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@Warrior193 Obviously i chose to have a small battery BEV & it to have a small car that i enjoy driving and that i can get a charge on a AC charger quick enough for moving on. I would not rather be in a new 200+ mile between charges 2025 MINI. Or a 300 mile Tesla. If i want to head off with a diesel or petrol i can do that. I like the craic at chargers. There for the banter.

Maybe time for a pinned thread on Aero covers in the Mk4 section.

Stocking up with munchies for a 1,500 mile or so Summer roadtrip starting shortly. Maybe around 18 charge sessions required Enough charge cards carried incase of phone issues with these and an Osprey and E-life plus about 8 apps including for cheaper charging the Tesla for a non-tesla charging.

DQ200 7 Speed Twin Dry Clutch DSG are only used with engines with a maximum of 250 Nm.

^^^ I have got my young lad interested enough in the Ioniq 5N to arrange a test drive of one.

@DanAcka Best get the employee at the garage to go find out that it is 6 speed wet clutch DSG. Maybe just by driving it, and not counting reverse as a 7th gear. The DSG oil and filter change was only due at 40,000 miles. So best have them check the Main Dealer Service history to see if it was ever done anytime in the last 13 years, and done recently, or at least recently.

Welcome. If it is a FWD 1.4 TSI, 1.8 TSI or a 1.6 TDI then it will have DQ200 7 speed twin dry clutch DSG. (Service Campaign '34F7' should show on a sticker in the spare tyre well if done since 2014. Oil changed from synthetic to mineral and a software update.) Not if it is AWD or has a 2.0 TDI or TSI. They were 6 speed wet clutch in 2011. ? What sort of record of servicing has it for recent years and how do the past Mot,s look for fails, passes, or any advisories in the last couple of years.

The tech that rebuilt the engine will know all about it and what was used and if it got new oil spray jets. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/471566-cave-to-cthe http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/513716-skoda-vrs-mk2-cave-engine-rebuild-advice

Come off it. His lifestyle!. His troubles at charging stops are manufactured as nobody even him is that dim as forgetting how different chargers work. He hit a winner and a BEV is where the benefits are with the HMRC. Up and down & across the country like a blue arsed fly and earning by filming doing it. Nobody is interested in doing that in a Petrol, Diesel or a Hybrid even a 911.

Who re-built the CAVE & how much is it and is there an ECU with it? How would you know the CTHE is OK, is it in a car and running, accident damaged or something? Are you fitting the engine?

Why would you buy a used CAVE unless you know it is a recent rebuild? & you need the ECU. Production of the cars stopped 12 years ago, but there were CAVE engines built for replacements. Buying a used CTHE is as much of a lottery, as is the refurbished CTHE that get advertised. Can you not find anyplace to rebuild your engine?

I think he bought the right vehicle for his needs. Actually he has not bought it and does not own it. He drives to do Food videos and to the airport to do trips abroad and needs a vehicle so he makes video's while using a vehicle and people watch those. It is all part of his expenses as a video maker / producer / broadcaster. Just as if his videos were about angling and he was driving to angling places and making videos. I have never seen a video where he goes by bus or train, but if he does go that way that will be part of his overheads / expenses. Just like the guy in the video above that says it cost him £6,000 for 6 months. Well he needed to drive something and lesser cars can cost £500 a month to have for your transport. Both of them are business users driving a Porsche EV, so a bit different from private users.

No idea as i have not been aware of any fumes around and about for years other than from the bus station or stances and the taxi ranks where they used to sit engines running for 'Long time mister'. & i do not carry anything that can read particulates. Lots of not so old diesels kick about the area at times 'rolling coal' though. Audi, VW, Seat & Skoda,s being the most common. Best to just avoid. Unless you want your medicines but you can get them delivered quicker than a carry out / Pizza etc, or even with your carry out and probably by someone driving an EV.

The LEZ in Dundee. http://bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckvv8qzw0w3o http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/news/article?article_ref=4698

Holy crap, just imagine the difference of the explosion between a 30 kWh battery at 100% and a Hummer with a 212 kWh battery. Best keep the Hummers away from military bases unless being used as a trojan horse to get in their and do lots of damage.

They can on some VW group models. GPS tells when the engine can be off, or cylinder deactivation etc, recharge a light hybrid etc. But these are tried and used elsewhere and eventually Skoda gets or not.

@Graham Butcher You are constantly having a field day with it. Do not get a BEV and stay well away from them.

Thousands of new cars are arriving at UK ports from around the world & others are departing the UK. BEV,s are getting on ferries in and around the UK daily. It is what it is, and what will be will be. http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-66866327 Holy smoke. We are doomed!

Interesting if there is a ban on BEV,s, PHEV,s and MHEV,s on ferries in and around the British isles / UK and to the continent. No way of taking Passenger cars, lights commercials, HGV,s, Motor Cycles with Lithium traction batteries not crossing to Northern Ireland, Northern & Western Isles, Isle of Wight, Channel Isles, Isle of Man etc.

@leolito if you tap the brakes and you are in drive it goes back into 'Coasting' if you are still going as you were before taping the brake pedal so hardly an issue is it. There is the gear showing but drive actually cut and ready for action if the accelerator is touched. Or coasting continues if not.

So? Does the wind blow from the Sea or the Thames and get rid of the nasties? Indeed it does look like a revenue raiser. But then that is England and a ULEZ. & kidology. You get who you or the majority vote for so you know who to moan at. Scotland has LEZ,s and the Taxis get longer than the general public to comply.

@thomasaspin is who can maybe help.

@Derbylad82 Someone is pulling your plonker. Even VW Group / Skoda do not pretend that is acceptable engine oil use. For many years they have said May use as much as 0.5 litres in 1,000 km (621 miles) and that is not acceptable and never has been. You show as being in the UK and not in some extreme climate, towing heavy loads over Alpine Mountain passes. Not that 0.5 litres in 1,000 km is acceptable then either.

As it showed in a video i posted of a walking tour of Dundee that traffic in the LEZ is very little as most is pedestrian zones and have been for years. The big car parks are not in the LEZ and as for Taxis and Busses then many are Electric already. There are differences in Glasgow and Edinburgh but Aberdeen's LEZ is pretty similar to Dundee as not being driver friendly and not covering much of an area.