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@Nab93 You posted that fuel use was high.

@Nab93 Any issue is related to your TDI,s very excessive oil use. The diagnosis needs done by a qualified and competent technician or mechanic. You were speaking about the oil pump yesterday. Something is very wrong with your engine. It runs on Heavy Oil / Derv and Engine oil it seems.

? What oil do Police / Emergency Service VW Group / Skoda vehicles get used at services since 2018. Petrol ones. vRS Octavia? Do the Techs / Fitters or Mechanics follow VW Guidelines / Recommendations / Advice / Spec and use VW508 00 / 509 or do they use VW504 00 / 507 and invalidate the Manufacturers Warranty if there is one and the oil has not the green marker? PS @OccyVRS I would not use the crappy 0w 20 FS IV on a car i owned and a is a keeper. (Leased / Rented cars i could not care less) But i make my own decisions on things like tuning , servicing, invalidating a warranty etc, i do not ask people that i do not know or care really what others do. 2020 the longevity of the TSI,s & VW508 00 oil used was still to be found out. 7-8 years now have passed since VW Group / Skoda went to using that to get WLTP & RDE results. The engines are not going pop. BMW,s were the engines that have really had issues over the years with Oil & EGR,s with Diesels.

What a lot of a song and dance over oil for Road Cars in the UK not doing Track days or RWYB 1/4 miles. Not highly tuned just maybe a stage 1 map. Its just a 'puppet' or just a car that might occasionally get booted to do more than half the speed it can for a short periods of time in a UK Climate.

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The VAQ diff service changed from 3 years to 2 years with the Mk4 Octavia. There is the Skoda attempt at showing service regimes for Fixed Servicing, but that is not accurate, timing belt, DSG,s and the crazy Air Filter. Brake fluid still at 3 years and not the 2 years for the first and each as some Dealerships are saying. Bottom pricing as it was till 2019, minor / interim and major on cars 3-10 years Fixed Pricing, That Major should have been the 2nd one at 4 years, but many were ripped off paying at the first 2 years for parts not replaced.

Looks wrong to me as well. Having added Liquid Sealant / Rad Weld type colour. Or mixed / topped up with the wrong coolant / anti freeze / rust inhibitor.

I can only see solid White or Energy Blue on the Skoda UK configurator, no metallics. Is it awaiting an update, or are there new MY26 colours coming out?

DQ200,s fitted to 132-136 1.4 TSI / TFSI,s and quite nippy, crap handling. Polo, A1, Ibiza, Fabia, Beetle. & then the 1.8 TSI 192 ps Polo GTI with 250 Nm only while the manual was 320 Nm. funnily the S-A was quicker. As to Octavia vRS, 230 / 245, They really are what that are, taxi sized family car with so so handling and traction. The newer, bigger, heavier over 250 Nm vehicles with a DQ381 are almost always coming with S/S, e-Brake & Autohold, not a Manual Parking Brake & maybe Hill Hold Assist.. Apples and pears, oranges and lemons, Launch Control or not, and less need or want to be putting into N maybe for the Joes & Janes just getting in and driving, and not driving gods. On UK NSL,s.

@OccyVRS Have you tried starting every vehicle you have been in in N? Do you you drive many different ones? Try again next time to start them in N if left in N. They do start in N. You could leave them in N and be servicing, pushing them back or fore & start in N. If newer ones can not do that then that is a PITA. A Small point. The thread is in the Scala Section and really any 6 or 7 speed wet clutch DSG,s having nothing to do with the Scala, the Kamiq or Fabia. So as far as enthusiasts does that mean unless it is a DQ381 DSG in the car they are just to be sidelined? The OP,s car will have a DQ200 DSG.

Your engine does sound gubbed. If it is a Taxi so a working tool the Oil is an Overhead is it not. With the way you use it then you might as well bulk buy cheap VW 507 00 spec oil IMO. Or get another vehicle. What is the fuel consumption like, and the emissions? Other than oil is it cheap to run?

We are not forbidden from anything in this Free World, we are not in the USA are we. VW Group can say what they want, some need to put on Big Boy / Girl pants and decide what they do with their property... So back in 2010 Toyota went to 0w 30 FS III because the new Euro 5 cars were not getting their published economy with the 5w 30 FS III that they had when launched. Car drivers driving real roads not on a Rolling Road in a temperature controlled building, they were in many vehicles not even getting near the expected efficiency ignoring the kidology figures. I always recommend 5w 40 FS non long life with Twincharger 1.4 TSI,s because of experience of them running at a lower temp and reducing oil use with excessive oil users. & less detergents as already bore wash is an issue and the prescribed Super Unleaded already has enough detergent. But, if the Recommended Oil does actually reduce fuel consumption real world then the added oil costs might not matter. As to real world, there are many regions and climates and conditions cars / engines are used in. As to that UK conditions, nothing extreme really right from the furthest North to the furthest south.

