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The air con service seems deliberately contrived to be as expensive as possible. I asked my mechanic about it and his advice was to use it and only mess about with it if the air conditioning performance declines. I leave mine on "AUTO" all the time and let it get on with it.

I think the problem is that a significant number of people in the UK only have a very basic grasp on English, and so the language has to be simplified to accommodate them. The trouble is, it's been over-simplified to the point of ambiguity at best, and downright wrong at worst. The police should not be making basic mistakes like that, but sadly to reflect the new diverse society the UK has been transformed into, the police has to reflect the general population so everyone feels "represented".

I wouldn't write back to them about it, but I share your frustration at the hopeless standard of written English by institutions who really need to be able to state the facts of a matter precisely and unambiguously.

This is good advice. I know it's easy to be critical of Ed's feelings regarding this, but I understand his irritation. (Especially at the cost of the phone call.) Unless you have a cynical old so-and-so with you, ruining your car buying experience by pointing out all the problems, it can be easy to get carried away and sign-up for one of the plethora of cash traps Skoda dealers lay for unwary customers. Sometimes the optional extras give good value, sometimes they don't. Personally, I don't like service plans, but that's just my opinion.

You might be right, certainly the Lib Dems were more popular than Labour in Scotland, prior to devolution, IIRC, but labour did have some support up there. Mind you, that might be down to being seen as the best of a bad bunch. Much like support for the the Conservatives in England, though hopefully that will start falling off.

Yeah, I could see Labour getting a boost north of the border from the SNP taking a hit. Add that to the betrayed "red wall" voters who briefly lent their vote to the Conservatives in the hope they might do something conservative (and were completely betrayed by the Conservatives), and Labour should get a pretty big boost at the next election.

The sincerity of an appeal not to dehumanise people looks pretty hollow when it comes hot on the heels of a "Douglas Ross is a ****" post.

Sturgeon clearly agrees, and has jumped before she was pushed.

I don't care what their political affiliation is, if they can't define what a woman is, they shouldn't be leading a country.

Anyone who can't or won't define what a woman is shouldn't be running a country. https://www.gbnews.uk/news/nicola-sturgeon-refuses-to-define-what-a-woman-is-in-bid-to-protect-trans-people/285612

Hello! Give your local Trading Standards office a call and see where you stand if you bought the car on the basis it had a full service history and it turns out there is no evidence of the car being serviced. After that, it might be worth phoning up Enterprise saying you're looking at buying one of their cars but are concerned about whether the cars are serviced correctly. If Enterprise say "We have our cars serviced by the appropriate local dealer", then you at least know what should have happened, and if what Skoda told you is correct, it hasn't. If Enterprise tells you have their own garages who do their servicing and repairs, then ask how you as a potential customer can see the service history. Tell them you'll need evidence of the service history when you come to sell the car. See what they say. Basically, you're looking to arm yourself with evidence that the car hasn't been serviced and you've been lied to, in which the conversation with Trading Standards will have primed you for the next step, or evidence that the car HAS been serviced and Enterprise can provide you with a service history. At the moment, because you're not sure how Enterprise operate, you don't know exactly who should have serviced the car, so it's hard to pinpoint who to chase up about whether it has or not. Good luck!

It sounds like the remap sorted out a poor map with excess fuel delivery giving that lump of torque. One of my tuning boxes has a very on/off power delivery around 70mph and it was a right pain. Yeah it can, if it delivers less fuel for a given throttle demand under the same conditions. The fact that the power improvements are given in pretty specific figures, but the MPG increases claimed are usually very vague tells me the claimed fuel economy improvements cannot be relied upon. If anyone has some before/after MPG test data under controlled conditions, I'd love to see it.

