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In expectation of the question why would the Fuel Suppliers not use as much Ethanol as they can. The answer the DfT, DVSA, HMRC, Treasury, Transport or Environment ministers, PM or anyone in Government in the UK will not give. The UK Government never backed the UK Ethonol Producers and some or all went to the wall. The UK is an Island Nation, or 4 island nations and there are import issues, costs and storage. The fuels with Ethanol can cause storage issues due to how hygroscopic & depots and equipment is what it is. Lots of UK fuels are not bunkered in the UK but where they are there can be issues, and then fuels are imported already formulated / refined and some are bunkered at sea in tankers just as oil is pre refinining. Long story short, bio ethanol might not actually cost the producers / importers less than the Gasoline, Butane etc.

Get what ever spark plugs are right for the car. The difference with the Denso i recommend is their reach. IME they have saved many an engine. But there are members that say they burnt one out. But then lots of Snide Spark plugs are out there for sale. http://opieoils.co.uk Fit Correct plugs with the correct gap and that isa whole other can of worms. Check the preset gap, know what the gap should be, do not knock them when fitting. Fit the pipes / seals again properly, do not tear them, remember connections are brittle, and remember that over the past 11 years you have no idea what has been done. Breather mods, Oil Spray Jet upgrades, replacement engine, rebuilt engine, remapped or not. Actually the Turbo and the Supercharger work together for a while after just the supercharger, and supercharger only above 3,500 rpm.

Any member can start a specific thread, and the Mods can pin it. As to RECALLS. or Recall Campaigns or actions. They are published or are sometimes. AS for proper Safety Recalls even Skoda / VW Group Main Dealerships can be totally selectively blind to those. http://skoda-auto.com/services/recall-campaigns It is about TPI,s and they are happy to just ignore as long as they get away with them being ignored. http://gov.uk/check-vehicle-recall

Any of the spark plugs after the ones Skoda / VW stopped using as OEM last as long as one particular plug is not burning out. The CAVE mk2 vRS were no longer built after the summer break 2012, so unless a 2013 plate vRS was built before then it has a CTHE engine unless someone put an older engine in it. @thomasaspinYou were running tuned CAVE engines were you not after the first oil user, then went for a 2.0TSI install? Did you run the NGK for long in a standard engine management / mapped 1.4 TSI Twincharger? If all 4 plugs stay looking good after 10,000 miles then great. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/452635-bkr7eix-in-a-twincharger http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/237997-bkr7eix-or-bkr8eix http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/371770-spark-plugs-for-mk2-fabia-vrs http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/510629-intermittent-misfire-fabia-vrs-mk2

@Novascape Really you should not need to point them in the right direction, even the Service Desk staff that know nothing about cars even Skoda,s. They might 'Never of seen this before', or Never heard about this before. This says more about them than the actual cars.

Just as happens pretty much all the time & has been for decades with Automatic cars and people that should maybe no longer be driving even if it is only down to the shops. Many of them can barely park a car and has to drive in forwards and can not reverse out are often in a Hybrid / PHEV now and there are ones in BEV,s.

Re E10. Just so that there is no internet myth. 'Up to 10% Bio ethanol'. Not all has. 10% E5 up to 5% Bio-Ethanol. not all has the up to amount. There is an updated version of this. 2023.

@stever750 Was that the Master techs knowledge from 10 years working in the workshop? Was his name Tommy? a decade there and deaf, dumb and blind. 'They all do that'. 'Never seen that before'.' 'It is a characteristic'.

The 1.4 TDI Recall thread was running from 2017 in the Mk3 section.

@lol-lol There you are again talking about turning up at customers in cars. HMRC incentives with these company cars or business use. A whole different thing from peoples cash money for a car for Private, Leisure & Commuting. Using all their own hard earned. what age was that 1.4 TDI Fabia? Skoda managed with the 'All new 3rd Generation Mk3 Fabia 1.4 TDI from 2014 to also bugger up the Water Pumps and then try and blame the coolant they used before having to actually do something proper. There are still people 10 years on getting landed with those Lemons. Vorsprung Durch Technik. They never did learn did they?

Beat me to it. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/488606-unkown-wires-in-boot http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/496217-what-is-this-wire-for The next person might spot one of the treads with a keyword search.

Welcome. Sorry i know nothing but if really there is no Cabin / Pollen filter regardless of AC or no AC that is really really crap from Skoda / VW Group. Hopefully someone that knows about Citigo without AC in not the UK will be along.

@Q102 The car can have the service indicator reverted to Variable / Flexible Oil & Filter services if the owner / keeper wants. Back to 24 months, 18,000 - 20,000 miles as it left the factory with and not 372 days / 9,400 miles that someone changed it to. As to not using VW508 00 / 509 00 0w 20 FS IV, then if you go to VW504 00 / 507 00 it need not be 5w 30 FS III it could be 0w 30 FS III.

Welcome. No idea but where did the additive go in & what was the stuff? Something has to come out of someplace or what would the point be of trying to clean the DPF.

