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Lots of chargers at Asda were only 3.6 kW and have been broken for years and the BP Polar as it was was hopeless, and the tariff was crazy. Ones i looked at before i got an EV if they were working were often occupied all day by PHEV,s. (Staff.) Issa brothers / Asda, EQ and BP Pulse, MGF, Shell Recharge and whoever will provide what there is the demand for. BP Pulse needs to buck up their ideas though. Their Customer Services, Their maintenance, the whole damn organisation. @Graham Butcher No idea where you think the UK is a small market, and where a volume manufacturer can not have 'a small number' of different spec chargers. As charger manufacturers already do. For different markets, RFID / Card / App applications.

@CTvrs Skoda Specialist Cars Dundee part of the John Clark Motor Group do not have a Bodyshop. So the warranty work was not done there, but it might have been done at another John Clark facility. Pretty near John Clark MINI & BMW. I know it well. This.

There is going to be a shrinking market among ICE vehicles as there is a requirement for a higher percentage of zero emission vehicles to be first registered annually. If really there was to be nobody interested in manufacturing UK only spec EV chargers then so be it. But i would not bet my pension on it. Maybe car manufacturers can supply them new in packaging with the car for those that want them. I am pretty sure they can procure what is required.

@Graham Butcher Are you kidding about, 'We', if you mean British manufacturers for British products. Anyone anyplace will produce what Britain needs for customers in Britain and import and maybe undercut what might be manufactured here. Millions of the things if millions are needed, into every new home that has a place to charge a car. Because, EV,s are not going away anytime soon, or are the sales of them actually ending no matter what some would like to happen. How about the UK Government actually does job creation and gets industry producing products for the home market. All these unemployed and unemployable that could do a nice simple assembling job.

It will be interesting just how you get on. If Skoda Approved the Warranty Repair for corrosion and then who did it. Was it the Main Dealerships bodyshop or was the job farmed out. An Approved VW repairer. Was it the Corrosion Warranty because a panel had a hole, or was it the Paint within the 3 year paint warranty.

@Graham Butcher Are you really surprised. The UK or non EU country is a special place for special people with many manufacturers producing / manufacturing goods for the UK or other global regions.

I would be more bothered about not getting caught out by an unexpected frost / very low temperature and wrecking the engine. Just run the ratio for the conditions / temperatures you experience all year. Or use a different ration / strength Summer / Winter. If you dare.

@Stonekeeper That is fine encouraging the BEV,s to be Storage for electricity. The Fleet / Business user vehicles that HMRC help the businesses to run / park up. The ones already bought / leased wit incentives. The Government Agency Vehicles, NHS, & Emergency Service Vehicles, Care Services, Education, Local Authority / Council Vehicles, Public Transport etc. Just maybe even 10% of the vehicles in the UK that are not privately owned.

OK @Vlady Your reg number is not showing MOT history or ASK MID.

They at main dealerships told that to owners, and they punted the cars. Because Skoda / VW were not interested. They had duff engine management for the WLTP.

Plenty have had the issue. Plenty were told no software updates available. If it is your car then getting a Software Remap of the DSG by EcoTune might be well worth having. I had Remapped DQ200,s but also Clutch Packs and with Twin Chargers running 200+ bhp. I would not remap a 1.5 TSI ACT engine though. I would rather have an Extended Warranty if the car was a keeper.

@Stonekeeper It would really matter if WE are not all paying for the Electricity to not be generated now because England does not want the Renewables available.

@Vlady Was your build date after the Recall Action series of vehicles. Or did Skoda or the dealership say it was? There was not just a 1.5 TSI ACT engine software update, there were 2 DQ200 DSG updates i believe.

They know their stuff. No way would i have them or anyone touch it while it has a Manufacturers Warranty covering it though. You do not need to pay to have a DQ200 serviced. If it needs a Software Update have that done at a Main Dealers with the Master Tech supporting that it needs done. PS I would ask Ecotune. What oil are you replacing, in the MCU or the Gearbox. Damn cheap.

A Skoda Approved Used car with a '2 year warranty' sometimes when bought with finance or whatever offer is from the time of Buying / Collecting the Used Car.

'It is a future' that will happen before England gets anymore Nuclear Power Plants online or the National Grid has the Pylons up to get the Electricity from the North to England. It is needed sooner rather than later. But as it is 'The few' will get cheap tariffs / Offpeak while those without All the Gear pay through the nose for their energy. Plug in and use energy or the pretence of using less and get paid to do it. The Truth of EV,s for some.

@Vlady Is that one of Henry,s in Glasgow quoting £169? That is guff. There are 2 oils in a DQ200 DSG. They would not be replacing both, and no idea why they would replace 1. That is maybe someone thinking of giving it a 'Reset'.

Sales or Demonstrators, or brand new cars from dealerships can have tyres set at any pressure, over, under or the correct pressures, or any combination of that with the tyres. Never assume they are safely set or the TMPS reset. There are very very few VW Group / Skoda cars that have not ECO Bias tyres. Even if a Sporty car, and Skoda have nothing with much Sportyness. They are about getting Economy as in MPG, not Economy as in Tyres that are Economic. & They are often Over Priced if you replace like for like.

Don't put a vehicle in for a MOT with a Foreign Body in a tyre, or a Screw in the tyre then. Incase a tester notices it.... Balance beads are Foreign Bodies inserted inside the tyre, not a mot failures. Common with Offroaders and Motor Cycles.

It is a special way you do the plugging of a Self Seal tyre. Not just plugging like a tubeless tyre. Easily found on Youtube. It is linked in the Self Seal tyre threads.

^^^^ Much of above shows for the OP to maybe KISS. As well to have a TSI and get in and just drive it, service it and buy fuel. It matters not if there are changes and you end up just doing a few short trips each day in the weather / roads you have around Penrith.

@D.FYLAKTOS How cold is your cold starts. What is the actual oil and coolant temp? No lower than the ambient temp! It is a road car in Greece or driving in that general region. Like the thousands and thousands much like it. There are really really hot regions & really cold ones around the world and they drive about as well.

Not necessarily. The Self Seal tyre once it seals when you take the screw out and inflate the tyre might well be able to have a repair. By those that know how to with a 'Self seal tyre'. Which ones are fitted, Continental or Pirelli or A.N. Other.