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For a TDI it is long life oil even if doing Fixed Service Oil Changes. Since the WLTP's and a bit before Skoda / VW went to using VW 508 00 / 509 00. That is +++ 0w 20 Full Synthetic IV +++ You can use VW 504 00 /507 00 at the Oil & Filter change which is 5w 30 Full Synthetic III. But if doing so you are not using the Manufacturers Recommended oil The cost of VW 508 / 509 , 0w 20 FS IV has come down but it is rather pricey.

IMO you are best to just enjoying your car and replacing brake pads when required. Use Cruise Control when it is safe doing so. It is only at 60 mph when you need it to slow you is it not on hilly not dual carriageways or motorways. You seem to be lucky because more often people need new brake discs more often than pads where because they corrode badly and that is the only reason the pads need replacing.

You do need to drive it as a 3 cylinder engine car rather than as your previous cars.

Here is one of the first threads on the subject with a members with the same vehicle as yours or later builds. Some got a sticker in the engine compartment and some did not. You have no GPF and no need to use VW 508 00 / 509 00. It is not back applicable / compatible. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/452892-oil-type-in-14-tsi-4x4 See @silver1011's posts. also @xmanwho explains. Loads of threads on VW 508 / 509 on Briskoda since 2018. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/448200-vw-508-00-oil 3 years on and there is still doubt over cars built 4 years ago.

@EnterName ^^^ That is because that is The Manufacturers Recommended Oil for your vehicle for Variable / Flexible Servicing, and because it is what they have for servicing. You have a 2019 vehicle with WLTP Certification.

Regardless of a GPF being fitted to TSI's some Dealerships were using VW504 00 / 507 00. (Many had no VW508 00 / 509 00 available to sell in the parts department. Those that are Euro 6 d temp are different from the Euro 6 pre WLTP certification. With a TDI even on fixed servicing it requires the VW507 00 or VW509 00. It comes as VW 504 00/507 00 or VW 508 00 /509 00

PS Plenty Dealerships are now using 0w 30 FS II( on vehicles with GPF's. Maybe Vorsprung Durch Technik has come to pass. GPF's were not fitted to Skoda's before they were fitted to 1.0TSI Mk3 Fabia in 2018.

Skoda / VW Group put this out once they went to VW 508 00 VW 509 00 pre WLTP / RDE & GPF's. This is for Variable / Flexible Servicing. Finding that VW502 00 is ok for TSI Fixed Servicing (oil & filter changes) is more difficult. But it is perfectly OK.

0w 20 FS VW 508 00 , 509 00 is the correct oil but not for a 2017 TSI or TDI. That is the recommendation from VW from 2018. Not backward applicable. The correct oil for the Euro 6 TSI pre change to the new spec is 5w 30 FS III for TSI and TDI. For fixed service , oil changed 5w 40 FS so VW 502 00 can be used with a TSI.

As per Manufacturers Recommendations the first Brake Fluid change was due at 3 years. The Air Filter @ 4 and the Spark plugs even though the mileage is low. So have they just been checked during the 'maintenance' / servicing or anything replaced as per the Manufacturers Recommended Servicing?

A 'Major Blip' in the Factory Quality control allowing it out and then at the dealership where their 'Car Prep' people failed to pick up on it and tell the Tech doing the PDI or the Salesperson responsible to the customer. So the car needs rectified to the Factory Spec, only it needs to be to the expected standard not the Ball's up. Skoda UK can have whoever they want to do the Inspection & Report check the whole car and see that all is well elsewhere.

When the Brake Fluid was purged was that just aired and not the brake fluid changed? Was the brake fluid tested for H20 content. (Water) The Brake Assist can be adjusted from the Factory setting for Disabled use, for when hand controls are fitted. As can be steering assist. Usually it is giving more assistance but that should not just be assumed. Best see if Brake Assist is on the Factory setting if all else is good like the fluid and pads / discs etc.

For UK cars Skoda UK are the importer and surely by now they know the spec of the various MY22 models and what the RRP,s are. If Skoda UK do not then there is something very wrong with that. As to what UK Skoda dealerships know and their sales people the cars can be already in the country and they never bother getting to know exactly what the product they are selling is

The cars bunkered now are not sitting over a European winter like the tens of thousands the VW group had when they were waiting on the WLTP and RDE certification. That was many months for some over a hard winter.

