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OK as an Emergency Spare wheel to get you to a place of safety or a puncture repair. Reset the TPMS when you fit it, reduce your speed since you have a temp wheel / tyre on of a different size / weight / tread & tyre pressure. Best check you have the socket for your security wheel bolts, that you can get all the wheels off, and use the jack.

@EmergencySheet Welcome to the forum. The 'Asking Price' is just that, but who is selling it, a Main Dealer, a Trader or a private individual. Manufacturers Warranty Expired, so can you purchase a 'Skoda Warranty'? As in has the car been serviced to the Manufacturers Schedule / Guidelines & will a Warranty be valid. You need to check not just a FMDSH if there is that, but what was actually done at Services, sine there is a Full History, and what if any warranty work has been carried out.

So the car has a Warranty underwritten from whoever , but then if a Main Dealership does the work with genuine parts there is a 2 year guarantee / warranty on parts and labour. That might actually be better than what the Cars Warranty is covering, so worth having IMO.

The issue is that there are genuine from genuine sellers and fake / snide from others, so unless a trusted seller you have no idea what might arrive until they do. Not all fakes are crap, they might be pretty much as good as the genuine, but then you need to find that out by using them. Good fakers do not make it easy to identify fake products, be that and consumables and safety items like Brake Parts, Steering, Suspension etc.

@PenguinRemember that 'Honesty' is not always what you get from Dealership or Customer Services Staff. Best ask in writing what Service Campaign action the car requires and what the TPI is for it. *It is not covered by DATA PROTECTION or any other such thing. You own the car, drive the car and are responsible for the cars well being and safety. The Dealership Employees are responsible for you and the public's and their safety and there is the Corporate Responsibility of the VW Group, so that means 'hiding stuff under the excuse of 'Confidentiality' or just because they think it is none of your business is not on.* Have the reply in writing from whoever, with their name & job title. As it is when you have issues they might no longer be there, they might have moved back to serving in McDonalds or whatever. A SVQ in Call Centre Skills, or reception work might qualify them in that, but their knowledge of vehicles or VW vehicles might not be that much if anything. ? So this RECALL does not involve a car with your build date. For the Software Update of Engine Management, or the checking of the seat frame?

@Stuart-h ? Did you speak with them at Phantom Tuning first before the car went into a dealer? Is the car in with you having the understanding you might have to pay for the diagnosis? ? Did you tell them it has a remap? If they say that any drive train / exhaust emissions system faults would have been covered by warranty but since it is remapped they are not, then that is just how things are.

The cars are what the cars are. Manufactured by Central European Manufacturer owned by a Central European Car Manufacturing Group that should know something about winters in Europe and driving in winter. (As poor as heating and demisting can be that might not be true. They can not even design Fuel flaps that do not tend to freeze closed. So if All Season / Winter Tyres from European Tyre Manufacturers have issues in winter conditions it is down to the car manufacturers or the tyre manufacturers and their global testing and actual 'Media Spin guff' that comes from many including the Corporations Media Teams and the Motoring Journalists & Reviewers that are highly unlikely to tell it like it is in the 'Reviews'. It is drivers that know how there car behaves in various seasons. If they are going to review tyres for European / UK Winters and the condition then if they have no experience of using the car with the tyres fitted when there is snow then it is good that they say that. If they find issues then it is good that they say that. If tyre manufacturers improve tyres and their performance in different conditions it is good that they say that, but even better if they say why they improved them and why what went before was lacking.

@Phil245 The Amprera owners i have met at charging stations loved there cars. (only 2 of them) Very smart their 8 year old car were. (Both at Kinross Park & Ride, and both had been kept in the same families from new and looked like new.) It is best to talk to people that own or run cars rather than just take what Motoring Journalists might write. http://autoexpress.co.uk/vauxhall/ampera OPEL/ Vauxhall / GM were ahead of the VW Group with their 1.4TSI Hybrid e-Golf (GTE) and e-A3 Audi, and never had to stop building them because their C02 g/km was fiction with the first ones. PSA Group have a selection of EV's Cars & Light Commercials with OPEL / Vauxhall, Peugeot, DS / Citroen but all the same drive trains & their Plug in's for sale and on the roads just like KIA / Hyundai because they did the R&D and evolved the cars and people have them, where as the VW Group talk lots, launch cars like the e-Up!/Mii electric / Citigo iV then discontinue the Citigo iV, launch the ID.3 with Software Issues and have yet to start delivering the Skoda EV's, just the Plug in Hybrids. The Audi EV's are out there, so you pay your lots of money and get a lovely car with limited range.

