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@EdHilton I just read your previous posts on fuel consumption from 2 years ago and the more recent. That was the early clue to the plugs or a dirty air filter. Is the airfilter fresh now?

@EdHilton Maybe the Bosch Plugs were snide or were they from a trusted supplier? E5 is lovely, but Tesco Momentum 99 is a Super market fuel as is Sainsbury 97 (min) super Unleaded. Good stuff from a supermarket and the E10 95 ron is hardly 'Own Brand' crap it comes in with the base fuel from Royal Dutch Shell that have importation and storage with Greenergy as partners. Then not all E5,s are the dame around the UK, and not all E10,s have up to 10% bio. Some ESSO E5 or E10 in the UK is from Greenergy that is part owned by Tesco & supplies others including independents. ? So where are you in the UK and where were you buying the E10 from?

Haymarket publishing group, so Autocar / What car/ Piston Heads which is Michael Heseltine,s company or Heycar that is VW / Daimlers will know which of every manufacturers cars or vans are killing and maiming people in the UK. So will the Office of National Statistucs, the SMMT, the RAC / AA and Derren Brown so I imagine all the scores on the doors are easily found. Also the insurers / underwriters know. Bloody Motability putting wheel chair bound and able bodied people in all these vehicles they offer for much cheapness are conspiring to set or get nations on fire not just to keep them mobile. Must be why we have a new insurer for Motability card from September. No warning on the vehicles that the risks are greater in an EV. Or how much greater the risk of death is travelling in one. Time that Grant Shapp MP was out on the rounds telling us not to panic and trust him because he has a Tesla and puts all his family and loved ones in EV,s. More EV hearses are needed on UK roads. Keep death local.

Some engines / dipsticks are a litre top to bottom. Not the smaller engines with less oil capacity like 2.8 - 3.6 litres. But then those with a 2.0 TDI are in a perfect position to check when they have low oil. If the oils to the specification VW 504 00 / VW 507 00 then it is long life oil. And correct for your engine. Since you do not know what is in and the oil is low I would do an oil service. Read the threads on the TDI,s with high oil use. Fingers crossed your engine is fine but give it a chance. Change the oil.

@Graham ButcherWhat are they not reporting, UK car crashes and accidents and none accidents and burning to death in an EV, or people topping themselves in a vehicle? On the car parking! There are mainstream media / publishers running anti-EV campaigns so there are going to be plenty articles to find where landlords / factors / local authorities are banning BEV,s or Hybrids or dual fuel vehicles, or camper vans with Gas Bottles from their premises. Or ferries or tunnel operators banning / restricting them travelling on or through. It is a brave new world dawning. Space trips to the moon and beyond happening and peoples daily drives are 'death traps' and fire hazards that need parked in open spaces away from anyone and everything else.

We do not know how much used because no idea if low from the last service or check, if so then the oil works harder and can very well degrade or drop low quicker. You are going to be able to tell us how much is needed to get the correct level. More than i liter i expect. ?? Was it showing full with a cold engine and cold oil? Or as it should be checked after that first checks, to confirm where it should be at normal operating temperature. The warning would be back in about 60 miles. (100 Km) after opening the bonnet. The Mobile is certainly no down grade from the Castrol. Do you know it was Castrol it got at the last Oil & Filter change? Is it showing nothing on the dipstick cold? You are going to see how low it is once you get oil in and up the Area A on the dipstick. Then when checked and topped up when 'At normal operating temperature' and in Area A. So hot and above 80 *oC indicated. up to 90 *oC for the Normal Operating temperature. Your car needs Long Life Oil. EVEN IF ON A FIXED OIL SERVICE REGIME. VW504 00 / 507 00 for your car. 5w 30 FS III. (Long Life.) VW507 00 TDI's. Not the VW508 00 / 509 00 for newer engines. 0w 20 FS IV. VW509 00 TDI's.

