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Ask the dealer again in writing. It appears Skoda are doing with the newest model as with the others and sending them out with faults. The Dealership now has to get the car fit for purpose and Skoda are paying for that. Best not do their work for them. VW Group are super wealthy and need to stop the nonsense.

Check to see if the car has had a new engine or record of an engine rebuild, some have had. A good model if all is well. Servicing and maintenance done as it should be. But you need to look at the possible issues with euro 5 1.8 TSI.s. sadly there can be issues. See pinned thread at top of Octavia mk3 section and search threads on here. Has the DSG been serviced each 40,000 miles. The Haldex every 3 years or 30,000 miles?

People really are comparing apple and pears here when talking about 2.0 TSI / DSG,s. The OP shows at the side as having a 1.5 TSI, so that is an engine which has ACT (Active Cylinder Technology) Same as Audi COD (Cylinders on demand). Also it has a DQ200 twin dry clutch 7 speed DSG. So the engine can shut down 2 cylinders when off the accelerator. 2.0 TSI with Wet Clutch DSG's are doing things in a different way.

You keep the fluid level right as you bleed the brakes and then there are no issues with the ABS pump.

& a binding brake or hot brakes and then hot hubs and wheels can have hot air in tyres.

Still waiting to hear from someone that want yanking a Mondeo and if they ended up with a door handle.

Welcome and sorry to hear this. ? Is it a Mk3 vRS you have? Your car is 10,000 miles off from needing the DSG Service. (An independent VW Specialist might be better value than using Main Dealers, they know the requirements.) Your used 22,000 & now @ 30,000 mile 2016 car's DSG was not due an oil change at 4 years old. It is due at 40,000 miles. So discuss that with the Lovely man at Bolton Skoda. Where did he get it as being due at 4 years? (Likely on the Skoda misleading Service Guide.) WAS THAT SOMEONE ON THE SERVICE DESK? They might require more training over and above up-selling. If the Skoda Approved Used car was to have been Serviced to Manufacturers Recommendations the Brake Fluid will have been replaced at 3 years and 5 years. The Pollen Filter at 2 & 4 years & again at 6. The Diesel Fuel Filter @ 4 years. (EDIT. That no longer shows but used to on each 2nd Major Service for diesels. Now @ 6 years / 60,000 miles) The Cam Belt might have been. The thing is that Skoda Approved used cars are sold with warranties even if not Serviced to the manufacturers recommendations or guidelines, they never used to use 'Schedules' as a term. .......................................... If you had a car not serviced to manufacturers recommendations and bought a Skoda Extended warranty and had a claim they are quick enough to point out the car as not having been Serviced to the manufacturers recommendations. https://skoda.co.uk/owners/servicing-maintenance-fixed-price Scroll down.

There are no TPMS Valve Sensors fitted. The car uses the ABS system to know if the circumference of the tyres change much from what they are registered at when you set the TPMS. Tell the fitter the pressure to put your tyres to and you reset the TPMS. New valves should not be much on your invoice, i hope no more than £1.50 each. Do they maybe take £15 per tyre fitting, valves and balancing? If you had new Sensors you would notice just how much they charged you.

@PhatEd Welcome to the forum. Hopefully you will not have much of a wait. The 'do not start building unless they know' is just Salesperson spin. 'Usually' must be a recent thing as they had cars bunkered for many months last year waiting for semiconductors, and the 'cars waiting to be finished' got towards 55,000 before they were ready to stop productions. So what 'usually' is the case pre Covid was they would say 16 weeks as a max wait. VW cancelled cars ordered a few years back if the waiting list was greater than 6 months. Now there are no 'Usually's' and it is in the lap of someone but not 'St Christopher'.

Different DSG,s in petrol or diesels or wet or dry clutch can behave differently. All try to protect themselves though. There are ones you can move to M1 and floor them and the DSG will go through the gears on the red line and go quicker than in S. There are ones that in manual if you go to a low gear too low it ignores you. Some will actually maybe go down the gears and near put you through the windscreen.

People sadly require Social Media and forums to vent on or just to ask questions and get answers because the Main Dealership & Customer Services and the actual manufacturers are not giving the information required. Lots of people end up on forums but many many more will not get to a forum to learn of issues, or to say how free of issues their vehicle is and how good a service they receive & Dealers. Many might not join a forum or post on it and just try to get information reading what others have posted giving their experiences or opinions. The Internet has caught out VW Group over incompetence and part of their failing is Software and the Motoring Journals seem to be far to easy on VW Group over this.