@indars Do you guarantee less oil consumption. Is that your experience of using 0w 20 FS IV and then 0w 30 or 5 w 30 FSIII ? What about those that have no oil consumption between services, maybe Fixed Servicing?

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@Nab93 Is this the 2.0 TDI? Did you see 5 litres of oil going in or is that just what you were asked to pay for? IF YOU OPEN THE BONNET AND DO NOTHING THE LOW OIL WARNING LIGHT /MESSAGE CAN GO OUT FOR 100 MILES. What do you mean about a fair few times before the oil came up on the dip stick. Is it where it should be high up the stick when dipped cold. & checked correctly at Normal Operating Temp (Hot) an indicated 90*oC up in Area A on the Dip Stick?

Good stuff. ^^^ Relevant. But the OP has not got a Wet Clutch DSG, so does much the same. One oil in the Wet Clutch DSG,s, 2 in the DQ200,s. & different heat dispersal.

I will just pop this here so that anyone coming north from Perth might see it. Chargers up at Broxden Park & Ride. Tesla & Perth Council, and maybe Ultra Rapids elsewhere. Single charger at Scone Park & ride not on. Anyway, i never go Forfar / A90 to Perth , Edinburgh or Glasgow via Dundee. I go the way he is, but through Scone & Perth. The route Forfar to Scone now has 20 mph speed limits in the villages and towns to maybe stop HGV,s using it as a quick route. A94, not fast flowing really seeing as you need to not exceed 60 mph because of CAMERA VANS & the good places to pass, and now 5 x 20 mph limits. Anyway, the new BYPASS road he takes just before you get into Scone & then Perth that he uses to get up to the Broxden Roundabout and off to Glasgow is slower than the normal way at busy times, busy times in Perth & busy times with the A9 into Perth from Inverness. I would not try Hypermiling it or risking running low on electric with the high chance of accidents / road closures / diversion. Nipping into Broxden TESLA Super Charger for a bit of a top up just makes sense, rather than say Stirling Park & Ride and only 50 kW charging, or the expensive OSPREY chargers are the Marston's pub. If you are going to the A9 to go north then it is the Perth Bypass, but as he is here he is heading to the Perth Motor Mile to go up to Broxden Roundabout. Car Dealerships & TISO,s there off the Circle, but really a crazy way to go in a car at anything other than middle of the night... 23 miles of dual carriageway Perth to past Dunblane average speed cameras, surely set the CC and get a move on to Keir Roundabout and then the Motorway. Sit back behind a coach if you want efficiency because they are doing 70mph, at least. "WHY DID IT DO THAT, WHY? i was part through a lane change!" Was it because it wanted 2 hands on the steering wheel and drive with care and attention, that was still not the lane he needed, it was 1 more to his right. Go right across to the right and when you get to Kingston Bridge you are ahead of where he is by 1/2 a mile, and do not take the left to the M77, stay on the insided on your right, then take the slip left onto the M77 and its outside lane. Pay attention and do it often enough and you get to know you only change lanes at the start as you join and then as you come off. If you go the speed everyone else is trying to do.

Personally i would give long life oil, so VW504 00 / 507 00, 5w 30 FS III a miss and stick to VW 502 00, 5w 40 FS and fixed oil and filter changes. Not as a money saver, just because. As it is they were QG2 engine code up to 2011.

It is a Twin Dry Clutch DQ200 DSG and foot on the brake pedal and no issue wearing out clutches. But UK Highway code, if stopped don't dazzle if sat awhile and brake lights on. Manual / Parking Hand Brake, not a e-Brake and no Autohold. (Brake lights on with ones that have. So N and Hand / Parking brake on is Simply Clever. With no e-Brake / or Autohold, with Stop / Start active i apply the Parking Brake.

I would change the Oil & Filter just incase sh!te oil was used. Or not actually changed. If it was VW502 00 so 5w 40 FS oil it is not long life so Servicing is Fixed regime, 9,400 miles / 372 days. Check the Oil filler cap is a tight fit.

This was mine years back. 15 Years old, one of the first 50 into the UK. I will be watching to see if MOT'd this year. It has had lots of failures over it's life.

Only 44 kW 1.2,s are Cold Check, 2.8 litre oil capacity. all others are @ normal operating temp, so an indicated 90 *oC or so. It was / is the Skoda Owners manual that had Warm, while VW / Audi / SEAT had Hot or Normal Operatingtemp. 90*oC is more than warm, do not dip fingers in oil at that temp. Skoda UK said in 2012 that was lost in translation.

@krazylegz1 Saying it was a 1.5 TSI Edition might have someone able to tell you what it is. Is it a FWD or a AWD ? An AWD will be a DQ381 7 speed wet clutch DSG. I do not know if they used DQ200 7 Speed Twin Dry Clutch ones with a FWD.