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The Lady on the Channel 4 news is 79 next year and her husband is 80 and friends from the coast will not come to London to visit them & pay £12.50 to do that. In their older than 2005 petrol or pre September 2015 diesel obviously. £6.50 a gallon or so to run vehicles, maybe with very good fuel economy and certainly as good if not better than newer ones.

How have the Councils & Local Authorities done on being sure they only have compliant vehicles. In Glasgow they just hired vehicles at rather a high expense to the public purse. http://thescottishsun.co.uk/motors/11118779/snp-council-bosses-hypocrisy-lez-taxpayers-cars Not just £12.50 a day to pay, an actual proper financial penalty to drive in the area with non compliant vehicles.

The spec is VW 504 00 / 507 00 for fixed or variable servicing anyway. VW 504 00 because a TSI and if it was a TDI it is VW 507 00 even if on Fixed Servicing. Fixed on the TSI could be VW502 00 but the difference in price is only Ooo or Ahhh.

The 'Member of the Skoda Authorised Repairer Dealership network', needs to be an appropriate person with the Gear and more than ideas or that knows a man or women that does, and an intake of breath and just saying the same old same old means nothing, but they like to put off people with their crappy attitude. Different if it was their car bought with their hard earned, or the Dealership owners nearest and dearests car.

50,000 miles a year is going to mean an EV going back if a lease vehicle that might be available at 'Much Cheapness'. & Skoda says no need to service for 2 years but hopefully it gets an inspection much sooner than that.

Motability Customer Services got me sorted out with my new 'Motability GoCharge' Card and App / Account. I had missed a letter out of my e-Mail that i registered. I am signing in just now using it until their Technical sorts it out. Odd but let me check things out. It has a fantastic map of chargers, Charge Place Scotland and others, and the list is quick to run through showing the closest chargers, available or not. It is a case of one card to tap at the Partner Charging Providers and then the spend goes on to the account to be paid later. The App is showing the charger information, charging speed, kWh taken, cost etc in real time. Time will tell how it goes but the Customer Services Lady tells me there are 3,500 with cards registered and quite a few in Scotland using it without issue. She also had BP Pulse send me the Authorisation Code for the subscription and i opted for a card from them. I have an Account already so now a Subscribed member & the monthly credit will be added to my Credit on my account. Larry.

The Dealership person can say what they want, it will be the person arranged by a Warranty Manager to inspect the paint, measure the paint thickness and maybe have further tests carried out that matters. So did the first person you reported to do their bit and have the photographs taken when putting the Warranty Claim to Skoda? The T&C,s as there for the Paint Warranty and you did the first bit by reporting as soon as you spotted an issue reporting it to an Authorised Repairer / Dealership. PS Soaking bird poo with a sponge is one way, in the UK a used Tea Bag while still hot placed on the bird poo before pouring water over to flush it off is worth a try. It works mostly, depends what the birds have been eating.

'34H5' was not coming up as a Recall Action like '34F7' before it on DQ200,s 2009-2012. Then it started to a couple of years ago. http://skoda-auto.com/services/recall-actions Hardly matters if done or not but it was as a preventative measure because of a pressure / heat / cracks issue, you need a diagnosis and if it is the MCU, a leak or whatever and just the Overhaul / Repair Kit, a refurbish or replacement. Or something else, selectors.

@dblack Are you home or work charging before setting off at a low tariff and then public charging on your trips and are you going to be where there are good charging facilities and maybe cheaper, Ionity with a discount etc. Tyre size and Brand / Compound is going to be interesting as far as range / efficiency goes and if you are going 'All season'. ? Are you going to carry a spare wheel?

? If they notice is that a fail & is it compulsory in France that you have the Software / Engine Management update and the flow device fitted which could ruin your car? Is there no comeback on the VW Group / Skoda in France is you have this done 7 years after they know they were cheating and then you have issues? Not compulsory in the UK.

EDIT. Sorry mis-read 50,000 as 5,000. That is a lot of miles annually in an EV.

Welcome. Good plan to get tyres with a bit more tread on the road. 175's might be good as a studded tyre for use on ice. I have Fat Bikes with tyres about as wide as that.

@BaggyXwhat do you mean about the tyre pressures being to the label and quite high @ 37psi? Was that in the fuel filler flap and was / is that ECO & for a fully loaded car? Little point a technician driving the car unless first you take them for a hearing test.

