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Is there any PHEV or EV from any manufacturer where the 'Flap or Cover' can close when a cable / charger head is plugged in? Not that smart if a cable was wet if it was going to wind back into some reel in the car. Bad enough the hatch open to all the elements though for AC or DC.

Who is fitting one to a vRS?

@EP90 What was done at the 'small service', was it any more than oil & filter service and look see and report. Have you paid to have a new air filter fitted? Maybe look in the Air Filter box and see if there is a new one, and the correct one fitting snugly.

Be sure to get your Windscreen Wash at the correct ratio for the weather you might experience. Maybe -10*oC washer fluid. Or even for lower than that. Not that you might get a spray on the windscreen or the headlights if the pipes or nozzles freeze. Do not be surprised if the headlight washer get stuck, as in closed or open at some point.

As long as people remember what goes up must come down when out on public roads. Not nice with big fat vehicles with no grip / traction / steering when they become a toboggan and it is a kerb that might direct them and something hard that stops them. @wyx087 Running a 45 kW battery down to 20% is going to give a faster charging speed. But considering that mean you are sitting possible not able to drive 10 miles and there can be snow or power cuts anytime that is not the greatest of things to do. So if i have to set off to cover a bit of a journey like 25 miles into and out of Dundee and even have to take a diversion i will just try to stay up to 90% before parking up at night. I could plug in at home, pre heat and de-ice but really i am not going to spend money when i can charge free.

Crap when charging at minus 3. This 50 kW charger I am on started at 13 kW and by the time at 86% was down to 6kW. So now I am using the AC and getting 7kW. It would help if I had 11kW AC on board charging but I am not alone in not having that. Filler flap needs a hard hit to break ice then prised open.

When reversing the cabin air intake flaps should close. If there is an issue it might lay with that.

Well i have done 12 miles since charging and when it was at 96%. Now at 76%. (I will see when i get in the car next because that will be lower again.) But it was -8*oC at 7 am this morning. Showing 103 miles range. Actually if i was not to charge that might actually be under 50 miles if the weather stays as it is and my routine does. *Average speed in the 20 mph and 30 mph limit for 1 mile each way, down hill first, up hill coming back shows as 11 mph. there is a set of traffic light.* The Community carers coming to my mum are not that impressed with the e-Up!,s they are driving for charging and range. But then the ones i have spoken with seem to know nothing about getting energy from regeneration. There journeys will be like mine. short cold trips several times a day, maybe many more times a day than me. Edit. 1 mile later on and 11.50. 74% / 98 mile range. Beautiful blue sky and sunshine and minus 2*oC. Lol.

Amazed!

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Sorry no idea, but you are sure it is a crack & that it is not the black line of an aerial in the screen.

The best thing is a Minus 10 *oC - -23*oC washer liquid. Little use when it freezes on it's way to the nozzles, sometimes the pipes are behind the insulation, but even with 'Heated Nozzles' they freeze. As it is i see little point of spraying a windscreen when the air temp is below freezing. PS Worse in an EV where there is no heat in the engine compartment to un-freeze stuff. The Bottle, pipes and nozzle need heated, and still you spray a Unheated windscreen and it can freeze.

Was the Heater set to cold before draining?

Welcome. Hopefully someone can help. I suspect a low battery at that time & not able to cope with the high load demand. As to the Washer Fluid. Is it liquid in the bottle and maybe frozen in the pipes nozzle? Or just not working as the rest of the stuff.

If parked on a driveway / off street at home then an extension lead suitable for outdoors and a greehouse heater in the vehicle does the job. A wind Deflector helps for the lead going in the window. Just set the heater to above 0*oC for clear glass inside and out. Remember to remove before driving off.

6 hours charging if you get 6.6 kW per hour will be 39.6 kWh. so £3.96. Even if you just get 2.5 mile a kWh in winter then 80 miles for £4. Great. If you do that miles most days and need that charge and can use stuff in the house offpeak, cooking,washing / dryer etc. Not that great if you do not get advantage of the 'cheap' rates and pay so much more the rest of the time. The day tariff is already crazy without paying that amount and more. Then the issue is where you are paying 50 pence a kWh so £20 Public charging. even if you get 20% VAT back on that.

PodPod at Tesco is now 28 pence a kWh on a 7kW AC so that has stopped many that parked up for hours. 40 pence on a 22 kW and 50 pence on a 50 kW. At Lidl now 40 where I go for a 50 kW for Edinburgh airport quick charge as the airport is 35 pence but 30 min limit and chargers unreliable. That is brand new BP ones. A charger I used weekly after 3 hours of a trip with a park and ride free charging to top up on the way after 70 miles has been out of order for 6 weeks. That is a real PITA. Especially when alternatives are also out of order or blocked by the ignorant.

Something not right with a VRS with a 7:speed Wet clutch Auto if you think there is lag with it just in D. This is the issue. Maybe there is a member near you with a good car that can let you have a drive. Dealers / traders / car supermarket cars sitting with old 95 Ron E10 in and needing a service / spark plugs can feel Sh|te.

