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A handful of salt not just a pinch is required with lots of the tyre reviews and tests published. Since most have a car that are bothered and will know a bit of road they can drive to to test their tyres then best the do so. It will likely be a 60 mph road and the surface might be the same year on year. So take your car with All Weather tyres, choose the place you are going to brake from 60 mph in different road temps. Maybe at the same spot in Summer do the test with summer tyres, or winter / snow tyres. Do it on a warm wet day and a cold wet day. The thing with UK Sumners is they can be wet or even cold, maybe only cold at night. It is all a location location location thing. What others do o to where they drive is hardly relevant in unless it is the same as you do. Good there are free choices of what tyres each driver can fit if it is their vehicle.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/476057-vag-independent-uses-fusch-oils Castrol is a VW recommendation but then for a lot of years many have used Quantum so Fuchs. There is nothing extra special with Castrol other than the RRP to customers being high so the profit is good, but cheap to VW Group. Plenty avoid it if they have a keeper. As long as the right oil is used then that is all that matters. So hopefully they used the Recommended 0w 20 FS IV or maybe they went 0w 30 fs III.

There is no strain on the DSG stopped with your foot or anything else pressing the brake pedal or Autohold active. The cars are designed and built to be driven that way. The PITA is that the Brake Lights can be on with 'Autohold'. Going to P while stopped in traffic is simply not clever, especially as there is Autohold or the Parking / e-Brake. (not a handbrake more a 'finger brake.'

There is no reason or law in Europe that stops a Skoda Dealership giving the Service / Warranty / Recall record of a vehicle. Actually they need to as that is what keeps owners and thew public safe. If they need to hide Previous Keeper details then that is all they require to do. Some of the Dealership Employees are just so full of their own importance it is unreal. Ask the Skoda Customer Services in whichever Country for the cars History that is on the system.

The car might well say it wants a SERVICE or INSPECTION SERVICE, because someone has left or put it dues for a SERVICE one year ago. Saying it needs a OIL SERVICE is a different thing. The service last year should have had Long Life Oil used and that is good for 18,000-20,000 mikes / 24 months. But then the car really needs checked or any Warranty Work done while in Warranty, it needs a MOT anyway at 3 years. If the Dealership Employee has left the car needing an INSPECTION SERVICE and not an OIL CHANGE service then get them to sort that out.

Welcome. I think bad advice. I think that if it starts after 2 weeks and is left running for 20 minutes it will likely not start again 2 weeks later. It is not a good tactic. A trickle charger / solar charger is a better idea. Is there nobody that could take it for a 20 minute drive each week? Someone that will have 3rd party insurance cover driving a vehicle they do not own or are not a named driver on the policy. If the car had the last fuel put in before mid / late October i would get the tank filled up when it is being left. The petrol in now is pre Winter Spec so Hygroscopic. If it was bought last summer it will be E5, if since September maybe E10 and more hygroscopic than the E5.

Seems to be just the job as a EV Small Commercial.

'Hill hold assist / hill hold control' is the couple of seconds the car holds between brake pedal and accelerator, nit to be confused with 'Autohold'.

There is no Super unleaded so 97 or 99 Ron minimum which is E10 sold in the UK. So none with more than 5% bio. So more than 5% ethanol. The OP,s car is perfectly capable of running on E10 95 Ron. The 'super' from VW group / Skoda on the Filler flap is their use of the term as used on Continental Europe. It does not mean Super Unleaded. VW have referred to 98ron for years now and nobody has sold 98 Ron in the UK for years now. Super unleaded had been 97 or 99 Ron minimum. only Tesco, Shell or Esso super is 99 Min. Esso Synergy in some parts of the UK contains no Ethanol. *** SUPER PLUS 98 (95) is what VW group have on filler flaps if GTI / R. Or MK2 Fabia vRS when the recommended fuel is UK Super Unleaded.

@AlanOsborneWhy do you still have the new car and are using it, is it not getting replaced? Is the Dealership replacing the car with the backing of Skoda UK who will have to supply the new one that will allow you to tow? VW Group could supply a loan car until you get a replacement. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/492496-planning-to-tow-with-a-new-car-beware The resolution is on page 2. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/492890-octavia-mk4-not-approved-for-towing

@fabdavrav# 'i remember it well'. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/445132-emergency-services-not-using-winterall-season-tyres

What actually was the ambient temperature? If the requested interior temp is more than 16 degrees with pure ICE engine cars the stop / start has the engine starting.

Ps. Those small BMW EV,s were leased or bought even when they had reached over £40,000 each. They reached £46,000. BMW dropped the cost to the under £35,000 over night. Pity there are so many around on totally unsuitable tyres for where they need driven. Plenty of them around Angus in council carparks sitting going no place just as they did pre Covid. PPS, postie's, home deliveries, etc get about in Highland regions if roads are open and plenty areas of Scotland need 4x4 responders when roads are not open. As it is untrained winter drivers doing NHS work should not be out and about. As it is Police Scotland still have unsuitable vehicles out and about in weather conditions that they should not be out in, as do the NHS and fire and rescue services. I see that there are Police BMW 330,s now being replaced as they are a fire risk 3 years after the recalls started. Not safe for high speed work like chasing people that got their BMW,s fixed or that they replaced.

