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Pains me to say, but Kwik fit charge just under £50 to do an Oil & Filter change on a 1,400 cc engine. Dead handy if you can book a time, or a bay is free as you are passing. You can sit in the waiting room, see the fitter put the car on the ramp, open the bonnet and remove the filler cap, lift the ramp, do the drain and filter change and maybe a sump plug or a washer and then top up the oil. You might even catch them putting a dirty finger mark on a filter they wiped clean and never changed, but that is another story that can end with them getting a kick in the groin.

Elephant in the room is that Full Time VW Group Reps or Employees in Dealerships or Customer Services find it very difficult to give customers a clear answer in the UK or other Countries the actual Service Schedule or Guidelines for the different engines and different build dates. This leads people to ask on Forums / Social Media, then the answers are also all over the place and even km or miles gets mixed up.

& does anyone really want to leave the oil & filter longer than 10,000 miles or a year in their cherished vehicle. PS Oil really is cheap these days. Discount Stores and other supermarkets sell it and often discount day by day as they use it to catch out other supermarkets on the cost of the shopping basket.

Someone here might confirm, as i could be wrong and often am, but i think your diesel engine was not given at the time of launch a Variable Servicing code, ie variable / flexible / long life services, 18,000-20,000 miles. This is the Mk2 Fabia Oil Chart. The 1.4 TSI vRS was Fixed Service Intervals by the Code VW / Skoda used until 2011 then the Code changed to allow Variable / Fixed Servicing. With these engines the VW504 00 could be used for Fixed or Variable servicing but if you used VW 502 00 then that had to be Fixed Service / Oil Changes, 9,400 miles / 372 days or sooner. On this chart for the Mk2 Fasbias the Q16 / QG1 code is suitable for Variable / Flexible oil change intervals. The far right codes are Fixed Oil Change Intervals. (These are Petrol Engines not Diesels.) There will be a diesel chart someplace.

@peshetoman Have they got an open ended agreement where it can take as long as it takes to deliver the goods be it because of acts of god, pandemics, or poor management of the car manufacturer.

Is the Contracts Terms & Conditions with the Bulgarian Dealership actually correct for the Law of Bulgaria. Arnold Clark once had me put a deposit on a car that they could not supply because the production had stopped and they had not actually ordered it and after months of playing me along they tried saying i was tied to buying the car they could get or lose my deposit. They were plonkers as 'The Terms & Conditions' written were referring to English Law and not Scottish Law where the Dealership & i were. As it is the T&C's as they had them went against them because of the way they did business, they were not a license for them to take the pith. I got my deposit back plus interest as the same interest rate they were charging for finance on vehicles. They had little choice as i borrowed a demonstrator and kept it until they transferred the money into my account. They said they would call the Police, i said 'Make my day', i will call the press.

@KenONeill It is a diesel, so what you really need to be sure is not to run it on petrol.

Welcome. Without knowing what the servicing has included it would be an idea to look in the Air Filter box and see what the filter looks like, as in clean or recently replaced. At some point the spark plugs need checked since you do not know when changed. At the very least the Brake Fluid needs checked for the water content and might well need changing.

https://vauxhall.co.uk/cars/new-corsa/electric/range-calculator.html Variables are explained. Many EV's are designed so that Heated Seats & Steering Wheel will be used and the interior temp of the car will be set low to get range in cold weather. 0*oC & below ambient can have an EV getting 30-40% less range than it might at near 20*oC ambient loaded the same and doing the same speed. Examples. Eco is 80ps, Normal 110ps & Sport 136ps. You can do the same range or more in Sport than in ECO if you drive at the same speed. Feels like a proper car in Sport mode though and not some under powered 1,500 kg car plus what is in it. Pointless using ECO really unless you are having to hypermile a near empty car on very busy roads with slow traffic.

Other manufacturers will have websites the same as Vauxhall or Peugeot where you can choose a speed, temperature, AC on or off, ECO / Normal / Sport and it estimates a range the car will go. Only thing is that is not based on if there is a driver of whatever weight in the car, or passengers which might have the car 400 kg plus heavier than Kerb Weight. I have done 11,000 miles since August last year and the average i get is 3 miles per kWH. so with 45 kW usable battery that is an average of 135 miles on a full battery charge. But i have on Winter tyres, roof bar and bike carrier and sometimes a bike, boot full etc. AC /Heating does have an affect of range even with a EV with a Heat Pump and going to ECO or ECO Plus will mean the car may steam up or be dead cold, but you can get some more miles when you have no choice but to try and hypermile to a charger. Also reducing your speed to 60 mph, then 55 then trying to draft HGV's. Currently in Scotland there are so many chargers out of order in the lead up to SWARCO taking over on the 26th July that it is a problem. Evolt / SWARCO are already contracted to be maintaining chargers but they are taking the Michael. 10,000 miles plus had cost me 2x £20 for CYC cards & £17 at InstaVolt Chargers. Saturday cost me £8.50 on Charge Place Scotland chargers to cover just under 300 miles.

They need and want Hybrid & Electric cars first registered because they have to meet the Low Average Co2 g/km or face penalties of many millions of quid/euro or what ever currency. So priority might go to the manufacture, distribution and first registration of those. Lowest emitters of emissions according to the WLTP / RDE2.

