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Nail on the head. Not a clue, clueless, like so many that maybe need to bother finding out. Fire resistant containers will be order of the day. There is job creation right there, the circular economy. ? Did you get money from them because they never got to you quicker, or was it before those times?

Gotta laugh at those that are interested in the Reduced Tariff cost and then pay the crazy prices for Coffee & Cookies etc. Do that with a few in the car if you do not usually frequent such places and you will see just how much travelling by EV can be. There were other Ultra Rapids available to him very near, and he was on the A9 and again did not bother going into Aviemore for the Tesla Surpecharger with a non Tesla. (Pilot scheme.)

So how are the Recovery Centres & Body Repair centres getting on? Any articles with any of them commenting? Todays BBC Scotland news story on EV,s is about the lady in Orkney who like me was charging and got a message saying that the car would not start. Like me she called the RAC or will have done it online as we get told is quicker. Her RAC responder called her to check her Postcode to confirm how long to get to her, when talking he then realised it would be a long time from Cornwall to Orkney if he took the van and did not fly up. While the RAC sorted it out she contacted the garage in Orkney that recovers most vehicles on Orkney or services or repairs them. They recovered her car but they will not be doing the Warranty Repair. That will likely be the car on a flatbed or transporter and on a ferry to the mainland. There are Recovery Firms up in the area of the North Coast 500 and north of Inverness, they will be getting equipped for EV recovery, crashed EV recovery because that is the business they are in, and storage and onward transport, usually south. Businesses have to move with the times.

Here is the dude again prattling on and not having bothered yet to get with the flow. Charge Place Scotland chargers have different owners / operators and types. There are tap and pay contactless ones, like BP Pulse and others that you can use the RFID or App at but because of rubbish connectivity / mobile reception many just use a Credit or Debit card at. He does keep going to the West of Scotland, maybe he might get the idea why it is so green and has lochs and waterfalls and the scenery. Much wetness much of the time.

Sounds pretty big (wide) / tall without me even doing a comparison on the various sites for comparing tyre sizes. An idea would be to say what tyres are on now. Are they 205/40 R17 ? Those that know Rapids or google them might know. @Carlstonwill likely be able to tell you about sizes, or there are the threads in this section or the tyre section if you looked. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/504236-tyres

PS Is it a Fabia Mk2 and a DQ200 7 speed twin dry clutch DSG, or an Octavia Estate 2014 with either a DQ200 or a DQ250 6 speed wet clutch DSG?

Welcome, Is it drivable? It will not be Skoda, John Clark Group, Specialist cars Dundee or Thomson Potter Perth. & not Arnold Clark. Maybe no use for you but it is my buddy Jeff Butler. Probably very busy and in Forfar. http://charlesbutlermotor-forfar.co.uk

@lol-lolIt is not often i need Sat Nav as mostly i go where i know or have been before, but there are times that i do want help. The Corsa was just crap not just the cars / Google maps which i did not use after seeing how bad it was and i would just use WAZE. The issue was that if my Android phone was plugged in charging then Google Maps wanted to be the boss. I would have WAZE doing its thing, taking me someplace and then the CAR would be running some crap route over the top of it. The car would be showing the wrong location and the wrong route and that meant unplugging the phone and just going with WAZE. Usually if anyone was in the car i would just have them get direction up on their iPhone. The MINI has a wireless charger in the armrest, but only the iPhone 8 or X fit in there. I use Sony Xperia phones and like them as on my 3rd one & am not getting an iPhone. PS No idea with ABRP just trying it a few times. Maybe works for those familiar with it, or that bother getting the hang of it, but that is not me.

New Model year coming. MY25. They need to get low emission cars First Registered to ensure Fleet Average in the UK Fleet for manufacturers is met so that they can get on flogging and First Registering the higher emission vehicle and other such stuff. Lots of reasons that 'good prices' or Much Cheapness' comes about with Sales, Leases or just cars going out to lots of places at various times of the year. If they have them built or being built then they do need a customer even if the customer is the Manufacturer / Importer first registering them and getting them leased.

