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@Edela Plenty threads on here over the years on the Manufacturers Warranty, Extended Warranty before car registered then Extended Warranty or the Skoda Approved Extended Warranty as there was. Then the Extended Warranty to purchase at the End of the 3 year or 4 or 5 if the vehicle has that cover. Or the All in one. The people that seem to not know are usually in the Main Dealership or Skoda's Customer Services. I used to have a friend that would even go in on a day off or holiday to sign up New or Extended Warranties. That was because the commission she got made it well worth her time.

No loss really as there are so many choices. The VW Group issue is the brands and so much choice and models sold still not fit for purpose with snagging faults even though 2nd, 3rd, 4th generation plus face lift models. Faulty software, DSG,s that fail prematurely, still coolant / sensor issues, even door seals, sunroof seals not sorted out after decades of poor design or manufacturing. Vorsprung Durch Technik should not be s foreign language to a partly German owned corporation. Now VW Group are even turning out EV,s with faults as they are with PHEV,s. It was time they concentrate on reliability as well as quality and value.

Is this the UK,s 'we'? There are colleges and training centres now and apprentices or trainees young or older being trained. It is a whole big new opportunity for a transition from whatever jobs are being lost in other industries, or maybe just the millions of unemployed including young people. Mechanics and Motor Engineers and Body repairers and painters are still required and will be for decades and far into the future. The UK,s Governments need to be involved more in what there is now and into the future happening. Easy enough to encourage not just 'Drop in centres for mileage checks on BEV,s & PHEV's for 2028 on but these places to include Quick vehicle inspections & servicing. Kind of like Halford Service Centres or Kwik_Fits etc, but better regulated and the places the Emergency Service Vehicles, Government / Council vehicles / NHS, Utilities etc go for their EV servicing. Right beside the Police & Ambulance depots would be quite a good idea, beside the solar & battery storage and whatever the Local Renewable link is to the National Grid. Low Carbon Transport Hubs. Standardise around England, Scotland & Wales and Northern Ireland if they want. Get the Brain of Britain Ed Miliband MP on the job. Economy of scale. design and materials, standards common through the UK, and modern tech, fire safety, Ai, IT, Cameras & videoing, security. Just a little common sense and business experience that required Politicians to agree to funding then keep well out of the rest.

People paying the High VED & splashing the cash are certainly going to want all the gear and quality. What is possibly a better vehicle as far as fit, finish and practicality on offer in the UK for a £57,000 list price? Then there is what can be leased at whatever monthlies.

@lol-lol Nooo. The logical chose for a Business user like The MacMaster if they have home / cheap charging might be an EV. Or if Public Charging it is still making a saving thanks to HMRC / Tax Payers helping subsidise their Take Home Income. & drive a Prestige car still. That is one or 2 sets of the driving public, not everybody. Maybe someone can work out & compare the Lease, Maintenance, Insurance & Fuel for a Business User driving a Porsche 911 compared to a Porsche Taycan costing the same list price.

@colmar51 Is it not because there were not enough orders or sales? Cost cutting hardly comes into it if people are prepared to lease or buy at the price they want to charge,.

Fannie Lou Hamer said, "Nobody is free, until everybody's free." What a pity every fanny posting videos does not quote that. We are in the UK, free to drive what ever you want for several years or even decades to come. Maybe just not free to buy new whatever you want. Time will tell when this really comes to pass.

Far too many Click Bait videos now with people acting daft on purpose for their particular audience. I watch lots of Youtube videos but after several years of some of the clowns i do not click on to them. I would hate to even contribute a fraction of 1 pence towards their 'video work employment'. I linked enough of their vids back when to maybe assist in buying them a takeway drink.

The Recommended servicing in the EU / Europe / UK is pretty much the same. According to use for Oil & Filter changes. Variable as they leave the factory, or Fixed to suit certain use, low miles, short trips, etc etc. Cambelt now in the UK not the 5 years / 50,000 miles in a non High Dust country since 2023.

I could have just tried the CrossClimate 3,s this morning. & there is not much salting / gritting going on out on the roads yet. That will change in the next 48 hours though. Double time for the Gritter drivers hopefully.

@Carlston Will be along hopefully. He is a fount of knowledge. Re the vRS Fabias, the Estates had the stronger springs so the tail did not drop and the front wheels lose traction causing wheel spin, ASR / TC coming on and poorer 0-100 km/h times. Poorer times than the heavier Polo & Ibiza. That is just how VW Group roll. Cheaper cars not allowed better performance figures.

What are you going to be towing, and is the 80 Kg including the tank filled with LPG? PS i wish you had told Skoda / VW that sand bagging MK2 Fabia vRS Hatches to make them 5kg heavier than the 9 3.4" longer estate by putting 25Kg ballast oin the rear crash bar and a 19 Kg spare and kit in the spare tyre well was not Simply Clever while the Polo got the battery in the boot and no spare and could tow as could the Polo & Ibiza & A1 Twinchargers. Kidology and adding weights while others decreased weight in vehicles.

You added the weight of a passenger to a car that might carry 4 passengers and the driver. Do you run the car fully loaded with passengers and luggage and near the max load weight of maybe around 700 kg ?

I can only see that is Spain there is the option of an extended manufacturers warranty to 5 years. In the UK you have the option of 4 or 5 years, and you just need to opt for that before the car is First Registered. Then obviously pay the cost of which option you go with.

