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Sadly Tesco 7 kW chargers & PodPoints anyplace will now be my 'in an emergency only chargers.' The PodPoint at LIDL is uses this week was 40 pence a kWh for 22 or 50 kW charging. My local council rapid chargers @23 pence are still less than the home tariff i have until February. Today i paid 21, 28 & 30 pence a kWh on Rapid Charges but that sort of price might be limited, I still have some 'No charge chargers' available to use until next year. Once at 50 pence a kWh i will likely just use a petrol car winter time or on long trips.

A mk4 2021 1.5tsi really is not an early 1.5tsi as far as the Kangerooing issue that had a RECALL in the UK and Recall Actions for software updates. But then Skoda Approved Dealership and Repairers in any country have access to what updates there are. A pretty new car needs to be in the hands of their trained techs, and if they can not have the car fit for purpose Skoda / VW group need to get in a competent technician.

Aboyne. Has improved chargers now. Issue being if like me you are there before anything is open including hotels there is no chance of a toilet. Still just the one Rapid CPS Charger at Tomintoul, but it is working and thankfully the public toilet is still open even at 8 am. The locals have been raising money to save it from closure. Torrential rain and fog is rather good for efficiency from the car. A 150 miles more to do and no need to use chargers in the expensive Highland region as I can get back to Aberdeenshire where cheaper and then get home to a free charger. A single Rapid charger in Grantown on Spey, the toilet next to it is closed, but there are alternatives.

Tell the salesperson to get on their bike.

So here the discussion is not TDI,s. But there are plenty on those with the oil drinkers. Plenty in the past with 1.4 TSI twinchargers and 1.8 and 2.0 TSI premature death euro 5.s. Toyota went 0w 30 13 years back when there euro 5 engines were not getting the economy the euro 4 were. Oil is an issue that VW never have got to grip with, but then pistons, rings, scrappers, oil spray jets, chains, belts, tensioners, door seals and so much else is an issue for what was the biggest manufacturer in the world. You just cross fingers and toes and hope you get a peach 🍑 and not one of the lemons 🍋.

@Felix2021 Personally i disagree with you about the oil with someone that might do 20,000 miles a year and has no need to be putting a car in for an oil change every 9,400 miles in the UK. If you do use a car in a way that suits Fixed Servicing, and it is a TSI, then i would say do fixed Oil & Filter servicing and do not use the crap long life oil VW Group recommend. Long life oil in cars not getting oil up to temp every time or most of the time then a short lived engine rather commonly with VW Group TSI's.

XDS is only on the vRS, and there are some Mk2 with a Traction Control button and some without. There are even mk2 without ESP because Skoda had it standard on some cars and an option on others, right up to it being required as a Factory Standard by legislation. PS. The cars can and some do have ESP without having TC / ASR and a TC on / off button. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/327411-stupid-question-esptraction-control http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/164651-why-no-esp http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/446051-esc http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/226448-traction-control

Those getting 1.4 TSI PHEV's later in their life need to be aware their Oil & Filter Service & Inspection Services are 'fixed services'. With 1.5 TSI's Variable / Flexible oil changes need not be an issue if the cars are doing enough miles annually. Servicing is more than 'Oil & Filter' changes and Look see 'Inspection services'. Or should be, but not with the new Oil & Service and Extended Scope set up with Skoda Dealerships. So a Full Main Dealer Service History does not mean Serviced to the Manufacturers Recommendations, guidelines or even schedule. No guarantee that wheels have been off since the car was built, or brake fluid ever tested let alone changed, or many more things that are actual servicing and maintenance. People need to check out the prices being asked to change a timing belt on a 1.5TSI when that time comes around.

The 1.4 TSI engines are that good that they are used around the world still in the likes of North America and Australia and fitted to a 8 speed TC Automatic. There was no need like in the EU / Europe to be used just as plug in hybrids because they would be too high emissions if put through a WLTP. 1.5 TSI's can be brilliant. Maybe those looking to buy used ones will pay attention to the Service History of stuff done and not just ticked off. and the Recall Actions carried out and Warranty work done, and now if there are any TPI's covering them.

