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It could be very cold anytime. My mum can tell you all about 1962/63 and the road closed from Banff to Aberdeen and for how long. (10 weeks.) Who was in hospital maybe having babies or not getting there or back for weeks. Also the Typhoid outbreak in 1964 but that was after winter. There are many stormy and severe wintery years oop north.

I was also around when my uncles and others still lit a fire under lorries, tractors and diggers on very cold mornings in the North East of Scotland. And painted molasses on the lorry tyres and put coarse salt or sand on to get up slopes. Delivering or collecting at farms & the distilleries and where they got the molasses from. Salt from the harbours or they were delivering it. They had oil filled greenhouse heaters plugged in under the engines overnight where there was electricity and my dad did the same with his car in the garage overnight.

It is very early for a Face Lift of Mk4 Fabia when there has not even been all versions of the All New MK4 Fabia available for delivery in the UK. They need to get out their New Superb, New Kodiaq & get on building and getting registered enough Enyaq to be meeting the the Fleet Average C02 from the UK.

@Anton13579There is a For Sale section you can advertise in for a small fee if you mean they are for sale. Or are you just saying you have spare set?

Did you try a simple keyword search?

They are accurate enough. (They are not accurate as to what they say the speedo might read or under read as they over read with the OEM tyres on.) All i am saying is when you have different tyres, new or used, run the tape measure around them. Tyre off the rim and tyres on the rim and inflated and sometimes there can be just a ba,s hair of a difference. eg a new 205/40 R 17 Dunlop Sportmaxx does not measure the same as new 205/40 R Pirelli Zero Nero. Which can measure the same as a 215/40 R 70 from another brand.

The Oil is to VW508 00 / 509 00. Whatever it is will be good quality. 0w 20 FS IV. The car came with the Long Life Oil and can be on Variable / Flexible Servicing, 18,000-20,000 miles / 30,000 km 24 months, but Fixed 9,400 / 15,000 km 372 days is fine. Road use even in Australia there should be no need to do Oil & Fliter changes more often than annually / 15,000 km.

I regularly drive a near 20 mile trip each way and have done for 35 years and have a choice of 2 different roads to do it and can do it at any speed with only a couple of junctions and often there is no traffic. Always in Automatics though. Inland to the coast and then return coast to inland. Tried is in all sorts of speeds & done it in all weathers / seasons and some vehicles are more efficient going quicker. Keeping to 20-30 mph is seldom the most efficient speed to be doing it in a turbo petrol, diesel or EV. A bit faster, coasting and then getting up to speed works just fine and the average speed might be between 40-45 mph. That is now a bit less these days as 2 villages now have 20 mph speed limits where they used to be 30 mph.

Audi had wider front than rears as a option on RS3,s. (AWD,s) I used to use 215/40 R 17,s on the front of Mk2 Fabia vRS & 205/40 R 17,s on the rear. Actually measure tyres circumferences when on the wheels as the sizes on the sidewall or using a comparison site might not be the actual difference with tyres of a different manufacture / type / tread. But think what you are doing, check and take any consequence of co-cking up if you do.

Always a doubting Thomas about. People who posted in the threads might remember they did... Does nobody just look at the forum or use a search? http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/511114-my-skoda-octavia-mk3-got-on-fire http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/457559-octavia-diesel-vrs-thermal-incident

On the telly last Sunday, maybe again this Sunday. The channel is EarthxTV. EarthxTV news. http://earthxmedia.com It was a film on container ships and it said the 17 biggest container ships in the world emit more emissions than all the road vehicles in the world in a year. Bunker Oil / Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO). & Black Carbon emissions. It included about the lighter fuels that can be used near land and when docking etc and the cost which i think was 4 times more expensive to use. I had no idea that changing over to run from the heavy oil to lighter was not straightforward at sea as it was being done.

I linked 3 TDI ones in a thread in this section in the past. I can find ones just like an easy thing using key words for 2 TDI and maybe 2 petrols.

@Graham Butcher? What about them? If there are petrol ones that have gone on fire because of the battery, wiring or other reasons they will be here to find, i have not read any.

Briskoda has the threads linked before in this section of Skoda TDi,s going on fire. Parked cars, serviced cars, unexpected fires, all fires are un-expected unless the person is setting the vehicle on fire.

