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Do not drive through Covid Hotspots, drive around them.

Not only Skoda/VW group take the Pith with people buying what they think they should buy from the VW Group so that they have the correct equipment. Vauxhall wanted £600 for the 3 pin charger which was not even available when the car I was about to buy was built so I bought from a EV charger supplier one equal to the one from PSA but with a longer cable for £240. What I use this for is to do topping up to 100% at home before long trips and having the interior warm and the battery pre heated. My charging to 98% is done at public chargers. I have no home charger and do not always set off from home or from a Public charger. PS, usually, most of the time, 99% of the time etc is something that hardly matters if traveling in parts of Scotland and you find Public chargers be those free or pay as you go to be unavailable as out of order or not near where you want to be. In winter if there are snow gates closed or diversions and you have not enough energy to get places you might well need the 3 pin charger and an extension cable and some helpful person with a socket available.

With no spare wheel carried people might well consider which tyre sizes are readily available in the event of a tyre getting wrecked. Not sure how many will be fitting the 'cheapest' of any size of tyre, but what is not cheap is being on a trip / holiday during the festive holidays of maybe 2 days at Christmas or 3 days or more @ the New Year in Scotland and unable to source a tyre until the Holidays are past.

Sorry, this should not be in the Register, but are the 19" staggered with 235/55 R 19 on the front, and 255/50 R 19 rears and are they XL's on the rear?

@stever750 The guys that were in the planes that crashed into the Twin Towers expected to die, as did the Pilot that crashed into a mountain, but i get the general point.

Welcome to the forum. ? Are there decent 19" tyres for the car, maybe All-Seasons for using in Scotland at £100 each?

So they dropped the 'El-' or maybe it was always to be just Born. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/478050-seat-el-born-id3-variant

It can learn another drivers though, and you have to get it back learning your style. It is just a mechanical thing and software, not human or magic. but VW have in them something of a bit of smoke and mirrors, but then they were caught.

Owners Manuals might tell you about 'Dynamic Mode' with DQ200 DSG's. There certainly is a behaviour that you can get from a DQ200 dsg when giving it spirited driving. You can let someone else drive your car and when you get it back you can 'get it' back to your way of driving. You can pick up a 'Demonstrator' / Hire car or one you borrow and then Give it some Dynamic driving and have it as you want. You can 'Reset the DSG' as well. There are more to DSG's than is obvious, like VW used Defeat Devices with the gearboxes and not just engines and they went into different settings under testing and VW were caught out with this with various combinations of engines and DSG's with implausible C02 g/km results. http://hypermiler.co.uk/gearbox/how-to-fix-those-clunky-gear-changes-with-a-dsg-reset-vw-skoda-audi-seat-gearbox-auto http://motorauthority.com/news/1107126_report-new-defet-device-discovered-in-audi-transmission https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/99634/audi-recalls-127000-cars-over-emissions-device-discovery

Skoda show them as @ 4 years / 40,000 miles, which was at the 2nd Major Service with their old system for Minor & Major Servicing, or Major & Major.

By fitting the correct tyres to have the same or very close to the same Rolling Circumference / Diameter when the wheels are different diameters / widths. https://tiresize.com/tyre-size-calculator

@MattBrandCars That you get the 1.4 TSI engine and the 8 speed Auto is a good thing really. What does Skoda show the C02 g/km to be for the car.

Like with any statistics or numbers you get from the UK or any official body you need to drill down into the actual numbers. Public chargers that are actually in working order and the types / speeds are rather important to the public. @ 15,229 locations. (In Scotland they say over 1,500 'charge points'.)

http://bbc.co.uk/news/business-57225856 (Anyone wanting a City Break might be not find any that has Kirkwall as a destination is not even if called a City & Burgh, same as with Brechin.)

Worth remembering that Spare wheels / tyres are not checked at UK MOT's.

Personally i would keep it and use as a spare / emergency tyre & limit my max speed to 50 mph even if there is no warning sticker. That is based on it being stored in the dark with no weight on the tyre and no extremes of temperatures if in a spare tyre well of a car in the UK.

There is no 'upgrade' then to my knowledge, just a TPI issued on measuring chain length on some engines such as the CTHE twincharger.

No issues for the DSG being put out of gear and re-engaging gear, let the car do it, you just enable 'coasting' function and then just see how things are on a down slope or off the accelerator.

@2stroke Sorry no idea, was there a particular issue in certain years after the Euro 4 engines were discontinued? If it is the Euro 5 emission engines then which of the 1.4TSI's are you asking about, is it those with just Turbo or with Turbo & ACT, or the Twinchargers?

@stever750 Thanks for that. Very interesting how that went with that SEAT Dealership & SEAT UK. Very odd that SEAT UK would have put that in writing. Surely if VW Finance own a vehicle they could not say what they told you. But then SEAT were putting cars out to Media Events that were not running the Factory Map & these were then sold through the Dealer Network with them back to the Factory Map. We knew of the Turbo Failings, which was what threads at the time were all about and the Post i showed just before your reply was about. The T&C's for the Manufacturers Warranty is very clear on factory software and hardware in the Warranty Exclusions as is the Skoda, VW & Audi T&C's. It is different invalidating a warranty when someone owns a car and it is not on Finance or Leased and if the Warranty does not cover a failure it is their own responsibility to pay the bills. When others own the car then making the Manufacturers Warranty invalid can be an issue.

@stever750I remember you telling me 'to keep up at the back', i just remember that there was not much said about the car after it needed a turbo and then it was gone. Did the Dealership put the ECU back to the Factory map after fitting the new turbo and then sell as a SEAT Approved Used Car?

@MikeTheThinkerHe was Fly Casting. There were other fishers across at the sailing club getting ready to go out in boats. There used to just be Pike and some Perch in there but now stocked with Rainbow Trout.

The issue with the Dealership is that a Tech should be trained. If a Skoda Dealership then someone needs to be familiar with Plug In vehicles, they are going to sell them and be servicing them. A PDI had to be done on the car and that involves having the battery charged. Checking the charging, & someone signed the car off as checked.

I finally got back out on my bike after months of going no further than a mile or 2. I had issues with my artificial legs and could not get repairs carried out. Now sorted out and ready for getting back into the daily habit of biking regardless of the weather. It was cool and dry this morning so fine to see how I would feel. Only 10 miles done with full assistance but I will stick to that for distance daily this week until I see how my back, knee and heart 💖 gets on. Then i will reduce assistance while sticking to the same length of ride and then go out twice then 3 times a day until back covering longer distances on single rides.

Might as well ask why the driver gets any options to use different functions and enable and disable anything. AC auto, Stop/start, autohold, auto lights and wipers, S rather than D.