Stonekeeper

https://papasmith.co.uk/alloy-wheel-fitment-guide/

That could be a starting point to play with.

can the minimum charge maintained by the BMS not be changed with VCDS?

The UK govt will set a tariff to raise money from the success of the Chinese cars being sold here and encourage the sales, allowing them to be cheaper but not as low as they could be.

Interesting. The Trucks will use 60kw per hour Tachograph limits to 4.5hrs so as long as the battery is 300kw and can be charged backup with a 350kwh charger in the 45 minute break. It is just a matter of getting enough chargers in the right places.

It's not overly expensive, once you have paid it someone will tell you it could have been done cheaper. That happens when you buy anything. At that price i doubt it''s the Skoda supplied part but it probably won't be the £8 ones on ebay. It will be from his preferred motor factors supplier. The garage has probably allowed £20 for the part and £50 for Labour plus vat.

Blower resistor packs are available on ebay from £8 upwards a genuine Skoda one would be around £80 Pretty simple for a DIY capable person to do it at home if they have some basic tools. Garage rates for labour vary considerably You give no clue to your quoted price or whether the quote was for genuine parts fitted or aftermarket parts. Shouldn't take longer than an hour. All depends on if you think you could do it or how much you value your own time.

Nissan juke hybrid

Not necessarily, if that is your only thought on it going off. Plug all the seat belts in irrespective of someone sat in them. then see if it goes off. If it doesn't, unplug the empty seats one at a time and see. Final thought: A handbag on a passenger seat without the seat belt plugged in can trigger the warning.

Renault make Hevs. The arkana is available as a non plug in that can move on Battery power only for short distances. Think Kia do it too with the Niro. The smmt data is confusing because it doesn't list them separately. Lumps MHEV and HEV together. The development of this Technology has been curtailed by Governments insistance on BEV only in 2035 MR Toyoda is most upset

"China has become the world’s largest producer of electric vehicles (EVs) in a short space of time and, while its footprint in Europe is only small at the moment, its vast pace of growth and ability to scale up quickly means Chinese EVs will become a much more familiar sight on our roads in future. It’s expected that 10 new Chinese brands will launch in the UK by the end of the decade, offering an wider choice of vehicles to fleet managers and company car drivers." https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/features/chinese-car-brands-set-to-take-the-uk-fleet-market-by-storm

Whilst new cars have been in short supply they have been able to get away with the notion that you can buy half a car, paying over four years then expect someone else to buy the other half. That will not hold water for much longer. The GFV's of cars in agreements are soon going to reflect the true depreciation as the Battery tech improves. They talk of "lifetime as 10 year 100,000 miles". We still have many cars on the road pre 2014 are the new Cars not that good. Or are Cars going to have to be Reborn after ten years because of the powertrain.

1. That is why i don't understand why the target wasn't reducing the number of ICE sold to a percentage. Rather than increasing pure ev The industry could probably get pure ICE vehicle sales down to 10% very quickly using MhEV and Phev, if the government hadn't included them in the ban too, and would have reduced the Nations emissions sooner. The way they are doing it people will hang on to old cars longer. 2. The UK will probably make a big claim of being Carbon fuel producing neutral when that happens and continue to import.

The industry will do what ever necessary to maintain it's profits. if it means pre-registering BEVs to meet the numbers, they will do that if it's cheaper to sell them with a discount to reduce the number of fines. Whatever way it's done the costs will be passed on to the Public somewhere

They will be penalised on the ICE vehicles sold and add it into future prices If they cannot offset enough by buying credits from other EV manufacturers

You cannot get away from the stats that say 572,791 vehicles sold out of 679,822 have an internal combustion engine. 84% and less than 10% of those need plugging in. There is a way to go to win enough over to a full BEV

Can you track your car whilst it is moving along the road in real time? Check with the actual company you are going to use but i think it will have to be a"Thatcham approved" S7 device as a minimum LV just say

Have you managed to identify which seat is causing it?

When this crisis was first known, probably back in the 1970's If planning permission for all new buildings had insisted upon South facing roofs, solar panels and battery banks we would be self sufficient. Yet we still don't do that today

Hasn't just swapped the bulbs over, they have also reorganised everything in the garage, so it's possible the car is not in exactly the same place?

Can you not put the 12v battery on charge or jump start it with another car?

Maybe the answer is only if you are asked if you have been on one. Uswitch https://www.uswitch.com/car-insurance/speed-awareness-course/ So it must all depend upon the wording in the insurance application form and if the speed awareness course would change the answer. E.g Have you any points for speeding.......no Have you been convicted for speeding ..No Have you attended speed awareness course? If the question wasn't asked you have no change to report.

Appears to have gone from the April 2024 brochure https://www.skoda.co.uk/_doc/775d73bc-eb9d-4a50-911e-863d73b99333