To get more MPG, you need to make the car more efficient, i.e. the remap will need to get more energy from the same amount of fuel, so when driving. For the increased MPG claim to be true, the remapped car would have to need less fuel to propel the car forward at a given speed than it did with the original fuelling map. I've never seen any convincing evidence that a remap will improve a vehicle's MPG, though there are plenty of anecdotes about them increasing MPG, and tuners sometimes claim increased MPG as the remap will give the car more torque at low RPM which means you can use a lower gear. (What they don't say is HOW the car gets more torque at low RPM. The answer, presumably, is that they bung more fuel in.) What's needed is a proper before/after MPG test with a remap, and I haven't seen one of those done. Example claim from Superchips. They simply state you'll get better fuel economy and expect you to take their word for it. If your remapped car fails to give you improved fuel economy, they will tell you it's because you're enjoying all that additional power. (Which is quite likely true.) In my limited experience (two remapped cars and a couple of tuning boxes), a good remap will give you more power when you want it, and no penalty in the form of increased fuel use when you don't. My remapped car has given me improved economy on the same route to my holiday. However no two journeys are precisely the same, and I would not be able to prove that the difference was not caused by traffic conditions or me driving slightly differently. What is undisputable is that if I use the extra power, I get worse fuel economy.

Hi Lenny! 👋 If the car wants 95, try and give it 95.

It's a bit of a reach, but I get where you're coming from. I like how distinctive the split headline design is. It's done a BMW on me, by that I mean when BMW first introduce a new design I usually don't like it, but then it grows on me. I think my favourite car designs are by Audi. Their designs age very well, in my opinion.

Hello and welcome! I hope you're enjoying Spain.

@J.R. 'Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, foolish, a dope. Disagree with someone on the left and he is more likely to think you selfish, a sell-out, insensitive, possibly evil.' You have to realise that people on the political left believe they have a vision of a utopia, and anyone who questions their ideology can only do so out of malice. The idea that they may be wrong, never occurs to them, no matter how obvious the evidence to the contrary. Their endless virtue-signalling tries to mask their true nature. They care about children, so clearly they must be nice people. That is how they convince themselves that they are kind and caring people, and sometimes fool others too. The facade of their compassion is exposed by the fact that they don't care about your children, or my children. No! These paragons of virtue care about the the children of complete strangers, who arrived unannounced and uninvited, seeking shelter and comfort from war-torn France. To them, anyone who doesn't welcome such "refugees" from France must obviously be of a very low character indeed, and so can be treated with complete contempt and their thoughts on any subject ignored.

Being ignored by you is a win-win situation for all concerned, Lee.

He flip-flops in and out of the Labour party, so I wouldn't be surprised to see him slithering back to Labour.

I agree with this. It doesn't make sense, but I think it's a VAG thing. My neighbour ordered a petrol VW SUV last year, and when it was delayed he simply cancelled the order and bought a Tesla model Y instead. (Which he's been delighted with.) The Tesla took a few weeks to arrive and he got a good deal on it as they were running an offer on lease/pcp/whatever Teslas at the time. If the delays are genuine, then I can only think VAG have got an absolutely hopeless procurement team.

Just had a search for CTEK charger as my car sits doing nothing most of the time on my drive. Lawks they're pricey! Which is the most cost-effective CTEK to get for the average Skoda driver, as I sometimes get the "Low Battery - Car Needs Driving!" message too. Edit: Ah ha! This looks like a reasonable set. https://www.amazon.co.uk/CTEK-MXS5-0-Value-Bundle-40-513/dp/B0BJDMVH2H/ref=sr_1_26?keywords=ctek+battery+charger&qid=1674739242&quartzVehicle=29-10519&replacementKeywords=ctek+battery&sprefix=ctek%2Caps%2C91&sr=8-26

Hello and welcome!

This has come up before. Could one of the experienced mechanics clear this up, please? @varooom & @Crasher, can you advise? Are there EA888-engined Skoda vehicles with both port injection AND a GPF? It's my understanding that my car has both a GPF as well as port injection. I know it has port injection, because I can see it, but I'm not sure about the GPF. (I say I know, but I think it's reasonable to assume Skoda has fitted fake port injection. If it is fake, then I stand corrected.)

Thank you for clarifying that. 👍

Good grief! That's one heck of a delay. (Hope you don't mind me editing your quoted post to add the missing "4" in "2024".)