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Skoda changed to first at 2 years then each 2 rather than first at 3 years then at 2 years as far back as 2015 with All New Mk3 Fabias. That was in the UK. Nothing to do with EV,s & their Schedule, Regime or Guidelines.

^^^^ As above. now at 116,000 miles so when were things replaced?

An average of over 60 mpg over a year is quite something. every mile and every liter counted to get 63 mpg average.

New cars damaged in transport, or storage or Pre or post PDI and sale to new owners / first registered keepers might never show on any insurance checks claims. Repaired by Porsche / VW / SKODA, SEAT, Audi etc etc approved repairers, or kerb side / forecourt man / woman in a van people. That is just how it has been. Skoda / VW Group approved used vehicles can be as bad as any old tarted up cars. Some straight from Car Auction to refurb and then onto forecourt showroom can be better prepped and painted than Ex Demonstrators, Courtesy Car, 'our managers specced up top of the range'. Skoda / VW owned until resold car.

Wintry weather, EV real world. Not the car or drivers fault or even the weather, it can be crap chargers. The battery was not pre heated as only run for 1/4 of a mile to the one available 50 kW DC charger unless starting the journey and hoping the ones 6 miles away are available and working. So around freezing and going just above. I want safely 120 miles range later on to get a charge hub allowing for possible diversions. 52 kWh Battery 48 kWh usable. 70 pence a kWh and max speed at plugging in 12 kW and getting to a max of 20 kW. So to get to 100% that was £10.95 for 15.6 kWh. & took 55 minutes. Max charge time is 60 minutes here then a £30 penalty. So anyone wanting a good charge up is stuffed. 15.6 kW might give me x 3.1 miles per kWh in these temps. so an extra 50 miles for £11. This is real world crap infrastructure in the South West Scotland and Council Public Chargers.

I would not just assume the Engine Light is related with your TSI to the DQ381 DSG,s fault. How many miles has your car done. When was the Spark Plugs changed?

There are 2 of them, their hand overs and Sales staff are no better than Arnold Clark, Western or any of the others really. When you find the Security bolt socket or even before i would check you can actually release the bolts to change a wheel using the tool you have. Others wise you are left with Skoda Assist doing it. Have a lovely Christmas and a Happy new year. PS. Check where the Oil level is when cold if your car has a dipstick, then when at operating temp so you know where it was at hand over, and then for topping up, and then after services. It will be pretty much just enough in. They are supposed to check at the PDI. Look see the coolant level as is now when the car is new.

@jarneevans I see your location is India. Important.... Are you serious about the tyres & wheels you have replaced.. More than £7,000 spent! Are you driving hard at sleeping policemen / potholes etc? Where has the car been to to get the fault diagnosed at . What do you expect Skoda Customer Care to be doing? SKODA INDIA and CZ are the ones that the Dealer / Technician need to speak with not just you complaining or speaking with some Call Center handler. HOW MANY SKODA DEALERSHIPS ARE THERE IN YOUR AREA?

^^^ Was that not where the Tyre Inflation kit was? or was it left above that. I would be checking and resetting if needed the tyre pressures. Just incase the Tech or Fitter was other wise occupied while doing the PDI. Was this Henrys Skoda Glasgow?

For others information i looked at your profile to see that it is a 2.0 TDI vRS you show as having.

^^^ Amazing. do you never do short trips with the engine staying cold and not up to an efficient temp & just getting the 30 mpg or so that others might get, if you do you must often be getting the 80 plus mpg to have an average like that.

Check out others experiences.

What servicing has it had? How many miles has it done, does it run much on just petrol and not mainly just electric, has the oil changes been annual / fixed, 9,400 miles or less, have the spark plugs been changed?

PCD 5 x 100

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It is not a Space Saver even though Skoda call it that. It saves space because it is a 15" Steel Wheel with a 195 or 185 / 55 R 15 tyres. What do you need the extra space for, a full size Alloy and a 205/40 R 17 tyres fits in, even a larger 205/45 R 17 or a 215/40 R17 goes in with room above. They are sometimes For Sale on Briskoda adverts or are on Ebay, etc.

