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@gregoir If your eyesight is safe enough to drive and you have legal lighting on your car and need to use Front Fog Lights when you have dipped headlights or full beam on then maybe it is another optician you need to visit. The Highway Code in the UK is clear enough on when Fog Lights should be used. There are such things as Driving Lights (not spot or fog lights) which cars used to have and can be added to cars. Hopefully someone can help you have better dipped headlights that do not require you to be using Fog Lights when there is no Fog / Reduced Visibility. (Visibility reduced to people with eye sight good enough to be driving in poor light.) My Optician prescribed Night Driving glasses/ lenses because my eyes adjusted slowly and these helped lots from the issue of very bright lights coming towards me and my eyes adjusting quickly afterwards. Many years ago when we were behind an estate car with a sticker 'A blind man drives this car' my partner asked in all seriousness how that could be.

Lets not jump to conclusions about teenagers and what they do. Or what they say or do at the time. (We were all teenagers!) They might have a Black Box, witnesses in a car or nearby apparently, or whiplash claims coming from the 3 passengers that were apparently in the car with them. So it is for those insured and innocent and not wanting landed with a knock for knock because the car was someone else's. or on Trade Insurance or the likes, or not insured for the person driving.

There was the many posts about this already, was it in the EV section? http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/518128-land-roverjaguar-dealer-inchcape-in-derby-flooded Then there was the Member who was told that the technician was not insured to road test cars. That thread could be in any section.

Day light / Daytime Running lights aka DRL,s are for Daytime / Daylight and even if they do not go off with the Side Lights or Sidelights and Headlights they have to dim and be less bright.

Welcome. You do not need to have the Insurance arranging the car being assessed. Go see a local body shop or garage / mechanic. Take care about not involving your insurance because that teenagers friends or family might just persuade them to make a claim and then your insurers will be less than impressed. Was it their car, were they insured and do you have their details?

I have no idea how many £45,s InstaVolt take because i see very few of their chargers occupied, but when i have used them they are nice and easy to activate and get working.

How about putting on the sidelights as you park. Nothing like as bright as DRL,s then.

Welcome. If the car was locked and sitting a few hours then when you open the drivers door the fuel pump primes.

Muppet is done boarding today.

You have about 11.7 kWh usable battery. I plugged in my BEV about 30 minutes ago, It has a 32.6 kWh battery and 28.9 kWh usable. Plugged it into the 3 pin when at 66%. To get to 100% by 6.00 pm it is 34% needed, but that will not just be about 10 kWh it takes it will likely be 13 kWh because of losses.

The Audi driver will have decided that nobody is liable to be wanting to charge and if they do there is plenty space. (Plenty space like at the car park at the other side of the building.)

All that matters is the size of wheels the OP has on their car and the tyre size they bought last time and do they want the same this time.

This is just how it is getting in more areas / regions of Scotland. Large amounts of Money spent by Councils from Tax Payers money going to SWARCO / e-Volt and Boyd Brothers and consultants and others. Too expensive and just not getting used. Now there are commercial charging at the same cost and sometimes less. Anyone hiring EV,s at the Airport and that have to return the cars with 75% charge might not even be able to do that near the airport before return or are paying this sort of price. Above Glasgow is the huge Whitelees Windfarm and generating electricity in Scotland is so easy, storing it not so and it is exported and these are the crazy tariffs for charging.

@arthurmoIt is not common among hundreds of members with 1.2 TSI, on here over the past 12 years. Who had serviced it before last year and then who sorted it out last year? If the car is good and the DSG is good it is certainly worth fixing, getting a replacement engine. Not sure about the place you have spoken to do doing the work though. ? How many miles has it done?

