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PS When a dealership buys a vehicle to resell then they have the list / sheet / account of their expenses / costs, because you pay tax on profits. So they have the cost of everything, transportation, their own expensive workshop doing a service, the car valet, or paint refurbish repairs, tyres, mot, what ever even that Extra Warranty or Service package they put on for free (Arnold Clark...) High costs for the work, done in-house, small profit to pay tax on. But the records are there. If they had Paint work done.

The New 8.5 Golf GTI is £40,000 or so, then you can go Club Sport.. more money. Is that the budget you are at @TheWanderer Is a BMW a possibility. Bargains around of sporty things of all kinds when a newer model is due.

ARNOLD CLARK Sucks! Dealership not the late Sir Arnold, just the legacy he left. They have a Multi Million quid EV Innovation center in Glasgow, staffed by Pure Genius,s supposedly. They need to get the staff elsewhere trained up then. Not only those in Inverness, Dundee as well. They do send them out, to show hoe to Up-sell. Not driving an EV obviously/ *Arnold Clark Bookings will call to book in your EV for a Service and try to get you to take the offer of a Fuel Cleaning Additive. Pure dead genius.* They will tell you they have No Automatic Courtesy cars yet they have EV,s and then the Service Manager might not know they are Automatic. DUNDEE> @lol-lolas for the Renault, time will tell. MOTABILITY Lease car. Motability Bought and Paid for it just before this filming. They The Customer just used the PIN number they received when their application was accepted to actually have the car paid for before the hand over. The Car is VED Exempt as class Disabled and Motability have the VED Exemption & the Insurance is Motability. So it was the First Registration that was not done in time for the Hand Over, but it was as the car has a Registration Number. The Having the valid Exempt VED should have not been getting done on that day. Taking a new Model of any car let alone an EV that might have snagging faults to Orkney having never even driven one is all just a bit stupid. Motability asks you have you seen the car, have you been in it, driven it or has the named driver / drivers, are you sure it is suitable? Any failures will require an appropriate Recovery track either going to Orkney or one on Orkney doing the trip on a ferry to Inverness to quite possibly be with Arnold Clark for weeks or months. *BYD now in the UK have 24% of their cars sold to Motability for leasing to customers. Time will tell how that goes.* No E in Clark, but once again there is at the start. Big B00dy yellow sticker shows how it is spelt... They all have to get 22% First Registered of the passenger cars being BEV,s. So what is happening is many looking at a car from Motability are getting directed to a very expensive EV for not much cost to them. Lovely cars maybe totally inappropriate for their use, But a free home charger, and no EV Technicians near or Dealerships really or much use when faulty. Get an ICE Courtesy car if lucky.

The VW Golf had amazing economy when i was using one. But the 1st gear with the DQ200 and the TDI 2.0 116 ps engine was a total PITA as the car died as it went from 1st to 2nd, so i was always in S for trundling about in town. Plenty cars with SCR / ADBlue are used in ambient temps well below -11*oC, Even in the UK.

Sorry no idea but that does seem like something that they might introduce within some dealership groups. As it is a lack of knowledge of the products which is VW Group cars when it is Customer Services dealing with an enquiry takes some doing.

Regardless of the Dealership even being owned by Peters & Lee along with Stevie Wonder they knew as did the person that prepped the car. No mater if it came from Auction, Trade in or via the Skoda network.

BS is their business model. They hired in professionals and get whoever has time and a laptop.

@Arizonadave That will just be your car super delayed then. As to this crowd if it was them telling you that. Pinch of salt. They have a selection of reasons for any question. Surprised they never referred you back to the supplying dealer.

There are new cars sitting in dealerships that had to be activated before going out for the 7th July. So the software was already in the system. When it went during production someone might know.

I needing 110 miles range later on, no Rapids in town only a 22 kW and several 7kw,s. The 50 kW rapid still out of order since i reported it on the 24th of June. So my battery was at 50% so that i could at least get the £5 worth of electric i have to pay. Went to charger, Red Lights so the AC is down as well as the DC. Called CPS / Swarco & it worked last night so just reset. It took me 10 minutes of doing the sequence and it reset. So instead of charging later i am plugged in and charging now. 8.57 - 11.05 am the car says. started at 50% and 51 miles, now at 95% 103 miles. 10.46 am. Fair enough, going to get the car. 200 yards away. 31 pence a kWh. If i was on the DC it would have been 38 pence. If i want on the 7 22 AC post i would not have got 11 kW, maybe not even 7 kW, often it is set at 3,6 kW max. This is how it can be anywhere any time in Scotland if you want to Public Charge and be full before setting off with a Small Battery EV or a bigger battery. I am going 99 miles to Edinburgh City Chargers and not wanting to stop on the way, and then charge to 90% @ 58 pence a kWh. EDIT Charge took 2 hours 8 minutes. CPS south Ayrshire council. £5.33. car says 18 kWh 50% to 100%. Range 114 miles now. Just under 18kW because 31 pence a kWh ok for 50 and a bit miles of go go electric. But then the next 58 pence is so so. Going to MFG or BP or even PodPoint is too much.

? Have these 'New Safety Features' that are compulsory in the EU and Northern Ireland from the 7th July but not yet on the rest of the UK being received on cars built last year via Over the Air Updates. eg The OP,s car that did not operate that way in the past.

