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Can see where you're coming from but as per above, the first year tax was paid by the first owner. You'll be £190 for a full 12mth ( lucky ur picking up car on the 1st of the month ) I didn't realise until now it'd gone up again to £190. It feels like this rotten government have a mini budget every few months !

I love people's use of terminology. They twist facts simply to support their own biased views. Post brexit it's 'waving thru any old crap'. Pre-brexit there weren't any checks,so wasn't the same 'old crap' coming in to the country then? i.e. nothing has changed. When you say 'old crap', exactly what products are you're referring to?

Well in my case, a different steering wheel and upgraded infotainment software hardly required a test drive ! A drive in the pre-facelifted Edition model with the same engine as my Sportline was all anyone needed to know exactly what the car would be like. If I were going for this new Kodiaq, I'd order without a test drive. It's not as if the engines are any different or there's a change to the suspension setup or the gearbox - it's essentially the very same car in different clothes. Let's face it, the biggest change only comes with the price and option list. As for it's just because you can say “look what I’ve got” I'm not saying that's why some people may chose it, but manufacturers have a habit of announcing upgrades when your car is already on order. The only reason I ordered a Kodiaq was because Skoda introduced a 2wd Sportline version ( at the time all Sportlines were at least 2L 4wd ).I didn't even realise it was a facelift. Or what if you're after a PHEV Kodiaq? You could say the same about folk who buy new cars - are they only buying it to keep up with the neighbours for a reg plate change? Some will but I'd suggest the majority don't, especially those who's current leases are about to end.

I wonder how long it'd take the police to charge someone who purchased a £100k motorhome using club money which no club member, not even the treasurer, knew about and hid err I mean parked it on their mothers driveway? Well when I say no club member, it's almost certain one other did - his wife. ( FFS ! ) It supposedly sat there for 2yr unused ! Pehaps Pete's using the same excuse as Father Ted ? "The money was just resting in my bank account". And I'm looking at their home. It's a nice house in an ordinary neighbourhood, but it's hardly Gracelands. What I really mean is, it's not exactly a home where you'd say the owner had so much cash that they could lend £107,620 to their employer. His immediate family perhaps, but to their employer! Everyone is innocent until proven guilty, it's just I can't believe how long it's taken to charge him given what we've been told.

Do you? I think your standards are pretty low. I can't speak for anyone elses Kodiaq but the build quality on mine is such you need some force to edge the trim away from the carpet which means that even if you could get a cable under it ( it would have to be bell wire size ) there's a good chance of it being pinched. Besides, if it's a half decent camera, the cabling will be shielded so can't see it being thin. ( it would need to be shielded if it's running alongside existing car wiring ). OMG. If it is the door sill trims they're talking about then they're either complete idiots or what's more likely, they're fobbing you off. Of course they can be removed, it'd be a pretty stupid design if they couldn't ! Take a look at your seat belt. If there was an issue with your seatblet, how could the mechanics access it without removing that plastic trim ? 🤪 It just pops out. in fact it's easier to remove the trim than what skomaz suggested by tucking a cable under it. Most VW products are pretty much the same: Mk7 Golf sill trim removal Edit: Many folk complain about VW products but this is one area where you can see where the money goes. You can normally remove this trim panels many times without any sign of wear and tear. I installed a dashcam on a Toyota we bought last year and whereas they have a reputation for reliability, you ain't going to remove those panels many times - the plastics they use are cheap and nasty. Yes, it's very, very easy to tuck cabling under trim on a Toyota. FFS, some of the panels are held in place with plastic nut and bolts ! Remove the panels and you can see why Japanese cars are generally more reliable in the way the car is constructed, but the plastic trim itself 😲 Give me a VW product anyday.

Ordinary people 😲 You weren't guest speaker at yesterdays National Conservatism Conference in Brussels by any chance?

The nuclear deterrent. Here we go again, another instance where having a nuclear weapon is no deterrent whatsoever. Israel is one of the few nuclear countries, in fact it's the only country in the middle east with Nuclear capabilities. It didn't stop Saddam from launching scud missles. which at the time the scaremongers said were equipped with chemical warheads, and it never stopped Iran from launching 300 missiles and dronesthe other day. For the past 40 years I've been trying to work out the point of spending billions on nuclear weapons and I'm no nearer an answer. We've cut down on personel and equipment yet keep spending money on a weapon we can't use. 🤪. Can someone please explain to me the point of having a nuclear weapon? If it was a deterrent, then logically wouldn't it make sense to equip every country with a nuclear weapon? The only positive thing to come from nuclear weapons was Dr Strangelove - one of my favorite films.

