Guest_

Some vehicles / models rear tyres are horrible if put on the front after a while on the rear and having taken a set. (Shape) That can be noticeable even when people rotate wheels, or move them rear to front annually / at services. Some are best left where they are until binned as once moved to the front they can have the driver thinking of getting them changed.

Paris Parking Charges for those Visiting the City Centre and Parking. Residents from the City Centre can still have their SUV,s in the City and Parking Permits. It is aimed at those travelling in from the suburbs and outwith the city. ................ HYUNDAI backed UK electric vehicle maker Arrival enters administration. Valued at $21bn in 2021. Holy taking the total p!$$ out of some people somewhere. Workers lost jobs, someone must have earned out of getting no place fast.

Good, if you are out on the road or a motorway in the next days or anytime and cars / vans / HGV,s ate not getting grip / traction and movement then no point you being in the ame boat even if you are stuck the same as them until someone gets them moved. The 'Expert Advice' might be best tyres on the rear, but that is all good and well once moving, but no use if you can not get up even a slight uphill. If you drive carefully you should able to keep the rear following the front and not overtaking you.

@MarkyG82 For about 30 years or more i have at times put better Winter, Snow, All Weather / All Season tyres on the front maybe from around October if going places where the weather / roads might be poor for a few hours, ice / snow but it is not proper winter. 2 Tyre on the Front, a pair in the boot and a trolley jack and if i needed the 4 on i can. Or the 2 can get changed because it is cracking weather until proper winter comes. Beast from the East is nothing like a bit of a blow from the South on Wednesday / Thursday. March 2013 it was 23*oC across the Cairngorms and the next morning it was minus 3 *oC and deep snow and on went a pair of Snow tyres on the front and the All Seasons were on the rear still. (Tomorrow a set of 4 Maxxis AP3 on 16" Rims going on the MINI instead of the Vredsein Quatrac PRO on 17". Horses for Courses, heading to the Borders.) Hopefully the sidewalls are better than they were on the Maxxis AP 2 i had on the Fabia.) Good on snow though. The Vredstein have been good in the very wet but will not hack it on proper snow where not ploughed or gritted.

Drive to the conditions and set the tyre pressures and car settings to what feels right at the time, and watch for those around you that might not and have not a clue. The handling and reactions you and your vehicle might just mean you can avoid them when they get it wrong. PS Good luck those that think better tyres on the rear of a FWD will help if the front / drive / brake or not brake / steer wheels lose traction and you control to get the rear back into line. Get on out and about practising & feeling if you have over steer or under steer & see how your FWD Scandinavian Flick is. This is about driving roads with others about and cambered roads, not some Tyre Reviewer out on a Ice / Snow track ot Track and going for the apex but not able to stay in their own lane or side of the road.

The Dealer Principal is the Head Sales Executive and earns commission, they need to seem sound.

Your Octavia 1.5 TSI will be an ACT as that is how they come, Skoda do not have 1.5 TSI non ACT. It seems to behave as expected. It is your Golf that seems to not behave as expected or as any i have driven do.

SKODA_Warranty_Terms_July_2023 (1).pdf

@Hobbs1399 Welcome. Buyer beware. Unless you can do the work if any required. Buying one is a lottery. ? Have you got the price for Insurance? Maybe post the Registration Number and Colour. ? How many previous registered keepers? ? Have you looked at the MOT history and the last MOT and the one before and any advisories. ? Have you read the Pinned Threads on Twinchargers and DQ200,s at the top of the Fabia Mk2 Section.

@NovascapeThat was how it was / is with Mk2 Fabia vRS Twinchargers. VW Group to Sand Bag them had Skoda put 25 kG Success Ballast on the rear crash bar making the hatch supposedly 5 kg heavier than the 9 3/4 " longer Estate Car, and Slower, less economic and with higher emissions than the Polo, Ibiza & A1 sister cars with the drive train but wider tyres as standard and no spare wheel as standard. (The Polo GTI got the battery in the boot to help it,s balance. ) Under acceleration the Hatch went light and you bet wheelspin, and journalists that never asked Skoda WTF are you playing at in these days of going light. If they had bothered to put the sister cars that could have a tow bar on a weigh bridge they would have found that VW Group cheated with Kerb Weights anyway. Somehow a 1.6 TDI CR Monte Carlo on the same wheels, tyres, springs, standard or remapped did not require weights bolted to the rear to keep the back end on the road. "How is it happening?". Doh, Well nothing to do with the longer roof or the 5 kG lighter. It is the Stronger Rear Springs and nose down stance and less wheel spin than the Hatch that drops at the rear, spins the wheels and has the TC cut power or nip the brakes. Top speed might well be the longer roof, but then VW Group never have cheaper cars showing as quicker than the more expensive, even when heavier, or especially if a VW or Audi.

