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If the advert is clearly saying 18" alloys then exactly. They will need to get some or pony up some cash money. If it is in the Spec they show in a Autotrader Ad with the duff spec that many just have showing in adverts they will still need to deal with their incompetence or their employees. @anewman ??? Is this it? Is it actually a SE-L Executive? 17" Alloys. 'STRATOS'.

It was good for once that a vlogger mentioned why they were not getting to the max speed. Some just need to make an attempt to know chargers, charging speeds etc. & what they are going to be paying. Know where Ultra-Rapid Chargers are, Porsche Dealerships with chargers, and CPS ones when in Scotland and arrive with a lower percentage in the battery and get charged quicker. Do not over pay to use 50 kW chargers if a bit more gets you a more powerful one. Ainster was good enough to start with for Anstruther.

Looks good IMO. No harm done is there as long as the correct size tyres are fitted and hopefully decent ones, not some ditch finders.

@gsmdo This might give you some knowledge for when talking to your neighbour. Same battery. He says he is going to a FAST charger, he goes to an Ultra-Rapid charger. A totally different thing & unless you have a discount card or subscription they are going to not be cheap. Cost him £13.51 with the Hyundai card, without that would be £37.28 at IONITY when it is 69p / kWh to the likes of me.

Not the 5, the 6.

@Donweather If it drops from 2nd to 1st OK when in D then maybe best not manually drop to 1st using the paddles. ? How many miles on the car?

A Skoda Service History up to 96,000 miles means nothing. That might be 4 Oil & Filter changes and a look see and a free wash and vacuum. It is what was done that matters, was it annual or bi-annual services, extras done, brake fluid. fuel filter, air filter, water pump etc etc You want a history of service and maintenance. An Independent Specialist that services the Haldex properly is more important than a Main Dealership that may not have. Sorry no particular suggestions for a quick car other than the ones that people are scared to buy so are not at stupid Asking Prices and that some dealer needs to get shot of.

Fast Charging is Slow charging. There might be 50 cars 'Fast Charging'. Rapid Charging is quicker. Ultra-Rapid is obviously quicker than Rapid. Turn up at a TESLA SuperCharger HUB and maybe 11 Tesla are already charging and you plug in and charge then leave as the others are doing and new cars are arriving to charge. http://gridwatch.co.uk Scotland has only 1 nuclear power station left and it could have to close anytime. It can provide 25% of the need for the homes in Scotland. Renewables can provide over 90%. But not all is connected to the national grid. There is no Coal Fired Power stations ion Scotland but there is still dirty gas ones that are used and exports electricity south and Scotland still needs to import in when required. It is time we value energy that can be produced by wind, solar , hydro etc and use it and not pay those that can generate it to turn it off because the National Grid does not want it and there is no why to store other than with Pump Storage / Hydro or export it. Where there is a limit of generation of electricity and the UK Coal Fired stations that are staying open require the coal that is coming in from Australia ans elsewhere then not good. When Electricity is easy to produce and not been because of contracts to import from across the channel or the Irish Sea or from Scotland then that is how things are. Charging hubs can have battery storage that gets energy offpeak, can have solar and windfarms providing and even energy that the National Grid does not get. Some seem to have no idea that Power Stations are required to power Oil Refineries / Cracking plants and that is Oil & Gas that powers them if it is not nuclear. Sadly only 4 Rapid / 50 kW chargers here. Just ridiculous.

@Reeky What is the budget to buy and how much to modify? Have you looked in the Briskoda for sale section? Not only are you not keeping up with the Subaru you are going for a car with Haldex and a 30,000 mile / 3 year service interval on that. First thing is find a good car that the Haldex is all well with. Best just go find a car already quick enough and with AWD / Part time AWD in good condition.

FAST chargers are 7 kW. That is free chargers. Some at a ASDA that are not free are 3.6 kW which might suit VW GTE's. Rapids might be 50kW. If you have a 7 kW home charger and a Off Peak tariff of 5 pence a kWh and you charge for 8 hours and get 56 kW in the battery then that was 56 x 5 pence so only £2.80 If 7 pence a kWh x 56 then £3.92. If it was my home tariff of 27.2 a kWh it would be £13.23 75 kW battery charged @ 5 pence a kWh = £3.75 A 50 kW Pod Point @ Tesco / Lidl etc at 28 pence a kWh then £21 A 100 plus kW Public charger @ 54 pence a kWh then £40.50 Then the likes of a 350 kW Charger @ 69 pence a kWh and 75 kWh is £51.75.