Where exactly are they mounting the rear dashcam? What sills are they talking about? I've installed the wiring for the factory rearview camera. Just pull off the plastic surround on the hatch, feed wires thru sleeve in to body of the car ( which is the trickiest part of the operation). With the factory rearview camera, the instructions were such I routed the cabling it as if it were installed in the factory, but if it's just a 6m cable for a 3rd party rear dashcam, if it were me I'd Just pull the trim off, feed the wire down the C pillar, go down to the boot and tuck it under the carpet along to the A pillar and then do what you have to do to hook it up to your front camera. I certrainly wouldn't be going anywhere near a main dealer as it's labour intensive, the whole operation took me a day, I'd have thought any reputable camera installation supplier would be able to do that much quicker. After all the Kodiaq is no different from any other VW product - I'd be asking if they've ever installed a rear camera into a VW or Audi? It's not as if they're rare ! It's all straightforward, just need some decent trim removal tools and plenty of patience. One of the sponsors on Briskoda is https://eastyorkshireretrofits.co.uk/ Perhaps they can help you out / see if they have a local installer near you that can do the work?

You're right I mis-read part of it but... ' It turned out that his insurer had paid out two claims made by the owners of cars his Alfa Romeo had collided with before the ultimate crash ' That's what I mean by I cannot understand why his insurers paid out. In the above case, I would have thought the 3rd parties insurance would have paid out to their clients and then when it's finally determined whoi caused they accident, it's the iliable driver's insurance who refund the 3rd parties insurers. - i.e. it would be Halfords (Aviva ) who pay. I can't understand why the Alfa drivers insurance has paid out two claims.

Just reading about Iran directing 200-300 weapons towards Israel in the past 24hr. ( depends on what report you read as to how many drones an missiles there were ). I don't condone any retaliation against innocent people, but just thinking about the seemingly double standards we have in protecting innocent human life. As I understand it, Israel attacted the Iranian embassy in Damascus at the beginning of this month, in effect an attack on another countries soil. We in the West appear to have accepted that attack. The UN takes no action against Israel. The Iranians then launch a counter attack on Israel. I'm reading reports this morning that UK fighter jets helped to shoot down Iranian missiles bound for Israel. If that means saving innocent israeli lives then I'm all for it, that's what we should be doing. The problem is why are we happy to shoot down incoming Iranian missiles, but so against our jets shooting down incoming Russian missiles? Is an innocent Israeli more important than an innocent Ukranian? Neither Ukraine nor Israel are part of NATO so what justification do we have choosing one country over another?

Apparantly in Liz Truss's upcoming memoirs about her 44 days in office, she's defended her disasterous mini-budget. She said the afternoon after which Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng outlined the growth plan was "probably my happiest moment as prime minister" adding "I was ecstatic". I can only assume politicians like Liz Truss and those electorate who continue to support her, must be mentally ill.

I don't know how the insurance works in that instance, but it makes no sense to me. Assuming the driver of the Alfa ( Halfords employee ) was found to be at fault then I'm confused. Unless you specifically name a driver on your policy, or have an ' Any driver policy' ( do those even exist these days ? ) then wouldn't the policy resort to 3rd party fire and theft? So how come the Alfa owners insurance is paying ou the market value of the car if the driver at the time wasn't named on the policy? 🤪 It sounds as if it's being treated as if the Halfords driver ( or whoever was responsible ) had crashed in to the owners car. In that case, his insurer has paid out and any additional losses would be claimed against the 3rd party insurer in normal fashion. So what's the problem? I wouldn't trust that press article as far as I could throw it as they're only interested in sensationalisim - anything that makes headlines. In reality there's no story. Why did his insurance rise £300? Why does anyones insurance rise? Nobody, not even his insurance broker can pinpoint why it's risen by £300. They're just guessing.

No. Aren't trade plates only required for cars that are untaxed?

Are you saying your typical driving will be city / short trips and you intend to change from fixed to variable servicing?

