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Like Police Officers. There are even those that drive about with lights faulty. & obviously just because they do not all need MOT,d vehicles you might expect maintenance was top notch. It is not.

The car is on Variable, as they leave the factory. 24 months / 18,000 - 20,000 miles. a TDI on Long Life oil. It is just at the PDI or at the dealership they never changed it to FIXED SERVICING. As many do because greedy and without asking the owner / keeper, or because on a Service Plan or many the FREE SERVICING which really is not FREE. Someone pays, part of a finance incentive. PS Variable is exactly what many doing high annual mileage want because they might not want to be at a Dealership each 6 months or so. Fixed if that is your choice. Cam Belt and DSG can be incorrect. 6 year Air Filter unchecked would be just crazy. As it is Servicing is little done. Extras... cost. Bottom. As was till 2019. Minor / Interim and Major time about, or it was Major & Major on Variable Servicing.

You need to check the T&C,s and was it an Inspection Service & an Inspection service & fixed servicing 9,400 miles / 372 days or 24 months /18,000 - 20,000 miles. So at 2 years and 4 years. I doubt you were getting Variable Service Intervals. If you were you would have extras at the 2nd service anyway.

The suggestion of dropping them by 5 psi was to get an almost instant comparison, but do it by 1 psi. or 2 psi as you like but it is best to try something than just to ask others or to trust to other. The CrossClimate 2 were not an OEM fitment anyway even if the standard size and as far as some suggestion on pressures or recommendations that are not even taking into consideration the seasons of the year or UK roads and surfaces then just do not go too low, and if you let tyres down you ca always blow them back up. As it is the recommended pressures show the possible difference of maybe 300 kg or more in load carried. There is nothing showing a suggested thin as a stick driver with just a mobile phone as luggage. PS. My Electric Mini on 17" or 16" wheels with all season tyres has a kerb weight of 1,440 KG and carries a fat person or 2 in it. No more than 2 though, & a dog. I have the tyres at different pressures in different weather / conditions and that can be as much as 10 psi of difference. Wet / cold / snow compared to hot and dry roads. The Octavia MHEV is pretty light in comparison given the size difference.

Why not just drop yours 5 psi and see what you think? & remember and reset the TPMS.

Even the rear brakes on a Fabia mk2 vRS are rubbish so even if the had and axle with the disc brake set up you are no better off really. (Factory Sports Suspension. What is sporty about that?, the word SPORT is about it.)

There are more threads than these posted over the past 15 years if you look for them.

DSG, Change filters when there is a filter. (This is not the Haldex.) @Jack25 They are the same DQ250,s or the same as a Audi s-Tronic 6 speed wet that Audio says needs servicing at 38,000 miles. The life of the DSG is not really determined by the 3,000 miles difference shown with their EU / European use of metric. All that is different is VW Group and not giving the km conversion to miles as others might well do if they were not being stupid.. Kilometers @ 60,000 and when given in Miles @ 40,000

Welcome. Is it a manual gearbox? Good they ran a diagnostic. What about the brakes, were they checked over visually, & have they been serviced anytime or recently, and have they had a brake fluid change?

They keep rolling them out. Inoffensive enough.

Inlet manifold, one fouling / oiling plug and carbon build up and the tip burning off, crap mapping from VW, rubbish OEM plug choice which they changed, to still crap. dodgy components with the CAVE, not that better with the CTHE. OIl Spray Jets / Squirters, there were 2 breather pipe mods tried. Then Long life oil and only 3.6 liters when 3.9 was really the minimum needed, and 5w 40 FS not 5w 30 FS III. Bore wash. Enough detergent in the oil and then in the Super Unleaded, and they really needed and still do 97 or better 99 ron minimum. And engine to temp and booted and no gumming up rings. VOLVO sorted out Twin Chargers. But then Stefan Jacoby. The CEO of VW USA who was a VW Family insider that huffed off to Volvo / Geeely when he was not made the boss knew where the faults were. After all he introduced the Green TDI,s to the US and must of known about the defeat devices IF it was him that was the whistle blower. Brought VW from 1st place to 2nd behind Toyota. Then he left Volvo (sicj leave...) for GM Global. All that time and even when he was with Mitsubishi he was a VW Man born and breed. Cuckoo in the nest. Independent now. Selectively deaf dumb and blind. Knows nothing and everything.

