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So councils / local authorities and particularly in England might be dragging their heals. There are towns and cities that are nor welcoming in passenger cars and parking might be expensive. Hence Park & Rides. There is supposedly a drive to Net Zero and Decarbonising. So the Tories played at it & Westminster played at it and had a morutorium on Wind Turbine in England. There will always be those that are unwilling to change there habits and think driving is the only way. Personally i have been on a bus twice in the past 30 years and never on a train. Been on Trams though and parked and rode. Trams were damn expensive... Even with a Blue Badge parking in Edinburgh City Centre can be very difficult to get.

Maybe once a week is enough public charging for some. Or a few hours several times a week on AC charging. During their working day, over night or while out and about. There is Subscriptions & Charging tariffs and under 50 pence a kWh. Porsche was 33 pence a kWh a year back. Then Location location and different strokes for different folks. So if you know what is what, there are thousands using Car parks, Multi-Storey Car parks and chargers, Park & Rides around the UK. Free parking maybe 5 days a week and up to 12 hours charging, maybe plugged in for 9 hours at 40 pence a kWh. 7 or 11 kW chargers. Say 60 kWh charged, £24.00. 60 x 3.5 miles is 210 miles. So they have a EV that might be the same cost or less than an Ice. £6,000 to £15,000 & if an ICE getting 45 mpg & £7 a gallon that is £32. Park & rides AC charging can be 32 pence a kWh. 60 x 32 = £19.20.

Maybe my bad. Were they maybe not available in the UK?

Yes there were Mk3 Octavia vRS TSI 4x4,s. Not in big numbers.

Bump for @Johnboyab

Worth a look for these threads.

. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhPNGWaoCY4 Sorry not liking for me. The recent Late Brake Vid with Jason Plato worth looking at IMO.

People can actually do or say what they want as far as posting factual or fiction & opinions. Also still buy or lease what they want and run them and as far as The Mandates on ICE vehicles and quotas of First Registrations we will find out come time if these end up being relaxed in the UK which is what will matter to some drivers in the UK.

Deja vu or groundhog day.

Welcome. enjoy. Spark plug early demise is common & then coil failure so good that is dealt with. Check the air filter, tyres, and reset the pressures and reset the TPMS. Check paintwork well to see no ropey paint / accident damage.

Yes there are people with no home charging that drive EV,s. There are people that do not do many miles. & Pure and simply everyone is not skint. There are people that overstay on chargers & pay £1 a minute or £10-30 penatlies. There are people that drive ICE vehicles and might get 15 mpg & not give a monkees.

If business user leases that is a 'Work tool' Transport. Nobody has to suffer any massive depreciation if they do not want to. If they get BIK and cheap charging the thing that matters is the cost to run the vehicle. If private buyers or people leasing have any sense they know now about what BEV,s can drop in value, or trade in or sale price. It is amazing that non participators get all worked up what participators might do. PEOPLE buying an EV surely know if they spend 10 minutes looking that if they have no Cheap Charging Tariffs then Public charging is expensive and no real saving at even current liquid fuel prices.

If i can find a pre 2024 BEV i like with near no miles or delivery miles and 'very much cheapness' i might just snap it up. Not caring about future value because it would be keeper. Not looking at those right now though.

@Graham Butcher You did come late to the party but the threads are here going back 5 years or more. So if Thine eyes are blind you will not see. Cars with less than 100 miles, 3 years old. Bunkered / stored, first registered to save getting £12,000 fines 3 years ago. Please if there is breaking news then it should be breaking news, we were discussing this 3 years ago. It was obvious Manufacturers were doing it. Just because Barry Compton tells you and other Vloggers that does not mean it was not commonly known. But people with eyes and ears.

The statistics in the Re-registrations are not false. Bargain prices for Demonstrators, manufacturers registered to meet First registration numbers, nearly new, leased, fleet, Ex Mobility available at Much Cheapness or at least high depreciation & bargain buys. People are buying with their cash money or loans / finance or even PCP on used EV,s and PHEV,s. When at chargers in car parks or just parked some place at least in Scotland people do want to ask about EV,s if you are in or with one. The Facebook posts from people on the cost of new batteries or EV,s using up crucial electricity are quite funny.

Looks like it was already set for Fixed Service regime then. Or maybe someone that had their car as from the Factory set to Variable used the way demonstrated to go to Fixed servicing.

If their price is accurate from the dealership for your car and engine then no wonder people use VW Independent specialist. Likely not the correct price for a 1.8 TSI from whoever at the Skoda Dealership. PS, catastrophic failures of 1.8TSI,s were not as such Timing Chain / Tensioner failing, it was crap manufacturer VW Group engines and excessive oil use. @BigP What mileage is on your car and does it use excessive amounts of oil?

It uses the sensor to see if the circumference / rotations changes up as well as down. So not just loss of pressure since being set. An increase can trigger the TPMS. And all tyres losing pressure might not trigger the TPMS.

Welcome. So what is your Mk4 Octavia, TSI or TDI? Matters not, that the Life Blood it needs.

Death by fire in car crashes in England Wales is a figure surely known by Coroners, & others. Office for national statistics possibly from Coroners. Then the Scotlands statistics, & Northern Ireland's. Insurance companies must know exactly how many vehicles insured and involved in crashes resulted in the deaths by fire.

Is that Hybrids as just PHEV,s since there were be questions on while charging or is it Electrified vehicles like Mild Hybrids, known as 'Hybrids'. I wonder 'The Mail on Sunday journalist or editor knows what is what, maybe their ar53 from elbow. PS, Re deaths in hybrids vs ICE vehicles was not death by fire was it? How many car crashes involved the vehicle going on fire and killing occupants?

No idea. What a noisy engine. Hardly matters if there was a engine cover. Is that the cars rpm just rising and dropping it,s self while sitting, when you show the dash?

Ignore me, sorry i edited, i see now in your post vRS TDI, and on your profile a 2018. PS, a litre low in engine oil is a pretty bad thing. Are you sure only 1 litre when you check the Oil & normal operating temp, sop an indicated 90*oC or so, parked on flat a few minutes after stopping. Like 4 or 5 minutes is few.

@Ccc1 What do you now have showing, 12 months or 24 months until the next oil service? Did you get the choice of what you wanted?

@Old_Dave Was your car already changed to Fixed Servicing oil & filter & you reset for 9,400 miles / 372 days, or was it on Variable / Flexible and reset for another 24 months.?