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Welcome to the forum. Briskoda is a good place to sell Skoda stuff in the for sale section, eg Wheels & Tyres. Maybe even get a swap. Your manufacturers warranty is not going to be void with after market alloys or steel wheels fitted.

7 speed wet clutch DSG,s if a DQ381 are not scheduled for Oil change services @ 40,000 miles, it is @ 80,000 miles but then you might want it done sooner than that. A Petrol vRS with a VAQ front diff should have that serviced at 30,000 miles or 3 years or even sooner. Newest ones are supposedly @ 20,000 miles.

They just need chargers on every street and road where there is parking on the street and the British Isles will be sorted. & in every car park. Personally if i had a Porsche EV and was pricing a service, having a coffee and biscuit or 3 i would have plugged in and charged on a Porsche Ultra Rapid charger. Stuff the expense... The £54.54 @ 69 pence a kWh was 79 kWh. If you was getting 3 miles a kWh that would take you 237 miles. He was @ 100% so he had in the battery the usable capacity of 83.7 miles so if showing miles 230 miles he was getting 2.74 miles a kWh. Big heavy inefficient car, But there are smaller / lighter ones just as bad. *Petrol today, 136.7 pence a litre, £54.54 is near 40 litres. 8.8 gallons. 8.8 gallons getting 40 mpg is 352 miles. Say 35 mpg in a Porsche 911 that would be 308 miles for the £54.54

Welcome. Where did you hear about the flat spot. I really am not aware of that with a TDI or TSI with a 6 or 7 speed Wet Clutch DSG, or even 7 Speed Twin Dry clutch which 2 litres do not get. (Some mention a lag with the DQ200 DSG,s, but then they are on lots of engines under 192 ps / 250 Nm. including on 1.5 TSI ACT,s & 1.0 TSI,s.)

They are like VW Group and it is not a Recall unless they decide it is Safety Critical and in the UK tell the DVSA / DfT. or are told by them to do a recall. VW Group can tell the DVSA that they will do voluntary recalls and then not, or that they are not necessary and the work shop campaign will pick up the few that might have issues. The percentage failing can have them deciding if they will wing it. The thing is not all do Servicing regularly and EV,s are maybe 2 years or more before looked at, maybe just a visual and a brake fluid change as with MINI / Skoda etc. There are serious stuff that slips without RECALLS. Corporate Responsibility is something that really is pathetic when there are fatalities that are from a known fault or something potentially faulty. Directors, CEO,s / Heid yins are the ones that should carry the can, need to get Soap on a rope at Christmas.

Icy icy very very icy with no gritting / salt as all washed off and much flooding. 3.3 miles a kWh @ 0*oC for 40 miles. Average speed just above 30 mph.

Welcome. Is it not a Timing Chain. You best read up on the issues there were and is there any history of the car you are getting having had the Timing Chain and Tensioner upgraded or an engine rebuild. There is a pinned thread at the top of the Octavia Mk2 section on 1.8 & 2.0 TSI engines. It is a 2.0 TSI is it not, rather than a TFSI?

Hardly frivolous if you get 11 kWh electric @ 7 pence a kW so 77 pence to go see how far you get. If it is 27 pence a kWh then it is a hefty almost £3.00.

They certainly have an issue. The Regulators / Courts / Agencies in the USA and Canada will surely see that Tesla are doing the right thing. Well you might expect them to. The Drop Links are an issue with the Stellantis BEV,s. Not up to the job of the vehicles that were ICE models and then engineered to be EV,s. VW Group seem to have an issue with DQ381 DSG,s which has appeared quicker than the DQ200 issues appeared. Maybe a very big issue that VW Group need to address because it is costing those with vehicles out of warranty a lot of money to have repairs. PS Do you really think Tesla,s were not properly tested before production because Cold or Hot regions had no EV charging available?

Maybe charge to 99% again or even 100% and pre heat while plugged in and then set the Climate Control (No AC on) to 18*oC or even the 20*oC and try again just driving and see how far it will go on the battery. The stopping and then going again and getting the interior heated again is using up energy.

AWD does what AWD should do, especially with an EV, but then the appropriate tyres are necessary. Are you charging at home or work on a off peak or cheap tariff & will you also need to be doing charging at public chargers?

Actually i would expect that there could be design and engineering issues with new models / vehicles being designed and manufactured by new companies. But then it is how the issues are addressed and dealt with. It is companies with 100 years plus of manufacturing vehicles that i find can be disappointing when generation after generation they build in the same faults or worry more about simply clever features but forget about the engineering and quality control and can not get things as simple as registration plate lights on cars and not be rust traps.

The video i posted yesterday on the strip down of a Tesla Cybertruck including a mention on how the rear sway bar is not as hefty (paraphrase) as other Tesla cars. This i watched a while back. Front 12 minutes. Rear.16 minutes. 17 min 41 seconds.

They are that cheap because the engine or the DSG is shagg3d or both. Even cheaper than that sometimes in the for sales on here. Ones sold for spares or repairs do go back on the road, but if you are paying a garage it is going to cost. I hope the engine is OK. That is worth money, but then it might not even be the original from 2011.

? How much are they charging to fit it? They are not like hens teeth, a good one is rarer than that and it is a lottery buying a used one. Pre late 2012 it might have had Service Campaign ;34F7' and the synthetic oil changed and a software up date & from 2013-2015 maybe 34H5 and a software update. Unless refurbished by a trusted seller you might be buying something no better than it replaces and if it has a Warranty and gets replaced with another you still have the 2nd cost of changing it.

PS If it is a car for yourself then @thomasaspincan maybe tell you about what you need to fit a DQ250 6 speed wet clutch DSG over and above a DQ250.

That is because the vRS is usually sold for parts / broken because the DQ200 is gubbed or the twincharger engine is or both. If i was selling one i would be asking lots for it as well if it was a good one. But that is the issue, getting a good one.

I will just put this here as always liked them and this is just so much more to like.

Winter spec Diesel from late October til March does not mean worse economy if the temperatures / weather in December is the same as it was in September. But shorter days, colder weather and longer to get up to temperature with more stuff on might well affect fuel consumption. But then on runs turbos love cooler / denser air, and if you have summer tyres still on then there is cooler road surfaces and less grip / traction / friction. Swings and roundabouts. @smithymartynWere you running your car last winter and is the economy worse than last November til March?

Sounds like the DQ200 DSG has done quite well getting to 260,000 km / 161,500 miles. 16,000 miles a year and no servicing required is OK imo. It would very much depend on how used what anyone might expect as a standard mileage. ? What engine does your car have? ? What does the professional that is going to fit the new parts say about their experience after they do the job and take your money? I take it they will be changing both oils at the time since they have been there for 260,000 km.

Welcome. I will flag your post so that a mod can move it to an appropriate section.

To me that is a motoring journalist be it in print or film. Maybe he has a Press Pass for events. Ask him. Writer (with no script / videographer / broadcaster / publisher / presenter, editor, producer. Here he is anyway, just being a Vlogger / Youtuber and covering matters important to some. Including Disabled and charging EV,s.

@Ellevee The recommended schedule for the spark plugs replacing is at 64,000 km / 40,000 miles. Were they replaced then or since?