We are in a world of people knowing the price of things and the value of nothing. Car sales executives know how many come to them wanting to buy cars for themselves, not a company, not wanting a lease or finance. So keen are the manufacturers and the sales people / dealerships to flog new cars that people an even sign up for the never never get the incentives and then pay off the finance and keep that little extras they got. All because the cars are over priced in the first place and even interest free loans are over priced. All about finance, keeping piling them high and getting new cars sold, used cars in and sold and it all keeps going. Looks like the crash is coming because the New BEV,s were far too expensive and new ones cost less than nearly new. But the crash is always predicted. The finance mis-selling that happened might just be the death of some Dealership Groups.

There are plenty suppliers and customers for it, and the country has plenty waste vegetable oil. Actually all vegetable oil becomes WVO. It is only Fossil Fuel / Oil companies that disrupt markets, and governments that do not support the greener alternatives. But than they rely on Fossil Fuel / Oil companies as sponsors, backers, back handers.

@Whit3Knight re your DQ200 DSG, was it both oils that were changed as in the MCU and the gearbox? No the update will not affect fuel consumption. It was a preventative measure to stop the gearbox cracking, heat / pressure. Skoda can tell you if it was done. http://skoda-auto.com/services/recall-campaigns It might not appear there even if not done. I would not use those NGK, i would get the Denso spark plugs. Pinned thread up top. What price difference from Tesco Momentum 99, the difference is less than £2.50 a tank from their 95 unleaded or other supermarket unleaded and can be cheaper than the E10 95 unleaded at ESSO, BP, Texaco etc etc. Booting it and blowing out smoke is perfectly fine, the car just running about and running rich needs a clean out. The white / grey exhaust tips can be showing an issue and running lean. Soot and oil on the tail pipe is not good. I gave my son a newly serviced vRS on loan and it was not an oil user and within a few hundred miles it was 1.3 litre low. He was doing short cold start runs, booting it like crazy. I got it back, topped it up and it never used any oil. But then i always made sure before stopping it got some welly before parking up. And no sitting ticking over for even 30 seconds. That is just a waste of time and not a wastegate or turbo saver. Unless you are actually tracking the car in scorchio weather. Then get the bonnet open.

@lol-lolMillions buy cars and not new ones. With cash money or money borrowed or used cars with finance / hp / tick / never never. That is how the car trade rolls. Obviously traders and dealers / motor groups / dealerships buy used cars.

If only BMW, Daimler & VW had not needed to cheat the equipment / tank sizes when introducing SCR and forming a cartel and having defeat devices so that the AdBlue need not be topped up between services in cars in the USA all would have been well. The Diesel Hybrids that were being developed and that VW / Audi were building factories for the manufacture of engines would be in full production. Instead they had to do a 360 degree or 180 degree turn, screech to a halt and try and catch up with Petrol PHEV,s, MHEV,s and BEV,s. At least the EU keep allowing the German Manufacturers so also others to keep kicking the can down the road, or into the long grass.

@LeGrumpy Is there something you have in mind about you benefiting from one type over another? Is it a standard engine on a standard map running E5, or do you use E10?

10-12 miles a litre so nothing special and just about Average Co2 g/km and that will be kidology from the WLTP regime. This con of 'Electrification' total crap, PHEV / MHEV, Self charge and these are not Range Extenders because it is a generator, is nonsense is what is stopping the manufacturers getting on with lighter and more efficient vehicles and more efficient BEV.s.

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No idea why the DQ200 Oil change was required by you. Has your car had Service Campaign '34H5' done since 2017, software update for the DQ200 from 2013-2015. The Oil consumption is not in spec. The 0.5 litres in 1,000 km / 621 miles is a figure they give as may be used. *For every VW engine for decades, 44 kw up, 3,4,5,6,8,12 cylinder petrol or diesel.* 0.3 litres in 1,000 km / 621 miles was enough to get engines replace when in warranty. The Oil Breather should not have required changing on a CTHE as that was a TPI issue with CAVE cars. Dropping the oil and using 5w 40 FS (VW502 00) and get Super Unleaded in (E5) Tesco momentum and once up to heat take it for a good thrash as long as the spark plugs are ok will do no harm. As to Oil Squirters, see the pinned thread at the top of this forum. Waste of time as your engine should not need the upgrade but there are members that did have them done on a CTHE. Waste of time and money if you are paying and not a Warranty Provider. Search. Briskoda fabia mk2 twincharger oil squirters. Not on Porn Hub though. .............. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/358101-vrs-mk-ii-14-litre-twincharger-oil-consumption-issue Page 6 and others might help you decide, and near the end of posts. @see page 18. Some of the Oil Consumption tests were rubbish as some idiot though a litre of engine oil weighed 1,000 grams. This member got a new engine. Once Skoda UK had it pointed out they were useless.

Are Nissan really just taking the Pith? It depends really on how many MPG you really can get with the vehicles. PS / EDIT. The Family size car MPG with a family / airport transport set up in is relevant. Not just Rep mode of 1 man or woman and not even a dog in it. I do wish they would get 400 kg of ballast in the car with them when testing for economy. As for ride / noise / comfort, i want that reported on with a loaded car not some skinny or even overweight person on their own. & i want the economy of that 5 or 7 seater with the people in and the heating and ventilation having to be used. Hardly comprehensive. On your Jack Jones. Motoring journalist / Vlogger mode. Honest enough though. http://youtube.com/watch?v=E6fMchYQ1G8