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How are the regen paddles on the steering wheel on the Enyaq? On the Audi E-Tron I find them a waste of time personally and leave the car on auto an let it decide the amount of regen based on sensors and Sat-Nav

Well aware of A2DP, aptX etc. The OP didn't want the hassle of conversion. Was offering up possible workarounds using current set up. Personally I'm not sold on super high bit rates and 'High Res Audio' - they are absolutely no guarantee of sound quality, that said compression algorithms can colour the sound and alter the focus of music (typically enhancing the bass with MP3), If OP is doing 'homework' for production / mastering in the car then this might be important. I've never found listening to music in any car to be what I would consider to be an audiophile experience.

Not Tesla: My car theoretically supports 120KW charging - personally I've not found anything over 50KW on any of my travels so far (not that I've done a huge amount of travelling in the last year). 50KW is good enough for a lunch stop to pretty much fully charge the battery in 50 mins or so. One thing I have found is that if there are 2 chargers next to eachother and both are in use then you will never see anything like the quoted 'up to figures' as the load on the infrastructure will need to be reduced. Motorway service stations do charge massively over inflated costs and more so for charging at a faster rate than even at the same station from the same company, for example Typically: Ecotricity who have the monopoly on motorway services have units that usually have three plugs - CCS. Type 2 and Chademo (Nissan) You'll pay more for charging from the CCS because it charges at a higher rate in theory. I find charging advertised charging speeds very much like old school internet 'promises'. I generally try and avoid Ecotricity if I can, they are often only partially functioning if at all and can sometimes take many attempt to get the charging process to initiate. I have found Instavolt and Shell recharge to be more relaible so far. For the most part I do all my charging at home from the PodPoint that I have installed in my garage, and following best practice recommendations I use a little charge a little: charging the car a couple of times per week and maintaining a charge between 50/80% - only charging to 100% when I know I'm going to need it Please see attached pricelist of Audi tarrifs and how they compare with domestic tarrifs, obviously sometimes it is cheaper to use my Audi charging card at public charging stations and sometimes cheaper to pay the charging company direct. Please note I have free memebrship of the Audi 'Transit Tarrif' for the first year. Pricelist.pdf

Do you have Bluetooth and are you able to stream from your mobile phone, or use headphone out/aux in? If you're really not prepaired to settle, swapping out the stereo for an aftermarket unit isn't too diifcult.

I sold my Citigo last year -I just got in touch with my local dealership and asked them to print out the service history for me

Here's an explanation of the heat-pump's function in the Audi e-tron. I should imagine that the function is broadly similar in the Enyaq. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ujr5y

It's a complete wholesale rip-off of the BMW i3: Their interior trim themes are called 'Interior Worlds' and come in 'Loft', 'Lodge' and 'Suite'

I installed Hive myself and found it pretty straightforward. I already had a (non-smart) wireless thermostat so replacing the receiver and transposing the wiring was easy enough. Installation instructions are freely available eg here: https://www.theunderfloorheatingstore.com/media/ufhs/manuals/hive-thermostat-installation-guide.pdf

Raiding the options lists is always expensive and rarely make that much sense from a financial point of view as it generally does not add anything to the resale value. A lot of vehicles will be supplied as standard spec. vehicles no options, to be consumed by fleet etc or consumers that aren't that bothered about adding extras or are in a hurry and will get a vehicle already in the system rather than a factory order. The same car (mechanically speaking) built in the same factories from the same parts by the same people. How else do you cut the ticket price other than and make the same margin other than removing features? I don't buy in to the belief that VW brands are independent from each other and that there is some sort of internal competition (other than in their respective marketing departments), and if people want to buy the same car with the same build quality and the same features they're going to end paying pretty much the same price. I think that Skoda isn't really the value brand it once was, say 10 years ago, the consumer is demanding more and more, which has pushed up prices significantly.

To be safe I would disconnect the battery first

Looks like a very ammatuer modification- I hope that it isn't just a spade connector jammed in to a fuse slot! Is it possible to pull out and see if anything stops working, It may be that whatever it was connected to was removed before you got the car.

