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@GenerousBob They should not have been using VW502 00 / 505 00

The Recycling facility at Perth Scotland almost under the Friarton bridge had an explosion and sadly someone died. This is the 3rd fire there. This is near to the large body repair establishments. The last time the M90 was closed for hours. Nothing to do with Electric Vehicles though, not even any suggestion of it. Nothing to see, move right along. Well not while the bridge is closed if there is another fire. http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-64868337

@MEMEME14 Far from a full service then, where the brakes serviced the brake fluid changed or was it basically an Oil & Filter Service? ? Who did it, not Arnold Clark was it? ? Is the car running nice fresh petrol, none of the old stuff in it from months ago?

I remembers the headline from 2014 'Le Smog from Paris threatens London air quality . Still there to read online. London can produce enough of it's own to affect peoples health. http://bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56282064 These brought a smile.

The German Government really need to ask their Car Manufacturers if they need to build as many big heavy cars that are using far too much materials including batteries, components, materials which might be best used to produce more lighter or affordable cars. Also do they think using Chinese companies as partners to pretend their products are less polluting is the honest thing to be doing.

So the EU or some of them really are getting the hump other EV imports from China, Time that the EU / European manufacturers get on and source materials and manufacture the components in and from Europe then and build and sell the cars and meet the Emission standards that the EU intends imposing.

The £700 - £1,000 you mention is not the price of a cambelt change of a 1.2 TSI, and if a Main Dealership quotes that then the Service Desk staff are just clueless. Ask a West London Independent how much they charge. ? How much are they charging to check if the belt needs replacing?

I did not pronounce it, i typed a typo.

You are talking nonsence, The £700-£1,000 or even £1,200 is the 1.4 / 1.5 TSI ACT's. Which started all the discussion really on the crazy 5 year advice. The Dealerships did not have the equipment or want to put a Tech on a job for 7 hours, and the Skoda Approved used cars where not getting services / maintained to the Manufacturers Guidelines, Recommendations or Schedule / Specification that customers were being told was required. So a rethink from VW UK, we are punting cars and how can the Dealerships make profits if they have to replace Cam belts at 5 years.

@Graham ButcherEven the Ranault van i tried and the Nissans had all the power that could be needed for the steepest of roads / drieways and with the right tyres could cope with winter roads. The issue was the lack of range when loaded or even not loaded. As to the vans that some MITIE workers were given they could not get plasterboard or sheets of wood the size they use in the rear. That does not come down to them being EV,s just the wrong size of vans that some Accountants wanted. As to the time spend charging for a Trades Person, then the Accountants must have been looking at the Contracts won, the profits to be made and the grants available to them. Stuff the Life Work conditions of employees.

IMO if paying for a belt check get the belt and tensioner replaced.

People have homes, family children and do want home. Tourist areas have accommodation shortages and not every workers wants to stay in **** B&b,s. Some do. They might have done the job when they had a Diesel Vehicle suitable for the journeys required of them. My nephews work all over Scotland for National Companies, they are based / live around the Moray firth and go further north and to islands. That can be half a day travel to a job and maybe an hour or 3,s work and then back home, or maybe another job or 3. They do live away on occasions for some jobs. They do not want Electric Vans yet the National Company wants to provide them. They do not understand they are no use for carrying tools & a passenger or more & do the distances and be able to get charged without the occupants hanging about. They do not understand Weather either.

No not vandalising. the AC plugs fall out because they are press button and not locked in they get run over. People like me will zip tie them up and mark with hazard tape and report them. Unlike those that use the place all the time and do nothing. LIKE COUNCIL EMPLOYEES & THEIR BOSSES. Where does @J.R.think PodPoint gets the employee from to do the Northern Part of Scotland, a local contractor or they have an employee up there. or they fly them up and back? Charge Place Scotland / SWARCO will have chargers out of service for weeks or months and claim a shortage of parts or the Operator is not authorising repair. Even with something as simple as a cable / charger head. The Stirling Hub is maintained by FES and after i reported the broken charger head it was repaired within the day. ...... When the new charging hub near me opened the chargers had a fault and sometime would not release the charger head to start charging, and people wete tugging them and breaking them, or once out and used would not lock back in the charger. This one was broken in the first couple of weeks. I put a Zip Tie on it and hazard tape and reported it to CPS / Swarco 15 miles away. I reported it over the next weeks and months, i asked why SWARCO Maintenance were at the chargers charging and yet chargers were faulty and not getting actions. I complained to the Council. These chargers are at the Council Head Quarters. They said they would have CPS deal with it. I was there daily and watched SWARCO come and go and charge and ignore chargers not working, they said no Ticket Raised, Angus Council would not pay. My ZapMap & PlugShare was trolled and i was told i was a greedy moaning barsteward. Well the cable eventually got replaced. The Troll should not have been doing it while i was sitting only 2 cars away from them. Nor when i knew who their employer was.

^^^ OK if you maybe only do 10,000 miles a year or so, but if you do 18,000-20,000 miles or more a year then the Variable / Flexible Oil & Filter interval is perfectly OK. These engines are not made of sugar. Location location location and how a vehicle is used counts for lots.