@domhnall Have you been going North of Perth much and charging your car? Compare East Lothian with what the Highland Region has provided and is charging and there is no comparison. Then around Edinburgh it is pathetic currently for chargers out of order. The cost set by Edinburgh Council seems way off as well. Along the Moray Coast like at Forres, Elgin or Buckie where the Council is regularly cutting services because of lack of money you can plug in and charge and it costs £3.80 or some are £3.90. Bargain. A few miles west into Highland region and to get a charge on a vehicle with not a very big battery it is more than double, sometimes much more. Nairn 30 pence a kWh. Go East to Banff, Fraserburgh etc & it is 21 pence a kWh Lots of people will be happy to pay a fair price for a fair, good and reliable service around Scotland and this is what will encourage in new EV drivers. There are Councils have set the cost to plug in and charge and cost of a kW at prices that do not reflect what they actually providing as a service as far as maintenance goes. SWARCO have a lot to do with that though, they really have been taking the pith. There is a new regime in place and time will tell of SWARCO / Evolt get their act together and chargers are not out of commission for weeks or even months as there have been around many places in Scotland. The truth of the matter was how few maintenance operatives there were covering Scotland up until very recently when there were new ones taken on. Bottom is Angus Council minutes and them deciding what to set as cost to charge.

Go out in the dark and shine a torch or bike light at the rear of you your Roomster and see if the reflectors are in the light cluster and if they do the job. If you tint them and they are not as good then you will need to have the pair of rear reflectors that is required by law. (Construction & Use & the MOT.)

The rust certainly does not start on the outside / exterior of car, it does start from the exterior of panels that owners will not see. (Common, as is the Fabia Mk2 rear reg plate light area corrosion.) They know very well about the moisture / rust trap at VW, Skoda & SEAT and the dealerships that have Kerbside Autos / Paint Man in a Van Joey up the Trade Cars before sale know about it. As much as they can be in denial about the issue it is not difficult to do a little research of owners and previous owners that have had the issue. Skoda UK are best dealing with the issue when the perforation are tiny rather than when there is less metal to have treated and filled and prepped and painted. A TPI should have been issued years ago that attention should be paid to the area when the Body Inspections are carried out during Main Dealer Servicing.

Logan Martin that won Gold in the mens BMX Freestyle is just something else. At his Backyard Ramp Park.

If Skoda / VW Group come away with the Car has not had Annual or Biannual Inspections recorded of the bodywork, so you need to ask where in the Corrosion Warranty it says they need to be . Years ago they did and then there were service manuals with a Panel / Body Inspection diagram after each Service page. Then there is the Skoda Fixed Price Servicing & Maintenance Websites where it says Body & Glass inspections. So if not done Skoda knows it is their Dealer Network not doing it. Next hurdle is the 'holed panel' when it comes to the Corrosion Warranty. Maybe by 10 or 12 years there is no hole. Well in the case of the Citigo the thing is get a very very strong light and stick it up behind the fuel filler area and before the car is 10 years old there might well be pin ***** holes showing light through. So Skoda can go think again and rethink how smart they are or the VW Group. Vorsprung Durch Technik, learn by your errors and own them.

For some in some places at some times of the year / weather conditions.

Re Magazine ratings, they do need taken with a pinch of salt. They mirider might suit many but certainly not all. Much like EV's. You need to try before even considering buying.

Bristol does look like the Authorities have a long way to go with public charging in a short period of time. Lots of Cities & large towns just need to get the park and ride & public transport sorted and dozens of chargers at the P&R if they want to keep traffic out of city centres, and then they need to get Hubs for Commercial Deliveries and last mile type deliveries by zero emission vehicles.

Not for you or your son then, but it takes all sorts. Some that normally spend hundreds per month on diesel are in EV's now. I see business owners & reps working regularly while charging, doing the orders etc and making their calls. The are busy busy busy, taking a 45 minute stop and then getting on up or down the road. EV's suit their type of work, and there are those that increased their fleet of EV's and employees because the type of orders they deliver time important might be from business that picked up because of the Pandemic. Several drivers i see regularly are in the quicker EV's like Jag's, Audi & Tesla. Bar codes for test samples are the kind of things they are delivering. Planners and Technicians heading places, maybe flying out or sailing out to jobs once they get where they are going. The customers or destinations often have chargers for the type of business users driving EV's for work.. Grants for vehicles, grants for chargers and HMRC / Tax Payers helping them drive prestige cars rather than ICE prestige cars or vans. I meet one lady various places south of Perth who drives a Tesla, she is visiting her businesses from the Scottish Borders to north of Inverness and gets around them all each week doing what she needs to oversee or manage. She stops, starts charging gets on with work and then sets off, if there is a charging issue she just moves on.

Plenty do ridiculous miles for work in EV's daily and seem to do OK in saving money and doing calls or online work while charging, or they have their break / food. It is each to their own, but south of Perth in the UK really seems ready for EV long distance travel. Maybe the very bottom of the UK is another area with poor charging facilities. Purple is Rapid Chargers.

Best someone interested in the car looks at it, that is unlikely to be a Skoda Dealership Employee. Has the car ever had a new water pump? Has the car ever had new coils? Do you run on on Super Unleaded 97 or 99 ron? Who changed the plugs for you and what plugs were fitted and how many miles ago? Pipes not on correctly or the coils damaged or even on the way out can EML light or ECP can show or both even when booting it and there is a misfire and a code for misfires might not log if not enough in a cycle. The Exhaust Emissions Control light can even show when you have had the car sitting ticking over like when working on it then boot it. Not likely to stay on though.