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Private Drivers be them buying or leasing and Companies Buying or Leasing are very different customer markets. That is NEW cars. Then there is the Used, nearly new, and the used purchased after a lease ends. Then there is the no 3 Registered keepers / buyers.

Looking dated is the issue that needs to be seriously thought about. People driving older vehicles surely do not care about there vehicle looking dated. Audi A2 Owners have cars that look ahead of their time IMO. What is needed is efficient through the air, efficient use of energy, size of interior for people and things and not just changing 'The look' to suit fashion. Maybe more sleek BEV estate cars, or Light Goods vehicles, generally practicality and good use of materials, and then recycling. Like as much being recycled as possible from the vehicles.

Well looking at the condition of housing and the area with the spy cam makes more sense. Then Edinburgh Councils rules coming on Short Term lets. Next think, nightly rentals and even rentals by the hour or 2 around much of Edinburgh and you might getting close.

A good battery and being sure of well connected then the main fuse checked is a good way towards chance of starting the engine.

@Graham Butcher Really, you do not know Edinburgh or Scotland that well. They were council houses / flats. Nothing grand. You bought them as a tenant for about £6,000 in the 1980,s. All around Edinburgh Intercoms are often outside & also more often Key Safes at the Flat door. Airbnb,s. Posties, Housebound Services etc know how to get in... Later today i will be very near there. @ Entore's of Slateford for a drink. 99B Slateford road. Look at the address, & No. 99 for a company director, and the brother, and the nearby Snooker Club. Shandon Snooker & Pool. Then the other Ex Directorships. PS Where i live in a 4 in the block 1940,s building with all the ground to the rear backed by the countryside was maybe the residence of the Provost and his staff if he had a Council house / flat.

There are VW Customising Specialists turning out lovey VAG models with difference, as there are for many different manufacturers models. Lots of people do lots of mods to their vehicles, even brand new. In Scotland there are loads of very noisy Audi,s about, & slammed etc. Most annoying are the once making lots of noises, pops and bangs and bouncing off limiters and going no place fast just being heard for ages. Loads of plonkers with old Skoda,s doing exactly the same. Soot covered rear hatches.

Sh1-t happens. Which can be a problem.

Da da, a Business Accountant.

Business's are the ones that the HMRC need to pay more attention to and encourage them using Battery Electric Vehicles where suitable. But not let them take the p1ss out of all others in the UK by them getting Premium or Luxury or inefficient vehicles with tax breaks just because someone fancies one. Obviously if using as a Luxury Private hire, Taxi, Airport transport then they need that type of vehicle, but just not because Senior Management like them for their personal / business use.

I got home with 25% battery yesterday after having charged again 15 kWh at 65 pence so £9.75. I could have charge a little less but i only had 21 mile range. I was nipping on, it was cold and there was every chance of a diversion so charged to 98%. Now today is going to be damn expensive. Car showing 100% after charging at home at 22 pence a kWh. Only showing 93 miles, but it will do over 100 miles easily as i head to Edinburgh. *27 kWh in 11 hours 45 minutes into a 32.6 kWh battery, less than 30 kWh usable & that cost me £5.96* Charging again public charger in about 85 miles. So when i charge today public the choices are expensive. Edinburgh Council chargers, 7 / 11 kW AC 45 pence a kWh. EC ^^^ Rapids 55 pence & Edinburgh Airport Park & Ride still off from the flood last summer. Podpoint 11 kW or 50 kW 65 pence. BP Pulse, 69 pence. I have subscription. MFG 75 pence. Then Ayrshire. 31 pence 7 / 11 kW AC or 50 kW 37 pence. Minimum £5.00 That is mental if you really just want 10 kWh say or only have time to just get a top up and go. The other options are 55 pence, 69 pence or 75 pence commercial chargers. Then Stirling Council, 59 pence a kWh rapid or 45 pence 7 / 11 kW. £2.00 minimum charge. Perth & Kinross Council 35 pence. 55 pence a kWh for 50 kWh £27.50 69 pence a kWh for 50 kWh £34.50 If you get 3.5 miles a kWh then 175 miles. 4 miles a kWh 200 miles. 75 pence a kWh for 50 kWh £37.50 143.7 a litre, A gallon of petrol £6.53. x 4 = £26.12 153.7 a litre, A gallon of diesel £6.98 x 4 = £27.94 Plenty miles worth of Cheap rate home or work or free charging needed to make private users have the BEV as an economic choice. Public charging at even the average price is just not good for your pocket. Perth & Kinross Council rapid chargers IF YOU GET A WORKING ONE @ 35 pence a kWh. 50 kWh = £17.50 Get 4 miles a kWh so 200 miles and that is fine. that is while the tariff stays like that. Not when they get to the tariff neighbouring Dundee is which is 80 pence for the first kWh then 50 pence. Or Angus Council 55 pence a kWh. Tesla Superchargers for Tesla or Non-Tesla still going to be just below or above 50 pence a kWh where available. Maybe relevant to those Hiring / borrowing BEV,s and just going about driving them and not near home / home chargers.

Do you really need to be changing the oil @ 10,000 km, as 15,000 km / 9,400 miles would be fine with or annually without long life oil. Is it VW502 00 5w 40 FS you use or VW 504 00 / 507 00, 5w 30 FS III ? Is it E5 95 ron petrol you use, & is there a nice clean air filter fitted?

