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£1 a week average saving per household for 26 weeks over winter on elsctricity. Obviouly lowest users not even £1. Standing charge even without vat might be over £3.50 a week. Mine is. Luckily i have tariff capped till next June on ev smart meter tariff on dual fuel. Public charging today i was £17.50 for about 120 miles. 20% vat. Yestrrdsy 190 miles from £3.50 of home charging.

A while since i had such a horror of a session trying to charge anywhere. b This was Edinburgh city. Hermiston park and ride. 5 rapids. 1 occupied. 3 out of order. Last 1 i tried was working. Not taking charge place Scotland anymore. Not taking a Credit card. WattStop App required Samsung phone only for that. I had a Sony But it is by Fuuse. So Electroverse card worked. Max charge speed 30kW. It was roasting . Had allready driven 2 hours. 2 dogs and grand daughter with me and 2 hours more to go. Peed me right off. I would happily have been paying £2 a litre and getting 30 mpg than paying 61 pence a kWh.

No 5% VAT on Home Electricity from 1st October 2026. Good for those charging at home or others homes or with battery storage and offpeak or anytime cheaper tariffs.

In the EU & with VW Group they seem unable to convert km to miles for the UK. So 40,000 miles, or with a DQ381 they say 80,000. In the USA Audi might say 36,000 miles. It is pick a number any number. Then even Dealerships employees can have not a clue what you have or when stuff needs doing. In the UK they say a DQ381 Oil filter change is not due at the first service, they would leave until 160,000 miles.

@BeaverRS Can you not just say in which country you have a dealership, and do you have a PHEV?

If a PHEV then it is DQ400-e DSG,s? 6 speed wet clutch with 40,000 mile Oil & Filter changes.

@BeaverRS So is it a PHEV you have and the DSG is a DQ400-e?

@BeaverRS Are you in Australia? Where there are Lemon Laws, and since 2012 3 Recalls on DQ200 DSG,s, and Service Campaigns and recalls because of so many DQ200,s not receiving the updates. VW Group had to get their act together after such incompetence.

@OmerGarabagi What is the Ambient Temp or the actual air temp inside the car when using recirculation? getting 14*oC out of a vent seems pretty damn good to me.

Where that shows iV do they mean PHEV rather than IV as in Mkl4?

@mdureadi If you check most cars the actual coolant temp will be higher than the cars temp gauge shows. Is it nice new Summer Coolant / Anti Freeze / Rust inhibitor you have filled up the Coolant system, with?

Or APR official dealers. People with a rolling road / dyno preferably where ever you go. Best after the car serviced and new plugs and filters fitted and running well on E5 99 ron minimum.

No, saying maybe go narrower and more sidewall. Maybe go All Season Tyres. What tyres are fitted? @Carlston is the fount of knowledge.

That change of taller sidewall is not going to work. Best look narrower tyre and more sidewall. What pressure are you running, and what are the tyres? Are they XL, Reinforced sidewall?

A member posted that this was carried out on their DSG. Has anyone else had this or any other Recall Actions / Service Campaigns or been told of a TPI / TSB for their DQ381 DSG? EDIT.Add this.

@BeaverRS Re the Recall or TPI /TSB or ''Service Action '37VQ' on a DQ381 DSG might interest many that might never of heard about this. Were you notified of a RECALL as the Registered Keeper, or did you find out when reporting an Issue. ie A Skoda Secret Service 'Recall Action'. Need to know and owners need not be told! EDIT PS. What country are you in?

PS. So maybe this week more drilling and extraction of Oil & Gas in the north sea will be approved. So more Oil & Gas to be exported. No refinery in Scotland anymore so this oil and gas will make no difference. If there is gas going to come ashore they best get building storage facilities.

Very important that the Battery Farms get build so that the renewable generated electricity can be stored for when needed rather than turbines being closed down. 2 new offshore windfarms in the Moray Firth hjave just been granted licences. The North & South Caledonia windfarms. Estimated to be able to power 2 million households. So all the households there are in Scotland. Amazing how many windfarms there are in Scotland all able to power every household in Scotland. Substations need built but are not getting planning. Pylons are required bit planning is being blocked. New Hydro Schemes were being blocked and now developers are saying not economically viable because of The UK Government and how they support the energy required. They would rather it is bought in from overseas, and not locally overseas, but from the EU or European Countries other than Scotland.

^^^ There are 2 oils in the DQ200 DSG, in the box and in the MCU. Box oil might be dirtier than MCU oil. (green)

It needs checked to see if it is the MCU (Mechatronic Control Unit) leaking. Checked if there is enough oil in it. Did your DQ200 DSG ever get the Service Campaign action done after early 2014 and the Synthetic oil changed to Mineral & the software update. '34F7' Sticker in spare tyre well. Or was your DQ200 after this and did it get '34H5' carried out?

Welcome.

They are 'havering', the Dealership and VW Warranties. They can do adjustments / resets by plugging in. The Adjustment of the clutch packs is the same as if they were fitting new clutch packs. They are going into the box to look see what the fault it. £3,000 covers the cost of new clutch packs. VW Warranties need to clearly understand 'an adjustment' compared to what is actually being done. Is the Dealerships Tech actually doing 'The Adjustment' or farming it out, as even dealerships as big as Parks might do. eg Parks Skoda Hamilton.

Councillors have approved planning permission for the biggest Solar Farm in the Scotland in Perth & Kinross region. Not that there is a shortage of renewable electricity in the area, just a lack of National Grid infrastructure and electricity generating businesses being paid to not generate electricity. What is the potential generation already, 4 times what Scotland homes and businesses require. The UK Government have already approved the biggest and second biggest Solar farms in the UK, in England.

^^^ Typo. 6,500 miles.

^^^ 2024 Mk4