It is to VW504 00 / 507 00. So Long Life and suitable for TSI,s Fixed or Variable servicing & TDI,s, Fixed or Variable, but still needed if a TDI on fixed servicing. (Pre those that are VW508 00 / 509 00, 0w 20 FS IV)

DSG Wet 6 or 7 speed or Dry 7 speed are different and there can be a quick kick down 1/4 pedal or a kick down when on a accelerator lower, depending on modes, engine powers, generation of DSG. So the OP has a PHEV with a 1.4 TSI and a DSG which is running Management / Software to suit running as an ICE or in EV more. A DQ400-e 6 speed DSG. So apples and pears, oranges and lemons, Similar to other DSG,s, totally different from TQ Autos. ................. Remember regardless of any Dealership staff not knowing what is what, it gets Oil Changes every 40,000 miles. It is a 6 speed Wet. The Engine Oil / Service is fixed so annual / 9,400 miles.

My MINI Electric has a battery size of 32.6 kWh, usable capacity 28.9 kWh. 100% charged pretty much shows 100 mile range, like this morning it was 101 miles at 0*oC, and AC on and Heating at 20*oC just 85 miles. It does more than 100 miles and at worse so far maybe just 90 miles but that is Motorway speeds. Anyway i have noticed that charging from 50% / 50 miles range to 100% is taking about 18kWh on the 3 pin charger at home and a max 10 amp setting. **(£3.85) 15% - 100% has needed 28 kWh. On a Rapid / 50 kW charger it is a few kWh less, sometimes 40% to 100% is 18 kWh. Ambient temps are warmer though and i arrive with a hot battery. Charging on the 3 pin lead at home the car is not arriving from been driven. (Sitting charging many hours, 12-15 sometimes.) So almost empty to 100% / 100 -110 miles charging at home @ 21 pence a kWh might well need 30 kWh. so £6.30 **(But 2 x £3.85 = £7.70) I will see what things are like in the next couple of days with temps around 0*oC.

Welcome. ? What model did you order & engine / gearbox? ? Was there nothing in Stock or were they all 'MY23' cars? *A 16 week wait is the normal time scale given, that should be for a car you are getting built for you so a MY24 model.* You might have had some replies if you posted in the Fabia Mk4 section. Ireland and other EU countries and others around the world can have different names used for trim / spec from that used in the UK. No idea about what specs they are offering but cars should now be MY24 (Manufacture year 24) unless they show as 'From Stock'. Maybe there are MY24 changes and the cars are not being built yet or they are late changing what they are building and confirming changes.

Easy, stay out of them and well clear, don't stand or park near one or put one in your garage..

Could of should have, might have. Any reports of such happening?

I had a Jimny break a spring while sitting more than a year since the last MOT and discovered it when going out to try and see what the noise was and found the bit of the spring that it had thrown out quite a distance. They were very long springs and under not looking that good after a few years of use and no use. @Jockoi take it that even though the MOT was 1,200 miles ago it was 11-12 months ago.

@Graham Butcherthat must be the same breeze that disperses the emissions of Busses, Taxi,s & other vehicles that are still allowed into City Centres and high streets etc. where the LEZ,s are just a case of paying and you get access. Well the BEV,s and PHEV,s are allowed in to LEZ,s and to taxi ranks and parking places. Actually into Pedestrian Precincts with Blue Badges. So there is where i was thinking off people getting affected as these HIGH RISK Toxic emitters might be near to the innocent. But then we will have to wait until we hear of that, or of Diesel or Hybrid Busses catching fire in busy high streets. Head for thinking, feet for dancing, or for disperse quickly if you see plumes of white steam or gasses.

No keeping some people happy. Those inside the cabin can escape unless locked in and shout 'She,s going to blow. RUN for you lives, or hobble away at least. Or you can have the toxic fumes can vent outside & people watching the white cloud and that affect the innocent nearby that have no EV but are maybe going to die.

Different countries and documents 10 years apart. final_report_nfpa.pdf covered-car-parks-fire-safety-guidance-for-electric-vehicles.pdf

? Maybe @lol-lolwill be able to tell us how many Death Trap Renault Zoe there are in this world now. Or in the UK. All this fire and explosion stuff is a real horror show. Not. What is is the Park and Ride rapid chargers at Edinburgh Airport still being out of service. Thank goodness I am in a diesel. Not seen any cars on fire or exploding for ages now. Other than on vids on here.