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There was a TPI on CTHE but not CAVE twinchargers on chain stretch. Not that they stretched, but were measured.

Another fire at a battery recycling plant in Scotland. No idea if it recycles BEV batteries. EDIT. Set up to Recycle EV Batteries from as far as the USA.

The water pump failing with a Twincharger is usually shown with a slight loss of coolant and the Supercharger Clutch is part of it and you can get a Emission Control Light or EPC light or both show, and lose the Supercharger working. Sounds like the issue known with CTHE,s, tensioner and timing chain. Plenty threads on both issues.

Sounds very much like the DQ200 DSG is the issue, maybe just a connector / earth. But who knows what they messed up when doing the work if they did. ? How much have you paid for the MCU to be replaced. & replaced not repaired? re a 2013-2015 DQ200 DSG. Did the car ever have Service Campaign '34H5' carried out any time since 2017? Software update DSG. Preventative, heat, pressure, failures, accuator. Repair kits available.

The tank is 45 litres, if you brimmed it from showing 30 miles range only that might be 50 litres to be up the pipe. Hopefully @SkodaKing will be along saying how much they put in.

VW Group had the fuel drinking and AdBlue drinking issue dealt with, they had the defeat device, and even after 2015 defeat devices in the Audi S-tronics / DSG,s. Never dealt with EGR,s though or High Oil users, premature engine failures, 2010 to whenever, like 2025. Re BEV,s, yes a drop to 70% in 8 years / 100,000 miles is way too much. Which are these that are doing that?

Australian VW Group / Skoda now a 7 year warranty. About time. They put 100,000 miles / 10 years on DQ200,s back 12 years ago in some world regions because they messed up big style. They should still have that since no Service Schedule. & 100,000 miles / 8 years on DQ381,s that are turning out more of an issue than DQ200,s ever were.

How many with BEV cars older than 2017 are claiming on a battery warranty because of energy storage loss? There were cars globally that were bought back because batteries would need replaced. Chevy Bolts. Maybe Nissan Leafs had the issue. Batteries seem just fine on many EV,s a decade old or older. Those were the old tech. There were plenty Taxis / high mileage BEV,s getting Rapid Charging daily and without much battery degragation.

Lets guess how much your fuel is. 132 pence a litre. £6 a gallon. Stick in a tenners worth.

When i used bike racks on rear hatches i removed the wiper arm or the last one i had was a 2016 SEAT Alhambra on which i removed the fuse so as not coming on because i forgot or when reversing. No warning when fuse removed.

Stylee / Sporty looks over function / practicality. Many complain about new cars / EV,s often, that come without rear wipers.

That is selling / asking prices, and they might get that for them. ? How is the Selling Price and getting Cash Money when you want to sell a Yeti to a Dealer / Trader or Price. Not buying a car / trading in with them. The other vehicles that have been great for keeping value is the Suzuki Jimny pre this generation ones.

@GeoffAllen66 You say you pulled over and checked the tyre pressures. You do not say you then reset the TPMS. You do have to drive a bit after resetting, but learning is in a few hundred yards or a mile or 3, not a matter of days. You checked them hot if you stopped and checked. You then need when the are cold to check the Tyre Pressures and see if all 4 are at the pressures when you last set when cold and reset the TPMS. Warning might not just be pessurelost, it can be a binding brake and overheating a a tyres circumference increasing because the hub / wheel is hot and the air in the tyre hotter.

@OccyVRS Total tosh as far as weather. Covid years they kept snow gates closed quite a bit. As far as the past decade the weather in winters have been different but the roads closed for more than a couple of days at a time is rare. Vans and lorries are delivering all the time and people travelling. Skiing open if the tows are running. This year great, just not for skiing, 2012 a heat wave for March and snow came on the 1st April. a 23 Degree C drop overnight. On the tops getting sun burned and next morning deep snow in Forfar. 2013 & Arran had Snowmaggedon in March. I used to be up north of Inverness living in my van Mid week and well out of season and through autumn and winter. As far as the Snow gates they are open for the ski centres, Lecht and Glenshee as soon as they can in the mornings but can be closed for a few days. Wind and drifts. (Cairnomount route from Edzell closed this year for past month because a bridge damaged.) I grew up on the Moray Firth at Macduff and as far as weather that is not the same weather as north of Inverness, nor is Buckie, Foress, Elgin, Nairn. SPEY BAY / FINDHORN. Skied at the Lecht, had easters at the cairngorms in a caravan as a child sking and that was before the Aviemore Cantre was built. Skied at Glenshee in its early days and even at Mar Lodge after its ski tows were dismantled & its dry slope moved to Glenshee. My dad towed the caravan over the A939 and A93 during winter. Jim that was the snow plough driver became the Roads Director and ran the Lecht Ski Centre. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/323078-skiers-and-snowboarders-come-forward/page/10 http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/252376-ferrercairn-to-banchory-over-cairn-o-mount http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/435353-north-coast-250-scotland http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/408884-scenic-route-to-aviemore