My local Disabled EV user friendly charger with extra long cables did get a barrier after a year for users to keep the cables out of the way for people pulling up and not driving over them. Pigs might fly when it comes to users thinking about how will be using the charger next. Some hope of ease with anyone in a wheel chair using the cable to get to charge ports other than at the 'dropped kerb' side. My MINI is pretty good for being able to get a CCS charger cable to or even a tethered AC & get in and out the car, but it can mean walking behind a charger to get to the screen, or walking around the front of the car, or maybe parking at odd angles into bays. Not really an issue really with a short car. Cost a lot less to charge the car than Flight, parking and how much coffee he drinks / buys. Simply clever was not to take the car or to take an ICE then. One that does not have a flat battery after a week or 3 parked. Funny from the guy who often charges to near 100% himself. The one that moans about the time to charge and always stuffing his face. He is the one with the big heavy car with a big battery and able to charge quite fast on appropriate chargers and to 90% might be quite quick if you need to charge to that and get on your way. Going on about 80% all the time is just too much of a generalisation and a location location location thing. Like mumping about the tariff and pretending often to know not what they are.

Well it is not a Motor Engineer, Mechanic, Technician or fitter answering the phone or even anyone with any SVQ in the motor trade other than if there is ones in 'Upselling' Phone or keyboards will be their key skills. The 140,000 miles is even different from what others are quoting but then that is what happens when working at a Main Dealership Service desk, you hear what others say and might repeat it no matter if correct.

There are Vredestein Quatrac Pro EV,s available, i just went with the non EV ones on my MINI Electric as the GoodYear F1 tyres were just hopeless in the wet. If needs must and this is a snowy winter then snow tyres will go on & onto 16" rims not 17's.

Are you going to run them a while and see how they are before splashing the cash? What is the issue with the 21,s? http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/498002-downgrade-to-19 http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/497256-aftermarket-alloys http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/496667-what-type-of-tyres-are-fitted-as-standard-on-enyaq

Welcome. You have posted about the Karoq in the Kodiaq section. Many will have experienced a Skoda Main dealership having no idea what is wrong but replace parts anyway and hope that is it sorted and charge the customer. They might continue this for long enough and still not sort the car. Maybe some of the Techs or knowledgeable members will be along with advice. @Crasher@ApertureSor others.

Makes lots of difference, or just get a 150 PS vehicle the size and weight of a Kodiaq if not towing after all the NSL is 60 mph. Are people buying the 190 PS or a vRS just for the looks and no improvement in performance? All about the looks! There are 2.0 TDI SCR 150 PS VW Group cars with 6 speed DSG,s that go as well and are not laggy as there were just as good up the gears as 190 PS TDI,s The cars were given engine management to get WLTP certification. Maybe try a pedal box with the 150 PS 2.0 TDI and 7 speed DSG or the 'Audi' setting.

http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66592199 The London Mayor this morning keeps saying on the media round 'Check your car & it very likely is compliant'. There must be lots of diesels that are pre 2016 that are not. What a Mickey take with the Leaders of the Local Authorities that border the ULEZ and refuse to have signs erected in their council / tax payer land.

It is a 150 ps TDI not a 190 or a vRS with a TDI or TSI engine. It is as they did the engine management to get WLTP / RDE2 results, not to drive like drivers want. At least putting in S can have it not horrendously laggy if you need to be gettting a shift on...

@somedayscratchWhat is happening with your DSG, symptoms? Did your DQ200 DSG require or get the Recall Action called in 2017 for some from 2013-2015 which was a software update. '34H5'.

A Model S is not, or any other if the driver can keep near a verge, but you do not know if the car is deciding where to place it on the road.

Well that is where EV charging is an issue, and north and west of Aberdeen. Great driving roads, destroyed by Porsche Taycan & Tesla drivers and others that can not keep their wide cars on their own side of the road or go the speed that others want to be going at but if for some reason you go slow because you know the road or hazards they want passed you and then hold you up once all is good to go. These will wind him up.

@Graham Butcherhave you been up north much for road trips? He might have a point if he had an EV with pathetic range rather than a pathetic ability to find stuff out. I have been up and around the North Coast 500 in EV,s just a few times and with 100 miles less range than he has. More of an issue was with cars that needed Super Unleaded and having to carry some more even when getting tanks brimmed in Inverness. Many times doing the route, before it every had a name. Warnings regularly now on the North Coast 500. The fun days are long past. Or more important the night drives done quickly. http://thescottishsun.co.uk/motors/11143590/police-scotland-nc500-speeding-car-drivers Police Scotland have been talking about cuts and during the night having only 2 specialist police vehicles night time to cover the whole of Scotland. They are having a giraffe.