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Sorry can not help. Why are you resetting, is it set on fixed servicing 12 months / 15,000 km and you do not want to service it?

This supposed energy price reduction next April is not reducing the cost of buying electricity at public chargers is it? How much in pence is this drop on energy prices on say 60 pence a kWh including 20% VAT? £150 drop for an average families energy due to the Green levy change. so £3 a week but many are below the average and they might be £150 a month for electric and gas and are not going to be paying £150 less a year. I pay £2.30 for a 200g jar of coffee. Plenty while going charging an EV will go pay more than that buying just a hot drink. Social divide,

The energy requirements in the UK, gas, electricity, fuels for transportation etc is for industry, commerce as much as domestic accommodations. For water & sewage and upcoming is all the electricity Data Centres will require. These Small Nuclear Modular plants that are getting so much public money need building PDQ. There is a lot of steel needing imported, and the technical staff will be needing to come from someplace & into the UK to be building stuff, including erecting pylons. What a shambles the UK is really as far as energy security and training / apprenticeships and people skilled in the jobs needing done. Oil & Gas offshore workers and car workers seem not to be transitioning into jobs that pay less than they have grown used to.

45% in the UK, or the EU / Europe. Personally i think that is total rubbish as far as people able to park their car / van at their home. Time will tell just how things go. One thing is pretty certain and that is the UK not having Energy Security be that for liquid fuels & gas requiring importation and also electricity into the UK. England might be decades before it can generate it's own needs.

Skoda / VW say the DQ381 or the DQ400-e filter (40,000 mile services) just needs replaced at the 2nd service. so @ 160,000 miles with a DQ381. Nonsense. But that is what Main Dealerships in the UK follow. Worth looking what the Service Schedule is with VW / Audi in North America or Canada, where VW Group do not get away with failures as they do in the EU / Europe -UK.

@lol-lol when is it going to sink in with you that more than half the drivers of vehicles do not or will not have Home charging available & will always require public / shared charging which presently can be 10 times more expensive then 'Cheap tariff' home charging. & maybe half the passenger vehicles on the roads are not Company / works vehicles.

There needs to be more that 10 times as many built and on the roads be that by 2035 or 2040 & there is the issue that the vehicle manufacturers are very much aware of. That and people wanting to own them.

Best if you say a petrol or diesel, and which engine that it is using whichever fuel. How many miles covered and when serviced last. How long has it been recurring. If a petrol has it had spark plugs changed at some point? When?

Just a small point re the OP. A production date 2025 vehicle is very different from a 2020 because of the Legislation the manufacturers had to comply with from 2024.

Norway, also the home of Trolls is keeping it's Lithium & cobalt for future generations. Cornwall just needs to be getting on with it then. Or maybe a better idea is waiting until the value is much higher.

Skoda UK have never made a big deal if Fixed Servicing is done at 10,000 miles because it is within 1,000 miles of the Schedule. But the small print says 500 miles for the Warranty. But all cars other than the Citigo have left the Factory for the UK since 2011 with Variable Servicing showing. They get changed if they do usually at the PDI, maybe without having asked the first registered keeper, or if Demonstrators.

16" are very likely the size in the Owners Manual if Snow Chains are required to be fitted.

@MaxvdP It would be useful if you said what engine and gearbox your Octavia has, and how long have you had the 4 year old car?

Do not get ones that are then, be that in Hampshire or in far flung places in the wilds of the UK. Do you carry a full size spare wheel?

Now there are CrossClimate & Crossclimate +, & 2,s & 3,s and others, and prices are all over the place. New versions from other brands also, so last generations can be cheap. There are bargains all over for all sorts.

What miles has it done, & what was FULLY Serviced, was the Pollen Filter changed, was the brake fluid changed according to the Skoda Schedule now, @ 2 years? VW / Skoda converted km to miles and got 15,000 km to 9,300 with VW,s and for Skoda's 9,400 miles. Then a year and a week from a PDI, allowing for holidays maybe 372 days not 12 months. Variable 24 months / 18,000-20,000. Major / Minor was a decade back, then Interim / Major. Now Oil & Inspection Service and that with Extended Scope each 3 years. The Garage will know what the car needs and when for your usage surely. If you want it,s oil and filter changed at 12,000 miles, or 15,000 then have that done. It could have been left on Variable servicing and not reset to Fixed, 9,400 miles / 1 year (1 year and a week.) PS, Spark Plugs changed 4 years / 40,000 miles or sooner. Air filter checked each service, not as per Skoda / VW, 60,000 miles / 6 years.

So it is about being used on Mainland / Continental Europe & left hand drive and not the UK part of Europe or Ireland / EU Right hand drive.

VW group will not even do anything if it uses 1.5 litres in 2,000 km as they say that is within tolerances. But those saying that should be asked, show what the VW tolerances are in writing and not just the Owners Manual saying 'May use 0.5 litres in 1,000 km'.

It is clear enough, the EU / Europe does not have enough materials for building the required number of Battery Electric Vehicles or the Electricity to build them or for drivers to charge them. But then the EU / Europe has not enough materials or energy to build ICE vehicles and has to Import the Oil to Refine or the fuels to power them. The EU / Europe lacks many resources that require importation. The Ukraine was & is required for manufacturing, materials and energy and Hungary & Slovakia are essential for Car manufacturing and cheap labour and the Energy Russia allowed in to these countries. Its all a bit difficult for Germany & Austria really. They need their neighbouring countries and others for manufacturing.

If the additional work to an Oil & Inspection service at 43,559 miles is a Cabin / Pollen filter likely the Spark Plugs were not changed. They are additional work at it is a Full Service History, so should say what is done. Was the Brake fluid changed at 3 years or even @ 4 years?

The Full Service History is great, so it should show if the Manufacturers Service Guidelines, Scheduled / Advised servicing was done and the plugs changed at 40,000 miles / 4 years. That is the beauty of a FSH, it shows what is not done as well as what was. Maybe the Air filter needs looked at, as they might have followed the ridiculous schedule of @ 6 years / 60,000 miles and never checked it.

How many miles has it done, and is there a service history and a record of the spark plugs having been replaced? When?

It will make quite a bit of difference compared to regions in the UK and Summer / Winter and E10 95 ron or E5 97/99. Temperatures of 20-30*oC being something there is some of the time. Road surfaces being another thing that can be different. Best really to brim a tank and maybe see how many miles / km a car can go per litre in the likes of a city or out of. Short trips in cold weather conditions make a big difference. Then longer trips and not too hot weather might be more efficient in really quite warm weather.

@fabiamk4man For clarity it is best to say that that is in the weather conditions / climate you have in Greece.

I would have a new set ready to fit if you do not have a service history for the plugs being changed.