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@Lindsey01 The Tech or mechanic is the one that will need to do the diagnosis since they have access to the car. Are the pipes / breather back on correctly and none punctured. ?? Because that is the common issue? The same old issues are here over the last decade. Plugs, Coils, Sensors, Water Pump etc etc. Does the person working on it know Twinchargers & not just TSI's? Is it the Original Engine? Is everything standard? Has it had the Breather Mod? Is it running the latest Software Skoda / VW Issued? Is it maybe remapped. etc etc http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/493579-dtc-p0441-engine-management-code

Mk4 Skoda Fabia will be available soon with a MPI 1.0. N/A 65 or 80 PS. There might be some Mk3 Fabia bargains around with this engine. The KISS principal. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/493159-fabia-mk4-launch-6pm-today-4th-may-with-launch-details/page/2

Spend a bit of time with Degreaser & warm or cold water for me for vehicles i own and want to keep and not look terrible in not so long a time as alloy and metal looks terrible and dull or rusty. Blasting away with a steam cleaner is something that others will do on other peoples vehicles IME.

Or spray your windscreen and have their auto wipers come on, it is safer than brake testing them.

'Hygroscopic' even!

If those with high 'Asking Prices' are getting them sold for what they are asking then the 'prices will really be strong'. It is all about the 'If'.

If the discs are very very hot then it makes no difference if you have your foot on the pedal or 'Autohold' is holding the car. They are supposed to be the parts that the car requires to be used as a car in very many areas around the world and in many where the weather / humidity is greater and roads that can be driven faster & downhills longer than any that the UK has.

UK Main Dealer Fix Price Servicing on 3-10 year old cars on Fixed Service Intervals is expensive enough with the Spark Plugs at £105, the Pollen Filter @ £35, the Oil & Filter Service and the Extended Scope. Loads of money for not much done, and everything over and above Oil & Filter & Sump Plug being 'Extra'.

If someone is up your jacksy and wants to be where you are just wait until it indicates 50*oC oil temp and then boot it, then it will get to around an indicated 90*oC oil temp soon enough.

The vehicle behind was drafting the long roof estate car in front, just like in BTCC with the Volvos. If they had pulled out to pass then we would know if they had more power!

@Elsie21 Any update? ? Had the car had one brake fluid change yet or even the 2 that the Manufacturers recommend, then on another subject has your Haldex got a record of an Oil change, and recently a 2nd one, or a service with a cleaning of the filter / pump for the Haldex.

Coolant warms up quite quick, as the Engineers designed the engine to have things, even when the ambient temp is cold. Oil gets warmed much slower more so in a TDI. It could take 15 miles or more of driving before ever at an Efficient Operating Temp. A TSI might take 5-10 miles. Oil is a Coolant as Coolant / Anti Freeze / Summer Coolant / Anti Corrosion Fluid is.

VW are showing it as an Oil Service each 9,000 miles. So no need for VW or Skoda Main Dealers to be ripping customers for more than an Oil & Filter Change each 9,400 / 10,000 miles or whatever this years mileage they chose. For a while there were £99 Oil & Filter Changes, then Interim Services / Minor Services & then Major ones. Now Skoda have Oil & Inspection Services and each 3 years / 30,000 miles Extended Scope. All money for old rope. They will need to come up with a 'Good Value' Fixed Oil & Filter Service for those with a Plug in Hybrid.

They will have to clarify what Servicing they will do and what will be charged. If it is because the 1.4TSI engine does not run much with some cars so like VW Advise normally 'Fixed Suits' then that is a Oil & Filter change. That was what before 2020 was being Called a Oil & Filter Change, or sometimes a 'Interim Service'. Or are Skoda making out that ICE are OK to be Serviced each 24 months / 18,000-20,000 miles but a Hybrids Engine and the brakes / suspension / steering / tyres etc need 'Inspected' each 10,000 miles. https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/owners-and-drivers/servicing/service-plans/service-schedules VW say 9,000 sometimes, 9,300 in the link above and Skoda usually make it 9,400 miles. People need to check what Audi or SEAT says. Vorsprung Durch Technik. Get low Average Emissions but have Customers pay for VW Group saving paying the penalties if they do not.

@JohnBob Is that Skoda UK / Dealership Staff saying 'Fixed Oil & Filter Services' at 10,000 miles or 9,000 as VW are showing? Not actual Services but Oil & Filter Services which are not much getting done. ? Is there really no option for those that actually have the 1.4 TSI engine firing up and running more than just a few miles per day, or week? http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/494638-octavia-iv-phev-servicing

I did a good long ride this morning near home (before it got really hot or rainy) and the temp up in the 20's is much more noticeable than when riding near the coast where it might be hotter but with a sea breeze. Pretty empty roads with no tractors or any other cyclists about and only the very odd car or van. Plenty dry tracks about for now.

@RoryErg Welcome to the forum. ? What length of journeys are you doing, and are you setting off with a Full Battery and using the car on electric if short journeys and manipulating the use of the battery to improve the amount of petrol you need to use? ? What is the average fuel consumption showing as?

Spark Plugs are shown as being @ 40,000 miles then, as is the DSG oil change unless someone is saying it is a DSG that has a Manufacturers recommended 80,000 mile change.

DQ200 DSG's 2009-2012 (late Summer) were part of the World Wide Recall which was just a Service Campaign in Europe started early 2014 and the Synthetic Oil was changed to Mineral and a software update was done. '34F7' Late 2012 DQ200's were not part of any Campaign as they should have been turned out with Mineral Oil & the Software Update. Sadly they have been going wrong in a good few cases. 2013-2015 were part of a Service Campaign started in 2017 on some to do a Software Update, not all were flagged as needing that. Another co-ck/up from VW group. '34H5'.

@pikpilotWhen you could smell eggs from brand new petrol cars the Cat was certainly not due to be replaced.

@blank I take it you mean a PHEV vRS and not a 2.0TSI vRS. You had best ask Skoda or a Salesperson that can ask someone that knows the answer about the actual servicing and can the 1.4 TSI be on variable servicing & it is not necessary for it to be on Fixed Oil Changes. Best ask about the e-DSG that they use and is it maintenance / oil change free. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/494638-octavia-iv-phev-servicing

@skomaz Is a traditional Adult Trike not suitable? When i first lost my leg and before having an artificial leg i rode a Pashley Trike which was very heavy. Recently i have seen people with more modern versions that are a lot lighter and where folding with quick release rear wheels. This kind of ones. (Bottom, side by side pedal assist electric trike available to hire at Girvan Sea Front. I posted more in the Electric Bike thread.)

Pedal Assisted Buggies, Karts & Bikes for disable riders or passengers for hire at Girvan Sea Front South Ayrshire Scotland.

No point putting long life oil in it. Not even sure that the factory gave them the service code for variable / flexible servicing in 2008. So as well getting 5w 40 FS so to VW 502 00 and put that in. Others might know about the BTS engines. I have not seen anyone posting here or in the Roomster section about then having excessive oil use issues. EDIT.

The service interval was at 4 years and some said 40,000 miles, that changed to 3 years and some said 30,000 miles. Basically issues if left for 6 years can pretty well be expected.