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Well, that's reassuring. £30 tax. Nice.

I was assuming that the items which should be done "Every 4 years" - new spark plugs, timing belt inspection, etc - would be due 4 years after the car was first registered, on 16/12/2014. Notice that 4 years from that date is just less than 9 months from now. I found the maintenance manual in this thread. Is this the best reference for the service schedule? @pist0nbr0ke I hoped they might know something. It's not like any of this stuff is magic hidden info. The dealer has since sent me through another screenshot from portal.cpn.vwg which seems to show the Amundsen. Although it doesn't list the ACC, which is shown on a screenshot from HPI "spec check". I think I'll just have to pay it a visit and look over everything carefully.

Yeah, I did. It's ND64. Is that the info which is used to decide the road tax? That would make sense. The Lookers page here has 121g/km. I wonder where they got that from? There is some other inconsistent information too - That page I linked says the car has the Bolero, but in a video from the dealer it has the screen with "NAV" and "TRAFFIC" buttons top right, which I think is the Amundsen.

Offski, thanks for the welcome, and all the useful information. The dealer claims the car will need no servicing for 9 months from when it's sold. The 4 year service is due in 8 months three weeks. Bad luck for them. I guess I can get them to show me what's been done in the computer system? shyVRS245, That's a good point. From the video I've seen, it looks like the standard SE alloys, with 5 fat spokes. But the diameter is hard to tell by eye!

I'm going to look at a MY14 1.4 TSi Estate next week. As far as I can tell, the "official" Co2 emissions for this car is 119g/km, but the dealer has them listed at 121g/km. This is enough to bump the road tax up a bracket. Mileage is around 30k. My question to you is, is this a sign of a deeper problem? What could go wrong to cause the emissions to go up? (Aside from no-one trusting VAG cars any more ) The dealer (Lookers, Newcastle) reckons it has a full service history with them, and no warranty work has been done. Obviously I can ask the dealer too, but I would like to go in armed with some anti-bull**** info.