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You might as well speak to a drug dealer. But at a Skoda / SEAT Dealership ask for their Motability Specialist, as in the trained sales executive and have them make some effort to get answers. They really only want to push Enyaqs through the scheme though, and know as little about having them adapted for disabled drivers needing hand controls. I know as i have spoken to several 'Motability Specialist' sales executives and now the training they have seems to be anything but 'Simply Clever'.

That time again. Minus 9 screen wash ok until it is not. Reduced to £3.50

Re the MINI comparison vid. Ok the Oxford built Mini Cooper S was a 2.0 lt automatic with sport box option so paddles. He never bothered to mention that without an S you can have a 1.5 TSI Automatic which still does the same trip at the same speeds and uses less fuel. Maybe on narrower tyres on smaller wheels. Drives loads better. Biggest omission is re the New Electric Mini. The SE he had, bigger battery, more power, heavier, but there is the MINI Cooper E and that would have needed charging as well. Same time to charge as 75kW max. But the lighter car is more efficient. Smaller Battery less power, lighter. very relevant. As is Tesla non Tesla charging at half InstaVolt prices. I never understand why they think an Adult will fit behind the driver. Either put 2 in the back. Or as a MINI really works. 3 people and the seat behind the driver dropped to get cases or stuff in.. A short lift for 3 passengers means a double leg amp or child behind a driver. I never get the higher seat thing. There is no battery under the seats like in a Stellantis car. The battery is under the interior floor and the battery bottom above the ground. The seat base is the same height from the floor. It is just the floor is higher from the ground inside. The floor to sill height is the same. I never actually see any of the reviewers with seat fully down and fully back as I drive. Which is why my short arms, finger tips do not reach the Experience rocker or the drive mode it anything more than half way across the screen without bending forward. I need the seat back for my position to drive, use pedals, and I have the steering wheel back and lowest it goes. They are Sh|te IMO, but the cheaper less powerful and lighter ones are better drivers than the more powerful and heavier . Then the torque steer is not fun. It is crap ECO sporty tyres with little grip / traction / friction / safety.

If you want to go back they just said lots as i have posted for on here over the past 3 years. & i am not Darren Brown. The reason being it was dead dead obvious to be as they are saying. The only reason not many many were was because daft / stupid or just not saying. Arnold Clark was one if not the first doing Interest Free Loans on Used Cars. 3 year old Ex Motability that they had on Buy Back as the person Ordered a New Car at a Dealership which AC would supply and sell to Motability. That was a long time before the cars had to go to Auction. (When it was Mini or Metro Autos they went to Auction, new tyres, wiper blades, serviced and i chose what to by from a list.) The cars got mats, mud flaps and well serviced for 3 years, any damage fixed, Motability sold to AC and a lovely 3 year old car was there to buy. Ford & Vauxhall were the ones that first said they were going to stop supplying cars to Motability when the annual Milage was 12,000 miles a year & so many Used Cars were then sold cheap Ex Motability but dealers had 3 year old trade in,s that they had to pay too much for. BL/Rover, Subaru, Fiat and others started offering 12.5% Disounts or Cash Back to Registered Disabled Drivers buying a car. You did the deal at a Garage, got a trade in or not, bought the New car, Financed, owned it, (Eventually) The importer gave the discount. Motability had £4.6 Billion at the 2008 bank crash and the Government allowed Motability / a Charity to then have the Top 5 banks hold the money and Motability Finance began. Motability Charity,Motability Finance, well paid senior Exec,s & Senior anything. BCA does very very well, Manufacturers & Dealers meet Quotas. It is a caper.

Sorry but until those that know stuff are along you have just me. Slight smell of petrol sounds like the issue needing addressed / diagnosed. The Fuel filter area, maybe a replacement Fuel Filter would be good if no record of changing. Is there a nice clean air filter fitted? & no leaks from any piping? Did the car get the Armoured lead for cylinder 3 at any time, like at least the last time they were changed? There was a TPI. The car if it never had the upgraded Timing chain & tensioner, might be noisy, is this one. There was a TPI. Did it even have the Service Campaign / TPI action on the Turbo accuatior shim? Might do nothing, but try a tank of Tesco Momentum 99, Shell V-Power Sainsburys Super unleaded or anyones 97-99 ron E5 Super Unleaded instead of 510 95 ron if that is what normally is used.

