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  1. If it was on Fixed Servicing and ever reset at services it would be counting down days from 372 days and 9,400 miles every time. You would have had to know where to look to see that though, until it appeared as it has now. The car might still have been set on Variable so 24 months from 2 years back.
  2. Brake Fluid is what it is. New Brakes, Pipes, Seals and no H20 for 3 years as checking over the decades has found. Test it for H20 and maybe see, maybe good for 5 or ten years. 10 years ago the brake fluid change was at 2 years then each 2 years. 10 Years ago the Haldex Oil change was at 4 years / 40,000 miles. 3 years ago it still was with Skoda and VW had it at 30,000 miles, then @ 3 years as it is now. Still no screen clean though. Vorsprung Durch Technik went out the window.
  3. Do it with the Wiper Stalk. The rocker switch is on the end, and there is a button on the bottom of the stalk. This is where the settings are for the car. If it was on Fixed servicing this works. ? How long have you had the car and when was it serviced.
  4. Owners / Keepers need to be aware of this in the Manufacturers Warranty re Recalls. Remember and tell them. 'I had to contact you due to the fact there are Recalls or Recall Actions and you never bothered telling me until the car was going to be coming in'. They should not be updating peoples cars and if the car is worse than when it goes in they shrug their shoulders like they are French Car Makers.
  5. So the thread. Or one of several across the models. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/465281-karoq-software-update-progress-report http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/485810-karoq-recall
  6. Welcome. Call Skoda UK Customer Services and have a Communications Manager call you back. So there was a DVLA RECALL. In some cases it may not be a RECALL, (A dealership person says there was 'Recall' yet you were never contacted. so because of no contact the cars are not RECALLED. Really they are 'Service Campaigns. Skoda's lost in translation have 'Recall Actions', unless a DVLA SAFETY CRITICAL RECALL. http://skoda-auto.com/services/recall-actions Is your car one that qualifies under a Safety Recall? this is where the DVLA give VW Group UK the Registered keepers details. https://www.gov.uk/check-vehicle-recall
  7. VW Group Dealerships love their Schedules / Guidelines. You have your 4 year Cam Belt, 4 year / 40,000 miles DSG oil Changes. 3 Year Haldex Services, 3 year then every 2 year brake fluid changes. MPG / Emissions so the VED is a small part of running costs, with the tyre and brake wear and service intervals it shows that in 2020 VW Group ICE vehicles are outdated. Problem is that VW Group have yet to get the Software of EV's fit for purpose. Surely it will not take decades of messing about in the way it has been with Water Pumps, Belt or Chain timing and tensioners.
  8. So far i have still only seen 1 Tesla charging at the Perth Park & Ride Charger hub. There are quite a few charge at the Dundee Tesla charger, but then they stay at the hotel because there is the chargers. Elsewhere around Tayside there are many Tesla going about and regularly charging on the Public Chargers for free. Often i see them just sitting for 'long time mister' on type 2 chargers.
  9. Was the car on fixed service intervals? If so dead easy, use Maxidot and go into the menu and change the interval to 372 days / 9,400 miles. If it was / is on Variable / Flexible Servicing not so easy, the car needs plugged in. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/335453-inspection-now-reset/page/2
  10. I was tempted to resurrect this thread. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/40055-strangest-locations Maybe while sitting in the rear of an-unmarked police car with POLICE in big letters on the side. As Police Scotland have had to do with some cars that are not Traffic ones.
  11. Best people like those commenting in the media read there insurance policy T&C's and exclusions. I see nothing about 'Essential Use' only. Stuff on Motorsport, Track Use, Off Road Areas.
  12. @Kobayashi Next time you change your oil and if the reading is showing in Area A on your dipstick just measure how much oil you remove. Suck it and then drain with the sump plug out or just drain. If it is 3.9 or 4 litres oil in is not overfilled. The 4.2 that some Dealerships techs put in certainly is. Far too many Twinchargers run low oil quantity and run hotter oil that takes more cooling.
  13. You would go to were the steering assist choices are using VCDS and move them from the factory setting, or maybe the setting the steering is at and was changed to more assist for the likes of a disabled user. Are the tyre pressures towards the lower pressures rather than at ECO and making the steering feel light?
  14. It looks like nobody is able to help. the other thread. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/486266-tire-pressure-fabia-3-help
  15. The jist is, 'No-win, no fee lawyers try to lure VW's emission claimants....'
  16. Guest_ replied to JKW's topic in Skoda Karoq
    @JKW With Octopus Energy you can get a very good tariff if you have a Smart Meter and home charger. They might even ask you to charge at Off Peak times to help balance the grid, and pay you to charge your car or bake / do your washing etc through the night. http://octopus.energy Unless Tesco have Rapid CCS Chargers you need to be parked there for some period of time to get much energy into the car. I have yet to see anyone charging at Tesco Charge points. I see lots of Hybrids parked / charging for hour after hour at ASDA chargers. There are Ionity Chargers at 4 locations in thew UK, and 2 of them are in Scotland @ Gretna Green & Perth. Free EV Charging in Scotland at ChargePlace Scotland charging points, but Dundee Council have started charging to charge, and Fife Council starts from 16th November. There are also ChargePlace Scotland chargers in and around the Cairngorms National park that are £3,80 to connect to a charger. I have done 4,400 miles since 10th August and have paid under £13 in total and that was twice charging at InstaVolt chargers. All other charges are at Public Chargers for free. You can get a card for £20 that allows free charging in Scotland, or use a phone app. Not entirely free...
  17. I doubt that Greek Law lets VW group have restrictive practices like you 'must have your car serviced in an approved Skoda Dealers.' any more than the EU does not allow that as there is a Free Market.
  18. Roll up roll up and try your chances getting paid for buying a car after a scandal was public knowledge. https://www.ft.com/content/7f881c88-8981-4691-8040-06a25cdc0e3f
  19. Guest_ replied to Philmd5's topic in Škoda Scala
    Those getting MY2021 1.5TSI DSG in Europe will be the best to tell if Skoda / VW Group have put to bed any issues with the engines / engine management. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/481094-has-15-tsi-engine-now-been-fixed/page/2
  20. OK. Hard really to be going places on journeys where filling stations / supermarkets are not there to fill up unless in some far flung parts of the UK. Just pulling your plonker. Your area is surely not one where boy / girl / granny and grandad boy racers annoy others just enjoying the garden with their big bore exhausts and show and no go.
  21. @TheBinarySheep So now you have a remap to run on 95 ron & getting 99 ron requires driving places where that is sold, and you have a poor handling car according to the other thread. Now you care not about anti-social noise in accelerating to 60mph in residential areas within your 12 mile area. Sleepers are nice where a car can speed off without drawing attention IMO.
  22. @oldstan You just need a switch with a warning light for additional lights as you do with front fog or spot lights. (pity there is no such warning when Yeti Front fogs come on automatically when reverse is selected if that is enabled with the car.) ? Why not install lights in your driveway then?
  23. I suggest as i did in the other similar threads where someone wants brighter reversing lights to see where they go in reverse, that the fit rear 'Work Lights', that they can switch on if they need to light the area behind the car and not just bright reversing lights that will always come on when reversing.
  24. @TheBinarySheep Why would anyone else want to hear any more or a different noise from your car as you accelerate, why not just open your windows and listen to the noise it already makes.

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