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So now in 2021/22 Skoda have used the word SCHEDULE. For the Cambelt or Cambelt and waterpump they give a RECOMMENDATION.

@xman Where has anyone in this thread called the Fixed Service & Maintenance price list a "mandatory service schedule' or implied it is? Skoda refers to Manufacturers Recommendations or spcifications only and will not furnish a Schedule. *These recommendations are not readily available to any owner even from Skoda Approved repairers / main dealerships.* The price list is to show nothing other than somehow someone at Skoda had that compiled and published and that is about as much a guidance as anyone gets from Skoda UK as asking at a Main Dealership gets you all kinds of answers. One common one is that the Cambelt Inspection or change went from 4 years to 5 hears at some time. ....................... The Skoda Used Carr Warranty T&C's on Servicing. Maybe not worth the words it contains but at least it is published. 36172_SKODA_Approved_Used_Warranty_Dec20_SINGLES.pdf

Maybe not too long until we find out what increases in the cost to charge that Local Authorities with Public Charging or Commercial Providers have to impose from April if they do have to. Then eventually the Chancellor of the Exchequer will get around to doing something about VED / or cost per miles of road use. http://bbc.co.uk/news/business-60251046 https://www.carthrottle.com/post/pay-as-you-go-car-tax-via-gps-tracking-recommended-by-government-committee

Quite possibly you could if they are going to be giving you an offer to buy straight your car for 'cash money; with no car being bought from them for a few thousand less than their Asking price will be. What did your car cost when you bought it? Those that you posted examples of will be sold with the new owner being told these Demonstrators were driven by their Sales Manager etc. They are just demonstrators and they will be making a tidy profit on them thanks to the UK Tax Payer / HMRC.

MOT Testers are still failing Mk2 Fabia vRS because of no Side light / Position light because they are to stupid to see that the DRL / Sidelight unit is that. Police Officers used to stop Mk2 Fabia vRS for having on Front Fog Lights but the Fabia Mk2 vRS never came with Front Fog lights. It has never stop sales people saying they have until they are asked how to put them on, just as you do with Police Officers. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/470637-drl-question Just one of several threads since 2010 about Fabia Mk2 vRS. Less common now that there is anyone posting on this, enough Officers will have made a fool of themselves. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/305852-pulled-over-for-having-drls-on

Have fun getting to know how it works best for you. Only use 1 foot. Select D and drive unless you want to use S or do manual changes. Best read the Owners Manual, & Read the various threads on Briskoda about driving with a DSG. Enabeling or Disabling Autohold or Stop / Start etc/

Regardless of the EU / UK or whoever allowing the fitting and enabelling, the Highway code covers the use of Fog Lights and the Police know if there is a car sitting and the Rear or Front Fog on as they drive towards that vehicle. The know if they drive towards a car sitting waiting to reverse into a drive and as the driver selects reverse 2 front fog lights some on. Well off topic, but the Type Approval and the Highway Code and UK Traffic law have never actually joined up. I have never understood why someone that wants Front Fog lights to illuminate as they reverse can not just switch on the Front Fogs when needed, then off once they have done their parking. It is the UK and Car D1cks with Fogs on anytime or all the time is just par for the course.

It is a front Fog light / pair of on a Yeti if reversing and enabled. A pair to the front or one on and one off as the steering turns. One of those strange things the EU allowed. Call them cornering if you like. They are what they are. Not Driving Lights. You can fool some of the people some of the time. Homologation or not. You are driving along a road at night and a car is at the other side of the road stopped, light on or not and because they do not think they get out the car and on comes headlights and fog lights because they have Coming / leaving home lights. Or they select reverse. I have coming / leaving home lights, i think is there someone coming before opening or closing the doors, if so i do not exit or enter.

Lots of people drive cars and they have settings that previous owners had or as the car came to them with. They can know little of what lights do. Auto to front fogs on in reverse or what comes on when leaving or entering vehicles. Dealerships seldom put cars back to Factory settings when prepping resale. Steering assist, brake assist, XDS changes all as the previous keeper had them.

The Obvious issue for those in the UK with Fog Lights that come on when just entering or exiting cars is that you can be parked on Public Roads and then having these un-necessary lights coming on and other road users seeing these,. It is like the 'Front Fog lights' coming on automatically as reverse is selected. It is a pity that the UK's Highway code and the use of fog lights does not mean anything to Manufactures and Construction & Use.

