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That’s great, thanks for sharing the pics. Always good to see vehicles working hard. 👍

I’ve been running a 60 since last July and I’d say the 80 isn’t worth the premium. An 80 would do your 210 mile round trip in one charge, but you can literally put a price on what that will cost. 15 minutes on a rapid charger somewhere on your journey in a 60 is the difference. Realistic range I have achieved is 200 miles in summer and 150 miles in winter. I do around 70 miles on a work day. Once you find out some convenient rapid charger locations on your regular 200+ mile trip, I don’t think you’d have any issues with a 60. You are literally paying for the extra batteries on an 80, the actual car is the same, and I believe it will also have wider, rear tyres.

It is notifications. You can drag down from the top of the screen where the number in the circle is and it will tell you something.

Hi, sounds like a nice car when it is eventually built. I got a car from Skoda stock last year so it was already built. The only packs it had was, chrome, 20” wheels, Light and View and Suite interior. I definitely wouldn’t have ordered light and view if I’d specced the car myself, but 12,000 miles later I have to admit the matrix led headlight system is really good. Enjoy, when you get it.

I wish it was me, but it’s not😁 The average ev driving person, including me doesn’t know (or care) what every different car can and can’t charge on.

I found them even more entertaining, 😂 I used to watch Stavros’s truck reviews then he bought an Honda E with a 28kw battery and started complaining it didn’t go very far…..

I reckon we’ve got 5 years until then.

Absolutely, and whatever anyone says about the cost of rapid chargers, they are on a par with fossil fuels cost wise and 20% of it is actually VAT.

Enjoy. I think overall you won’t regret it. Once you get your head around the ev experience, which with supercharger network will be fine, the whole thing is reasonably effortless. I personally wouldn’t go back.

Bjorn Nyland is the man to ask about Tesla or any ev. And, of course James and Kate

I’m doing 20k per year in an Enyaq 60, I rarely go further than 100 miles radius away from home so it’s working for me. I personally haven’t had any major issues finding and using rapid chargers, to be honest I have stuck mainly with InstaVolt for reliability and decent network. If you are doing reasonably regular long hauls I would be tempted with Tesla for the supercharger network, and fast charging even if there’s a few details you don’t like, in 3 years time there should be a lot wider range of other EVs to choose from and hopefully a better network. By then you’ll know what you’re doing with EVs and saved 90,000 miles of diesel smoke out of a tailpipe.

I’ve got to get ready for my Saturday job now anyway 😂

There will be some regrets from many I’m sure ! You are the voice of reason, not a miserable sod 😀 The trick is finding a happy point on the scale of life between being a miser living in a small poorly maintained property but loads of money and being a playboy maxing out your debt and running the hamster wheel until you die !

I fully get the point Dodgy but you could apply that argument to anything. Why get spend £13k on something reliable when you could get something reliable for £1300 ? Why pay more money for a house with a bigger garden or a better location? Why spend money on a holiday when you could invest the money instead ? It doesn’t make financial sense to spend £50k on any car, but I think if you’ve got to run on the hamster wheel then get something you want for the effort. I personally wouldn’t get an Enyaq coupe for the same reasons I never got an Octavia vRS. In any case if you have the cash money to buy a £50k car you would be better to finance the car and invest the money. I recently turned down an excellent property investment opportunity, which made total financial sense but would have tied up most of our savings until after I was retired. In the end I decided I’d rather enjoy the last decent couple of decades of life and power the hamster wheel faster while I still can. The car I run is a mode of transport which enables my income, it’s a cost, but a managed one. Once I’m retired there will be different criteria to consider. I’m a paid up member of the Dave Ramsey Fan Club but I’m going to enjoy life before they wheel me into the care home or morgue.

I’ve made a nice red one, no other option than red paint £52275

With all due respect, what you said was : “that is where EV's have a real advantage, the extra they consume gaining altitude will indeed be saved by no consumption when losing it.” I have added to that the information that an ev can also gain some energy by regeneration. “an EV will recover some energy on the way back down ”.

It will have used energy to gain the altitude but an EV will recover some energy on the way back down whereas the best an ICE powered vehicle could do is not use any by switching off and coasting.

I think if carwow did the same tests with the nearest comparable diesel or petrol vehicle, it would be more interesting. Over 80,000 odd miles my 1.4 Octavia averaged 42 mpg, maybe if I had rationed the Aircon or done 60mph on motorways I could have averaged 50mpg and saved some fuel. I guess a diesel would cope with a caravan better, the roof load tests would be similar and the everything switched on tests would be better for ice engines as they generate so much heat whether you want it or not. Longer range, better charger network and faster charge times would make this type of rest irrelevant as no would care, like they don’t with a petrol or diesel. I knew with the Octavia that if I had my roof box on or cycles I would use more fuel, but I didn’t care as it was a few more quid on the cost of that day out which I didn’t mind paying for. The cost with an ev is maybe an extra 30 to 60 minutes on a charger and the effort of working out which one. I don’t mind this, but I can see why most people would mind.

I’m not against hypermiling, I just personally can’t be bothered. I’m keeping it as plan C if ever I need to find a third charger miles from home ! Nothing sums up the weird motoring world better than when I pass a some M series BMW or powerful Audi doing 56mph for miles behind a lorry, whilst I’m simultaneously passed by a Fiat 500 doing 85mph….

There are so many real world variables. I can tell weight doesn’t make much difference as I’ve done the same journeys with just me or with 3 adult passengers and a full boot and the range achieved was practically the same. If you get a long downhill section it will barely use any energy to maintain 70, and with some regen you can go miles with range not dropping at all. One thing I always try and do is preheat or precool it 30 minutes before a long journey while plugged in. What I won’t do is drive slowly or tailgate lorries. I leave the Aircon on auto all year round.

I’ve got a roof box and a roof bike carrier. I can live with losing 30ish miles of range when using them. I often leave just the roof bars on (genuine Skoda) and they don’t seem to make any difference to the range. I only take them off as they slightly increase the noise, the car is so quiet without them.

What Langers2k says above and the answers in the other thread are the answers. It needs proper diagnosis. First shot of the parts cannon has at least probably eliminated all the plugs and coils as the problem. Try giving it some injector cleaner, Redex or similar, it’s the only relatively cheap option and easy to try. https://www.holtsauto.com/redex/

See the previous replies dude, you can’t diagnose and fix these as a novice, even that Motor Continental place you went to are guessing

I sympathise automass, but the problem you’ve got is that if you have to ask a garage to try something you have been told by 2 guys on an Internet forum, then you are at the wrong garage. The place you went to haven’t told you anything you didn’t already know from your own code reader, they’ve charged you £70 to plug their machine in and tell you a semi educated guess as to what the problem might be. You would be better off, in my opinion, asking on briskoda for a recommended specialist, who could be paid to do a proper diagnosis.

They haven’t diagnosed anything other than the car has recorded misfires on cylinders 1,2, and 3. They are just guessing that maybe it could be a plug or a coil. Who knows maybe it will fix it, it’s a £200 gamble… The fact that it is “misfiring” doesn’t mean it has an ignition fault. There could be a faulty sensor, wiring fault, bad fuel, low compression, carbon build up, vvt fault, air leak, literally dozens of possible things. Swapping coils is an low cost first try. If you can’t do this I’d be tempted to run the car a bit longer and let the fault develop, especially as the only issue is a flashing warning light.