Evolution13

April 2014, I remember the articles / reports that the English South Coast and even LONDON was supposedly getting high pollution blown across from FRANCE. ...............AI pretty much crap as The Office for National Statistics and AVERAGES. So 'Pollution', that will be like Environment, work, the good old days. Coal Miners, Farm Workers, Town Gas etc etc. Modern times, weather, Drinkers, Smokers, poor eaters, poverty or fast food availability, public transport or no public transport. Deep Fried Mars bars / Pizza Crunchie Suppers etc. HEALTHY LIFE EXPECTANCY, Diabetes, Heart / Liver, kidneys, LUNGS, environment, pollution as well as all the other stuff.

@Graham Butcher Your neck of the woods really is only representative of places similar. I checked out Life Expectancy, and it was clear Averages might be from places like Your Neck of the woods while the average came about with areas of Average Deaths and much younger people in cities and towns further north in England. Plenty articles and statistics, but this AI sums it up.

If set on Variable servicing then you can leave 24 months, or 18,000 months or even only 12 if you want. 18,000-20,000 miles even. But you might well want servicing annually. Safety inspections, brakes serviced, Suspension, steering, tyres etc changed. Pollen filter maybe sooner, Spark plugs or Air Filter at times other than in 2 year apart, or 4 or 6. Forget INSPECTION Service showing. That should have been set as Oil Service times. Or you can have OIL Service & Inspection showing year about. It does not just get an INSPECTION. Fixed, 9,400 miles, 372 days or sooner. Used to be Minor & Major Service, or Interim & Major, or Major / Major. Now Skoda Oil & Inspection Service annual & Extended Scope at 3 years, then at each 2. Service according to how you use the vehicle.

I know a Local Courier who uses his own old car while at home is the Motability Supplied EV with his Blue Badge displayed. (for him not partner or other family member.) But then i know a Vermin Controller & Window cleaner who has a Blue Badge displayed on his vans dash. Funny how some are hounded by DWP or SSS & yet people can be blatant abusing the system.

I imagine lots of places are different to your more populated bit of England. The United Kingdom, 4 countries, British Isles, lots of Highlands & islands. Big place, spread far and wide, and places across seas even. Lots of stuff is transported by plane into which ever country.

Best get it done IMO. How much is your local doing it for? Does he / she have the locking tools for a 1.4 TSI ACT? Cam belt and tensioner kit. .............Advice from VW / Skoda did change 2023 when many were not going to Dealers and paying from £850-£1,200 to have cam belts changed at 5 years / 50,000 miles on 1.5 TSI ACT,s. Dealers did not want to do it on trade in,s that were not Serviced to the Manufacturers Guidelines in the UK. Rest of world guidlines were not as ridiculous.

You could always offer 'free' Bed & Breakfast to a Mobile van person and arrange more work for them while they come over. Head for thinking, feet for dancing.

Skye a PITA & not financially viable even for Mobile Refinishers unless they had enough bookings.

I believe that at the PDI it should be changed out of 'Transport mode'. there as a restriction while being transported, driven by delivery drivers.

There is somebody very good near Dyce Airport but if you are not there for any reason then no use. As the very good place in Ayr / Prestwick, hence they are very busy and have waiting lists.

If no Recall outstanding when you check the MOT Website or the Skoda Recall site then likely the FIX was done. But not Always. Then it could have been rolled back & flow device removed. Worth looking at the Intake before the Air Filter box and see if their MAGIC device is fitted.

Car has had a wash for the first time since i got it. No freezing temps forecast this week. It badly needed it, but the Dealers prep guys 'WAX' / Manual Wash Wax was damn good. Wind Deflectors have been great for when sitting charging, or dogs are in car. Michelin CrossClimate 3 tyres have been good over the winter so far. (not over yet) Not been in much snow, but where i was on fresh snow they gave grip but were just so so really. Had to replace a front on Friday and @ £150 thought i might put on a pair of Cheaper Snow tyres as i have used previously, but on checking they are not so cheap anymore, so 1 new Michelin fitted. Much care needed at junctions even in the warm dry as the car wheel spins very easily. Seems to be nothing happening in the way of traction control in any mode other than my foot. PS. Re Wind Deflectors, £45 a set of 4 from China. Took 3 weeks to come. Best i have ever had and i have paid more than double over the years on some right crap sets or even a pair. These double sided taped on to the Chrome Trim and have chrome trim. Great fit, not into door / glass rubbers. *** Panicked and Fixed for 12 months the available Next Drive Tariff from Eon Next.*** I had the 6.7 pence a 7 hours up till July & missed the 7.5 pence a 6 hours still available last Wednesday, but i am gambling by going for what is available now.

