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The driver / owner has a choice, do not get one of these vehicles engineered to have low emissions under a WLTP test regime. Drive before you buy, or lease. It is not going into N, but it is disconnecting from drive. The engine is lubricated by oil for start ups. It is not like engine shut down, Stop / Start, ACT / COD etc has not been about for over a decade.

A 1.6 TDI can have a DQ200 7 Speed twin dry clutch DSG. A 2.0 TSI or TDI does not have a Dry Clutch DSG. (There are 2,0 TDI 115 PS engines that have them. Not used in a Superb though are they.)

I have kept an eye out for anything further on the MG electric and Brian Morrison. Where there is blame there is a claim. Same with the Edinburgh Tesla that can not transit very wet roads. Maybe Non Disclosure Agreements or just embarrassment.

@Graham Butcher You are making up your own story lines. Did everyone here really say that it was impossible with the MG? The thread is still on here and posts from everyone that posted. Maybe this time there will be a follow up and the result of the investigation by JLR and the DVSA over what the fault was. Mark Harper MP was happy as Larry yesterday in Parliament about getting on with passing Legislation on Self Driving Vehicles.

No idea. Maybe take a thermostat into the car so that when you request the climate control to heat the interior to 17*oC you can see if it actually gets to that temp.

Maybe best ask the Sales Executive at the Supplying Dealership, they are involved in new cars being in transit from the factory on a weekly basis. If they say they have no idea then that might be near the truth.

Time will tell & hopefully the road testers will just how grippy when not on roads in Portugal on OEM tyres. Those buying the cars might request All Season / All Weather tyres if not an option from ordering. It is nice to know from these journalists / reviewers what they do handle like on rainy or cold roads or maybe a bit of snow / ice on UK roads / cambers.

All inclusive jolly off to drive left hand drive cars. The UK motoring journalists thing. Waiting to see them in right hand drives on UK roads and the controls used. Maybe with reading glasses on for some.

VW Never developed a replacemt for DQ200,s so the went Electrified, DQ200-e, add Mild Hybrid, less stress on the box. PHEV used DQ400-e. 6 speed Wet Clutch. Other world regions can have a 1.4 TSI with 8 speed Torque Converter Auto.

I was being conservative. Picking a number out of the air. They VW Group know the failure rate. Never want it revealed in a court of law with claim in a Civil Case. LIke other cases, they settle out of court with Non Disclosure Agreements. 2015 Mk3 Fabia DSG,s and others they still ba-llsed up. Then 2018 software patches. Forget the 2009-2012, or the 2013-2015, dealt with, then look at the whole picture. They just need to stop denial. Put a 10 year warranty or at least a 8 year warranty on a DSG / s-Tronic that has no Service Regime.

You would bl00dy well hope so. Vorsprung Durch Technik. What a shame that with the 1.5 TSI ACT kangerooing it was said it was manuals only, or mainly manuals, it was not, it was just better disguised by a DSG. What a shame that some with a duff DQ200 DSG then like in Karoqs punted the cars because Skoda Dealership staff said, They all do that, or Never heard of that. There were duff DQ200,s, there will always be a few, it is a crying shame that Skoda / VW can not accept that is only 5% of Skoda produced DQ200,s it is their fault not the drivers.

@@Winston_Woof In 2012 VW Group recalled 2.6 Million DQ200,s world wide to change the Synthetic Oil to Mineral and do a software update. (That was for starters.) In New Zealand they recalled all which were under 1,000 and they all got new MCU,s In the Far East / Asia they extended the Warranty to 10 years / 100,000 miles. In Europe seemingly we were not in the world. Eventually in 2014 they started Service Campaign '34F7', Voluntary, Change the Oil & Software Update. 2013-2015 the Service Campaign '34H5' was started because of Heat / Pressure and Cracks, / leaks, acctuator failures, a Software Update. Started in 2017. There is now the 3rd recall on the DQ200,s in Australia, 2009-2015 for some, 2016 for others. 2015 on TPIs, for Clutch Upgrades, Software, as you can find in the Fabia Mk3 Section. Overblown, just an Internet Myth. Nobody ever died, loss of drive you could coast to the verge according to VW. The girl in Australia was not even in a car with a DSG.

@Winston_Woof Skoda produce about 2,200 DQ200 DSG a day for 48 applications / models of VW Group Vehicles. The DQ381 issue will not be in big numbers yet, but there are companies that are Refurbishing / Repairing DQ381,s as there are with DQ200,s. For DQ200,s there are people producing improved components to the OEM that get fitted under warranty, or if a repair is done at a main dealership. / Repairer. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/511232-dsg-dq381 It is an issue that buyers need to be aware of. Have a valid warranty will be a help in the first place. Knowing what DSG you have in the first place can be a help, and many do not know.

Plenty threads on the subject. Clamp available at any Motor Factors.

