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@barki How many former keepers does the car show? (I wondered if the first 3 years the car was a Motability owned car hence the AC Service done and the servicing at 3 years. usually the MOT is 1 or 2 months before 3 years old though, but serviced to the manufacturers specification.) Servicing is not that much as things are until extras are paid for.

The UK,s National Grid which is not the UK,s and certainly does not take available electricity from around the UK but prefers to buy it from Continental Europe is part of the issue. Then England not generating as much as it might because views might be spoilt is another reason.

Is that a royal we? No need to live in the UK or buy the electricity if people do not like the cost of it. Plenty do not. Most of the world don't.

Shows at the bottom that is the record of work done by official Skoda workshops. Shown in an odd format and different service terms get used. But FMDSH is really often a history of missing stuff. You do not know if the pollen filter was changed. Or a @ 6 year / 60,000 mile replace air filter even gets looked at before 6 years. It needs checked now. Maybe needs replaced.

No spark plugs showing as not part of an Oil and inspection service or Extended scope unless specified. Other extras show. At 5 miles that was a PDI not a used car Multi point check. Even if a car that was in the showroom. Maybe they do that if a Pre Reg. But the PDI should be there showing.

Round and round and round the track and all the engineering and research and passes on the technology to the road and safety. What a pith take really. Like rallying, drag racing and much else. But then Formula-e and X-treme off road is as much a load of micky taking. There is no carbon offset or anything like it. But that is how things are. Smoke and mirrors and have fun and make money and provide entertainment. The Red Bull Soap box stuff amazes me how spectators turn out for anything. I do miss the days of making a carty from a pram,s wheels, a fish box and some timber... Hill climbs and sprints and off reading as well. But then it is not like it has to be done. Maybe just as well doing driving people to hospital etc. Now maybe that could be a job for redundant race drivers, get a useful driving job as a volunteer. PS. I am not serious. Because we know nobody just gives up their play things, steam engines, tractors, cars, bikes, planes, boats or anything that is their passion or hobby just because others think they should.

I would be banning air shows. Let people watch planes on virtual headsets and let them sniff some fuel from a nose dispenser. No reason that those with no interest that live in the vicinity should have to put up with the disturbance. Actually same with Motorsport. If the greens get any say in future government all that useless fuel use and noise pollution might end.

Site operators will have to comply with clean air regulations once they are in. And H&S of employees and 3rd parties. Not everyone could not give a sh|te about the environment or their children or grand children's future and health. So it is not big or clever really to think about what you can get away with not doing. The house or lords / peers and MP,s might have a self interests in classic , collectors cars, and in the UK not even for those having one is a bit of a joke. Qué sera Sera.

Have the spark plugs been replaced at the 4 years even though not at 40,000 miles. Then checking spark plugs is not guessing, it is diagnosing. And often if out as well to replace. As to the timing belt. Since last July that stopped being a 5 year / 50,000 item. I would check the spark plugs.

Get the dealership Service staff to show what the service requirements are on a car that you are buying. Then get the sales staff to show that that car has the correct serving for the miles / age of the car. Also that anything not done but due before another 12 months / 9,400 miles is carried out pre sale to you. Then get the Approved sale car check list and do your inspection of the car. That is about it. Or take someone that can inspect the, bodywork closely. Wheels and tyres etc. Windscreen for chips and generally the condition. Any repairs should be to factory or approved car standard. A high standard, not a kerb side autos standard. You are paying a premium.

@Graham Butcher for over an hour now the road outside has had the traffic coming from Cairnryan passing. HGV,s, tankers, transporters, Busses, Vans, Motorhomes, Cars, Cars and Caravans and many many motorbikes. Harley Owners Club and others. It is very very hard to believe that eventually all those type of vehicle on a ferry with be EV,s.

The Brake Fluid should have been changed at 30,000 miles or 3 years. Maybe even @ 2 years and 4 years. The Pollen filter at 2 years and 4 years. The Spark Plugs at 40,000 miles or 4 years. The Rigorous checks should have been done as well as serviced to the Manufacturers Guidelines, Recommendations, Schedule or Specification as per Extended / Used Warranty T&C,s and what ever wording. Many Approved Used car seem to get a Warranty without being as per those terms. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/523355-skoda-approved-used-the-100-checks Really the sales person should know the Service History, what has been missed if anything, should know the Warranty T&C,s word for word. It is their full time job really, selling and buying or taking in trade-ins. If asked questions and do not know then they should find out the truthful answer.

