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Welcome to the forum. If there was an issue between 1,500 & 6,500 miles / 6 months then that was when to report them. If the car is over 6 months then you still report to the seller ASAP who is the one that has sold a vehicle with issues. Not that it will make any difference, but was the car First Registered to VW / Skoda UK, VW Finance / a Dealership and a Demonstrator, Courtesy Car, Media car, driven by Management, Employees, anyone and everyone and never raced or rallied but maybe thrashed from new? This is an issue with Skoda Approved Used Cars / Ex Management. VW Group get tax breaks and then profit well from the sale of these Nearly New cars that really are over priced as little is done before sale. Sometimes not even the oil level is checked or topped up before resale.

A slight drop in RPM at idle is not necessarily something wrong. There can be no extra load on the battery and the need for a higher RPM. Maybe not the demand from AC, lights, heated rear screen mirrors etc that might have Stop / Start not operate if it was enabled. If the car feels rough at the lower RPM then that is a different matter. Then that needs addressing. Assuming servicing is all good and good spark plugs / gap, clean air filter etc.

Maybe because i flagged it for a mod for a wider audience and more discussion and the attention of those maybe not getting this advance in technology. ? Have Skoda / VW just introduced this for Karoq Sat Navs and those with other vehicles have to just settle for some other non regional accents?

@Keypurr Do you have an issue like Stop / Start is not operational when it should be able to operate? If it does not have Stop / Start operational and it has never worked it might be because a previous owner had it disabled. People have been asking here for years how to have it off permanently. This is like with you DPF question in another thread. You can not assume a used car is as it left the factory and not modified. People have been talking about DPF removal and coding out for years. Maybe there is an issue and this is a clue to that. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/504981-skoda-octavia-2013

You will see a light / symbol if the DPF is clogged. Your car does self regens now on occasion and has been doing over the years. ? Have you had the car since new or a long enough time to know that it is as it left the factory and still has all it's gubbins? Has it had 'The fix' so new Software and a flow device fitted in the air intake? http://skoda-auto.com/services/recall-actions

So about a year ago, but how many miles ago? Best inspect the pads. & How are the discs looking, is there surface corrosion when the car sits or around the rims?

Welcome. The 31 week timeline might be fiction. If the salesperson can not tell you exactly what the spec / material you might get with the options of a MY23 Kodiaq in the UK maybe have a conversation with Skoda UK Customer Services and see if they know a man or woman that will know.

@tunedudeThe point is that the OP is correct and an EV looks like a total PITA for him. Even if he looks at the actual matter and not the myths that you see it would still be crap. Even if he has a Porsche there is no guarantee of getting charged quickly if all around have a Porsche EV as well and no home charging. Terrible infrastructure and no encouragement to move over from an ICE passenger car he likes and one that on occasions can be efficient if driven carefully. PS Petrol Station & Service area chargers tend to be quick ones, as are Commercial Charging hubs where there are no petrol or diesel pumps. It is Pubic hubs like park and rides and railway station car parks and free chargers that tend to be slower. @TheWanderer The light power connection at your garage is all that is needed to use a 3 pin plug charger, which is what many use to get their daily need of charging at the home tariff. (but then the sale of those is being made illegal.) If thermal energy is so easy to get in your locality it is a bit odd it not being used. Hopefully around your area there will be drilling being done for fracking soon and no pollution of the drinking water. Also solar and wind generating electricity local so that the lights stay on. Shop local,buy local, get your energy / fuel local and not bring it in from places where others pay higher tariffs than the south of England has to.

Well it is Haldex / Part time AWD just like a quattro is from Audi.

@tunedude The UK Government & the Scottish one might well have to put back the years that new ICE Passenger Cars can not be first registered as the UK Government is not involved enough in ensuring the EV charging infrastructure will be in place and public charging and workplace charging. So that is that then, Englandshire with it's Coal & Gas & Woodchip powered power stations, even diesel farms & not enough nuclear or renewables is going to have to stick with lots of the energy it is not producing being imported from where there are those generating more than they need from their Nuclear and renewables. Englandshire will keep bringing some gas out the sea and selling it to others and having to buy back in and continue to buy in oil that others get out of their water or from their lands. Plenty people, plenty vehicles and not producing enough energy to power them, or when the electricity can be produced cheaply not enough storage facilities for when it can be used in the form of battery storage. Maybe the oil under the South of the UK can stay where it is for a few more decades until England gets the benefit keeping the revenue for its self. Also the lithium from the south coast area will be used for the battery production in England as other materials are already which are produced in the UK and exported. London will keep making money trading on commodities and imports and exports and kidology carbon trading and stuff and financing the lending / leasing and renting of vehicles. ................. Guilford does look like it is pretty crap to get a 100 kW plus charger unless using the one at the Porsche dealership.

