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@LucidEric I hear similar, but that is about 2.0 TDI, so is your vRS a TDI and not a TSI. The thing is if people do not check the oil level after a oil and filter service then again regularly they often do get a surprise that they get a low oil warning, they really should not. ? Is it at the OK zone on the dipstick with the oil showing a 90*oC or so temperature and the engine stopped for a few minutes?

Welcome. Very likely an Uneconomic Repair as far as the insurers are concerned so yes a write off. Loom, components, labour etc. But then attempts at having it dried out before carrying out diagnostics again would be sensible, but where you have the car is not interested in that. ? So do you think the Insurance company will pay you out anything near to £5,000? What age and miles has it done. ? Was it never a leaker before this incident or incidents? ? Was there a flood and did you not check the car when the flood happened?

You do not have a self drive car. (yet) You still drive it, touch the accelerator or brake if needed or shifter or paddles. As it is Cruise Control can be a fuel waster and keep the power on and using fuel into corners where you might lift off the accelerator and carry speed in and around. Like Coasting decades back before 'coasting' was a thing, or even a DSG was. Or ACC, or GPS controlling power, cylinders, engine off, cylinder on demand etc.

That is the sensible thing. But while it was hot / at normal operating temperature was the time to check as well.

It was at 3 years then with Mk4 Octavia it is @ 2 years. When told it is optional that is because the person saying it has no knowledge of them. There is a filter to change and there are Independent Specialits that recommend at 2 years / 20,000 miles. Plenty threads, just a few show with a search. Includes sadly failures from servicing not done. As to final drive oil changes, rear Diff Oil Changes or top ups are not done at Main Dealers on those with AWD / Haldex. Long story short, even techs can be clueless so expect service desk staff to be, ask them not to phone a friend but phone a trained and experienced friend that knows there sh!t.

OK, but services carried out on time, Oil & Inspection Services (Engine Oil & Filter services) & Extended Scope does not mean they were to the Manufacturers Guidelines, Recommendations, or Specification as in extras done. Brake Fluid, Pollen, Air or Fuel filters or the DSG. Surely there should be a record of the actual Service & Maintenance and any Warranty work done. Items serviced.

Sorry no idea but hopefully someone will be along that does, but then the Technicians at the dealership are best placed. As well as playing lucky dip and changing the likes of the MAF sensor are the regular service items up to date, Fresh Air Filter, Fuel Filter and has the DSG been serviced twice?

@TTruba Welcome. Could you please state what engine with 110 kW / 150 PS you have 1.6 or 2.0 TDI?

@OldKaroq Just a small point over 'Coasting ' with your 1.5 TSI ACT DSG in comparison to @thamestrader,s 2.0TSI DSG is the Active Cylinder technology so as well as 'Coasting' you have gong down to 2 cylinders when no load on the engine and under the correct conditions. Then there are 1.0 TSI,s or 2.0 TDI,s. All can have coasting and it does the same thing but not all ages of the different drive trains are selecting it or operating the same, some need to be in certain modes.

Forget Bodywork, not corrosion, it is just the 3 Year Paint Warranty. T&C,s easy to find. Future Corrosion Warranty claims are a problem if the paint / repair was not an Approved Repairers work. Also if the Technician doing the body Inspection was Stevie Wonder. There are similar stories over the years, Damaged cars not repaired to Factory standard, or actually better than factory standard. ? Makes little difference, but ? Was the person that was the registered keeper the cars owner or just an Employee and VW /Skoda UK owned the car. Was it a Perk / Demonstrator or a Famous EX Management car. Owned / registered to one and driven by anyone or many anyones. The Rigorous Checks for the Skoda Approved Car seem not to have been that rigorous, But then it has taken you to now to notice the issue. POOR PAINTWORK. Has it got worse from the passing of time due to a 'Kerb Side Autos; Joey up tidying of the car? Man with a van on the forecourt. VWFS_11815379_SKODA_AUW_Booklet_0922E.pdf SKODA_Warranty_Terms_Used_Car.pdf SKODA_Warranty_Terms_July_2023.pdf

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@laurusbaurus maybe someplace in the thread / posts i missed it but what actual engine does your car have & how many miles done? I hope not the cylinder head. Is it a VW Specialist that has looked at the car and are going to do the diagnosis?

