MiniNinjaRob

You can get it to save a certain percentage of charge. Deselect auto and you can go up and down on how much percent to keep. if I’m going on a hundred mile round trip I’ll get it to save 50% for the way back.

I find the instant MPG function useful to see how your driving affects the MPG in a new car but otherwise I just ignore it once I’ve figured out how best to drive it.

If you are using the car display to figure out your mpg you’re dafter than you realise. After a couple of years of tracking MPG I have the following conclusions for my driving, bearing in mind I live in a hilly area. 1) I can do solely electric miles if driving locally but recently it hasn’t been worth it due to the price of electricity. As prices are coming down I am doing the math to see if it’s worth it again. 2) Long motorway journeys keeping to the speed limit without a full charge of electric gets me 45mpg average 3) lowest mpg I ever got was 30mpg, no charging and town driving only (might have had a heavy right foot for a couple of weeks) 4) General MPG for me with a lot of town driving and 20 mile journeys is about 35-40mpg with no electric charge. All in all I’m happy, it’s not too much less than my previous Toyota Auris mild hybrid and it has nearly twice the power and is a lot bigger.

Yes the lower powered version is pretty slow, I had an Auris with that power train. I test the newer more powerful version and it was pretty quick but not quite as quick as my Octy I reckon. The electric to petrol transition in the Skoda is ok but the Toyota system is amazing, I’ll give them that.

I’ve had 3 Toyotas before my Octy IV and I won’t have another. Their hybrid system is pretty good but the quality of the cars is poor compared to 15 years ago, the styling is old fashioned and the dealers terrible. I won’t have another one and when I chose a new work car it was between the Corolla hybrid (the more powerful one) and my Octy and the Skoda was miles ahead. Doubt I’ll ever have a Toyota again, at least not a new one.

How do you wash your car?

I’d love to know how they can diagnose a problem on a very complex bit of machinery without ever seeing it. 🤔

For short trips just leave the heating off. In 3 miles you aren’t going to heat the car up properly so why bother trying? I noticed soon after I got my car that putting the heating on absolutely decimated the range immediately so for short journeys it’s off for me. I have found having the heated seats on uses far less electric than the main heating system - if you have a heated steering wheel it’s even better. They both heat up quicker than trying to heat the cabin as well.

I went to the Huddersfield showroom when I went to choose my car and was upfront that I was ordering via my work lease company and they were very helpful indeed. Very different from all the other dealers I went to. They also were good and sorted me out with a new tyre inflation kit after I used mine, they quickly charged it to my lease company within a few minutes no problem. Not much experience I know but it’s been good so far. Certainly better than the Vauxhall/Kia/Toyota and Citroen dealerships nearby which put me off choosing one of their cars! I’ll try and remember to report back when my car has been for a service. I used to work in retail and I won’t accept bad service so hopefully DMKeith will continue to be good.

My SEL iV wheel spins quite often when going for it off the line, and when it’s wet it’s worse. Slightly embarrassing sometimes but the electronic aids aren’t over enthusiastic and it soon hooks up. I’d say if you want to do some enthusiastic driving more often then the 4x4 will be better for sure. But if you want a proper decent handling car get a Ford Focus instead as mine handled way better than my current Octavia. The Octys aren’t great in that respect but they aren’t the worst.

I’m the same - most of my journeys are on electric. I do use the car a lot but I’ve not put any unleaded in since June 15th and I still have 2/3rds of a tank left. I am on a fixed electric tariff until January and it cost me about 6.5p a mile on electric and about 15p a mile on unleaded. One advantage of the hybrid is that I know my electric cost will double and probably triple in February - I have the choice of just not charging the car (unless I can get it charged for free) and using unleaded instead!!! I feel slightly sorry for people with full EVs being forced onto expensive tariffs which will make their cars very costly to run.

Mine seems pretty sturdy, opened it hundreds of times now, I can’t see how you could break it as you press it to release it and push it shut.

I have the same wheels. They look really good and miles better than the standard ones which in my opinion look 15 years out of date style wise! I know they aren’t any bigger but I didn’t want that (I like comfort) and the dark colour looks good on my darker car too. I got an SEL as they had so much more kit that the SE Tech model - I got mine before the waiting times went mental though - only waited 8 months!!

I wouldn’t be using them unless they were rock solid. Any looseness by hand at standstill will be amplified with wind hitting the roofbox at motorway speeds. It doesn’t sound like they are working properly. FYI I got some Yakima flush aero bars which are rock solid and look great and are silent if you need to buy some more. I was not impressed with the Skoda bars. They look cheap and clunky.

The outlander should not be used to judge PHEVs, it’s a terrible one. I had a MHEV Auris and got more MPG out of it than my previous 2 diesel vehicles, and I kept detailed records over 4 years for each one. Sounds like some driver training was needed as I did have to drive slightly differently with the Auris but not massive changes.