Plenty NHS, Social Work, Council Employees all around Scotland prefer to take the Loans and mileage allowance and drive the nice ICE vehicles while their Employers have car parks full of EV,s that they choose not to use. As to Highland region staff that are ignorant with using public chargers and vehicles then people just need to do what I do. I call the Convenor and email them and copy in every councilor and the local reporters. That gets attention. Through in Edinburgh where taxis charge at a council location someone is puncturing tyres of council vehicles blocking chargers. That now has the attention of those managing the Muppets.

I think everyone knows the price of electric will go up, as will charging electric vehicles. It is still pretty cheap for business users to run EV's though compared to an ice. Even those paying 45-69 pence a kWh on Public Chargers in Scotland which is why there are so many doing exactly that. The Nairn 50 kW Charger was not available for long enough because of the building work. Someone before me was £42 to charge because they never knew of the £1 a minute overstay charge. There is not even a 10 minute amnesty.

@fabdavrav is that on 7kW chargers. Where exactly? I charge in Moray, Forres has overstay charges, so Elgin on 50 kW chargers and it is £3.90 to charge without time limit. But then the demand is high. With Highland Region Nairn is ridiculous with getting on a 50kW charger.or any chargers. Grantown on Spey pathetic as well. @lol-lol Scotland Outdoors this morning. '30 pence a kWh in Fort William.' Euan McIlwraith. @ 30 minutes. & @ 1 hour 2 minutes. https://bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0b6pwj4

@lol-lol i have done over 20,000 miles in EV's for under £20 spent on electric, and 2 x £20 spent on CPS Cards. A pity the Highland Council are not brilliant for the General Public who are paying for the infrastructure. Then to use Highland Council Chargers (paid for by everyone) it is 30 pence a kWh and max 45 minutes. No return in 30 minutes, £1 a minute for overstay.

More 'Truths about electric cars' because there are plenty of the lower expense EV's out and about.

Upgrading brakes has never been a requirement of getting to max velocity. Actually changing / lowering suspension is not a requirement either in many cases if just remapping and wanting to max out on a motorway. 'Software / engine management changes' to an ECU adds no weight. Now if you want to go into and come out again of bends / curves faster & facing in the right direction the hardware changes are 'simply sensible'.

https://autoexpress.co.uk/news/356646/peugeot-e-208-and-e-2008-get-range-boost-2022 Software and hardware changes to increase range the cars can travel. Lots more than this required i suspect as the WLTP figures are currently fiction for real world distances if people and stuff in vehicles in seasons like Autumn or Winter in the UK.. http://carbuyer.co.uk/peugeot/208/303648/increased-range-for-2022-peugeot-e-208-and-e-2008

Hopefully they can give better customer service and after sales customer service. Keep those with orders informed. Gen up on the new cars / orders and be able to fill out orders correctly because they know the MY22 specs. They can maybe get the almost new cars in that need updates of software and replacement parts. Let customers get their cars back after they have had courtesy cars for months now. Maybe they can get peoples cars in for their scheduled service and maintenance and warranty and service campaign work soon and not just weeks or months into the future. They are in the business for the long term and need to stop blaming lockdown and Covid for staffing issues as they were performing much the same in 2019. Now they might be dealing more in used cars. Hopefully now they can prepare them better for sale than Skoda Approved Used cars are prepared at some dealerships.

From the start of the thread 3 years ago are the posts re the T&C's of the Warranty. Ask for the T&C's showing the need for a Body Condition Inspection to be carried out every 2 years. Ask to see where the Technicians Work Sheet at a dealership shows that they have to carry out a body inspection so that the car keeps a valid Corrosion warranty. No place in the Warranty T&C's that an owner gets if they do get them does it say that there is a need to Annual or Bi-Annual Inspection carried out at a Dealership / Approved Repairer. There was when there were Owners Service Manuals a page after the Service Page for the Body Report. The Service & Maintenance Menu for fixed price Services says there is a Body & Glass Inspection so if a car gets serviced at Main Dealeeships and the Check of the Body is not done Skoda UK know who are not doing them. As Skoda UK for the evidence that the Warranty requires a Bi-Annual inspection to keep the corrosion warranty valid.

A Full Service History should show the full history of all servicing done. If the spark plugs were replaced that should show. Worth having replaced if not done. Below, An example of what Skoda UK show as 'Servicing recommendations or guidelines as they do not call them scheduled consumable replacements because many cars advertised for sale with a FMDSH might not have had stuff done or replaced.

@lol-lol the fiasco continued. 3 charger could not be used as blocked or in 1 case failed to start. Eventually at Edinburgh Airport the one Rapid was working and a nice Driver in a Tesla came off to let me charge. They went around to the Tesla Supercharger site. It cut out twice on me while I used it. No card or app required on it. A EV Taxi driver turned up. He said he can use the rapid or AC and gets 43Kw on the AC. Now charging ok n Aberdeenshire in torrential rain. EDIT. Wet sleet which is now snow. 6 new rapids installed at Edinburgh Airport waiting to be commissioned. I am going to wait a while more before i get to see a e-Honda charging in Heavy Snow or Blizzard like conditions. I am interested in how much snow builds up around the port.

People have reported issues like that. Best say your cars age, miles done, servicing done as in have the spark plugs been changed. When did it start behaving that way?