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Your Haldex schedule is at 3 years /30,000 miles, and you want it done properly. About £120, how much does the Skoda site show? Can you link that Skoda Price list, is it 2024? Is it really less than £700? Oil & Inspection service and extended scope. DSG oil and filter now about £250. @ **40,000 miles.** Brake Fluid change around £70. Spark Plugs from main dealer around £125 now. Pollen filter crazy price from them. Air Filter as well. Have you checked it? ?? Why are you excluding spark plugs, when were they replaced? The Blue chart was 2021 prices at participating dealers. *** That shows as over £700 back then and costs are higher now.***

'Upselling' the person on the Service Desk is a receptionist and knows nothing about cars and the tech inspected the car and the Service Manager wants work. What a shame they can not be trusted to be honest. The Service man does not know 80% worn from 20% worn, it is what they say even if they are 90% worn. They do not know the measurement for new and 100%. Surprised that the discs are not needing replaced before the pads, but maybe your discs do not rust badly. 50,000 miles is amazing for some drivers, and just about normal for others.

Not the answer, but since it needs dampers is it not time maybe for a set of springs as well.

Is it beyond repair? I had a Rear Alloy 20" from the BMW Estate welded last week. Not by wheel refurbishers but by Professional Welders for Industrial / Offshore stuff. Mate rates£30. & tea money to the fitter that had been checking for the puncture and removed and replaced the tyre.

Welcome. ? In what for was the message about a FULL Service required, and not just Inspection or Oil Service? The INSPECTION does not exist other than part of Servicing. Oil Changes and servicing and maintenance should be done to suit usage and the Owner, have them set at services what you want as far as Fixed or Variable. 9,400 miles / 372 days or 24 months /18,000-20,000miles. The interim service was the Annual / Fixed Service between Major Services and the term used pre 2020 by Skoda. No idea what a Full Service is. (Before that was Minor & Major Servicing.) If it is a Dq381 7 speed wet clutch DSG the Service Schedule for the oil change is at 80,000miles. i would not leave it that long. & get oil and filter changed. All pricing is out of date, and chart is a bit general and was vehicles 3-10 years old at participating dealers & is about Annual / Fixed Servicing and not Variable. Not accurate.

The actual costs or quotes were from £750 - £1,250, and even as low as £550 to those that had a price from Dealerships and the service desk not knowing it was a 6 hour plus job. The member said they honoured that price of £550. The £729 first posted about in the General Maintenance section was at Independents using not OEM parts. & some Quotes were for 1.5 TSI and not 1.5 TSI ACT,s. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/510175-karoq-cam-belt-change-start-saving-now http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/507544-cambelt-for-15-tsi-in-east-kent

@mumpsim That is what Michelin said when going to close the Dundee factory. Well 16" and smaller tyres were what was very very common around this area in the days before style over practicality. I like many people run our cars on Michelin tyres Free Gratis as Test Tyres because of Friends and Family that worked there and took in our cars to get the tyres fitted and then changed when getting new ones or going to sell our cars.

People in the trade. Are these fitters at Tyre & Exhaust centres? Where in the UK are you based @mumpsim and where do you go for tyre fitting? No idea which centres these are, Halfords, Kwik Fit, ATS-Euromaster, Tyre City etc. But because i know many of these people in the Trade and am in an area where many people get All Seasons, Winters and All Terrains etc fitted by people who have been in the job most of their working life i take lots from Tyre Fitters with a pinch of salt. Not my local guys. Salt of the Earth. I like my tyres like TIGAR, Hifly etc, Serbian Factories and the likes, i liked my Michelin that were made in Dundee.

The older cars with a DQ250 could have the test results cheated easily and then the WLTP / RDE2 came about and it is not about how the cars are in the real world it is how they can be manipulated to get the required emission reading under a test regime different from the real world. Automatic as in 2 pedals, Semi Automatic as VW Group call DSG,s, all the better for being able to be Automated Manuals really, or just do manual shifts. There is only a 60mph NSL anyway. and 7 gears to get to that or the 70 mph limits on roads with that limit. Just floor the accelerator, the car can do twice the Motorway / Dual Carriageway speed limits.

The quote fro someone on the Goodyear Vector 4 season is based on not much really. Damn good tyres, but if someone has experience of them getting bulges or tears or sidewall damage than that will be no more of an issue than with any other tyres. Sh!t happens. XL tyres really do not mean that a vehicles is going to have a stiffer ride. I just changed from one brand of All Seasons to another and both are XL, but the newest ones are on rims 1" less diameter, but then i am running a slightly higher tyre pressure. The Maxxis AP3 i have fitted do seam to have a stringer sidewall than the last Maxxis AP3,s i had and that got a bulge, my fault, and cracking, not my fault. They were replaced by My Tyres after not that many miles, weeks of use. ............ I wreck plenty tyres usually , All Season or Snow tyres as that is all i use & as i drive pretty bad roads lots in poor conditions. Not this year so far though.

