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Many with front wheel drive still want the best tyres on the front so that they can steer, brake, accelerate and basically get grip. They do not want crap tyres on the rear, so basically do not have crap tyres on the rear, fit good tyres, but as long as the ESP is doing its thing and the back end is not coming around and overtaking the front they are happy and feel safe. It does help your driving lots if you can control the front and not just go sliding straight on when you are trying to get around corners. Moving mis-shaped used rears to the front and putting the best tyres to the rear is not that 'simply clever', Loads of links to what the experts say and videos etc on best or new tyres to the rear are all over this forum and many others.

Worth taking Dragy with you when borrowing a demonstrator or just driving something and see what the truth is compared to the manufacturers figures. Well worth it to see what VW / Audi give compared to say a Skoda or SEAT that might have the same drivetrain but is lighter. 'Honesty is not always their policy.'

0-60 often looks so much quicker & sounding better than the 0-62 mph times given. Like with my car 0-60 7.6 seconds and 0-62 8.1 seconds. (I have Draggy so know what it can actually do, empty, loaded, on hot roads or cold roads) There are EV's that are slugs or just given poorer figures to help with insurance. Then there are cars from the factory with really crap ECO tyres that spin and then the ESR / TC comes in. Amazing what better grippy tyres can do and put TC off so no power cut is happening. PS Cables lock in most cars if the car is locked and tethered cables or your own cable used to charge AC are different matters. Models come in different flavours, different performances and with different insurance groups.

They might be fast accelerating but not all are given that quick 0-62 mph by the manufactures and that is helping keep the insurance group low. Some heavy lumps are not that quick anyway, and they are limited as top speed. Some get pretty cheap insurance for EV's but then that is true with ICE vehicles. New EV's are pretty loaded with 'safety features'. That might reduce accidents, but increase repair costs. The market gets to know what the actual risks are and the cost of repairs. http://whatcar.com/advice/owning/are-electric-cars-more-expensive-to-insure/n18043 http://drivingelectric.com/your-questions-answered/53/are-electric-cars-expensive-to-insure

Welcome. That should be more than enough miles for a battery in good condition, but your battery might not be. Are you having pretty hot weather even though you are not using the AC?

From the Factory the car comes on Flexible / Variable servicing so 18,000-20,000 miles / 24 months. Which ever comes first. If you want it serviced sooner or an oil & filter change then get it and have them reset to Fixed or leave on Variable / Flexible. Only if changed at the PDI does it get put on Fixed Servicing so at 372 days / 9,400 miles or sooner.

@NikoniteIs there any record on new spark plugs having been fitted? Have you looked at the Air Filter to see if clean / fresh?

We should know by September what they are charging at different places for E10 95 ron or E5 97 or 99 ron in the UK. By September or October or November we have not a clue where prices will reach for petrol or diesel at Supermarket Filling Stations or the Branded Big Boy places. The Chancellor of the Exchequer / Treasury will want the price low as he has to be doing a Pre Budget or whatever just so they can have a false low inflation figure.

@Bogart There should not be, but then it is a VW DQ200 DSG, so if it needs Clutches that will be £1,100 or so, if a MCU about £1,700. If just a Accumulator Kit much less. But the car has not been serviced to the Manufacturers Recommendations / Guidelines so 3,000 miles over each for services, and even though the DQ200 DSG does not get serviced and they would sell you a Warranty that they might say at 100,000 miles & over when it gets there it was invalid or because of the Service Record at a Main Dealers. Maybe best a lower mileage DSG if getting a DQ200 7 speed twin dry clutch DSG. Or one with a Warranty that covers a failure. Or a car with a Wet Clutch DSG that has been serviced each 40,000 miles. But that would be a 2 litre TSI if you were not getting a 2 litre TDI.

@mustang86 By a 3 year service regime on the Haldex it should have been properly serviced 3 times. By a 30,000 mile interval we have no idea. At least 2 services carried out on the Haldex would have been nice. You need to find out the state of the Haldex and if working, if serviced or needing serviced or more than that.

The OP has a very different animal. No point comparing a very revvy 3 cylinder 1.0 TSI with a 7 speed twin dry clutch DQ200 DSG or a 4 cylinder 190 ps TDI with grunt & a wet clutch DSG with a 1.5 TSI / 150ps ACT with a DQ200 7 Speed Twin Dry Clutch DSG.

