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@Stonekeeper You showed what could should, might maybe or sometimes might be the charging you get with a Taycan, but you are not showing what The MacMaster showed he was getting real world where he was. Registered Oct.2021 Usable battery 82.3 kW. (& not a Sport Turismo.) But much the same efficiency. Charging with the benefit of the Porsche Card @ 39 pence a kWh. His car was showing a range based on getting about 2.4 miles a kWh. For simples back of a fag packet calculations getting at worst 2.1 miles a kWh. 100 kWh is £39. 210 miles for £39. Petrol Unleaded for a Porsche 911, not even Super Unleaded. 136 pence a litre. 40 mpg, 5.2 gallons. 24 litres. £32.64 35 mpg. 6.5 gallons. 30 litres. £40.00 But really in THE REAL WORLD. compare buying a Petrol or Diesel Porsche or Hybrid and cost, spec, options and then depreciation, and maintenance / tyres, insurance, VED and then if a Private car or a car for Business use, BIK if it is a Company car etc. A private buyer / renter and a business user, using for work as a Video Maker, Food Reviewer, Self Employed Vlogger is different from a person using for Social Domestic or Pleasure and commuting or not commuting. The last time he was getting tyres and showed on a video the price i posted the tyre size and the costs of the same performance of cars and tyres that were the same price or more expensive. If BMW Run Flat Tyres in even smaller sizes they could be much more expensive and not EV specific tyres. Just the correct load and speed ratings. InstaVolt for Night Birds, PEOPLE WHO PAY TO TRAVEL WITH THEIR OWN MONEY, or even Commercial Travellers etc maybe not using a Tesla Supercharger, or a Porsche or Ionity with SPECIAL RATES, PORSCHE CARDS, etc.

So English. Trains lines do not cover all of the UK as some might think, or motorways, or even buses. @skomaz Guff. There are reps / area managers etc with 'Samples' or a tablet and mobile in the car up and down the country all the time. M&S, Tesco, Asda, just any of the stores, retail groups. I meet Surveyors, Techs etc regularly charging at say Stirling and on the way to Inverness, Aberdeen etc. I meet ones desperate to change a car back to an ICE. @domhnall might tell you how many miles he covers for work. Going to work & back. The guys and gals on the road maintaining EV chargers are not travelling by train. Not all travel by EV either. Pod Point had drivers is a REX Van going from Central Scotland to the far north. The guys i used to meet on the job did not use a EV, as they had too many miles to cover to work and chargers were not reliable. One company they worked for had 3 techs covering all of Scotland including islands back 5 years ago.

If VW Group or the Dealership are paying out something towards the engine then half the cost & a used engine fitted at an independent might be the way. £1,000 to diagnose the issue by stripping an engine you are not putting back together is yet another **** take. It is not 7 hours.

We know why THEY go for them. Businesses, commercial drivers, Cash money, Wedge, Readies. Dosh, thanks to the General Public and HMG & HMRC. (As far as a Mid Wage driver sitting 2 hours in a day costing £50. nothing compared to the saving to the employer.) But if the 2 years could be bringing in £300 if a trades person was doing work that is different.) @lol-lol It is not all about Business / Commercial users and your tax benefits and paid to drive / travel or sit using a phone of computer while charging. But then there are REPS / Commercial Travellers that are on the road almost all day of their working week. I meet them. bosses, managers, etc etc going shop to shop, or supermarket, garage etc. Driving a Tesla mostly.

VW Group/ Skoda says every engine for decades now 'May use 0.5 litres 1,000 km.) 621 miles / 1 litre 1,242 miles. They do not say that is acceptable in normal use in the UK where there are no High Alpine Passes in High Summer and you are towing nothing. & what ever a Dealership says about Within tolerances, ask them to show a document and not an owners manual.