@Luckypants When i ran LPG V8,s LPG was no problem in Scotland with plenty ASDA having it (& some Morrisons & ESSO) and when it was 2 pence a litre off @ Asda paying with an ASDA Credit card that suited as i used double the amount of litres of LPG to petrol and i stopped using LPG when Petrol was £1 a Litre & LPG was 50 pence a litre. There were plenty places around Tayside & Aberdeenshire back then as there were Grants for TAXI,s to go to LPG. OK around the Borders & the West coast for places and the cheapest was outside Kilmarknock at a busy Service Station & HGV stop. (Well the cheapest was actually at some farms with Grain Driers, but that was nod and a wink to a blind HMRC person.)

Aberdeen airport park and ride. 47 pence as kWh. Chargers working and loads of emptiness at this time of evening. Another park and ride 5 miles away with charging and loads of commercial ones near now. Changed days. Fast enough charging for the MINI . It was at 52 kW.

Before @domhnall got the Enyaq he is replacing with another Enyaq he did have a Tesla. So he has been driving EV,s for a good while.

Luckily the Forecourt Maintenance Contractors operative is there within hours or maybe next day, and if the tanks need filling the tanker is not travelling far from a depot. When EV chargers are down, especially in Scotland it can be weeks or months before they get a technician to them, if they even get on. Then 7kw ones might be operating at a lowered output. eg half. That being down to the Charger owner and their maintenance contract which is not that great with many of Scotland's 32 councils.

@Winston_WoofWell that is not happening in the next 5 years or even 10 so people will just have to whistle. Certainly not to much of England. People will just have to drive what they have using petrol, diesel, lpg, hydrogen as there is and electricity for those with a BEV. This will suit those that are against getting BEV,s surely. As to Destination chargers. Fine, if you are parking for a few hours. But i would like to see Electric Man if on crutches in winter getting a few hundred yards from home to a car park or where ever a 7 / 11 kw AC is if he was without home charging. Or actually anybody really that has to walk back and fore any distance to just leave the car and collect the car. Plenty do it, now and many have no intention of doing anything of the sort. Once the billions of compensation due is paid out the Council Workers that did not have equal pay, those that got inflected blood or family off, post office post masters & building cladding and RAAC rebuilding maybe they can find the apprentices & trades people to be doing the charger instillation. & getting the drinking water & sewage in the UK sorted out. Fill in millions of potholes,build the new roads and improve travel on public transport, house the homeless etc etc The Wind Farms, Solar, Hydro and nuclear energy can be transmitted on the super new national grid & the countries will be better cleaner places.

@SMCKIE1993 Has it had the Timing belt and water pump replaced?

You get full fat Electricity at home, it is not like Unleaded & Super Unleaded petrol. charging and the shown range will have the range guessing from you last driving style / efficiency. Also the battery temp and ambient temp and if the battery is to 100%. Is it maybe stopping on the home charge before 100% ? Do you actually 42 miles when it shows that this a a possible range?

@Winston_WoofFantastic. Hang fire then. We will see how things go with infrastructure, and improvements in technology, and the price of electricity. Rome was not built in a day. No idea about any Post Brexit Legislation changes, but the party in Government in the UK @ the time of Brexit is still the one that was in place Pre & Post Brexit. So still the situation is Que Sera Sera. Considering how many of the Vehicles built in the UK currently are for export someone will need to screw the nut. As in consider the Car Industry in the UK which is not part of the EU. Apparently the Labour Party think they can have a Energy Company for the UK that they will run at arms length and produce no energy but they will have control of market prices and much cheapness for customers. We will see, those with Home Charging, Smart Meters, the right Scheme / Tariff are damn cheap already, while others pay plenty over that prices, even where the energy is plentiful. The new GB Energy to be based in Scotland. Well we will see how that turns out.

@Winston_Woof Do not get a BEV then. Is it not just as simple as that?

Que sera sera again as far as the EU goes which the UK is not still part of, and Que Sera Sera as far as the UK goes and what any government will do after the 5th of July, or say they are going to try and do.

@SMCKIE1993 Welcome to the forum. What is the car, TSI or TDI and what size engine?

@Graham Butcher Exactly the same as with every small car i have ever had, or driven were only children or double leg amputees can sit behind me. The Toyota iQ was a roomy 2 or 3 seater, same with a Fabia, as was the Corsa and the MINI is better as a 2 seater but can take 3 in it.