I stand corrected - was thinking of Lada re the old Fiat designs - now part of Renault group. Still the old stigma exists whether or not it is correctly founded. You see more old Skodas around than you do contemporary British Leyland Group cars

Comparing apples and oranges there a bit - the ID.3 1st edition has a lot of extras on it that when you add them to the base spec Enyaq bring them pretty close in price. But then you are on a Skoda forum asking why a vehicle with a Skoda badge is cheaper than one with a VW one. I would say a large part of it is 'perceived value' People still look down on the Skoda brand even though the current brand bears very little resemblance to how it was before VW took over and they were selling cars based on 1950's Fiat designs in the early 1990s

How low do you let the charge get before you re-charge? The calibration may have gone out of whack. Also do you always charge the battery to completely full? does the manufacturer only recommend that you charge to 100% when going on a long journey and the rest of the time charge to 80% or so?

No idea, I gather BMW have something similar in the works with iDrive 7 as reported here: https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/352659/bmw-make-extras-heated-seats-subscription-based-options

@john999boy not quite sure how to answer that. The car has an embedded E-SIM so the car is online 24/7. I have seen it automatically do software updates -but not sure if this is only for the infotainment system or the car itself. There are features on the car that are subscription based such as dynamic indicators or the matrix function on the LED headlights. These are due to be available to buy/lease via the MyAudi phone app at some point in the future and Audi refers to them as 'function on demand'. I have the very base model in base spec (50 technik), so doesn't have a lot of the more advanced features. I'm not sure what degree of autonomous driving is available on the e-tron range. One thing I like about the e-tron is that I don't think that Audi have tried to make the car purposefully different from conventional cars in the way that some manufacturers seem to do with their electric vehicles. I wouldn't like to guess about how much 'filter down' there would be from the e-tron to the Enyaq as I'm not sure they will have that much in common. The ID.3 and sister models are of such importance to VW group's survival, I get the feeling that they're putting everything they've got behind it and are very much aware of the competition and are compelled to match feature for feature.

I have Hive - fitted it myself which was fairly straightforward. Early days for me so haven't branched out in to the whole smarthome thing just yet, but may well in the future. The Hive controller/thermostat as completely plastic and looks very cheap in my opinion - I have bought the official stand so it is not mounted to the wall and is on a table in my front room. The Nest controller is a thing of beauty -metal and glass and very tactile (and also can be stand or wall mounted). That said you can manage everything from the app on your phone so never need touch the controller at all once set up save for changing batteries. The Hive is currently £130 from Amazon - discounted as it works with Alexa.

Interesting - so more of a return to the original Vision IV concept car from Skoda

I try not to take life too seriously

It's an E-Tron Quattro 50 - a massively subsidised lease car working for the NHS

I get about 170 ish mile depending on how I drive it About 170 miles give or take

Not everyone needs to make use of public chargers all of the time -for a lot of people a home charger will suffice for 80/90% of the time. That's what works for me -day to day commuting: I top the car up once or twice per week from the 7Kw charger installed in my garage and my car does not have a particularly impressive range Took the car to Anglesey (from Lincoln) recently and charged up at 2/3 of the way there using a 50Kw charger in Chester which gave me what I needed in less than an hour to finish my journey without any stress. I then charged up at Morrisons (GeniePoint) a couple of times while there. Stopped at Chester again on the way back.

I quite like the look of the Enyaq, Skoda normally start with some really nice lines and then it's as if someone bumps the draughtsman's table if you follow my train of thought 😉 and with the Enyaq they seem to have avoided the ungainly lines of some of the other models.

Hi globalste - That was 9 years ago! trying to remember how it all went together. How does the horseshoe shaped adapter bit fit on to the boss and inside the mirror -mine wasn't very accurately machined so I had to grind it down slightly to fit - does it go all the way into the mirror? Wondering if you have the opposite problem and yours is undersized, either that or it's It might be worth getting on to the seller and seeing if they can send you a replacement adapter.

Fantastic little cars. I bought a second hand one for a cheap no fuss runaround after leaving a job with a company car. It served me very well for 2 years. Mine had a fuel light as well.