@DAN@ADRIAN FLUXDo you sell car insurance in Norway?

Get it escalated from Customer Services to an actual VW / Skoda UK Executive member, Communications manager or whoever. A named person. They sometimes have no long term memory and wipe their brain or hard drive at the end of the day, but the vehicles with issues are real. If you had to get an Independent Engineers report and take them to a Small Claims court that is what some have to do. Denial and refusal is their normal behaviour. They try it for months until they can no longer. It can take a legal action to get their attention sometimes. They do not go to court to defend actions because an Employee would have to stand and give evidence, like how many Warranty claims, or faults rectified VW have had to address. Maybe we can have them be aware of this thread. PIETTRO PANARISI of SKODA UK might well get a we nudge. A good way to contact can be LINKEDIN. A cool dude like CRAIG WILLOUGHBY of SKODA & SEAT UK might give a toss about After Sales & Warranties.

@Edela Which regions of Europe or the EU have a 9 years Manufacturer Warranty on a Skoda? The UK is still actually in Europe. In Australia there is a 7 year / unlimited warranty on most new Skoda's. @oldstan The 20.tdi with 115/116/118 as i unstand has 300 Nm with the manual and 250 Nm with the DSG. Same as VW did with the Polo GTI 192 PS from 2015 after the 1.4 TSI Twincharger. 320 Nm manual & 250 Nm and the DQ200 DSG used. Actually that was a load of kidology, the seemingly heavier DSG car with lesss torque was actually faster, and when we put one on the Dyno and the scales the official figures were kidology. What we did was put them head to head as well. It was a pity Auto Car did not.

@Dcode If they 'All do that', then those that do not must be faulty and not behaving as the engineers intended. Contacting Skoda UK is contacting the Contractor doing Customer Services. Technical knowledge is zero there unless escalated. The Master Tech at the Dealership needs to get in a VW Group Engineer if it is beyond him or her and the dealerships technicians. They can get your car off the the 'TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT' they like to refer to, to be diagnosed. Just as part of their continuation of R&D. I am sure the Dealer Principal would not accept his or her partner driving one of the Perks / Demonstrators making the noise.

@CharlieH I am not mistaking them for an EV version. I have them out in the shed. & I have driven them on Kia's as well, petrol. hybrid and EV,s. Tests reviews can say what they like. If you use them and find no issues then good. 185's might be what makes a difference as far as aqua planing over 205, 215 or 225,s in 16 or 17" sizes. It must be a location location location thing, but actually up north the roads are finished to suit the weather and tend not to be prone to causing loss of traction in the wet or cold.

I had a loner 2021 Golf 2.0 TDI DSG and it was a 118ps one. Damn amazing fuel economy. It used GPS to get the best economy in corners. No engine braking was the first thing so much different from 2.0 TDI 6 speed DSG,s i have had, and i have had DQ200 vRS Fabias so know the box well enough. It was a car i could have lived with, and a Golf Estate would have been great. Only issue was the no Switches just touch sliders on the dash that did not even light up at night. Once home, filled up and on runs it was doing 80 mpg easily.

2.0 TDI,s are wet clutch except on the 2.0 TDI,s with only 115 ps which have DQ200,s. AdBlue is the further issue. But really what are the odds of issues? You have a warranty and keep extending. New cars have Clutch Packs of DSG,s covered which is good.

@oldstan If all good for you then fine. 6 speed wet clutch DQ250 DSG,s are just that, reliable. 40,000 mile oil and filter changes. DQ381 80,000 with more and more failing prematurely which is good if in Warranty. Skoda saying filter change not required til the 2nd service which by their schedule is @ 160,000 miles because service guidelines, recommendations and advice from them is 80,000 mile servicing. Have you read the threads on DQ381,s and MCU failures in the Octavia, Superb, Karoq & Kodiaq sections? Where are you finding the threads on DQ200's with failures on cars from about 2020 on?

Forfar Orchard Bank parking and EV chargers near the A90, KFC, McD,s, Marstons etc.. Getting busy lots of the time now & people sit waiting and get peed off and leave. This is since the Police Station has moved here and cars are getting plugged in and left for longer than the charging time required on DC and Tethered AC. Cars fully charged and blocking chargers or chargers cut out and no longer charging. Slow speeds now. Often the cars could be plugged in using their own cable on the AC chargers. But those can be fully occupied as NHS / Carers cars now get left here plugged in till the next shifts collect them. Sad really as there are Angus Council chargers near that the General Public can not use.

Both sets of wheels with tyres on are sitting in my store, hardly any use with the 17" and no wear on the 16" ones. I will probably not have another Mini to fit to but the tyres might be used sometime and then i will sell the wheels.

I ran for 2 years on Michelin Alpin 6 with no wear in over 30,000 miles, and just replaced with Riken Snow tyres the 3rd Winter after bulging tyre walls and wrecking 2 of them. Riken another Michelin owned brand like TIGAR which i have also used all season and Winter for more than a decade on various cars including a Fabia vRS. The thing about the Alpin 6 was the tread depth new and Michelin are right about how they perform even when the tread is lower. Not that they did wear really until i took it to the 1/4 mile run what you bring just to kill them off. As to braking distances, i have read so much crap concerning that.