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Lots of cars even only 6 months old have discs looking like that. Location location location. How or if roads are gritted / salted. What grit is used. That grit can be tougher than thc crappy discs on Skoda / VW group vehicles. Or Stelantis, BMW / MINI and others. Common denominator, European car manufacturers. Cheap parts, sometimes poorer than aftermarket cheap parts that do not corrode for the fun of it.

@SkodAlan a DQ381 DSG oil change is at 80,000 miles unless you go earlier. Nearer £300 now for that done.

@SkodAlan and did you ask what they were Actually doing? A pollen filter is a crazy price from them. As are spark plugs. Is it an Oil and inspection service and those items as well. What was done at the past services or not done matters. Has the brake fluid been replaced?

Strange if that is what the manual says. Very different from regularly checking tyre pressures and checking and resetting the TPMS. All 4 tyres can lose pressure and the TPMS not flag that. Always check tyres / pressures and do not wait for warnings. Then there is changing pressures to suit the load carried. Maybe only changing the rears. Reset the TPMS. It is just a simply clever thing. Skoda owners manual authors can be simply stupid. PS, once a year / 10.000 km. Odd. Not once a year and 9,400 miles (10,000) like UK fixed servicing regimes. This is Skoda / VW and crazy miles days. Not unusual.

Girvan harbour charger repaired thankfully. Kilmarnock Athletic Park chargers were playing up. 2 chargers broken and a new electric pickup blocking a bay and no longer charging. I just needed a quick charge but since the minimum charge is £5 I charged for 22 minutes and got 14.5 kWh and that was £5.08. The 60 mins max charging time on a 50 kW charger might get some 50 kWh in an hour but more likely 45 kWh or less. I was getting it showing at a max 37 kW. 37 pence a kWh. Then 3 hours max charging on the AC 7, 11 or 22 kW chargers which can do a charge to 100% for me. But again £5 minimum charge and 31 pence a kWh so I would use if going to get 16.1 kWh in. I am not paying for more charge than I can get.

@Graham Butcher please. The news of the Mini and prices have been out for months and it is just surprising she was out of touch being as Mini fan. But then so was the guy from Autotrader.

Edinburgh Airport park and ride rapid public charges never back on since the floods last Autumn. 22 kW are but on 4, and then the 7,kW,s are busy.

@Graham Butcher it is live. I message in. The experts are there or by connection. It was Laura Lambie who normally knows her stuff that was talking mince. Being Scottish she is usually fully up on the price of mince. PS. Funds are held. I had 10 times or more by BP at Edinburgh airport. Were the max spend could be £7 they held £15. They were told in no uncertain terms to return it all within the week and not 29 days. It was coming up for every failed start. When you are well over £15 if a spend really it matters not. PPS. He is making a big deal about costs if public charging. Rightly so. But his big miles are work miles. The deal there is how much is your time worth to charge quick. A big battery car. Doing miles to earn. Many work while charging. Car on tick and bug saving on your taxes.

I just heard the end of a news story about the whole Tesla supercharger team being sacked by Elin Musk. Not read it yet.

Are you touching it long enough until there is a confirmation that you have. A noise or a light? What does the owners manual say the procedure is for the Karoq?

It is so damn simple. Plug into the car at chargers where the charge head does not require unlocking by taping a card or watch or what ever. The tap and charging is near instant. Damn expensive at 79 pence a kWh. Next charge in 98 miles will be cheaper at a Tesla charger and then 60 miles later it will be a 31 pence a kWh charger for 3 hours and ready for an early start.

Just a small point. There is no date that you must buy a new electric car. Nobody can be made to have to buy a car. Just say no! There is a date when you will not be able to first register ICE cars. InstaVolt can just be paid with a Credit or Debit card tap the card and pay for the charge & electricity used only. Including the VAT. He is using his payment choice and not paying the way many do. They are expensive chargers, but no need to have £15 held for any time. He never answers when asked in the comments if his is a Business Use Car and he claims the 20 % VAT back. Is that maybe why the G/F does not let him charge and maybe take 40 pence a kWh instead of the 85 pence @ Instavolt... When there is £15 held & per kWh it is 85 pence the £15 is used up anyway in less than 17 kWh, so like under 20 minutes on a 50 kW charger. Damn expensive eats and drinks are really really a personal choice. Not part of running an EV.

