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Plastic trims and style over function is something that is often peoples deciding factor. Also the often implausible Co2 g/km & WLTP / RDE2 figures, given from the World Wide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure is not accepted world wide or really real world testing with people in real cars on real roads.

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@Hutchy36 You do need to find out why if you put your shifter into D or S the car is not pulling away in 1st. EDIT. I see you say it does if at a standstill. So that is good, and changing at 4 mph is good. Lots of changes to get done before into 7th. There was a thread about Wet Clutch DSG's where a couple of members said their cars started in 2nd. They should not have pulled away in 2nd if working correctly. The DQ200 7 speed DSG's had no settings that had them pulling from a standing start in 2nd, you could not select 2nd to start off with either. There was this thread where a member asked about starting off in 2nd. I take it theirs was a 1.5 TSI with a DQ200 7 Speed Dry and not a Wet Clutch with a 1.5 TSI / DSG with Haldex. EDIT. It was a FWD. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/462473-can-i-start-in-2nd-gear-with-dsg

@MarkyG82 The reason your car will have shown the Winter Tyre Warning will be because someone set a 'Speed Warning for winter tyres'. I used to set one Speed Limit Warning and the Winter Tyre Warning at the speed i might expect a ban. You can set both limits if you want. If in some countries the car can not be set for a Winter Tyre Setting then a sticker needs to be displayed. As far as a know all Skoda Models can be set to show a speed limit for Winter Tyres and that us then set by whoever, usually a driver.

Welcome. Hopefully someone can help you. You can pay off well before the 3 months and keep the incentives / goodies. The salesperson does not want you to though. Someone here in the know can explain that.

@xman I know they get to take the revenue. They get lots of things because of the law, it still does not make it theirs and the law can change and the UK might change and the head of the Royal Family might change, it almost certainly will in the next few years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Estate http://bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-57559653 Owning land would usually mean it is yours to sell if you want but in the case of the Queen really she is the keeper and others control it on behalf of the Crown. She takes plenty off the top after money goes to the public's good via Crown Estates and the Treasury. The licences are sold and then the oil and gas is the property of those extracting it. The Crown Estate owns the gold and silver in the ground but land owners own the minerals onland. HRH Charles is so interested in many things like property & land and his Foundations yet seems not to know what those running things are saying in his name and offering in the way of peerages or citizenship. Millions in and millions spent and it appears that who and where it comes from is just not a matter that Charles needs to know too much about. http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60404077 It was discussed here in the post about the new licences last month for the floating wind farms licences. https://energyvoice.com/renewables-energy-transition/278374/crown-estate-scotland-annual-accounts Earlier there was a discussion on the radio about HRH Charles and his brothers & sister and what is ours is theirs. The story was the old one about someone fishing on a river and a man saying get off my river. The fisher asks what makes this your river and the Laird says my family fought for this land. The fisher says OK then i will fight you for it now.

We will see what fuel security is like for liquid fuels and for electricity pretty soon if there is a war in eastern Europe. If the Electric goes out then the fuel pumps stop as well and even the filling stations do not get fuel delivered. If the Electric goes off then so will Public Chargers. The UK Government know they need to keep allowing those making the huge profits to keep on bringing oil out from around the UK and even more than now and Gas and still keep importing. That is the population of the UK's Oil & Gas an minerals that companies get licences to get out and then make big profits from. It is not like it is actually their oil or gas when in the ground / under the sea. It is not the Crown Estates, the Governments or anyone else's, it the UK's. Also the easy to produce but costly to set up to generate initially electric needs used when available and that means producing hydrogen from what is not being used into the national grid or storage that pumped hydro, battery storage etc. Coming to a field near me soon.

@PetrolDave Worth watching Sky TV's item this week on UK and Batteries and components.. The Graphite for Batteries is produced from Oil at the refinery in Humberside and then exported to China etc. https://news.sky.com/story/inside-the-arms-race-to-build-the-batteries-which-will-power-britain-12537246 @cheezemonkhai Currently £1 a day at worst to maybe do 5 miles a day and need 3.5 kWh @ 23 pence a kWh over 24 hours. Under £7 a week. That is going to increase. I am doing 6 under a mile trips a day and pretty low temperatures.