Welcome. Are they really Skoda Approved Used cars, or cars with a Warranty that will be valid? (Edited) Is there the required Service History. Do the Oil and filter services show as Annual / 9,400 miles, so Fixed Regime for a 1.4 TSI PHEV. The DQ400-e DSG was or is due a Oil change at 40,000 miles, has that been done with the 45,000 mile car?

Is there not a 3 year manufacturers warranty to 2025? (22 plate from 1st March 2022) Could you say which Octavia Mk4, engine and gearbox. Is it maybe the issue that you will find in one of these threads. There is a cheap fix and a not so cheap fix.

Euro central Scotland and other places are the mid point for lots. Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Safeway, Morrisons etc etc should all be working from rail heads as they move stuff north, south, east and west. The Perth to Inverness train line does move goods but not as much as the plans were to have off the A9 and on tails. Safeway did it. I see the hgv,s going through Scotland and sometimes in England. The difference on the A9 or A90. Fish, timbers and general haulage. High value loads, unmarked vehicles. Asda, M&S etc. My Uncles was Walker Transport Macduff which is different from Walkers of Turriff. I see who regularly are on the roads, Lairds of Forfar fleet delivering concrete products far and wide. But just now at the side of the A77 I can watch totally different fleets moving stuff too and from Ireland. McBurneys, Carantyne, French and others. What does not pass here so much is the international truckers who sometimes could be days stopped because the Police pulled them. They got across the Continent, into England or the Irish Republic and then into the North and across to Scotland only to get stopped for tyres or some infringement and were waiting for the owner to get tyres fitted or whatever done to allow them to continue. But not only are they not passing this way, neither are many that used to use this route. Here or in Northern Ireland the charging hubs will need to be near the ports. But then during COVID those sites were purchased or had planning for parking up, so job half done. And no shortage of electricity around.

The Culina Group will have done what needs doing as far as Eddie Sobart goes. Muller group know about deliveries. International transportation. Goods travelling long distances in Europe.

Are you saying that the electrification is not going to happen and can not happen? Or what is it you are saying? It looks impossible, looks crazy to me. But actually more difficult because the UK government is useless and not really trying.

Will Shiers. Knows commercials. As does Will Shires. So which are we talking about ?

You just do not get it do you. Changing world. Small operators issues, fuel costs, electricity, wages, overheads, legislation. So if people can not go to electric then they will not. But as for fleets, tankers, and those that can they might. If the customer needs the supply chain to be green and the transport contractors to be green then green some might require to be. @Graham Butcher when did you last work driving HGV,s. PS. Parking up in Town car parks and motors running all night. Refrigeration units , peeing against a wheel and being a tramped is still being done but working conditions need to change. Not returning to a depot does not mean that you need to be at a roadside and stopped. Still in a cab. But many will be, but maybe just near facilities but just a chip shop.

A small child running behind the car and not being hit means every false stop is worth it. Common is a child or big stupid child puts a bike or scooter down behind you. Again thank goodness for technology.

The KIA EV3 might just be the mid size car to suit many and with enough range for those needing or wanting that.

If it using the brakes then it is disengaging the drive just as if the driver was using the brakes pedal. If actually coasting then the braking might feel a bit sharp or then engaged drive a little delayed. The electrification so the Mild hybrids and PHEV,s should help smoother starts and stopping and does with plenty electrified cars, if Skoda or VW group are not managing to achieve that with some then we know why. Always chasing the WLTP results and forgetting drivers in the real world.

DQ200 DSG,s were an issue, global / world wide recall 2012, Excluded Europe. In NZ all got a new MCU. In Europe 2014 before a Service Campaign. Then another in 2017, then continued issues. Not overblown on-line, on forums. It was and is a disgrace. How VW try making out just a thing of the past. The DQ381 premature failures look like one the Motoring Journals / Media bother to mention the issues being something that VW can not just leave owners who are out of warranty to have to pay to get fixed, or pay companies that can resolve fundamental design, manufacturing or material failings that VW pretend do not exist. Vorsprung Durch Technik. Kick it into the long grass, just say overblown on forums, people only join if they have a fault. They wish!

Autodoc, ebay, amazon, any online. Motor Factors, nothing is North America only in this Global Economy. If there is a product someplace others have it, or copy it.

Bump for @Ghostrider81 There are another couple of threads if you do a search.