Stonekeeper

https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/realmpg/skoda/

Sorry misunderstood, didn't realise you had the original tyres as well. how come the rims are not matching?

I wonder what would happen if you put them in the glovebox then did the tpms reset? Obviously not still on the rims 😂

Did you keep them when you changed the tyres?

I don't think he likes the car. Mr Owen said he has also had another incident where his battery died while he was on the motorway last April - just a month after he bought the vehicle. 'I was driving the vehicle and I had about 100 miles still left and I was literally just driving about 20 miles and I lost pretty much all that charge and car stopped in motorway and I got recovered - it took about 8 hours to recover the vehicle,' he said. 'Everything literally just shuts off. The wheels clamp up because its electric, I can't take the handbrake off.'

A Cheshire Constabulary spokesman told MailOnline: 'At around 2.15pm on Wednesday 6 March, police were contacted by the driver of a Jaguar I-Pace who reported that there was a fault with his vehicle, and he was unable to brake. 'The driver told police that he was travelling on the M58 in Merseyside. 'Officers attended the scene and escorted the vehicle as it travelled onto the M57 and then M62 towards Manchester. 'Once on the M62, officers from Cheshire Police, Merseyside Police and Greater Manchester worked together to stop all other traffic, they then used a police car to help bring the car to a stop at around 2.40pm, between junctions 10 and 11 of the M62 eastbound.'

Mr Owen continued: 'It was just scary I was just hitting the back of this police officer. I was hitting them at about 90mphs. 'I was still talking to the operator, and I was worried. I was thinking I could potentially kill myself hitting this police officer at 90, or I could kill him if he loses control.' Is it not supposed to apply the brakes before contact?

It should have been near Ripponden 90mph for 35 minutes from liverpool?

maybe a Control/alt/delete button on the touchscreen to switch it on and off again?

With all the modern tech and internet connection in the car you should just be able to shout "Alexa stop the ******* car" 😂

I think 29mpg sounds fine 223miles at an average 14mph doing schools runs

I think an Octavia weighs almost a ton and a half. Will take a fair amount of fuel to move it from stationary which happens a lot more in town traffic. You can reduce fuel usage with better anticipation at junctions etc.

In these instances i wonder what would happen if you set the cruise control on and adjusted the speed down with that?

Agreed but it was the Con/libs who trebled the fees in 2012?

Young folk? Those in their forties are still paying student loans back and some will have children at university. so that would now be two generations?

My guess would be a floormat

Looking at the pictures they handled this without much damage to the vehicles

If we hadn't changed the way we do road signs for hills i would have thought 95% was good too 😉

5% is one in twenty that sounds like a big gamble to me

I expect the recalls in subsequent years would involve the same cars. All modifications made over time would have been addressed in production of newer models Mladá Boleslav, 9 February 2022 – ŠKODA AUTO has produced its four millionth DQ200 automatic direct-shift gearbox at its Vrchlabí plant since production first started in 2012. The dual-clutch transmissions are used in models from the Czech carmaker as well as in vehicles made by other Volkswagen Group brands. https://www.skoda-storyboard.com/en/press-releases/skoda-autos-vrchlabi-plant-produces-4000000th-dq200-automatic-direct-shift-gearbox/ They are probably still making that 2,300 a day But i wouldn't buy a used car with a dry clutch DSG

There a a lot of variations with dual clutch automatics, go on any manufacturers forums and search for "automatic" problems and you will find the same ones. It goes by many different names. Volkswagen has dubbed dual-clutch transmission cars DSG (Direct Shift Gearbox). Porsche calls it PDK (Porsche Doppel Kupplungs getriebe), Audi prefers S-Tronic. EcoShift, SpeedShift, and PowerShift have all been thrown into the pot (by Hyundai, Mercedes Benz, and Ford, respectively). Still, the various monikers all refer to the same thing: the dual-clutch transmission. Salesman have no interest in "problems" and service staff always say "that's rare" they only care about what happens under warranty. Once out of warranty are people still likely go to main dealers for repairs A DCT needs servicing. How often will probably depend as much upon how the car is driven as it does on mileage and time. A DCT is not an automatic, it is a manual gearbox with two clutches for alternate gears controlled by a computer to change the gear automatically . When looking to buy a second hand one i would be interested in trying to work out how the mileage and time relate as well as evidencing service done.

The number of failures in the DQ381 growing would make sense now because it was first used in 2017. More now out of warranty and also more likely not to be following a service schedule. With the mechatronic unit on this gearbox sharing the oil with the gearbox i am very surprised that 80,000km was ever thought of as suitable. 40,000 makes a lot more sense.

When cars had lead acid batteries and no battery management systems, you had to check that the plates were covered by removing half a dozen plugs along the top of the battery, the electrolyte inside could boil away because of constant unnecessary charging and you were able to replace it. AGM batteries are sealed if you leave it to it's own devices attached to an alternator it will potentially be overcharged, The battery management system is designed to prevent the overcharging, it also determines if the charge in the battery is enough to allow the stop/start to be activated. To save fuel the bms also monitors the demand of functions operative in the car and in periods of high demand will focus the output of the alternator into running them instead of charging the battery. Frequent short journeys with lights/heater blower and or air con on will prevent the battery from having time to charge up. If everyone is saying everything is testing out as ok i think the car just needs a good run. Next time the stop/start is not greyed out and is activated see if the cd player plays without the bongs

It's 20km/h in the uk, who drives that slow apart from maneuvering? https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-noise-systems-to-stop-silent-electric-cars-and-improve-safety