What size have you on now? Are you OK with replacing with the same again?

a 2020 TSI is VW508 00 / 509 00 so 0w 20 FS IV. It was your OP that said what you knew you needed. Where did you get that from? Was it your registration number into the Opie Oils and showing the correct year? http://opieoils.co.uk Castrol on the cap & Skoda / VW Main dealers in UK get Quantum oil from Fuchs Lubrication and that is what TPS supplies. .............. The 1.0 TSI with GPF can still use non Long Life Oil so VW502 00, 5w 40 FS, but that does not show anyplace from Skoda. As it can use 5w 30 FS III or 0w 30 FS III, but as the chart shows 'there might be a slight deterioration in emission values.' ie, they would not have got the WPTP results under a test regime.

It is a strange one. Does your front assist show like on here in Yellow?

Not great with the width of Summer / Performance tyres. But it can drive in snow. Lots of weight if push comes to shove which easily happens when in the land of muppets who,s winter driving technik is floor it.

@Biggles33 EDIT, I tried to PM his name, still shows as being there. My friend was great @ Skoda Specialist Cars Dundee, John Clark Group and i have not popped in recently to see if he has moved on after years with them. He was a different class of sales person and the ones working with him were great and would pick me up, or the car and take it in for servicing or MOT,s. It was how it was with Thompson & Potter when in Burrleton before John Clark Group took them over and opened in Perth. I have only ever been disappointed with them in Aberdeen and have been with family looking for cars and really the attitude i have experienced from the staff is pretty bad.

I have done 12 miles since the car was charged to 100% and it is showing 76% / 62 miles range. Warmer today, last night in the minus 4*oC it was 51 miles range. That is 8 times in freezing weather going 1.5 miles with heating and fan up full. Charging and needing to put in 30 kWh when near empty for the 28.9 kWh usable battery at home would be £6.30 which is OK. It was a few times pre-heated and not plugged in at the time. When pre-heated it showed as getting 2.9 miles a kWh after 1.5 miles. Do i take the MINI on Wednesday to go 180 miles if the snow has fallen or is falling as forecast and get about Central Scotland if roads have traffic moving and get to a charger near Edinburgh, and maybe before or after Glasgow to have range to complete the day and get to chargers? I think it will be the diesel i take if there is the possibility of getting stopped because of jackknifed HGV,s and generally vehicles slip sliding about. Then there is the getting home later in the Week. There would not be the same concern if going North of home, but sadly the Central Belt of Scotland turns to chaos with a bit of snow falling. *Then there is the chance that snow ploughing and gritting does not get done to Charging Hubs or even single chargers and even they block access when they plough near them.* Edinburgh Airport Park & Ride rapid chargers are still all off from the time of flooding a couple of months back. There was no flooding at them, and the 7 kW chargers are mostly still working. Nearest is 1 BP Pulse or 6 MGF @ 79 pence /kWh. Or a few miles further away BP Pulse, City Council 55 pence, PodPoint 65 pence.

Indeed they do still fit them. As many with a MK4 Octavia & other newish vehicles know when they are back and fore to dealers trying to get the issues with them resolved.

Sadly a young motorcyclist in South Ayrshire was discovered dead sometime after his accident. (9 hours) Having a device that can alert Emergency Services in the event of an accident seems just like common sense, as long as it works with the emergency services. Maybe it is the UK that is behind other countries with SOS calls from vehicles. I really know nothing about what my car does as far as the system on it if i press the SOS, or it gets activated. I know when with the SOS in my Corsa i had was pushed a few times by the grand children and nothing happened & i was only told later they had done it. (The Matrix headlights were very good, the Full Beam was very very bright and lit up some big road signs off in the distance far too brightly.) http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-67390020

Yes max 7 kW for a standard domestic, other than when you upgrade and can have 11 kW. Many used EV,s are not prohibitive now to the general public, it depends what you want, then the Business users like those that go PHEV can benefit in their pocket as their employers do going BEV.

2026. The USA & UK just started what might become a war in the Middle East. We will see how Qatar get on encouraging the quicker introduction of small EV,s as a share holder in VW. VW get a lot of Media / Publication space on what they plan eventually to do. Usually from Haymarket Media Group / Autocar. Then Auto Express and others rehash the articles. AUTOCAR might have gone on this.