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I have taken out my 4x4 a few times each week to give it a run for a few miles. Not bothered that there is no heating in the car unless going 10 miles or so. The leather seats are quick heating, and need switched off within 1 minute, but i will never have a car in the future without a heated steering wheel.

They had to get WLTP and RDE2 results, and flaps and overboost and kidology was so so. Ford did the over fueling for Parps and poops. Anyway, Australia is not in the EU or worried by World Wide Harmonisation. Not even emissions. I like going fast, no need to draw attention to it to people just going about their day, sitting in their garden or bed.

Cold days and nights again and I have been back to needing to put in more than 7 kWh a day to do less than 7 miles a day in 1 mile trips. So not even getting 1 mile per kWh. But then dead cozy in that 3 minute drive. Air so dry no de-icing required. Lovely blue sky. Ps. If paying 28 pence a kWh then near £2. Petrol 150 pence a litre. and 7 miles a liter might well be easy enough in many cars doing the same 1 mile cold start trips.

7 speed Wet clutch DSG in the UK fitted to a 2 l TDI or TSI and it will be a DQ381. It can not be a DQ200. The other 7 speed DSG.

The manufacturers give there Max towing figures. That is that. Do not think that is just about what the vehicle is capable of towing up a hill. What goes up must come down. Weight and reducing speed and being in control does matter. Some interesting places to tow what ever in the UK. Scary even, but there is the world as your oyster and sometimes a limit needs setting. A Suzuki Jimny has quite a good max towing limit. Put 4 adults in and a caravan on and come down or even just go up Cairn I Mount and you will have a squeeky bum moment.

Does anyone out and about really care what an Octavia sounds like? Do they think Skoda have started building sporty cars finally.

@JR RS That was why i mentioned the CC and ACC. Because of the last discussion in threads on the exact same subject and then the same points on upgrading of the TPMS and the Spare / Emergency Spare. (People should remember that a Brand New never used tyre in the boot that is a spare is a green tyre and should not just be fitted and run from the start as a matched tyre, and that if sitting with a higher pressure in the boot, the pressure needs adjusted to match the one on the other side, and reset the TPMS.)

@hetty1 What was the depreciation or difference from buying your 2013 Fabia to selling or trading that in? If you look back to the pages at the start of this section you might find where What Car makes a All new third generation Fabia Car of the year, before a single one has been delivered to a customer. Then you see it is a particular engine. Then they discuss depreciation and it is greater than the Polo and servicing / running costs are more than the Polo with the same engines. That would be VW Servicing less of a rip off than Skoda then... This was their guesswork. How the companies charge to lease cars looking at future values. How Motability price cars as they know the buying price and estimated future value. What Car had the Fabia later as a Used car to buy. They never bothered mentioning the 1.4 TDI having issues. http://autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/skoda-fabia-2015-what-car-car-year Pre Christmas Skoda had a big advertising campaign. What Car Car of the Year. The customers were yet to get cars, but journalists had driven left hand ones in a sunny place overseas. http://autocar.co.uk/car-review/skoda/fabia-2014-2021 http://autoexpress.co.uk/skoda/fabia/89672/skoda-fabia-vs-vw-polo-vauxhall-corsa Getting depreciation in a brochure would be interesting. a Mk1 Fabia is quite amazing for how much a good one can still be sold for, as is any Suzuki Jimny from 1999 on that is still on the road. When the new Jimny came out you could sell it for more than you had paid for it as the supply was limited and there were people that speculated and ordered knowing this would be the case. We will get to 10 years old with the Mk3 Fabia and we will see how well they have held their value, or what you pay to get the first cars in the UK.

Runs better as well in warmer weather & will emit less emissions, but VW Group had to get them through the WLTP on 95 Ron Uneaded and when the cars early on ran like crap they could not just say use Super Unleaded. They had to write new maps, but not so the cars would have to be retested / certificated. Dealerships / Sales people trying to shift a Kangerooer version would know what fuel to have in the tank for road tests though. Just as those running 'Media Days / Launches for Journalists' know. Journalists never question that though. 'Is this car running Super Unleaded, or even a tweak / remap?' Not on an All Inclusive Trip to a lovely sunny location'. Or just at a wet 5 star golf resort in the UK. They only said GTI / R's and Skoda say little, but 1.4 TSI Twinchargers had Super Unleaded as the recommended fuel, but they can run on 95 obviously. Badly though. http://volkswagen.co.uk/en/need-help/need-help-faqs/fuel.html Years since Shell changed 98 ron to 99 min. & BP went from 98 to 97 minimum. Not that VW Group changed the website. Red 'Mk2 Fabia vRS. Green VW Sirocco R.

Not really. VW Group have had so many Brand Directors for Skoda UK in the past 12 years and all were in VW jobs someplace in the world having come from where ever. There basically is such a horlicks of a set up with Main Dealers & Servicing and the finance side and sales, fleet etc. They chop and change servicing recommendations, guidelines and advice and only in the past few years use the term Schedule. It was Minor /Major Servicing, then Major / Major, then Oil Service @ 1 year, Interim then Major. It was fixed price Minor or Major and you paid a high price and a tech might decide no matter the Bill was £279 there was no Air Filter or Spark Plugs being fitted at that service. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/476283-variable-service-cost The £99 oil change lasted about a year. As to the £269, that became £279 the £289 with some, you could get more done at a VW Dealership including the Spark Plugs. VW Dealers might say they could not service a Skoda, until you ask if they want to tell that to the local radio station presenter or reporter. *** You paid their prices and when you have a Corrosion Warranty claim Skoda says no record of a Bodywork Inspection, well if not they know who never did it, like who never removed wheels, as that was not on the Work Sheet.***

There have been threads / posts on Briskoda in the past where members have asked about having the heated rear screen and heated mirrors work off the same switch. People do modify from standard. PS There are the threads where members said their heated mirrors were on for 7 years. Really?

