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I have an Electroverse card, 2 x CPS cards, Shell Recharge, a BP Pulse that will not work & they will not replace and i am not chasing them anymore. I will tell Motability again how useless they are. I have the Card from Motability that allows me to use all those they partnered with and they will invoice me. So that includes those above. I have a few key ring cards including LiFe EV. All just sitting in a Sun Visor card holder. Apps. Tesla non Tesla. BP Pulse. CPS. Charge Master. Electroverse. EV Charging. evyve. LiFe EV. Osprey. to be continued. InstaVolt, MGF Connect. PodPoint. Vend Electric. Then. ABRP. PlugShare, ZapMap, MINI. WAZE.

The engines / drivetrain from VW is in vehicles around the globe in all environments and the engine cover is fit for purpose as they knew that cars are imported to Australia. The Recall on 2.0 TSI engine covers had plenty un-happy theirs were removed and they wanted replacements and some bought them, or upgrades. Not heard of anyone wanting to leave them off.

@wyx087 It is £12, why would they send it if no way of getting the £12? They need the bank account for taking the payment from using the RFID card or the App. Direct Debit by invoice. If you do not want a card you can Tap & Pay but many many many chargers do not have Tap & Pay including not that old ones no matter the spin they put out or have others doing. Payment is from as much as about 6 weeks after the usage sometimes. Where you can tap and go for payments with Debit or Credit it can be quick sometimes. I do that in Edinburgh if the hopeless BP Pulse chargers at Park & Rides are to not mess about too much. I like the CPS Account for the errors. errors my way like not getting recognised as due money. Also if there is a connection charge of £1 or £1.50 and it does not connect i ask to get that removed. Not been able to get back into my CPS account since the night they suspended us all. Must have been a hack attack. Not caring as on my phone i have a record of what i used where and they tell me 2 weeks ahead how much they are taking for the previous month.

Ridiculous talking about Charge Place Scotland as a Network and no way is it owned by the Scottish Government. There are 32 Local Authorities in Scotland. There are chargers used from various manufacturers owned or on land from many owners not just councils. There is maintenance done by various companies. Currently SWARCO manage CPS on behalf of the Scottish Government, Tax Payers, Road Users. The Scottish Government throw money Transport Scotland,s way. A Government Agency. The give funding and grants for Hubs and Chargers, they do not own them. It is a horlicks. It is lots of millions going the way of some. SWARCO have a bit of a monopoly a BIG bit (Too much & needs investigating.) with the CPS contract just renewed, and then the e-Volt charger manufacturing and SWARCO Maintenance contracts. But Local Authorities can use Architects, then the Consultants & the contractors / Builders, Installers, Equipment Providers & Maintenance from wherever, If there are choices which there are not that many of. .......................... This is pretty much correct. & if Scotland had a good Mobile phone Network then SWARCO / CPS might have good communications with chargers compatible to LIVE In use, available, out of service. But they do not. Actually the Call Centre / Handlers are pretty useless when there is Communication issues between Broughty Ferry and a Charging Hub, even for a Customer / Drivers Mobile phone and Broughty Ferry. There are Charging Hubs / Chargers in locations with crap mobile reception. Then the blame the Car. These cars and bad for getting connected. All the guff gets given out. Shut the windows, lock the doors etc. Well it is P!ssing down, there are people in the car and and if the charger is not communicating say so and say move on. Or if the chargers has been reported day after day and week after week do not allow the Host to allow the maintenance to take the P!ss or not even contact maintenance. ? Who did back shop for BP Pulse (Polar) while they had the Contract, would that have been SWARCO? Yes. *** RFID cards cost £12.00, you can buy more than 1.***

McMaster might have learned the lesson the hard way. Depreciation. Stupid to talk about RRP & taxes now and depreciation from that. It is what you paid and what you can get. Keep it 10 years and it is cheap Premium Car motoring. Much as with any car. Keep it 15 years and even better.

Bump for @West-Cork

Welcome. Not sure what you require, is it a rear lower wishbone suspension arms? I will bump the thread. 'subframe corrosion' I know nothing about Yeti,s and parts.

You really need to know it has been with some record of what has been done. ? How many km has it covered?

Welcome. Is the DSG serviced as it should be with Oil & filter changes having been done at each 64,000 km? & the haldex at each 48,000 km or sooner.

Lets get this right. 7 kW chargers have been called FAST Chargers for years now. They are Slow, but a PHEV that only charges at 3.6 kW might use them, or someone in an hour or 2 at services that just needs a FAST charge on a 7kw Charger. Or people that want to 100% in a BEV and finish off the last 10% or more on the AC. Rapid chargers are 22 kW-43 kW AC or 50 kW for many people and called RAPID Chargers.