@lol-lol Lets go real world if The MacMaster can be considered real world. 215 miles available to him in his £120,000 RRP Taycan from a 100% battery, so that might be 4 hours driving. He then needs 1 hour and 20 minutes maybe to charger if you wants to do another 200 miles. Maybe just weather, maybe just the chargers, but that is a big battery car and just not efficient. But say you have a 100 kWh battery BEV and it goes 300 miles and needs charged. Great if there is a 150-350 kW charger available. If not then you are waiting if travelling 400 miles plus. If you have a 60 kWh battery and getting just 80 kW max charge speed and a 60 kW average then you are 60 minutes charging to continue on.

Welcome. A sad tail. That old invoice. DID YOU ASK AT THE SERVICE THAT THEY USE 0w 30 FS III OIL? is it a 2.0 TSI 245 ps? So a vRS with a TSI engine. Replaced spark plugs. £21.65 each. Taking the p!th there. Cleaner!! i see they used 0w 30 FS III oil, VW504 00 / 507 00 The Recommended oil for a 2019 TSI is VW 508 00 / 509 00 0w 20 FS IV. ? So was oil the destroyed engine running, not the SKODA / VW Recommended oil? ASK THE DEALERSHIP IN WRITING IF IT IS THEIR STANDARD PRACTICE TO NOT USE THE RECOMMENDED OIL FOR THE ENGINE, OR IS IT THE RECOMMENDED OIL FOR YOUR ENGINE? That £1,300 is one huge bill. Overcharging would say.

The UK is loaded, more money than it knows what to do with & plenty to ensure UK,s Independence and protect energy and food security. They might as well go for Net Zero and splash the cash on Public Charging hubs that can be Leased out to operators and supplied by Electricity for the Energy that the public are paying to be generate anyway. Use the Revenue from the Gas & Oil around the UK / Crown Estate licensed grounds. Loads of money, from taking it off the not very well off.

Welcome to the forum. Worth having a look around, and maybe do a search, same with 'The spare wheel' if you need one.

Believe no Government surveys because it is who responds. Probably Home Workers responding very many times. Just like with Car Reliability surveys . Filled in by Dealership staff with no cars to sell. dft-ev-driver-survey-summary-report.pdf

@lol-lolWe are told a load of tripe by people without a clue and who get their figures from who knows were. It is like clamping down on Benefit fraud and errors in payments. If you know how many payments made in error and to who you can just claim back over payments. Royal Mail, Post Office, Open Reach, BT, OVO, DPD, Britisg Gas, Emergency services, Police, NHS, Care Home and many other fleet vehicles are not charged 'At home', maybe a a base

Does an alarm function then if you lock someone in the car and they move, or you leave a window open and lock and stick an arm in and wave it about, or rock the car back and fore?

@neoa Which country are you in or which country was the car built to be sold in? Is it a right or left hand drive car?

@Urrell I misread the post. 'Sons car'. The OP does not say what the car is other than a 2017. You do not see the members signature to the left when reading on a phone, so no 'Yeti 2.0 TDI 150 4x4'.

Try it. 5 minutes and you will know if it did anything.

Do you have a home charger but just no Timer setting? I charge my EV on a 3 pin plug but my start time in midnight and i set my alarm and switch the extension on, and i get to 7am & am up before then. I could use a timer. The cars setting for Offpeak charging never works.

39 pence a kWh. That is OK, Maybe even claim back the VAT if business use. Not if just f-in about.) Charging speed not great but better than many cars get. Averaged 100 kW. Miles per kWh pathetic though. 89 kWh battery car just getting 2.4 miles a kWh or so..

? What is the car that is being asked about?

@chillsI never said that the chip shortage was due to Covid-19, but as it is that is the issue, pretty much the same years. Stuff not fitted to cars. Plus cars sat longer than usual at distribution areas, and not only across on Mainland Europe during the Covid-19 years.

Welcome. This will be an issue for many buying cars from the Covid-19 years and theMicro-chip sgortage years. Stuff that was not fitted to vehicles.