VW / Skoda had a brake fluid change guidelines, recommendation, advice or schedule back 15 years ago of first at 2 years then each 2 years. Then it went to at 3 years then each 2. Back again to each 2. With lots it is pick a number any number. Like the pith take there was with cambelts and TSI,s. VAQ diff now at 2 years and not the 3 it was, or those at dealers that say optional or do not even know there is VAQ servicing. PS. I am on my 2 nd EV. 2 year brake fluid changes. The only brake stresses is rusted discs from not getting used very much even doing high miles.

Nice is the warmer morning but pretty much the usual.

http://jcr-leeds.com/haldex-servicing-gen5 I got that information when VW first changed from 40,000 miles / 4 years, then Skoda did with the YETI,s which were having failures. The oil is hygroscopic. So probably why by time, it matters not how far driven. As with Brake Fluid, VAQ Diff servicing, advice covering many, globally. Guidelines, recommendations, advice maybe more than a schedule or specification. After all there are all sorts of climatic differences, users / abusers. . As Volvo had with 20,000 miles / 2 years. As it is 3 years can be too long even for someone using the car only 5,000 miles a year but maybe as a Part Time AWD might be expected to be used as in adverse conditions. If anyone wants to save some money and ignore a Haldex Service done properly at each 3 years even if 30,000 miles has not been done they might find out that is a false economy.

Around £5 on Ebay / Amazon and with a light / led when you open. Just get the dimensions from the 'Real McCoy' and be sure you are buying the same.

Keyless entry is not a concern as far as getting into a car. Even an inexperienced Toe-rag can screw driver a door lock. Or as is common just bend down the top corner of the door. If someone wants to steal a Skoda then a Skoda they will get.

Is it too much bother to just mention what the engine is for the starting prices? They are supposed to be 'Simply Clever'.

@wyx087 phone app says 15kWh charged last night. But remember pretty cold. That will be something over 14kWh. That was with a battery that was over 2 thirds charged though. But then 75% to 100% is 12 kWh usually. Signed out of app. Showing old email address. It will take me hours or over days to spot what has been changed. As the temp rises the predicted range will improve. Can't get reset for today centre screen. EDIT. Back to before they touched it. 3.3 miles done, 109 miles indicated range.

The Mini is dead simple basically 1% is 1 mile at worst. Round about 3 4-3.5 miles to a kWh it averages. Occasionally 3.6 miles to 4 miles on the right journey. Slow roads, right ambient temp. No AC on. Best ever A77 coast road. 4.6 miles a kWh. Average speed cameras 60;mph. That is the WLTP figure being achieved.

When car turned on it showed 114 miles but it is 3 degrees C now. 1.5 miles later 114 miles. Pita I usually have it on miles not km. and have auto reset. And now I need to reset my profiles. Phone Bluetooth off. Loads to reset. This was the Pita with the Corsa. Software update. Seemed ok when leaving next day sh|t. Mirror settings and that much else to put back as they were. Dash displays and lights being the biggest pita.

@ 100% charge this morning. 118 miles range, but car not started yet & it is 2*oC outside. I will see in 1 hour once moving and 1.5 miles later what is shows as far as range. App shows charging started @ 61% / 67 miles. Fully charged 100% / 118 miles. I need to start it before it shows how many kWh charged, but it rounds it up.

@saudidiscomanIf it is a DQ381 DSG (7 speed wet clutch) then yes 80,000 miles. *7 speed dry clutch DQ200 DSG,s, no service interval.* Do you want to leave it for as long as 80,000 miles though without a oil & FILTER change? DQ500 DSG,s are 40,000 miles servicing...