Well under 3,000 Fabia Mk2 vRS in the UK. 2010-2012 only 1,800 and a failure rate of engines of over 20%. Then discontinued and 1,100 with a revised engines and a 10% failure rate. Same with the Ibiza, Polo & A1 with the Twincharger 1.4 TSI. Other models with the engines around the world. ........ Now this in the article might be a bit of a P1ss take but there was a member on here with a car that was on the 3rd engine, that was 2 replacements. One reported on having had 3 replacements but the records with Skoda UK were snide. The Water pump replacement includes the Supercharger Clutch. The complete job is only £530, or was.

@Graham Butcher 7 kW chargers then maybe 6.6 kWh, so 21-25 miles added in an hour. On a 11 kW charger 10.5 kWh in, 35-40 + miles in an hour. Some were or are fine with a car with 22-43 kW AC charging. Just a pity some with DC Rapid Charging go on a 22 or 43 kW AC tethered charger getting only 11 kW and depriving those needing AC charging as their Rapid charging. We are where we are. We are going where we are unless maybe a WWIII or pandemic or other world disasters. VW Group were doing OK with Hybrids but cheating the ICE emissions and now they have PHEV Hybrids with issues / snagging faults and also Connectivity but that comes down to them taking stuff in-house and then going into denial quite a lot. plus the best engineers not working for them because they might get thrown under a bus and take the fall for the liars and cheats at the top.

We get the point. Refuelling an ICE is simple in much of the UK much of the time other than maybe during strikes, shortages, adverse weather, road closures etc. Then you might need to plan ahead. Going places in EV,s you know or have been before in the past or recently and you pretty much know what to check and where. Checking before a trip can take some time, or be dead quick. Anyone that has not done it or has not got the Apps or knowledge of them & that go on what others that might not have experience or experience of them are just wasting their time discussing them IMO. There are plenty that have issues or have had and they tell others about it, or not.

There is a proposal of a 3 year delay on 10% EU tariffs to help sales of electric cars in the UK. The EU Commission will approve the plan. Likely this will make no difference in just 3 years to EV battery production in the UK or the percentage of materials and components from the UK or EU used. It is a Brexit story as that is how this tariff came about which will just get put back till 2027.

Not Jonny, but!

Actually all tyres might not lose pressure over the time that many have a vehicle & that could be year after year that they stay inflated. There are tyres that deflate pretty evenly around the corners and do not set off the TPMS. The TPMS was really introduced because of those that could not even tell they had a blow out with Run Flat Tyres. The likes of a BMW driver.

^^^ England. When they say 'This country' they mean England. BBC reporters say 'This Country' when referring to England only projects. A different country from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. England really needs to become more self sufficient for Energy, Gas, Oil, Nuclear, Renewables. Get the Energy Security in place, stop depending on neighbours and not so near neighbours and dipping the hand in the kitty and robing others. Since Rishi visited the north there is plans to shut down parts of the Grangemouth Refinery and make it an Import Hub. Time will tell about the refineries / cracking plants left in England and how long they might stay. Since Rishi issued more Oil & Gas Exploration licences Oil & Gas companies they have announced pulling out of the North Sea. Transitioning. Getting lots of Tax Payers funding to decommission, scrap etc. Mostly scrapping rigs abroad. Maybe since the Green Freeports were announced they might actually get started and Scotland might not leave the UK in another generation.

Very true. Passenger car Fuel Duty & VAT, and light goods vehicles fuel duty and then HGV fuel duty, then ships and planes. (not planes there is not much duty with them.) As it is you pay to take some non compliant emissions vehicles into London. In Glasgow you get fined if you take in non compliant. Other places have other charges. Motoring and driving, transporting in vehicles cost money and just now there are not many ways of getting cheap liquid fuel. There are those running on Veg oil, Used Veg oil, Bio. Fast Food company vehicles etc. The UK Government would rather that Oil was used for Aeroplanes though and will spent millions or billions of tax payers money to see that happen. Or to give a nice standard of living for cronies. Where has Rolls Royce got to with the Small Modular Nuclear? Yesterday i spotted outside Perth Scotland the Green Field site where the Works Access is for where the New Low Carbon Transport Hub with Hydrogen Production & fuelling and services & EV charging will be getting build. No place near the harbour / River Tay or the Railway line.... Obviously as well as this Green Industry the houses are being built to make it financially viable. That is Perth Scotland getting more homes on Green Field land to make the industrial park work, or actually part of the kidology.