@J.R. I still am a plonker and like fast cars, or any cars. But i have never been into drawing attention to the fact i am going quick by making a lot of noise from cars. As it is EV,s are excellent for booting it and nobody even knowing you are.

Actually the noise and little speed is good for warning children playing on and around the street to get out of the way. The noise with BOV,s is good for a laugh as the car might be adhering to a 20 or 30 mph speed limit.

I was going to post 'Sad' but then lets be fair. We all love a Skoda Superb all lights on up our jacksy and going on up the road looking for others to allow them in, & that growling. Not.

A vRS 230 is a 2.0 TSI (Petrol)

Simple enough. You have a Euro 6 emission 2.0 TDI. Up until last June / July the service advice / recommendations / guidelines in the UK were to change the cam belt at 5 years / 50,000 miles. Cambelt and Water Pump, Apparently now that has been changed. Everyone seems to assume that 1.2, 1.4 TDI, 1.6 TDI & 2.0 TDI are as this sent out. They might be, they might not, i do not know. PS. OT, but the DQ250 DSG has a Service Schedule for Oil & Filter changes at 40,000 miles. Cam Belt Guidance change (1).pdf

^^^ They never seem to stop the Skoda,s used in murders or attempted murders in your area and only get them once burned out. (Often white ones.) They as Officers of the law definitely are selectively deaf, dumb and blind in your region.

'They' can have BBC Watch Dog running articles on programmes on Oil Users and they still deny there are issues while in other World Regions cars are recalled, people are compensated etc. They have crap Software running in vehicles and sort out VW / Audi first and eventually might get around to Skoda / Seat. If the matter is not resolved so that the car is safe for you and passengers and the other road users, public. Send your evidence or anecdotal evidence to the Department for Transport /DVSA, & VW HQ UK.

In the UK we do not pay 'On the spot fines' on the spot for starters. Then we have England / Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland and how the Police operate. So we will need the Police to get the appropriate Officer to examine the car, or they might prohibit it, they might require it to be examined / tested. There might be a NIP. There might be Undeclared Modifications with the insurer. There might even be the DVSA taking a look at the Establishment doing the modifications. As the DVSA have been doing. Lots of If,s & could, and might. Personally all the noise and little go from anti-social plonkers does my head in. I wish Police Officers were not selectively deaf.

@Missph Who do you expect to look at Internet / Social Media / Forum posts, the Service Desk Receptionist or the Master Tech? 'They all do that', or 'Never heard of that before'. Because they are selectively Deaf, Dumb or Blind. They work with Skoda's full time. This is the Technicians occupation. If there is a TPI then fine, if there are Logged Fault Codes, well who knows. Who does know is VW UK, Skoda UK & Skoda CZ. If they make out there are no issues and have never heard of issues then that is because Dealership Technicians are not telling them. Be sure you tell VW UK / Skoda UK and the DVSA about the issues you are having. They care not what you tell them about other people.

@PetrolDave I know. But for anyone just clicking on the thread, maybe not even members of this forum it is nice to know what engines someone is posting about.

For anyone thinking on those cars, The Stellantis cars Peugeot / Vauxhall can come with bigger batteries now and more power, and as set with a switch to choose from 3 different power outputs. Also 2 regen modes. The MINI has 2 regen settings, and the highest is 1 pedal driving. 4 drive modes. The AC on comments on in these vids they make does makes me laugh. & temperature requested 21*oC. That would have my b0llocks sweating. But then in hot weather requesting cooler like say for me a comfortable 18*oC does use more energy to get the interior more degrees cooler. One guy stopped on a back road but so his door is at the verge and another in the centre of the road showed their stupidity when i first watched this a couple of years ago and even more watching them again. The 0-60 thing and the 0-62 as pointed out is Matt and his commentaries and he does this video after video and gives gash figures. Then there is often comments on Wheel sizes. When it is the difference of Tyre widths and narrower tyres on the smaller wheels usually. As for the more powerful e-Honda. It is on Staggered Wheels / Tyres and they are wider than the less powerful car. The e-208 was on narrower tyres than the Corsa-e.

@dhandley It would have been an idea to say if it was a TSI or TDI vRS !

@leolito The thing is that a 1.4TSI engine even without being a PHEV version gets a Superb along just fine on many a UK road with a 60 mph speed limit or even 70 mph. .