Changes have to be coming eventually in the UK. The inevitable rise in the cost of charging EV's at home or at Public / Commercial chargers might be putting some off the idea of them. Surely the cost of petrol and diesel will also be rising as Filling Stations overheads for Utilities and staff costs (NI increase) will rise as well as the production cost of refining fuels. http://bbc.co.uk/news/business-60251046

There might well be ordering differences from Country to Country but what never changes is Sales Executives / Sales Staff being prepared to talk total rubbish on Private / Lease / Finance / Cash money-Trading in & factory orders. As to delivering to Dealerships as Demonstrators / get cars First Registered that is all part of the VW Group Dark Arts in different regions. In the UK less than half the cars bought will be by individuals and not many will be getting bought without finance or borrowed money. Even if just for a few weeks to get the benefits of taking finance and then paying them off. Many orders from Companies if buying vehicles are a 'Purchase;, and Motability which is the biggest group buyer in the UK buy outright. The choice of models they have been able to offer from Skoda has been very limited in the past 2 years though. Skoda are not so desperate them to shift cars.

It is not @ 4 years. It is 40,000 miles. That Guide from Skoda is totally misleading as is so much more that you get from Skoda.

They put the Cambelt @ 5 years / 50,000 miles. Intending that as what comes soonest. Just as Wet Clutch DSG's will be at 40,000 miles if that is before 4 years has passed, http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/399720-octavia-iii-2015-16-tdi-cam-belt-intervals http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/408046-16tdi-4years-80000-miles-should-i-change-my-cambelt http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/329316-16-tdi-update-timing-belt-every-5-years

Paper Service Books with each one Minor & Major and the items and the pages after for the body inspection seized being put in the car in 2013.

? Did Skoda say the Cam Belts life should be 145,000 miles? I understand why they knocked back your claim as you have not an Approved Repairer Inspect the Engine, unless your VW Garage is a Approved Repairer. @ApertureSHas told you what they need to be identifying as the cause of the failure.

Surely it should should it not. Factually they give different Guidelines / Recommendations or if they ever commit to calling them 'schedules.' So best you get in Writing from Skoda UK what they say. They should last 145,000 miles, yours never.

Then the Extended Scope means nothing as the is what Skoda Shows. Ask the Servicing Garage what they did. If the VW Independent got that 145,000 from Skoda and not VW then perfect. I wish Skoda were so good giving info to Customers / Owners about Cambelt life. SKODA UK. Not VW. Not Independents.

@Easytiger333 There you go then, bring that up with Kate Laws at Skoda, she is a Resolutions Officer. Senior Executive. They visually inspect belts they can see, they do not remove covers. Was the Extended Scope Service at a Main Dealers then?

I am saying there is Oil And Filter and look sees and reports. The Cam belt is not inspected. The car could have been abused by many or one driver for 60,000 miles. It could have had a tuning box fitted or been remapped. No reason that Skoda should give goodwill on it. SKODA_Warranty_Terms_November_2021 (1).pdf

OK. Extended Scope is not much either really. Assuming things are done as Skoda show yet even Main Dealers Techs might not do all.

@MutleyskyWelcome. Maybe someone wanted to disable the DRL's. When they come on with the Headlights on that is as Sidelights / Position lights not DRL's. They are less bright as when DRL's with the ignition on and no rear sidelights no headlights. ? If you turn the ignition off and the indicator stalk down it there one light to the front and one to the rear on and one registration plate light so on as Parking Lights?

@Easytiger333Welcome. Who told you the cam belt should easily last 145,000 miles, and what is the source they got this from? ? What does Serviced regularly mean, is that and oil and filter change each year / 9,400 miles or 2 years at 18,000-20,000 miles? That is an Oil Service only. was there more to servicing than that?

Obviously a tanks capacity is what it is if sitting on the ground with no filler pipe / venting capacity etc. If you measure the volume / capacity. On a Mk2 Fabia with a 45 litre tank and fuel 'Up the Pipe' you could put in near 50 litres until you could see the petrol. Then you could vent the system and get even more fuel in.

'East Lothian to combat car charging bay hoggers with Fuuse'. https://www.eva.scot/news/article/east-lothian-to-combat-car-charging-bay-hoggers-with-fuuse