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Re a 2018 1.5TSI ACT and s 2022 1.5TSI ACT and software updates. The 2018 one or some were part of the kangerooing issue and a full DVLA Safety Critical Recall for lack of Torque, and it was Engine Management software updates, and there were for the DSG. 2022 they Updates are not engine / drivetrain they are 'Software' concerning other stuff like Infotainment / SOS etc.

What have the Full Services consisted of other than Oil & Inspection Servicing and the Extended Scope. Have the spark plugs been replaced, has the Air Filter been checked or replaced? The DSG is not due a OIl Service if it is a DQ381. Has the Haldex (4x4) Service been done in 2021 or since, @ 3 years or 30,000 miles or sooner.

There is a video of him telling it in his own words. MAILonline. http://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12592047/Driver-kidnapped-electric-car_Glasgow.html It must be fixed now i take it having had the fault found, Or is it actually where it was stopped, or left to be recovered?

@WggWhich size of petrol engine & how many miles has the car done?

^^^^ Man you are a muppet lots of the time. Just looking at the picture no frontal damage and where it is in daylight. Is it the day after the night before. The story will come fully out. Double Yellows with a Blue Badge you can park on when no further restrictions, Crossing ZigZags etc. There might be a Blue Badge displayed someplace seen when close up and that might well be the car that was being driven, or just an example of a similar car. .............. No tow eye came with the car. RAC person plugged in the EV with locked front wheels and e-brake rear, read faults, cleared faults and said fixed. I said put it in D then and move it. He tried with the door open, i had to tell him close the door or you can not select drive. I had called the Service Center to say the car was coming in, the RAC man called the same person, we know him and said it was coming in. Many hours later after i went home and tried to find out who was recovering it and did they know it was an EV i got a time to meet them. Stuck at Breakfast time, home by lunch time, back at the car by tea time and home by supper time and the car going to the Recovery car in Montrose to be taken to the Garage in Dundee the next day & left in the carpark untouched. That is how a broken down EV can be with a simple breakdown and lots of people who are professionals but a bit clueless really.

Is that a ZigZag no stopping at a crossing he is being photographed at outside a dealership? Is that 'The Car' or an example of what his car is like that needed a Police Van to bring it to a halt. If it is a Motability Lease car i hope the RAC made less of a song and dance about being unable to recover it and the Responder knowing nothing about the e-Brake and getting a Recovery Company who hours later sent a Driver / Recovery Operative with little gear and smart ideas but that required me to stop and direct traffic and assist with cones as a live recovery was done without proper sliders or wheel trolleys. (Then Arnold Clark,s Service Centre left it untouched for 10 days since it was not booked in.)

@skomazthat was what i had been looking at after your introduction to that site. Once home i will see what odd wind deflectors i have in my shed. I got a 4 door set for my Shogun in error when i needed only 2 for a 3 door and i cut down the rears to lengthen the fronts so the offcuts are someplace to just try how they might sit against the roof.

Looking more hopeful on getting the rain pouring into the interior sorted. The last few days of only a few miles driven, very wet roads and at the seaside has the disc braking surfaces started to have some cosmetic corrosion showing. I will be going into the hills later and see if i come back with the discs faces shiny again. The thing is i really do not need to use the brakes and they work that well there is no just light touch and keep rolling even on the steepest of slopes, it will need to be some hard braking i think.

I am sitting charging for free near the A77 in the torrential rain in my MINI that when 99% charged will show it will do 104 miles and just now will do that. I had a quick word with a very nice man in a BMW i3, last of them. He tells me he is getting 225 miles range. I asked if he actually does and he says yes. The thing is he is sitting on what is supposedly a 22kW AC charger that is actually 7 kW and I asked why he is not using the CCS and he says he is getting 50 kW where he is and the big charger is only 43 AC. You can't always help people especially when getting soaked. (Apparently, Best not use the fastest or go to a 50 KW charger or above 80%. I did want to ask how 80% could take him 225 miles.) I tried explaining that the Websites tell 4 hours on a 22 kW AC Charger. That is because the car takes a max 11 kWh AC charge, 4 x 11kWh would be 44 kWh of a charge. He can not get 44 kW in 2 hours, and actually can not take 44 kWh it is a total capacity of 42.2 kWh & a usable capacity of near 39 kWh. His son in law and daughter have EV,s and told him how they work. So we know who knows best.

