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@Caustic-Chris Are you opening the MCU to change that tiny filter? Best not.. The MCU is 1.0 1.1 liters. But the 1.1 liters is for a Dry Fill. Like if you had the MCU open.

Charging at home is AC charging & to 100% is not going to be an issue with degradation of the battery.

Do not only charge to only 80% if you want to go further, Why not 100% at home, or 99%. & 90% or 95% if you want & @ public charges when not crazy expensive, or 99% is Simply Clever. Plunge pricing today with Electroverse, Tesla non Tesla charging pretty much the cheapest if you have no Subscriptions. 100% charge at home x 3.5 miles a kWh, 59 kWh usable battery is over 200 miles. ECO mode is a no no for me in any BEV because really i prefer get a move on and coast and regen a little, not high regen. ********** 260 miles from 59 kWh would require 4.4 miles a kWh. Low 20,s oC, under 50 MPH, no AC on etc etc. Or a car under a unreal WLTP Regime not on a real road.******** Or just canny canny hypermiling.

Electroverse and Plunge Pricing of a 25% reduction in tariff with some of the public charging providers is nice. However i am getting 50 kW charging, well 46 kW max for 55 pence a kWh. So i have had 150 miles done on my home 5.99 pence a kWh and the last 200 miles on the 55 pence tariff at a Farm Shop Public charger. I will have to charge and get maybe 10 kWh at probable 65 pence a kWh. Getting about 3.1 -3.3 miles a kWh. 150 miles for £3.12, 350 miles £58, and 33 miles £6.50. So 533 miles for £67.62...... If Petrol getting 40 mpg, = 13.325 gallons. If £7.50 a gallon that is £99. 94 50 mpg would be 10.66 gallons, £79.95.

@bmat What Trim / Model of a 2020 Octavia, what engine & gearbox? If it feels wrong have you had a mechanic check out underneath?

@JMSkoda94 What VW Group say in the Owners Manual is not 'What is acceptable'. & Not wothin Tollerances. During the Manufacturers more than 0.3 Liters in 1,000 km is bad enough to get a Replacement Engine for those that can push the matter, in the UK where there are not extreme temperatures and NSL,s that are meaning that the engines are not likely to be stressed. They happened to manufacture some lemons. But as far as a 10 year old engine, what Tollerances were is neither here nor there. You appear to have been sold a pup.

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The target is not 1 liter in 1,200 miles though. As it is with Skoda and the official Oil Consumption tests and new oil and filter and oil dropped and weighed, there were muppet techs that thought 1 liter of oil weighed 1,000 grams, not the 856 grams at 15*oC if they had checked just 1 liter. In an unopened 1 litre bottle that is not 1,000 grams.

Some MOT Station testers even went and changed the bulbs to help out the owner only to find out they would not work.

@MBane Good point. BUT the Blue Dummy Bulbs do work. They do not light up as designed they just fill the connectors. Factory fit. As i said plenty MOT Testers have made the same error.

Sadly common issues with some VW Group / Skoda TDI,s. ? Who was the Oil consumption fixed without an engine rebuild. Or were the Engine Numbers ever checked that it was the original engine?

As i posted in the Yeti thread, members on here have done the same to their vehicles and they might well then trade in or sell them. PS, most common MOT cheat, test a totally different vehicle for emissions. Hence Web Cams coming in eventually for every test station. Probably watched by AI...

@davegr When was the MOT last done before you bought it? There are many vehicles the same out on the roads just as that one is and nobody picking up on them. Members here do it to their vehicles.

@davegr Difficult for Dealers / Traders to know often what they bought in or were traded in. As it is for the MOT,er. How recent was it MOT,d before you bought it?

No they say for any engine for 2 decades now that they May use as much as 0.5 litres in 1,000 km. (621 miles) So 1 liter in 1,242 miles. High Summer over mountain passes towing Hannibal's Elephants. Well in some conditions. Every engine, 44 kW up, 3,4,5,6,8,10,12 Cylinder Petrol or Diesel. Actually they know after the first 5,000 km where they say oil use might be higher, they know that within Manufacturers Warranty 0.3 liters per 1,000 km is too high.

The old Skoda joke is that one parked on the drive is a deterrent to burglars as they assume nothing worth stealing in the property. Old Skoda more likely to get pinched, Mk1,s or 2,s. Fabia / Octavia.

'The small bulbs in headlights should NOT work also. DRL,s are also Side lights but less bright when so, or when a Parking light.

@Colin1051 No not on the same issues, Design, manufacturing or material faults. Point i was making, maybe less of a hopeless DVSA is what is required and them getting involved more. Actions raised in Scottish Courts have in the past had VW take actions. Actions in other world regions have them crap themselves. The DQ381 MCU,s premature failures is a Global Issue. As it is the Fuel Economy was nothing to do with the rejection that a member had accepted.

The service interval for a 2019 2.0 TDI is not due at or before 55,000 miles for Cam belt / water pump or DSG is it. Or is it not a DQ381 DSG & a 80,000 miles oil and filter change. So owners choice to change things early.

Not to worry, floor the accelerator and you might be near twice the national speed limit in the UK before you need to lift off.

@MBane I see you have a 2010 vRS. There were a few of us had the first 50 in the UK, demonstrators and Media cars. I had 6 vRS that i dealt in, they were high oil rejects of crash damaged and 2 personal were Red & from Skoda UK,s cars. ? Can you give part of the reg number please? Just nose as what car you have. What colour is it? 'Or crash damaged' sorry can not edit just now.

I am referring to anyone interested. The Linked threads & 'quest' are my posts over the years. The DRL on switch was deleted before 2014 when they stopped building Mk2 vRS Fabia.

PS. Was it 2012 no longer the DRL on / off rocker switch in beside the fuses? At services or maintenance / software updates most techs turned off the DRL,s at the switch.

The DRLS do not need to work because cars Type Approved before mandatory. But sidelights should come on as Sidelights, with headlights. Also if you use Parking Lights. Ignition off, indicator stalk down. One Front Sidelight / Position Light on, and one rear, also 1 registration bulb with a vRS.

The Blue bulbs in the Headlights are dummy bulbs. For 13 years some muppet MOT testers fail vRS on no sidelights and have no idea the DRL,s are Sidelight & Parking lights but dimmer. 3 threads on Police muppets thinking Front Fog lights on when DRL,s and Skoda Salerspeople arguing there are Front Fog lights and Skoda said there were in Brochures so Adverts in Autotrader repeat that.