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Thanks, I found that too. I was hoping that someone on here might have done this recently and then be able to share what they paid. The garage can offer me an RAC Platinum Plus warranty which costs £599 for one year, £799 for two or £999 for three. Ouch, again!

Thanks for that. Unfortunately the warranty links do not allow me past the initial stage as the car is still covered by the manufacturer’s warranty. Presumably it would allow me to get further if the warranty was up next week rather than next year. i hadn’t appreciated that the service prices excluded parts. Ouch!

Hi there I am currently looking at a 27 month old Kodiaq at a local dealership (2.0 TSI 190 DSG Edition). I understand that the 3 year warranty will expire in May 2021 and I will probably look to buy an extended warranty at that point. Does anyone have any idea what Skoda charge for extending the warranty for another two years on a second hand car? Also, it is apparently shortly due a service in September having currently done 31,247 miles. I'm presuming that will be a 30,000 mile service which I think is a minor service. Is there anything else that should be done at that sort of mileage (brake fluid etc)? Many thanks

I was a little disappointed with my recent Carwow experience. The 5 quote limit resulted in 2 quotes from different sites of the same dealership, one from hundreds of miles away and two others. One was a lot cheaper than the other four (which were not particularly good offers) but when I asked that one what was available from stock they never got back to me.

A quick question, if I may. My commute is basically 20 miles motorway and 5 miles A and local roads. In the cold weather, I often get the faint aroma of what I assume is the burning rubber smell in the cabin, when I have been on the motorway for 10 miles. Is this normal? many thanks

Thank you

Does anyone please have a 2016 Yeti UK brochure that covers the city version (particularly the Monte Carlo) on PDF that they wouldn't mind uploading or emailing? Many thanks

Perhaps something blocked the radiator grille whilst you were driving along (leaves or a plastic bag, maybe) and has fallen off once you stopped.

It will no doubt depend on what is causing it and whether it is a new or used car. For example, if you have a nail in the tyre, it'll no doubt be your issue to resolve. If it was a new car with a faulty valve, I would expect the dealer to resolve it.

Yes, it was replaced with the SEL although I think Skoda also took the opportunity to make some features that were standard on the Elegance optional on the SEL.

Have you spoken to a Skoda dealer? I would have thought they would be able to offer you a fair bit more than WBAC. (My local deal offered a lot more than WBAC when I thought I might have to sell mine earlier this year).

I am undecided on whether my next car should be a diesel. Adblue etc. doesn't bother me per se and I do wonder whether a diesel car doing 60 mpg is really any worse a polluter overall than petrol car car doing 40 mpg, when all things (CO2, NOx, particulates etc) are taken into account. Diesels get a bad press at the moment but most petrol cars are not as economical as their official figures suggest. My quandary is that whilst I am very pleased with my car, my faith in anything built by VAG has been severely dented by the diesel scandal. I wonder what else they have done that we don't yet know about.

I have found that I get the best sound in my car with AAC (M4a) music files encoded at 320kbps VBR and put on an SD card. I still have the bass turned up but I haven't had to turn the treble down too far. for some reason they sound better than high bit rate MP3s (presumable down to the decoder in the Amundsen).

There are obviously a number of companies offering remaps to improve performance. Are there any who offer remaps to improve emissions?

I have done this recently. You receive a retention certificate number and the option to download the document you need to put new plates on the car you took the plate off. You also get an email with the retention certificate number and an attachment which is the same document offered as a download (that allows you to put a replacement plate on the car). Within a few working days, I received a printed retention certificate and new V5 for the car the plate had been taken off.

I used to get 48 to 50 mpg with a Focus 1.0 (125 bhp). On the same sort of journeys I get 58 to 62 mpg in my Octavia 2.0 TDi. If I get stuck in stop start traffic, the Skoda drops to about 54 mpg whilst the focus could fall to 40 mpg. The other thing I have found is that the Focus could hardly be described as being able to pull strongly; the Octavia is a lot better than that.

We have been very happy with the work of http://www.wheelfix.net/. They are based in South Cheshire but that might be close enough.

FWIW, I found my Skoda dealer was prepared to give me £1,000 more than WBAC's offer. That was for a simple trade sale.

My 2.0 TDi does about 5% more miles per gallon on Shell V Power and seems to pick up more smoothly from lower revs. The former is in line with my experience of other 2.0 litre and bigger turbo diesel cars and that experience is backed up by years of keeping mileage spreadsheets. I'm sure someone will claim the latter is placebo or in my head, but I'm happy with it so don't care! Overall I find the extra mpg doesn't cover the additional cost but if there's a chance V Power will make my engine run smoother and last longer, that'll do for me. Back to work now - lunchbreak over. Cheers from Haydock

My car originally said that an oil change was needed after 9,000 miles, which was done when the car was 8 months old (as a 'minor service'). I have now done nearly 14,000 miles and it now says that I am due: an inspection service in 6 weeks time (when the car will be 1 year old and have done) or 4,500 miles an oil change in 8 months time (12 months after the last oil change) or 4,600 miles It would seem to me that logically I only need an inspection service (I'm told that's a 'major service' and includes an oil change) when the car has done another 4,500 miles, which will be about 9 months after the 'minor service'. However, I don't want to invalidate my warranty. Should I therefore have an inspection service ('major service') when the car is 12 months old, even though it will only be 5 months and 5,500 miles since the oil change ('minor service') to comply with the car's computer? Many thanks

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Very tasteful

I had my car serviced a couple of weeks ago at Lightcliffe in Warrington. They ordered new seals and fitted them without any fuss or hesitation. So far, so good.

Thank you for all the suggestions. It can get expensive can't it!

I travel the Cheshire bit of the M6 to and from work everyday. Not in a VRS mind you; mine's a grey 2015 Elegance estate