I remember every vehicle i have owned or driven since 1977 and know how much fuel it used on the trips and journeys i do day in day and day out over the different seasons. I pay for the fuel, put it in the tank and drive the miles. I remember well the ones that were high 20 mpgs, the ones in the 30,s and 40,s or 50,s mpg. Petrol or diesels. Same roads unless maybe a new stretch of dual carriageway / by-pass, many of the same filling stations that maybe had different grades of petrol then Unleaded and different dervs. Unleaded, super unleaded, then E10 or E5. I used to write it down back in the day, then it becomes so easy to know which routes are more economic that there is no need. #Memories.

Mk2,s you could increase or reduce Brake Assist as you could Steering Assist and the XDS / EDL to greater or less. Many a Motability car that had Hand Controls or not but adjustments made would be returned at end of lease with controls / modifications removed but not reset to Factory Settings.

The very one. Passing the subsidised charging from Porsche, or paid really by Porsche buyers. Lease a business vehicle, tax benefits, reclaim VAT etc. Using as a works vehicle & mumping about Insurance, Maintenance, cost of tyres, charging, etc etc. Real World for a Youtuber, not for many Porsche Taycan driving Business Users or even private drivers. It is the real world that matters, and not the expensive cars, or the big battery ones, the ones out their in the majority, the ones that should be electric, town and city use, charging at public chargers. Plenty of those are parked up though and fleet cars, and councils etc. Using the chargers and parked for many hours and meaning The General Public are denied their use.

Strangest cases. Taycan driver, daily drive, using lots of chargers, never remembering how to position car, how different chargers would start, order of plugging in etc. A pantomime. Set up to fail and show failures.

We will see. Castleview Park & Ride Stirling. Millions spent, there are canopies with Solar panels and there is battery storage and over 60 AC charger points and only 4 DC 50 kW and they are giving out a max of 30 kW for weeks now, even when AC chargers near empty. A Max charging time 40 Minutes then £1 a minute on the DC. There is 1 Electric Bus charger sitting in an awkward place and never used. If you park on a pavement next to the bus stance you could use to charge your car. For this the DC is 65 pence a kWh and the AC 50 pence.

Some you tubers with big battery cars went to low output chargers and said how slow they were when the vehicle could be charged at Ultra Rapid chargers. Some seemed to on purpose head to these slower chargers. Business users, Video Producers, driving props for their videos. I watched @domhnall,s (Enyaq Gorm / Blue Enyaq) Vid Short yesterday where he was in Dundee @ an Ionity charger saying that the infrastructure is not as poor as some might think (Paraphrase_ ) That made me laugh because Dundee has lead with the best or most charging per head or EV drivers anywhere in Scotland. ....... You pay the high tariffs from commercial providers and you pretty much get the speed and the reliability of these faster / more powerful chargers. It is a higher cost for many private drivers not getting paid to travel. When the cost for pathetic unreliable chargers then that really is a P1th take. The infrastructure public money paid for can be total crap. In Scotland so much waste of public money on paying for such poor charging infrastructure will be investigated at some point probably, at a further waste to the public purse.

The VAQ Service is at 3 years / 30,000 miles or sooner, and some tuners say at 20,000. If getting the DQ381 serviced early or as per Schedule which is crazy at 80,000 miles get the filter changed. Skoda / VW say not required until the 2nd service. Spark plugs at 40,000 miles or sooner. Check the Air Filter annually.

@Luck Handy if you say how many liters of 99 octane E5 you use in the 260 miles? Is it 99 From Shell . Tesco or ESSO or maybe 97 ron from the others selling E5. Just curious but is your engine fine to run on 95 ron E10?

FFS, Council chargers in Scotland. I have been in 4 council regions this past week and 50 kW CCS chargers only put out 26 or 30 kW max from low percentage of the battery. It is not the car because i put it on a TESLA and a MFG Ultra Supercharger when over a 50% to see & got 52 kW showing & still charging at 30 then 20 kW right up from 80% then 90 % til at 99%. 65, 70 & 75 pence a kW on Council Public chargers & 55 & 79 on the Ultra Rapids. Damn right on going ICE when you are paying money from your own income and even on a State pension plus you are still being taxed & paying this much public charging. Not interested in the Cheapness of home or work charging, or others paying for it. That is their kettle of 'Much cheapness'. Retired, Social, domestic, leisure, recreational, WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER. Cheaper by petrol or diesel. Even if you 'Just got a Tesla'. Because you are not always charging Offpeak hours or even maybe near Superchargers.