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I will give the van driver the benefit of the doubt as the charger maybe cut out but if he had come back sooner than an hour he / she would have seen the van was not charging. The Volvo driver had an hour on the Tethered AC and got 11 kWh & i went away for 1/2 an hour and looked back and the van was charging and had 22 kW in the battery. I had to head off and get on a rapid on the edge of town.

Maybe. You might hope since the 10 year olds which are early tech are not commonly catching fire and might not be more prone to in the coming years might be how things go. It the build quality / engineering and complexity has something to do with newer cars being worse than older ones then there should be a lesson there to learn. Vorsprung Durch Technik. Don't be daft, be smart, advance in technology and safety. That will be the job of newer batteries maybe. What we need is to have a list of those most likely to burn and die. Per capita.

@grmtylrWere you a Technician, Master Technician or Fitter actually working on the cars & in the workshop? Or even a service or workshop manager? I might suggest if you were then you worked at crap Main Dealerships, as to how Mercedes, BMW do Major Services then the Fluid Changes are extensive and can even include bulbs being replaced. Hence many get punted before a MAJOR SERVICE and show still they have a FMDSH.

There is no Small Print about Annual, Bi-Annual or Periodic Checks / Inspections at Main Dealers. But Skoda UK Customer Services regularly say there is no record of them being done. Pinned thread at the top of the Citigo Section pretty much has all the discussion and links etc to other threads. Newspaper Articles etc. Skoda / VW UK know exactly who never did inspections, and were never actually required by Skoda / VW UK to do them. They do not know their ar53 from their elbow.

@grmtylrHow long do you keep cars from being New or used ones? To be fair, neither do many people have the brake fluid changed, even used cars with a FMDSH / Skoda Approved might not have had the brake fluid changed or even tested. You only know there is an issue when you get an issue, boiling brake fluid etc. The owners / drivers have no idea of the condition / content of H20 in it. & more importantly it is not Serviced to the Manufacturers Guidelines, Recommendation, Specification. They will not say 'Schedule', Because many are not done to a schedule. The Warranty says what Servicing should be done though. All just fiction really in the UK.

There are academics & professionals with the information and knowledge out and about looking at and dealing with things. (Probably none of them members or contributors on this forum.) http://autocar.co.uk/car-news/electric-cars/how-much-fire-risk-are-electric-vehicles ............................ No idea why he said this @ 1 minute & @ 4 mins 15 seconds about the Yellow Badge and telling Fire Brigade or anyone else it is an Electric Car. Someone must have been feeding him guff or he just came up with it himself. There are no regulations i know of of marking / badging passenger cars as BEV, PHEV, or Mild Hybrid as Factory Standard or not being allowed to De-badge. & The Green Flash Registration Plates are not mandatory. It is just a Yellow S at the front and side now & the Round Yellow badge at the back that i have a Saltire on.

@grmtylrIf you are getting an Annual Oil & Inspection Service, and each 2nd year the Extended Scope that is that dealt with. Are you getting the Spark Plugs replaced at 4 years / 40,000 miles, or the brake fluid replaced each 2 years after the first time at 3 years. The Pollen Filter each 2 years or the Air Filter even looked at before 6 years / 60,000 miles, let alone replaced? I mean as part of the plan, or is this an extra expense?

Looking at the pictures there is no way that is a manufacturing defect. It is a Design co-ck up and a rust trap, so in that far yes Skoda manufactured a car that needed regular maintenance and care pre-post winter and mud / dirt, wet dirt cleared out. but it should have been spotted before a decade has past, IMHO.

It is the page with the Cars Shape and places to check you need filled in. Or once it was being done on a palm held the reports. Get a copy of the Warranty T&C,s from 2012 showing it was 12 years and not only 10. & get in writing anything someone at a Dealership or Customer Services tell you. Look under the back Registration Plate, how is the rust there?.

@B_H_123Explain please. Has the Service Book Inspection page after the 1st Major Service in 2014 had the page completed, and any marks or damage marked, & at any services 2 years apart or sooner had the Inspection page completed at Main Dealerships? Or just by some Garage, and what was ticked about 'Corrosion', some remark there was, or that it was checked for or what? Just some tick!

Welcome. Nothing to stop you trying your luck and asking a Dealership to have someone inspect it, but in this instance i expect the answer is no. Twelve Year Warranty now, was it not 10 years back in 2012.? Expired. Fair enough on the no Inspection, i do not mean at Services, i mean by anyone in the last year or 3 so that it got that bad. There was no Service Books by 2012 and no Inspection Body page after the Service Page, it was noted online, or not. The Warranty never said Bi-Annual or Periodic Inspections, But the Fixed Menu Service * Maintenance list said 'Body Inspection'. Best clear it out, get rust inhibitor on and leave the repair until the spring unless it goes inside, gets dried out and the the rust cut out and the repair / welding done. PS It has been worked on in the past has it not?

Go into Motor Factors, Discount store with paints or even Halfords and choose what takes your fancy, and a good primer. Preparation and more preparation / sanding & getting a key and then light coats. Just do not go to bright. If you give a light coat and do not like what it looks like the finish with something a bit less in your face.