Sounds good. Down near the bottom of the pages. You just have to pay a little from Freedom Lite to advertise.

I have worked in enough places with the chancers at it. That includes 3 of Scotlands biggest motor groups. Mony a mickle maks a muckle, they buy in parts and charge for them time after time and there they are on the shelf. For each 4 X 3 cylinder car they service there are 4 plugs that are available to use on a 4 cylinder car at no cost and they take VAT. Nice for them, signed off in their accounts. In other businesses i know this happens. Take VAT from customers, and pay the VAT when due is good. Their way almost covers them for pilfering from the Stock by employees or others. I tell them at the dealership or anyplace VAT Registered if a customer paying to put down the parts and the prices and add VAT. Charge the labor and VAT. I will pay the retail price if they supply parts. Give the Free Wash & Vacuum a miss, charge the labor cost. If they want from the Service Desk Staff coming out to check the car for damage and the car worked on, road tested etc, and if they are doing a FREE Health Check then that is free. No way if no Washer Fluid was supplied do i let them put it on as supplied and allow them to take VAT from me, give me a bottle of washer fluid or remove from the invoice. or for a Sump Plug not supplied and take 20% VAT. If the deal offered works my way i let them charge too little but if they are being Robbing Barstewards and putting on extra time and charging for parts not supplied and having it with VAT costing the same as if they were spending the time and fitting the parts i tell them, adjust your invoice. Like last month Charge Place Scotland charging me for Aberdeen Council EV chargers that did not work but i was getting charged £1 each time i tried to connect. Their answer was they just deal with the billing. I pointed out no service was provided, no power was supplied so that were not getting to have me pay VAT on 80 pence for getting nothing. It was removed from my account. A few times last month the chargers worked and never registered to my account and i paid nothing. My luck, Aberdeen Council should fix their chargers.

There shouldn't be much to notice really as both 7 gears and they should just work. Are you leaving the DSG service as long as 80,000 miles @phopeor having it done sooner.

I had wind deflectors on my Mk2,s because of that & on my Corsa and on about everything i have had foe 20 years. Sadly none exist for frameless door MINI,s. I have found a couple of trims that might just help from the site that @skomazpointed me too. I can not believe that site passed me by. Brilliant.

I would give the Vredestein Quatrac Pro a miss. I had used them before in the snow and they were pretty good. I recently put a set on my Electric MINI as the Goodyear Eagle F1 they came with were crap in the damp or wet. Well so are the Vredestein so far in just a bit of very wet roads and not that good in the drive. I have done about 1,000 miles on them. I will probably put on a set of CrossClimate 2,s and be giving the new tyres away to the fitter to do what they want with.

Others will know about them. You get a 1.5 TSI (EVO) or a 1.5 TSI ACT (Active Cylinder Technology) shuts down 2 cylinders when not needed, little load on the engine. No idea if also classed as an a EVO. I have no idea if they used a DQ381 DSG with a FWD 1.5 TSI in a Tiguan, but if someone told you it has that then lets hope they are correct. EDIT. VW Forums with people that asked seemed to agree they had a DQ381, then started talking about 40,000 mile service intervals, then about DQ500,s which has nothing to do with a 1.5 TSI. So maybe VW gave the better box to the VW,s. Now if it is actually better is yet to be proved as there are ones having issues just as early DQ200,s did. Well not that early as it went on for over a decade with VW group,s Vorsprung Durch Technik taking some kind of work to rule.

The story is getting plenty coverage. If MG do not have to recall ones then the likes of Motability that own quite a few and lease them out might need to ask drivers to stop using them, or their new insurer that they just changed to this month might have to. http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67005620

@ApertureSmight be one who could contribute on this pith take from the Dealership. & @langers2k

Sorry never read all the stuff on this, ? What are MG saying about it?

