Guest_

We used to run Water Wetter in them as well.

@Vlady Home charging with off peak / smart charging you could be as low or lower than 10 pence a kWh to charge. 60 kWh, £6.00 & maybe 200 plus miles for that. A Tesla and Super charging @ 50 pence a kWh, 60 kWh £30 and maybe 250 miles from that 60 kWh. .................... I will look for your story in the Karoq section on the DSG. Servicing not required. Just Skoda dealeship required to sort issues, after Skoda UK / CZ accept there are issues. EDIT. PS. I see the bit about a Cupra Born. Right. The 1.5 TSI ACT might be as much an issue as the DQ200 DSG attached to it. If sluggishness is the issue. ?? Have you tried running it on Tesco Momentum 99 / E5 ?

Welcome to the forum. Do you have a car with a DSG? Is it Hill Hold Assist (Hill hold control) that you do not have, as in from the brake pedal to the accelerator the car does not hold without rolling back for a couple of seconds?

@Vlady Would you have no access for a Home Charger for a BEV, or work place charging making an EV a good choice financially? Public charging around your area makes no sense for private drivers. There is a Polestar sales place now at Silverburn. Great cars IMO. A MG EV Estate is actually quite a nice and comfortable drive.

There is BMW & VW porn here and others.

One for today, and then tomorrow.

Skoda Service Schedules in the UK do show the spark plug replacement as @ 4 year / 40,000 miles. No Fuel Filters with a Petrol as a scheduled item and as far a TDI,s if every 4 years / 40,000 miles then good. But they show Air Filters @ 6 years / 60,000 miles. Main Dealership service staff were quoting in 2023 £125 for spark plugs replacement and it was regardless of a 3 cylinder or 4 cylinder TSI.

A 1.4 TSI PHEV without a charged battery is pretty much a 1.4 TSI 150 ps car. 6 speed wet clutch. So not a 1.5 TSI ACT car. 7 speed DSG wet clutch. Just complicated in a different way. or a 2.0 TSI 7 speed wet clutch.

Welcome to the forum.

35 minutes if driving all that time is quite long. No stop Start traffic or stop / start on. Winter time maybe 15-20 miles before actually 90+ *oC engine oil temp. Look on the bright side, only a few have issues. Fingers crossed. But just buyer beware. & location location location. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/522156-octavia-mk3-dpf-problems

@Stonekeeper 2 kW would only equate to 8 miles an hour if the car gets or has been getting 4 miles a kWh. Since i got 3.1 miles a kWh yesterday and maybe i will today then it would be 6.2 mile an hour. 12 hours 87 miles. 28 kWh / 12 hours. So that will be 2.3 kW an hour is it. But then 28 kW taken in the car but it might be 32 kWh that is used from the house. PS Last night. added 83 miles guesstimate, Started with 23%, 22 miles range. Fully Charged 100%, 105 miles. Near 7 miles an hour. When unplugged 104 miles. 28kWh / 11h 58 minutes. @ 22 pence a kWh. Actually 33 kWh electricity used & to pay for.

^^^ Exactly. Horns down the front not the alarm siren that show as Service Replacement item at 5 years / 50,000 miles in the Service book. Plenty still on the go with the original 14 years on. My crashed / repaired vRS.

@Graham Butcher You are off on a tangent. 7 kw or 11 kW charging to the car is from a 7, 11, 22 or 43 kW charger with a Type 2 suitable 11 / 22 kW cable. The GRANNY cable providing power for charging is not even 2 kW charging with the onboard charger.

If only any of that made a real difference. Luck of the draw. You are talking a TDI with SCR. Be sure you have an extended warranty covering the Adblue system. But now the TSI,s have GPF,s.

It is not a charger. The 11 kW on board charger is in the car. It is a 3 pin charger cable, often referred to as a GRANNY Charger. Not this one, that was bought before i had an EV. The MINI came with it,s own one. As to the charging, you can set in the car the max power you are charging at, regarding DC charging or AC from chargers, or from the Onboard charger.

Welcome. The TSI. The TDI & it,s DPF has already done 60,000 miles and you do not know how used up til now. 35 minute commute only and heating up and the TDI doing regens likely will not be that more economic. Be sure the DSG,s have been serviced and the Haldex at 30,000 miles

@J.R. Against all advice from those in the know i am just charging up to as much as 30 kWh from a cable plugged into my 3 pin wall socket & outdoor extension cable. Max 10 amp. 9 kWh taking 3 hours 41 mins. 25kWh " 10 hours 59 min. 28kWh " 11 hours 58 min.

Obviously any Main Dealership in Scotland will tell you before the car is 3 years old that the brake disks are 80% worn. (They could be with the PHEV in Scotland from lack of use other than having to clear off the rust each time you drive the car.) They might now say the brake fluid is due replacing at 2 year, some might still say at 3 years first and some might tell you nothing. They will say that the AC needs serviced at 2 years old. They will try other Upselling, Offering a Fuel Additive, even if you have a Skoda Enyaq... They might know nothing about the DSG. PS Before the Warranty is out if you service before the MOT they will point out the dampers are leaking / misting but not a warranty claim. Several years later they will still pass a MOT.

Fixed Oil Services with the PHEV. The 1.4 TSI used with the PHEV will have the same Cambelt change as Skoda / VW announced last July. Long time no bother mister all night long. Years and years no touch. Oil needs changed each year, 9,400 miles, Fixed Regime. Gearbox is a DQ400-e, 6 speed wet clutch, needs the oil changed each 40,000 miles. Spark plugs will still be at 40,000 miles even if the petrol engine is used very seldom.

That sort of price has been spoken of for a good while now. Surely (Shirley) that can not be possible with Low Volume productions and quality materials. Whoever is putting in the money for the development of the vehicles and then getting production going need to be getting money back in sometime in the not too distant future. Or is this yet another manufacturer thrown millions of public money in one way or another.

Surely going to be worth every penny of the £60,000 plus.

Check out the couple of threads on the subject. there might be more than 2. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/504089-petrol-flap-snapped As to gluing. Check out on youtube, Superglue & Baking Soda. I use that quite a lot.

Welcome. Maybe you will need this question in the Octavia section for those in the know to help. I see an error if it is an error in the sales stuff. 'Ambition' 'Medium trim'. Just be sure the car left the factory as a vRS and that when you are insuring it shows as a vRS.

Well i had no idea what this was when i spotted it. A 2020 AJS and lots of rustyness and i liked lots. (A bit of better painting or powder coating when new & before using one might be a good idea.) I was totally surprised to see they are under £3,000.