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Another thing is that I've never found any advantage to MPG by using 99 RON. I lob in the E10 from my local Tesco and it performs exactly the same as far as I have been able to tell.

I drove Reading to North Manchester last month in a 1.5 Tsi eco. One person in the car and set cruise to 65 and over the 210 miles the trip computer showed 66.4 MPG because it spent so much of it in 2 cyl mode. With the inevitable jams around Birmingham and Manchester my average journey speed was barely affected. Was one of the faster journey times of late ironically. What is interesting though is that increasing the speed by just an indicated 5MPH the consumption will drop to high 50's, and at indicated 75 it goes to low mid-50's at best. Journey times barely affected by lowering the speed, it's just the psychological boredom and staying out of the way of faster vehicles that tire.

Yes a software update, but it was only a partial fix and VW/Skoda aren't releasing anything else. If you have one you are stuck with the issue. Speaking to Skoda UK they said other people also complained it didn't fix it. It's the reason why this Skoda (the 6th I have) will be the last. Good enough cars but too many issues, and usually not resolved.

I've run a 1.5TSi eco on a 68 plate for 40K miles, and it has always used a litre every 4K miles. Never had a car use so much or flash the add oil warning before. With the kangarooing it makes it all in all the worst engine I've ever had, which is a shame because out of town it runs well and I like the quietness of it.

I've been using a 2018 1.5TSI eco Octavia 3 from new to its current 37000 miles and it has used a litre every 4500 miles or so consistently. It's the only car I have owned or used that has done this. My previous Skoda's (1.9 TDi PD, 2.0 TDI PD, and 2 CR 2.0 TDI's), have used a litre max every 10K miles, if that. Even my near 15 year old Toyota 2.2 D4D engined Corolla only uses 0.2-0.3 litres max every 10K miles. Like said already, the 0-20W oil is very thin. The only positive is that if you get caught out at least the add oil warning is before it reaches minimum. Shame it doesn't have a oil level display on the dash like some French stuff does on start up. It's also the only car I have ever owned that has almost zero engine braking effect on the motorway when I let off the accelerator. I guess that's low friction for efficiency.

I'm not comparing other cars in terms of mileages they can achieve or what maintenance they need once they work properly - they can all do good service provided they are good in the first place, I'm talking about cars delivered with faults. Specifically 1) the current 1.5TSi that drives like crap, worst car I have ever driven. As the 'fix' doesn't properly resolve it they should be recalled as defective and replaced. 2) a previous Octavia (2013) 3 that had to be taken back by Skoda after it was rejected by my company as unsafe because Driver Assist kept performing emergency stops for no reason, the most memorable of which were one which almost caused a skip truck to rear end it with my children in the back of it - on a wide empty road with no vehicles, debris, nothing in front of the car, and another where a client was being driven along another completely empty road at 7am on a Saturday. Another Octavia 3 with a panoramic sunroof that opened 3 times before motor failure, then spent another 7 visits to dealers over 2 years trying to stop it banging, crunching and seizing, which they never did so after that 2 years of wasted visits it was left closed for the remaining 2 that I had it. Oh, and last but not least there was the Fabia delivered with a faulty ABS control unit and a (manual) gearbox that wouldn't engage 2nd once warmed up. People don't have time for this rubbish, as much as it upsets people on this forum who are oddly emotionally invested with their inanimate object cars.

Mine is same. Less jerking and kangarooing but not by much, cold and hot. It's a bit crap really, never had a car that needed the concentration of a brain surgeon to drive smoothly in traffic. It feels like the flywheel is the wrong size and weight for the engine. After 6 Skoda's, all of which have been problematic in one way or another, it'll be time to say goodbye at the end of this company car lease. The 13 year old Toyota on my driveway that has had 2 faults from new is leading me towards a Corolla estate/Tourer (whatever it is called). I don't like it as much as the Octavia but at least it should work properly.