My electric car that i had from Motability lost 12,500 miles over night with an over the air software update that locked me out. Then lost more miles when at the Main Dealers getting Software Updates that they failed time after time to do. Finally done on a Sunday when Service Centre Closed and by a person i know that decades back was the local contractor / tech for Clocking back Taxis and Fleet hire cars.

@Graham Butcher Yes HGV deliveries to hubs / depots, then van fills and out delivering and transferring to local agents. More and more now Evri is tracked then last delivery here is Royal mail / Parcel force. DPD recently to me less than 24 hours Germany to my door in Scotland. RoI deliveries Royal Mail tracked or whoever days and days and days to get here 48 hour tracked. Anyway, it is what it is, if the Fleets are punting Electric vans then good. Some like a bargain. Plenty Utilities and Deliveries are using Electric Light Commercials.

@Aldfort which are the rubbish ones on sale new now would be good to know, is it Mild Hybrids, ICE or BEV,s or just any models with any drive train?

^^^ Indeed, gig economy, we live in this real world. So as in the many parts of The Real World UK, the van arrives into a town and swaps at the roadside, car park, charging hub into the delivery drivers car. Like with my 2 local delivery guys. The Depot is in the City near by. The van drivers are not wanting the runs up farm tracks, into glens etc when they have drops to do ever 6 minutes.

Did the car get the VW Fix and is running that Engine Management and the flow device in the air intake?

****-ed. Those that are. Those that need to go miles and miles and out and about. That is one group, then there are the others in towns and cities and LEZ,s etc. Light Commercial Vehicles are of all types and for all uses. So there is the big picture to see. Then there are those that can use a car / estate car / MPV type vehicle to do the same job as the van did. @Graham Butcher If you had ever driven a BEV and charged at public chargers you would meet the van drivers, trades people with the pile of poo of a vehicle. Back a few years ago with the crap that they would not take passengers or tools and were charging several times a day. There are still people like that, and there are others that have no issues, they work around charging and their break and glory in the reduced running costs. It takes all sorts.,.

I see there is a new issue you have posted about and blue smoke. Easier if the new issue goes beside this one. Did you change the Oil & Filter?

Do you not think liked to the issue you posted about in December on the DPF and Oil Pressure light. What have you done since then to the car?

Reversing lights have never been about lighting up behind for the drivers, only letting others know there is a vehicle reversing. Now there are many driving about with Rear Number plate bulbs brighter than some cars front Side Lights and than any reversing lights. For a little assistance reversing if not on a road, put your rear fog light on. Or as we did still into the 1970,s a nice rear Spot Light fitted. (working light.) Rally stylee.

Maxus vans & Pickups. Many many many of them on the roads. As to Vauxhall Electric vans, it is the 75 kWh battery ones that there are many new ones going on the roads not the 50kWh. As it is the small battery ones are 'Much cheapness' as used vehicles. A bargain really for anyone that might not need much range without charging, and will not be towing.

I was kicking myself for not Fixing my energy for 12 months last Wednesday for a few pence more a kWh and an hour less offpeak. So i panicked and Fixed yesterday at the latest price. As to range, that is now @ 4 miles a kWh driving local. I have the AC off and the Rapid Screen demist as not needed, i have used it pretty much all the time since i got the car but now have Wind Deflectors fitted and the windows a couple of mm down, the interior of car is dry even though dogs carried. So 52 kWh @ 9.5 pence a kWh home charge is just about £5. That is good for 175-200 or so miles. Just the Public charging increases to pay, whatever they get to.

I would as suggested by @MikeTheThinker swap front to back. Behaviour is likely to just crap tyres. 'Arrowspeed'.Not Halfords own brand, Kwik Fit sell them. Check the manufacturing dates.

@radas35 Is it used tyres that are now on the car? (Already shaped / misshaped) by the previous user) .What width and profile were the 16" and what are the 18"?, what brand / name tyres have you on now, and what pressure are they at?