Guest_

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/476480-skoda-fabia-mk2-2011-good-deal 15" http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/503390-anyone-fitted-r15-wheel-on-mk2-fabia-vrs http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/454871-fabia-vrs-mk2-on-16-wheels http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/324443-mk1-fabia-vrs-mk1-wheels-on-a-fabia-mk2-vrs Type the key words into Google or Google Images and the threads and pictures are all there to be seen.

3 Briskoda members owned this green vRS with these wheels on. I would be putting on similar. or going with 16" alloys and tyres with more sidewall. Declare the change of wheels / tyres, say Winter Wheels. The Blue vRS is on 17" Borbet alloys.

Do you have a Service Book to stamp? Or do you want it put on the Skoda Online servicing for when you sell the car? A good independent makes sense if you do not want to use a Hendrys Service Centre. When was the Oil & Filter service last done and are you having it set to Fixed Servicing 9,400 mikes / 372 days or 18,000-20,000 miles / 24 months. What engine has it and did it get proper servicing in the past 22,000 miles? ............... This is fixed servicing as a guideline. Depends what DSG you have if no Oil Change or at 40,000 miles or 80,000 miles.

Mk2 Fabia vRS were fitted with 17" Gigaro in Black, Dark Chrome, White or Silver. Hatch Back & Estates, 2010-2014/15. The Dark Chrome are terrible for getting White Worm / corrosion and often were powder coated or painted. Often black. When i did ones i left the Diamond cut edge if in good condition. Monte Carlo,s got Trinity that looked a bit like them but no diamond cut rim and grey not metallic black / grey. Some Monte Carlo did get Gigaro as there were wheels stolen and also a Trinity shortage. Standard Tyres, 205/40 R 17 XL. Some fitted 215/40 R 17 as the top picture. Or 205/45 R 17 as the bottom. Good for winter with the right tyre type. The White ones here are on the S2000 as they called it and many advertise as vRS / S2000, but they were all green with the sticker kit.

He has a PHEV. The Mild Hybrid,s DQ200 is a DQ200-e.

^^^ That is a p1ss take with the Minimum 20 miles. As in Edinburgh.

@MarkyG82i think best that @Crasheror @ApertureSadvise.

I only have one foot (Left foot using standard throttle pedal.) and driven Automatics since 17 years old and before 'Coasting mode' was introduced knew how to drive quickly and efficiently. I started driving DSG,s over 13 years ago. If you think the fuel used to keep the engine running with the Clutches disengaged with a DSG is as much as being in gear then so be it. DSG,s are OK for downshifting and it was Mk2 vRS DSG,s with Twinchargers & DQ200,s i drove. No Coasting but still toe off the accelerator. Touch the accelerator without gaining speed and go back into gear, or drop a gear because there is engine breaking. Winter, snow, ice i virtually never touch the brake pedal unless stopping. Each to their own i suppose. @lol-lolputs DSG,s in N which is something i never do ever when moving / descending.

You maybe need to look again at COASTING mode these days and using fuel. Because you are wrong. We are in a different era, and the DSG & Coasting is for WLTP / RDE2 and does reduce fuel. & It is not wearing out anything, not even the brakes if you do not use them. Great driving roads. SEmi Automatics / DSG, there is a shifter and paddles. That why i love it over Cairn o Mount on to Grantown on Spay & the A93. Makes a big difference fuel wise coasting and then just a push of the accelerator on bends, or manual down shifts. I did the Trip Forfar to Nairn via Edzell, Fettercairn, Ballater, Tomintoul & Grantown on spey, (Return to Braemar and then south better coasting.) near weekly over 3 years in Alhambra 2.0 TDI SCR and the difference from the 63 litre tank could be 630-660 miles not coasting enabled and over 700 miles with. Same speed a journey time and not hanging about. Now doing it in EV,s they are always coasting & regening otherwise not that efficient.

40,000 mile Oil Services then if a DQ500.

Sorry no idea. What is wrong with it disengaging from Drive when there is no load on the engine and the light throttle or no throttle touched does not require drive to keep rolling along and there being no engine braking? Just touch the accelerator with a bit of a press and it is back in D6 or D7, or D what ever gear.

@Graham ButcherIt will be because of the Fines / Financial penalties coming their way as shown in a previously posted document that might have been yourself that posted. Like the penalties that Car Manufacturers receive if they miss the Average Fleet Co2 emissions in the EU and in the UK. The manufacturers cheat by partnering with EV only manufacturers or mostly electrified vehicle producers. No idea if the Energy Companies have a similar cheat available to them over the Smart Meters.

I never got my Smart Meter fitted yet and now i have a £100 offer to get one. Eventually there will be one fitted, just not this winter. Maybe it will be one that works. http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-67591320 Rewarding those that are high users while those that are possibly the lowest users of electricity is a pure pith take, and rewarding anyone in the London area really is taking the absolute pith take. Double the tariff at peak rate possible shortage time.

