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Welcome to the forum. I have used Insa AT's, MT's and Snow Tyres on Suzuki Jimny's over around a dacade and they performed as well if not better than Premium / Big Name tyres. I have not had any to use in about the past 6 years though.

@scottukvrs Welcome. I am a DSG fan as i can only drive 2 pedal cars. It does not matter to me if a 7 speed twin dry clutch or a 6 or 7 speed wet dry clutch. ? What age of Polo GTI has your with, is it a newer 2.0 TSI so with a wet clutch DSG, and what are you looking as getting in the way of engine with the Octavia? OT @MarkyG82

The 128 BHP does have different wheels / tyres and suspension and the Auto is rather good. I had one for a month and it could be economic enough, and handled well as lots lighter than a Corsa Electric. They were seemingly called Nova first in the UK because the bosses thought it sounded like Coarser rather the Race in Italian. I have a 40th Anniversary Corsa-electric arriving shortly to try out for a week to see if they have improved how far they can travel, it is lower spec than the one i have put 35,000 miles on. I have the seat at the lowest and the rear view mirror is not an issue for me but the blind spot with the A pillar is.

@GerrycanOut of interest since you mentioned this Corsa before, what age is it and is it a 1.2 & what power and with what gearbox? The ICE Corsa's come with 74, 99 or 128 bhp engines and manual or 8 speed automatics. The Corsa is the UK's 2nd most registered car in 2020, and most in 2021 & 2022 as all those cars went out to the NHS and on Click & Collect during lockdown. There are loads with hire companies and the likes that will be in Auction quite soon in the UK.

A member on here with an Octavia used Octane Booster when using Super Unleaded. A bit much 'not cheapness' IMO for trucking about UK roads at NSL's. Where Super Unleaded is not available then just splash the cash. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/458130-octane-booster-octavia-rs-230

Forty shades of green. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/420740-mk2-fabia-vrs-green-monster/page/3 http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/433293-rallye-green-powder-coat-equivalent

They will reap what they sow. All publicity is not good publicity. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/505905-skoda-dealers-last-in-driver-power-2022

If just cosmetic and not an issue that will cause any issue within a few years then Skoda can very quickly confirm that. They will no doubt have an engineer look and report and then no need for a TPI. Simply clever as that. Just a manufacturing incident, like Zinc Inclusion was but not one that would cost customer time and money to get resolved. Like the Kangerooing that was greatly exaggerated online. Or so VW wished it was. Just as they do when any issues are reported, they are on it ASAP. Not. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/459545-is-there-anyone-not-having-problems-with-15-tsi-manual/page/2 @driventodevon Posted their experience of what happened with them. Maybe others think they used the wrong term when they say 'stalled'. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/459545-is-there-anyone-not-having-problems-with-15-tsi-manual

@SurreyJohnDo you think they are gritting or ploughing every non truck route road and back road every night, or Sunday or Bank Holiday through the winter because they are not. Even Police cars, Ambulances, Fire Engines, District Nurses, cares and Super Market Delivery vans, Posties get put out on vehicles with Summer / ECO tyres on.

Parts of Scotland will have 10*oC & lower night time almost constantly from now until next spring and cars will be getting about just fine. When there is Ice and Snow many of the cars and vans on summer tyres will just be driving about as long as the roads are ploughed and salted / gritted. That's just how things are. Driving instructors will have students out on lessons when there is snow on the ground with what ever tyres the lease cars come with. But then it has always been the case that a nice wee car with FWD might be keeping going just fine on snow when big cars, AWD / FWD's/ SUV's struggle to stay away from kerbs if there is a camber or slope when on the wrong tyres.

@tow76 So you mean a Paint code for a Mk2 Superb, or RALLYE Green as with a Mk2 Fabia vRS, or the colour used on brake calipers, or that on Skoda Rally cars / Cycle Racing etc ? If so from what years / decade?

Has it had a K&N on for a while, but a nice new one, or at least still clean and also not re-oiled / treated or dirty / clogged and strangling the car as K&N's can?

What we need and what Skoda / VW Group UK needs is someone that does NDT / Non-Destructive Testing. I am quite sure that some Master Tech that has never seen that before, or that says, they are all like that will be on the case. Literally. NDT is my young lads speciality on and offshore in the oil and gas industry, along with rope access. A sump off a car would be a doddle.

They are nice and simple but then not fitted to vehicles with more than 250 Nm or 192 ps, so good to play about with, which you might not bother with with a Wet Clutch one. They have just 2 pedals and can be driven on an automatic only license. VW class them as Semi-Automatic, which is nice. Put in just D or R as and when you like & N or P if you want. if someone wants M or S then that is there but then they might never bother.

Measure with a tape measure the tyres when on the rims to be sure of sizes when on rims of different widths, just so you know the circumferences as they are and not just be the sizes and calculators. Tyres of identical sizes can be a little different when now from different manufacturers, and even from the same manufacturers when Summer, All Season, Winter etc. ......................................... So many numbers, so what tyres are going on the car. Is it sometimes to be 215/ 55 R 16, and the 18's on with 225/45 R 18 sometimes? The correct circumference / diameter of tyre or a little taller will probably have the Speedo Accurate & the milelometer not any difference between Ooo & Ahhh. If the consumption has improved because of narrower treads or a more ECO based tyre there is no 'Fuel Consumption' adjustment needing doing Or is it because of the car not knowing how many miles are been covered for the fuel used?

