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@PMSIs it not just the tyres on your car that is part of the road / tyre noise issue? Have you tried another one on different tyres to see how it sounds?

How old is the car, is it not a year old yet? You can not just tell them to fix it, the responsible person will have to inspect it, that might be their warranty manager or Master Tech then maybe arrange for someone else to check it and then apply to Skoda to approve the warranty replacement of parts and paying the dealership to do it.

2 Osprey hubs. 6 x 300 kW & 8 x 300 kW chargers. http://ospreycharging.co.uk/post/new-hub-scotland-gains-two-ev-charging-hubs 79 pence a kWh, OK if desperate and the CPS chargers near are not available, or maybe if you are charging your big battery very fast charging vehicle.

Generating your own electricity is like producing your own home brew beer or cider or wine, or even using WVO to run a vehicle for private use. Excise duty is not easy to impose on these.

Welcome. Best say what engine you have. Have you been on http://autodoc.co.uk Lots of parts show on Ebay and elsewhere, maybe not what you need though.

They must have seen one that was serviced @ 80,000, 160,000, 240,000 or sooner then. Which little liar was that, service manager or Master Tech. There will be 47,000 miles a year cars with a DQ381 out there. Your dad put the miles on his one. Sadly there are people at dealerships without a clue.

Volkswagen are not going to be selling cars with thousands of faults. That is 'simply clever' of them. Only products fit for purpose. They just need to get on and sort out the crappy ones they have sold and been paid for and landed unsuspecting buyers with. http://www.topgear.com/car-news/tech/volkswagen-wont-bring-car-road-again-thousands-problems

Angus Council had a sign up when building a new EV hub in Forfar and took it down before the place openned. I asked why no signs on the A90 to direct drivers to where the hub is since so many get lost. The Roads Convener told me he would contact the roads department. Nothing. All around Scotland it is the same, signs saying Services or Park & Ride, but as for directing to EV Chargers. Nothing. There are EU funded or partially funded hubs all around and no signs to show that.

Sadly DSG,s and servicing is very much a mystery and no help for owners / drivers from Skoda / VW Dealerships who might well do up-selling but not let people know about important Servicing & Maintenance. Really because the Service desk or Sales staff know nothing about it. They sell Approved Used cars that have not been Serviced to the Manufacturers guidelines, recommendations or specification and have done for many years. It is not a sealed unit, and a DQ200 DSG with no service interval is not a sealed unit. That term is another Main Dealership issue. Used by those without a clue about cars or mechanics of cars. Your father might well have been told that 7 speed DSG,s do not require services / Oil changes. because that is told daily to owners at main dealerships by staff on a service desk.

But nobody has to get an EV if they do not want one, which is the crux of the matter. We know it needs to be simple, because many people can only do simple. It is not like it has not been said for years now, so things are changing. Touch screen is pretty useless for many right handed people in right hand drive cars. And there are gear stick / shifters with buttons on lights to suit left hand drive cars. We have to worry about all these people that can not afford to visit London in non compliant cars and have not £12.50 or exemption, and will be broke if penalised. ........ MOTABILITY is trying to make it much easier for those leasing cars from them. drivers or passengers. Chargers need to be easier to use for the infirm, wheelchair bound etc. Planners / designers need to get in a wheel chair and try charging an EV. Or even fueling an ICE vehicle. http://pauatech.com

If there are any they are going to appear on Ebay as much as any place else. A specialist that deals with DSG,s is your best bet. That will not be all Automatic Specialists.

They were introduced in MY 2018 cars. A 67 plate car is registered in the UK from 1st September 2017. The OP can maybe confirm if the car has a 7 speed DSG since they were driving it.