@Felix2021 Maybe time to start listening then to those that are getting tales from Dealership employees, maybe even technicians. We get to know about engines over 3 or 4 years once they get to over 3 or 4 years. So next year we will see how they are doing at 5 years. They had not to pass the WLTP at that point in time and did not have GPF's and then ha not the engine management manipulated as they required to get the certification. Hence the cars being delayed while the certification was done, WLTP & RDE. Hence why some required the Service Recall actions after the were delivered. Checking all 4 spark plugs on ACT engines even before 40,000 miles has past is 'simply clever', no harm done. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/491674-chariteristics-of-my-octavia Old stuff, never happened, an internet myth. Or so VW Group would want you to believe. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/484249-15-tsi-judder-and-km-display-error http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/466076-new-15-engine-losing-power-intermittently http://carwow.co.uk/news/2914/new-volkswagen-1-5-tsi#gref

1.5TSI's since the WLTP certification are going to be interesting to watch as the years go on and they are out of manufacturers warranty. Best take out extended Skoda Warranties when the Manufacturers ones do expire. (Memories of Euro 5 TSI's, overblown on the internet, according to VW Group and others.) http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/506640-octavia-mk4-15tsi-engine-rattle

The big lie! Never heard of the motors efficiency reducing. There are plenty 10 year old plus EV's about, and battery and controllers being replaced, probably motors as well. Videos in this thread early on. There will be degradation and seemingly that is 2.3% a year according to a study of 6,500 EV's. No idea which or where or how charged. Plenty do only Rapid Charging of Taxis and report no issues. That 2.3% could be nonsense. it was done by Geotab a telematics company. There are dealers that check battery condition of vehicles before resale, and Auction Companies might well need to as well.

People probably only liable to steal a Mk2 Fabia to get the Glass with the sticker on, or on the unlikely possibility that there is a GPS tracker fitted. Thieves are probably not as gullible or as easily parted with money as those buying these stickers. EDIT. Good it is moved to another section. 'Chuckle of the day' might have suited the product. Skoda can not get much of the IT, Sat Nav or SOS trch that is fitted to work.

From new showing 100% there is 45 kW available. If you were getting 4 miles per kWh you would get 4 x 45 so 180 miles. not 4 x 50 so 200 miles. it is 90% of 45 kW i started with today, so 40.5 kWh available. So 4 miles per kW means 162 miles. 3 miles per kWh 121.5 miles. ...................... Way back in 2020 the car would have gone for 229 miles if it could have kept getting 5 miles plus per kWh. It was getting that efficiency before getting charged, If the 50 kWh was usable then it could have done 250 miles, that would be a wish and a dream with lots of going down hills without having to go up any. Bottom. In Cold weather and even on a run 100 miles might not be achievable without starting with a battery as full as you can get it and a pre heated battery.

Vauxhall UK appear to have an error in their advertising. Showing Corsa Electric MY23 with 57 kW. If they did actually have that battery capacity and 52 kW usable that would help greatly with range. With the cars with narrower tyres. Crap ECO tyres.

PSA / Stellantis say the battery is 50 kWh and usable is 45 kWh. All nonsense shoing 50 kW since if it is empty you can only get it to take in 45 kWh. There are some manufacturers that are now publishing the just the 'usable capacity'. (When i had LPG vehicles the nonsense people could not get their heads around was a Tanks Capacity and not filling to 100% and the need to leave 20%, but then that was about heat and a liquid / gas) Since my car got an Update which supposedly makes it more efficient all it has done is shows a possible range if the car was really running efficiently. They seem to have given the battery more protection. It is charging quick for longer but really does nor want to take in the last 2% anymore. That is OK because that is needed for Regen and if that 2% is not available because the battery was at 100% you need to use your brakes until the battery had some capacity available. 100% is still not 50 kWh.

I was 4 miles miles away at the PodPoint charging first. 40 pence a kWh. 21.4 for £8.56 I think it was. 30 mins at the Park and ride usually about £6.20. the nearest non CPS BP charger,s are up about 69 pence and not that easy to come and go from if the roads are busy. EDIT, 65 pence Rapid and 69 pence Ultra Rapid. TESLA Supercharger at Airport or Tesla Dealership. Last price showing if paying 51 pence a kWh.

