 😬

You weren't part of Cameron and Osborne's "Project Fear" scriptwriters, were you?

Not in the least; if you say there is no conspiracy without being able to explain the holes in the official versions, you're just as bad as the conspiracy "theorists". You earn the right to dismiss the conspiracy theorists only when you know all the facts. And I can guarantee that you don't know all the facts. I was responding to the generally held opinion that "pah, who cares about global warming, we'll either all be dead by then or living on Mars so it doesn't matter....pass the aerosol". Even Arthur C Clarke (a very intelligent chap) believed NASA, so much so that he produced the film 2001 A Space Odyssey (in 1968) in which the moon was fully colonized at the turn of the 21st century and we had manned spacecraft sitting in orbit above Jupiter. Except, erm, in 2019 we are no nearer putting a man on the moon than we were in 1960. As for colonizing it? Not in your lifetime Lee, nor mine. Hell, I can buy a mobile phone on eBay for a few pence that is more technologically advanced than the kit they were using in the Apollo missions. Think about how much almost every other technology-based discipline has improved in the past 50 years......the only one that has actually gone backwards (if you believe the moon landings happened) is manned space travel. No why do you think that might just be?

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.

Maybe if politicians hadn't (a) perpetrated the absurd myth that six times we landed men on the moon and safely returned them 50 years ago using the "technology" available then and (b) hadn't also perpetrated the equally absurd myth that the moon would be colonised by the 21st century then we wouldn't have this blase attitude to global warming climate change. After all, as you say, we'll all be living 245,000 miles away by then, who cares? And if a certain Phil Jones hadn't done what he did (fiddle the figures) then people might have been more accepting of the notion that the planet is warming up......but Mr Jones did what he did and effectively trashed the whole "the planet is warming up" concept. Unless you're very, very gullible and believe what your Government tells you. And you're not so stupid. Are you?

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 😟

Point taken 😣

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?

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!!)

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).

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?

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.

We have the European elections coming up (yes, three years after we voted to leave the EU, you couldn't make it up). I firmly believe that *anyone* who doesn't vote for the Brexit Party should be barred from ever voting again. We had a referendum in 2016 and, whether you liked the result or not, it was the democratic will of the people. You can put forward all kinds of arguments along the lines of "people didn't know what they were voting for" etc but the irrefutable fact remains that the majority of people who pitched up and put their little crosses in the little boxes voted to leave the EU. It's called democracy. It might well be a load of rubbish but it's about as good as we get it here. Anyone who wishes to ride a coach and horses through that process by voting for anyone other than a party that is 100% committed to delivering the result of that doesn't believe in democracy and thus should be barred from ever partaking in free votes again. In fact, I'd cheerfully deport them to Singapore or China or North Korea so that they can live their idyllic existence in a country that doesn't believe in allowing citizens a democratic voice.

I'll try and simplify the numbers for illustration and I'll ignore interest (let's just assume you've got a 0% deal). So you buy a new car and finance £21,600 over 36 months. On HP you'll pay £21,600 / 36 = £600 per month. And then you own the car. Because 36 x 600 = £21,600. On PCP you'll maybe pay £10,800 / 36 = £300 per month. But at the end of the term, you'll either need to make a "balloon payment" of £10,800 to buy the car outright or you hand the keys back and walk away. Because all you've paid is 36 x £300 = £10,800; so you need to pay another £10,800 to buy the car outright. That's why PCP is so attractive to punters; you can drive around in a car that you couldn't normally afford.

Tell that to my ex-line manager. He had a Nissan Qashqai, almost everything on it was electrical. And he'd bought it on PCP with a limited mileage, changed jobs so he went from doing 2,000 a miles per year commuting to 60,000 miles per year. So he chose to buy a second hand Ford Focus to do his commuting and kept the Qashqai for everything else. One Saturday he takes the Qashqai down to the local McDonalds drive-thru and the battery fails completely on him......not surprising, the thing is sat there Monday-Friday doing nothing. So the electric handbrake is on......and stuck on.......apparently he had a whole queue of chavvy punters stuck behind him all wanting their ZingerBurgers with Fries and his motor was sat there unable to move. Give me a mechancial brake anytime, at least then you can push the thing out of the way.

Certainly is strange; May has never looked professional? She's actually a very dangerous individual, I very much doubt that Hitler was as dangerous. As Home Secretary, she implemented "extremism disruption orders" (designed to be used against non-violent “individual extremists who incite hatred”). The conditions of that included banning such individuals from broadcasting or publishing their views. Think about it. If you post something tonight on this forum that fails the test then you get your door bashed in at 3a.m tomorrow morning by Plod. East Germany 1973 anyone?

Well not in the case of the Labour Party; if you're a member of one of the twelve trade unions who are affiliated to the Labour Party then you should be given the choice by *your* trade union as to who you want. Except I don't think it quite works like that in the real world......senior union officials are wined and dined and offered all kinds of lucrative appointments by potential leaders in return for their support. Democracy's great, is it not?