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If you install the Tesla app on phone you can find the 16 or so sites you can charge any make of car at. luckily most of my long trips are to Cambridge now where my daughter lives about 1m from Trumpington Tesla site. About the cheapest charging I am aware of in area as well.

The only chargers I have ever paid for away from home are Tesla sites in Banbury and Cambridge. They are reliable and cheaper than most others if you do not justify getting a subscription. Only issue is an Enyaq takes up two spaces as cable too short on charger to fit our cars when parked as a Tesla would park. Not been an issue yet but I suspect it will be at some point

Not sure but this has been a Skoda feature for some years now to be able to personalise the keys to match 1 and 2 on the seat setting

I think you can link the seat position to one of the keys, so two different drivers can get in and the seat will be in their desired position. I haven’t done this as both keys are usually in the car at the same time as my wife brings the second key in case I lost mine.

There are owners on the Facebook sites whose cars have already reached 100k with no real impact on range noticed. you can’t actually charge the battery to a full 100% or completely flatten it as in the 82kW battery you can only access 77kW. This helps protect it. Its not charging to 100% or going nearly flat which does significant damage, it is charging to 100% then not immediately using it, or nearly flat and fail to charge asap. I normally charge to 80%, but will occasionally go to 100% if I need the extra range to do the trip and get home again, or if I would need to charge away from home to complete a trip. Every kW I charge at home instead of at a fast charger could save me between 46 to 92p!

The chargers are virtually never used at local Tesco now. It was a waste of time anyway at 7kW per hour and you are camera fined if you stay there more than 90 mins!! Aldi over road are also virtually unused where there is also a 90 min camera enforced parking time, even though 50kW. Chargers nearby in 3 he area also hardly ever used. Only 7 kW chargers I have seen regularly used is at another shopping centre where you can stay all day, these still have 15 mins free. I can’t see why people bother with them though, typically much cheaper and just as fast at home. If you need to charge to get home, better at a fast charger? Only time I have used a 7kW charger away from home was at a National Trust. There for about 6 hours and was free as they support green travel.

You must have had the car for two years now? So service and brake fluid change is now required; so notification is correct? The service you had at one year old was an extra suggested to you but not required. (I don’t think any are 3 years old yet, but if yours is you are correct and the dealer should sort it foc as if you had it correctly serviced at 2 years then next would be due at 4 years)

This can only be done by the dealer at the moment.

As you live in Scotland, although not essential, if you find a car with the optional heat pump it would be worth considering for the significant increase in cold weather range as for your budget you are likely to be looking at 60’s?

I have a vRS with adjustable suspension as one of options fitted. Initially looked at a Sportline with single motor available immediately as showroom demonstrater after deciding to move on from diesel 4wd Karoq and took wife to see it. She didn’t like the dark interior from the black headlining and didn’t like the idea of downgrading from 4wd. Then she spotted a lime green vRS and we both liked the shape and light interior but not the colour. I searched online and found a grey one with lots of options fitted available immediately but 250 miles away and bought it. So from deciding to get a vRS Enyaq to driving it home was 8 days, with a useful discount as extras make cancelled orders harder to sell apparently. I will never order a car and wait moths oven years again. You end up waiting forever with a car you don’t really want anymore in the meantime and paying extra for the options that make no difference when you eventually sell. (My Karoq was bought similarly from a showroom with a substantial discount as one of the cars not sold due to Covid, and had most extras fitted. They make no difference to trade in value, just a little easier for dealer to sell on) Anyway the adjustable suspension is very useful, I have found that surprisingly sport mode seems to give the best ride. In normal or comfort mode the suspension is too soft allowing car to lurch as it goes over or through bumps and stops. In sport it seems to stay more level through this and doesn’t lurch so much as it comes to a halt?

It was the 110 from memory

if it is 2wd it must be a 110? You can get rare examples of a 110 4wd but they are even more sluggish than the 110 2wd? I had a 2wd 110, and my wifes diesel fabia at the time was much faster accelerating!

My Skoda essentials was an older app and not needed with the new one. Very useful to check if car is locked, what the state of charge is whilst charging, range as long as you know about the bug when car is offline. The range when offline often has to be multiplied by 1.6 to be correct. This is a server fault incorrectly converting true range in miles thinking it is kilometres and dividing by 1.6! Best use of the app is to be able to turn the aircon or heating on a little before you leave so car is cool in hot weather, or defrosted in cold. If still plugged in to a home charger it does this without draining battery at all.

Octopus intelligent is now about 29p peak rate from 1st July. off peak still 7.5 p or about 2p a mile. Note that if car needs a lot of charge Octopus allocate additional slots off peak sufficient to complete requested charge level at off peak rate. This applies to all use of electric during that extra time, so washer etc can also benefit. At weekends you are often assigned slots in the morning as long as you set the required completion time later as not commuting that day.

Skoda are working with Ohme and display their chargers in showroom. via the Skoda referral I paid £950 for a 5m one. There is an alternate 8m one for an extra £100 or so. Chargers without a tethered cable are a pain as you have to fiddle around with cable from the boot every time. This included a surge protector and was installed neatly. Other quotes were significantly more with surge protector even more as well. I was already with Octopus and transferred to their intelligent tariff. This gives off peak for all use 23:30 to 05:30 at 7.5p per kWh and daytime rate slightly higher at 38.5p. However if you car needs more charge than 6 hours can give you get assigned extra time in what should be peak at 7.5p instead for all use. Even if you only need a small charge you sometimes get extra off peak anyway as they balance their demand. This means for all trips charged totally at home it costs about 2p a mile, rather less than using chargers elsewhere unless you come across a free one.