Do you want a car with 2 pedals or one with 3? I love DQ200 DSG's but would not be buying one that i could not have a Skoda Warranty on. Like the one linked.

A high mileage 1.4 TSI with a DQ200 DSG (After 1st service the Variable / Flexible Services at a Main Dealer were 3,000 miles over each time.) vs a very very low mileage 1.4TSI Manual. (I wonder if it was being serviced every 1,000 miles / 52 weeks, and what was done?) Both are just 'Asking Prices' and there is a bum for every seat. Both want to get them sold but one dealer might be more desperate than the other.

Greenergy along with Royal Dutch Shell and others buy base fuel or import fuel already mixed where ever the price is right, and the bio. Nobody caused as much engine failures with fuel as Royal Dutch Shell did when they introduced their new formula in the 1980's. Royal Dutch Shell were Deaf Dumb & Blind when they were first told of cars with engines expiring.

Greenery are the biggest Road Fuel supplier in the UK. Suppliers to Tesco, NISA, some of ESSO Stations and Independents & others. Part owned by Tesco PLC. There are Driver shortages and tanker deliveries might be changing presently. @lol-lol Your twincharger had 98 super as the recommended fuel by the VW Group, but then when Shell went from 98 to 99 ron you must have been running 99 ron unless you were buying 97, or maybe 98/100/ 100+ on continental Europe. These deliver fuel for Greenergy.

There is no 98 octane super unleaded sold in the UK. There is 97 ron minimum @ BP, Gulf, Sainsbury or others or 99 ron minimum from Shell, Tesco & Esso. ESSO. See the 99 ron and about Ethanol in different parts of the UK. Greenergy that produces & delivers Tesco Momentum 99 around the UK only do that for ESSO in some of the UK.

@Nikonite Is the dealership not a Skoda one and the car not an Approved Used Skoda? ? When did you buy this car which has to be of merchantable quality, and how many miles has it done, and what servicing has it had in the past 5 years plus?

See @Georginapost as well as others. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/461809-15-tsi-with-7-speed-dsg

A DQ200 DSG can kick down, you can double kickdown, you can drop gears manually but dropping 4 gears is really not on when tryig to just get a shift on and proceed safely like doing an overtake. The car is a 150ps 1.5TSI so has ACT, that needs to be considered as well. Best get the car checked out and that any software updates where done correctly, after all the was and is a reason for them, that was the trouble some had with 2019 1.5TSI's and then also the DQ200 DSG's. Some were having no drive when stopping and going to pull away. Some got rid of their 1.5 TSI DSG's because of the Safety Critical issue that Dealership staff and Skoda were just panning people off with.

@Bogart Maybe all the same 1.4 TSI Euro 6 with 150ps but what about the wheel (tyre) size for each you are looking at. Matters not really as the cars got that Urban Fuel Consumption inside a building on a rolling road and that will not be how you drive places.

@Rockinghorse Best get the Warranty Work / Diagnosis on the DSG and engine carried out by another Dealership with competent staff. But sadly I feel that others might not want to touch it with a barge pole before the clowns you have dealt with sort out whatever issue they have caused. Best you get this in writing to the Dealer Principal and copy in Skoda UK Customer Services and particularly Kate Laws.

@Rockinghorse In what way was it a 'Major Service', was it just a 2nd service or service at 2 years old and a first service carried out so OIl & Filter and a Pollen Filter, or was it the by the mileage and, was it the Spark Plugs Changed & the Air Filter Changed and other stuff? ? How many miles has your car done from new? Best get the car back to them so that they can find what they have caused to mess up your car by them servicing it or doing software updates.

Edinburgh airport park and ride has 1 rapid charger unit and 2 slow. The rapid has a broken charger head and the charger is shut down and has been for weeks even though it had been reported by me several times. This is the Capital City for Scotland's airport and the provision is pathetic. A single rapid left inoperable is just inexcusable.

I am reading this on a phone so no idea which engine or gearbox the OP is about. What engine and gearbox has it. Is it one with a DQ200 twin dry clutch 7 speed DSG or a wet clutch DSG and how many miles has it done? EDIT, I see it might be a ,2019 1.5 TSI. So best get it to a dealership for a diagnosis. There is a TPI for a software update on some DQ200,s and you want to check on this. ? Then also the 1.5 TSI software updates. Has the car had this carried out?

@FabFabFabia Does your Karoq have a Button or a setting on a screen where you can actually switch off Anti Slip Regulation / Traction Control if you chose to?