It will not be a DQ380 in Europe. Anyway, 80,000 mile OIl changes and Skoda / VW say not the filter. I would want the DSG serviced well before 80,000 miles and the filter changed. Others will know the story on the 150 or 200 ps TDI,s. or is that 190 ps?

Any 2 litre tsi or tdi will have a Wet Clutch DSG. The TDI will be a SCR (Adblue) user. The age of the car will decide which a 6 speed DQ250 or a 7 speed DQ381. A 2020 i believe will be a DQ381. As to a FWD 150 PS 1.5 TSI ACT then that is a 7 speed twin dry clutch DQ200.

VW Group did, until July 2023, but they maybe still do on Euro 5,s with a belt. ? Does the OP,s 1.6 16 valve have a belt or a chain?

^^^ Lots of people with Smart meters signed up to GREEN Electricity, possibly higher users of electricity, charging EV,s etc, getting paid in some times to use less or plug in and charge the car to help balance the grid. Just the con that is for a future story on how you can con fool some of the people much of the time but not fool all the people all of the time.

What difference does that make, what was wrong with the one in the video? Best get your noise diagnosed.

Try their knowledge and if they know if it has a belt or a chain. But, they have suggested that you check so apparently they have no idea.

Best go visit an Automatic specialist or TOMMY at a Skoda Main Dealer. (Possibly Deaf, Dumb & Blind'.) First someone that can drive the car that is experience with 1.4 TSI,s would need to drive the car and see if they can identify it as the DQ200 DSG being responsible for the noise. If a Skoda Extended Warranty or Approved warranty it might well not cover the DSG, but then that is where you need to read the T&C,s and exclusions. As it is it is not a failure unless the clutches which might not be covered.

The thing is that there is not enough renewables generated anyplace near the UK for all these homes and Industries that supposedly are using it. There could be, but as it is taking electricity from overseas is how the nonsense works while paying out to people in the UK who might not even have their money in the UK economy and off in Tax Havens and oversea territories. So we might be able to guess just which Political Party they might support, or actually they will hedge their bets and back all of them.

David Cameron when a MP & PM took his clique to China including his wifes father and signed up for lots of steel and wind turbines. The wifes Step Fathers family, The Astors have lots of land hosting wind farms. The Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats when in government with the Labour party in Scotland is the Mr Big of onshore Windfarms and offshore ones now, Baron Nicol Ross Stephen. Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon MSP went on with the close relationship with China. We got the privilege of paying millions to be able to lease Pandas for Edinburgh Zoo. Now Scotland can generate electricity to supply about 6 times more homes than there are and also industry several times and have 1 nuclear power station due to close and yet pay among the highest standing charges and tariffs there are in the UK. Plenty are profiting though. Land Owners, Developers, those managing and running the turbines or not even running them, just collecting for them not generating. What a bl00dy nice little earner it is for those and such as those.

Just a small point & OT, but also on topic. 'They' want to have people stop using Peat to burn or for agriculture. Lots of trapped carbons. Fair Enough. Do there are Wind Farm / Turbine built where Peat is removed, supposedly reinstated. Kidology. But then lots of GREEN Environmental stuff is SMOKE & Mirrors and kidology. Real world. Follow the money. They will calculate what ever suits them filling their boots.

@LuxoviaRSVery interesting from a Merican for Lexus / Toyota in the USA or anyplace really including Australia. Mericans liked their Fast Lube changes every 3,000 miles without a filter change. then even at 6,000 miles when in the UK cars were maybe at 12,000 mile oil changes. Subaru & Lexus a couple of decades back were going for long Oil & Filter intervals wit Long Life Oil, then it turned out the rest of the car needed Inspections & Servicing and maintenance a long time sooner and they went back to sensible advice, recommendations, guidelines, schedules or specicifation. For those that might do 5,000 miles in 3 or 4 months then variable / flexible servicing is often enough to be getting oil changed, even the fixed 9,400 miles / 372 days for tye average or below average driver. I have done 4,800 miles since the 10th August, but in an EV so no servicing / maintenance due till June 2025 or 25,000 miles when it is a brake fluid change. Till then washer fluid and tyres are what need paying attention to.

@LuxoviaRSNo referring to me i take it. Being cheeky monkeys. It was you i thought being from Australia were there were big engines, V8,s etc and where cars used to be built that you maybe considered 2 litres to be small capacity & fitting turbos a recent thing. So is it just, 600 & 900 cc, 1.0, 1.2. 1.3. 1.4.1.5. 1.6 & even 1.8 that is 'Small capacity that is being referred to. & Maybe 30 years being recent, or even over 40 years. ................... Then as far as running a Turbo for 30 seconds or more when stopping. Yes that was good advice when roasting a car, battering along maybe using all its performance and not just half and then stopping. If the engine needs to run on when the oil / coolant / turbo is at a very high temp then the driver would not even need to turn off Stop /Start so the engine does not just turn off, it would be engineered to run on. As it is it is engineered to turn on the fans and run the coolant by the pump.