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Have you tried the car on 97 ron or 99 ron Super Unleaded. Is the air filter clean / fresh?

How many miles, like has it done 40,000 and could do with new Spark Plugs, or a new Air Filter? I wonder if Dyno Man does not know which gear to be using. Hard to believe but this has been the case with 1.4 TSI Twinchargers with DQ200 DSG's.

Welcome to the forum. Have you a car with a DSG, in your case a DQ200? How many miles has it done, what servicing has it had? Something is very wrong with your car if the dyno is right. Being a 1.5 TSI which has ACT then the gears that the readings are at matter as does manual or DSG. The PS & Nm Torque shown by manufacturers as MAX should be the least that can be expected in perfect conditions. A Dyno with cool air blowing at it is ideal. Like in the UK or much of the EU. Not too high above sea level and not too extreme temps and 95 octane fuel that is not just some crap.

@kodiaqsportlineThere are Dealerships and dealerships with staff that easily keep customers up to date with all they know. These can be big or small dealerships with Owners, Managers or sales staff that give a damn and are not just after sales, orders and deliveries but value the customers that ultimately mean they earn a living. Skoda Customer Services can keep updates easily accessed as well. Some get that service, some do not.

For a while between working in garages and sometime during i worked in kitchens. When HMRC was investigating dodgy places they looked at the orders like Sweet Corn, Frozen Peas etc. They were legit usually from suppliers. It was easy to see if you calculate portions served by declared meals sold if there might be poor management, theft or a business at it. Stuff like Meat, Game, Seafoods, etc arriving at the back door, no questions asked and more meals sold or events done and not declared, tax paid. Point being, Sump Plugs used gives an idea of how many Oil & Filter Services are actually done. But some suck out oil and do not change plugs. Where a same price is charged but for some reason parts not used then they are putting it as more Labour to charge VAT on as the VAT is not on parts not supplied. It does not require longer to not look at stuff and to not replace stuff. All kidology. The Issue was the Major Services at Fixed Prices like when they were £279 then £299. FIxed Major Service @ 2 Years, Oil, Filter, Sump Plug even if no sump plug changed, Pollen Filter Maybe & maybe a Screen Wash Top up maybe not, Service £279. Fixed Major Service @ 4 Years. Oil, Filter, Sump Plug, Air Filter maybe, Pollen Filter Maybe, Spark Plugs or Fuel Filter Maybe & Service. £279. The first was a rip off, and the 2nd if all done was a damn bargain, and if not a rip off. When paying fixed price and a Tech decided something was not to some flexible / BS Schedule you might not get stuff. Prices are on 2 Litre or under cars. A Citigo or 3 cylinder car getting 2.8 litre oil and 3 plugs was charged the same as one getting 4.7 litres and 4 plugs. Good for some and a P!55 take against other that are driving smaller vehicles and maybe on tighter budgets. They still want a Dealership Service though and should not be getting ripped off to subsidize others or help dealerships fill their pockets. A Garage that charges for Screen Wash not used as the car arrived with it full, and that does not hand over the bottle of screen wash is taking the Cost pf Screen Wash and the VAT from the Customers and is sitting with the Screen Wash they fraudulently charged for on the shelf and also the VAT they took off the customer. Now it should be you get what you want and what you pay for and it is not a case of paying your money and getting less parts. Or even getting parts changed that you do not want like a Member has a thread in the General Automotive Chat Section concerning LOOKERS and a 2 year service plan and extras charged for with permission asked, Spark Plugs Replaced.

I did my usual tank fill at Tesco Ayr for Momentum 99 on Thursday Early. So E5 148.9 pence a litre. £43. Still worth it with a Non Turbo IMO. Suzuki 1.6 Automatic. (Car loved it as it has been running on Girvan filling station 95 / E10 and getting 38 mpg. 143.9 pence a litre today i think.) It was into Scone Tesco for Momentum 99 on Wednesday afternoon 22.68 litre, £34, 149.9 pence a litre. 42 mpg from motorway and 60 mph roads. Then Sainbury Prestwick Wednesday night Super Unleaded 97 Ron Min / E5, 147.9, Got 41 mpg Scone to Prestwick. It was 46 mpg on the coast road South and A77 to Cairnryan . Back to getting 95 ron next time & until the car goes North again. If i use my Shogun it is 26 mpg regardless weather, and EV is still free electric & for one charge between North & South. Might need to pay to charge tonight in Edinburgh as all the Free Charge Place Scotland ones i use are showing faulty. IKEA @ 42 pence a kWh, so 10 kWh is £4.20 and that is just 30-35 miles. I need 25 kWh charge to get home. That is too expensive really & not something i want to be paying. Hopefully Straiton or Hermiston Free charging works or at Edinburgh Airport. Trying to travel for 'Much Cheapness' is getting to be a PITA. By Dunure to Ayr to avoid Maybole, horrible time just now with the By-pass roadworks, then A71 to avoid Glasgow later on.

