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My local Tesco,s 4 7kW chargers are getting busier now that the public chargers cost to use. The cars that sat for hours on the slow, fast or rapid chargers for hours or overnight are no longer using them. The guy that parks for up to 14 hours on the Tesco charger over night might need to change their habit as now there is a greater demand from those just wanting a while on them.

@cheezemonkhaidid you check what the tyre pressures were as the car was handed over?

@jonbon0. If you are getting 750 miles from 10 gallons on petrol does that require charging the battery 9 or 10 times within that 750 miles?

Because it is a 2.0 it will not be a 7 speed twin dry clutch DSG as pointed out in the 2nd post, that means it will be a wet clutch DSG.

@ £55,000 each they are a bargain.

Owners / members have decided that they wanted to change the oil is a DQ200 DSG and done so or had it done. Up to you if you decide you want to. This member did it by mistake. Other have on purpose. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/498926-dsg-oil-change-vrs

What was done @ 30,000 km? It is km or date. In the UK a major service is at 18,000-20,000 miles or 24 months. It used to be at 4 years / 40,000 miles spark plugs were part of a major service in the UK. Not much was done extra @ a major service over and above a 12 month / 9,600 mile service other than a Pollen Filter change is even that is done. You paid for extras. You have to tell them what you want done and pay for it, so if you want spark plugs changed ask. There is no Service Schedule or Guidelines / Recommendations to change the Oil in a DQ200 DSG. If you want that done then get someone that knows how to do it. There are cars that are over 10 years old without the Oil changed unless maybe done under 2012 recall or 2014 service campaign. Since then nothing from VW Group advising oil changes. But if you are concerned talk to an Automatic Gearbox specialist that knows about DSGs. No point talking to Skoda Technicians. This is the Skoda UK Service Recommendations from 3-10 years old. The DSG 40,000 mile service shown is not for the DQ200 7 speed twin dry clutch DSG.

The story from Skoda CZ that they would have to stop stockpiling unfinished cars when it got to 55,000 and they would suspend building. So they did suspend building and got on with finishing cars and delivering them and restarted building. They need to get cars flogged and money in and not stock months old since first built and sitting over a winter. A few years ago cars sat without WLTP certification. Skoda are not a huge manufacturer anyway. They said in the second half of 2021 they might only produce 50% less than normal. So that is about 270,000 they will not build.

Local drivers and mechanics should know what is what where you are. As should Motor Factors.

And use 1 oil which is for the box and the MCU. Dry clutch DSG has 2 oils, in the box and another oil used for the MCU and the oils and clutch plates do not meet.

@conniebell Is it 5w 40 that is in your 1.9TDI now , or are you just assuming it is as you say that is 'designated to use in the UK'? When was the oil changed and was it not you that did it?

The 5w 40 Full Synthetic is to VW502 00 spec and for fixed service intervals. Use 0w 40 Full Synthetic if you want. You could use 5w 30 or 0w 30 Full Synthetic III (Long Life) if you want and do Fixed Service Intervals. VW504 00 /507 00

DSG,s can be 7 speed twin dry clutch so a DQ200 as used on FWD cars with no more than 250 Nm. So basically 1.0, 1.2, 1 4, 1.5 or 1.8 TSI,s or 1.2, 1.4 or 1.6 diesels. Not on AWD,s or 2.0 TSI or TDI,s. Wet clutch 6 or 7 speed are fitted to those. ? What engine does your car have? Dry clutch have no service schedule or guidelines for oil change. Wet clutch DSG do require oil changes.

Fuel cost is included with EV,s on subscription. As to nobody having stock. Not actually correct. There are cars available that are new and built and in the UK or in transit to the UK. Not all manufacturers are useless and peed off the Semi conductor manufacturers in the way the VW group did. Some paying fair prices for components.

Different times. I had a Subaru when they introduced 18,000 mile first oil services. Cars were becoming dangerous because people actually used them for what they were built to do and the cars were getting no inspections underneath from having left the factory because they were not into a dealership. The engines were coping well, the drivetrains were not.

Lots out there. Skoda / VW built over 5 million DQ200's since 2012 for over 50 applications.. Then there are the millions of Wet Clutch DSG's. They work better maybe on than the failure rate than what Ford finally admitted to. Skoda build over 2,200 a day in normal times and there is only a small percentage failure. Mostly DQ200;s. 4.6 Million in the Global Recall in 2012 that excluded Europe. Then a few hundred thousand got the Sevice Campaign started in 2014. Then again in 2017 on the ones 2013-2015. 3 Recalls in Australia with the latest started in 2019 going back over the 2009-2012, then up to 2016. TPIs covering 2014-2018 and 2018-2020. https://skoda-storyboard.com/en/press-releases/skoda-auto-produces-its-13-millionth-current-generation-gearbox One might expect by now the failure rate should be very small.

@byteme Which years was this with Vauxhall and with what engines? The Corsa-E forum was being talked about last night in the Offtopic Section because of the Stray Dog Thread.

@bytemeIs the failure of the OP's box down to yet another VW Group software coc-k up again like the various ones with DSG's since 2009. Vorsprung Durch Tecknik. Nein! Advances in Technology. Nein!. Fix snagging issues early or do proper R&D and not have paying customers do it. Nein!

@byteme you have just quoted a reply that was about oil turning to sludge & gluing everything up if left for 30,000 km. ? Have you seen the oil turning to sludge when left unchanged for 18,600 miles or more? I have with my 2.0TDI and others when getting over that and towards 20,000 miles, not with a TSI though. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/455376-oil-service-really-required One i was driving and never owned and that i was not going to change the oil in but that needed plenty of topping up. 2016 2.0 ltr TDI SCR. Among the last of the great emission test cheaters.

^^^ Good stuff. Hopefully the parking attendants are made aware that if a Charger stops working and a car is in the charging bay and the driver is trying to get a charger working or one cuts out then they do not issue a penalty ticket as has happened at other locations including in Edinburgh & Perth. It is unbelievable what Car Park Staff will do at times.

The companies behind 'Subscription' is where the big Tory donors have invested. That is rent a car by the month, keep it month after month or change it and get a new one delivered to your door and the costs are all included. When you want another you pay the new price and delivery to you and if one is getting dropped off you do not need to pay for the other going. This is suited to those getting EV's and the UK Government are going to encourage this sort of business because it is their donors that are behind it. Obvious the financial institutions and major Car Auction company is as well and those that own the Car Supermarkets.

All the best with it. Luckily for others your thread will be here for when Dealership Staff say 'They all do that' or That is how they are and others including Skoda Customer Service Communication managers say 'We have never heard of that before'.

Everything returns to the earth eventually and discs do rust, but wander round a Car Supermarket or Car park and look at different vehicles of different ages and see how many newer cars have crappy looking discs and pay attention to which manufacturers vehicles have ones that look really bad. You might find that the biggest manufacturer group in the world turns the vehicles out with euro pinching consumables that do need replacing just a little too often. The OP looked at that dealerships vehicles and has seen just what is pretty normal, and these cars might get an Italian Tune up before sale, unlikely a Dealership replaces Discs when they are the way the OP's are though. Funny how customers get advisories but their sales vehicles / Demonstrators / Management cars just go out as they are.

@zetzet what break in period is this? Where do you find information as a new owners on 'Driving in' a new vehicle other than in the Owners Manual? There is the bit about may use more oil in the first 5,000 km that has been in manuals and is about all engines. EDIT. Found it in relation to the engine.

Different strokes for different folks. Different needs and wants and looks are in the eye of the beholder.