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My 28,000 miles of EV drives in 23 months has cost me under £150 in Electricity. But that is a lot of hours sitting charging on 50 kW chargers getting about 33 kWh max in 60 minutes and on 7 kW chargers free at Tesco. I only get 3.1 miles a kWh. Free 50 kW charging is not so wide spread now in Scotland. Luckily Charge Place Scotland since the change to SWARCO back room control is pretty hopeless so lots of charging can still be done where there should be a fee to pay but the session does not get logged. That can not last.

Companies are snapping them up and those that can afford them with their own money as well and that is all that matters and there is no need to help business users be running premium cars in the UK for actual business. The Government should encourage efficient EV's being purchased and Tax Payers subsidising 'company cars' that really are not for company use but 'dual use' work / family cars was and is a P1ss take. Some of the cars bought for 'Local Council' / NHS etc , Police / Emergency services management / managers usage is totally inappropriate and it is Staff that have to drive for work and are low paid and using their own transport that should get EV's for work with enough range and free charging.

The cars leave the Factory on Variable / Flexible, it is at the PDI it gets changed to Fixed, and they should ask not just do that. The Service Interval is at 9,400 miles / 372 days, 1 year 1 week, was from PDI, allowing for holidays. some are now just the 12 months. VW says 9,300 miles sometimes, not 10,000 miles. working on 15,000 km. 'Oil & Inspection Service.' The Oil Service showing and 'Inspection' due at a different times is a thing they just have had for years to confuse many, especially Dealership Service Desk staff that are there 5 1/2 days a week and yet seem clueless to it all.

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69 pence a kWh now. Max, 69 pence X 60 kWh = £41.40 so say that gets to 75 pence in October to charge at 100 kW plus charger. (Claim back 20% VAT maybe on public charging.) 60 kWh to fill the battery. @ 75 pence a kWh is £45. **** 60 kWh in the battery and you get 3.5 miles a kWh so you go 210 miles. **** Cold weather etc etc. 4 miles per kWh x 60 kWh = 240 miles. 4.5 miles per kWh x 60 kWh = 270 miles. £8.50 a Gallon @ you get 50 mpg so 4.2 gallons. 210 miles **** £35.70 40 mpg & £8.50 a gallon for 210 miles £44.62 ............. Home tariff gets to 40 pence a kWh later this year, 60 kWh = £24 to charge the car. If you get Off Peak tariff and that goes to 10 pence a kWh then £6 only.

Great if you are doing 53 miles from a gallon with short trips, but the weather is nice just now so not really cold start short trips. Best top it up til you see the petrol and stop at that point and then do 53 miles or so and if it does only need 4.54 litres to see the petrol again. Or do 100 miles and see how much needed to top up..

Helping fill the space for me of not having 'Project Binky' to watch.

It looks lovely. Sounds about right on the Spec change as there were chip shortages and still are. The lack of scrolling will not affect you will it since you will be in the car and i doubt many other road users will care as long as the indicators work and give a clear indication of your intentions.

That 1.6TDI had not SCR / Adblue. (a plus point IMO) (Skoda did a few models 1.6 TDI SCR before discontinuing them. Karoq.) If looking at a used out of manufacturers warranty (3 year old plus) 2.0 TDI with SCR i would just say 'No'. Unless you really really need a diesel. I had for 3 years on Motability Lease a November 2016 Alhambra 2.0 TDI SCR / DSG, never raced or rallied and thrashed regularly and it would do 45 mpg easy, 60 plus with Coasting used and not 25 mpg if used a few miles a day for a week when the DPF clogged before 7 days was up. I feel sorry for whoever ended up with that car, but it has had a few keepers since it went to BCA, then AC, and a few MOT failures.

You are getting conflicting information because the Service Desk staff are just Upsellers. A Service Plan, or a 3 or 4 year old Skoda Approved Used car with FMDSH might not have had a AC Service. It is about Recommendations. So have the Pollen Filter changed, or you change it, 2 years or sooner, clean it, clean the area, etc. Use your AC as long as the weather is not that cold that the car disables the AC. Supposedly the EXTENDED SCOPE part of the Oil & Inspection SErvice now checks the AC. Take all Skoda stuff with a pinch of salt.

Totally normal to get a car MOT'd 2-3 months early if Motabability own it and it gets a Service & MOT before the hand back at 3 years. Warranty work will be done as well. (That is how Motability do things., lots of Octavia and other Skoda were owned by Motability in the past few years as the Advance Payments were low as Skoda were pushing for lots of First Registrations and getting cars punted.) Then the Dealership / Salesperson (Motability Specialist salesperson) takes the pictures and does the Inspection for condition and report as the car is handed in and this is what BCA have on their site for Dealers to bid on to buy it. The car is collected pretty soon after hand in to the Supplying / Dealership returned to.) You get a good detained condition report that way. The car is bought remotely. .............. When looking at cars. An Ex Motability Lease car should at least have a FMDSH and recall / service campaign actions carried out. a service done before the hand back and probably a MOT before 3 years old. The cars Registered Keeper will have been an 'Individual' & the VED Class will have been 'Disabled' up til hand back. **** Motability has a 20,000 mile a year allowance before being surcharged, be aware that not all Motability cars are driven by disabled drivers or family members or carers and ABUSE of the system is not unknown where they might get used as Private Hire cars etc.......Loaned out.*****

'Dingwall' is the red herring i think.

Coolant will set it's own level. There is a MAX & MIN mark on bottles and not a FILL TO THIS LEVEL mark. Some will stay at MAX when at a service they are topped back to that, others will drop and should then stay pretty much where that is and where you mark with a marker. Mark where it is now as you have had hot days and up to temp running. If it drops again you need to find out why.

^^^ 'Pawl' maybe not 'poor'

Many business users / company car drivers and those that have their car and expense of fueling / charging covered or helped might well not be concerned at the costs. I do wish that people driving EV's do get to know about their cars, charging speeds etc, type of chargers. I would pay less to charge at a public charger if it is less than the cost of my home electricity. Some do have cheap home tariffs & wallboxes and good deals, but too me it is ridiculous how different the standard tariff can be around the UK for day time / night time. ................ Actually, they have a 32.6 kWh battery, 28.9 kWh usable. Max charging speed is 49kW. 50% + more range will make a huge difference to these and could have more of them being driven in the UK if BMW can build them. also built as a Clubman.

@Routemaster1461No idea what your other car is and if an auto and if you have much of the same weather down south as further north or if you drive much where weather might be wetter, colder or snowier.

^^^ Proper garage with proper knowledge with Victoria Garage Maud. HAWCO Inverness will make a meal (Golden Goose) out of it

@FrankNicklin Somebody need to tell them at HENRYS or their Website designer or whoever published it then. From £500 plus VAT is from £600.

Now some will be caught out with 2022 prices when it is 'From £500 plus VAT. ' Do not get caught out. http://henrys-cars.com/skoda/servicing/cambelt-replacement

There is location location location and actually using a car and carrying animals and people. So like being in Sunny South Ayrshire where it p1ssed down today, and sometimes there is snow in winter and sitting in a car and having the windows a little open and rain not coming in or the interior steaming up is nice and then not freezing overnight. Not all park up in the balmy southern parts of the UK.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/463934-activating-both-rear-fog-lights http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/457697-dual-rear-fog-lights

Welcome. Silly question but does your car have a Fog Light bulb at each side?

Road cars that might or might not excite at UK NSL's which is where they will mainly be driven in the UK.

A good comparison review IMO. I hope he checked the tyre pressures on each model before comparing ride and steering feel like that of the Enyaq. Just to know they were not over inflated.