@Winston_Woof Can you not look at a 2.0 TSI or TDI, and if it needs to be an Auto then it is a wet clutch DSG and not like the 1.5 TSI ACT and now a 1.6 TDI a 7 speed twin dry clutch DSG. (DQ200). But then one with a 6 Speed DSG, because the 7 speed DQ381 is another lottery choice. EDIT. OK scrub the TDI, but then you are talking about a 1.6 TDI.. Do you need the Superb size, is an Octavia not big enough, an estate?

There is no debate about DQ250 DSG,s 6 speed wet clutch, the schedule is @ 40,000 miles for Oil & Filter changes of the DSG. As to DQ200,s there are those saying that safest to change oil even though there are no Manufacturers Schedule, Guidelines or Recommendations to. (As to DQ200,s 2009-2012, there was a Service Campaign to change the oil in those started in 2014. & that was changing the Synthetic oil filled at the factory to mineral oil.) ? Did the Yeti L&K 1.4 TSI get the option of a DSG?

Personally i would just give a 1.5 TSI DSG a swerve. Unless an amazing low price which it is not. Double lottery, 1.5 TSI ACT & a DQ200 DSG. See what that FSSH actually is showing as being done since it is the Full History. Oil& Filter changes how often,was it the Pollen Filter in 2021 and again in 2023? Brake Fluid @ 3 years, 2022, or any time. Spark plugs @40,000,80,000& 120,000 miles or when? As to the Cam Belt that did show as being @ 50,000 miles /5 years until last July when that was changed to over the 135,000 miles has done now. The Water Pump was not required as part of the schedule. The cost without Water pump could be as much as from £650- £1,100 or even more. You want to see who did the work and the parts and prices. Are the brakes, tyres, windscreen etc all fine.

@Diljit What engine are you asking about?

? Is there such a thing as a Yeti L&K 1.4 TSI with a DSG (DQ200). Are they not only manuals?

Is it really worth Voiding the Warranty on a DQ381 or any DSG for that matter but especially a DQ381? Best get an extended warranty that covers it with Factory Approved Software, as in as it comes. The issues with them are sadly growing apparently. Nit that Skoda / VW Group are accepting that yet.

@mickg123 Does it not have a timing chain?

Latch or lever to open the bonnet or hood regardless of no Frunk likely at the other side, and pull twice, as they do with BMW,s /MINI,s. (Thomas would know just because not stupid!)

I know he has all the scores on the doors but with stuff i disagree. A wet road when it is not raining but has been like a cold road might not and often does not use more fuel in an ICE or use more energy from a BEV. Less grip / traction is basically less friction. Also warmed up ICE vehicles especially a turbo likes cooler denser air. Maybe tiny affects and Lights, wipers etc means poorer efficiency. As to rear wheel drive and the improved feeling of steering. Well maybe sometime, as long as the back does not squat and the front goes light. Tesla may not. 0-62 mph times. Really, 2 seconds quicker up someones back end, and do they really do it when nobody to be impressed? Accelerating out of a roundabout. I wish more with Tesla or any RWD car would. Funnily any i see are usually dilly dallying. Up you jacksy though if they want to show you they Can take you like a king, then let them go they are Road Kings stopping you get on up the road and on your way. Must be a 'Counting the miles thing'.

Handy if people say if they are talking about manuals or DSG,s. DSG,s 'Coasting' are very efficient. Many many vehicles 2 or 3 pedals going downhill or coasting will show 200 MPG. Pity you are not going 200 miles downhill.

@Prezafab Are you talking 1.4 TSI or a do not touch with someone else's barge pole 1.8TSI?

Many many cars when checked correctly are misaligned. Sadly many are never checked correctly. I had any used car i bought checked, even 'Much Cheapness' ones picked up to be flogged for a smallprofit. People would be amazed how many 'Ex Management cars', Ex Demonstrators, what are sold after 3 months / 3,000 miles have alignment not as it should be.

You do not need adjustment if not required, and if you can not adjust the rear then you can not adjust the rear. This has nothing to do with having alignment CHECKED to actually see if all is well and you want an adjustment done or a repair / correction. You can require replacement of parts not just 'adjustment' or what can be adjusted. Not rocket science really.