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VW504 00 / 507 00 5w 30 FS III 0.5 litres first, and then as required. But that is the Dip Stick level checked with the engine at Operating Temperature, on the flat after a few minutes. So not WARM, you can see there is enough oil in when cold / warm, but have it at the top of the crosshatch at Normal Operating Temp. Do not overfill.

@mccririckYour PHEV requires being on Fixed Servicing for Oil & Filter changes due to how seldom the 1.4 TSI might be fired up. I take it they will be using VW508 00 / 509 00 0w 20 FS IV & not VW504 00 / 507 00, 5w 30 FS III even though the engine is the same as it was when a Euro 5 emissions.

I had a look in the Telephone exchange yard and there are a few vans there, no EV,s. This driver must just be ignorant but there will others he is annoying. The Traffic Patrolers were ticketing cars not charging and ticketing them when it was the charger that cut out on them, but that has maybe been knocked on the head because they are still knocking about standing timing those they are away to nab park on the streets too long.

The Muppet in the Open Reach van had it plugged in to the one CCS at 8.30 am and still there at 2.00 pm and not charging.

If all is well with the engine and the brakes i would not mess about too much withe the DSG and chance losing Drive. It should be going up the gears, D1, D2, D3 etc, and the same in S, S1, S2 etc, and coming down the gears. Do not try to many accelerations or manual down shifts. Best have a Auto Specialist drive it, as long as they are familiar with DQ200.s.

For the A93 then when they can they will as getting to & from Braemar is as important as those getting to Glenshee. The Covid years of keeping the gates closed was a right PITA. The South Side at the Lecht is easily shut and a right PITA while Tomintoul to the Lecht is open. I have had plenty times of an extra 100 plus miles to get home when the gates are closed and now with an Electric car and with a small battery i have to do things differently. It is on Vredstien All Seasons but will be going on Snow tyres. A stupid pair of 7 kW chargers at the Lecht car park, then Tomintoul or Aboyne unreliable and Braemar even more so is a real PITA. I will be going by Blairgowrie more often rather than just Glenisla. Or Ballater and the Cairn O' Mount. I have just sold my Shogun and have a BMW 520 Estate not on All Seasons which is venturing no place.

Found pictures in another thread of my 'Worky' van which was actually fitted out as a camper and could be just parked up over night where there were other vans but 'No camping'. & the bikes & Glensee and Mar Lodge.

I used to work and sometimes live at both centres. Been going for 60 years now. There are total toshers about right enough. Back in the day at the Lecht it was handy that the owner was the snow plough driver.

The Ski Centre roads are ploughed and gritted / salted obviously and open to traffic with many arriving with vehicles with nothing special in the way of tyres. To the general public including delivery lorries, vans etc that get no winter tyres fitted. Can be hairy right enough with those without a clue and that think because they get up they can get down and no need to slow down or go with the flow.

Less than full charge fob batteries can keep going as they warm up but at some point they are just enough not with enough power. Just like the car batteries, and they might decide at around 5 years they are retiring for good.

No point comparing the 1.4 TSI with a TDI, and my experience is 1.4 TSI Twinchargers and no point me comparing that with a 1.4 TSI. Flooring the throttle is not Simply Clever to try starting in my experience with a twincharger. Then as to oil filters on the top of engines, VW changed the filters in 2012, but is when you see the difference of the Black or Silver ones.

That is the issue with not that wide low profile tyres on a SUV with big rims and Summer bias tyres. But then the busses, posties, taxi,s and couriers etc will get around quite fine even with FWD or RWD. Little old ladies or men in their VW Polo or Audi A1 will get around just fine driving to the conditions. As to reviews, It just goes to show Magazine / Social Media comparison reviews can be rubbish, or my reviews or anyone elses. The Yokohama are good, the Vredstien were when i started using them as the only Winters easily available. I have used the various Michelin, CrossClimate , SUV & Crossclimate + & 2. As to the Maxxis i had AP2,s a few years back and reviewed them on here and they were good, but then i wrecked the sidewalls. The Tyre Section is a good place to see what is what, and the threads on 19" All Seasons. The issue is you can only fit what is available.

Are you near a Tyre & Exhaust centre to see what they have or can get in in a few days? Easy to suggest good tyres in that size, but availability is the issue as people discover the tyres on are not good in winter conditions. ? Which country are you in and if in the UK where? These are not rubbish tyres, but i have on Vredstien Quatrac Pro,s and would not recommend them for Snowy conditions. They have been good in very wet and cold / icy conditions.

