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There was a member that used to post that his balls are not crystal. Derren Brown has left the building.

@D.FYLAKTOS You also forgot to say what the ambient temperature was.

You do not see cars for sale if the owners are not selling but have them as keepers, fixer uppers etc. This will show you just how many on the road or SORN in the UK. http://howmanyleft.co.uk I did a Google search and found lots of Skoda Felicia 1.3 for sale. https://www.theparking-cars.co.uk/used-cars/skoda-felicia.html https://www.newsnow.co.uk/classifieds/cars-vans-for-sale/skoda-felicia

We will see the truth of the Stellantis group and any real world range increase when they are out. *** Cold weather like near or below freezing the EV Drivers might well want All Weather / Winter Tyres on, so if they really care about improving range then show the figure with All Weather / Winter tyres fitted not some more impressive range giving ECO tyres that might not even get you to an EV charger let along parked into one. that has not been cleared of snow, as i had to charge at last year. Maybe will again in the next few weeks.*** I charged earlier to 100% and have done 4 miles since and the car is sitting showing 95%. That was 4 miles without AC on, heater at 18*oC, no heated seat or steering wheel as it was 11*oC outside. I will drive 0.7 miles tomorrow and plug in at Tesco and see how many kW it takes in. Funnily this week out of the blue the Maintenance Info reappeared on my phone saying 'Service Incomplete' from the last time it was in. It added trips / miles that the car had not showed at the time of doing them and i now can start the heater / AC from my phone again while away from the car. Then the biggie is that the Locations is where the car is and not as it has been since it went wrong, where my phone is. 9th February 2021. Crappy ECO / Summer tyres would be Ditch Finders and the Heat Pump upgrade of little use for short journeys.

The 2020 & 2021 Skoda Fixed Price Service & Maintenance chart is very misleading. The DSG that do require oil changes are @ 40.000 miles not 4 years. ( Also misleading where Service Desk staff tell customers this applies to DQ200 DSG,s.) You can do them at less miles if you want, best not go over. (Audi sometimes show @ 38,000 miles for S-tronics'). There are cases of some with DSG,s with FMDSH and a failure and only then is it the owner finds out they required to have them serviced. Several in the Yeti section over the years. This is much the same with Haldex. Now a case in the Octavia section with an owner with a VAQ diff. Service desk staff might be better to be telling customers of requirements like the main work due as much as trying to up sell some of the stuff they are trained to. First the staff need trained by someone properly trained properly about the vehicle servicing requirements.

Lots of people are getting 50 kW battery cars like i have. Like Peugeot e-208 & others from Stellantis Group. So the salespeople do not explain that the usable battery is 45 kW. If you go on a 50 kW charger and you have some power in it and are going to charge to near full and sit an hour then you get 33 kWh of charge. You will not get 40 kW of charge in in 60 minutes on a 50 kW charger no matter the weather / temperature or the battery temp. The car starts showing that it is charging at 212 mph, then 186, the 112, then 88 and the 39 mph and then maybe 8 mph. If you go on a 7kw AC charger it shows as the charging speed is 21-26 mph. In an hour you get 6.6 kW of a charge. That means if you are going to be getting 21 miles added range the car is getting 3.1 miles per kWh and to get 26 miles it will be the car going 3.9 mile per kWh. ......................... Not really impressed by this guy or some of his information or opinions. The eUp!Mii Electric CitigoiV is a great small / city EV though and it is pathetic that the VW Group has not got a replacement small EV ready to go into production. Or at least kept making new Citigo iV's available in the UK. Peugeot e-208 range probably in the low 200's is if you are going downhill a lot of the time in one. Talking WLTP / Manufacturers figures is just stupid now. They actually just need to spend 4 hours and drive 200 miles or 6 hours and drive 300 miles in 'True 300 mile Family EV's'. PUT THE FAMILY IN AND NOT A SINGLE PARENT FAMILY WITH 1 TODDLER.

The Audi was catching attention from lots of people. All a bit much but what a machine.