I am part time Sunny South Ayrshire and have been for 12 years. Currently sitting charging car at windy and rainy and warm Girvan Harbour. Still free thankfully. Each way is at least 145 miles depending on if going via A71 and Edinburgh to get Home or back. Doing that shortly so 165 miles. Done 900 miles in the past 5 days so far and half using petrol which is getting silly price wise.

The factory that matters to many posting here produces as many as 1,500 car bodies a day, but then it is not only producing Skoda bodies.

Have the plugs been out and inspected and the gap checked, and since out replaced? Has the air filter been looked at to see all is well, and cleaned / vacuumed / blown through, or replaced?

@mcdeli Hopefully there is a 'operator error' concerning Octavia or Superb iV's and flat 12 volt batteries because if not and it is the cars then that is a real issue. It is one thing having to charge the car or not and run it on petrol but if it needs to be put on a charger just to be sure it can start or the alarm does not go off then that is no 'simply clever'. Running an ICE vehicle or leaving sitting for a while when cold requires some thought, but the Full Electric and pug in electric and simplicity seems to not be sorted that well with Skoda. Mild hybrid has some advantage as far as a but of fuel saving and basically buy fuel, drive, park, repeat, and if you need to get someplace covering a distance you just go to car and get in and drive.

Only if you really want to worry about something. Lightening might well strike twice. ? Did the insurance cover the theft last time?

Welcome. A mod can move your post to the Mk3 section so i will flag it. Hopefully someone can help there.

How crazy that anyone should want the Ice Cream van put back to an ICE. Surely if they did not want it as an EV there was a buyer out there that would have and got publicity using it. Maybe selling Ice Creams near Cop 26 in Glasgow in November.

Time will tell how well they resume production after the 2 weeks. https://www.autoevolution.com/news/skoda-auto-started-a-two-week-outage-today-global-chip-shortage-to-blame-171948.html

@linni Is that according to Skoda / VW Estonia or a Dealership, or something showing some Schedule, recommendation or guidelines in the Owners Manual or Service Manual? Saying 3 years with Haldex is really just like saying the same for first brake fluid change and takes no account into locations, use or abuse. (At least you can check the Brake Fluid for H20 content, many do, not main dealers techs though as a common practice or courtesy.) The issue with Haldex is that many vehicles need attention to it long before 3 years. Just as when it was 4 years and many failed prematurely.

@lol-lol Looks very much like there has been an over air update, or the car was reading my mind and was going to Arnold Clarks to be abused by their incompetent employees. So today the weather was in the mid teens, the car thinks it is doing near 5 miles per kWH. Everything is behaving as it should. By the end of the week i will be away and driving an ICE, and i will not be using an EV when the 'Polar Plunge' descends over Scotland for a few days and according to the Daily Record Snowmageddon hits 'High Routes'. It will be a near a month before it is driven again so i am interested how it fairs battery and 12v battery wise sitting unused. I will leave it at 100%.

Welcome to the forum. Sorry to hear this. You will see here if you look at recent threads that others have also had issues with their battery on their nearly new iV's.

@General-Melchett Did they mention doing a software update as well since they have licensed equipment? Was it both oils changed, so in the box and the MCU oil that was changed or just one oil?

@ that was too late as you discovered. Dunking them in water be it fresh and dirty or salt water is an issue. Driving them just on roads can be an issue. As i posted before, dunking the rear diff can be an issue, so best have the Diff Oil Changed at some point.

Now it is 3 years or 30,000 miles. At 20,000 some pumps are gunked up. (Skoda still had the Recommendation at 40,000 miles when VW had changed to 30,000 miles.) @ 62,000 miles / 100,000 km is not a just in case, it is far too late really. (The DSG is @ 40,000 miles, 38,000 if an Audi so called s-Tronic, same thing, it is not @ 4 years, but Skoda are triers.)

Till recently a 2015 BMW 335d x-Drive could have been found at 'much cheapness' for what they are. My son traded one in earlier this year. Now with silly asking / selling prices matters have changed.

Reading the post and GBP I assumed you were in the UK. Where are you needing the 30-100 mph acceleration? Best look in the Octavia Project section. Plenty members have built quick Octavia.

Plenty Taxi firms and fleets are running EV,s that are only rapid charging and have done for years now, some over millions of miles now across their fleet. It is cells that fail and might need replacing. Now there are specialists in the UK that replace cells or complete batteries. Renault have shown the price of replacing batteries in the UK for a few years now. People with early Nissan Leaf are putting in bigger capacity batteries. There is a thread covering that in the Electric Car section on Briskoda.

The good thing is that when at the club / events / races you see what everyone else uses to transport their bikes.

VW Caddy Maxi, or VW Sharan / SEAT Alhambra, or a Skoda Roomster maybe. I had an Alhambra to use as a van.