Lots of places vacuum / suck out the oil. it is a H&S and efficiency thing. Then replace the sump plug and then fill the oil. If they vacuum / suck the oil and do not change the sump plug but charge you for a sump plug then that is Fraud, taking money by false pretences, and taking VAT for a part not supplied. But then that has been happening for many a year with Fixed Price Servicing & Maintenance and the parts not on the car but on the bill. Sucking out the oil is just fine, and if you want to be sure about that on your Euro 6 TSI running long life oil and getting fixed or variable oil changes then remove the sump plug and check for bits, gunge and how much or actual little oil drains out.

The stuff that they seem to think is important to be able to see on the screen and the Blackest BLACK is all good and well as long as they have the important stuff right for the driver when driving and the stuff you touch has no sharp edges from poor manufacturing of the plastic parts. (Current MINI indicator stalk is terrible for the moulding ridge, &which might be the most touched part in a car other than the steering wheel, the seat and the accelerator pedal. Maybe the first journalists can check the cars out closely and let MINI / BMW know if there is poor quality of components that the Engineers, Road Testers and management should pick up on before putting the cars into production. Reveal is 1st September. http://carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/first-official-pictures/mini/cooper-electric

The MINI sat nav is truly crap. Just trying it to take me to places near home or place I go all the time even just asking it to take me a mile to Tesco or the Library or the hospital it can direct in totally the wrong direction. As for finding EV chargers absolutely no use asking in the car or on the phone app which is all about Partners and MINI compatible. The Sat Nav does seem to think I am speaking in German and is offering me lots of option in Germany. I had a pal I used to go drinking with and when the night went on there were often girls would ask me where he was from because they thought he was a foreign sailor off a ship that was in Dundee.

@herbywan i think that others might know which Kodiaq / engine you have if you tell them.

This is the Elephant in the room. Fancy cars now, on lease / service plans and very little done @ 2 years or even 3, and lets see just how much Servicing or inspections do need doing. This is why Kate & James and their company are up into Scotland doing Mobile Servicing & Maintenance, because Main Dealer Servicing if you can get the car in for them to cast an eye over for lots of money is not getting Maintenance or simple easy jobs done in many cases. ** The CPS charger he was at in ASDA in Aberdeen has nothing to do with ASDA, it is Aberdeen City Councils, totally hopeless and they are charging me £1 twice for it failing to start and me getting no charge. No way Jose are they getting that £2. That charger has messed up other cars and shows currently as available and i can guarantee the CCS or AC will not work.**

Red or Orange shows before getting to GREEN when it has finished checking. I caught a moment in time as it was running up the scale! You do not need to know how to use one if you are not going to use one. Different chargers do and show different things. E-Volt ones or common type used at Charge Place Scotland hubs are shown on quite a few vids made by users. Lots of people do not know how to just check the charger type in my picture for the users on the 3 different plug types. I regularly show others how to check if another car plugged in might be near completing charged. I regularly at a hub while someone charges go and check how they are doing and if sitting trying to get to 100% and getting almost no kWh might catch their attention and ask if any chance they can move to the AC charger. Or wise up and not be greedy as others want on the charger. ie Me. or someone else then me. The 43 kW AC on the side is also good if you want more than 7 kW, so 11, 22 or 43kW if you can use that. But if at a place with 11 kW posts maybe bog off to them and do not plug into the 43 kW AC for hours. The guy in the first vid has maybe learned a bit more since. Do not trust ZapMap to show the correct tariff for any Council / Chargers as many are months out of date. The Sticker is often all you have and some get taken off, or the charger waited months to have them applied. The chargers seldom show on the screen the tariff, and the signs on the pavement can be wrong. *Spot what a PITA getting to the charger can be because of posts on pavements, getting the charger to the car, having to step over cables to tap the screen. Not disability friendly. Reason APPS might not work as the same as chargers and no remote start. Mobile phone / SIM reception and that need not be in the wilds. eg. Edinburgh Park & Ride is sh!te as well. SWRACO operating CPS is crap and also selling and maintaining chargers, but then BP Pulse are even worse.

Servicing a Tesla & doing an oil change. 3 years ago.

It shows charged. 0 kW means taking in no power. 32.5 kWh is how much it got of a charge since they plugged in until it gave no more of a charge. The battery is likely at 100%, but we can not see that when charging stopped, but if it had been still charging and say at 98% we could have seen that. Well when i was first there it was done charging, then before i left i took another picture. You can check chargers even if you are not using that plug. The difference other than the time is that the Charger was doing it,s thing and shows green because still just started running to check.

