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Might be as simple as a getting older car / GPF. High idle has been reported with 1.0 TSI Fabia with GPF. @VMG What country are you in and what ambient temperatures have you been having. With a Petrol & a GPF the Reggening is not done as it is with a Diesel & a DPF. It does it after hot and off the accelerator. decelerating.

Seemingly there are around 8 million used car trades in the UK in a year. The Article is on data of 1.8 million vehicles. That can not be BEV,s as there are only around that many in total on the roads.

^^^ 'Typical Drivers' So what is one of those? Thank you for the article. I am sure they must know how many of these EV,s are Business / Commercial and Private use and Cars / Taxis and Light Goods vehicles compared to Private Vehicles. They will know how many are Demonstrators and Courtesy cars from First Registration then after 3 months , 30,000 miles are more are then SOLD as used vehicles. PS. A typical new driver of a BEV might just head off for the 1st or 2nd charging to see the range of the vehicle./ That would be about 450 miles worth average...

@lol-lol They are going out of the Business or changing the planned business model. The First Registering and the Partnering to get the Figures to save being penalised has caught up now with the kidology. As to Private EV Owners / Drivers home charging. Show us where they are doing higher mileages than when they had an ICE vehicle. Actually show us they do not also have an ICE vehicle.

I am used to crap Council Chargers in Scotland and stupid pricing and poor power output.. For handiness at a Farm Shop I used a 'evolt' charger 5 days ago and as far as i can see the Tariff is 55 pence a kWh. An ABB Charger and the CPS card or ElectroVerse should have worked but they did not, neither did the CPS oe ElectroVerse App. So i tapped a Credit Card. My Bank App showed £35 taken & that is fair enough. If 55 pence a kWh i got £16 of electricity and VAT. It shows still PENDING on my Credit card APP, and that is to SWARCO. The other charger i had used the day before a mile away was 70 Pence a kWh and the 50 kW CCS put out a max of 12 kW so to get the minimum charge of £5 i was there for 40 minutes. The next charger that was 6 miles away was going a max 17 kW but i only needed the £5 worth. Next chargers all gave 50-52kW and cost 61 pr 65 pence a kWh. All in the trip cost me as much or more than running a Petrol Car. A friend has gone from his Audi EV to a Kia Niro Mild Hybrid and is getting 65 mpg. He is a 20,000 mile a year Rep that just gets paid per mile but buys his own vehicles.

First registrations are just smoke and mirrors as the SMMT know well enough as do the Government, DVLA / DfT, Secretary or Stare for Transport etc etc. The real statistic that the HMRC & Treasury must know is. The wholesaling and retailing figures for DERV & Petrol at Filling Stations. Not including to Depots for Goods Vehicles or Farms / Building & Industrial sites. Comparisons for 1995, 2005, 2015 & 2025.

@frankdonato You do not say you have a DSG but you have another post about paddles. So it it a DSG with an e-brake but you say there is no 'option' to enable the Autohold?

The issue or elephant in the room with PHEV,s and bigger batteries and greater range on electric and no need to fire up the engines. Reported problems for some. ICE and GPF. Petrol engine not running often enough or for long enough. Maybe not a worry to those leasing and company cars. Maybe not a worry to many who just keep cars for the time there is a warranty or there is a setvice plan. As to used PHEV,s. Then it might well be a lottery. Was the car low mileage, or higher and FMDSH, but only did a few hundred or thousand miles with the petrol engine each year.

Some of them, maybe many are competent, then there are the likes of Halfords / Kwik-fit and a different matter all together....

Over the past 15 years there are plenty instances in threads / posts where the Turbo pipe and O rings have not been correctly reinstalled by a hashy tech / mechanic. or a pipe burst at the top of the engine. Was it the Coils replaced and the Spark Plugs also? Correct gap, not just put in as Pre- set gap. They can get knocked while fitting.

I read a few days ago that New cars in China from 2027 (typo) will not be allowed with hidden door handles or ones just electrically operated. They have to be able to operate mechanically from inside and outside. Not just an BEV thing.

For more than a decade and a half and even much longer, so 2 decades it was Minor / Major Servicing, then Interim and Major Skoda / VW Group UK showed Spark Plugs as 4 years / 40,000 miles. Pollen at 2 years, Air Filter at 4 years / 40,000. Then about 2018 they showed Air Filter @ 6 years / 60,000 miles. Then 2019 they Go Oil & Inspection Service fixed and at 3 years Extended Scope the Extended Scope each 2 years,. Never has any SKODA UK Servicing recommendations, advice, regimes or Schedules ever shown SPARK PLUGS @ 6 Years / 60,000 miles. There have been Dealership staff that said as an Excuse. They are Long Life Plugs, special and are good for 65,000 miles. Pure guff. as is the Cost of replacing 4 spark plugs as shown in the OP.