^^^ That how it is for many in 2 pedal cars, Drivers modulation of the foot on the acceleration, and sometimes with a DSG just a bit of a roll on before booting it.

How i think is the cars most seen in the Motorways in the UK wearing a TEMPORARY SPARE WHEEL, will be a car with Polish plates and an Audi or VW Passat doing 70 plus MPH. Or driving about for weeks locally. Simply Clever to get a good matching size spare wheel. And if you are on long trips and a boot full, the wheel that comes off the car needs putting someplace anyway. Maybe back in the Spare Tyre Well. Or pack it with STUFF and put the punctured tyre / wheel on top. If still inflated do not put one inside the car. The BMW,s passenger was sadly killed when one like that exploded.

Pick up the phone and ask the Service Desk person at a dealership what the RECALL is about. & why the Car has not been RECALLED and the Registered Keeper received a RECALL Letter. Or even mention of a Recall Campaign / Recall action. http://skoda-auto.com/services/recall-campaigns This on the Gov.uk site does tell you what the RECALL is about. SAFETY CRITICAL. So Skoda / VW UK should get a move on contacting you if your car needs checked.

@SouthernComfortRe wheelspin and your car not having this issue. It is rather relevant that your car does not have a 6 or 7 speed Wet or 7 Speed dry clutch DSG of any flavour so not a DQ200 or a DQ400 with a very low 1st gear and where even those with 1.0 or 1.2 TSI,s sometimes complain of wheel spin with 75,95, 105, 113/115 ps. You have an 8 speed Torque Converter gearbox. ? What engine has it, is it a 1.4 TSI?

@MartiniB I do not need to check your post to know about Yellow Stickers on Spare / Emergency Wheels & all the Spare / Emergency SPACE SAVER or Steel wheels to save space WITHOUT WARNING STICKERS. Just do a search on Ebay. Many of the spare wheels sold and in vehicles are just normal Steel wheels and a tyre which people carry as a spare. Different size, tread, compound from the 4 on the car but near enough for Emergency use. Often the advert says 'Full size spare wheel'. It is Full size as in match wheels / tyres on cars, or near the same Circumference / total diameter of the car it might get carried in,s 4 alloy wheels and tyres. No WARNING STICKERS though.

I used a search engine (google) on my pretty good 02 Broadband but just found 'Brsk broadband'. http://brsk.co.uk

@Mastercard Is this the case with your car, is it generating unnecessary vibration etc etc? Does the Golf have a 'Similar engine' or an identical 1.5 TSI ACT with GPF & DSG from 2020? As it is the TSI,s 1.4 or 1.5 TSI with or without ACT or GPF but a DSG behave pretty much the same on idle, and with AC on. Then in D sitting or if you sit with it in S where you might try that and see / hear the increase in the RPM.

There would need to not only be the Yellow SPARE WHEEL Sticker telling the driver the Max allowable speed, but also a WARNING. 'If the front tyre has a puncture remove the rear wheel / tyre and put on this spare wheel as the temporary measure to get you to a place of safety and repair or replacing the tyre,and fit the wheel / tyre from the rear to the front. Some might do that out of common sense if they had not had the sense to fit a properly sized spare / emergency wheel / tyre.

The size difference is obvious by the cutout that allows space for the 235/40R19 to be carried. Even reducing the speed to 50 mph with the 205/55 R16 fitted is dangerous be the driver fitting it to the front or rear. Plenty VW Group / Skoda spares are a slightly different total diameter / circumference but that is just too much. Regardless of what some person from the VW Group / Skoda decided.

Yes there is but you need to make a small payment to the DVLA and make a false statement and Data Protection means nothing. ? Why not put up the Registration Number and someone might have it or know where it is? Is it on the road, current MOT, VED and insured?

Skoda are just in the same boat as the rest of VW Group, VW, SEAT and Audi with Smaller BEV,s they have promised, lack of batteries and advances in technology and a lack of need to get on with them as the EU has relaxed the requirement for Euro 7 vehicles to be so low emissions. The ID2 would be a bog deal if VW could get on an actually produce and sell them after all their spin on the great value they would be.

You might be checking a vehicles alignment because it hit a pothole or the likes. So it is not a matter of if you can adjust the rear alignment, because for some it might require replacing parts at the rear.

Whatever you are manufacturing and selling needs to make a profit unless you are maybe selling financial services or money laundering.

@Toasty These did me just fine for driving around Sunny South Ayrshire and everyplace else in a Mk2 vRS and at whatever speeds, but then i seldom use brakes and they get replaced when too rusty not when worn out.

^^^ That was just crazy though even as a temporary / spare and even if going on a FWD car. If that was from the factory or fitted in a dealership they need a kick up the jacksy.