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@skomaz Nice wheels are pretty in good weather and good roads even sometimes with low profile tyres, but having fun on great driving roads any season can have wheels and tyres looking pretty crap. I gave my young lads wheels a bit of a tidy up before giving the car back yesterday, i had worried about nothing because it turns out he had kerbed them before dropping the car off so i was only responsible for the one that i really did kerb hard.

They look much better when kerbed and then touched up and i was a car sprayer than doing 'kerb side auto's' touching up on anything else.. Black is really perfect. Gloss or satin, and i have been running exactly that for a few decades on road cars and offroad cars. Anything i have ever had that comes with Diamond Cut alloys gets sprayed black as soon as there is any damage. Sometimes metallic grey.

So much electricity is being generated in Scotland and used or not used so not generated that it is being used at distilleries or will be at ports to power ships while in port. Other uses as well, but it is a location location location thing. Once the National Grid gets it,s act together and the UK governments then there might be less waste from the potential of renewables around the UK and in Scotland.

I will just leave this thread open just incase some person ends up buying the Corsa & wants to ask about it. I hope they get it very cheap. Corsa reset to factory settings and phones deleted etc. Epic trying to delete MyVauxhall from phone, been trying for 2 days. ........................ One more sleep till i collect the MINI. Having had a few demonstrators out i have new tyres ordered while available & the price is right. Ready to go on when required. 205/45 R 17 XL 88W Scorchio this Friday and possibly lots of rain to come, and there has been cold nights already. http://vredestein.co.uk/car-suv-tyres/products/1961-QUATRAC-PRO-EV This is quite a good vid on how they are real world. Sums them up pretty well. I am not fitting full winters unless this winter turns out to be a cracker, then they will be on 16" wheels.

OK if you want to spend £20 more than you need to to buy 4 or even 5 litres of oil to VW504 00 / 507 00. VW UK / Skoda used to recommend Castrol or Quantum & main dealers often just used that. Now the Quantum comes from Fuchs. No need to throw money away unnecessarily IMO. The only thing special about Castrol is how much they spend on advertising. IMO.

In P the drive wheels are locked anyway. Turn off the car or open the drivers door and the e-brake applies. It is not a Hand Brake, the Parking Brake is an e-Brake. (Also an emergency brake, but really you do not want to finger it on by mistake, or have a passenger do it. Well unless you are dead anyway at the wheel or fall asleep.) 'Autohold' is not Hill hold'. Little things matter.

Only inspecting or adjusting visible drive belts were part of a service as far as Minor / Interim & Major service or now Inspection / extended scope services. The Body Inspection that there are supposed to be carried out is because if a claim goes in because of corrosion it is what Skoda UK often says there is no record of having been done. Since there is a Main Dealer Service history there is a history of who and where are not doing them. That body inspection that used to be shown on the Service Book on a page after Major Services, each 2 years was to check for damage or repairs poorly done or corrosion on the painted body work, that was underneath and the sills and above the sills. There were Skoda / VW Technicians that posted years ago that the Inspection of the body was not on the work sheets and not being done. It used to be done and the places of concern were on a printed page with a car on it. It was done on palm tops over a decade back and now is pretty much a thing of the past. Some dealerships used to ask around £100 to do a Body Inspection of a car that did not get Main Dealership Servicing. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/512255-warranty-claim-for-corrosion-rejected-by-skoda http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/478681-corrosion-warranty-periodic-checks http://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/jul/13/why-didnt-skoda-make-its-fabia-warranty-terms-clear

@J.R.there really are hysterical tyres on my new car. More suited to a Scalextric car or using on a Karting track. They will stay on for maybe a month or two just to see how good they are to hypermile the car but they will be replaced pretty quick as the frosts appear or maybe even rain like we have just had today.

That might be true of some tyre fitters or at least one regarding Bridgestones but really is a nonsense. As to Michelin Primacy like Primacy 4 or Primacy EV marked tyres as fitted to Hybrids, PHEV and BEV,a. They can be ditch finders, ECO tyres as in giving good range because if pathetic traction , grip so friction. They keep a tread for a long time but really get harder and less safe with the passage of time. I did drive a hybrid car recently with the latest Primacy tyres and it was wet and they were ok without a TC / ASR light flashing all the time.

