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This GB Energy and The Crown Estate agreement stuff is England. The Crown Estate Scotland and seabed and offshore wind agreements done. The licencing had already happened. Crown Estate / Royal family money is already the Nations in the main so public. That is not private or inward investment. It is Smoke and Mirrors. Like KC3 and the 2 royal cars converted to Bio Fuel and the new Royal EV fleet. KC3 when the Prince of Wales had his loaner Tesla S via Elons brother. The brother that is very good for KC3 and their interest in Wine. Charles even had a car that supposedly ran on fuel made from wine.

What tax revenue are Scottish Councils losing because of EV,s? They have fleets of them their selves. If they were to stop blocking or refusing solar farms and battery farms and actually encouraging those wanting to put them up have them on public land, COMMON GOOD land, which there is lots of, and redundant Greenfield sites that are not getting housing on anyway and is reclaimed refuse / dumps that have to lay dormant for many years. Get rental income in from that being used. The councils need the renewables to cut their emissions and costs. This is Scotland not England that had had a ban on new onshore wind for near a decade. This is where there is much more electricity than the country can use and where it can not all be exported because the National Grid is not up to it.

While Local Authorities are taking 55 pence a kWh for 50 kW DC chargers it is easy to look at that as 10 kWh is £5.50 and if you get 4 miles to a kWh then 40 miles. Worst efficiency costs you more, better efficiency then great. 5 kWh per mile Is 50 miles for £5.55. but then the likes of the Highland council are at 70 pence a kWh for DC 50 kWh charging. There are still some charging bellow 50 pence a kWh. It is getting expensive even in Scotland with this tax payer funded charging set up to public charge, even on AC 7,12 or 22 kW chargers. Then there is the ludicrous minimum £5 charge in South Ayrshire even if using a AC Fast (slow actually ) charger.

Is a Euro 6 TDI out of your price or just out of the quest?

Yes and i have on various tyres be me driving or someone else, steel works poking up on roads as drains brake up or road works have big steel plates across roads. not uncommon that chunks do get torn out of tyres with rim protection with low profile tyres on smaller rims like 17".

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I will bump the modification thread for you to get some ideas, and maybe look in the Fabia Project Section. Google is your friend, try looking at stuff like spoilers or defusers, http://rtmgperformance.com http://awesomegti.com http://darksidedevelopments.co.uk http://racingline.com http://awtuning.co.uk

Welcome. How soon after the MOT did the mis-fire become apparent? Has it been checked for any stored fault codes yet. How about starting with the Spark Plugs, when were the checked or replaced? The ignition Coils. Simple starters.

Anything special, Service parts, body panels, upgrade or modify? http://opieoils.co.uk Ebay, Amazon, Dealerships of which they are on the online sellers, local motor factors.Online Motor Factors. Tuners, Darkside, Awesome etc etc

The long and short of it. Love the Audi on its look. The MINI is near a year since first registered, but it is not a year since i got it yet. Faultless and i am keeping it beyond 3 years probably unless it goes back and i buy a used one with all this one has and it is going to cost me a lot less. The new MINI E & SE are really not my cup of tea. This model is exactly to my liking & comfortable. Everything falls to hand and works. Other than the crap Sat Nav..

Volvo was 2 years / 20,000 miles for years. They are worth doing to that schedule when the car is a keeper. It all adds up to high running costs for servicing with Main Dealers and even can be with Independents. As long as they are doing it properly then why not go with that intervals. But how much are we at now for a clean out and oil change £140? Or do they want more? PS. Cars with the front VAQ diffs are now @2 years / 20,000 miles, some places are not even telling owners the 3 years / 30,000 miles they were at. Some owners have cars with them never serviced.

I see there they have changed from calling their All Season CrossClimates to Winter tyres. They had them as Summer Tyre with a Winter Classification. The Alpin 6 were great, but i wrecked the sidewalls. The Cross Climate SUV on my Shogun were actually sh!te on snow. I have had CrossClimates, CrossClimate +, and CrossClimate SYV,s in the last 6 years on cars of my own and driven with CrossClimate 2,s. I had a pair of Alpin 6 that got replaced that had tears and bulges but they had done over 30,000 miles in 2 years. They come with plenty tread new and had virtually no wear. Maxxis AP3 to Left & Vredstein Quatrac Pro to the right.

