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Taken them long enough. Looking forward to their amazing low purchase price small BEV,s they have trailed for quite a few years now. PS. Thomas nice as he is needs to walk back from the car a bit and see the 'Barely visible indicators' at the rear of the car. Quite common on vehicles now.

@Sailfast When the MCU was replaced i take it a a new filter and oil used. How many miles ago was that, and what DSG is it, a DQ381 or a DQ500?

Bump for @GB2125 Might be of interest.

Bump for @GB2125 Maybe of use to you.

Still possible the battery on it,s way out @ 6 years old. Edit,. Sorry i thought i read you charged the battery anyway. I should not go to SpecSavers!

@ DQ200 DSG were part of a Service Campaign globally, 2013-2015 models. '34H5' A software update. Preventative because of pressure / heat issues causing cracking and the issue with the actuator. Started in 2017.

@larsdowg What a pity the tech never deducted the weight of the container so we knew how much oil came out at normal operating temperature. 3,100 grams would be only 3.6 litres if that was just the oil weight. They drained not much oil since that weight includes the container in that report.

June 2023 Skoda / VW changed the Cambelt schedule for replacement to more like 180,000 miles and however many years, not 5 years / 50,000 miles. Let the Dealership that says a 1.0 TSI is @ 140,000 miles show you in writing. The Service Desk person can maybe go ask the Master Tech if he advises it then. Not the Service Manager, is is not a mechanical engineer. I hope the car had new spark plugs recently and at least once before that. Re Cambelt, be sure who does it knows the 1.0 TSI and has the locking tool. Too many have been messed up. the 1.0 TSI is nothing like as expensive to have done as a 1.5 TSI ACT.

Who changed the oil in the DQ200 & MCU? Can you be certain the correct oil capacity was refilled?

EDIT, sorry i see you had the TPI. A litre of oil is 856 grams @ 15*oC. . Meaning 0.5 litres is 428 grams..... 33 ................. . VW tolerance in writing in the owners manual statement about 'may use as much as and more in the first 5,000 km' has been the same fore decades for every engine 44kW up Petrol / Diesel, 3,4,5,6,.8,10,12 cylinders. 1.4TSI Twinchargers using more than 0.3 litres in 1,000 km / 621 miles had Engines replaced under warranty. There were tests done in the past where a Tech / fitter made the error of calculating 1 litre of oil being 1,000 grams. a 1 litre of oil in an unopened bottle is not 1,000 grams.

What have you a TSI or TDI?

^^^ Very very true for Front Wheel Drive Vehicles & for AWD / Part Time All Wheel Drives they can be fitted all round. Then obviously Skoda must be well aware with Classic Rear Wheel Drive Skoda fitting the Snow Chains on the Rear is 'Simply Clever' and just to the front would be simply stupid.

Was the car ever in as part of the Recall which is in the Pinned thread just up above this thread? Did it get the change of coolant or a waterpump?

Unconfirmed because they have not announced it, when they do the announcement will be public. So which sources have been told but can not confirm it? There does seem to be signs they will get the way of changing the plans the EU have about 2035. ........................... Has Manfred Webber actually made the announcement or not?

I doubt the Cross Climate 3 i have are any better than CrossClimate 2,s. They are no better than Maxxis AP3,s IMO. I have had many many tyres over 5 decades of winters in Scotland and very seldom does paying the cost of the most expensive tyres mean you have better tyres. I pay to get good tyres and get trade discounts. I am prepared to take off new tyres and give them away if they turn out to be crap for the car used on or the way it is used. I never run the new 'Summer Tyres' that come fitted to new cars. Worst ever i thought were the Primacy 4 that came on a Corsa Electric until i got a Mini Electric on Goodyear Eagle F1 sports. High Performance, but only on warm dry roads, not even cold dry roads and certainly not damp roads.

@Jim H what year was that, and the original CrossClimates? Lots of evolution has happened since 2015. After how many miles of use were they worn and lost performance in the wet? Different sizes, smaller sizes as some fitted to Fabia had less tyre tread depth when new. Guest_ is Me in this thread. I have had each type of CrossClimate on various vehicles in various sizes, The CrossClimate SUV,s were poor, but then they were wide even though i had gone down to 265,s rather than 285,s

They all leave the Factory set for Variable / Flexible servicing. 24 months / 18,000-20,000 miles. 29,000-32,000 km. But a Dealership or the tech maybe change to Fixed Servicing at a PDI if the car will be low annual miles / km, or maybe Fleet, or on a Service Plan. Has yours been set to 15,000 km / 372 days?

ESC / ESP is compulsory and has been for years. When it was first Skoda still charged as an option on some cars like Fabia that were not new Type Approved.

Is it me just missing it or them? ASR / Anti Slip Regulation / TC / Traction Control. VAQ a eLSD different from XDS +

They are wonderful when running right, and when you can have repairs or servicing when required. Fabulous if you are running them for maybe 200 miles and at less than 1 gallon of fuel. Crap if it cost 50% to 100% more because it gets charged on public chargers. Really the UK Grants are not much of an incentive. There are big Chinese built EV,s with good range and Much Cheapness about to buy or lease, but if charging using public charging no matter how low the lease or purchase price there is the cost of running and depreciation to consider. A £27,000-£30,001 EV SUV running cheaply for 10 years seems like a 'simply clever' decision. But now the UK Government plan charging per mile at 3 pence. Carrot then whack on the head with a stick. ....................... Under £25,000 for an ICE Model. Wunderba. *** A page for the EV version for £217 a month including VAT keeps popping up on the EON NEXT website then goes before i can click on it and is not coming up with a search.***

Hell will freeze over and the oceans will over top before She is ever a Prime Minister. Nigel Farage has better odds, and he is likely to do what she says she would. But this is politics / fiction.

I think many would like to see a fairer system where there are less have and have nots. Lots would like to see proper Regional Standing Charges but that was made clear as a no no. I think any region that blocks pylons being built were that region is the end user should have a surcharge imposed on them.

Over £65 million of public money in Scotland since 2011 for chargers and the administration of them for a population of under 6 million for Charge Place Scotland and much of the chargers broken, removed, switched off, gone, no longer available to the public after the first 2 years after the grants made to have them installed. So 15 years on it is back to Councils / Tax payers putting in chargers, or the need for the Commercial Companies putting in Chargers, hubs etc. They are actually managing to do that and charge the same or less than Councils in Scotland now charge for Electricity which might be generated locally and often on Public owned land, or land where land owners have already had subsidies, Aviemore TESLA 31 pence.off peak, and 57 pence peak. Charge Place Scotland Highland Council 70 pence. Geniepoint 95 pence. ForEV 65 pence. SWARCO have done very well from Installing and maintaining or not maintaining chargers (e-Volt owned by SWARCO) and replacing ones and running the back shop for BP when they ran CPS and the past few years of pathetic management.

'They' say, helping the poorest and most in need reduce bills. Well that is not those already using lots of electricity but with cheap tariffs. But then those that pay their bills and are not in debt are having to pay for those that spent their money and help they already got on other stuff and are to have vthose debts written off.

Yes it is wonderful coming off low tariff electricity like 7 or 8.5 pence a kWh. ? why should it not come off the price Public Charging providers pay? Because it is not likely to. End of, but you keep posting costs dropping. Councils that have set their tariffs for chargers are not making any reductions even if the energy price drops. This is Real World and what Martin Lewis or you or i would like does not then just happen. You need to see beyond Home / Work charging, and business users. There are those that are not getting financial incentives or payment paid towards their vehicles or fuel / energy. Like maybe half the driving public.