If it was Skoda - John Clark Aberdeen that got you the wrong spare wheel then they need to get the correct one. Same if it was no John Clarks. The Spare wheel / tyre for emergency use in the circumference that matches the models standard wheel circumference has worked OK for decades If you want a size that matches the 4 wheels tyres on the car then there is nothing to stop you getting that, but the boot floor might sit high on many vehicles. (The punctured tyre / wheel needs putting in there anyway if taken off the car.)

A Title change to WRC 2022 changes would be job done. Or somebody could start a new thread if they can be bothered. maybe somebody that already suggest a new Title.

@Gomezz Best call back and ask whoever if they want to phone a friend. Who was this that called you? A Service desk receptionist with phone and keyboard skills and not the sense to check with a Tech? Is it for your 2.TDI SEL 4x4 DSG? If so they are totally wrong as it needs serviced to the Manufacturers Recommendations.. I WOULD SPEAK WITH THE DEALER PRINCIPAL AS THEY NEED TO ARRANGE STAFF TRAINING BEFORE THEY MIGHT VOID A VEHICLES WARRANTY. Your 7 speed is not a Twin Dry Clutch DSG which does not require Oil Changes. How many miles on your Karoq, what age? Haldex 4x4 Oil due at 3 years / 30,000 miles, & DSG @ 40,000 miles unless they tell you yours is a DQ381 and it is at 80,000 miles , if they can decide on that. I would stick with @ 40,000 miles.

Welcome. A Mod might move you post where anyone with a Kushaq might see it.

@CrispyJ What age was the car when you bought it and at what mileage, and what mileage now? A technician will easily disassemble and diagnose the fault. You are going to be paying for that. £60 for the first 30 minutes maybe as per Fixed Service & Maintenance @ participating dealers. Maybe £115 an hour though plus VAT and then you might get that reduced in the final bill if you get them to do the work. EDIT,sorry, I see now that it has done 34,000 miles.

I am never going to own a Mk 1 or 2 Escort RS or a Focus RS / ST in the colours i like and have wanted to own. I would happily have one of these and make it a keeper to see my driving days out. (No cloak of invisibility.)

I message and Email ZapMap and Plugshare about new chargers, hubs or tariff changes. Plugshare are better at coming back for more info and eventually maybe updating. ZapMap are not so good. There is one that I have told them about for over a year and still not on map. They have replied on that. They say Charge Place Scotland are not sharing information or cooperating. This might be true. CPS / SWARCO eventually after my last posts here and elsewhere sent to them on screen grabs updated the location of my local chargers on their App Map. They also no no longer show the Broughty Ferry charge hub as 20 miles from where it actually is. I check in when charging at the Turnberry CPS charger that PlugShare just shows as 'coming soon' even though i have told them it is up and running since i am using it as are others. ZapMap have totally ignored it as well as the AC Charger at Turnberry Golf Resort & Hotel. Turnberry Hotel 7kW chargers. £10 charge for Hotel Guests. Bargain if you have a big battery car on them for maybe 10 hours or more.

The reality with DQ200,s now for a decade is that some that have had the lemons that they originally bought to keep trade them in for another car before the 3 years warranty in the UK expires. These cars enter the dealer network or just the car trade in general and becaomd someone else's problem. Even becoming Skoda / VW group approved used cars and then getting a Skoda Approved Used car 12 or 24 month warranty. This has happened with 1.5tsi,s already . It happens with other manufacturers as well. Sad really for some that might by private or maybe at a trader and get 3 months warranty or no warranty.

