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There are MY23 cars now registered since September 2022 and still on that same cars builds come January 2023. It is March 2023 before a new Registration plate. Only those taking your car in as a trade in seems to bother, those same trader / dealers sales people seem to forget when trying to flog you a used car if registered in December or the next month.

Vandalism is often blamed. Absolute crap when you know the location and know it is the unit that allows the charged head to fall on the ground and get run over. Or the areas mobile phone reception is pathetic. Charge place Scotland showing locations in the wrong location for a year even though SWARCO do the maintenance and even charged their vehicles there is inexcusable. As is employees arriving, charging their vehicles at chargers showing out of order then driving off leaving them out of order. I have the pictures, the proof, the registration numbers. I have those that did it and that trolled me online on users sights details and massages saved. deleting accounts was a waste of time, just like those employees were. People are human. Some are lazy barstewards with an agenda. http://gov.scot/publications/foi-202100253412

For any doubting Thomas,s maybe go on ZapMap or PlugShare and look at Edinburgh Airport park and ride Ingilston, or Hermiston or Straiton, maybe Girvan Harbour, Broxden Park and ride Perth. A few like me might update user websites, might report faults etc to the provider or admin. Might write to councillors, msp / MP,s or transport secretaries. Dozens, hundreds will just moan, move on, not bother and allow the money to be wasted as incompetents run the systems and are like 3 monkeys. There are good chargers, good hubs, smart hard workers running things, trying their best and there is crap management and oversight and corruption. http://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-202100253412

@cybernck what type of big service has your car coming up. Nothing about VW group services are big. Cam belts / water pumps cost money. Not like a Big BMW serviced where all fluids and bulbs are changed if owners are stupid enough to pay for that. As to long life services and oil changes. Nothing wrong with them where a driver covers lots of miles / km in a year. It is those that do not think that might not drive far and leave the oil and filter to be changed every 2 years to that can be the issue. Or drive a diesel to save money without understanding servicing costs and emission controls.

Really all the cars need are engine oil up to temp so that might be over 10 miles driving before stopping and parking. And regularly. And with spark plugs nice and hot and clear of oil or carbon build up, s ok sometimes more than just a few miles a day week after week. This will apply to GPF,s. Cars which are plug in hybrids and many more. Even city cars since euro 4 are not for city / ok occasional use.

Some Tesla models, ones like Bjorn's, Tesla S in Norway that got the update. BYD,s. I do wish owners / drivers would try and find out what their car can charge at and where. Also stop using tethered 22 or 43kW AC if you are just getting 7 kW and you are charging there for hours.

So the single CCS charger is still out of service at Girvan Harbour 2 weeks on. I am using the AC on the side that people think is out of order because of the blank screen and out of service lights. Then the 7kw charges next to it are out of service. One has a red light and one green. So I called CPS. Call answered quickly. The CCS charger needs a part. Due a site visit 25th November. Actually needs replaced. Screen had been almost unreadable for 2 years. Well past sell by / use by date. South Ayrshire council need to pay for that though. Then the call handler checked the 7kW chargers. One off, due maintenance today. She tells me it is cold here. It is 12•oC and sunny. Not cold. She tells me A post has limited power. Tell me something new, it has been since installed.

So @ Girvan Harbour. CCS out of order 2 weeks ago. I reported to CPS. Been out of order ever since. AC works. I just called CPS, awaiting part, due site visit 25th November. Then the 2 x 7kW posts have one out of order since I reported 2 weeks ago. Site visit due today / Sunday I am told. Amazing.

Lots of my charging now at CPS chargers where you have to pay is not charged to my account as their system is crap which saves me money. I prefer to use the card, hardly ever use the App as mobile phone signals can be crap. Turned down sometimes if a crash nearby. Dead slow and stop in rural areas. Newer machines with tap and pay are often much easier to get started and at like Edinburgh airport I just do that. No point trying the CPS card or app and 5 chargers or phoning if you just plug in, tap and it starts or not, if not move to the next one repeat. When 2 or 3 are out of order and as you try 1 someone gets the other working and you are stuffed and then need to try calling CPS who tell you they are all working

What fails in Scotland with the chargers is the SIM and card reader and remote staring. Communications approving the Card we used to pay £20 a year for and which you can buy for a one off £10. Then the CPS app and map can have lost communication with chargers. The charger might be working, you are at it, you start it with your card even though the app shows unavailable. You are sitting like me reporting to SWARCO / CPS ths faults at that charger or the others which are showing occupied while not, or available while occupied. If I am hanging about and chargers are showing RED as out of service I push or pull the stop button. Depends on the type of charger. Pull out or push in the 20 seconds waiting for a reset. Or on newer ones I tap my card, press reset and quite often the charger is ok. Often all that happened is the last person charging had no card, maybe the app never started the charger. They called CPS and maybe within minutes or maybe 40 minutes got through and got a remote start.. then after charging they could not stop the charger so pressed emergency stop. Ot at free chargers a friendly person with a card started the charger for them but left while they were still charging. I am just off to see if the charger I reported 2 weeks ago is fixed. Previously it was out of order waiting for a cable for 3 months. Only me posted on ZapMap and plugshare the state of play. Every week I messaged CPS / SWARCO and everytime I was told a site visit was due that week. It was an AC cable. Readily available for that charger.

