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I always stop and give a lift to people at the side of the road holding a trade plate. Usually they have delivered vans or cab and chassis to Coachbuilders but sometimes they have been delivering cars. Fare home not spent adds to their income.

@sumpguardmight get alerts that they have been mentioned and post again. But you have the contact details for Romania & the UK. https://www.sump-guard.co.uk/contact-us http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/448707-steel-sump-guard-skoda-discounts-for-forum-members

I had a similar experience in a Merc showroom with a smary well dressed youth that smelled lovely, very tanned and well spoken youth. My son was outside and it was him looking to lease a £45,000 car but he was on the phone, he had already checked them out in Aberdeen where Salespeople know not to judge by appearence. So 'Mr eat himself if he was chocolate' was busy when i asked if it might be possible to start configering a car, and we might want to make an appointment and gave me his card. Turned out he was the Area Director & the Owner of the Motorgroups son.

Plenty regret moving cars on. Especially specialities that there are nothing else the same as and when less good but newer is going to cost much more to buy. There are so many examples of cars now with safety features that owners do not want or think they need, and worse still the manufacturer has not sorted out the snagging fault.

Maybe best checking with other hotter world regions about under bonnet noise insulation on their 1.5 TSI models. Maybe Skoda India decided that the noise was not the most important thing and neither was keeping heat under the bonnet and getting heat out was more important.

Welcome to the forum. What we will know here will be able to come from you and anyone else with one. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/489727-skoda-kushaq PS. Re the Sump Guards from Romania. I seem to remember the person involved was a member on Briskoda. EDIT, Here. @sumpguard If they get an alert then maybe they will look here. If not manufacturers in the UK maybe best getting it direct.

Cleaning the Haldex is not part of the Main Dealer Servicing as they do it. & Skoda was showing 4 years 40,000 miles for the oil change when VW were changed to 3 years, not even 30,000 miles. and who ever knows with Audi, they often do not know. (Then you have the silly billy that drain the diff not the Haldex and there are exploding diffs. That includes VW Trained Techs) http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/483229-how-to-change-oil-in-a-haldex-5th-generation http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/447657-rear-diff-destroyed-help-please http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/485788-cracked-haldex-unit

How hot the battery is when you start charging and the sun hitting a charger unit, and ambient temp makes such a difference. I only had this range show back early on and never ever lately, but i have had over 200 miles from around 40 kWh of charge. That takes a good few miles of low downhills where regening and getting high on steeper slopes quickly. Average speed maybe 50 mph.

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/496848-battery-status-on-infotainment-screen

There is. Just not Rapid Charging in Scotland yet. I will start using a couple of LIDL locations and pay, and keep using InstaVolt if needs must. I will only use 23 pence kWH Angus Chargers if desperate and the same with Highland Region and 30 pence a kWh. Those places charging £1.60 just to plug in and that have faulty chargers are taking the pith. Next week i have a limited time available to do 180 miles out and the same home driving at the speed limit and according to the weather condition, so will take a petrol car. Not spending the 2-3 hours it might take for charging.

@lol-lol This is just for you. Normally 40 minutes on the 50 kWh CCS will get me to 98% if i need to get 150 miles to the next charger. Arrived showing 99 miles, messed about, get it started just on the AC, and then showing 93 miles range. Trucked up to the single rapid, it was unoccupied. Green lights on and looks good to charge. Authorise card, chose CCS, blue lights go on, starts charging, you get in car ready to log in, and it cuts out, try try and try again and if lucky CPS answer as today and they confirm out of order. but the red light is just on because my car tripped it, they say they will report it to maintenance. If you need a charge and the AC works it is at 17 miles per hour. This is common when there is a charger available, also common is the red light out on all. and ring CPS Scotland for 40 minutes without answer. Luckily today 4 rapids are 1 mile away.

The MY Vauxhall App is telling you in real time what the battery is taking in and what the battery state of charge is. As does the car if you turn on and open the driver's door. Enough apps on phone, 2 phones in car, chrome book and iPad. Charging become a constant. Hardly time available checking in at chargers, reporting faults. Checking out, and checking available chargers on route. All a PITA actually. Once you do the same routing and charging it all gets dead easy. Just a pity others do not report faulty chargers or log in.

My 50 kW battery is 45kWh usable and that is what it takes when I charge to an indicated 100% where it will not regen to under 98% indicated. I know how much the car is consuming and what is added at chargers . So simply if turning up at a charger with little charge / range left I am putting in 40,kWh free or now paying for if I want as much range till charging again. ........I asked my mate who had a business delivering fish how he is getting on with his new Electric van and solar power at his outbuilding. So far so good and the Powerwall set up works for the fridges he has running. He will see how it works out over this winter. He is thinking on chopping his car in for an Enyaq but need the big battery and winter tyres and a tow bar for going to events / markets.