Welcome. Sorry but you thought wrong as it is 0w 20 FS IV. VW 508 00 / 509 00. You could use 0w 30 FS III or 0w 30 FS III so VW504 00 / 507 00 But that is not the recommended oil now Fixed or Variable servicing. ? Is the person doing the job OK with you supplying the oil and any issues it is down to you, not them?

SWARCO might well have Regional Techs, not all the EV Charger companies have maintenance staff all over the country. http://thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/2480461/sponsored-smart-charging-dindee-articleisfree @J.R.are you joking? Obviously it does for many people. & with EV,s and needing to use Rapid Charging in Highland Region at chargers Administered by CPS, even though you work for PodPoint or others. Past Aviemore, past Inverness, Tain, Wick etc etc. maybe doing several jobs and getting far North, maybe an over nighter and maybe not. Charging maybe while working or maybe having to commission a charger before actually being able to use it. ??? Do you think these National Companies / International Companies have Depots and Maintenance Workers all over Scotland and for Inverness & North of there they are based / living in Inverness or North of there? *RWD and not even All Season tyres on the vehicle or 22 kW AC Charging.) The Highland Region Council Public chargers / 50 kW are 70 pence a kWh and not plentiful. It was even more of a journey for a mate that was a Service Tech on Chargers that had a 250 mile long area to cover, but then no way would he have an EV to do it. He lived 50 miles south of the start of the area he had to cover going north. Edinburgh City Council required contractors like MITIE to have EV,s and put a 30 minute max charge time on the Public chargers. Some tradespeople / drivers had to come from home to Edinburgh to work, charge their 50 kWh vans or even 75 kwh and then work and then charge before heading home because they do not live in Edinburgh or the area or have home chargers. I know drivers that work in South Ayrshire that live quite a bit away and charge in East Ayrshire in the morning,and charge in South Ayrshire maybe at lunch time and again in East Ayrshire before going home at the end of the day. OK for 'Local Vehicles with Local Charging' and not venturing very far in there region, that is not how it is for every driver / worker in Scotland that gets landed with a EV works vehicle. Van or Car. If they can not get on the Rapid it is good if they can charge at 22 kW AC. Sadly some will go on these 22 / 43 kW AC chargers and hog them for hours and just get 7 or 11 kW AC and stop those that need the 22 or 43 AC because that is their Rapid Charging.

Transported not towed. It might be on a trailer / transporter and that will be towed. Really they should be getting their trained tech on the road and to the car. What difference is there miles wise? The difference must just be the highly qualified person on the road other than at the workshop. Balance that with the customer without car they are paying their hard earned for.

@MEMEME14What was actually done at the service, just an Oil & Inspection service or was there servicing and maintenance getting done like the spark plugs getting replaced or at least checked, the air filter checked or replaced. ? Did they offer a Fuel Treatment and did you accept that? Which would be a shame if you did IMO.

@wyx087Sorry if you thought i meant it only has 11 kW AC charging and not DC charging. It has DC charging. It only has onboard 11kW AC with that one for AC charging not 22 kW AC. It has to do working days of a few hundred miles North of Dundee where it has to use AC charging and DC and where there might be no PodPoint available because there is not that many nd they can be needing repaired.

The EU / Germany should maybe be looking into the kidology / cheating of manufacturers in the EU / Europe partnering with EV manufacturers in China or elsewhere to come up with the false Fleet emission averages. By the EU allowing this cheating the EU manufacturers are able to keep building and selling higher emission / expensive ICE vehicles while not actually building and selling the low emission ones themselves. If they were not able to do that they would be paying Millions or Billions of euro in penalties or actually not be making profits so not building vehicles.

A 'Full size spare' but not a matching size spare to the 3 wheels / tyres that would be on the car or the one at the other side. So regardless of no Yellow sticker restricting you to or warning 50 mph surely you would slow down when it is fitted. When new it is 'green' and unscrubbed, the compound is different, the tread is different an the tyre pressure maybe. & when you put it on reset the TPMS; Simple stuff, but common sense.

PodPoint have these for Maintenance Technicians travelling to work on chargers. This one has only a 11 kW AC on board charger, ridiculous really for how far it has to cover in Scotland.

@Macsamillion Does your car not have a DQ381 7 speed DSG?

The thing is about the 7 year old car and someone at a dealership saying no longer any need to replace the timing belt is fair enough. But then if they think they will realise that until July that car had not been serviced to the Manufacturers Recommendations, guidelines, schedule or specifications. Again fair enough, but these dealerships were selling Skoda Approved Used cars with Full Main Dealer Service histories with a Warranty just not serviced to the blah blah blah / guidelines. Now they are full of bright ideas while 3 months ago they trotted out the same old 5 year guff.

^^^ Is that a lost in Translation or a VW Group use of 'Parking Lights' and what is known in the UK as 'side lights' or 'position lights'? Sidelights are not 'Parking lights' in the UK. one front and one rear light at the road side with the indicator stalk down and the cars ignition off is the 'Parking lights' on.