Welcome. See the link from @TheFozzy http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/484365-body-mods

? Is this the latest VW Group manual gearbox that is to give better economy and help get lower emissions / WLTP / RDE2 results ? https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/under-skin-why-volkswagen-bringing-back-manual-gearboxes If so they will eventually have them sorted, maybe in a few years time after owners do the testing in the real world.

No need for drag, just dress up in your old uniform as a pictures is worth a thousand words. Brian Sheard must really be raking it in these days.

I would have expected it to at least be showing 50*oC after 10 miles and when that is the ambient temp. Any 1.4TSI i have driven, or any TSI in the past 10 years are at 50*oC and rising by 10 miles covered even when the air temp is at freezing or below.

'Autohold' where the brakes apply to hold the car, and car apply more brakes is not the same as the 'e-brake' which is the Parking Brake and applies the brake to the rear wheels.

The F1 Grand Prix from Vietnam in 2021 has been dropped.

They are 'Asking prices' you are looking at, and that does not mean what you have to pay prices. Skoda dealers often ask more than a car is worth because like hens teeth, or they were paying too much for them at the end of lease. The BMW's are plentiful, and the service at 3 years is expensive. (no more than Skoda are.) BMW Dealers and traders need to shift the out of manufacturers warranty ones as the deals are pretty good on buying or leasing new ones.

They no longer need to be spot lights like in the old days fitted at the rear. Neat small led lights are all that are required, they can be very discreet.

http://bbc.co.uk/news/business-54695188

BMW Range Extenders are no longer done where an ICE engines is carried. When you meet people with them they seem to love them and intend to have them as a keeper. The i3's on the roads now might be around for a decade or 2 or 3 as corrosion will not be the issue and updates of batteries and motors might well have then running long into the future, and the old batteries will be getting used as storage batteries. Black Cabs / White or any colour cabs, so London Taxis and for elsewhere, and Light Commercials have an Engine that charges a battery. They spend lots of time charging at points around Edinburgh and some muppets sit charging to 100% keeping others from just getting enough charge to move on.

@Unprogrammed Have you kept on using it over the past 2 years? http://radicalautos.co.uk/cgon http://pmmonline.co.uk/article/cgon-expands-installer-network

Elephant in the room is that since VW moved on from Air Cooled engines to ones with coolant and water pumps they fail miserably getting good water pumps, chains, belts and tensioners. So as it is what ICE engines they have already on the drawing board look like being the end of the line.

The French manufacturers managed to get the WLTP approvals & the RDE figures early on while VW Group had to keep manipulating engine management and are now dropping engines and they can not get what they need for the RDE2. Mercedes has to use the Renault-Nissan engines now for some vehicles and used Renault ones in the past. The German Manufactures thought Diesel Hybrids were the future and built the plants to build the engines in various countries and then their 'Green' cheating was found out so they had to start over again and use the R&D others had done. PS Edit. So 2020 going into 2021 and the VW Group need their brands to get the Average C02 g/km figures and that requires the Full EV's and plug in and Mild Hybrids. The issue is the Full EV's still have software errors and yet they have had to start supplying them with the promise of fixes later. Vorsprung Durch Technik / Das Auto!

http://gridwatch.co.uk There are none as blind as those that will not see. Like just how much electricity is required to be generated to refine oils, and how much oil and gas is required to transport oil to refine it. The changes need to come to reduce pollution on the UK which are 4 island nations. Lots of wind and water all around and limited supplies of oil and gas if it is not being bought in. The gas is bought in from the US to run the refineries and cracking plants and then electricity stations running on oil are required just to power the refineries.

@linni Nobody is asking about Renaults! VW Group went with a Daimler-Benz's BlueTec and then had to cheat so that there were not big tanks or lots of topping up.