@DibDibScout I was not referring to a Dacia Sandman SUV, or a Bigster but an actual Dacia petrol estate due for launch in 2026. a C-Neo. I think this might be my next car if it feels comfortable and drives well.

There is something far wrong in the UK. Sir Keir Starmer messing about in China and getting a lower tariff on whisky, fair enough. (Single Malt Whisky they don't care about blends.) the Prime Minister or Energy Minister or Trade & Industry are saying nothing about the 2 Wind Turbine yards that need approved in Scotland, Ayrshire and on the Moray Firth. Seemingly fears of Spying etc. If the yards are not built where they want in Scotland they will be built someplace else in Europe and then transported to British Waters and erected anyway.

@Stuart-h Really then it is get done what you want doing or needs doing. What did the Skoda Specialist do and when was that? Best if you say what your car actually is, engine and gearbox, rather than people needing to check your profile. So what service history has the car, and how many miles a year do you do?

What service, how many miles or years old is the car? What was done last time? So UK there is no actual INSPECTION SERVICE. That is just the Service Indicator showing Oil Services and Inspection Services. At the PDI or the last Service they could have been set at the same time. So Variable / flexible services or Fixed. So it is an Oil & Inspection Service. Annual or do you want Variable? Extended Scope & 3 years then each 2. Be sure though at the Service they do a Body Inspection, for the Corrosion Warranty. That is not the INSPECTION Service though. . Extras cost. Pollen Filter, Spark Plugs, Air Filter, Brake Fluid, DSG Service etc etc.

1.5 pence a mile tax in the UK from 2028 really ruins things, especially to PHEV,s with not that big a battery or for those that can not do Cheap Tariff charging @home or work. So say 20 kWh of electricity costs 20 X 50 pence. £10, but only takes you 60 miles and then there is the £1.80 to pay to the HMRC. £11.80 is just a joke.

Full Service History. were the spark plugs changed. Air Filter as well? The 1.4 TSI PHEV engine oil & filter changes as to VW / Skoda servicing schedule, regime,. advice, specification were FIXED Oil & Filter changes. so @ 9,400 miles / 372 days or sooner, not Variable / Flexible. Re the Linked car for sale. I would be asking if OK to do a 50 mile road test, with the car charged to 100% before the test. Do the first 15-20 miles with the Engine. probably need to do the last 10 as well.

The DQ400-e is a 6 Speed Wet Clutch DSG with a filter. Fitted to 1.4 or 1.5 TSI PHEV.s. Not fitted to 1.4 or 1.5 TSI,s or TSI ACTs. non PHEV. DQ400-e DSG,s might have Skoda Dealerships say change at 2nd service as they do with DQ381,s. Total nonsense. ........................ As to DQ200 7 speed twin dry clutch DSG,s with no Service Schedule but 2 oils which can be changed. The Filter is in the MCU so not getting changed unless the MCU removed.

My best added miles is on the M77 into Glasgow from the South and down through and out and in less than 10 miles i have 30 miles added range that gets me to Striling which i had not enough range to get to until heading down hill. Actually my 160 miles heading north uses much less energy than the 160 miles going south. The journey time being exactly the same. For the Cairgorms & the Snow Roads Forfar to Braemar & back to Forfar doing the 120 miles is done using loads less electricity doing it Anti Clockwise. The same going 40 miles into the Glens from home. Much less efficiency climbing away up to Glendoll than the journey back. 250 meters above sea level back to 90 feet above sea level.

Thankfully what goes up usually goes back down and regenning can make up for hauling a vehicle uphill. Just not too much regenning that has braking so slowing down when you want to keep going. Not using any energy can be as useful as generating some.

The Expensive tool as in as was @ £3,000 back in 2019/20 & when even some main dealers did not have it is no longer that expensive. & they can be hired. It is involved removing parts to replace the Cam Belt 1.5 TSI ACT. The belt can be inspected without all the work...

Sorry can not link thread. But the similar repeats over the past years.

One very early demised clutch thread here was a Ex Demonstrator that was driven for the 3 Months / 3,000 miles by a family member of the Scottish Dealerships employees. Mother in law of Dealer Principal as i remember. Skoda Approved Used car and the Dealership said, No Warranty, not us gov. Driver error, not the Mother in law though. There are various cases like that i remember. Scottish Dealership Groups.

The DQ250 DSG oil & filter change is due at 40,000 miles unless you want done earlier. The Air Filter needs looked at and replaced if dirty.