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My BIL replaced his Capture with a Citroen C3 that was a bad one right from collecting it so was given a hybrid courtesy car which he liked. Got the dodgy C3 back which still was not actually fixed so got a newer Capture and is Larry. I was pleasantly surprised how good they are for getting in and out of.

The government stopped being so generous to Business users with a Hybrid because of that. It was a con that assisted many financially. It still can be. Presently I am sitting charging next to 3 hybrids that will be plugged in for free for several hours. Only 4 chargers here and if an EV driver turns up I will let them in my place. If a hybrid turns up with their 2nd car and driver to pick then up they are out of luck.

Basically using coasting mode can save fuel, so that is getting moving and then toe off accelerator, which if hilly area driving can mean often enough downhills after getting up them. Stop / Start can save fuel but then the low consumption is a winter issue so maybe stop start is not operating much or is being switched off.

As high as the fuel consumption appears only £9 a day or so for the family car use in winter seems OK to me. Maybe public transport in and around Luton would be cheaper but i doubt it. An Electric Car could certainly cost a lot less for doing 250 miles a week or so. 70 kWh of electric @ 30 pence a kWh being £21, even if 50 pence a kWh it is £35.

Normal for the one that never had the completion of the manufacturing process. Like the Normal Zinc Inclusion issue on the Yeti that were not as they should have been. Like the 'They all do that', except they do not all do that it is only the bad ones that do. A bit of Rust Inhibitor on when first noticed helps lots.

You do get to know a cars economy if you are paying for it, know the cost and are always brimming it. I know the consumption of every keeper i have ever ran for more than just a few months for every route i drive and every weather condition. (I know how someone else driving my cars can get very different economy, or poor economy if i am putting the fuel in.) I went to fill up my seldom used 16 year old Shogun auto. It does 26 mpg from every tankful pretty much any weather any time and sometimes even when towing. So as long as at the speed limit on the same roads and routes i know exactly the cost of a trip. I did not know that diesel had been put in by somebody else since i last put in and i wanted to fill it with Winter Spec Diesel before parking up for a while. It only took 2 litres @ 150.7 pence a litres and that was brimming it and i noticed the mileometer had been zeroed 10 miles back. My 11 year old 1.6 N/A petrol auto does 42 miles to the gallon as long as it is doing the same 6 miles each way regardless of the weather and it does 48 miles to the gallon when i take it the 20 miles to fill up with Tesco Momentum 99 Super Unleaded.

@GgsumoIt maybe did 40 mpg around town, but in winter you never got 40 miles from 4.546 litres of diesel if you were doing 8 x 5 miles trips with cold starts.

The complete exterior of a motor vehicle is exposed to the environment but gets the proper treatment of paints and coating so that they are not showing rust to this extent. Or should be. Many parts of a vehicle will not be affected in their operation if corroded but that does not mean that the corrosion is acceptable. Exhaust Brackets, Suspension parts, brake components out of sight and out of mind being examples. Corroded Wheels and badges where it is due to the environment but not damage are replaced under warranty.

Scotland has much more Rapid Chargers than NI, but then getting working ones is still a real world issue. The Briskoda member. Often i sound just as peeved trying to get a working charger. Like groundhog day. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-cRifFyP3nA

@Jerry57 Does Autohold on your car not have the Brake Lights on? If not that is not the usual with Skoda / VW Group cars in the last couple of years. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/497760-code-out-brake-lights-on-autohold

@Windy21Which Insurer has a Policy that requires a Tracker fitted to a Fabia? Is there not something lost in translation someplace and it is a policy that requires a Black Box to get lower cost insurance? The car has an Immobiliser as standard. This is often something that call handlers seem to get all bothered about when trying to get quotes and people have not a clue about vehicles or spec.

