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PS. Is it a Service Desk person saying the Spark Plugs are due because they are just looking at the chart and seeing 4 years / 40,000 miles.

The DSG oil change is not a 4 year thing. 40,000 miles and some are now said by VW Skoda as each 80,000. Google Briskoda DQ380 / DQ381. Is this what you have???

Sorry can't help. But please tell how this leads to keys getting locked in the car.

There have been threads in the past, recently in the MK2 section about seat belt warnings. The owner's manuals and even brochures talked about front seats and rear seats but this was not all Trim Models or in all world region and Ireland / EU could be different from the UK / EU models. If any were to have both front seats with seat belt warnings I would expect that an SEL would . Others with a 2017 SEL could maybe say what their car has. And if the rears have. PS, for me just a Man bag and the Deicer on the passenger seat of any vehicle is enough to have the no seat belt fastened warning on. My rear seat belts are always plugged in because the shopping he to put on the rear seats.

Just look left. Is there someone in the seat. Look at the seat belt, are they wearing it? Job done and cost nothing.

It is not a Dealer, it can be some untrained properly staff or fitter or whoever. The issue is that occasionally incompetents do get it wrong at PDI,s. The same type that miss Transit blocks on the suspension. They try to fix errors of their making, or trying to get the In Transit milage back to zero to then have the Delivery miles only showing. Then when getting the changed to Fixed Service and not an oil service and an inspection service showing at different times. If a new owner misses what went wrong from there very start like KMPH missing on the dash they can miss other strange stuff that should not have been touched.

The Stop / start is faulty if the load / demand from the car from fans AC is such that they are running and the engine has stopped and not fired up again when the car is stationary and the ignition is on.

Easy enough for the UK soon with EV,s for the Government to change UK law. EV,s have all the software required that at a MOT or Traffic Stop the car can not only have miles travelled checked and use in Built up Areas,. But also when they exceeded NSL,s or restricted speed areas. The NIP / charges per mile, or exceeded MPH could be imposed on the Registered Keeper / fleet operator. Not just for EV,s but include ICE vehicles. As a car is charging and taking in power the miles since the last charge, and the energy consumed is easily enough monitored and really EV efficiency is all over the place and the manufacturers are not making them as efficient as they could yet. If drivers want to drive less efficient ones then just because they can use cheaply available electric is no reason that the Government / Tax payers should encourage inefficiency. PS,. I drive a very inefficient EV. But PSA / Stellantis are turning the same rubbish models out across the brand's. Models not purpose built as only EV,s. . MG is the same and then Partnered with VW they can make VW appear to have low Average Emissions across their production of vehicle ICE and EV. When you just want to get places and stop and get on a 50kW charger because that is all that there is available and you need to get a few miles in it drives people up the wall when a big battery car is parked on the only available for hours charging or maybe even fully charged. Especially when they have a home charger but just want to top up free. I would rather be paying to charge and have to pay over stay charges and stop the greedy that are as ignorant to hog a charger. I never got on the 50 kW after being here an hour so now have to find an available charger in the next 20 miles.

Hardly. Local authorities and other publically funded agencies and business's are running lots of EV,s in the UK. But if manufacturers want to import actual world inefficient EV,s to the UK there needs to be a better system than WLTP to know how much electric is required. Fair enough if big battery EV,s are using Properly Rapid chargers, but the issue is where charging is limited and a few 50kWh chargers available and a big EV is on them for hours. I am waiting now to charge and hoping the driver that had been on the charger for 90 minutes already returns. If not soon I will need to head off to charge. I have got some charge in on a 7kW charger while waiting. This is an issue where charging is free.

A Skoda as do other manufacturers cars arrive at a Dealership Distribution centre with Factory Settings and In Transit settings. Then the In Transit is reset at a PDI and a Skoda might well be changed from a Variable / Flexible service setting to Fixed Servicing. As much as you might expect the person doing this to know what they are doing sadly many know that is not always the case.

@shyVRS245 posted that getting on for 2 years ago. What BMW and the rest need to do is get the EV's lighter and on the roads and really forget the performance / acceleration and top speed of the ones that are imported to the UK and that are never going across to Continental Europe. The UK Government could charge a special extra high VED on performance cars / EV's that is over and above those based on RRP so not just Duty / VAT but a charge on the Manufacturers / Importers. Have them not only having to meet the low / Average C02 g/km from WLTP / RDE2 kidology but have them required to have efficient EV's that are not requiring lots of electricity to not even go that far, or needing bigger and heavier batteries to move about cars that are cheap for business users and are just big and expensive and chosen as a status symbol and not what is required for the actual job the 'employee' is doing.