I know nothing about 1.2 TDI,s and never driven one. I would give Skoda Main Dealers a miss unless you have a good one with proper mechanics. (There is one like that in Aberdeenshire, all the gear and more than ideas, and they service and not just tick lists.)

Stupid me. Not one reviewer i have seen or read mentioned the Elephant in the room. I really had no idea how hopeless a MINI Hatch is when raining. No issue if inside it can rain as much as it likes, the wipers work. But getting in and getting out you get soaked as the doors and inner sills do as the water steams in. *You touch the door handle, press the button, keyless entry, the frameless door drops the window an ickle bit to let the door open, water streams in. Wiping the water away across the roof helps, as doing the coating on the roof that sheds water, but still the water gets in then, than as you climb in or out.* Today is torrential and i have been in and out like a jack in the box. This will really be crap once the weather turns cold and dampness will be an issue. As for sitting charging and opening the windows even a mm there is no way, rain streams in. So it is a case of running the heating / demisting and actually on AC trying not to get totally steamed up and that is just me in the car, no passenger or dog. I am going to try and find a bit of trim that i can 'stick' to the roof above the doors and just above the trim where a gutter would be to deflect the water off the roof. Not found anything of the likes online but i have a few ideas for something i can adapt that comes in black plastic. An electric Mountain bike down tube Crud Catcher i used to have would be almost long enough an i could make a left and a right by splitting one down the middle, maybe using the parts even narrowed a bit more.

@Graham ButcherWhat i am saying it is my 3rd Sony Xperia since buying when they first came out, & with not the longest lasting battery or the best camera (which i never use) and seemingly not the greatest speed for games etc. Well i do not play games on my phone, so until it breaks or gets lost it is all i need. With cars i would have a Fast Fabia if they built them which they do not but Spin is about a Fabia vRS again but an EV, a VW ID 2 sister. So likely i will not have one of those. Maybe 3 years is as long as i will be driving and if not then i think i will be running a semi quick and comfortable ICE car. Likely a Mk4 Fabia 1.5 TSI DSG just as long as Skoda have not too many snagging faults and sort out the crap people are getting with the software. But then if there are lots of reported issues that might mean 'much cheapness' to buy one. Like some of the crap that Skoda are selling and have been with the Mk4 Octavias, ICE and PHEV,s.

@nonuffinprofIs the Tiguan a 1.5 TSI ACT DSG with AWD? How many miles has it done. The 4x4 so Haldex Servicing is at 3 years / 30,000 miles or sooner. A DQ381 is at 80,000 miles but i would not leave one that long.

What Engine has the car? What trim of Karoq with how many miles? Worst Case is a Factory Refurbished or Base engine and a Turbo, so not cheap but not half the value of the car. Then engine rebuild, & Turbo, or turbo or no turbo. The professionals will be along hopefully, they will be working, on cars most likely.

Just say no. Live life. There are plenty analog & semi digital cars to see your driving career out. People have choices and the Play Station & on generation are a bit off being geriatrics. I went for the MINI Electric with crap range because i wanted one before they stopped being made and i would not have a New one with more range and just a heads up in front of me and some Computer Game type center dash. I have a Sony Xperia phone 3 years old and do not want a newer one. I know what i like and like what i know.

What a song and dance if the car is fine but the particular tyres and the size of these tyres make a noise. Skoda UK used to Approve a Warranty change of tyres from Dunlop SportMaxx or Continentals or some others if cars were 'Pulling Left' and the Dealers could not or could not be bothered aligning the cars correctly and they got New tyres, Pirelli Zero Nero because the disguised the issue but never resolved it. They had harder sidewalls on the 205/40 R17,s that Monte Carlo or vRS came with. As to swapping tyres from a Demonstrator that Skoda still own until it becomes the Dealers to sell then that occasionally happens, usually to get shot of a customer that is being a PITA.