The point is Read the T&C.s Once you have done some driving and charging you might know exactly what you want or need to gen up on. If you keep having the same issues and do not bother finding out why or how things operate then so be it Like the PodPoint, £30 pre charging with contactless and then charged the actual cost after charging finished, so at 44 pence a kWh or 62 pence You are under £30 or over it. but that is 50 kWh on a Rapid purchased to be over £30. The App is good and it is simple to use and to put credit on as and when you need to from your registered account. There can be Mobile Reception issues at charger locations though. Something really that is ridiculous as the infrastructure is rolled out. But Mobile reception is like that in many places in the UK. Pathetic. As to Genie, well that is a problem, they are a problem.

http://skoda-auto.com/services/recall-actions On so recent cars while the cars that have never been recalled is strange. Several threads on it if you look. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/513183-recall-takata-airbag-april-2023 http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/445906-airbag-recall

@J.R.I take it you mean no way of pre-charging a CREDIT CARD. It gives Credit, and you can have money paid into your card and more than your Credit limit available, actually never taking Credit. The issue is Good Merchants and finding out after the fact who they are. BP Pulse were holding money for 29 days but then this is EV charging i am talking about. There are EV drivers or those charging vehicles un-aware that there might be a card reader on a charger and that is the design of the charger but that particular charger does not take contactless payments. It might in the future once on the system. Connectivity of chargers, SIM / Mobile reception is an issue in Scotland for RFID cards, or apps, but where you can do a contactless payment that might be the most reliable, or quick way.

Also VW say no filter change. There are failures before ones have done anything like 40,000 miles so no the 80,000 oil change interval will not be the cause with those. Maybe those 40,000-80,000 could be said to be because of the service regime. Time will tell. it will come out in the wash. Maybe VW Group will change the Service Intervals, in Europe or Globally. Vorsprung Durch Technik.

@StephenxP Does that mean it was not a Skoda Main Dealership that was doing the servicing on the car? ? Who thinks they can repair the gearbox? I doubt it very much and i think a refurbished DQ381 is the only option. A used one from a breakers possible. @Crashermight see this and be able to advise or comment. Maybe @ApertureScan help or advise

I am peed off with Aberdeen and charging £1 to connect and getting no connection or charge. Charge Place Scotland are saying not their problem talk to Aberdeen council. I have told them it is very much their problem, they invoice and take the money and VAT for a service not provided. While this goes on i have charged twice at chargers in Aberdeenshire (That is not Aberdeen) and no charge of 47 pence a kWh or the £1 connections has been made, or on my account. So i will let it go this time. Well maybe, because they can miss taking money if that is how crap their infrastructure is but they are not getting paid for having faulty chargers that they never bother having fixed right in Aberdeen. *I have had hundreds of quids of free charging where there should be tariff charged because CPS, BP Polar /SWARCO who run things and now SWARCO are so useless.* Which is nice. With PodPoint i have my credit & have never had any loss of phone reception or unable to use the app. I do use a credit card. BP Pulse has my Credit, and now i have my Subscription finally. I will seemingly get a £9 voucher for 5 months. That is all i will use them for to use that £9, and then where i have to use BP Pulse Chargers with CPS in Edinburgh. Now 55 pence a kWh. I have the Motability Go Charge card now that has the payments all in one place for the partners with them. I have my Tesla account now, my Evyve account, my MFG Connect so pretty much sorted. Never used the LiFe ev card or app but used the charger and tapped my card. Never used Electroverse, EV Charging or some others that are all on my phone & have been for 3 years. Some sent key fob cards.

Welcome. Did that regular servicing include the DSG getting and oil service @ 80,000 miles. Maybe the OIl & Filter replaced? I am guessing it is a DQ381 DSG that the car has. I would not expect Skoda UK to be covering the cost of repair or replacement. It might have been the MCU (Mechatronic Control Unit) leaking and a new gearbox was not needed. But you will never know now. *But if you actually did hit a big stone and not just think you did then sorry, but that is that.) Did your reading bring up the several threads in Briskoda of members around the world with issues / failures of DQ381 DSG's? http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/513192-dsg-repair-costs-should-skoda-pay http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/511232-dsg-dq381 http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/508475-gearbox-dq381-in-emergency-mode