^^^ Best not count on having Mobile Phone Reception at EV Chargers even when at towns or villages. Have a Electroverse & a CPS card and sometimes one or other might work, or you might be at a Rapid with a DD / Card payment. If there are accidents / incidents on roads the Mobile Reception can get turned down. I have Mobile phones with 3 Mobile Providers and sometimes still no reception. Or reception if you have a little wander away from the charger. PITA. PS Many of us need chargers at 11 o'clock at night, or later into the night as some travel at night and get peed off at those charging to 100% and then leaving the car till they have breakfast, or finish their walk / cycle or whatever. Check your app if there is phone reception, or check visually, make sure you are still charging. PPS. Plenty care not a jot about £1 a minute penalty. Then there are £1 or £2 to charge Minimum and the charger might start and cut out multiple times. CPS will say contact Highland Council. Aberdeenshire, Argyle & Bute etc. NO TELL THEM TO GET ON WITH THEM AS THEY CAN SEE CLEARLY THAT CHARGER IS HOPELESS AND HOW MANY ARE PAYING FOR NO SERVICE. Ayrshire, £5 minimum charge. You can get done lots of time. Green Light is no Guarantee when you try using that the Charger will start, they can go RED after you have started and are charged £1, £2, £5 or whatever.

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Cars without Matrix lights do the little Self Levelling dance. Are people here saying cars with standard lights do not do that?

My recent use of Public Chargers that Charge Place Scotland administer. I have used more than these 10 sessions but that was paid using my ElectroVerse card so does not show. About £30 with that. Also i have used TESLA Non Tesla and £20 with them, & about £50 at MFG chargers.. (n the past Month maybe 150 kWh charging at home @ 6.7 pence so £10.00 giving me 500 miles.) This CPS 10 charging sessions costing £97 gave me about 630 miles. ......................................................................................................................................... £97 if buying petrol to do 630 miles @ £6 a gallon would be the same as 16 gallons. So about the same as getting 39.3 MPG. I would be best using a PHEV and running on cheap electric for daily around home and buying petrol on trips if i was getting 45 mpg or better. I do enjoy EV driving and a MINI Electric. A bigger battery EV would reduce my use & expense of Public Charging. As it is home charging is taking me 100 miles before needing to public charging. Going 200 miles or more before needing to would mean 'Much cheapness'.

I heard the Ford UK MD this morning on BBC Radio 4 Wake up to Money. http://bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0029p0t @29 minutes. The New Electric Ford Puma is arriving now into the UK. With a New Ford EV in the UK you get a FREE EV WALL CHARGER INSTALLED. *Not free really as she says if you do not need a EV Wall Charger you get a discount on the car. So you are paying to get something FREE really.* Free 5 years Servicing. Free energy for 10,000 miles a year i think she said. An 8 year battery warranty. Roadside assistance. Towed to a charger if you run out. Basic stuff then that others have already been doing. EDIT. Just looked into my local Ford Dealership which is just 1 mile away and arranged for a test drive when they have a car available. What a pity if there is just going to be black plastic shiny like this. That is a deal breaker for me. Holy crap looking in no time. (Even if a leased car.) WLTP 376 km / 233 miles. divided by 42 kW (battery size. means getting 5.5 miles to the kWh. No way Jose. We will see. 3.5 miles a kWh would be 147 miles. 4 miles a kWh 168 miles. Maybe just. ?Are you getting 10,000 miles worth of energy based on the WLTP or on real world 3.5 miles a kWh? Built in Romania. He says and shows 100 kW / 136 PS. Not the figure given in the top video. FORD show it as 123 kW. 162 ps.

Simple answer, too big. Not a slightly higher profile. Lots higher profile.

'Hygroscopic'. As it is there are plenty that got cars with a Variable / Flexible service interval as they leave the factory with Long Life Synthetic oil and it might get an oil change after 2 year from the PDI. During the WLTP delayed Certification some were bunkered for more than 6 months outside. The same during Covid with some more like a year from build to delivery. So oil quite some time since put in the engine, & Hygroscopic Brake that was put in a fair while before the car ever went to the customer.

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As far as those that have no Home Charging or workplace etc cheap BEV charging Sir Keir Starmer MP & PM is announcing absolutely nothing to encourage more to be driving BEV,s in the UK or is the secretary of state for transport. No reducing the VAT on Public Charging or any real incentives. So today as MP,s or people discussing it saying running an EV i cheaper and not talking about where Public Charging might cost from 60 pence to 89 pence a kWh for Rapid or faster charging, or even for what was and is called fast charging and might be 11 kWh of a speed & still have a penalty for going over an amount of time using one of these. 'Build them and they will come and buy'. Well if it is mostly Business Users and Motability buying (Leasing) new BEV,s and then they selling them used cheaply that is not going to be at the front of anything really, it is as things are now.

The DQ200 DSG,s so 7 speed dry clutch DSG,s with 2 oils, in the MCU and box have no Service Schedules, guidelines or recommendations from Skoda / VW. The oils can be changed if someone wants them, but that would need to be by someone that knows what they are doing and using the correct oils. Maybe @ 8 years / 100,000 miles or so might be when changing the oils would be worth doing. But there are people that are running ones that have never had oil changed, other than those from 2009-2012 that were part of the Service Campaign to change the Oil from Synthetic To Mineral. Started in the UK in 2014.