Annoying music warning.

deja vu. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/489549-speed-i-items-to-be-fitted-to-all-new-cars-by-2022 http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/488677-how-did-cars-end-up-with-so-much-tech-fitted

No Haldex on your Fabia so no worries there. Your DQ200 DSG should likely have had the Service Campaign carried out sometime after May 2014. That was '34F7' to change the synthetic oil to mineral oil & a software update. If done there should be a sticker in the spare tyre well showing by who and when. *Pinned thread at the top of this section on the DSG's & the Service Campaign.* Anyway if done or not the box has been fine up to now so you need to go have a diagnosis done by an Automatic Gearbox Specialist to see if it is going to need Clutch Packs, a MCU or something less expensive done to iy.

You can just put Heli-Tape (Clear film) on both DRL's as others have over the years. Best done before one cracks, but does the job once cracked. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/338898-mk2-vrs-drl http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/453360-near-side-day-time-running-light

Certainly not from those that work on Manufacturers Help lines, Service Desks or Parts Departments at VW Group dealerships. https://www.oilspecifications.org/articles/vw_motor_oil_specifications_explained.php

Reached Tomintoul after 88 miles and wanted to top up charge but the Charger would not start the CCS and after a while 'Polar Plus' answered as this had not a Charge Place Scotland contact number. They could not start the DC so i went with AC but it was so slow that i stopped charging. That will have cost me for a connection. £3.80 I went to Grantown on Spey, the charger screen was very faded but it worked and the charge was at full speed 30 pence kWh so that will be about £10. Next stop was at a CPS charger which worked and i was going to stay for 40 minutes because it was costing me £3.90 to plug in and charge. An Audi cruised passed a couple of times and then parked ready to charge. I told him i would be another 20 minutes and he was appalled at my greed and me staying all of 40 minutes. He had his Audi for a few weeks, said he did 5,000 miles in that time, had no charging issues anyplace and others reporting faults are just silly with no idea how charges work. He said he had a home charger but had an Audi Card for charging and was using public chargers. I was left rather amused at his attitude when i thought how long he might be on a 50kW charger that was not running that quick & how long and often he has used public charges in the North East and Highland region. So hypermiled home via Aberdeen as i was not going to pay to charge anyplace else and i got home with 13 miles change left. I had 55 miles range showing when North of Aberdeen then did another 70 miles on the A90. Not the cheap day i planned charging wise but the weather was amazing, the various vehicles on the Snow Roads were amazing but really not as busy as normal for a Saturday. Supercars, vintage / classics and bikes, trikes, cyclists etc. Maybe there was not that many actually on the roads while i was, was because they were already enjoying sunning themselves in Ballater, Tomintoul or Grantown on Spey. Only come evening did the Caravans and Motorhomes cause long tailbacks on the A96.

It is as recent as 2018 since it includes VW 508 00 / 509 00

On my 2016 2.0 TDI SCR DSG which was delivered with a full AdBlue tank the range dropped 500 miles at a time and the first 3 times the tank was topped up the range was greater each time when filled until the 4th tank full and then it became the last of the great Defeat Device TDI's and it sipped Adblue and gave great MPG for the diesel, just as long as it got long runs, otherwise it was getting a Blocked DPF regularly. Some poor sod got that car eventually after Motability punted it via BCA and Arnold Clark bought it. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/446153-questions-about-adblue

The software update '34H5' on many DQ200 DSG's from 2013-2015 was started in 2017 and you should be OK with that still being there. (This was after the World Wide Recall on 2013 on the 2009-2012 cars which was just a a Service Campaign in Europe, changing oil from Synthetic to mineral & a software update. 34F7.) The DSG can reset and then settle to your driving style, as will the Maxidot and the fuel consumption once you have got back to your usual driving should then recognise the Average Consumption and calculate again when you fill up what your fuel use was in the short period before going to the pump.

He will have done a reset as you say, and had the car ticking over going no place and that used fuel. So you actually do not know yet if it is getting worse fuel consumption. ? Why did you have the DSG oil changed?

Is this higher fuel consumption showing on how the cars actual range has dropped from full tanks and not just the Maxidot showing this or the average fuel consumption. ie, are you having to by fuel more often, and how long had you had the car before the service and how many km done since the service. ? Has the Air Filter been changed? The DQ200 DSG did not need a (preventative) oil change. There are 2 oils for this 7 speed twin dry clutch DSG and they do not have a Service Schedule for oil changes. People might well change the oil if they want to, but really need to know what they are doing. Oil for the box & oil for the MCU. (Wet Clutch DSG's are just 1 oil that does both functions.) http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/463987-fuel-filter-change-and-drastic-fuel-consuption http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/425085-crazy-fuel-consumption-16tdi-elegance-13plate http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/477435-mk3-16-tdi-estate-drop-in-fuel-economypower

About to set off on a wee jaunt of about 350 miles around the Cairngorms & along the Moray Coast with some of it on the Northeast 250. That might cost me £3.80 or possibly £7.60 depending on 1 or 2 charges required, but in the hot weather and using the route best for regen 1 charge should be all i need. Starting off charged to 99% for free in Angus. Maybe if lucky and the charger is working or available to charge again to 99% in Tomintoul where the fixed cost is £3.80 (Aberdeenshire) Might charge a bit in Buckie or Banff. 21pence /kWh Hopefully no need to charge in the Highland Region where it is 30 pence a kWh on a 50kW charger. Limited to 45 minutes & £1 a minute if you go over. (10-15 min over might not be charged but best unplug.) If needed to charge Aberdeen it is 38 pence connection fee + 19p/kWh Other places and public chargers have various costs depending on the provider.