They will be getting Skoda / VW UK's Tecnical department on it, pictures, area manager inspection or any old crap they want to tell you. Or they need to. No re-using oil, no cost to you if a Design, Manufacturing, Material fault. As in a Warranty Issue. Reported to a Authorised Repairer ASAP, and now they can do what they damn well know they need to do. New Part delivered, if the car needs to come off the road now then a Courtesy Car. Skoda UK can not have a car drop oil all over the Kings Highway and they know it if the sump has fractures or the risk of failing. SKODA_Warranty_Terms_November_2021.pdf

@wyx087 I am interested in what their Fully Trained & Qualified EV Technician comes up with when the car is in and plugged in and the Recall Actions are carried out, Software & the Brakes software or module or whatever. They should get the correct miles covered showing on the dash and the centre screen and on my phone. I have a record of miles covered and charging done. If the car does fail to show the accurate miles covered since the PDI then Stellantis / Vauxhall are going to be in a bit of trouble. Personally i could not care less, but the DfT / DVSA / DVLA surely will. As should any Owners, Motability, Fleet Owners / Lease Company, Car Auction, Dealership etc etc.

If you are going to get an average 47 mpg from 10 gallons in a tank then considering that sometimes on a short cold start trip you are getting 30 mpg maybe, then sometimes you need to be getting high 60's. That is how averages work. Perfect weather / temperature, good road surface, tyres / pressures, not to heavy a load and rolling along up hill and down dale then good efficiency must be possible sometimes. That is how people hypermile. This is a Euro 6 1.2 TSI. Mk3 Fabia. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/503738-fuel-economy

Welcome. With a DQ200 7 Speed DSG in Sport when starting off / accelerating all it is doing is holding the gears to a higher RPM before shifting up. If you do not like how that is then just do not use it for that. If the wheels spin then TC / ASR, XDS if you have it cuts power and can nip the brakes, so D and the correct accelerator use can be better. Maybe out of a round about then into S when in 2nd or 3rd can be good, or D back to S for decelerating and not using brakes then back on the throttle, or back to D and on the throttle. Pull away in D and get a move on and boot it and then back to S maybe and its holding to a higher RPM before 3rd, then 4th. Loads of choices. Try it in different situations, locations, road conditions and surfaces and at different speeds. Back roads with dips and short squirts of power might be where you want to use S. Or overtaking up and outside lane, crawler lane overtaking an someone up your jacksy and shift to S and keep the throttle floored and hold the lower gear and get a move on. BHP / Nm torque, revving the nuts off before an upshift. You only have 150 ps or so after all.

Revised breather pipe / valve and a software update carried out on CAVE cars from 2010-2012 on cars where the owners were complaining of high oil consumption and probably after an oil consumption test. There was a 2nd mod tried out in Australia. If it was not done then no loss. Many that had it still got a new engines anyway. After that comes the Oil spray jet upgrade. (Squirters). Pinned thread at top of section. Maybe do not google squirters if at work. EDIT. Doh, on a phone I never spotted my post above your question.

Still another 2 weeks until my car goes in for it's recall workshop actions and any servicing and maintenance it might be getting. The coolant level likes to set it's self and that is below MIN. The car is going as well as it even has and in the past week has out it's self back to Factory Settings a couple of times. Over the air updates maybe. It is showing 180 miles range as it did when new and nearly full, and this i suspect is because something has happened to how much the battery is charging to and just now with weather temp at below 20*oC it is getting as good a kWh efficiency it can get without doing a trip with lots of regen possibility. (the highest it ever has shown is 229 miles which is what the new Corsa-e supposedly is capable of. ) The car has lost 10,000 miles off the odometer and the app. That might have something to do with the cars battery. Even the App can not agree with what miles the car has covered.

For @J.R.& anyone else.

Seat of the pants is often enough if you know what a standard car feels like, or do timing maybe with a Draggy, or get on a Dyno. In the UK if you are not declaring a mod because you are playing ignorant and making out you have no idea that used car was mapped then you remove badges like APR with slashes behind. Not that that means if the Loss Adjuster or Police / Crash examiner cares, they can and might well have the ECU checked, as VW Group or other with a Warranty claim have done on occasions. With Insurance Loss adjusters they might well check your social media posts and with Insurance Loss Adjusters ask to check your debit / credit card account. That is them looking for that purchase of a Remap from a 'Tuning company' after you had bought the car.

@lol-lolit takes all types, you are trucking about in your City Car EV thinking about retirement and pensions and investments and going to or from places of work. Others are just getting on as quickly as they can to do their work & trying to keep their driving licence and can not spend an hour charging when charging is needed and just flash the cash / card. Plenty are giving up EV's because time is money and they are not doing the work in the car while it charges, not making the calls or going online, they need face to face or hands on the job because they do manual work, deliveries etc. PS. Pull in in your 50 grand plus EV, £30 spent on a proper quick rapid charge and away to the next £100 an hour or more job, get as much work in in a day and home or to bed. Maybe you do not yet have a home with off street parking or want one. Work life balance.

The difference is very much 'Business users' but not kiddy on ones but actual 'Commercial Travellers' as of the old days, people that still go up and down the country and across it, places to go, people to see, work to do when they get there and maybe get home at the end of the day or night. Then there are, Private users that have to use money they get as income and which was taxed before they got it buying the means to power their vehicle from their own pocket.