I just read a review on the new MINI Countryman Electric AWD. So it looks like MINI / BMW have mainly a Centre Screen. Not that good a Max Charging Speed, a Fat lard SUVish type thing with the not AWD one going a bit further. Likely they will be delivered on ECO bias tyres for going further but the official range is not great and the real range will be less than that. No idea how quick they will go through rear tyres, will it be as quick as Skoda Kodiaq or Superb,s can, or Enyaq / ID4,s. Geoff & maybe @Graham Butcher need to remember that some people say one thing and others something else because people are different, live in different places, drive differently and many just drive cars, vans or what ever and do not give things much thought. Many more do not do Surveys and Motoring Surveys than do, and many more will not post on Social Media than do. ........... A Compact in the USofA and maybe elsewhere, and good for right handed people in a Left hand drive one.. NCAP might slaughter them though in Europe / EU /UK. (There is a 2wd option in the UK.)

Sorry no idea, but maybe others will have. ? But where are you, Central London, or maybe someplace with places likely to be cheaper? Does the place that did the MOT do repairs and give any quote on them doing the work? Do you have a good independent garage near, maybe someplace you have ever used that can tell you what they would charge?

Sadly that is not the increasing failure of just early ones where VW group appear to be just treating it as one of these things. Newish low mileage ones from the last couple of years are requiring replacement MCU,s and that is globaly. So while it is 3 monkeys from VW Group it looks like the DQ381 problem might be greater than anything there has been with DQ200,s since 2009. With vehicles costing maybe as much as 50% more than those with DQ200,s. Vorsprung Durch Technik. Sadly no.... Skoda Dealership Service Desk Staff maybe need to know about SERVICE SCHEDULES, and if they are there any number of weeks surely , 'Never heard of that' is because they do not listen, or they work with Tommy. A Deaf dumb and blind kid that sure plays lots on a smart phone. Someone with a new vehicle or a year old or so is missing no Service Schedule on a gearbox and it is not a case of 'They all do that' when they report issues of which 'They do not all have' or just a few are having, very few really so far.

@simcor The petrols do have GPF,s now and Regens are done differently from a diesel with a DPF. Most like your parents will have no issues with DPF or GPF, but then that is not really much of anything for those that do. As Skoda get to 6 years of GPF,s being fitted time will tell when anyone might need a replacement GPF. A big difference with TDI,s is SCR (Adblue) and that does not mean that DPF,s can not clog, and many do with shorter, cold start journeys and quite new vehicles did from that being introduced, and it is just another complexity, and it can be quite an expense when things go wrong. So knowing the topping up procedure is just a case of being 'Simply Clever'. DPF, GPF info for those that need to know. Covid Lock down did have some asking why their TSI was revving high and not just Ant-stall high.

You are looking at comparing apples and pears really. Maybe just get a S5 and think of the smiles per miles / km,s.

No. Nor did 4 years apply to any of them. & 40,000 does not apply to Dq200,s. Or does the Cam Belt apply, and as for the AC, they wish people will pay. No mention of VAQ diffs. It is pretty much mis-information, but it was a Skoda chart. Fixed Servicing. *** 80,000 miles and not change the Filter if that is advice Skoda or VW were to give would be pretty pants, there is a filter.*** This chart is from TPS though not VW / Skoda.

Thanks, it took 4 key words on google.

OK, Found it, major U-turn. Not White Van man they can keep on putting their gear in them. Sole Trader, Jet-Skiers.Mountain bikers, Horse rides.

There will still be cars about in your lifetime and mine. What you seem to miss is that never once has a video from Geoff that you think tells us something had anything in it not already touched on, discussed, linked to or posted about in this section, @Graham Butcher save me looking please, have you anything you can link to on the Pickup thing, or where did you hear it. You might well be right, but we hear a load of sh!te daily.

@Graham Butcher i picked on a point or 2 from Geoff. because how often has the tyre thing been discussed. ? Do you remember what you post, what you discuss and how often it is the same Truth about EV,s that really often is the Truth about big vehicles being driven with one or 2 people only in them nearly all the time. Often company cars with tax payer assistance when the big cars with big tyres are not necessary for the business use. Looks like the HMRC Double Cab Pickup / dual use loop hole is going to be knocked on the head where the Lifestyle vehicle never has a pallet in it or actually any stuff carried to do with the business / trader using it, or parking it up during the working day but used for their weekend / leisure use.

@Graham Butcher I know there are millions of those cars. It was an example of the DVLA know what is scrapped, as we all surely already know. The point is of the less than a million BEV,s in the UK registered they will know how many are scrapped after 3, 5 or 10 years. What i would like is New news, not the same stuff that we have seen and read and heard for years now. And the 'i am not sure' but!. Lots of people are not sure, but keep not bothering to find out. As to SUV,s , 4x4,s and Pickups, the answer is stop driving them then, or stop killing people while driving them, or stop going to the USA where you might get killed by them, or in a mass shooting.