There is a recent YouTube of a vlogger driving a new Citroen C4 Electric. Same motor and battery as the Corsa but a bigger and heavier car. He drives in Normal which is 110 ps unless you floor it and get full power. He drives it both in B and without B. Drives with AC on. He gets around 3.5 miles per kWh which with a 45 kWh usable is more like the real 150-160 miles you might get in warmer weather. But then that would be starting full and running the battery really low. But driving a car feeling normal and being comfortable. The charging he does is on a 50 kWh charger. If just charging to 80% and using 33kWh then you are maybe adding 105 miles in 60 minutes. I will link that vid later. .......................... 186 miles of range is what many Stellantis models show when brand new and having had the PDI and charged up. With many that will be the last time they show that range unless the battery is at 100% and the last time driven it was driven it was getting 4.1 miles per kWh. To show 210 miles it would have had to be getting over 4.6 miles per kWh. As he surely spotted the Shown Range means very little and in another week will be nothing like it was for him. That BP Polar charge speed was pretty rubbish really considering a 175 kWh charger used on a car that can charge up to 100 kWh, only when low enough a battery though. Showed a start at 42% on the app & then in car 50% then charging to full and 1 hour 17 seconds is not good considering you only have 45 kWh usable. You can get 28.5 kWh in in 63 minutes and up to 99% on a 50 kWh charger working well. He was not just in Regen mode, the car was in ECO mode when he said that.

Welcome. Can your car tow according to the plate on the car? Paying that to have a towbar and extra parts for cooling will not give it Type Approval to tow. What they are quoting is because it was not factory fitted equipment and what they want to fit it.

@lol-lol There are lots of Tesla going about that do not charge at Tesla Superchargers. Private cars and Tesla that do not have free charging which there are lots of. 50 kWh @ 36 pence a kWh is £18.00. 3.5 miles per kWh x 50 kWh = 175 miles. Many Tesla drivers will opt for a lower charging cost than @ SuperChargers. Maybe using 50kWh chargers at under 30 pence a kWh or free ones, or free 7kWh chargers even. If you go on an InstaVolt 50 kWh Charger at 44 pence a kWh and you get 4 miles per kWh then that is 11 pence a mile to costs you. This was odd in the Corsa. In ECO (80 ps) the Heating / AC was restricted and not worth driving in with dead feeling of the steering and acceleration. He had ECO but could still have used the stick in B or just shifted to B for decelerating / slowing. He would have got the same economy with the car in D (110 ps) and then at the roundabout actually getting the regen with the stick moved back to B. In Sport (136ps) he would have got the same kWh use showing and better feeling of the steering and would have got better regen shifting to B. That would have had it slowing the same as lifting off the accelerator with the Tesla. If did say the percentage of charge on the Corsa while charging and when you open the drivers door as long as the car is turned off. So as you get back in the car, or each time you open the door when in the car and charging.

@cheezemonkhai I posted these in your 'The best way to "buy" an electric vehicle, thread last week. 2 weeks free charging at Tesco. 32 miles one week and 27 in the next 6 days. If i had paid 20 pence a kWh to charge at home that would be £7 a week. (on a 5 pence a kWh tariff £1.75) If i had charged just once in the week at a local public charger £8. On a Tesco 26 pence a kWh 50 kWh charger £9.10 So about the same or more as buying petrol / diesel during cold weeks and doing under 5 miles a day in a few trips a day.

Not strictly true that if no Fault Code there is no Fault that requires Warranty work so Skoda will not cover that. The warnings constantly coming up if all is well with the tyres and pressures and no fault showing when there is a faulty is a Fault. Difficult to find though. Pressures set cold and checked cold is as it should be, But, Something to check is the heat of the tyres, So as soon as a warning shows and the tyres are hot you want to get stopped & check the pressures ASAP and also the heat of the wheel metal & the tyre. A £1.99 Digital Fridge Thermometer saves burning fingers on wheels, hubs / discs.

Dodgy Coil packs could. Coils can be dodgy because a spark plug is. So how many miles has the car done, when was the last servicing done and were the spark plugs replaced. Just an idea of what Skoda UK shows as servicing, but hopefully in 8-9 years the spark plugs were replaced.

