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What a drama or crisis over nothing. RTFM! There is 'Autohold' there is Stop / Start and there is use common sense. Anyone knows if they are sitting foot on brake pedal, roasting hot discs, roasting hot weather and boiling the DSG oil or the clutch packs getting tortured. 'Just say no to stupidity'. Drive and use your Semi-Automatic Dual Clutch gearbox sensibly.

^^^ Is that a DPF delete? Of a car used as a Taxi / Private hire car. Lovely for the 'annual or 6 monthly check depending on the Local Authority area, and the car owners insurance of that vehicle with this undeclared / illegal modification.

@lol-lol No Tesla. The £7,995 Advance on a Mustang Mach-e will be for those maybe with more money than sense. £7,995 x 156 x at least £71 a week (£11,076) is a minimum of £19,071 the person leasing is paying out for 3 years of having one. No VED, or servicing or insurance to pay though and 20,000 mile a year mileage allowance. It is all a bit of a Pith take from a few years back when a £26,000 max limit on RRP was supposed to be imposed unless the customers family needs / disability / conversions meant the car / vehicle needed to be more expensive. Some with more expensive cars with conversions have higher benefits including war pensions and might lease for 5 years. That Max Limit never really happened and as it is Motability is more a business than a charity and they know about depreciation and the deals manufacturers give them. the expected future values etc. When you see an invoice and compare the RRP to what Motability pay on the day as you input your pin number they really get them cheap. My Alhambra was £32,000 sticker price & they paid £24,000 ish, i paid £600 advance payment and £200 for factory sunset glass. They wanted £18,000 i think for me to buy it at end of lease, they got around £14,000 for it at auction and that was as Covid hit and lockdown & Arnold Clark could not get it sold and about a year later it was advertised at around £12,000. I would not of bought it even at £14,000 from Motability, it was sha-gged,

Mk2 Fabia vRS did not all come with paddles. Not in Ireland or some other countries in the EU. That is in the thread linked in the 2nd post in this thread.

? Where Skoda fitting GPF's in 2015 to 2.0TSI's? That was still Euro 5 emission engines going to Euro 6 and a good while pre WLTP. I thought the first GPF's were fitted to 1.0TSI's and well after this.

Best assume nothing as that can cost you. ? How much coolant are you losing anyway that you need to top up. I might be just adding de-ionised water, but then i would want to know the strength of the coolant for anti-freeze / summer coolant / rust inhibitor and i could not assume what the yellow stuff is. Test the strength / ratio.

The MOTABILITY Q2 price list for cars including EV's is out, April til end June. 2 Mini Electrics are available, £0 or £499, so much cheapness, MINI must want them punted or they are good for Motability at resale, and and also low / cheap Advance Payments on Zoe, Leaf & even the new MG4. http://motability.co.uk/find-a-vehicle The very high Advance payments like with the Corsa Electric starting @ £2,200 will be because the bad depreciation on the ones that have been going back over this past 3 years. I can not re-order before May for a new car so will wait see what there is in Q3 that will suit me if i stay electric. I would like a MINI just for the fun of it but i never got 100 miles out of a full battery when trying them. The only Plug in Hybrid i could afford from Q2 is the Renault Capture so i will give that a miss. Looks like i will keep the Corsa i have beyond the 3 years and it might be this time next year i get another EV if i do get one. EDIT. Quite a spec with the MINI, leather, heated seats glass roof, matrix lights, choice of 16" wheels rather than 17", good colour choices and no cost options. £35,000 or there about for the £499 then £71 a week. Just the poor range. OK for fun on good or even great driving roads, but hopeless if you are not getting charged while enjoying the 'Drives like a G0-kart'.

Plenty on here and elsewhere will be paying to have their DQ381's or DQ400-e,s serviced properly or not in the coming years. We will see come time how well they last with people driving them as they do, or maybe how the Sales /Management or fleet drivers did or any number of other drivers by the time they do get them serviced. Lots have yet to be made aware at dealerships that if they have a VAQ Diff it requires servicing as well as their DSG. Servicing getting to be more and more expensive when you have a keeper, or buy a used car that is due service items not done. People trust that because there has been Main Dealer Servicing that it was done when it should and how it should be,. That is an error. People just keep on doing it thoiugh. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/463920-dsg-dq250-making-noise-and-slipping

@Black_Thunder Indeed. Thousands of DQ200,s. Millions World Wide were part of the recall 2012 excluding Europe that got a service Campaign 2014 to change the synthetic oil to mineral and a software update. New MCU's in New Zealand, 100,000 mile / 10 year warranty in the far east, Then Recall / Service campaign 34H5 in 2017, Software, then 2019 another Recall in Australia covering 2009-2016. Then issues 2015 on Clutch Upgrades and Software. So we are now not talking Hand Brakes but e-Brakes as this is the Mk4 Octavia section. There are PHEV's, Mild Hybrids, Petrol's and Diesels and DQ200's , DQ381's & DQ400-e,s and Auto Hold & Stop Start. No manual parking brakes. As to the foot on brake, good advice, if stopped a while and brake lights annoy those behind, weather conditions etc, use the parking brake. If you go to the Fabia, Kamiq or Scala section you will find members with cars with a DSG & a manual hand brake.

There are a lot of these Wet or Dry clutch DSG's out there cooking the oil then. DQ381,s have not yet had the Service Interval reduced yet, and VW are not yet recommending changing the filter, or are they @Black_Thunder?