Last night I was amazed at how many Polestars there were at Edinburgh Airport. More than a dozen plugged into the AC charger posts and charging or not. Another dozen or so parked near a corner. These were some 72 plate but mostly 23. Then as I went around to the terminal pickup there were a few about driving and then a line or 2 parked up in the car hire places. Maybe to do with the UCI events and cars for their use, or just to do with the Edinburgh festival but there are plenty new cars registered and that will be used cars on the market in the not distant future.

@lol-lolthe thing is look at the price now of PodPoint, Instavolt, BP Pulse, Shell Recharge, Osprey and all the rest even for 7,11 or 22 kW AC and 50 kW DC. 44 pence or more for AC charging is just far too much. It is just a crazy cost for many of the chargers. 2 kWh might take you 8 miles or more for 158 pence. 1 litre of petrol might take you 10 miles or more for 145 pence.

@cheezemonkhaibest not take it that an EV leaves home on cheap 10 pence a kWh having filled the battery. Because those without home charging have no home charging. A 40 kW battery car might have just 120 miles -140 worth of miles until the public charging is needed. Those that have charged free will be doing OK, or cheap, but that really is not the majority that many try to make out that EV drivers are. Home charging. Work place charging, different again. Lets not assume that the majority of employees or private individuals are driving big battery vehicles with fast charging capabilities because they really are not if you just look out at what EV,s there are being driven on the roads around the country, and sitting charging at charging hubs.

No idea yet if it is just my local PodPoint @ Tesco but the 7 kW chargers are no longer charging for 15 minutes before cutting out if you do not claim them and start paying the 44 pence a kWh. They cut out before 10 minutes has passed. I can not find anything about Tesco (PodPoint) having made any changes or doing a trial of changes.

@GazIt might benefit from a reset of the DQ200. How many miles on the car? It maybe is just slipping. So try it held on the Hand / Parking brake rather than the brake pedal and see if as you release the hand brake is the delay the same as the brake pedal to accelerator delay. ? How is it when you go to S and the RPM is up and then you move off in the slug of a car? (Skoda 'rally heritage and motorsport success' and they turn out cars with more show than go and 110 ps max.) There was the issue and still can be with the early ones that never got the software or clutch update. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/439395-the-story-of-the-famous-dq200-clutch-slip

No idea. http://briskoda.net/forums.topic/489021-where-is-the-heated-screen-controller EDIT. sorry. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/489021-where-is-the-heated-screen-controller

The fossil fuels will always be taken from out of the ground on land or under the sea. Maybe mixed with liquid that comes from growing plants. Those will be refined at cracking plants using oil or gas to produce generate electricity to produce the petrol or diesel or other energy sources. The Synthetic fuels & also the likes the hydrogen will also require electricity to manufacture. The electricity might well come from renewable sources like solar, wind, hydro & wave but it still all requires electricity and the liquid fuels always need transportation over or under land or sea. It is not just about emissions from burning fuels it is all that is involved in producing and transporting. Seemingly Carbon Capture is the answer to all that. Also carbon trading and all the other kidology that seemingly means that fossil fuels or synthetic fuels can be clean. The issue with electricity is the lack of storage in the UK and the lack of using what can be generated so not generating all that could be and using it to produce hydrogen. It is the same with natural gas in the UK, a lack of storage facilities once it is taken out of where it has been for millions or billions of years.

Good that all is well.

Back with the 'Scalextic car' stuff. Changed name but the same old same old from the member

Welcome. You have the car and done it so is there any improvement or an adverse affect? There are not likely to be many others that have done what you have. Were did you get the remap from that you have applied?

I have flagged it for a mod to move it. 3 dots up on the right have Report, edit etc. Hopefully all is well with the car and it suits your need.

A pretty basic car then trim and power wise and maybe a good buy. Some of the members with one of these or that have had them can comment. Go on condition, are the tyres matching and with a good enough tread, spare wheel there and tools. (Spare wheels might not have been standard with them.) Maybe a mod moving your post to the Mk2 Fabia section would be an idea. MOT checker. Using reg number. http://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history