If Ski-ing into snow blowing at you even children know they will have to wipe their googles if their vision is obscured. Much as with the front of a vehicle if snow covers an area. You are only looking to de-ice the face. No need for the system to be in operation before you have the area of the front / grill de-iced. You Clear the windscreen / glass / lights before driving. Well most do. the lights might need the use of a hand, as the Crystal Grill will. If it ices / covers with snow while driving into snow then you know what the story is. The windscreen might well need wiper by the wipers, as headlights have had over the years on some vehicles. Also the point is there are materials these days that can be used in extremes of temps. Even liquids that can be applied to surfaces, but Skoda have gone for Style over function in the application of the front grill and ACC. https://neverwet.com/applications/anti-icing.php The actual coatings used on Trains, Planes/ Helicopters and automobiles is available & used World wide because there are very cold places where vehicles have to operate. Places like the OP is in. I am sure that many things that are simple and cheap never actually get to vehicles as OEM or as low cost options but they might well be available to some at what ever expense. Skoda were still charging as an Option for ESP on Mk2 Fabias until the EU Legislation finally meant it had to be OEM. Some trims had had it is standard for years before. There were models without TC/ ASR that just required activation. Often functions are built into the car that people pay for and own but are not functioning, to activated them after purchase requires crossing the palms of others with silver. The Car Plan stuff is messy, the Halfords Pre-icer i used for years was good.

There were some amazing high mile to the kWh mentioned. Sounded like only possible with hypermiling. The 6.5 miles per kWh is something I though could only be achieved with a vehicle in front assisting you to draft. @lol-lol This last week i have done 27 miles and used near 35 kWh of electricity. Under 5 miles average per day in 4-6 short journeys. That would be counted as 1 mile part kWh. Yet if i had set off i could have driven over 100 miles and then topped back up and that would be 3 miles per kWh. 35kWh or so. Still the other 24 hour periods of doing under 5 miles would have needed around the 4.5 - 5 kWh. How Cold night / day dependent.

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@xman Very true, but then people have been to the moon and the South Pole. Heated windscreens have cameras / radar detectors behind them.

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It might, but then a car front highly polished and a windscreen with Rain -X or any other water repellent still gets snowed / iced up. Heating the Front Radar / Sensors to the point of them not freezing but being still able to do their jobs is Simply Clever. Skoda and even Tesla have yet to get the hang of Fuel / Charger flaps freeing as the rear of cars & KIA / Hyundai, MG, Nissan and other the front Charge point of EV's.

They are testing what is presented to them to the minimum requirement. Lots of vehicles in the UK have 2 rear fog lights. Both working is OK as long as matching, but if the nearside one was to have stopped working then no worried if the offside one is. The IVA Inspection in the UK which Imported Cars or Radically Modified will be required to comply with. Stricter than any UK MOT Inspection.

I propose that VW group change software to have the message, 'weather or prevailing conditions mean this function is not available.'. If the front being snowed / iced up. Do not show as a fault'. If things are actually as they should be. Sensors not able to sense because of sleet, snow, ice. Simply clever. Tell it like it is. Other manufacturers can. But then they never took software development in-house. Ps. There is rain sensing wipers, ambient temperature sensors, auto lights so really knowing when stuff like when CC / ACC should or is disabled is not difficult. Skoda have a temp on ICE vehicles when Air conditioning stops functioning.

Owners / drivers need to keep reporting to dealers and be sure their report is logged at dealerships so that Skoda CZ or UK or wherever can not say ' never heard of this' or Dealership staff can. If they say 'they are all like this.' or 'they all do that'. Then who designed and manufactured in the issue knows very well about it. Their R&D and pre production had vehicles being driven in winter conditions. Some head of Skoda signed cars off to get type approval and enter production.

I know where the picture is and will get it in a couple of weeks. Taken in 1977 of my 1970 MK2 Cortina 1.6 Deluxe auto. 2 tone paint, green lower and roof. White bonnet and boot and front to back between red pin stripe on body line. Silver banded steel wheels with hub caps. After front rebuild it got a 2.000 E engine and auto gearbox. When standard and bought from the garage I worked in's secretary and while I was in hospital & my dad driving it someone crashed into the rear and that was renewed with work done by my journeyman. Then after collecting it one night on the way home from pub and going for a blast it put it through a fence and took down a telegraph pole. So new front and the paint job I did. Then one night trying to jump it around a junction at the top of a steep hill I put it into a very solid wall. It finally died then and i was banned as alcohol had been taken the night before and into the morning and blood was for the police when I was getting my ear stitched back on. Me and passenger were at A&E and the 2 that were in the back were fine. Whiplash was not a thing then! My Hillman Imp before that which had been Green and my Dads car for getting to work rather than using the Caravan Tow car was resprayed in Navy Blue lower and roof and white body line to window line front to back and bonnet and engine lid top. Square number plates!