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Groundhog day again. The Councils / Local Authority discussion was done several times here. Location location location. There will be councils where VANS have to do lots of miles in a day, and others that might just be a city and the miles their vehicles might not be so much. Getting BEV,s into the mix is just a case of what the Local Authority is prepared to sort out as far as economics and efficiency and meeting the Net Zero targets that they need to be meeting.

An EV is just so good for damp conditions and cold or icy, pre conditioning or just starting and demisting / de-icing. & Heated seats / steering wheels and mirrors. Not unique to EV,s but nearly always standard.

EV,s highly unlikely to be given their own NSL,s in the UK while ICE vehicles have different speed limits. Same thing as far as Electric HGV,s.

Boxy. Simple and practical. IMO.

@Guest_ was me.

^^^ 4 years later.

Is the car doing regen maybe, and constantly.

All along bad decisions by the Westminster Government and no Sovereign Wealth Fund and using moneys to break the unions (Coal mining etc.) Supposedly no Oil & Gas left and no way could Scotland be Independent. Licences change hands but the UK is not buying them back or buying them out. It is like Hospital Car parks that were leased to companies on very long leases and had to be bought back at great cost to the general public or tax payers. Sometimes for many millions.

Welcome. Best say what engine you have as we can not just guess. Is it a manual gearbox? With a TSI normal is maybe 1,100 rpm on start up and dropping to 800 or so rpm after 40-60 seconds. Is the AC on or off?

The Crown estate Scotland & Crown Estate England, Wales & Northern Ireland. So not your's or mine. So the leases / licences need to expire. But the Rigs, pipes and other infrastructure is owned by others on that Crown Estate Seabed. The UK Tax Payers are paying companies to decommission rigs etc. ................ I know this stuff without the need of internet searches and have since 1972 when my dad started working for Bristow & family went offshore, then school mates, and i worked for a business doing offshore fabrication. It is pretty much a topic that comes up in the North East of Scotland all the time since it is a major employer in the North East.

The oil and gas in the British sectors of the North Sea is not Britain's or the UK,s to have. The licences to explore and to extract have been issued to others. The treasury does tax it though. Norwegian and Israeli companies, and Canadian and Americans own the product. It was Russians and they sold them on because they had to. Natural gas from the North sea sold to the UK and arriving into the UK does not come via pipes owned by the UK. Eg, Centrica / British Gas. And as far as the Forties pipeline for oil pushed along by gas. INEOS sir Jim boy Ratcliffe and Petroineos (PetroChina) own it. And it's damn old. Below FYI & a quick read , best check things out & know what is what as things stand now.

INEOS / Sir Jim Ratcliffe / PetroChina closed Grangemouth for Refining and now closing down elsewhere because of the cost of gas. Not that the UK Government really gives a monkeys.

Getting the electricity that can be generated actual linked to the grid makes things much more sense than these wind farms sitting there doing nothing for the UK customers. There are so many Wind Farms build and generating nothing but paid to do that.

Lets see who actually does lower their prices compared to planning to lower prices because 2 major wars have not ended and others are ongoing.

Welcome. Maybe some help in the threads already on Briskoda.

Diesel is damn dear. Over the £9 a gallon here now. If petrol is to get to £9 a gallon & you get 50 mpg, then that is pretty much the same as getting 3.6 miles a kWh and paying 65 pence a kWh public charging. (13.9 kWh @ 65 pence £9.02.) The social divide. Home charging vs Public charging, & then all liquid fuel is from Public Filling stations. Lets see how the Electricity prices go since tied to the price of gas.

It could do, might do, perhaps will do. But everyone does not all of a sudden have money to sell a vehicle & it needs people looking to buy what they are selling, and people do not all of a sudden have Home or Work place charging to make Buying / Leasing an EV the good choice financially.

You do not mention what engine the car has. Did you ever use that fuel that you asked about in other threads, from the petrol / diesel misfueling.?

Once you locate the correct parts Location can be important as far as getting delivery. EU, Non EU including UK, Rest of World outwith Europe.

Be sure the Brake Fluid was done, or shows as. & the Air Filter might never have been looked at. Having had 14 cars from Motability that used to get Annual Servicing they changed to counting on the Manufacturers Warranty and the vehicles being left on Variable / Flexible Servicing. My 2016 Seat Alhambra 2.0 TDI had Oil like Black clotted cream by the time it got an oil change at about 21,000 miles since the Dealer could not get it in. The Adblue is part of Servicing with a Motability car and no cost to the Customer but getting the Dealers Service desk to book a time is a joke.

A 2023 Kodiaq. What has been done up to now. Did it get Brake Fluid changed at 2025 or 26? Was the Pollen filter done 2025 and due again 2027? If Haldex was it serviced this year. If a TSI the spark plugs are due next year maybe. So what the 2 year Service Plan gives matters. Has the Air Filter even been looked at or will they say replace at 6 years / 60,000 miles so not in the Service plan. Warranty requires 'Servicing to manufacturers Guidelines, Recommendations or Advice, not even Schedule'. Yet many Full Main Dealer Service History Approved Used Cars were not Serviced to Manufacturers Guidelines. Good VW Independent Specialists might well service correctly and as per vehicles useage and location. Service Brakes etc.

How often is the car doing only short trips / cold starts, & how far, or doing longer journeys & how far are those trips? ,

Fixed Servicing or Fixed Oil & Filter Servicing / Oil Changes if you do less than 10,000 miles a year seems 'Simply Clever'. Maybe not for those doing 18,000 miles or more annually. But then that would still mean the oil & filter being changed sooner than every 12 months. There is more to Car Servicing and Maintenance though. So do you want the car going 2 years between visual inspections / checks? Some like the Pollen Filter might be @ 2 years, Brake Fluid replacement now as well not @ 3 years then each 2. But the Haldex is @ 3 Years / 30,000 miles. So Servicing each 2 years does not work out suiting that.

Just another of Volkswagen Groups 'Lost in translation'. TDI,s oil requirement / specification is the same regardless of getting a Fixed or Variable oil & filter service regime. 'Long Life Oil'. VW504 00 / 507 00, then later for some VW508 00 / 509 00.

@Ned1 What country are you in or the car is? If you have a TDI i do wonder what the 'poor quality oil' is that it would be acceptable to run it on as far as Skoda / VW would find acceptable to keep a Manufacturers Warranty Valid.