They are cheeky monkeys then and probably decided that VW Group / HQ was once again talking rubbish, losing stuff in translation and so bothered about emissions that they were pushing the oil they wanted, and then about to use defeat devices. The do like the oil that might mean lower emissions, then they messed up, introduced some lemons of 1.2, 1.4 Twinchargers,1.8 & 2.0 Euro 5 TSI's that could drink oil and expire prematurely. They ba-llsed up 1.4 TSI Twinchargers and just turbo,s with crap chains and tensioners when they were Euro 4 and never sorted that into Euro 5. In gods we trust, in VW Group you question anything they say or do. If you have an ounce of common sense. @varooomcan probably find me the directive from 2006 that main main dealers in the VW Group ignored fo 6 years or more as that had VW502 00 delivered and that they would use for Fixed Service Interval servicing on petrols if they did cheaper servicing or customers requested that.

Welcome to the forum. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/489770-best-spark-plugs-for-fabia-vrs-mk2

No need with a e-brake, autohold enabled, and stop / start functioning or not. With Autohold now the brake lights are on while stopped, so you might want to consider that according to how long stopped. Or what / who is behind if in the UK and you know the Highway Code.

After 2006. (We will ignore Russia.) ŠKODA Online Manuals (Print).pdf

@Black_ThunderYou have given wrong info on Fixed Servicing and VW502 00, and then on VW 504 00 / 507 00 so 0w 30 FS III. So anything else you are on about is suspect. VWFS_11815379_SKODA_AUW_Booklet_0922E.pdf SKODA_Warranty_Terms_November_2021.pdf

@Black_Thunderget on your bike and remember to oil your chain. You are a chain puller, pull someoneelses. According to you Main Dealers were only allowed to use Long Life oil. Possible true as far as Diesels, cars with DPF,s, but nonsense with TSI's / MPI,s' Your info id duff on so many levels. People everyplace can have non Approved List oil, because the Owners Manual tells you to check with a Dealership, or tells you VW502 00, pr VW504 00 / 507 00 or VW508 00 / 509 00. On the selves the oil will have 'Suitable for' or 'Approved' or 'Specification for' or what ever wording. Te VW Approved Oil list is not something that falls to the eyes or hands of someone buying the correct specification oil to service their car. The see VW504 00 /507 00 or VW508 00 / 509 00 as do many mechanics, fitters, techs or diy'ers. http://castrol.com/en_gb/united-kingdom/home/castrol-story/newsroom/press-releases/workshops/failing-to-upsell.html Service Desk / Sales / Parts staff fail to understand oils, service regimes and so much more about the cars they sell and have to give advice to customers about.

@d9flipper Welcome. What engine have you, and was this water pump replacement before you got the car the first time replaced @ 7-8 years old? ? Is this a Skoda Approved Used Car the a Skoda Used Car Warranty? ? Have you read the T&C's on the Warranty & any claim? Not that it matters, as neither does who claims of the Parts Warranty, that is not for you to be doing, your Warranty has the T&C's for what you do. That would have been for Bristol Motors if that was the seller, or the claim going forward to have an authorised repairer to diagnose and repair. VWFS_11815379_SKODA_AUW_Booklet_0922E.pdf

Get the person on the phone or the service desk to speak to the Master Tech. There is no servicing / oil changes with a 7 Speed Twin Dry Clutch DSG. There never has been a schedule, guidelines or recommendations to change the oil. (Only on the 2009-2012 that were part of Service Campaign '34F7' where the Synthetic Oil was changed to Mineral and that was started in 2014). *If it was a 7 Speed Wet Clutch DSG because it was not a Front Wheel Drive only 1.6TDI then that would be a DQ381 DSG and would not be due an oil change @ 40,000 miles, that would be at 80,000 miles. But your car is not AWD is it? If it was the Haldex was due a service at 3 years / 30,000 miles.*

You might well find Wheels and Tyres advertised on BRISKODA forum to suit your needs, i hear there are people with Skoda's on there. Maybe look see what your spare tyre is, because it is near the correct circumference for the car, but not identical as a match. So you might not need to change it. But then maybe getting 5 matching wheels an tyres is a good idea. If you have directional tyres though the 5th tyre has a 50 / 50 chance of being for the correct side.

XDS / XDS + different from ESP / ESC. Systems though. parts of the same systems, doing a job. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/186046-xds-now-available-with-4x4 http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/425322-xds XDS enabled & Yeti here. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/452983-maximum-tyre-size-/page/2

@Breezy_PeteMy engines matter very much to me when i own them, and i have a few and old ones and they do not go pop. I favour value for money and quality and the advertising and spin matter not a jot. Castrol has produced some crap oil. Hence not a brand recommended by Korean, or Japanese or French manufacturers, but then they have their deals and VW do theirs.

As it is the approved list matters not a jot with a car out of manufacturers warranty. Hard enough with VW Group cars in warranty with engine failures, and there were Dealers still doing services using VW 504 00 / 507 00 when they should have been using VW508 00 / 509 00, and people in Dealerships selling the wrong oil to those coming in to buy it for top ups. I am fine with ASDA, TESCO, Comma or others not on a VW Approved list as long as they meet the spec. 11044_Platinum_5W-40.pdf 16890_Quantum_LONGLIFE_III_5W-30_Spec_Sheet_V1-1.pdf 11044_Quantum_LONGLIFE_IV_0W-20_Data_sheet.pdf

@Black_Thunder All these sellers with hooky / snide oil including forum sponsors, main dealers etc. Luckily you an keep us all safe from them.

https://oilspecifications.org/volkswagen.php December 5th 2012. VW-Approved-Oil-List (1).pdf

Plenty Main Dealers are using 0w 30 FS II( and have been for years now. VW 504 00 / 507 00