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http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/419318-disc-rear-axle-swap If doing the swap for cosmetic reasons the vRS discs / calipers are not stylee. If for sporting purposes, they are crap brakes on a vRS if you use brakes so best do an upgrade IMO. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/336354-rear-disc-conversion

The actual valve is seated in that corroded metal / threaded part and exposed to more road salt now and there is no valve cap covering it. A hard inpact on ironworks, roadworks drop in surface could be enough for a inner valve to just exit right or left. Imagine that in an outside lane with HGV's or any other traffic in the next lanes /lanes

The usual £126 to look at the car is something that the service desk staff might quote. Ask them about Skoda Fixed Price Servicing and Maintenance and participating dealers and the first 30 minutes of a diagnostic being £60. If they know of no such thing ask them to go check with others, maybe on that computer they are trained to use. Then at a service they are supposed to be doing a road test, plugging the car in and doing 'Software or hardware enhancements'. If the Registration / VIN was checked and really your car is not part of the Software Update / Workshop Action / Recall Action / Service Campaign that does not mean it does not require one. ? How much did you pay them to change the spark plugs, and at how many miles was that. http://skoda-auto.com/services/recall-actions http://gov.uk/check-vehicle-recall

They should not be a fail as not checked at a UK MOT. If you had an accident / blow out, valve blow out a Police Officer / Accident examiner should kick your back end IMO. You need new valves fitted and really why go about with ones like that on the car. You might well have to pay for valves and the wheels balanced. As it is i would be changing wheels / tyres from front to back anyway and checking and adjusting pressures and not wanting a valve to blow out on me anytime be it parked or driving or god forbid causing an accident.

I did my Electric Angel thing this lunch time and i will get helped sometime probably / hopefully as i have been by others in the past. I was charging free at Tesco while doing nothing and someone came in passed with a Mini Electric and was at a loss as no PodPoint app. So he was a Delivery driver who was up to Aberdeen to get a Tesla to take to London, with trade plates, he was asked to take the MINI instead. So he arrived in Forfar with 12% & i offered to take him a mile to the charging hub back towards the main road. The chargers were all occupied but a Polestar 2 driver who was going to Stirling let him on the charger. His Debit or Credit car would not start the charger, he had no CPS card or App so i paid for his charge by starting with my card. I showed him the route & gave the postcodes to Perth and to Stirling Park and Ride's without going to Dundee and where if needs must he can charge in Perth, Auchterarder or Dunblane but he should get to Stirling Park & Ride or near to and use his Debit / Credit. He put into WAZE. So the charger went off at 80% and the 3 others went off and he had got only 80% but it showed on the car he had 90 miles. He has 70 miles to go to Stirling. What a PITA in a MINI Electric but hopefully he is OK to there then to Gretna Green then onwards and any Gridserve charging. He was not concerned about cost of charging as not him paying & just getting a move on and down south. This was his first hassle of delivery driving because he drives Tesla's and uses SuperChargers. EDIT. Must have charged to more than 80% which is good. That will be 100% battery if 28.9 usable capacity and it was at 10% when charging started. Thankfully for him he is escaping the coldest weather and hopefully any snow. EDIT. 26.522kWh / £6.11 for that charge.

Welcome. Are they waiving the diagnostic charge if they do the work. The first 30 minutes of a diagnostic at a participating dealership is £60. They only take 30 minutes. They already made a guess at a price to fix. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/506325-kodiaq-overheating-at-random/page/2 http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/506325-kodiaq-overheating-at-random

@lexia Welcome to the forum. You say you have 'reserved an approved used car'. Is this a Skoda Approved Used car coming with a 12 or 24 month warranty? How many miles on it, what engine / gearbox? Is if FSH or FMDSH & what is the Service History they have? Fixed or variable services, Pollen filters twice, AC Servicing, Brake fluid once or twice etc etc. So Serviced to manufacturers guidelines, recommendations, schedule or even spec. As a Warranty supposedly requires. ? Or are there missing items? ? Have the Body Inspections & Reports that Skoda UK often seem to want been carried out over the past 5 years. The ones that are supposedly done at Services and Skoda UK want done when there is a claim on the corrosion warranty even though the Warranty T&C's does not state as being required, annually, bi-annually or at Extended Scope Services. Certainly should be carried out on a Skoda Approved Used Vehicle though as a Pre-Sale inspection, even as the Dealership received in a car and do any prep. With Skoda Approved Used car programmes AA / RAC inspections should not be required.

http://www.pod-point.com/guides/smart-charge-point-regulations http://whichev.net/2022/12/02/ohme-warns-consumers-about-non-compliant-ev-chargers-ahead-of-new-december-regulations I know nothing really and the 'Express' newspaper article today flashing on my phone helps me little being any the wiser. Loads of info and it goes right over my head probably because could not care less.

I many miles has it done since you got it? If the diesel in the tank has been there for a few months then get more in because that will be summer formulation and depending where you are you want Winter Diesel in with anti waxing. Not that that makes a difference smell wise. Well it does if the diesel waxes and the car does not start. Nobody here has posted about that but maybe you need to be in North Scotland and it getting to-15*oC and have Summer Diesel in the tank.