Charging a battery fully can be misleading with modern cars and the charging system of batteries and regeneration. You might charge a battery as full as you can when disconnected from the car. That is not fully charged though.

Thankfully all is well. What matters is that the car drives well and smoothly. @dc63described well how normally a DQ200 dsg behaves on the flat. There is also Hill Hold assist / control that acts for a few seconds when the car sits at a bit of an angle.

Who drove the car at the service when they reported an issue, was it the Master Tech. Same at the Main Dealer was it the Master Tech. The suggestion originally of both clutches and MCU needing replaced was a major thing that must of had very bad behaviour of the way the car drove. It is all very strange. ?so still no Reset of the DQ200 carried out just checked for fault codes????

@Omniking. So Germany can be different from other world regions including none EU European countries like the UK. 98 Ron has not been sold in the UK for a few years now and super unleaded is 97 or 99 Ron minimum and it is still E5. 95 Ron is now only available as E10. If people want fuels with detergents or more detergents / packages then they might well buy the higher octane fuel. But then you can buy 100-102 octane for motorsports which has no detergents. Not available at UK filling stations as 100 plus octane as it is available in places on continental Europe. It is Location location location that matters. Then as far as winter formulation I imagine that Australia has a different of the year for that being distributed than Europe / EU / UK.

The ridiculous price. Really does anyone care if a Skoda emblem is sitting vertically?

Usually an hour. But then the free wash and vacuum is much of that time. The thing is is if it is getting taken to the workshop as soon as you hand the keys in and then go out with the service receptionist and check your car including wheels are damage free.

@Athrx that post you had linked was not for a DQ200. Which has no service schedule and wet clutch DSG have the single oil and filter. The DQ200 has oil in the box and oil in the MCU.

@KenONeill preferable to being at a park and ride near a main route or motorway where there are no toilets or anything else other than buses to get on. So there are places to eat at if that is your thing, or there is doing your shopping, going to the cinema, golfing, walking, cycling, horse riding etc etc. I am in Dunblane charging and the food and drink came with me as I had to drive through snow to get to the rain. I have never used an eatery while charging other than if buying in a supermarket. I drive an EV to save money to have money to spend on stuff when I get to destinations and not to help fast food places stay busy.

When it comes to what Skoda might do in the future even Skoda do not know until VW tell them what they can do or get.

@cheezemonkhai. It was what the something else you purchased that got my curiosity going. I assumed it would be a car but assumption killed the cat.

@froggy8 If you do not know about cars yourself Just buy a car local or near enough to not make it difficult if issues and from a trusted seller if they are in the motor trade. See a car, drive a car and take a trained or qualified mechanic or someone with a knowledge of cars, the parts, the servicing, the drive trains, engines, gearboxes, awd systems etc. Be aware of places that do their own MOT's or have a mate / pal / buddy with test station. As far as a post earlier about what most Cabbies use. What the majority use means nothing, because you are not buying the majority, just 1 vehicle and these days 'Fast Food Deliveries', and 'Home Shopping' deliveries are done in any type of cars / vehicles available and can do as many miles as a Private Hire / Taxi. More miles and more stop start driving over lots of hours in a day than even taxis do.

Maybe Just say who the Dealership that gives you the information that other dealerships do not give their customers. If there are to be Internet Stories just as well know where they come from and who starts them. Your Dealership seems to be very switched on and you kept well informed. That way other customers can ask their Dealership or Skoda UK why other dealerships have all the gen yet they are not telling them the same thing.

@Spivo Keep it simple maybe then. ? Is it Lookers Skoda Newcastle? You never read 'friend' in my question. You should not go to Spec Savers. I did and got crap service and still managed to read where you posted 'My Skoda dealer'. You could say who this Dealer or Dealership is, or where you are are in they are country. A guess will be in the Gateshead area, but that is not something you can even guess at if on a phone. Dealer is an odd term, it would need to be an actual person as a Dealership, So not a Drug Dealer, it will be the Dealer Principal at a Dealership or sales executive.

Lost in Translation and German and other Foreign Languages & term do not always match English or American English terms. VW often forget that the UK has differences from Continental Europe. This bit on 95 ron Super Unleaded really means that anything else in this article needs questioned or taken with a pinch of salt / detergent which is sodium.... Simplified science / error... (Super is what VW Group have on Filler Flaps for 95 ron but that is not Super Unleaded in the UK.)