@Yogi-Bear Editing because i am losing signal as i type and post and try to get the post up & i see my errors. If you want to say i am a Troll then post that & own it.

If you want to go on about quotes, do not make up your own and put with another users name..

I am winding you up. You went off on one about max speed limits IMO. I did on those ECO driving to save a few pence. I could quote the post if that was easier, but i never so it is there just the same.

@Yogi-Bear That was a good reply from the person that went for the vRS just for the tall seating position, good fuel efficiency / economy and ability to get past tractors or the likes safely. This was a good post earlier.

@CFB You were the one that posted about bringing your speed down from being over the Speed limit at times. Flat roads with little camber and funny corners are an issue. Well that is how they seemed to be for me when i drove in Norfolk. It certainly slowed things down. If the people in front are doing just 50 mph and you are not passing then that is how things are. If the cars behind can not get passed or scared to because a Safety Partnership camera van might be at the end of the only straight you can get passed at then people just need to go with the flow. This can be the issue on many roads and especially oop north. Being in the country there might only be 60 mph roads to get places and people have jobs to get to and from and stuff to be doing.

Are Skoda Perth not able to get them in?

Skoda have apparently managed to produce an engine / car that seems to be very low on diesel use even if people are not even hypermiling. Maybe even with legal engine management software. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/503475-836-mpg

They always are. It was not from Arnold Clark by any chance? Going on holiday?, would you like a drink? etc etc. Then after it is always their day off. I phone from outside & then I walk in on them @ their desk when in the area. Then i post on Trust Pilot and management get a bit of a move on. THE DEALER PRINCIPAL is just that, there will be Dealership Directors or Owners that employ them. SKODA UK CUSTOMER SERVICES are not much interested these days.

Fair enough if less fuel used in the UK does decrease the 8% of oil that is imported from Russia but that is unlikely. It might decrease the road fuel produced in the UK from oil from British waters and bought or imported and bought though. Mony a mickle maks a muckle. If it makes a difference the Government can just reduce the NSL's for passenger cars by 10 mph. They will not do that before the local elections though.

Good. Why was the DSG done then?

@numskull So you are already going beyond the Haldex recommendations, guidelines from Skoda / VW Group as seldom is 'schedule' used. It is @ 3 years / 30,000 miles or sooner. Different from the DSG which is @ 40,000 years. (or sooner)

The Responder should know how to get it out of P and if not it is in the owners manual telling them how to. They will start the car in Park though and then take it out. If the car does not start the front wheels need taken on a dolly anyway if the car is being towed even if in N.

Welcome. Have all communications confirmed in writing. You are doing things correctly, If sales or workshop staff are not calling back then deal with the Dealer Principal. WHEN THEY DO NOT YOU CONTACT SKODA UK. They are not interested and say contact Dealership, but press them and they contact the Dealership. ( Customer Services has been contracted out.) Organ grinder not the monkey with Dealerships, so a named person, have their job title etc, always quote that to Skoda UK. The key issue is for the selling dealership to resolve at their expense. They do it or pay £75 for another Skoda Dealer to. So basically they foot the bill to have it done by someone else because their pre sales checks and preparation is crap & when you are not near them. This is as i had Arnold Clark do with a car i bought from them and they were not the franchised dealer for. (So not an Approved used car, just a used one with a key not synced to the car. I knew how to do it from reading online but why should i. ) The creaking suspension needs diagnosed as what is wrong if anything because if nothing other than Servicing & Maintenance is required that is not Warranty work. So the next thing is sometimes NAME AND SHAME THEM. They had their chance. Let others know who they are and even SKODA UK can see online how their Franchised Dealerships behave, as others can. They have do it for years someplaces, and others are excellent. The excellent ones should be big upped and the poor performing ones brought to the public's attention on Social Media. http://briskoda.net/forums/forum/289-skoda-dealer-reviews

Richard Branson would be proud of you. Sounds sensible bringing your speed to or below the 70 mph, as for going 10 mph below the 60 mph NSL for cars can really can pee people off, especially those that find 60 mph perfectly economic for their vehicles. Often it looks like people trying to stick to 56 mph and not aware the cars speedo over reads. Or those towing or driving commercials. (Flying Blue pigs if such a thing was to happen.)