Edinburgh Airiport Park & Ride. Scotland's Capital City and people are getting fined £30 for going over 30 minutes on Rapid Chargers. 35 pence kWh. Poor signage, poor reliability, poor maintenance, even poor mobile reception. Money spent, lots of money, and yet very very unreliable. The Fast Chargers might not even have ID numbers on them to be able to start on a CPS Phone App if you have no card. 25 pence kWh. 12 hour limit. 22 kW chargers 30 pence a kWh, 3 hour limit.

Lower temperature means less friction on roads, less grip, less traction. Cold roads can be dry roads. The nice cold air with a ICE turbo engine when up to temp can mean very economic in cold dry air. Not enough consider that when they think winter means worse economy in liquid fuel vehicles. They can perform well. Hot conditions require ice vehicles to cool oil. That uses energy. Swings and roundabouts. Ps. I had been on winter tyres for 2 years. I would not be without them. Charging now and it is 6*oC and peeing down. 55 mph on a good regenning road home now and I might get 4 miles per kWh for the next 20 miles. EDIT, No cost to charge, Perth & Kinross. No time limit. Stirling still free to charge. no time limit. Just got 3 miles per kWh on run home.

If 100% is 45kWh in the battery and you only have 90% of a charge you are as near to having 40 kWh. You are not going to run the battery to empty. Not half in the same road use. But half when you go from 60 mpg average speed camera roads where lucky to do 50 mph, then getting on a motorway. Very different power use before considering temp drop. Also staring off with a cooler battety. 10 Degrees c is 5 degrees cooler that 15 degrees c which is a nice temp for efficiency. 20 degrees not so much in my car. Tomorrow over the Cairngorm route I am going it might be 5 degrees c. And the electric used will be much more, except I will be going over Cairn o Mouth. So climbing quick and regenning for 25 miles nearly before climbing to the Lecht and not charging much there as I can regen enough to the coast and get enough energy left to get back to Tomintoul or Aboyne and a charge then home. At 0*oC I would need to probably charge at least 4 times to do that trip. Maybe getting less than 2 miles a kWh.

So last night I could not get on a charger before setting off this morning. So a 50kW battery and 45kW usable. I was at 90 % so 40kW. Car showing 190 miles just because it was doing 4 plus miles a kWh before parking up. I did 80 miles in 90 minutes at 10*oC and got to Stirling Park and ride with 30 miles range. With luck 1 of 4 rapids was available and working. 1/3rd of the 60 or so fast / AC,s are occupied and there are cars roaming waiting to get on the Rapids. I will charge for 30 mins and move on and try a single charger site in another 40 miles for 30 mins. If not available I will have enough to get home. If this temp was nearer freezing things would be very different. 3 miles a kWh is ok. Getting nearer 2 miles is a real pity. I meet a owner of a New Mini Electric yesterday and he is not getting 100 miles from a full charge in quite warm weather. He was used to 150 plus miles with his Leaf he had for 3 years.

South west Scotland crap charging with CPS chargers. Often a single rapid out of order and just a couple of fast chargers that might or might no to work and if one is working they might be occupied by a BEV or PHEV for hours. Free is nice. No time limit is not, and unreliable free is hopeless. No commercial chargers any place near major routes in the SW Scotland just not on.

Bump for @J.R.. with mk2 Fabia, so relevent to th do thread running there. The setting was sometimes changed with cars for disabled drivers and cars from Motability. Maybe when hand controls were fitted. Same as steering assist reset. Often at hand back or trade in not reverted to factory setting.

Lots of Skoda and other VW group cars here, and other brands, anyone been rear ended yet with their car Auto braking?

Actually just no record on the system of what was done. So assume nothing was. But that could have been a proper mechanic actually doing work, not ticking a sheet and putting on the VW system. Skoda approved Full Main Dealer Service Histories are often a history of not serviced to Manufacturers recommendations, guidelines or schedules. They warranty a car, yet if you bought a car and bought a warranty and had a claim that can be knocked back as not serviced according to recommendations. As often happens.