@Graham ButcherThe theory and the practice of EV,s are different. Not charging to 100% is all good and well, many EV,s in the UK are for work, they are charged to 100% because you need to get the miles in, work, charge maybe, work, get home, maybe charge while on work time for the next working day. Many have an EV, hate the EV and are not giving a damn about it, it is a work tool. Like there power tools, charge to 100% and use and recharge. Our resident Enyaq driver and member has a Short on Youtube yesterday on not leaving charged at 100%. I charged to 100% almost all the time for the past 3 years as i was doing over 120 miles most trips away and wanted to sometimes get 100 miles before charging. Small battery. I will be charging to 100% every time nearly for the next 3 years and maybe just leave if parked for a while at 95%. Very small battery. Real small and efficient EV cars are needed and that is all many need and yet Skoda stopped bringing in to the UK their Citigo iV. These size of cars are what should be still getting the tax breaks for many companies and businesses who's employees are in towns and cities and not reping up and down the motorways IMO. .................... The thing is that the 32 local authorities in Scotland can do their own thing and set the tariffs and the terms / time limits / penalties and some have set none. Like parts of Ayrshire which is North, South, East & West. 4 different local authorities. 60 million of funding 2010 - 2022, and another 60 million being pledged in the next few years in Scotland and it is pretty much a pith take and carry on for tourists, locals, and business,s the lottery of where you are in Scotland. @cheezemonkhai Plenty know there is a £1 a minute charge. At the likes of Stirling Castle View park and ride i sometimes say to a driver. They could not care less, they need the Big Car they run charged, the Porsche Taycan or whatever and they are not going to the Commercial Chargers near or they are occupied so park, charge, pay the cost or their company or employer does and tough because they gave them a EV. There are not just self employed with a nice company car doing it, there are those who are employees but they have places to be and are not going to charger hop. ................... Lots of my charging is not on my Charge Place Scotland account as the Card does not work on some like when a BP Pulse Charger / Edinburgh so i pay with a Debit Card, not a Credit where £15 or more a time is taken pre payment for a £7 charge. Or the App does not work, no phone reception, but then the charger might not work, or starts and cuts out and you are paying £1 or £1.50 several times and have to dispute that. Also where 30 mins Max as was or 40 Mins Max Stirling and no return for 90 minutes if the charger is not in demand i use more than 1 card & restart charging.

What is not acceptable and is quite common now in Scotland is where the Public chargers are a max 50 kW and these Big Battery vehicles with very fast charging capability are parked for several hours and left to charge to 100% and to even cut out and are locked in and left there. Even where the tariff is 35 pence or 55 pence a kWh with a 40 minute time limit and £1 a minute after that to a max charge of £60. (Park & Rides Edinburgh City, 55 pence a kWh, 60 mins max charge, then a fine but drivers still park, charge, set for 60 minutes and leave the car for hours, no policing of the chargers, no clamping, no penalty / fine.) There are people happy to pay that extra charge time of £1 a minute and stuff the others that just want 30 or maybe 40 minutes on that charger. PS New issue. Certain drivers of certain EV,s that you can use to power stuff like the caravan. Going to EV chargers that are free or cheap and charging the car to use to power the caravan. There are South Ayrshire and elsewhere have caravan sites / holiday parks with a 7 kW AC charger or 3 for customers but the tariffs are crazy at some. I have met people that are staying on these sites in residential vans but coming to the free chargers and might or might get on them, maybe not the rapids because there are ones out of order. Yesterday i was speaking to someone that charged at the site they were staying at because they had not got a charge at the council chargers and they paid £30 to get around 150 miles of range, 70 pence a kWh for 40 kWh to be sure they had enough for their day away and maybe not getting a charge. There are those that just want to charge there car and have not been able to get on a rapid of fast charger because they are blocked by EV,s charging to full. Some by cars i know the people live close by and are just there to fill up free. The visitors are surprised to find that if they get a charge it is free gratis. Then they know why they have not got on chargers. The greed and ignorance of others.

Are there many deaths in electric car fires in the UK? Accidents or cars just combusting. One positive must be that there are not people using a pipe from the tail pipe into the vehicle to commit sewageside (the dirty way out). OT, there was a place I worked where sadly a member of staff took the vacuum hose away and killed themself in their vehicle. It was weeks before we got a new vacuum cleaner delivered.

Wigtown, Newton Stewart, Stranraer are pretty good for charging. Wigtown has a car park for EV,s with a rapid and fast chargers and is EV,s only. The cost of charging is getting quite high though. I met a few people with cars charging or looking for chargers. The common thing seems not them being in the area for Wigtown being Book Town or the 'South West coastal 300' but the Military Aviation Heritage Trail. August Tariff changes. Dundee time limits.

@Lamont1980 is your car FWD or is it a quattro so has a propshaft (propshaft coupling). Haldex, so more possible issues than just a DQ250 DSG / S-tronic. There are a few techs on the forum that will see your post hopefully eg @Crasher @ApertureS

Clear in the OP that they bought a vRS petrol.

Professional or even non professional cleaning of seat covers does not mean they have to go in a washing machine, but you might still remove them to do the cleaning.