There will be VED to pay. Public charging will, maybe home tariffs will be more expensive. Some will still be able to charge cheaply with Solar or Hydro they control. Plenty EV,s coming matched to ICE vehicles prices, cheaper ones even, and servicing might cost less. Running costs. There will be Low Emission Zones and parking that might be cheaper / free for EV,s. There is Parking & access that might be free now and charging that will no longer be. It always looks like ICE vehicle running costs will become higher and they will do even though the Westminster Parliament and the devolved ones dither about and mess the motoring public and business,s about. ............. A year ago and a car salesperson and how things change, budget to budget or Chancellor to Chancellor. One thing at present is clear, Business users have more financial reasons to run EV,s than the General Public & using Public Charging is not the same hit as with private buyers / leasers of EV,s

@Graham Butcher You can not pick holes because as you keeping saying, you do not know this or that. McMaster is stupid on purpose. He is doing it for affect. He passes obvious charging locations that are good and he does the same trips time after time doing the same crap and repeating it. Like Just get a Tesla. Well just get a brain and just get Tyres because you will need them.

If people are not getting an EV or needing to charge an EV then why get your nickers in a twist over charging? Drive on with your ICE vehicles to 2035 & beyond. As to traffic and weather then @wyx087you maybe need to get out and about where there is actually adverse weather and the need to get to chargers and be aware getting to some might not be possible because of flooding or closures with snow. Barstard MINI has no idea what i am asking from the Sat Nav. My recent destinations on Quick check are all in Germany as it thinks i ask for locations in Germany. (The BMW i have for 3 weeks at a time is very very good Sat Nav wise and understanding what is asked for) The PARTNER Mini charger destinations it shows are just hopeless as it is dealerships the 7 kW chargers and that are maybe open during business time so pretty hopeless. Asking for chargers is a waste of time. I really can not use my left hand on a centre screen to search for anything and i just don't, even stopped it is me that is useless at it so it is WAZE i use on the phone. The i-drive is a saviour and great for making phone calls with the selector easy to just use between the seats and the info showing in front of me on the dash. There is Sat Nav directions there as well if used but in time script. ............ He annoys me more than Taycan man. I watch to see what his next gems are. If you do just get a Tesla please do not abandon them on chargers for hours locked in because you want a full battery and range even if you are not going even half the range the full battery gives. This applies to anyone / car really. Stop the stupidity. Roadworks Dundee -Perth have caused hold up for weeks because of a crane hitting a bridge. (I only ever go that way if going to Dundee.) Dundee got the Kingsway decades ago and then it became slow. There are by-pass plans for Dundee but too late now because of new buildings approved. No idea why he never crosses from Forfar to Perth and the Tesla Supercharger there. 31 miles, takes 45 minutes, sometimes 60.

PS Not going to look or correct any other errors from him, but the Forthside Car Park chargers are 35 pence a kWh not 40 pence. 41 kwh @ 35 pence is £14.35, so that is his £14.34.

Saved lots at Aviemore with Tesla non Tesla rather than slow Charge Place Scotland Public Toilet Car park 70 pence a kWh and £1 a minute after 45 minutes. The Wilderness Scotland charger 22 kw is 145 pence first kWh then 45 pence. £5.00 overstay after 3 hours. Stirling Council Chargers / including Castle View are 35 pence a kWh, max 40 minutes, £1 a minute over, and no return for 90 minutes, / Farce.

@wyx087The thing with should and could is that ii would not. This is not my first rodeo. It did not matter to me that it was locked in, just that it had eventually stopped charging and allowed me to use the CCS after their charge had finished. (I had not even hit the Emergency stop.) I hope the driver was lots of minutes over the 40 minute max charge time and paying £1 a minute. Charge Place Scotland and e-Volt chargers, (e-Volt owned by SWARCO.) At least at Stirling it is FES that does the maintenance. So it was just like the 2 arS£s the other days Hyundia,s. Locked in and charging finished, but it was the CCS they were using. .................. Only a 13.8 kWh battery so no idea why it was so long still charging.

It went ok. Then not. I went behind a HGV in rainy conditions at 60 mph then behind a gritter at 65 mph and reached Glasgow and it took 50 minutes to go 15 miles. Range was looking ok and I carried on to Stirling hub 86 miles on with 14% and 11 miles. People waiti g for rapids. 2 cars locked in not charging, 1 charger dead slow and 1 Fast. I went on the AC til I could get the one going slow. 5 attempts and it would not work. Now on the CCS on the charger the Mitsubishi PHEV is locked into with Chademo. The Tesla on the other one has just left. It had an adaptor and was using chademo. What a pita. Here about an hour and only at 48%. The 86 miles took 2 hours 9 minutes. Now heading to the snow in maybe 20 minutes. Home. No snow, just rain and cold and not quite as efficient for the next 90 miles. left with 10 miles range.