40 pence a kWh charging costs for a business user or even a private user is as good or better cost wise than running a petrol or diesel getting 45 mpg. Then there are the other benefits and savings. Parking possible, and tax benefits. Ps. I have driven over 38,000 miles for under £200 using Charge Place Scotland Chargers and other free charging. That includes £40 for 2 CPS cards. That ends really from January for me as Perth and Kinross start a tariff. Doing it as I do to see how little I can pay can be hard work, but then I have all the time and little money. Location location location matters .

By the time I started charging today / now, that was 9 miles driven but several de-ices and 20% less battery showing with it at 79%. So 9 kWh more or less. Thank goodness for instant heating and for winter tyres. PS. Rapid charger that is not yet on CPS system and giving out electric free did not want to start on CCS so I plugged into it till 80% with AC and then tried again and it started, now it is charging at around 13kW. Snug as a bug in a rug. Phone and Chromebook charging. You need to work at being tight with money. Tariff should be 23 pence a kWh if they actually had the charger on the App / System so that it could be started on a phone.

@skoda2019 Which area of the UK are you in and where are you travelling to? ie, what charger network available. So are you going to have a home charger that gets you electricity for under 10 pence a kWh or will you have a standard tariff of 30 pence or more a kWh. 50 x 10 pence £5.00 50 X 30 pence £15.00 50 kWh times 3.5 miles = 175 miles. (4 miles a kWh then 200 miles.) If you are paying 50 pence a kWh then £25.00 69 pence = £34.50 £1.00 a kWh for 50 kWh of electricity being £50 to maybe get 200 miles or less. Costs less to business users but just a silly amount of money for a private user.

New tyres IMO.

@J.R. That is lovely. It is nice when life is simple. So people tend to use descriptions for products. Some people know about seasons, their area, cars, tyres, driving in different conditions and language and terms as they are changing through the years. When i was young and where i lived Firestone Town & Country Tyres went on vehicles for winters. Bags on sand went in the boot, That was in the 1960's. Chains were carried in vehicles and lorry drivers carried molasses, salt, sand etc with them. That was in the North East of Scotland. Lots of Lorries & goods around, Fish so salt, distilleries and cattle so molasses. It was painted onto the tyres if sliding on ice or poured on the road. Sometimes alcohol was put on the ice and set alight. http://www.driving.co.uk/news/news-councils-to-spread-treacle-on-winter-roads-to-combat-ice *I hope there was not too much spent on researching something that had been done for decades. Since the First WW even and then in WW2* People go to buy tyres they might be asked what size, for what car, maybe even what type of tyre, what size what type. Same if you go to buy a bike, or tyres for a bike. They will ask if you say a mountain bike what type, what are you using it or the tyres for. Go to a pet shop and ask for a dog, they will ask what type you want. Weatherise treads.

With Mk2 Fabia i would put in a matching 17" Wheel and tyre to those on the car and not care about the alloy's as i had so many that were replaced under warranties. If i was going places during festive break periods there would be a pair in the boot of 'All Weather / winter tyres' not Summer / All Season summer bias. Simply because you never know when the weather can change in a few miles from one region to the next let alone a week or so. (Trolley jack as well, wheel brace etc. Also Snow Socks, that can help others maybe get moving and not blocking the road.) Wheels and tyres secured in an not just chucked in obviously....

These were the first Winter tyres i started buying for my cars about 1981 after usually using Winter Remoulds. Stirling Winter Remoulds. http://vredestein.co.uk/heritage-legacy Volvo 343 CVT's so rwd, then Fiat 132,s, Strada auto's so FWD, then various Renault Savannah Estate Auto, Citroen's etc.. The Strada did many trips to the skiiing on the Vredesteins. It was my favourite FWD car for many years other than Mini's. http://classicsworld.co.uk/cars/fiat-strada-road-test @J.R. I think you and all of us know that for a long time now the OE fitment which is tyres for All Year / All Season on passenger cars are referred to as 'Summer Tyres' pretty much by the English Speakers. They are called 'All Season' as well even if not suited to all Seasons, or All Weathers, or all countries Springs, Summer, Autumn or Winters. Then there is American English, or English in any country. VW, Audi, Skoda, SEAT. German, Czech, Spanish, English and they get their All Seasons all in a twist. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/423163-are-all-weather-tyres-winter-legal-in-eu http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/440953-factory-fit-all-season-tyres ................. @nta16 As to matching 'Spare Wheels / Tyres' to suit the 4 on the car. That is great, but if someone buys a car and it has a Space Saver, or a Saving Space wheel and tyre, usually a steel wheel then some might ditch that and buy another and some might leave it where it is until they get rid of that car. Some even take it thinking it will suit their next car. Maybe not even their car, just leased / rented for a few years and going back as getting swapped for another.