I have had 6 of them, bought as rejected cars returned to Skoda or accident damaged. Repaired and sold. I ran one on the road and had one for the 1/4 mile sprints and hill climbs. I still have a rolling shell but sold the tuned engine and DSG. Car will be rebuilt to be a sleeper sometime. PS. Remaps were fine. Not the REVO map though. I ran stage 2 and 230 bhp. Blueprinted. Built by a great engine builder in Dundee that was a Hillman Imp race driver. He knew how to do potential crap engines to not eat them selves. Hiperflo 250 102 Ron petrol. Road car standard engine, stage 1 and running on Tesco momentum. DSG with clutches from Australia and software. Denso plugs. Put the original engine in it to sell. It was 1 of the first 50 into UK 2010. Still on the road someplace. A few of the early demonstrators were owned by members here. They were not allowed sh!,te.

Surely / Shirley it should. But surely what has gone before may have happened. Or I would not have mentioned it. If only everything in life was as reliable as a Golf. They could go into limp mode , misfire with a sooted plug and no fault code logged. PS. Most of the time or all the time? Tell that to thief that had 1.4 TSI Twinchargers. They liked Cylinder Deactivation even before VW introduced the concept..

EPC light can come on with misfires and it is not unknown not enough in a cycle to log a fault code. At the very least get out the plugs and inspect. If out as well to replace.

Welcome to the forum. Were the 3 spark plugs out and inspected and the gap checked before given the OK? How many miles has the car done and when were the spark plugs replaced? A failing spark plug can cause the premature failure of an ignition coil.

Best get it plugged in and read to see if any fault codes logged. Misfired maybe. EPC light on. Have the spark plugs been replaced yet?

Ignore please. I thought i was reading in Mk2 Fabia section.

The Daily Express would have warned you of Snowmaggedon if there was a hint of even a child spilling a Frosty Drink down your way. EDIT. THEY HAVE, YOU WILL ALL FREEZE, & IN THE NORTH POWER WILL NEED RATIONED SO ENGLAND OR HEATHROW CAN FUNCTION.

@wyx087 Not everyone is at home or at others homes to get cheap tariffs or can have a Home charger and cheap tariffs. using a 3 pin cable and the small battery is OK for when i want much cheapness. I like small cars, but i am about to replace a very comfortable Diesel estate with a slightly newer diesel estate. Going into Low Emission Zones are not an issue with a 'Disabled class vehicle' for the VED. I have no interest in owning or even leasing a bigger battery EV, or even a PHEV. A small PHEV would be OK for me as a daily driver. I need a big car just for carrying people or stuff or towing and that needs to be reliable. Small car for solo driving. Maybe the Skoda Epiq will be just what i am looking for next year or i will stick with the car i have and the lease extended till there is something as comfortable and yet small. (The new MINI Cooper or the Aceman are not IME.) Renault 5 EV Sill embellishment damn annoying. (for me.) The Alpine A90 will be the same, and then there is the shiny black plastic crap, like with MINI,s.

Obviously the All Season / Winter / Wet Weather / Summer tyre dates might well be a location location location thing and many around much of the UK might never have on Winters, or might keep them on all year if you are in and around the Cairngorms and are not going to ruin them even if the weather gets into the high 20,s Degree C. Odd frosty mornings and sunlight can be anytime, and cold frosty nights or even freezing water on roads at night might be something that happens, not that means that people are going to bother if the have on High Performance Summer tyres, they might just drive with care / caution. Maybe Lambing Snows coming for April in the North East of Scotland this year.