I am trying to say that there are many things to worry about with vehicles and components. With VW Group other than DPF,s , DQ200 DSG,s, & SCR, it might well be those with Haldex being sure the service and maintenance gets done properly, and look out for the non water proof controllers. The VW Group took in house the Software, that was a disaster. As is much of there procurement of components of many kinds. As to them having their own battery factories, that is something to think about. With electronics it is good that they trust much of that to be done in Hungary where there is cheap labour but well qualified.

@Graham Butcherthose that have run fleets of EV,s for over a decade now with many millions of miles in UK weather will be the ones that might know if there is much to worry about. I know one such place and the issue are the non EV, VW Group TDI,s cars and Mini busses with 'Engine warning lights' being the real problem. I was on a shuttle bus at the golf the other day as one driver stopped next to another one and asking do we just ignore this? A friends Taxi firm's EV,s did 1 million miles pure EV taxi miles in less than 1 year with 30 Nissan Leafs. This was way back 8 years ago. http://evfleetworld.co.uk/nissan-ev-taxi-fleet-clocks-up-three-million-miles-in-uk PS I wonder how many have had EV,s catching fire without it being arson or organised crime wars. (referring to Glasgow there maybe with burned out Taxis..)

It took us a good few years living to get old and lots of miles under our wheels and maybe many vehicles. Maybe lots of keepers and repeat purchases and maybe others punted quick. I like physical buttons and even those can be complicated. Basically for me it is KISS now and comfort and reliability while available and that will still be the rest of my driving years even if I go back to a 30 year old ICE. I have a 17 year old one without a high mileage. This one is for @lol-lol This Taxi driver does this all the time. 2 7 kW posts available but late night to lazy or stupid or does not carry a cable so plugs into the 43 kW AC depriving anyone that comes into town of the only 2 available, 1 here and another 1/2 a mile away that also gets hogged. Fully charged and still blocking the bay hours later. At least the charger un-plugs if you can then get near to use it.

@Graham Butcher I am sitting charging free. I put my washing in the Outdoor self service launderette for £5.50 and today it said 76 minutes. 38 mins last time. I moved 10 feet and washed the car and that was £3 for 6 minutes, then moved to charge and the car has charged quicker than the washing had taken and going to get it. Money saved charging paid for clean clothes and car and my phone and chrome book are both charged up. Lovely day for this. I will one day live in a electric camper van and live this way while my health is good. You just need to Sus out electric and water points and waste disposal. I did it a few years back in a MWB, Medium Height Transit Diesel durashift that looked like a works van and got parked where ever with a Blue Badge and I was never moved on. Used all sorts of car parks and facilities and lived for Much Cheapness.

The master tech can support the claim on the wheel bearing done under warranty or not. As it is if the wheel bearing needs doing it needs doing. ? Was that same side as broken spring? If so then from that pothole hit or speed humps or what ever maybe not a warranty item. Has the wheel and tyre been well inspected? If trusting to then likely not.

They blow no myths out the water. Far too many have not even the smallest of clues. Not straightforward to understand IMO, or to get people to understand. The worst are 'salespeople'.

@Graham ButcherThe Gridserve was not there for him, but he is haming it up. I am watching and am as stupid as others are and many will be just to pick up on the pretend stupidity of it all. He has a big following & it will be many sadists among them / us. Dont turn off the AC if needed, but if you think you have to 'eek out range' at least see if it makes a difference, but then if you want the radio dont put that off. If time is short, forget filming in the car saying how long it takes, get charging and then talk. But the videos pays for the charging.

@Graham Butcher Many are out of order and the choice is few and far between in much of Scotland with less chargers than the 8 million population of London gets. But that does not mean the same as saying it is a desert for chargers in Yorkshire because you move away from the M1. I had an issue years back. Using a LPG vehicle going down south to the desert that was / is England. and that had no petrol tank and a limited range for a while before getting a very big tank fitted. I planned ahead. Odd, one learns, or do they forget? Choosing the Spiral Weave in Dunfermline was fine, and if you want to pay the price of the Osprey Charger that is another choice rather than the good few other CPS chargers he could have gone to.