I like them to move against the disc when the brake pedal is used and move back. If the pads need replacing then do that. Sorry but not sure what i see on the vid.

'They would say that wouldn't they!'. Because they are not interested. Did they have it on a ramp? 30 minutes of a drive is long enough, then get them to find out what is wrong with the car. Even pull into a tyre and exhaust centre and ask them to have a look. Then make your excuses and leave.

@nta16 Not to start an argument that the subject often brings on, but windchill might cool stuff quicker, but it will not bring the coolant lower than the air temperature. But the antifreeze which changes the freezing point of H20 does need to be the correct ratio / strength for when the ambient temp is below 0*oC and to how low it goes.

Does it need a motor, or a fuse or maybe the washer fluid thawed out and a filled with stuff that does not freeze?

People still wrap copper pipe around the manifold on Land Rovers and the likes to get liquid heated to the windscreen or even into the cab as heating demisting that came as standard might not even of done the job when new.

@Jamie1991 any update? Good news?

Welcome to the forum. Stay away from Independents with a DQ381 for early servicing of them. Or even to recommended servicing / oil changes. That is until VW Group get their act together and accept there might be snagging issues or fundamental design or manufacturing faults. Until they extend the warranty until maybe 80,000 or 100,000 miles, 8 years or even 10 years on these DSG's. *Have a Main Dealer / Authorised Repairer service it, get that sort of protection of it being 'VW Trained Technicians or fitters' if things go wrong.* They are not much more expensive than an Independent who might have the gear and an idea, they might have the gear and little idea but they know a man / woman that should have, and a hot line to VW, Skoda, Audi, SEAT Engineers. So have Serviced to Manufacturers Recommendations, Schedule or Guidelines, even Spec. Or early if you want at a Main Dealership. That is until they maybe want to reconsider those Schedules, Guidelines, Recommendations, Suggestions, Guessing. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/508475-gearbox-dq381-in-emergency-mode see post by @varooom That one is a DQ381. Octavia not a Kodiaq. But the issues are starting to appear with them in what ever VW Group models. Maybe few and far between, but early days, years, miles/km's. People only come to forums,when issues etc etc. Well that is often the only way people find out that 'They do not all do that' or 'Should not all do that', or that people tell Main Dealership staff so that nobody can say 'Never heard of that before', or never seen that. Out of warranty so get out your wallet.

@kenfowler3966 are the tyres you have on the 16" rims still 225 wide? What are they, all climate / all weather / all season. The kind of thing that should be fine getting around tight corners in the UK with 60 mph NSL,s where there are tight corners.

Charging. Minus 9*oC again. Only 4 miles driven. 4 x 1 mile. Defrosting needed for a few mins. 80% when onto charger so about 5kW used. EDIT, 1 hour on the AC tethered. 7 kW taken and car only showing 83% . It certainly does not like the cold. So that is cheap Public Charging @ 23 pence a kWh. Over £2 for only 4 miles in 24 hours and that is not back to where it was at yesterday. So possibly £1 a mile if i was to get it back charged up. That is why a Stellantis / PSA EV is not great. & why today there are news articles on the orders or purchases of EV's dropping.

Over the years the same things crop up. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/420185-windscreen-washer-fluid Is the hand sanitiser alcohol that all the distilleries & others were producing during the first covid years any use as windscreen wash in low temps? There must be warehouses full of the stuff. (sit it it outside in the very cold weather and see.)

There are such places. But many dealerships use local tyre fitters to fit tyres for them. Dealerships can not really sell 'Used Tyres' take off's. Some might use them on cars, but they are used tyres even if they have just done delivery miles. Sell the tyres you have taken off and the tyres you fit can be cheaper than a dealership will charge. You are a private person so not in the situation of a business as far as VAT / Taxes. You pay VAT on buying whatever, you have not to answer to HMRC or trading standards or customers when selling used tyres. There are manufacturers that do offer cars / pickup's with 'All Weather' tyres, not just Summer / ECO / All Season as in all year round tyres. There is Skoda that offered 'All Season' Tyres as an Option, and had no idea what they were offering. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/423163-are-all-weather-tyres-legal-in-the-eu http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/440953-factory-fit-all-season-tyres

They went and showed it to Mike's Dad when finished this one. One cool dude, it must be someplace as a full vid or it gets repeated.

I have not seen a Honda-e being charged out in heavy snow fall or a blizzard, or freezing rain but people must have to do that.

Try tonight or tomorrow just spraying from a plant sprayer at the cold screen then if you are down at -10*oC or lower. When i am on the road and the salt is drying on i try to get behind a lorry to get wet slush on the screen to use the wipers, everything i drive in freezing weather has the screen freezing. I have even had -70 *oC VW Washer Fluid that was crap.

Does the windscreen wash not just freeze on your screen at -9*oC ambient temp when the car is as cold inside even if you have -23*oC windscreen wash? Anything with heated nozzles that i have driven was no use unless there were heated pipes and insulation to the nozzles then it just froze on the screen or in the air intake meaning the interior screen steamed up.

If in West Aberdeenshire or places of a similar temperature they are as well being disabled.