The DQ200 does have Hill Hold Assist (Hill Hold Control) that holds the car for a couple of seconds from brake pedal or parking brake to accelerator. It is 'autohold' that it does not have. Many notice a difference from a 7 speed dry twin clutch DSG compared to a 6 or 7 speed wet, even a difference with DQ200,s and different engines, 3 or 4 cylinder and petrol or diesel. A DSG reset can be carried out if you feel the DQ 200 is not behaving as it should be. PS, has the S3 had the Haldex serviced properly. That is not just the oil changed but the filter / screen removed and cleaned, and all gunk removed. Schedule is at 3 years 30,000 miles or sooner. Not part of main dealer Services or service plans unless paid extra for. Plenty threads on Briskoda concerning that.

No idea. but if it reaches the floor are you saying it can push further into the carpet and underlay. Or it is nearly at the floor then goes more with force? What engine & what gearbox, manual or a DSG? ? How is it when driving, have you had it flat out with the accelerator to the floor? Pedal to the metal!

Your business might be different from others business's where they know the cost of things and the value of them as well. That will be those already benefiting from the systems available. If not worth getting then just say no. None as blind as those that can not see or are not interested in the future. If what is available now is not for you then newer tech is not that far off.

What a good economic investment for those business users / companies getting grants on vehicles, chargers & the tax breaks and the saving on liquid fuel and congestion / low emission zone charges. Car Brokers / Traders / Mechanics, Taxi drivers, Couriers, trades people, reps etc etc, sole traders. http://fuseaccountants.co.uk/fusenews/electric-cars

That is why you want to know the worst that they might do. As in heavy electric use, load a driver and 400 kg or weight in them and take them on a motorway run at the Speed limit or safe speeds when the temp is near freezing. This is what it is with one person doing what that car can on that day. Michelin Primacy 4 on it when there are winter conditions will be a no no no matter that there is four wheel drive. Bottom vid, no rear wiper but AWD, it is getting ridiculous.

Best think again and maybe read the Press Releases and articles. Vehicles are bunkered just as tens of thousands were while waiting for the WLTP certification, where some sat over a winter. At least Factory Trained Technicians / Fitters will be completing the production not some Dealership Employees as you can get in the UK. They say 40,000 waiting and when it is nearing 50,000 shifts at the factory have to be reduced. https://www.world-today-news.com/skoda-auto-has-started-storing-cars-at-the-airport-that-it-cannot-complete-thousands-of-chips-are-missing

It may do if the Admin / Mods move this thread to beside the Skoda Dealer Section. We can ask.

https://www.world-today-news.com/skoda-auto-has-started-storing-cars-at-the-airport-that-it-cannot-complete-thousands-of-chips-are-missing The same parts but VW Group can prioritise VW, or Audi or even Seat as they want and by profit of finished cars, even by getting lower emissions cars out and first registered. Skoda only deliver around 1 million cars globally per year before Covid. Small fry in the scheme of things, and in the UK less than 80,000 Skoda first registered in a good year. A few thousand of them are new cars for Dealerships / ex management cars and not going out to normal ownership of lease companies or private buyers. So these are the first 'used cars' sold and give a false depreciation that guides and magazines then use. Lower depreciation than real world like actually when a person that buys a new car but needed to sell it soon like after a few months without trading in, they know it is not the true depreciation the guides show.

@wr0na Did you add up the total cost of 4,500 miles of charging? It would be good to compare the cost with getting 10 miles a litre using a diesel so around 45 mpg.

Battery storage in the house from recycling EV batteries is what is happening not only in homes but in businesses. (Power Vault / Tesla Power Wall etc.) Charging vehicles when needed from electric bought off peak or generated from solar or wind where they are. Homes in Tayside have had the system installed for a few years now with the batteries in the cupboard under the stairs type location. Solar panels on the roof. Part of a pilot scheme that has been successful. https://www.powervault.co.uk/article/powervault-and-renault-give-ev-batteries-a-second-life-in-smart-energy-deal EV charging is as expensive or more as running an ICE if you are having to pay 69 pence a kWh or even 40 pence at pubic chargers. 40 kWh x 69 pence £27.60, if you get 4 miles per kWh 160 miles. 40 mpg in a nice prestige car with fuel at £5.91 a gallon, 4 gallons £26.64 for 160 miles. 40 kWH @ 40 pence is £16. if you get only 3 miles per kWh then that is 120 miles. (as i sometimes get.) Fuel @ 130 pence a litre, £5.91 a gallon & 50 mpg =150 miles for £17.73. 3 gallons.

The issue can be that you know what you want and you want them when you need them but they are not available in the size you need. I have fitted BF Goodrich All Terrains for many years to 4x4's and get the same kind of discount on them as with Michelins as they are the same company, but again the size needed was not available. Those looking for big size All Weather tyres best start before it comes to when they might want them fitted.