A Kia EV6 maybe can charge to 80% on a 135 kW charger or more powerful. so a 50 kWh charger is a different matter, or a 11 kW AC or a 7kW public or home charger. @LIDL or other free 7kW chargers they will get about 1.1 kWh for each 10 minutes, so between 2-4 miles added depending on their efficiency driving. If charging for 1 hour and getting 6.6 kWh and 4 miles to the kWh then 26.4 miles added. So 30 minutes charging might just top up what you used driving to and from the charger if that was under 7 miles each way. They have a 77.4 kWh battery. Charging from low to even 80% there would require lots of hours like 7-8. Sadly at the 4 chargers near me @ Tesco there are cars that might sit that long on the chargers to save them paying 28 pence a kWh at home. I will do my charging late tonight or early tomorrow and if people need a charge i will move and let them.

@JohnnyZenith Might tell us if he has a TSI / MPI or a TDI and what sort of average MPG the car gets.

@JohnnyZenith £10 is not buying you as much fuel as it was a month ago.

Mine was when the picture was taken and there was 10 litres of petrol in container in the boot.

Just wheel trims. Back to the old days.

How many miles of overtaking do you do in Sport on 60 mph NSL roads?

Why are you out driving about on fumes assuming the fuel gauge actually does work? £10 was likely under 6 litres of fuel be that petrol or diesel as you do not say. No wonder there was not much movement. Once you put in maybe 10 litres or more there might be a bit of movement. Or try more fuel in if you have some money before spending money trying to fix something maybe not broken. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/464142-fuel-gauge-working-but-very-slowly The car is just estimating range left on how you were driving a short while before. PS I have only ever really seen 50 mile range left after driving carefully to get to someplace to put fuel in.

So nobody here knows anything because they do not work for Skoda or read a news article / press release or on Social Media. There could be new Engine Covers sitting in China / South Korea or anyplace that can produce them dead cheap but no containers / transport is available, or VW Management Board have said, stuff those stupid customers we have better things to spend money on right now like Advertising New Green Electric cars and fighting Legal Battles over past cheating and lying about emissions. Only time will tell, or maybe owners demanding that they can use parts on their cars that they bought and paid for and if they are faulty they want replacements. Ask these. They want your customer service to be a good one. Ask at your Dealership & in writing when they intend making your car as it should be and as designed.

It is only Special People with Special Needs & all the gear and no idea or proper training to work on vehicles they see in their hundreds that need the Emergency Number on the red phone to the BAT CAVE where Technical People will jump onto a problem only they know how to resolve on vehicles launched over 6 years ago using part used in millions of vehicles globally that VW Group produce. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/464781-contact-skoda-technical

Skoda Dealership employees & Skoda Customer Services staff have been saying for many years that 'We will contact the technical department'. Also we will contact the Factory. They even say this when the issue has been know for years. They did contact VW UK, there are Technical people. Oddly when someone gets a New Model and there are Snagging faults, or 'We have never seen that before' or They all do that'. The car is not taken to the VW GRoup technical department in Milton Keynes or whereever for a Technical Inspection. The VW Group Technician is not out and about in all these 'Management Cars' they have and checking out the car at Dealerships. There is a BS response that Dealership Employees are trained in, it is like the Up-selling training they get. Customer Services, Communication & Resolution Managers were maybe working selling trainers in a sports discount shop recently, or doing a NVQ in Communications, keyboard skills. Not in Mechanical Engineering or Electronics.

The All New 3rd Generation as Skoda called the Mk3 Fabia launched in 2014 did not require new Type Approval which meant they were after 2011 but still did not need DRL's as standard from the factory. VW / Skoda changed the platform, track, wheel base, tornado lines, a bit of a change from the MK2 but nothing much other than some tweaks and changes and Euro 6 engines. Skoda were offering ESP as an extra cost option on some Mk2 Fabia years after other manufacturers had it as standard even on cheaper cars and only had it on all models when EU legislation meant they had to have it. Re-engineered. Vorsprung Durch Technik. Turn it out cheap and be sure not better than a Polo a A1 or even an Ibiza. http://autoevolution.com/news/all-new-2014-skoda-fabia-first-photos-of-third-generation-model-81536.html

Just a payment of a small fee for access. Someone will explain. Your cars servicing is not complex or involved. They will be upselling you AC Servicing, Fuel Additives and any old stuff that makes them money, even saying the brakes are 80% worn. The important stuff is shown above in the charts.

Simples then. Later go find a safe place, an empty car park, trading estate or road and try out your braking and ABS. Be sure today was not the road surface, spills or the likes and it is the car that is the issue, or maybe the tyres / pressures. So not considered ditch finders, just reasonably cheap tyres that are hard wearing and not so good at stopping maybe.

There you go. Maybe the issue. What are the new tyres? Green tyres, not run in. ? How many miles since in that 2 weeks? OK, tyres set cold is good, what size are they? At least not set at a Ditch Finder ECO pressure or left as a Tyre Fitter might have had them at.