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So was the place you bought the tyres at an Avon tyre dealer?

This is indeed the issue with tyre fitting. Some tyre places might buy there stock from others that went bust. Some might buy a container of mixed tyres from wherever and whoever. Plenty places like that about. Some are even MOT test centres .

@Yetianimal So how long before the tyres were bought and fitted where they manufactured? I have had some very good Avon tyres and have posts on here about the Snow tyres. I check the date of manufacture. ? Who was it that sold you the tyres?

The Estate was the weight it was / is and had a spare wheel as standard so would possibly test as a higher VED band / Co2 than the Polo GTI. But the Fabia Hatch was a few thousand cheaper and was not getting the battery in the boot, the right rear springs and 215/40 R 17 Tyres and better performance / economy / top speed than the heavier Polo GTI 3 or 5 door. The Hatch & Estate could have been tested again once the CTHE was fitted as SEAT did with the Ibiza Cupra. The 2013 FL Cupra dropped a VED band to the same as the Polo GTI. (You could order the lower springs on your vRS that was on the order form, but these were fitted at the dealership at the PDI and not at factory.) http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/254590-elbach-springs Maybe those interested in the Ballast Weights might want to look at the Audi A1 1.4 TFSI 185ps 3 or 5 door, a sister car that required no rear ballast on the crash bar. Then the 3 door Ibiza Cupra Twincharger did not either. Look at the lengths and the original kerb weights from Audi, SEAT & VW for the Polo GTI then the ones they had to revise a year after. Approval for fitting tow bars and towing with the Sister cars but not for the ones that Skoda never type approved. No spare wheels as standard in the sister cars which was great for Audi, VW & SEAT for NEDC testing. ............. Look at the Left Hand Drive Skoda Fabia RS Hatch. Driver on the left, steering wheel and column, exhaust and battery all at the same side. ? Where are the weights fitted on the rear crash bar and do they weigh the same as on right hand drive cars? ? How much did the weights cost Skoda in materials, manufacturing, testing / type approval and then cost owners because the VED was a band higher than the Polo GTI? **Audi did have to add weights to the early Audi TT's because of handling issues.** https://www.ttforum.co.uk/threads/the-rear-ballast.501314/ https://www.ttforum.co.uk/threads/rear-ballast-facts-and-info.142531/ No ballast weights, just the suspension sorted from the factory. Wider tyres. No spare wheel as standard so no jack as standard. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/194995-not-the-best-review-of-a-vrs http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/481120-fabia-2-weight-distribution

People in your area might fuel up and drive where it is colder. Lots of cars in garages & dealerships, hire places, auctions and other places are sitting now with old / summer spec diesel in now. It is what is distributed every winter in the UK and gives protection to minus 15*oC. That is be it Regular Diesel, Premium Diesel or Red Diesel. (There is also Winter Spec Petrol / Gasoline sold Oct-April in the UK, which is less hygroscopic for winter.) Same in other world regions and different times of the year ie their winter / cold time of the year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_diesel_fuel https://www.ford.co.uk/owner/resources-and-support/ask-ford/technical-and-maintenance/maintenance/winter-diesel-problems

@craycrayfrog Winter spec diesel is delivered to filling stations in Scotland & the North of England from Mid October and then further south soon after until the end of March. Nothing to do with Brands of Diesel. Super market diesel be it on a pump with TESCO, ASDA, MORRISON, SAINSBURY etc is no different from any other Regular Diesel that comes out a pump with Shell, ESSO, BP, Gulf, Texaco or anything else. If you want Premium Shell V-Power or ESSO, BP etc with more additives then that costs more than their REGULAR DIESEL / DERV that much of UK diesel vehicles run on and more than half of that is retailed to car drivers from Supermarket Filling stations.

You could wire brush it now, then apply rust treatment. The in another day sand it and apply more rust treatment. (After wire brushing you will know if too far gone to bother doing anymore with it.) It could be prepped and painted as fitted now without removal.

The call from the upseller on the Service desk might tell the owners the rear discs are 80% worn. Silence maybe when told there are drums at the rear. Then notice of the cam belt being due will just be something common. My EV seems to think it needs a service in another 1,400 miles or 7 months. Since the last time Arnold Clark had it in with no EV technician available to service it, managed to wipe the Service info on My Vauxhall phone app. Vauxhall have in brochures / websites and in Articles quoting servicing claim after the first 8,000 miles 12 months the car does not require a service for another 24 months / 16,000 miles. But they seem to not be able to confirm that with me or a dealership. PS, it is a Motability car so the service is at no cost to me. I am not going to the bother of dropping off the car without there being a courtesy car available for 2 days. If they can service and do recall actions they say there are and do them correctly in a day they will get the courtesy car back sooner. By all accounts on doing successful updates they can not get them done within a couple of hours or even days. I am not making arrangements around a dealership service only to arrive and be told no Trained or Qualified EV staff are present, or be told that after being told the car is ready to collect.

Easy to lease them so someone else is buying them and you hand them back in 3 years or less having paid for driving them. You just need enough income to afford them or even not afford them. Now with subscription you can get cars without even a credit check being done. Buying a home / house with a loan might be over decades and you might not only have someplace to live or rent out but eventually own something of value in 3 decades.

? Does anyone know what the UK Main Dealership costs are for Annual or Bi-annual Inspection Services & Brake Fluid changes on an Enyaq? Are they quoting the same price for a Pollen Filter change as the Fixed Service & Maintenance regime on 3-10 year old ICE vehicles?

Pollen / cabin filter. Maybe a help to those doing some of their own Servicing & Maintenance and checks.