'Global Recalls', But obviously not a recall of all globally, just maybe some, or maybe not, or maybe just Trust them'. I did not get a Letter, i got a txt to my phone, a message on the car & an Email after all. & the DVLA site just saying Recalls on my car. Not Recall. This RECALL INFO came up just last week even though the date of the recall is earlier. It was not the Info that came up about my vehicles 'RECALL' but appeared the same week just checking without a reg number. Number affected or possibly as usual on this DVSA Recall site changes. 459 last week. 464 this week.

It will get run down low enough several times on my next trip, the car needs charged at least every 100 miles or 2 hours or so. It probably is not one of the ones they think might be faulty. Built out of spec. AKA Faulty... But since one day it is showing no recall when i posted, about a World Wide Recall becomes commonly known it then pops up for this recall is a coincidence. (not). There was no UK Recall mentioned on H2o in batteries What i think has been enabled is the ability for the Battery to be monitored better. *LIke MOTABILITY telling me that the RAC were doing the 3 month Trial and if my car needed any thing done they would be in touch.* Funnily the TPMS Error everytime i start the car never came to their attention. I have no Sensors in the Wheels, they offered to code them today, i said no thanks, there are no sensors... The 120 miles showing on the App before the car came 100 yards was 119 miles when i got in the car, and 118 miles 50 yards later. 5 miles later it was 99 miles. It was being plugged in that had it Guesstimating 4.5 m/kWh on 80% of 32.6 or 33.3 kWh. As it is it might have more than 30 kWh usable, because people do run them beyond empty, i have never gone below 3% and that was showing 4 miles. So right now charging it is at 79% charge and showing 90 miles. Usually when driving and stopping to charge it would maybe at 85% and showing 90 miles. 12.30 am it will be full. It was strange that it got to 4.5 m/kwh earlier and some stopping and starting and some down hill where it would usually go to 5.5 - 6 m/kWh but didn't. Tomorrow is 1.5 miles downhill and flat and usually by the time i stop it is showing over 6 m/kWh. ............ As i posted back 1st March when i received this.

?Has it got a DQ381 DSG? If so the Service Guidelines, Schedule is at 80,000 miles and it was done at 67,000 miles. The haldex is at 3 years / 30,000 mile intervals, but maybe it was serviced correctly, which really means not at a Main Dealers. Variable / Flexible oil changes are 18,000-20,000 miles, so up around 30,000 km. (32,000 really)

@Malvern82 Welcome. Not really Skoda UK,s & VW,s issue to deal with other than they have these Approved Repairers / Dealerships that they allow to behave very badly. Citizens Advice will get you further usually and assist in getting them to take the wronged their legal rights. They deal with contacting Trading Standards and that can get things moving in the right direction. Have you contacted the Dealers / Dealership Groups Directors, their CEO and anyone that is part of their senior management? I usually use Linkedin and message them. Then i also put up posts online that catch their attention. Using the Dealerships Name and the Owners / Directors.

& If there is a Service Due reminder & an Inspection reminder get them to sort that out when the Service Interval Reminder is reset. There is no Inspection at a different Time / Miles be the car on a Fixed Service Regime or a Variable/ Flexible one.

Welcome. Did you buy it from a Skoda Dealership, and if so is it a Skoda Approved Used car? How many miles has it done? You are maybe going to have to go to another Skoda Authorised Repairer / Dealership. ? Can you say what Dealership Group you bought the car from?

OK. That explains a lot. I punched out a Kwik Foot fitter once. He serviced the girls car as me and a pal watched from the viewing area. No oil filter change, wiped and then a dirty mark. She did not pay and they said they were getting the police, i said make my day.

@Graham Butcher I just EDITED the latest in a PS. The software update has just made the car think it is going to be 4.5 miles a kWh. Like the new cars arrive thinking until actually driven and the real efficiency shows. WLTP was given as 140 or 145 mile, was previously 114 miles which is real world. So it was showing 120 miles from 80% based on a 32.6 kWh battery is my theory. The usable battery is just below 29 kWh. They might have changed the buffer, but i doubt it.