Be careful if buying an Extended Warranty from Skoda / VW or what appears to be a Skoda Warranty. They will sell it and you will read the exclusions, read the ones on known faults. Even though your car was fixed under a Skoda Warranty and by an Approved Repairer so should be as good as intended that does not stop the Warranty provider / management / handler knocking back a claim because of a Known issue. That is known by them and ones that should have been addressed. This is known as taking the p!55 in some circles.

@TheWanderer. Are you still using super unleaded and fuel additives? Do you do many miles or these longer trips, and do you actually leave the UK where there are speed limits higher than 70 mph? I do pity the next owner of your car but then there are plenty out there that have not required so many dealership visits. Maybe yours is finally shorted now that it is out of manufacturers warranty.

We will see you many TDI,s will be needing DPF replaced or new SCR systems in the next decade. How many water pumps they had by the time over 100,000 miles. The original and maybe on the 2nd replacement. Maybe in the next couple of years we will hear of the TSI,s getting the original GPF replaced.

They will never be the fuel for everyone. But if you are middle aged you can probably carry on driving cars already built now or on the next 8 years for the rest of your life or driving life. Ps. No point watching a blogger / blogger on a track. Watch those like the one posting trips with his caravan from the Scottish island in his KIA EV6. Or speak to ones like I do towing vans in Scotland with Tesla's. Pathetic range, and pita getting the car charged with van unhitched. It takes all sorts though. @tunedude This BRISKODA member is a bit better clued up than your neighbour it seems or luckier and pays for the charge when needed and maybe helped by the cheaper rate that came with the card you got with the Enyaq. There is no doubt travelling by EV takes more thought /planning, but for a business users the financial saving can be high. I have met recently long distance travellers going back to ICE vehicles. I do not use my EV with a small range if in a hurry / emergency like a family crisis where i have no time to mess about saving money i just splash the cash on petrol, & then i have my 26 mpg diesel for towing.

Respect to those that bought them and will keep, sell or trade in. Many will just be leasing them like those other vehicles mentioned, maybe for business use or private and in a year or three they go back and get replaced by something else. Maybe due to shortages some will be kept longer than usual before reaching the used trade.

Setting tyres cold is simply clever. Remember if in the UK cold ambient depends on weather, season. so check pressures regularly and adjust also as your load / use varies. Cold might be below 0*C and up into the high 20,s or over that occasionally . . So pressure set / checked with cold tyres and easy to check what they are when hot, after use and compare how much that difference of a pressure is.

I thought there was an International Rescue Committee meeting happening and maybe some vehicles from Thinderbirds would attend, or is that the David Miliband headed organisation.

Good. Not many miles done since then but as long as they will cover it under an extended warranty since it was an experimental part.

@TheWanderer Was all fixed finally and is this 'Experimental Wiring Harness' available to any owner with a car with the same issue? Obviously Skoda / VW will have them produced and ready to supply and there will be a TPI so that Dealership staff now know.

@ausbinny Is your 1.2 TSI not a Cambelt one and due a change by miles / km or age?

Do not choose Coolant by colour or assume similar colours are the correct spec for a vehicle. Those that bought import cars from the east that came to the UK and never knew the difference between OAT & HOAT has been the death of many an engine.

@tunedude I think if i went and looked at @TheWandererOctavia to buy and the service and warranty history i might just leave it. A 2 year extended warranty would be important if a Skoda Dealer sold it as a Skoda Approved Used Car. Some cars are Friday builds and there are lots of Fridays in the Czech Republic. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/496078-pool-of-fluid http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/497627-oil-sensor-fault-octavia-vrs-2019 http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/500371-4-weeks-old-car-and-gearbox-fault If i was going for 1.4 TSI Twincharger Fabia, Polo, Ibiza or A1 it would be a total lottery as with many 1.8 / 2.0 TSI / TSFI Euro 5 VW Group vehicles. Early EV's from over a decade ago are managing to not have had much degradation so i think this myth you seem to have sucked up needs a bit of thought. We can see now how 5-7 year old batteries are doing and we will see how then 3 year old ones are now as their leases are up and they are tested before resale. How batteries are charged is what affects their health over time and more know know not to fill them every time if you do not need the full range but even that is not reducing battery life with many cars. There is a trend with Plug in Hybrids that they are getting charged fully when plugged in, time will tell how they last. One of the smallest battery EV's and the most efficient and now in demand used as people realise how good these actually were.

@RCC49 The issue was not with the cover on 1.5 TSI's.