How often in the past 10 years has the brake fluid been changed and when was the last time changed or checked for H2O? When the garage said the brakes were OK had they checked the fluid?

You can get a better MPG on winter spec diesel with anti-waxing in it if it is nice and cool weather with nice dry cool roads and not short trips and not sitting de-icing etc. It has not got a lower cetane. But for years people have said it gives less energy. Maybe some can use winter spec diesel after April in the UK and compare then with Summer spec and see for themselves.

Skoda have had GPF's now for just over 3 years, so we have yet to find out how they are at 4,5 or 6 years & on because so many say that they are not much different from DPF's. Well we know how well it went for some with DPF's. But then GPF's are different and regen differently. Soon we will find out the cost of replacing GPF's at Skoda / VW Main Dealers or at Independents. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/479195-car-behaving-strangely

The Blue car is a vRS. The weights might be off your car already if the previous owners removed them. They were there because the Estate is 9 3/4" longer and heavier and the Hatch would have been cheaper, faster if the front end did not go light under acceleration and a VED band cheaper than the estate which would have been the same as the heavier Polo GTI. The estate has stronger rear springs and the rear does not drop under acceleration. So the front does not go light, the tyres lose traction and the Traction Control cut power or nip the brakes, as might happen with the hatch and often does unless you fit better suspension and remove the weights off the arse of the car. Idiot sales people and journalists said that the Estate was 5 kg lighter than the hatch, were they not thinking how can the longer car be lighter, what magic have Skoda done? So VW Group made Skoda sandbag the car with 'Success Ballast'. The Polo GTI got the battery in the boot but no spare wheel in the boot as standard. While every manufacturer was making their cars lighter for Euro 5 emissions Skoda designed and manufactured and fitted weights to engineer that the cheapest & lightest of the 1.4 TSI Twinchargers would not be the quickest or have the best economy. (It is not dangerous to remove them and nobody has ever wanted a crash bar and weights of a vRS to fit to a Monte Carlo to make it handle better.) http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/223019-removing-rear-weights-mk2-fabia-vrs-tsi-hatch-guide ............................................................... Roof Bars. They do not scratch the paint. You have rubber under them, or if it comes without cut rubber from an inner tube or put helicopter tape under. The fitting is a hole in your door jam and a pin on the roof bar fitting that fits in it. then the bar tensions down. Plenty threads on here on the subject. Including ones where people bought the wrong fitting kit if you use the search function. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/409448-roof-rack-or-bars-on-a-mk2-fabia http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/384178-roof-bars-on-hatch-vrs Another muppet that never thought 'does a longer roof really make it quicker accelerating from a standing start.' Or, how did they make the longer and heavier car 5kg lighter for weight distribution reasons, was it because the put ballasts someplace on the shorter hatch? vRS on 205/40R 17 tyres and with rear ballast weights and spare wheel and still lighter than the 3 door Ibiza & Polo on 215/45 R 17's. But had the same VED as the Ibiza until the Ibiza FL in 2013, and higher than the Polo 3 or 5 door. (VW & SEAT had to change the official Kerb Weight a year later because they had given false numbers.... No surprise there.)

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/387978-spare-whee-hockey-puck-jack-pads http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/334273-cutting-hockey-puck-slot-size

They might start by teaching that the NSL for single carriageway roads in a passenger car is 60 mph and the standard cars get about just fine passing slower vehicles when it is safe to do. Loads of drivers are getting on down the road @ 60 mph with 150ps, or 220 ps or 300 ps and how ever many Nm . https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013mvc

The car is not Type Approved to tow, so if fitting a tow bar and ball it would only be for fitting a bike rack to. You might want to change the rear crash bar and remove the rear ballast weights on there. This is a grey area, but a Bike Rack Carrier / Tow bar device can be fitted. Rear carriers can be ugly and you need the bike high enough to not obscure the rear lights and reg plate. Unless using a trailer board which you need to get wiring for. Then consider the spoiler and the fitment and you maybe need to disable the rear wiper. You could get neater than this. Thule to a good platform one now. 'Thule Outway Platform. ' Bike is too wide on the back of a Fabia with both wheels on.

At least a good car thief might sort the Software Faults before moving the car on. So as long as they are not breaking it for parts and the car is recovered it might be better than when stolen. Pity that the communications with the car is not great so unless an aftermarket tracker is fitted it can not be located.

Thanks. So was it just a remap or did the spark plugs changed, a different gap or anything else?

@Artha59. What was involved in converting your car to run on E85, and what country are you in?

It does say you must keep both feet on the pedals. I assume if you have only one foot that does not apply, as both hands on the bars does not apply to hand / arm amputees. Unicycles are not illegal in the UK, and in Scotland riding on pavements where there is no street lighting is not illegal. Not all cycles have freewheels though or gears and no neutral. https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/rules-for-cyclists.html

They actually abandon / block chargers elsewhere and that is sign written ones and plain ones. I used to send a message direct to the Councils Chief Executive Officer, the ruling council Councillors and Opposition Councillors when they blocked chargers over weekends and holiday periods, that got their attention.

At the charging hub in the bottom picture which is 100 yards from Angus Council HQ it was parked for 10 weeks last year, then for 5 weeks. Local ladies that sit there at picnic tables while dog walking reported to the police and told them there were ladies clothes in it. They were not interested as in a Public Car Park and not on the highway and totally legal. So that is as now where it is. Another EV driver did get a parking ticket while parked and the charger had finished charging but that was an error as the car parking charges are suspended and there was no charge for charging at these chargers back them. Now there is a cost to charge but no overstay cost of overstaying in an EV parking bay. If somebody reports it as an abandoned vehicle next time the Earl & Countess of Forfar visit the town then action might be taken.