@MoSalah Your 2014 DSG did not come from the factory with the oil that those 2009-2012 that was the reason for the World Wide Recall. Not the same oils as other DSG,s and the Wet Clutch ones have the same oil serving the MCU not like the DQ200 with 2 oils.

£11.96 it was for that 54 miles and that was not back to 100%. The next 50 miles took me to 50% battery from 98% and I am charging free just now on a 11kW AC charger. So that might be 30 free gratis when done.

Actually plus another £2 to get to 98%>.

Windy and cold and drizzle. Started off with 100% and 100 mile range. Onto dual carriageway and 54 miles in 56 minutes. Diversion Route into Aberdeen busy. Down to 44% battery so headed for nearest PodPoint at LIDL rather than a MFG or hopeless council chargers. PodPoint 65 pence a kWh. I will go to 98%. MFG are 75 pence and Council if I get one working 47 pence. I will have to charge again before heading back south so maybe another PodPoint at Tesco's 62 pence a kWh without needing to be back into Aberdeen. Running a diesel would be cheaper as I only have around 90 miles from my home 22 kWh tariff. Planned journeys with a small battery can often need changed because of road closures etc. now going to be where I was going first 40 mins later than planned but now no going to panic about chargers for another 90 miles and when I have plenty time to charge. Edit. 15.13 kWh cost £9.84 and my £10 top up to my account was not through so charging stopped. Now started charging again to 98%. Does not look like going to be getting warmer today but I will be on slower back roads. Bl00dy expensive so far £9.84 for only 54 miles driven. That was CC on and car at Green + so no heating on. Green, mid or sport and heating at 16,*oC would have reduced the range by maybe only 5 miles but today I wanted to see the best range and it turns out it is crap.

POWER STATIONS, Coal fired, Oil fired. Where did cities get their electricity? & then Town Gas. Fire Places. How did the Millions in London get energy and heat? & maybe look at Edinburgh back in the first half of the last century. Auld Reekie. Blackened Buildings. yet there were Electric Milk floats with Tam Connery and his like out and about and filthy filthy busses. Lots of coal being burned in power stations, homes and factories, hospitals etc. Many now no longer here to remember those good old days as they are dead, and not from old age.

When these Local Authority / council flats were Edinburgh Corporations & this was communal ground around them in most cases and dry greens around the back. There was often Land Grabbing, and gardens created, and looked after or not looked after by tenants and things evolved. When the different flats were bought how the land shows as far as allocated to each privately property then who knows.

If it is 4 or 5 which it can be that does not necessary mean no. 1 is required. There are repair / upgrade kits. (there are 2 Gearbox oils, in the box and in the MCU. The MCU leaks were the reason for the Recall Actions.) Hold on and see if the Techs that know about this are able to post later.

@MoSalah There was a Campaign or Recall, i know because a member from Egypt had that on a DQ200 DSG. Actually there were a couple of different software updates and the TPI numbers posted for Egypt, Israel, and UAE as far as i remember. Is it Skoda / VW Egypt that says there was not a Service Campaign or Recall action? Best get that in writing from them. ? Why not go see a Automatic Gearbox Specialist? @ApertureS or @Crasher might see this and be able to advise on the codes / issue.

@MoSalah Welcome. How many miles / km has your car done. Is it a 1.4 TSI with a DQ200 7 speed Twin Dry Clutch DSG, & which country are you in? ? If a DQ200 DSG is there any record of the Service Campaign '34H5' having been carried out since 2017? A software update, preventative because of possible leaks from high pressure / temperatures. Recalls in Australia, New Zealand and other world regions. Service Campaign only in Europe / EU. Many never done. Not all 2013-2015 did need doing supposedly. eg. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/512772-dsg7-recall-advice-accumulator-component More than just a Software Update here. Back in 2012 the World Wide Recall excluded Europe / EU / UK and that was '34F7' Synthetic Oil changed to Mineral Oil, & a software update. In New Zealand all vehicles with a DQ200 got new MCU,s fitted. Eventually in 2014 in Europe a service campaign was started on cars / vans 2009-2012.

Not really if they are not there. Nor the slabs that have to be removed, as the picture might be prior to completion of the installation. Was the gentleman maybe going to be advertising it as an AirBnB or rental property with off street parking, or just a long term rental, or even just rent out the parking with chargers rather then being his residence? Bins not obstructing access. I see from the pictures in the papers the pavement resurfaced. Did someone maybe have the kerb dropped?

LOL.

LOL. Lowered to tone of the neighbourhood. .

More stories in the press today on the channels across pavements for charger cables Trial location number 3 after the one in Stirling and someplace else. I could have the Council pay to drop my kerb. Ex Angus Tayside Council workers who are now Tayside Contracts / Direct Labour would have done the work. They sent out someone to survey and access / assess, survey the address, access !!! me. The thing was they wanted to paint a disabled bay and put a post on the street as well so i said no because i just needed off the street and not an opening and a bay on the street. I asked for them to take away the disabled ramp that the previous tenant had and that was in a bad condition.. They said they could replace it and i said i did not need a ramp that gets frozen and dangerous. So they had someone from Glasgow come and drill holes in it so that it would drain. They were from the company that had installed it many years previously. Angus Council likes if they can spend thousands having works done, ramps, dropped kerbs etc. They do not like cheap. If they were to start checking how many dropped kerbs people have done in Scotland without approval or how many have rubber tamps or pieces of wood to mount and cross a kerb that will be jobs for the boys / girls aplenty.

@StonekeeperThat will be why they are being told to reinstate the fence. My Granny stayed in exactly they same kind of block.