Skoda are spinning well with AutoCar their favoured friendly publishers and AutoExpress that does publishes anything and republishes again and again. Once they actually turn out the under £20,000 & Under £25,000 smaller EV,s from the VW Group and people can buy them then things will be on a roll. VW Group / Skoda seem to be waiting on some technology advances. Well past time they sort of the cars they have already sold to people and which have snagging faults, or just pathetic systems. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/516412-brand-new-superb-iv ................. There is a factory in the UK started production of just EV.s. Ellesmere Port Factory. They might not be the latest technology and not even perfect, but they are building them, not just talking about it sometime maybe.

Pre authorisation of £99 was dropped at Super Market or Filling station pumps for £1 re-authorisation. BP Pulse & Edinburgh Park & Ride were taking £15 pre-authorisation for the Chargers on Charge Place Scotland that often the card or App does not work. So you tap a debit card maybe. Now it is 1 hour max charge time but it was 30 minutes max & even if you got 50 kW charging for 30 minutes and 25 kW @ 35 pence that would only be £10.50. I had used my card about 10 times and they had pre-authorised and were sitting on my money. Some or most of my charging was only £7.00 a time because that was me topping right up when charging. Maybe using the Rapid then moving to the 7 kW chargers to get to 98%. **29 days to go back available, not a couple of days, but then i am not going by theory, by actual practice and having called them up and saying get that money back into my account as there were no warning messages or stickers you just introduced this, BP Pulse Customer Services knew nothing about their Chargers at the Park & Ride, but i did get the money re-credited within 24 hours of calling them.** It was news to them that it was 35 pence a kWh there and not double that or more at their chargers normally. There are plenty straightforward tap and pay chargers now. If you lose your cards you lose your cards. You probably lose the ATM card which you take your cash money out with. As to Power Cuts, like Weather Related, the Filling Station might have emergency power for pumps, like when Pitlochry or Arran had no power, or the North East of Scotland 2 winters ago. The Card readers do not work, the ATM does not work, and the Till does not work, but you can maybe open the drawer. For the Dude in the Video he really needs to try an InstaVolt or PodPoint, tap your card as at a pump for liquid fuel, or as you do inside a filling station kiosk. Even put it in the reader & put in your PIN.

@Graham Butcher4 counties in the UK and they are certainly not all in your vicinity. When was the last time of many you were pulled in for a 'Roadside check', how many years ago, or with 'Traffic cops'. Motorway Cops' or Interceptors how many years ago episodes are you watching? When did you have DOT, VOSA / DVSA testers into the bus stations? This will have been in England no doubt, like where the MOT stations are fully booked with cars / vehicles and nobody gets a first thing in the morning test. Yes there are checks, usually when trying to disrupt crime, or like this in 2014 when there was going to be protesters turning up at Turnberry. This is a good way to delay and gather intelligence. The difference between you and me is me working at and hanging about garages and you at bus stations and maybe getting a MOT occasionally.

There are no 'Strict Emissions Tests' carried out on vehicles in the UK after 3 years. There are tests. Fail the test and maybe take the vehicle for a bit of a thrash, go in for the re-test with the engine still hot and maybe abracadabra a pass.

^^^ You keep saying, but it never will affect you are you are not going to drive an EV. Many are not happy that VW Group sold TDI,s with defeat devices that caused them no issues and they got or still get good economy with. Yet some let them do new engine management on them and ended up with issues, and some even claimed for money from VW Group regardless of having a good vehicle or a bad vehicle. We live and learn. Another year or 3 and we will see how the VW,s with SCR are doing in the UK, and also the DQ381 DSG,s with an 80,000 mile oil service regime. We will see how much demand there are on 9 or 10 year old ones.

? When was the Stage 1 mapping done? Is the DSG issue new? Or was there the same issue pre-remap?