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Yes, I have one. It seems to have done very little to help the battery so far. It knocks out about 17.5v unloaded even in quite cloudy weather, but volts don't mean much, current is what counts. At night, it causes a slight current drain as the car powers the little red LED on the plug, which is illuminated by the 12v power from the car. It's not really a fair test as I've only had it since September, but that's my experience of it. I'll have to see what it can actually power in summer sunshine, as the panel itself seems reasonably well-made.

Doubtless @Tibbadogwill make his judgement on whether the ECO tyre pressure setting is right for him. Ultimate grip or ECO to try and save a few quid? The 280 is quite a thirsty thing, but if you wanted economy, you wouldn't have bought one. 😄 I run my Octavia on ECO pressure, and it grips just fine on my Goodyear Asymmetric 6 tyres. But I am a thrifty so and so.

The 280 is a fabulous car, I'm sure you'll enjoy it. 👍

Time will tell. It looks like that particular story has had it's time and perhaps a different and more accurate representation of what actually took place may emerge. Or not.

About that wallpaper.... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12738715/Radio-4-Nick-Robinsons-flippant-apology-row-Boriss-non-existent-gold-wallpaper-Tories-tell-record-straight-live-air.html

No link to the video. @Stansko?

This is the stuff.

Do change the coolant from G13 to G12evo too, as the G13 coolant uses the silica for corrosion protection. I whipped my silica bag out when I discovered they were a bit of a time bomb waiting to go of, but it's worth changing the coolant either at the same time 12-24 months afterwards to make sure your corrosion protection is maintained in the coolant system.

Hello and welcome!

Hello and welcome, Pépette! 🤝 The best place to start will be here, I should think. https://www.briskoda.net/forums/forum/26-skoda-fabia-mk-i-1999-2007/

I tend to keep my cars for ages, so I have less of a timeline than you. I've posted it up here somewhere but damned if I can remember where. 😄

Groovy! Hopefully it won't need topping up too often. 👍

Have you actually checked the oil level with the dipstick? It is possible to put too much oil in and cause problems.

Pay no heed to me, it was just my pedantic OCD getting the better of me. That's quite a timeline you put up there. 👌

It is possible to get tyres with good grip and low rolling resistance, but you don't get that for free, and ultimately, they won't grip as well as proper grippy tyres. I found the OEM Turanza 001 tyres to be surprisingly grippy, given their low rolling resistance. But then they fell apart after 4 years. The Goodyear Assym 6's I've got now are grippy, but they're sticky, and even slow speed car park driving (10-15mph) gives my car a light pebbled-ash, as bits of grit and whatever are picked up by the tyres and flick off onto the car.

Certainly the wrong tyre pressures can cost you improvements in MPG. As can lugging around a load of junk in the boot. Probably having a clean and shiny car might well give some benefit too over a car that's covered in grime. Not to mention the difference in rolling resistance between different types of correctly inflated tyres. But it's fun to mess around with the numbers and see what the difference are.

The results are slightly confusing to me, because it looks to me like there's a bit better than a 4% improvement in MPG switching from regular to super unleaded that can be reliably assumed. Not sure where the 6% improvement is shown. I realise their fuel may be better than some random competitor's, but between the two types of Tesco's own fuel, it appears to me you can count on about 4% extra MPG, in like for like driving. Granted, I might well be misunderstanding the results.

Yes. I was not given all the information needed to form an informed opinion, so instead of ignoring your post, I tried to contribute to the replies. My bad.

Arguably, while 10p/litre is quite a difference in price, Super Unleaded may represent better value for money than regular unleaded. It's an experiment, and when I refill, I'll get an accurate account of my MPG for the tank of unleaded and I'll have a starting point to build on. As I potter about mostly, the anti-knock properties of super-unleaded are wasted on me, though subjectively, the car does seem to have lost a little grunt at low revs, but that is most likely all in my head while I'm trying to detect any difference. I haven't seen any objective testing under controlled conditions on the difference in MPG between super and regular unleaded fuel, which is slightly surprising, though there may be tests done that I simply haven't found. You'd think it would have been tested though, if only by some green NGO lobby group looking to ban whichever of the two emits more hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, kryptonite gas or whatever they're worried about now. 😋

I can only reply to your posts @mccririck, not whatever internal dialogue you've got going on in your head. Perhaps you'd like to quote yourself and my response to you, so I can at least have a fair chance of making sense of your replies?

I stand corrected, I was going from this old chart.

Thank you for setting me right on this. 👍

I want to disagree, but there is truth in what you say and really I should be double-checking my MPG the good old fashioned way.

OP could do that. Personally, I'd charge the PHEV, run it in hybrid, note how my MPG had dramatically improved, then make a mental note to RTFM in future. Although there might be one of those "Oh no!!!!" moments when it struck me I'd just bought a car I need to both refuel and charge after nearly every drive to get the best out of.

Firstly. I get the urge to disagree, but it helps if you have to have something to disagree with. Secondly. I disagree. Once the car is rolling, it doesn't take much fuel to keep it going. I believe 50MPG is perfectly doable on a run for the 1.4TSI, even lugging the PHEV gear around, which is a bit over 1600Kg including the car AFAIK. I can get 55MPG in my 2.0TSI fully laden on my holiday trip, which can't be much different weight wise, with us two over 6' plus all our camping gear. Unless there are a load of other efficiency losses associated with the PHEV side of things on the PHEV Octavias.