My tuppence worth is if anyone is at the stage they need to ask if a tyre needs changin die to tread depth, then it does. Here in the UK, the legal min. is 1.6mm. That's not to say a 1.6mm tyre will perform the same as a 3mm tyre, it just says the min is 1.6mm. Personallly I'd never let my tyres down to that depth. Surely the only arguement for keeping them is based on cost?

Just received an email introducing my local dealer's new website, latest offers and cars they have in stock. Given the new Kodiaq is now available to order, I can't believe the deals they're offering on the current model - £2500 PCP contribution 😲 I bought my car in 2020 when the first very mild facelift was announced and the offers then were £4000 contribution on the current car and £3000 on new facelift which hadn't even reached UK showrooms. Perhaps Skoda themselves think folk may baulk at the price of the new car and chose the current model.

Few people buy the SE so their 'from' pricing pretty much irrelevant. Moving to the 1.5 SE-L, that's now in luxury VED band 🤪 I guestimated the basic SportLine would probably be around the £45k mark with the new SportLine PHEV coming in north of £50k. I think those guesses might be accurate when the Sportline is available to order later in the year. At that sort of money it's going to suffer from eyewatering depreciation. Yet more evidence of Skoda loosing it's mojo. If I'm to suffer that sort of depreciation and pay an extra £400 a year in tax for the privelage of driving a +£40k car, I ain't going to be driving one with a Skoda badge on it

Fair enough. Have you ever talked to a car salesperson before, because given those comments, I find it strange why you're complaining. I've ben buying cars for 40 years and I expect porkies and BS from sales. I take it as a given. It happens in most sales environments, not just cars. Tthe most successful salespeople are the ones who BS the most. If you didn't BS you wouldn't last very long in the industry. But back to my comment above. What evidence do you have that the salesperson was going to sell on your data? Thus far all you say "it sounds dodgy". Each to their own, but I cannot understand why anyone would happily pass on contact numbers, email addresses, etc and then object to giving them their DoB ? PS - who's saying the sales person is telling porkies? If they genuiniely believe in the info they're passing on, that's not telling porkies, they simply may just have it wrong.

This sounds really stupid, but next time it happens, try pressing the dead centre of the stop/start button. My car started suffering from this, garage couldn;t replicate the issue when the looked at it therefore wouldn't sanction a replacement under warranty. It was the service desk who told me this and it's always worked for me. As per above, it's a cheap fix to replace the button, but never bothered now that I know to press the dead centre of the button.

Is it a new or used car you're buying? As far as I can remember, dealers have always asked my for my driving licence therefore they have my DOB. To obtain the original V5C for a newly registered vehicle, doesn't the DVLA require the DOB of the first registered keeper? Personally I have no objection to them knowing my DOB. The garage will need to contact me so I've already handed over my email, home phone, mobile and home address. What's to stop them from selling on that info for marketing? I don't see it as a problem. Besides, I receive a tonne of other marketing junk every week. If anyone cold calls me I tell them to F.O.

Can anyone help? Swing radio in a 2014 Yeti. Problem: Cannot hear other person when receiving call thru BT. I've been able to connect the phone via BT. It recongnises the phones, contact etc all imported. When receiving a call, the phone rings thru the system, the MFD displays the callers name, I press the phone button on steering wheel but can't hear them. However the caller is able to hear me via the car's microphone. If the radio is on, it doesn't mute and switch to caller, ( switch to BT ) it just continues to play radio. BT is unavailable when pressing mode. If however I play music on the phone, it comes thru the car speakers via BT no problem. Have tried both Samsung S23 and A51 with exactly the same results. Any idea what the issue is ? I've only been told it used to work OK, but I haven't seen it working properly so that may be a red herring. Cheers.

