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I am just pretty peed off by the Big Battery EV's sitting plugged in for half or whole days at 7 kW free Supermarket Chargers, especially where there are only 4. The lovely people local to me with the Grey or White Tesla, Red EV6's or Volvo Hybrid are as entitled to save money by not using your home chargers or paying 23 pence a kWh on the council chargers, but really, you are taking the pith.

If a Monte Carlo Tech it will be a 1.2 TSI or 1.6 TDI.

As the car ages remember that a First Registered November 2020 car but built June 2019. That is like with Brake Fluid which is first replaced if following Skoda Guidelines or Recommendations at 3 years then each 2. Maybe have the Brake fluid tested when the car is 4 years old. Lots of cars sat bunkered 6 months or more over a winter pre WLTP certification and nobody bothers. With TDI's with AdBlue it can be in the car for a year before the car ever goes on the road. Tyres can be 18 months old before a car ever gets registered etc. The Warranty starts with the car being first registered & the first MOT required in the UK 3 years from then.

The retest fee is really neither here nor there. Just money. So you save money possibly by finding someone else to do the work so that it will pass back where it failed. Or maybe just do the work and another MOT where it passes. Life is so simple if you have a place that regularly does your work for you and are not ripping you off.

If you know the price of parts, the labour and vat then maybe overpriced, maybe not. You could always do it yourself if you have the tools, the know how and a place to do it. Then it is just your labour at what ever you consider your time is valued at. Ps. If the car stays with them is there no retest charged for?

@CristianCCI Best not be the cause of internet myths then. 0.5 litres in 1,000 km is not good. You posted that it was 1 litre in 1,000 km. that is worse. Twice as bad. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/472431-fabia-vrs-mk2-cave-issues-and-tsbs

Hundreds of thousands, millions even of 6 speed wet clutch DSG's doing hundreds of thousands of miles. Now the same with 7 speed wet, and some even recently in Skoda Kodiaq having MCU issues. So time will tell. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/505078-mechatronic-unit-failure http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/502781-gearbox-in-emergency-mode-no-reverse-gear How VW Group deal with the failures of 7 Speed Wet Clutch DSG's is what matters. If numbers are low, and stay low then fine. Deal quickly with them. There are some that seem to be having issues with just how long getting a new MCU is taking. VW in that case should be getting a new DSG to them with a MCU. Ones sitting built for cars that are only going to sit months at the factory needing parts to finish them anyway. Deal with customers that paid and bought a car already rather than ones made to wait a year anyway on a new order. DQ200 DSG's had their world wide recall 2012, repeated in Australia Recently, and the Service Campaigns, and the Clutch Issues from Euro 6 engines. 1.2, 1.4,1.8. So 1.2, 1.4, 1.5 TSi's, 1.4 & 1.6 TDI's have had possible issues with DQ200's. they are fitted to 1.0 TSI's since 2018 and reports of issues are so few. Time is what tells how things are. Warranty Claims in the 3 years, or claims or repairs after. With 1.0 TSI's and DQ200 DSG's there maybe are some getting to 150,000 miles or more, or there are some that will have a 1.0 TSI engine car and not do 10,000 miles a year and not run it for 15 years.

@Nab93 How long have you had the car, and how many miles done when you got it? Are you sure you have the oil at max quantity for the engine. Top of cross hatch when cold, and still up in area A of the dipstick at Normal Operating temp. So run at least 10 miles and the oil @ 90 *oC indicated and on the flat and dipped after a few minutes. **Are you sure the correct dipstick is in the engine and there was not a replacement.** Is it you that has done an oil and filter change and know how much oil went in? Sorry but what has the Brand / Producer of the oil to do with anything? ? Is the Granville 5w 30 FS III ? so to VW 504 00 / 507 00 just as the Quantum that dealerships used for many many years in TDI's and TSI's. http://granvilleoil.com Nice priced oil so makes sense to buy if getting for much cheapness and needing lots, or if it actually has the engine requiring less. If it has the owner thinking less oil is consumed then that is all one wants.

@CristianCCI Do you have a copy or link to a manual where VW state "1L/1K km is fine." It is 0.5 litres in 1,000 km. (621 miles) so 1litre in 2,000 km (1,242 miles) There has been years in the UK of dealership staff without a clue say 1 litres use in 621 miles was ok and it never has been. Neither is 0.5 litres in 621 miles for normal use on UK roads in normal UK weather.

@Nab93If the mechanics you have been to or spoken to can not figure out why it is using oil i can understand why they do not want involved. Also that maybe they are crap mechanics rather than not wanted landed doing the work. Was the person that removed the DPF a mechanic? The 0.5 litres oil use in 1,000 km / 621 miles was never acceptable and is not within tolerances even if VW Group do say , May use as much as. They are taking the Micheal and got peed over often enough when 'Official Oil Consumption tests' were properly done. Weighed oil, sealed filler, dip stick and drain plugs etc. They have for decades printed the same guff, but then that might involve crossing high alpine mountain passes in high summer towing an elephant. They put the same guff in Owners manuals for over 2 decades for all engines, petrol / diesel, 3,4,5.6,8,10 or 12 cylinders from 44kW up. 0.3 litres in 1,000 km was enough oil use to get engines replaced under warranty, but that took a fight far too often. This owners manual stuff is b0!locks. UK roads, UK NSL's, UK Temperatures, solo vehicles. no way was or is 0.5 litres in 621 miles acceptable. But then with 7 years or more car with 250,000 miles on it & a DPF stripped out, who is carrying other than the owner, there is a stripped out or removed DPF, Skoda / VW are certainly not, they were not caring that much when in the manufacturers warranty period..