What there is now is what there is, if it is 3.3 kW max charging that is that. (I charge my MINI Electric on a 3 pin plug and type 2 32 amp cable but at a max 10 amps. I get 2.3 kW max speed.) 32.6 kWh battery to get from about 5%-100% is 15 hours or so on the 3 pin cable, that will take over 30 kWh but the battery is only 28.9 kWh usable. I can charge at 11 kW AC on an 11 kW or 22 kW charger post, or on a 43 kW AC Tethered still max of 11 kW. which i am doing right now,. 2 hours to get 20 kWh of a charge. Charging limit for me now on the 22 kW AC and getting 11 kW is set at 16 amp. New PHEV,s coming with faster Max Charging Rates, There are others from the likes or Land Rover / Range rover that are 11 kW or 22 kW AC charging.

PHEV needs fixed oil and filter servicing regime. 9,400 miles / 12 months. Like an interim or minor or actually an oil service just. Do not get conned into any FULL Service nonsense. It is a LOOK see inspection. Check the OBD etc. Pollen filter is still every 2 years. Brake fluid can be, spark plugs will still be at 40,000 miles and air filter at 6 years. Cam belt the same as a 1.4 TSI and non ACT. So years away. I would be checking the air filter annually, and pollen filter per use. PHEV,s are not a Cash Cow or Golden Goose for main dealers even if they try to make them.

Simplify. Think of 10 kWh of a charge. Not empty to full. So 31 pence a kWh £3.10. 62 pence £6.20. Etc. You are only getting max 3.6 kW charging speed regardless of a 7,11 or 22 AC charger. There are even 43kW AC tethered cables, you still just get what your onboard charger can get so that 10 KWh charge in just under 3 hours. If empty and going to 100 % with a 13 kWh battery it might be 14 kWh you are paying for with losses while charging. UK standard tariff of 23 pence x 13 = £2.99

@brettikivi You have a DQ381 DSG do you not? Not a DQ380.

Quite some coming together.

Stellantis CEO demanded a re-examination of vehicle manufacturing in the UK. That is about Zero Emissions and mandates. Not unexpected really is it. But then all Car Manufacturers and manufacturers of anything, home market, imports / exports, are going to be tapping the UK Government for Grants, Support & hand outs. & UK Car workers with jobs at risks will be wanting pay rises and will be holding ballots on industrial action. Just like Steel Workers, Power Worker, Transport workers land sea and air. The New New Labour years are here, back to the future,

Is the pretty new spark plug looking OK though and the gap correct, before replacing a coil? Have they had them out and checked yet, or that plug at least?

We all suspect. But that does not mean so. Also best to know how it is out there and not just go by articles that seem to miss obvious stuff. As to OWNER, well an Owner or even a driver is a term. Renter / driver is often the case of given a car or told what they are getting by whoever runs a company. It was a con, is a con and will continue as a con. Thankfully with Public Charging Costs there are not too many 13kWh PHEV,s sitting plugged in for hours that i see.. When i was free charging at Tesco so where plenty PHEV,s. Private Owners charging cars and walking home then coming back sometime for the car. Cable locked into car. Not always to the charge post though.

Oil filters up top are nice and easy, just do not make a mess. Oil filler cap off and dip stick out before starting draining. See the pinned thread at tip of this section, Filter warning. 2013 1.2 TSI so 3.9 liters VW 504 00 / 507, 5w 30 FS III Fixed or Variable Service interval or if you want, VW502 00, so 5w 40 FS for fixed service oil and filter changes.

Do people know that many with a BEV will never look at the Type 2 AC cable as they have tethered at home or work or never use a public 7 or 11 kW AC. Same with PHEV,s. Have a tethered cable and no public charging at 3.6 kW. There are more bigger battery PHEV,s now at tethered AC though charging at 11kW. Or are some even 22kW now? Range Rovers. /Land Rover.

Re asking non EV drivers about being an EV driver. EV drivers will have heard many many ridiculous things from people that ask them about having an EV and tell you nonsense. Common is the price of replacing a battery. Common is how much it costs to charge and when you agree that public charging is expensive and really you need to be able to charge at home, then they say but they can and do not go far.

Re PHEV Evidence, You have nail on the head. Government let business take the P!$$. Is it the vast majority of PHEV,s with unopened packages with Charger Cables from the handed back Lease cars from Business / Fleet use that has the vast majority because mostly they leased these vehicles for the tax advantage? Are Private Buyer / Leasing private drivers getting PHEV,s and not charging them. Less private drivers than business use ones, so even if 100% use the cables the higher number comes from the Business users?

'Even a whiff of a damaged battery and it is being replaced.' Rightly so. How many replacement batteries are there being done. Or actually how many just written off as beyond economic repair. But then how many vehicles that are not EV,s or Electrified are being written off and nothing to do with batteries. Head of the SMMT this morning was speaking on the reduction on cars manufactured in the UK and he said a crossover point from models being discontinued and new ones being introduced. Very true. As to the increase in costs of producing & he said lots of investment in producing batteries and the cost of this investment in building more. ? Are more EV batteries actually being manufactured in the UK?