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@SurreyJohn That is mainly true but not completely. Some Depots / Dealerships are prepping, Emergency Services, Fleet vehicles, NHS / Local Authority ones etc. Large quantity of deliveries and among those ones for Motability Customers and private individuals. Take Scotland largest dealership groups and actually the transporters might deliver to Edinburgh for cars going to Glasgow and then the prep might get done and cars driven the 55 miles or so then the 'In transit' changed at the hand over dealership. Or they might go on local transporters and then be distributed. Covid changed much and PDI's and qualified staff not off work in one area but no staff in others, Plug in and EV qualified staff and the likes. Lots of cars arrive and are registered then head south to spend their days til the end of the lease or forever. The person on a phone might be full of BS but not always.

@hadleybuff. There is s no is regular service or any servicing of DQ200 7 speed twin dry clutch DSG,s.

@AlienAl The Skoda Kodiaq Sportline 1.5TSI DSG is not cheap or cheap to run as petrol gets to over 150 pence a litre. EV's are not a joke in price for many who are business users and saving thousands in tax in the UK and getting electricity free or cheap or even at half the cost of petrol & diesel even if paying 50 pence a kWh for electric. Even private owners / drivers can see the saving over the cost of an ICE. Home / Work Electric charging costs will be rising as will Public Charging. Delays in EV's being produced will happen as many materials are going to be restricted as they come from Russia & the Ukraine, minerals, metals and components made from these.

@Ttaskmaster It certainly is what many of them come up with but certainly not all of them. Some people seem perfectly happy with them and some must be left or right handed and drive right or left hand drive cars. Luckily you can still get EV's still without that sort of screen and still ones with smaller screens and buttons.

@lichfielddriver Are you talking about DQ200's you drive fitted to TDI engines such as 1.6TDI's in cars the size / weight of Octavias and Superbs? Skoda fitted DSG's to 1.4 TDI 3 cylinders in the Mk3's and they were fine but were the last Diesel Fabia with a DSG. DQ200 DSG as fitted to 3 cylinder 1.0 TSI's or 4 cylinder 1.5 TSI with ACT will not labour and the Stop / Start might well stop the engine before coming to a halt. That is how they got the Co2 g/km figures and WLTP / RDE2 results.

@SurreyJohn The OP says 'after 7,000 miles and 4 months', That is from the car being serviced. Not exactly low miles being covered. I know what they say in brochures and websites, i read them. I linked ones, I read your posts as well and remember them. ........................................ This was my oil like clotted cream in a 2017 in a 2016 2.0 TDI / scr which was to be serviced at the main dealers. Motability car. Oil was added in the 18,000 miles, quite a bit, none needed after the first service til the next service. it was like clotted cream up to the first oil and filter change when the car got a cxhance to go in, but doing was getting great fuel and actually after that oil change was dirty again in a few hundred miles. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/448413-oil-inspection-and-service-warning

This is where the strangeness might have began. Then from there it is all strange. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/484994-karoq-oil-change-required @SurreyJohn re, 'Sensors that are supposed to do a reset'. Supposed to. Really that would be quite an advanced sensor system in those engines. Actually the oil can be as much as 1.3 litres low and no Low Oil Level warning might show. It does not and can not bring a Variable Service notice down from after about 8,000 miles. It will not bring the the message to below the fixed service regime miles / km. Real world the crappiest of the correct oil can be in TDI / TSI engines and the Service Warning might still act on the Oil Change being due at the 18,000 miles having been covered. *The most i have seen a Variable Service indicator drop the miles by was to 16,000 miles and someone said on this forum theirs dropped to 14,000 miles.* @snowie55 says as opposed to the 12k fixed service warning. There is no 12,000 mile fixed service warning, it is 9,400 or 9,600 miles. 372 days / 12 months / 1 year and a week. (VW say 9,300 miles) https://www.autotechcarservice.co.uk/index.php/en/autotech-servicing/skoda-servicing Above is not official Skoda and an old site, but then VW set things out better than Skoda do. https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/owners-and-drivers/servicing/service-plans/service-schedules.html

@lichfielddriver I was only suggesting in the first post of a question it might be an idea to be specific and not assume Derren Brown is in the house.

@lichfielddriverIf asking questions on engines or parts like tensioners it helps if you say particularly what engines, big, small, TSI or TDI and age etc. Cambelt tensioner does help a bit in knowing it is not a chain drive engine.