@Nosheds I am well aware the engine temperature matters and if cold started and run. It cold start in cold weather is t cold started in warner weather. And as for cold starting from freezing and getting the engine oil to 50 degrees C and stopping and 20 minutes later out in freezing weather that can be another cold start. Very different cold start on warm day then stop and later start. I was really just trying to know if the 40 seconds was really cold weather and cold engine. When I was checking cars and tick overs and time taken I filmed and timed and noted ambient temp. Even measured oil temperature. Which when cold is not lower than the ambient temperature.

And in Ecuador I see. This kind of thing matters if discussion models and ages of models. Different countries can get different features with same models of cars.

Have a look in the performance section and any more recent replies to threads were pretty much the same question was asked about remapping 1.5 TSI ACT,s. ? Did your car have recall actions and software updates when these were being done? UK safety critical issue low torque, actual DVLA Recalls +Skoda supposed to contact keepers. ) not just Recall action or Skoda Secret Service Workshop actions. (Don't actually tell every keeper that might have got a dud !)

Warmer Weather, still All Seasons on but at a slightly higher pressure. Pretty much 3.3 miles to the kWh over this past month. Recent charging. Home on the 3 pin, or AC 7 or 11 kw, and some DC / CCS 50 kW charging. Sometimes pre heating used. Pretty much always charging to 100% or a few to 99% 10 kWh 4 hours 19 minutes 0.70 pence 10 kWh 4 hours 4 minutes 0.70 pence 12 kWh 5 hours 10 minutes 0.86 pence 12 kWh 5 hours 7 minutes 0.83 pence 9 kWh 3 hours 48 minutes 0.63 pence 2 kWh 45 minutes 0.12 pence 19 kWh 38 minutes £9.77 pence 12 kWh 1 hour 4 minutes £5.42 pence 16 kWh 57 minutes £7.57 pence 19 kWh 24 minutes ?? £10.54 pence 17 kWh 7 hours 29 minutes £1.22 pence 15 kWh 6 hours 29 minutes £1.06 pence 5 kWh 2 hours 6 minutes 0.35 pence 2 kWh 59 minutes 0.50 pence 19 kWh 40 minutes £11.46 pence 179 kWh / £30.89 My MINI App shows. Must be missing some payments. My calculator adds to . £51.73 Charging costs. 179 kWh x 3.3 miles = 591 miles. .................... Petrol at 135 pence a liter is £6.14 a gallon. £51.73 divided £6.14 is 8.4 gallons. 591 miles divided by 8.4 gallons would be 70.3 mpg. 591 miles at 50 mpg would be 11.82 gallons. £72.57 591 miles as i would drive a MINI Petrol might be 45 MPG if lucky, so 13.13 gallons. £80.61 Is the £29 less with the charging and messing about and hanging about worth it.??? Suits me alone, but not when any passengers involved, it is a PITA then and you are more than £29 with Coffees or KFC etc. PS . Edit. Just finished 3 hour charge on 11 kW AC. 90 miles covered since last at 99% and it took 27 kWh to be back at 99 % showing 104 mile range. £12.74 it cost for 90 miles. *Cost pretty much the same as 2 gallons of unleaded for 90 miles to charge on a not the slowest but not Rapid public charger . *

The tyre pressure check obviously if not regularly done. Reset the Tyre Pressure Monitor system. TPMS. Would be sensible to get wheels off and check the tyre wall you can not see. Maybe move Front wheels to rear and rear to front. Look at the Pollen filter. Vacuum it, clean the area. Lubricate hinges etc, the stuff that some Dealerships might or might not do. Coolant level checked, brake fluid level. Visual inspection of the Air filter, all paint, sills / lower sills etc etc. This is basically a SKODA OIL & INSPECTION SERVICE, and with bits a SKODA Workshop might not be doing at 1 or 2 years,