Even for Australia i think you should be using VW504 00 / 507 00 For Fixed or Variable intervals with 5w 30 FS III On an 11 year old engine i would not use 0w 30 FS III, and no idea why anyone would use 10w 30 FS with a 2.0 TDI.

Surely (Shirley), 'The fuel consumption is increasing,' the number displayed lowering.

Solid White is a favourite of mine as is Black, Red & Grey. Just for being easier to do Kerb Side Auto,s tart ups.

Well real world. Actuality is going to be very different from seen in a graph or from reading. The temperature differences have different air density and the road / surface temperatures so grip / friction / traction and the cars interior setting for temperature if set at 18*oC is requiring more or less power between -5*oC & 25*oC Long story short, the figures and comparisons of the same like for like EV,s or ICE vehicles in the real world are sometimes not even an indication of what any particular driver would get due to road surfaces, terrain etc, as roads are seldom just horizontal, and even if cars are set to speeds using Cruise Control that can give very different results in the same car because of head or tail or cross winds. Convoy driving is interesting but i would like to see a fleet of identical cars driven in convoy and the lead car being changed every few miles.

As to the Coding out of the Brake Lights, and the Brake Lights being on then there are several threads on that on Briskoda. If you are the tail end charlie in a line of traffic stopped you want / need the brake lights on though. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/497760-code-out-brake-lights-on-autohold

You are right the World Wide / Global recall did not apply to Europe / EU, but then VW Group had to start a Service Campaign in the UK in02014 on the 2009-2012 DQ200,s because they are little cheats and thought they could get away with things. (Europe can have exactly the same climatic conditions as New Zealand had and the DQ200,s were built in Europe not just in China. In China and other regions they had to put a 10 year / 100,000 mile warranty on them.) The 2012 cars late 2012 were not part of 34F7 the first Workshop action, or 34H5 on the 2013 to 2015 DQ200,s, just a service campaign. But that was and is an issue because many of those had premature failures. In Australia there are 3 recalls covering the DQ200,s from 2009-2016. The 3rd one because so many were missed in the first 2 Recalls that is an issue when Australia had the Lemon Laws,

The window rubber can be replaced but the corrosion is on the door so you need to do rust removal, inhibit the rust and then prepare and paint. Common issue covered here over the past 10 years. As to the car and remap. Best see if the car had the Emissions Fix and the flow device fitted in the air intake. That would need rolled back. http://skoda-auto.com/services/recall-actions

Well the others that have asked have answers of 15 years, 140,000 miles, 180,000 miles, but none have been told there is no service interval that have posted the replies. So really it is not a No Service Interval it is a long time in the future. Which is amazeballs because just in June 2023 in the UK it was still 50,000 miles / 5 years and the rest of Europe / EU & dust free what ever they decided to give in Time / km,s. Have Skoda now globally deleted the service schedule for belt replacement of 1.0 TSI,s since others have been told it was extended? ? Are Tensioners for life not just for Christmas and leave until theu fail? SEAT had deleted the Service Schedule back before February 2023.

Yes if you have AUTOHOLD enabled. Button pressed and little light on AMBER showing that it is enabled.

@DamoD That is total nonsense from Bella and her sources. There is a timing belt service , inspection & replacement interval. It is just that it is many years / km away. But there is a schedule / recommendations & guidelines. Skoda UK and now Skoda Ireland just seems to be quoting different numbers and now from Skoda Ireland no numbers.

Welcome. Best have an Automatic Gearbox Specialist check out the DQ200 DSG as it has not been serviced and does not get serviced. Possibly replacement clutch pack time. (Not by a main dealership, if you put it into them they might even farm out the job.) (There can also be an issue with the selector forks. a less expensive fix.) See the Pinned thread at the top of the Fabia mk2 section on DSG,s and look at the last pages. (Not relevant, but It might have had the Recall Action since 2014 that was an Oil Chang from Synthetic Oil to mineral & a software update. that was '34F7' on 2009-2012 DQ200's bit just to ones built before the summer shut down.) Sticker in the Spare Tyre well if done.

@oldstanWhen you reset does it go to 9,400 miles / 372 days because your car is on Fixed Servicing?