@DampDog why would a 1.0 TSI DSG not do all he needs, unless he needs to have the car full of passengers or tow? Worth trying one then you know if it is up to UK speed limits. With an early 1.5 TSI you are wanting to know that it had the software updates and is free of the issue that required VW to come up with them for some across their range that needed them. So cold start test drives of at least that 15 miles but best more than that.

As long as the Dealership has a VW Trained and qualified master tech, tech or fitter and not only workshop employees that just started last week they should have done the job more than a few times.

If the Technician is just going to get on and do the job once the car is in then the diagnosis charge is taking the pith. Maybe the connector has corrosion, maybe he can diagnose something else as well and want to measure the Timing Chain. But if it is the Water Pump then from getting the car into the workshop and pulling on their gloves they know the water pump needs changing. Simple as that. They will plug in, get the fault codes logged if any and even if stopping 10 minutes to have a coffee and make a phone call they know within 30 minutes. Only with me could they not diagnose in 60 minutes and wanted permission for another hour. I do point out that a kick in the balls hurts if they want to go down that line.

First 30 minutes of Diagnosis is £60 at a participating dealers. No need for them to milk it. My linked post / thread tells how much i had paid. They can take the diagnosis of the price if you are telling them to change the water pump, 2 belts, seal and coolant. I knew what was wrong, but there was a reason i had the car at a Main Dealers.

@nez1971 What age and miles is your car. CAVE or CTHE. Parts became cheaper, but be sure who gets them and fits knows what they are doing. Vid on here of why you have a noise if it is the water pimp. (be sure not the timing chain tensioner. there is an issue there with a CTHE from 2012 on.) http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/415178-fabia-mk2-vrs-twincharger-water-pump-part-numbers-supercharger-clutch EDIT. i see it is a 2014. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/457262-2013-fabia-mk-ii-vrs-rattle-to-left-of-engine

It is a timing chain with a 1.4TSI 132 kW Twincharger. 2009-2014. 2 Belts with the Waterpump / supercharger magnetic clutch. The failure that worried me was outside lane giving it full beans and into Limp Mode. No engine wrecking, just cleaning of seat and underwear binned.

Maybe not this week, maybe long enough. Maybe you will floor the accelerator and the car will go into limp mode. Supercharger Clutch / waterpump. Misfires. So drive easy and watch there is no coolant loss, even a ickle amount. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/429228-fabia-mkii-vrs-water-pump-failed/page/2

There are 7 years of threads here on engine reliability. Also mpg. 1.2 TSI with Cambelt just fine, schedule at 5 years for a change. Not many issues here. 1.0 TSI same thing. from 2018 so still none over 4 years old. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/505980-12-vs-10-tsi http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/503738-fuel-economy There is a modifying thread and there are Mk3 Fabia Project cars in that section. People have remapped and not reported failures, that is with 1.2 & 1.0 TSI. Not many DQ200 DSG issues either but there have been some. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/433171-modifying-your-fabia-,k-iii/page/42

Drive ones that are for sale near you then you know if you need to search out a 1.2 TSI or a 1.0 TSI 110ps.

It is amazing what some call or accept as normal. When people get a not noisy 1.5 TSI they obviously got an abnormal one, luckily. (Or maybe need a hearing test!) VW504 00 / 507 00 so 5w 30 FSIII might just make a difference to the noise, rather than the VW508 00 / 509 00, 0w 20 FS IV that VW went to for the WLTP / RDE results. Customers / owners are told to expect and accept it from 4 cylinder TSI's with or without GPF's. They like to BS. Sometimes eventually a software update becomes available to deal with something that was never an issue... http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/504258-a-tsb-from-skoda-on-cold-start-behaviour-with-12-tsis-something-that-dealership-employees-should-be-able-to-explain-to-customers

Or my dads ones, or my my mums Saxo automatic which we owned from new for 16 years and got passed about the family, never raced or rallied, only did a few autotests...

It does not come from petroleum / gasoline, it is a product that comes from the refining oil just like petrol, diesel, paraffin, kerosene, tar. Comes from refining at different times in the process. It has the lowest density. http://wlpga.org/about-lpg/what-is-lpg/the-story-of-lpg http://wlpga.org/about-lpg/what-is-lpg/where-does-lpg-come-from See Bio LPG. About 30-40 years ago there were lots of taxis in Dundee that had LPG conversions because the council gave grants and LPG was plentiful and cheap. Those days are coming back. http://lowemissionzones.scot/news/more-than-1-million-awarded-to-taxi-owners-for-vehicle-retrofitting When i ran LPG in V8's it was half the price of petrol and i did not use twice as much and had engines that did not need petrol to run. LPG has a high octane. Engines built with high compression can perform very well and there are sports cars running LPG. When i bought at Asda with an Asda Credit card that gave 2 pence a litre off then that was fine on litre of LPG. The UK budgets putting a penny or 2 on a litre was costing though. £1 a litre of petrol and 50 pence a litre for LPG, i last bought when it got to 70 pence a litre and ASDA took pumps out. The beauty was Farms used it in Grain Driers etc and it was not like Red Diesel, no markers in it. http://v8engines.com http://v8wizard.com/PHOTO_GALLERY/Orange-110-rpi.php

So where was it for over a year? Built June 2019. Could it have been a Motor Show Car for Skoda or whoever.

Welcome. It would be great if Skoda UK was going to honour an Australian 5 years manufacturers warranty. The car Data has it with no extra warranty. Label in French & English. It would be good to know First Registration date and where the PDI was carried out.