Get a warranty, and then when the time comes & it expires an extended warranty that covers the DSG.

The usual is Tesla drivers not wanting to be behind and getting in front and then being Road Captains. It looks like the Dark Ages down in Darkest Devon, the UK,s Charger Desert. Not! Just as well there are properties with mains electricity or renewables at them and 3 pin plugs so that a charger cable can be used if a car can get near to a property, preferably off the road.

Welcome. Kangerooing should not be an issue 2020/21 with a 1.5TSI ACT DSG (Nor the DQ200 DSG an issue.) Cambelt change price neither for maybe another 8 years or more. No longer schedule, advice or guidance as being @ 5 years / 50,000 miles in the UK. You are only buy 1 car so how few there might be around does not matter if you can find 1 you want. There will be 3 year old lease cars arriving at auction and into the used car trade as we get through the summer, so more 2021 cars available.

There is a difference of being stuck in Emden or being held in Emden (EU) because Skoda / VW do not want them leaving and into the UK to sit too long before being First Registered? Maybe the VW Group in the UK need to get First Registration arranged to suit their need for 22% of passenger cars to be BEV,s, and also not exceed the Average Fleet Co2 figures in the UK. The Dealerships really should know or have some idea just how the importations are going and which excuses to use for delays, or even just be truthfull. Priorities, or just staffing, transportation issues in the UK.

@SLeeperking You keep saying 'Winter Tyres' so were there Snow Tyres? What kind? Back 30 years or more back we got Sterling Winter Remoulds from a tyre place in Douglas, then Vredstein Winter tyres became available and every car i had got those until i started getting lowner Winter or All Season tyres that Michelin Staff (& Family & Friends) got to use and then have to return. Plenty Winter or All Season tyre threads in the Tyre Section of Briskoda. That has peoples experiences of all kinds. Tyres IME are usually buldged or torn by potholes or iron works before ever worn out, and never torn to bit in summer weather even if winter tyres. (There is a couple of threads on here where some really cheap winter tyres have been losing treads, old tyres.) If tyres perform in good and bad weather on the A93 & A939 then that is all i need and many OEM tyres can be pretty crap when it is wet, or cold and wet, or even hot and wet.

@nidza Made in Serbia, company owned by Michelin as are Tigar. Have you had any on your cars? But i had them on through the Summer of 2023 and they were great after wrecking 2 Michelin Alpin 6 hitting potholes, and good in the sun and in the rain. As have been TIGAR tyres as i have used in the past and kept the Snow tyres on. That is all that i need from a tyre, handles and stop well and gives grip and traction. The great driving roads in Scotland are max 60 mph anyway, and if faster driving the corners are still about that as a max.

Welcome. There are Budettes, Gals & Quines here as well, and also non binary.

@SLeeperking For decades i have used 'Snow' tyres, All Terrain Tyres, M+S Tyres in Tayside and sometimes all year on some vehicles. For the past years All Seasons have done me well around Scotland in all weathers even where the Snow Gates have been closed and i have been within them at Glenshee, the Lecht etc. Even back in 2009 & 2010 All Seasons were sufficient in the Angus Glens, Glendoll, GlenIsla etc. Tyres like Michelin Alpin 6 or Riken Snow tyres on a Corsa Electric were no more noisy than the ridiculous Michelin Primacy 4 that gets put on EV,s. I am running Maxxis Premitra AP3 on my Mini Electric, i had on Vredstein Quatrac Pro All Seasons first instead of the near smooth Goodyear Eagle F1 it came with and the All season / all weather tyres are no noisier. Also no reduction in range with the EV so there should be no adverse affect on fuel efficiency with a ICE vehicle. PS As to Summer or Summer in Scotland, well this July is Summer, and there can be plenty parts that are just wet, Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter and sometimes hot, but even in the best driving roads in scorchio weather, tar melting is anyone really wearing out All Season / All Weathers or Snow / Winter tyres. What are they doing, wheel spinning or running low tyre pressures or a mis-aligned suspension / steering car?

They will be able to show that in writing to you if that is the Skoda / VW Recommendation, Guidelines, Specification or Schedule. ? Are they saying they will do it properly, not just change the oil, and how much do they want? ? Is the Brake Fluid at each 2 years and not just at 3 years and then each 2 years. ? Are you getting trhe spark plugs changed at 40,000 miles?