The Electric Powered Vehicle fire figures are available by region for 2022. The thing is there are the figures from some for electric cars and vans. But vehicles in the numbers are electric powered vehicles which includes, scooters, bikes, wheel chairs, mobility scooters, fork lifts etc Then there is where it is a building like a garage or shed that is actually gone on fire and a 'Electric vehicle' has been in that fire and not necessarily the cause of the fire. The numbers of EV,s, BEV,s, PHEV,s might well be getting collated now and where they are going on fire because of issues with the vehicles or are in accidents, or being set on fire.

The water pump lasted 9 years. Winner.

Someone might explain why the battery does not go to full charge as in 100%. It goes to 100% of what you can trickle charge, but space / a % is left because the car regens a bit when driving.

Not time to change the cam belt. Skoda / VW UK have dropped the advice they appear to have never given their reason for giving for decades, well it was 4 years then changed to 5. Time to find out if it has been changed by someone without the gear and not much of an idea.

Lots and lots of Fleet / Lease / Hire / Motability and Ex Management (Dealers ) EV,s starting to flood the used market which is why there are reports of the top 10 depreciating cars being EV,s. Buyers market then. Are there restrictions other than height (so weight) that stop Defender / Range Rover / X90 / X5 / Rolls Royce / Bentley ect using car parks? Are Vauxhall Zafira restricted from Car Parks due to the fire risk, or LPG / Dual Fuel vehicles, or even Skoda Superb due to reported fires?

Is that the oil dipped cold with engine not started, or as the oil should then be checked. At normal operating temperature. So up above an indicated 80*oC and car stopped and on the flat and after a few minutes? Are there any invoices showing the oil used. That should have been to VW 508 00 / 509 00. 0w 20 FS IV. They might have used VW 504 00 / 507 00, 5w 30 or 0w 30 FS III.

I would want to find out if the cam belt had been done at 5 years and done wrongly. This might be the issue arising because of some of those that have been doing 1.5 TSI ACT,s and that really should not of and not just because they were doing them £300 or less the main dealer prices. There are main dealers that have got 1.0 TSI,s and 1?5 TSI ACT,s running crap.

It is a belt on a 1.5tsi ACT which until just 6 weeks ago Skoda UK Skoda dealers were saying was due replacement at 5 years. Was the car possibly on lease from Motability? Was the first MOT done 2-1 month before the car was 3 years old? That can be a clue.

I am getting over 5.5 miles a kWh today. Average speed camera roads, coast and inland routes South West Scotland. 18-19*c weather and in Sport with low gen and AC on and 2 of us. 150 miles plus possible as is and maybe no more even less if I was to be driving slower than I can now legally. So all good in this weather and these roads. I very much doubt i will ever get 170 miles out of the MINI unless maybe on 16" wheels with 195 tyres pumped up really too high. Not going to be trying to but i do know a circular route from home to home that i have driven and ridden for over 30 years that can in the right conditions give as good a range / efficiency as is possible with an ICE or an EV. It is exactly 120 miles and i will give that a go next week probably. (There is an extra 20 miles route that i sometimes do and that will be after seeing if the 120 route can be done and not needing to head to a charger which there would be 3 places after 80 miles but none are reliable to rapid charge but a 7 kW AC would do.) It is not a slow drive or boring and it is very hilly and it is done in an anticlockwise direction if to see economy, going clockwise is nothing like as economic / efficient. I will use AC or heating as needed, or open the windows or sunroof and no way drive any slower than i drive in anything i do drive. I might put the tyres up a couple more psi while the weather is good but at 36 PSI they feel fine even in the wet. I do want to know how the range is with the car on the tyres it has and in temps in the teens & when the roads and weather is a bit colder but they are getting changed as soon as any frosts, ice or snow. ............

@kodiaqsportline as I have told you in the past I have worked at Dealerships, worked on Skoda,s and owned and run Skoda,s and the sister brands. So you be snide if you want but I will tell anyone about any car i or family have or had or about my car and work history, unlike you as a mystery as to what you do or what line of work. As to searching the internet the links are threads and posts I was part of and I know exactly where and when I posted the stuff. I do not need to support anything, they are there to cut to the chase and not have to always go back to all the stuff already known while there are those posting stuff they heard from someone that read it or heard it someplace but can not say who or where or why they got it so back to front .

The UK has 4 countries. I can not comment on 3 of them from experience of EV charging. I do not home charge. It is strange that those who never home or public charge are so knowledgeable on the subject from 2nd hand information often from those that have never used an EV as a daily or even an occasional means of transport.