I'm reading some questionable answers above. . Perhaps an explanation is necessary: The OP's question isn't really how much was it worth when new, he want's to know how much it's worth now. ( it's new price bares no relation the used value so is pointless). 1: What's it worth? It's worth what someone will pay for it. As above go to several car buying sites and obtain prices - it cost you nothing. That's the price your car is worth. 2: It's gone down £3000 in a year? Everyone will have their own thoughts on what consitutes heavy depreciation but in general, if you don't want to suffer the heaviest depreciation, don't sell a car so soon after you've bought it. Of course another way of looking at this is if you're surprised at it depreciating £3000 in a year, could it be you paid too much for it in the first place? 3: SEL Executive 1.0tsi DSG in metallic black. Difficulty finding a used one to compare. When buying cars we should all remeber one thing - that with the very few exceptions, short lived or special edition models are generally worth the same as a std model after a few years. Also car with options may make it more desirable, but add very little value. So if a similar car is hard to find on Autotrader, just look at an SEL ( or similar model spec ) with the same year and miles. Of course that's the retail price you're looking at, not the price your car is worth. 4: Who cares what a new car cost 12mth ago - it's what it costs new today that counts. Just had a look on DriveTheDeal. Kamiq 1.0tsi DSG SEL Exec lists at £28600, £29300 with met paint. DTD are saying I can buy that car for £25442 If a garage offers £20k for your 23 plate car with almost 6k on the clock, they'd have to retail it for min £22k, probably nearer £23k to pay for their overheads + make profit. So if I'm in the market for a 1.0tsi SEL exce in metallic black, do I buy a 2 owner used car from a dealer at £23k or £25442 for a brand new car registered in my name? Everyone will have their own opinion, personally I'd choose the latter. Now you're enting a whole different ball game because they've introduced another car into the equation. They're not really saying your car is worth £18,000, they're saying it's worth £18,000 if changing to that Kodiaq. They may offer you £20k for the car if you;re buying a new Kodiaq. Basically their price is meaningless unless you know what profit margin they have on the used Kodiaq. My advice would be to treat the sale of your car and the purchase of the Kodiaq as two seperate transactions. 1: Get the best price for your car from one of those buying websites 2: Go back to the dealer and say sorry I'm not going to buy your car. WeBuyAnySkoda are offering me £20k and ACME_Skoda have a similar car to yours for £500 less so obviously it's better for me to do that. As I say, none of us know what profit margins your dealer has to play with but if I were a betting man, I'd say your dealer's 'cost-to-change' offer will all of a sudden decrease. Hope that helps.

It's a lot of words because other people coming here to read these things get it wrong. And the reason they get it wrong is because people do not explain things. Regardless, you should have 14 days to withdraw from any credit agreement (legal cooling off period), but you may lose any credit incentives like free services / warranty etc. that comes with the finance. The T&Cs could be completely different to those that VWFS have for their agreements. The OP is clearly asking about settlement. You've replied with an answer about cancellation. That's confusing as hell for anyone wishing to know about settlement.

For the most part, I think headlights work fine, certainly the factory fitted stuff. But we don't live in a perfect flat smooth road surface world. When going over any traffic calming measure, even the best setup lights in the world are going to dazzle oncoming traffic when the whole car raises and lowers. As you climb a hill and the oncoming appears on the brow of that hill, the lights are going to dazzle you because both cars are not at the same attitude. How do they intend to solve that? Of course it's not just cars. Mr Cyclist has his or her powerful LED light ( totally unneccesary for road use ) beaming ahead at any angle. Of course the lycra mob who all love to tell you they've bought the best most expensive gear, also have a ruddy LED attached to the top of their helmet - Powerful twin bar lights and a light on their helmet? It's like some alien spaceship coming towards you. And everything made all the worse in the rain. I get the problem, but unless we go back to halogen, I just don't see where the solution lies. PS. all of this reminds me of the days post laser eye surgery. Anyone had a similar experience? I spend the following 48hr indoors with the blinds drawn, only ever venturing out for a short walk at night. However I'll never forget walking along the road in the wee hours when a car with LED lights approached - the piercing bright light blinded so bad it gave me a splitting headache afterwards.

I don't get the argument. These things do not come free. If VW and SEAT are adding an extra year then I'm sure both Skoda and Audi will argue that VW and SEAT have already built the additional warranty in to the price of their used cars. If you want 'piece of mind' ( whatever that is ) then just buy an extra year warranty to make it a level playing field. Not sure if it's still true but when I bought a new SEAT it came with 3yr warranty but only 2yr roadside. Did I think I was a 'bum deal'? Given the Ateca was so much cheaper than it's VW or Audi counterparts, no I didn't. Doesn't your argument also hold true for servicing? Why does maintenance and service prices differ for each VW Group brand when the engine is exactly the same throughout? Doesn't your argument hold true with PCP offers etc? The four brands all offer different interest rates despite all being financed by VWFS. t's like wanting an Audi to have the same warranty as a VW, serviced at SKODA prices and costing the same as a SEAT. These are four different brands offering different products, you can't pick and choose what you want from each.