@SkodaNor Maybe every 2- 3 hours or so while off on a weekend / holiday in your EV towing, a caravan, boat, horse box, car transporter etc. It is a plaster. As with anything about travelling with a caravan and people wanting to make it theirs, usually other caravan dwellers of no fixed address. So family in your car or just you or you and partner in car, find the place to unhitch, get a family member to stand guarding to stop a Van Man hitching up and stealing it, or put the lock on the hitch. Maybe the legs down. Then charge the car, back to the van and hitch up, check the lights and off you go. Maybe the passengers can make a meal. boil the kettle while the charging was going on. This one @ Wallyford near Edinburgh is pretty good, lighting and space and 150 kW chargers, long cables. No toilets but then not an issue if you have a caravan with a toilet. (Those that might try to steal your van do not use toilets in their vans.) A big newish hub. Not so handy. The one original charger out of all these slow / fast & 4 Quick chargers is the only one suitable if staying hitched. Main route South / North up Scotland to Perth. Pity that out of 4 Quick Chsargers it is common to get only 1 or 2 working. Whoever designed it and who designed it off should be kicked up the jacksy. Total crap set up. Especially when 'Travellers' moved in and took it over living in their caravans and stopping the public get charged. If lucky and you can drive behind the 3 new 50kW chargers where you are not supposed to you can charge while still hitched up. Otherwise you need the luck of the original charger working, or unhitch.

Say it as you see it which is why i so like him and Bob Flavin & some other Vloggers reviewing EV's or ICE vehicles. Not always the case with Motoring Journalist employed by motoring journals that publish Cars of the Year, Best top 10 etc.

@Yogi-Bear Skoda only publish the WLTP figures and do not expect anything other than the WLTP figures can be replicated under a WLTP test if a car is imported into a country and retested. If on the road in the real world you get similar figures then that is the luck of the draw because not everyone can with different locations, weather, weight carried and distances travelled each cold start.

@BigMark1969Usually it is a Test Light Board that is plugged in to test if the plug is working, sometimes even a full length trailer light board.

It just needs addressed for tourers who are traveling to tourist areas with caravans, boats etc. Lakes,peaks, Highlands and lowland areas away from motorway type services. Not that less caravans being towed will be something many drivers are worried about in those areas.

There are charging places around where an EV towing can get a charge and they will become more common as EV vans might well be towing. Like the charging hub in East Lothian. Then there are chargers with fixed cables not long enough to get to a rear charger port if you have a bike rack fitted and you reverse into the charger. So those are 50kWh plus chargers you want to use.

Use your consumer rights at the seller. Nobody is testing a towbar at a MOT, it can be folded away, detached or fixed with no electrics and maybe just there as a bike carrier on vehicles not approved for towing.

Haymarket Media group are not just dependent on advertising with the VW Group they do much more than that for them.

7 speed twin dry clutch DSG,s are great. They best have the dq200 DSG reliable by now as they have 12 years of putting them in Fabias and several experiences of having to sort out manufacturing mistakes.

Leasing a new car is the best thing you can do for the Financial Establishments & the Motor Industry it does little good for the planet! If nobody is getting new then nobody car get used ones that are 2 or 3 years old.

Welcome. You have a Warranty from where you bought the car . Read your T&C's on the Warranty, know what is covered and then have them make the car fit for purpose and since there is a tow bar the electrics need to work. If you are going to a Skoda Main Dealers which you have done already but to have the diagnostics done than chose one that is a Participating Dealer for Fixed Servicing & Maintenance. The first 30 minutes of a diagnostic is £60. Just get the Tow Bar electrics checked. If they are not going to play the game then maybe best go to an Auto Electrician.

@Ggsumo You really are not getting just 26 mpg average over 12 months and 14,000 miles are you? You said you were getting at best into the 40's mpg & in winter. If so then what is the lowest MPG that you actually get in winter and in summer nor what the car shows as 'an average'. If you fill the tank and have in 50 litres does that not even take you 300 miles?

@richard999 So it has a 7 speed twin dry clutch DSG the same as with your Superb. So no oil changes required to the DSG.

3 cylinder TSI's very much sound different from a 4 cylinder and a 3 cylinder MPI's different again. Whichever can take 5 miles just to get the oil to an indicated 50*oC from a start in the cold.