^^^you win, crap front tyres for crap grip and braking at the front and good rear tyres for that braking and control of the steering.

Best find a Hybrid qualified tech / mechanic that is also a DSG trained one with all the gear and more than ideas. Maybe a VW Indepewndent, or a EV specialist with an auto specialist mate.

Unlikely even one who is familiar pr trained on working with VW DSG's.

Maybe best in the Superb section. a Mod might put your post there. How many miles has your car done, is it over 40,000 miles ? ? Any reason you are not having a Skoda Dealership do it, have you asked if they are going to charge more than £220.? ** Your DQ400 / DQ400-e showing no filter.**

Super unleaded E5 is not always more expensive than Unleaded E10. There are those that have E5 costing less than E10 from other branded filling station's. ie, maybe Sainsbury / Tesco 97 / 99 min less than Shell's 95 or BP's 95.

Stuff the detergents, enjoy the higher octane and if seat of the pants the car feels no better do not spend the extra £2.50- £3 a tank full.

It has everything to do with the government in Scotland and Jenny Gilruth MSO the minister for transport Scotland and her and Transport Scotland sucking up the nonsense from Swarco who are administering Charge Place Scotland and earning very well out of that. Being the contractor for CPS so us, then SWARCO having maintenance contracts with many of the 32 local authorities. Swarco owning e-Volt and supplying new chargers. All this with Grants coming from Tax payers money. That is to councils and these private Charger owners, often public organisations that are tax payer funded. Actual commercial and private owed ones usually have better maintenance contracts. Swarco are sitting with a monopoly and them and CPS are making out there are only 2% of public chargers under the CPS admin faulty. I got the car I could afford from Motability and which was comfortable and it is doing just what it does as far as efficiency with the tyres it has on. As it was I did not want a bigger car even if it did go further per kWh. There were none available anyway that I could afford. I do want an EV van or estate car next for leisure use when I do change it. It is good that your Skoda running about for business and personal use can go further between chargings using commercial chargers and CPS ones, so 58 kW usable x 4 and charging needed about every 200 miles when below average being achieved. That has nothing really to do with the love in with the Scottish Government and SWARCO and before that BP and SWARCO. Crap charger maintenance , it, admin etc and 50 million quid spent already and much more being spent and poor performance from contractors is the issue. ........ When all is working as it should it can be lovely. Many pull up and see chargers showing RED and do not bother doing a 'reset' or calling in and seeing if out of action or bothering to report them even though they are sitting there passing the time and lucky enough to be getting a charge.

Close one this morning nearly running out of charge. Full battery last night and 150 range showing. Did 80 miles and getting 3.3 miles to 3.1 miles driving in fog. Stopped for 30 minutes for a charge and got 16 kWh in. Enough usually for the next 80 miles I do. That leaves enough to charge later even when colder than this morning. Not today. Peeing down, fog and mist. I was down to 14 mile range with 20 miles still to go so diverted to a route where I could get on 7 kW charger if needed and went 10 mile in ECO to a single Rapid charger. A Muppet had a Hyundai plugged in but charger not charging or cable locked 🔒 in 50 minutes ago. So took the cable and managed to get a good quick charge to 90%. Just letting another driver starting to charge. The charger 6 miles further on is out of order and the one 20 miles further on again has also been off for weeks. This is on the route to and from the Ferries to Northern Ireland. Scotland,s Government need to get a grip. I know the chargers and routes but visitors can easily get caught out badly.

At least you know now the tightness of your wheel bolts having changed the wheel,s. Millions of the things fitted to VW Group wheel bolts for years now. 20 per vehicle. Common user error is someone forces the smaller covers on the locking nut and the big cover on the standard nut, or just do not put them right on. Small issue though. Just a crappy bit of plastic. More important is that the car car gets the bolts tightness checked after the PDI incase they were not checked at it.

70 mph, but doing that is not possible that often.

@AndrewS7889 Maybe @ApertureSwill see this now and be able to shed some light on what Main Dealers are now charging to do the timing belt and waterpump compared to what he does it for. Then the idea might be to find out what a good independent VW Specialist in your area wants to charge for the job. Maybe someplace that Taxi Drivers in your area uses. If there are those about with VW Group diesels maybe ask them were they go.

@Hairy_Joethat will be because the wrong size is fitted then.

Welcome. I flagged your post so a mod can move it to the Mk2 Fabia section.