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If only I was going anywhere near an Asda.

It seems the “target” price for is a little less than £1/ltr, anyone know what the price is from a Tesco forecourt? Could have it delivered but I’ll be passing a Tesco this weekend that sells the stuff so I thought I’d pick up 10 litres in the back to be ready. Tried a search but to no avail.

Coming from a lowly pauper spec SE I have no inbuilt satnag apart from Google Maps (which does me very nicely indeed), have I got this right. There is a satnav in this day and age that doesn’t let you put in the full seven letter/digit UK postcode? If so, how very early naughties!

Very nice indeed!

Do you have a pic?

^^^^ Can you get the dealer to collect?

Strangely my car was built almost a year before I picked up the keys. Built mid July 19, registered end Dec and I bought it end June. So far no battery issues. Now I’ve blown it.

As per your link:

Will be contacting them closer to the 3rd birthday. Shame not as good, disadvantage of preregistered.

Love the way the recall page gives you the result in Czech. Good old Google Translate to the rescue.

Could be week 09 in 2018 so early March, like tyre date codes.

Remember that the £540 is just first year, 2nd onwards is £150 or whatever it’s nudged up to. Unless the list car is over £40k that is, then theirs additional VED to pay for years 2 - 5, £325 rings a bell.

From what the dealer said, they get stung with the first years VED, then it’s standard standard VED for the eventual owner even if immediately SORNed after registering. I don’t know how much refund they get back but I’d think it would just be 11/12s of the standard £150 VED, not the uplifted chunk of the first year VED. If they got 11/12s of it all then the new owner would then be paying for the claimed back uplifted chunk, which deffo isn’t the case. PS And taxing the car only took a few minutes, all you need is the reg, V5 ref number and a credit card. Simples.

Re first year’s VED, that was one of the advantages of buying mine pre-registered, first years VED is paid by Skoda UK and I just pay the usual £150. That and the 10k/31% off the list price.

I’ll be buying an extended warranty as well once the car gets to the suitable age. As it was preregistered I was told I couldn’t do it until the car hit 3 years. How does it work? Do I phone a dealer up just before the 3rd birthday and say “oi, I want to throw some money at you for the extra 2 years of warranty”?

Cheers, it just looks totally different from my 4x4 version.

Is that a Yeti wheel well? At least it’s got a sensible tie down eye, sadly lacking in the Karoq.

It’s the time consuming side that dictates I want to carry a full spare. I do regular(ish) 560 mile drives and getting a puncture on one of those would mean trying to get a tyre replaced mid trip, turning a one day drive to at least one & a half, if not two, day haul. Plus chances are it’ll be a Sunday so less options. No, full spare swapped, by RAC or me, and journey continues without too much hassle. Then sort out replacing or repairing puncture pretty much at my leisure. I don’t mind the extra depth it takes up in the boot by fitting it to the skinny spare mount, means it’s properly secured and not going to shift around. I know it’s risk vs consequences and last time I had a non off-roading puncture was a long time ago but not worth worrying about having to cope with skinny spare if I got a puncture in what could be pretty extreme conditions.

Where the screen acts as an extended screen of your iPhone. I think there’s an Android version. If you don’t have either then it’s the good old road atlas time.

No inbuilt satnav (assuming same as 2020MY), but CarPlay works a treat with Google Maps. And no hassling with updating.

Sound like you’re trying to do what I’m trying, the boot floor will sit like below. You’ll loose 10cm in boot depth. I’ll be supporting the sides better once the polystyrene/kingspan is under the black pieces. I’ll also get a piece of pipe to extend the plastic disk piece so it supports the load. Then I’ll be able to load up the boot properly and should support the stuff whatever tyre is in there.

Looks like I’ll be going down the cheap route. 100mm thick insulation board/kingspan, cut to the shame of the fitted pieces then fix the factory fitted pieces on top. And much cheaper!!! Plus I’ve got a Travis Perkins just up the road. Plan starting to come together, thanks for the advice. Oh, and winter tyres now on the rims and said rims on the car so let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

Agreed, will have a think as to whether it’s worth that. Also as my local dealer (Inverness) has closed it’s not quite as simple. Might see what Horton can do.

Had a search but can’t find the answer but are the polystyrene parts available without all the jack bits and pieces? Thinking one set on top of the other would fit the bill for my needs, plus would provide a few cubby holes for bits and bobs to fit in. PS Found it, 57A093860A.