Nothing. One of those odd things with the UK, DVLA, DfT etc etc. Motability own my car, i have the V5. You used to not get it over the 3 years of a lease, the VED disc used to get sent to you. A VED disc showing 'Disabled class'. Places that make new Registration Places ask for a V5 and some insist on seeing it. Well that is a waste of time, or ridiculous expecting the customer to have one if the number plate has gone missing and they need one made.

Sometimes it can be a wheel bearing over heating or a brake caliper not releasing and the wheel gets hot and the tyres pressure changes. So you check the pressures later or when cold and they are OK. If you can stop and feel if the wheel is hot and check the tyre pressure then you can sometimes find that to be the issue, and check the pressure on the opposite side.

Best ask the person that serviced the Haldex if they did, and if not have it done again, and free gratis.

The tyres do not need to be the same size front to rear. Unless fitting 4 brand new matching tyres they almost certainly will not be. Have the same size in the same axle. Reset the tyre pressures and reset the TPMS. Tyre fitters will say that new tyres need to go on the rear. So the tyres on the front that are not new, or the old rears moved to the front will not be the same total circumference as the brand spanking new rears. Maybe near enough. PS. Plenty VW Group cars can get a Spare wheel fitted, odd one out by total diameter / circumference and reset the TPMS and get no warning. Some cars might, and the CC or ACC will be disabled.

@singh946Just bumping incase you are interested in a long read. It will still be an issue on some DQ200's from 2014 on.

'34H5' is part of the proper RECALL started yet again in Australia in 2019, after the 2012 Recall missed early cars, then the 2014 one did, and i think 2016. Not sure what interest VW UK would have in paying for anything. EDIT. I missed 'China'. or Asia. In China VW put a 100,000 mile / 10 year warranty on DQ200's in 2012 because of the World Wide Recall. Which excluded Europe. Europe got Service Campaign '34F7' started in 2014 on 2009-2012 DQ200's. New Zealand cars got a new MCU fitted. So with your 2014 DQ200 now in the UK you are likely on your own. ................................. See both threads in the Mk2 Fabia section started yesterday. But those are 2010 & 2011 DQ200's that left the factory with Synthetic Oil and will have had the change to Mineral Oil and the Software update. '34H5' was because of heat and pressure and failings of the accumulator. There is a Kit for that. The issue with your DSG does not sound like that problem.

@singh946 When was your car built or even first registered? Have you had it from new? There was a service campaign on some produced between 2013 2015. '34H5', which was a software update, but this was as a preventative measure. Maybe not applicable with your DQ200. PS Did your 2013 Leon get '34H5' carried out. That was only started in 2017.

@t13nyr I would hope so. Even if just for their accounts / HMRC. They charged money, took VAT, had parts to buy and supply. Surely they are not 'Cash in hand', nod's as good as a wink, no invoice no receipt. Never in all my days have i seen the likes of that with stickers and i was a car sprayer & did warranty inspections & traded cars.

Have you tried them to get the Service History, what done and when last?

There are some lovely TESLA drivers out there and i have been saved lots of times by kind ones that took pity on me were there was no others available and let me on a charger, free or pay to charge. There are many greedy and ignorant barstewards that park up for hours of free charging or will stay to 100% regardless of other waiting. I meet many TESLA drivers that really have very little time for other TESLA drivers. As to AUDI EV drivers and getting right on my t!t, it is those that are too lazy to get out a charger cable and go on a 7 or 11/22 kW AC. They want the tethered 43kW to sit and charge maybe getting 10 kW or less. But then that is a generalisation. Some lovely AUDI EV drivers must exist, i just never meet them.

A Cam belt. According to Skoda UK / Dealerships it was probably due a replacement last year, and the water pump also. Is there no history of it being done?

Is that no mater which route you drive in that 10 mins if there are choices? What happens then at the 10 minutes, different speed limit or something else. 12 year old DQ200 dsg. Sh!t happens. Re 10 minutes, Coincidentally is that just about when the indicated oil temp gets to 90*oC or so. Not related.

Even family might tell the same rubbish if a salesperson about values, trade ins, asking prices, values. They paid to much to get in stock and are stuck with them. Offered too much in trade ins to get a sale. The money is made over and above on finance, service package, paint treatment, even on older cars. Lots of stock bought using credit and the interest rates are up, and where new cars are available there are manufacturers /importers reducing prices to shift cars. Supposedly a shortage yet car super markets and dealership / traders car lots are overflowing. Don't cry for me Argentina. Good sales people make money and can sell anything. Some are full of BS.

Any TSI will have a GPF from around 2018. (In the EU /UK) and that will be the same with a iV / PHEV with a 1.4 TSI. So a Gasoline Particulate Filter. A silent iV is certainly better at a wedding or funeral than a diesel. Well IMO. ............................. Those with iV / PHEV's will know the answer to miles. Mixed use, hybrid / electric use. ? Is it maybe only 25 miles from a charge in not too cold weather?