Welcome. As far as going down to 2 cylinders that happens in any mode if the car does not require to be in 4 cylinder mode because there is not the load on the engine requiring it. As to ECO mode maybe others can help if there is nothing in the owners manual.

The issue with Police Cars was that self maintained and serviced and not MOT,d it is expected to be of a Safe Condition. Ones were in accidents and in Aberdeenshire that should not have been on the road. Maybe they have learned since those accidents. I doubt it though. Police Scotland spent millions on EV,s just not on chargers. http://dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/cop-car-scandal-police-scotland-13580538#

You pay an excess. You are insured through the group insurance. If you are with Motability & it is three years then the NCB you might have had pre Leasing with them was lost/ But now Insurers take into account if you want to insure cars again that you have a no accident period of years.

This is a cold enough test for anything that might be experienced in the UK. (The Braemar 50 kw charger a bit hit or miss for working but this car has enough range not to be an issue.)

@sk0derIt would be useful if you said what engine your DQ200 DSG is fitted to, a 1.0 TSI or a 1.5TSI ACT?

Hopefully some of the Citigo owners or past owners will be along with some help. Maybe it is springs and dampers you need to go with. It might have been best posted in the Citigo Section rather than Projects but you can at least see what others have done with their cars. ? What size tyres is it that your Citigo has?

Motability have had EV,s on the scheme for 6 years or more and the first 3 years ones and the 2nd lot of 3 year leases went into the Trade and someone owns them, and there are 10,s of thousands ending leases and being auctioned. Same with Demonstrators, fleets, NHS, Utilities and local authority leased EV,s. Plenty used ones are in peoples hands now. Repair costs of EV,s might well be higher, but is the accidents and more than ICE vehicles of similar cost / RRP and is the theft risk as high. Insurance is a fiddle not a fuddle anyway and there will be plenty actually doing the numbers and seeing who are 'at it'. As for Cities or Capital Cities & the 4 countries of the UK then some prices that people see for them will be WTF to those that pay no place near the Average Prices being mentioned, even the lowest prices used to make up averages.

I hope that she is better at her job than car maintenance and checks! I hope she does check under the bonnet and check and set tyre pressures or have someone do it & not just wait or expect warning on the dash. Her employer should be less than impressed with her and how she treats the vehicles, and the employer should be making sure that someone is doing training, maybe th3 fleet manager, and also talking to the supplying dealers about speaking to their employees to be talking to customers at hand over and explaining about oil . They put in enough fluids & these should be checked at the Dealership / PDI, so a Car Dealer or Drug Dealer might well know there is not that much oil in. They know that those doing the PDI should not be trusted and a 6 month old car should be getting oil checked, when NEW and after that as per the Owners Manual lets you know.

? Has anyone insured or renewed insurance recently on their EV? I have no idea about the cost of EV insurance as mine comes with the car Leased from Motability. I can not see me buying an EV and having to insure it but i will be interested to see how things go incase i do. If i buy anything in 3 years it will likely be a older MINI Clubman petrol auto. I have 1 ICE car left which has the max NCB used and i have sold my van which had 4 years NCB and i am told that can sit unused for only 2 years. (rubbish i think.)

You do what you do or want and don't risk it for a biscuit. Way too risky for the risk adverse. Loss adjusters might well check, might well not be totally daft & have a bit of knowledge. 'Stretched tyres' would be a total no no for me, and should maybe be for MOT,s and road side checks & insurance underwriters. ? Is this about Insurers and Tyre Approval / Certificate or Confirmation and approved standard OME Tyre sizes. If the car has approved sizes / tyres - wheels of different sizes but the same Speed / Load ratings can the different axles have tyres / wheels from these sizes? Audi option of wider on the front and rear, BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Audi etc etc etc larger rear than front. Skoda Enyaq, ID4 etc Staggered Tyres / wider/ larger rear than front. Honda Electric, BMW i3 etc. Can you take the Staggered wheels and change than for matching front and rear winter time? When you need Snow Chains? When you want to carry a spare that will suit front & rear! Is it just a matter of declaring mods then as we do with Off-roaders or other cars, Modified or kit cars etc. 215 front, 205 rear, matching circumference. & the orange JImny,s never came with tyres the size this one had on. 235,s.

It can make a difference with XL / Reinforced tyres or not, and if there is any Rim Protection or not. Just measure tyres side by side when on rims, not just tyres on a rack. Find the actual differences with a tape measure and not by some Table or Comparison tape and tread or tyre width and circumference / total diameter. eg, A mix of 205/40 R 17 here and 215/40 R 17, and there are 205/40 R 17,s bigger than the 215,s.

Remote pre-conditioning / de-icing is just perfect. -4*oC this morning and on 4 minutes. Inside warm, heated rear screen and mirrors come on and i did not miss the steering wheel not being a heated one. One moving and just heated seat on at 1 and heating at 20*oC setting it was doing 2.7 miles a kWh in town.

Welcome. There are clues and help in many threads and posts in the Mk2 Section on the various ways. Depends on the dash / car. ? Is the car currently set for Variable Flexible Services, 18,000-20,000 miles / 24 months or on Fixed Service Intervals 9,400 miles / 15,000 km , 372 days? When was the car last serviced and someone reset the Service Indicator?