There are some cases in the distant past with DQ200's and Twincharger Engines that Briskoda members that had failures in the period of the Manufacturers Warranty and then a repeat failure that they managed to get Skoda to pay for an Extended Warranty on the vehicle. (That is just Skoda / VW Group Pay themselves that is, on something that they should not actually then need to pay more out on.) Those days are gone well and truly. There is the case that if you pay a bit towards the cost then you get the 2 years part and labour cover. Some have been lucky that they were screwed out of a 10% contribution then another failure and they have the warranty over. Best thing is. Buy a Skoda Warranty at the end of the Manufacturers Warranty. They can not say 'Known issue' and try and reject the Warranty Claim as the Approved Repairer had repaired the vehicle / DSG. It should be fit for purpose not still with faults or risk of premature failure,

Finally after many years of spin. This is the best 2022 Social Media coverage VW Media team could get by just parking next to one of the most viewed Youtube EV Vloggers in the world. How lucky are they. It has taken VW Group long enough to get to this stage after all the Media / Internet Coverage they have squeezed out of the ID.Buzz pictures

@thomasaspinWhen a Twincharger is running in moist air they run at about there best as many of us know. When they are running an original clean filter they run great. Or even a performance intake and clean filter. When they get a damp filter or actually wet and it is then left sitting in freezing weather they can run totally sh!tw or not even run. The Airfilter can freeze in the low temperature, Some of us that have used Water Trap Inline fuel filters on our road vehicles / offroaders know how much water can come from the fuel tank. Some will use K&N filters in conditions where there will be H20 kicking about as there is the perfect use for them, exposed, just as we might use a snorkel. Some people actually learn as the years go on, it is a location location location thing. ................ On the fuel subject. I once got crap Tesco Momentum 99 and that was at a Tesco outside Blackpool on the way to Santa Pod and running Stage 2. I was out for a blast later that night near Preston with another member and the car was running crap i thought it was just the very hot weather. Then the next morning after filling on the motorway in the scorchio weather. I had to switch the map and use 102 ron petrol i had in cans and add that a couple of times as the tank emptied.

The UK will be getting on with things eventually after the talking has been done with. Future of transport regulatory review_ modernising vehicle standards - GOV.UK (3).mhtml

The OP said he was running the car on fumes during the fuel shortage. That means that he then bought what ever the filling stations were getting in as supplies were short. https://www.argusmedia.com/news/2133338-europe-faces-summergrade-gasoline-overhang https://www.spglobal.com/platts.en/market-insights/latest-news/oil/032812-uk-still-buying-winter-gasoline-as-european-refiners-switch-to-summer If the OP has water in the fuel or not why would it be the cause for some discussion not to check? It is like washing out a dirty hanky on here.

@sepulchrave The OP posted about a 1/3 full tank. So really what is a conspiracy of the Winter Grade Petrol from mid October in Scotland and then November to March being less hygroscopic Plenty have had to check petrol in tanks. Leave sitting in a jar and see the water in the bottom. Brighton might not have the same temp changes and condensation as elsewhere. Pump out some petrol and check, dead easy. Pipe with a string feed through and a piece of cloth and pull it through and siphon from the bottom of the tank as many off us have done since we were children running our kart or mopeds.

@lol-lolCheers, you prompted me to check the Gridserve in Scotland. I knew that IDEA Edinburgh had a CCS but i charge at the Straiton Park & Ride nearby but might have to use IKEA if i ever have to queue as i had too recently. It was at Kinross & Stirling MOTO that i was not aware of now having CCS. Only 1 charger though but again could be a default ones to use as the nearby CPS chargers are down now or if working will be down quite often. Damn unreliable.

@Berty21What Cetane does the Shell V-Power diesel show on the pump as being higher than the Regular Diesel's cetane. (It is Cetane not Octane) You could just add the readily available Cetane Booters.

@thomasaspin I know you do, you are my hero. But you do not take the water from the fuel tank. The Refineries would not bother distributing less hygroscopic petrol from October to March if water in it was a good thing.

Funnily it is not unheard of that an replacement ECU is said to be faulty when some incompetent has been doing the work of fitting. Even a new MCU sent then messed up by an incompetent and another MCU & ECU required. One Scottish Main Dealership even tried saying to my mate he would need to pay for 2 MCU's because their Tech messed up with the new one they received. Eventually the job was farmed by the Dealership to an Auto Gearbox specialist with 'All the gear' / Software and more than some ideas but the training and the ability to do a job correctly. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/444617-7sp-dq200-dsg-failure