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Another good video from @domhnall . A typical use of someone doing many miles for work and personal and with a home charger & subscriptions for cheaper public charging. Plenty in his street also with BEV,s and likely home chargers. Now we just need a comparison of someone doing these kind of miles and only public charging. Maybe the same as driving a Fabia petrol car. But quite possibly more. But then there is the BIK for those using the BEV for business miles.

^^^ If getting only 6 hours offpeak tariff then with a 3 pin AC charge cable you can get near 15 kWh in that time, so maybe 60 miles of range. The normal home tariff might be near 1/2 that of the cost of a kWh at public chargers.

Did JLR really spend an extra £50 million in marketing because of the adverse publicity? Was this over and above publicity for free from their New Design of car & the Jaguar Dealerships no longer selling any New cars? (Not to mention the potential issue of them going on fire.)

@Mark10061 That can be as much as 20,000 miles / 24 months. But have it serviced anytime you want sooner & then reset to Fixed and 9,400 miles / 372 days or sooner. All depends on how you use the car, and how you have things checked / inspected to suit your use.

@Bryfly Nearly always the case that a 'During a service price' of a Brake Fluid change is less (Price Fixed) lower than just getting a Brake Fluid change. Is it during a Service price that they gave it @ £100? You decide if you want to follow the @2 year Service schedule or not. You know where and when you drive and weather conditions etc. If you think the Brake Fluid has absorbed H20 or not. It changed from @ 2 years to @ 3, then a few years back to @ 2 Years as a nice little earner for Dealerships after the VW Emissions Scandal and stuff. Money for old rope.

'Keep it simple stupid.' Or if you have to implement compulsory features do the R&D and have stuff fit for purpose. VW might for VW or Audi, and not for Skoda or SEAT.

@26DIPP The beauty of the UK is that Home Deliveries or the Postie gets through and if not the roads are closed. & it used to be that when Snow Gates were closed 4s4s were allowed through. Those days are over because Police Scotland often have un-suitable vehicles / inappropriate tyres. Snow socks can be just the job for getting out of an icy parking place when inappropriate tyres are fitted. I carry a set just for the use of others that do not prepare for winter conditions.

They were just a glamour couple doing a little vid for clicks and money. That will be the last i click on to them. Like the dude said, he spent more than £5 for a coffee.(& bought rather expensive petrol @£2.00 a litre.) That is very much the thing. Some people know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. I bought 2 X 200 grams of Tesco De-cafe yesterday with my Club Card Personal prices for £4.90 and got 55 pence discount. I reckon that is about enough for the next 3,000 miles worth of when i am filling a flask.

@PWX01 Are you in the UK or elsewhere in Europe? As far as i am concerned, i pretty much like the KISS and pre 2024 first registered cars in the UK. But not all 2024 on are a PITA and in need of switching off or disabling compulsory features. Best thing to do IMO is test drive what it is you plan on buying, and do not assume a near identical vehicle will function or have the identical functions / features.

Not so breaking news. Someone who can charge a BEV @ 6.5 pence a kWh can go the same distance as someone paying 65 pence a kWh and for a 10th of the cost. Just have access to a property with a charger and cheap tariff electricity and you are onto a sure fire winner as far as the economics.

I doubt that for the Video that the ICE Citroen was ever run to empty or the tank drained then £5 worth of petrol added, but hey hoe it is show business and there is no business like show business and vloggers / Image creation.

^^^ Social Divide. Yes pay with the right Tariff. Home Charge fill up for £5. But if paying 65 pence a kWh Public charging gives you 7.7 kWh or just less. times 5 miles a kWh is 38.5 miles with the BEV. 75 pence a kWh is 33 miles from 6.6 kWh getting 5 miles a kWh. Coming soon to a BEV you might be driving an ADDITIONAL 3 pence a mile charge. (7.7 kWh getting 4 miles a kWh is only about 31 miles for £5.) That is real world BEV driving for many many people once the Cheap Battery fill has gone, if you ever had the very cheap charge up in the first place. PAY PER MILE. £5 for 31 miles then the additional 3 pence X 31 miles 93 pence. £5.93. Petrol at 163 pence a litre.. 3 litres for £5. 10 miles a litre =30 miles.

@26DIPP Is this for use abroad in a region where Snow Chains must be carried and fitted if sign posted to use Snow Chains? Fitting them is a plaster and time consuming. Making it more awkward is simply not clever. Clearance with clean chains is one thing, but what is important is the size / clearance once the chains get snowed up and the wheel arches do and the area between wheel and where the mud flaps would be fitted if fitted. There have been threads over the years with other Skoda Models and Snow Chains fitted to bigger Wheels / Tyres than the SKODA Recommended ones.

.DVLA says. McLaren. Year of Manufacture 2006. Date of First Registration 2016. 5400 cc / CO2 emissions 0g/km.

That is AC, Parks or Western for you. Try John Clark Skoda.

The all weathers start life with more tread depth.

^^^ Manufactured by Hankook, or Factory owned by Hankook.

@thamestrader That is the point. Oranges & Lemons or Peaches & Pears. DSG,s from different eras & evolutions, Pre WLTP and Post WLTP. Different engines from different years, and it matters if the vehicle has a e-Brake or manual parking brake. There are differences from 2008-2026, or from 2013-2026. Someplace a few years back there were some features and characteristics that to me seemed perfect on some VW Group models.

Cheers. I grew up there and lots and lots of family in Macduff and Banff. Anther thing about DSG,s is if there is 'Coasting Function' and if enabled or used.

Difference is a DQ200 7 speed twin dry clutch from a 6 or 7 speed wet clutch DSG. Wet clutch can slip some, a dry clutch should not be slipping. They should and do drive slightly different. @McDuff Do you happen to be in Macduff?

There are no 1.0 TSI Citigo,s in Europe, only South America with a bigger fuel tank. So 60 or 75PS MPI,s. It is a VW UP! to get a Turbo.,

When Autohold is enabled it is not the Parking Brake E-Brake operating. That is rear brakes only. Autohold has the same function as the Foot Brake which you pushed to have Autohold Enabled. Front and Rear brakes. Any movement and there is more brake pressure applied.

@Graham Butcher I have a BEV & 2 ICE vehicles. I am no green warrior. I am just raging against the machine. Or being a rebel without a cause. We are where we are and the motor manufacturers are where they are. No matter how much there is mumping and moaning from those that have not and what not a BEV they will still be getting built and purchased. I doubt i will be driving in 5 years so really could not give a monkeys what the UK government does. I am only here for the banter and to read some of the crap posted. PS. Please show any post ever from me where i say or imply that BEV,s are the only way to clean things up. You are making up your own story there.

^^^ Here we go again then Fire Danger. We will ignore the lack of reported issues where Hydrogen is already produced and used for Transportation on land and at sea. So lets do nothing then. Stay as we were. Waiting for the new technology. In less than 6 posts we are back at being doomed! PS. Have you notices @Graham Butcher how much wasted electricity generation there is now in the UK as not enough storage or transmission capacity and even though Wind & Solar in Scotland can produce many times more electricity than the National Grid wants or can handle? The BEV,s used as a means of Storage for excess production is getting no place fast. Have you noticed the cost of liquid and gas fuels due to matters around the world? Hydrogen Hubs for Low Carbon Transport are still being planned around Scotland.

Here we go again after many false starts. Easily generated electricity used to produce hydrogen and off we go with zero tail pipe emissions.