During the production of Mk2 Fabia vRS / Monte Carlo with 205/40 R 17 tyres in the UK there were many with 'Pulling Left' issues. Lots of threads on this. Search Briskoda pulling left. even recently there was a Pulling Right thread about a left hand drive car. So after the owners were told, nothing wrong, we have tried to sort it, Skoda UK approved the fitting of Pirelli Zero Nero tyres which disguised the issue with the stronger sidewalls. Dealership staff would blame the Dunlop SportMaxx, or Continentals that were the OEM fitment. When asked if they were the issue and Skoda wanted to blame them then why were they still fitting them and were VW Group not talking to the Tyre Manufacturers. Obviously they were not because actually the cars were wrong from the production line and the people at a Skoda Dealership that sorted the issue usually had the Audi Dealership with the gear and more than ideas sort them out. Summer time for spirited driving, hillclimbs or the 1.4 mile i used Dunlop SportMaxx that were Take Offs from people getting Pirelli's fitted, but the Dunlop Sportmax inside edge could very easily go as the tyres that were through to the core on here, even with a weekend of good fun on great driving roads. The sidewalls were easily wrecked on road ironwork. The Pirelli were very tough and had very crap traction. Great for handbrake turns etc.

@Noms So if it has a VAQ at the front that gets an oil change. No rear Haldex to have an oil change and filter clean and no Rear Diff to have an oil change of.

@Noms is it a AWD vRS that you have? With Haldex there is the Haldex at the rear and there is a diff, that is not the same thing and both have drain holes and fill holes. I doubt you are needing the rear Diff oil changed'.

Or actually have the dealership get the Area Warranty Manager in and the discs can be checked if warped and get replaced if a fair warranty claim then next time spend your own money if needs must. The issues are known. The dealership might even have warranty claims on sales cars, the staff certainly would on their or family members cars.

Many drivers private or commercial who have driven for winters over many years and decades know that Derv / Diesel does not give any lower MPG if there is warm weather during the months of October where the winter spec diesel is delivered first in Scotland and the north of England till April be that anyplace in the UK, lots of warm days / nights might happen during those months were the diesel vehicles do not need to travel further before the engine gets up to efficient temperatures. It is not as though the additive added then has the derv with a lower Cetane. Many do not know that the petrol also comes in Winter Formulations and that does not require more fuel to go the same distance if the weather is not actually that much colder than some spring, summer or autumn days / nights.

@Hutchy36 Is it Hendrys you are going to, or Park's or An Other ? See @BoxerBoy's posts http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/477410-scored-rear-brake-discs Again. post 8th February. @BoxerBoy http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/499193-70-plate-kodiaq-rear-discs-and-pads-needed-do-you-think-this-is-reasonable-replacement-discs-pads

So maybe 300 odd miles in UK warmer weather on your jack Jones in a spacious family car with a fair wind.

Is no servicing done by you or anyone between MOTs or before them?

@JG671 If this has been found at the MOT @ 25,000 miles when was it that you properly checked the tyres when checking the pressures and the tyres were not like this? We are near the end of the winter so did the car not get serviced or inspected pre winter, or is it the last MOT that the tyres might have had a close inspection?

They are not fragile but not 100% bulletproof and not engines with 1 in 5 failures as in your other thread. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/502054-i-am-the-1-in-5

@kodiaqsportline Grow up and troll someone else, you are a hero as you have Skoda's. I was a VW Group customer, employee and fanboy. Still am a fanboy like you but just not blind to what happens.

It is not using excessive oil it used some oil and you do not know if the level was at the correct level at hand over to you and only you know how the car is used. The recommended oil by VW / Skoda for your engine if a 1.0 TSI is VW508 00 so 0w 20 FS IV. Know where the oil level isw cold but the correct oil level should be checked at the normal operating temperature. ie at near 90*oC. The tyre pressures affect you and others safety so i just wondered if you run them at the pressure you were given the car and trust they were not over or under inflated. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/498324-oil http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/497359-oil-consumption-15-tsi http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/468008-oil-burning-karoq A recent thread but there are plenty others for engines in the last 2-3 years since 0w 20 FS IV has been used and for years before that.

@kodiaqsportline Good for you. Loads of experience of getting and driving cars. Makes you an expert on the motortrade as a customer, maybe you have worked in dealerships or the trade.. I do not think i know what a good dealership will do when their staff get thing wrong i know. If what ever business you are in treats customers that get poor or incompetent service as though that is tough luck then so be it. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/486163-what-is-it-with-dealers-and-their-inability-to-set-service-schedules http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/480629-service-schedule

@sargentbashIt is nothing to do with worry, it is common sense and what is required of keeping a car safely on public roads and has been for ever.

@sargentbashIs this the first time you have checked the oil since getting the car? Have you ever checked the tyre pressures? Using some oil and more so in the first thousands of miles / km is perfectly usual as is the need to check oil and not wait for warnings.