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It is usually the stuff the Dealership staff use getting a car ready to get it ready. Then what comes from having the AC on. Funnily non AC vehicles do not get the screen getting hazy inside the screen like A/C cars do.

@Racataian Are you sure that is what it says for a Euro 5 1.8TSI ? ? Do you have a 1.8tsi Owners manual you can go and look at? Very strange if it does, because even 0.3 litres in 1,000 km is not within tolerances even though some employees try saying it is 0.5 litres, because the manual shows that, or even 1 litre in 1,000 km which they do not.. You are saying exactly what many dealership employees trot out until asked where they have seen 1.0 litre in 1,000 km for oil usage. All other VW Group manuals for 3,4,5,6,8 or 12 cylinder engines, petrol or diesel say 0.5 l / 1,000 km. (621 miles) & that is, 'May use as much as', & may use more in the first 5,000 km. ** The First 1.2 & 1.4 TFSI / TSI issues with timing chains was carried on from Euro 4 into Euro 5 production. The test results below are from 1.4 TSI Twinchargers with CAVE engines and the CTHE engine upgrade brought a chain tensioner issue in.** The Invoices / test results below were done wrongly. A litre of engine oil does not weigh 1,000 grams, and the first test meant the owner got a new engine. The bottom test was also wrongly carried out by some muppet of a technician.

That is the issue, and the VW Group EV's like the ID.4 or Enyaq might take a year or 3 until the snagging faults are sorted. The ID.3's have been released too soon before the faults were dealt with and the owners / drivers are doing the R&D as has been the case for decades with the VW Group.

They certainly are the same engine globally, not sure if the same engine management to achieve WLTP or RDE2. When the DQ200 DSG's were on a World Wide recall excluding Europe, VW had the nerve to claim different climatic conditions for New Zealand and the few vehicles that had DQ200 DSG's were part of a Recall Action where new Mechatronic Control Units were fitted & a software update. In Europe 2 years later there was a Service Campaign where the Synthetic oil was changed for Mineral and a software update was done.

@aerodynamic18 If the next car is an EV you might wonder why you spent the last few years with less performance and a petrol car.

Alloy wheel theft is very much still a thing. Even off cars sitting on Dealership forecourts. It might well be Golf R and other similar type cars they want rather than from a Yeti.

Welcome to the forum. Is the car standard, and what engine has it? I am just wondering incase you had hand controls fitted, or do you have full strength on the foot that presses the brake pedal?

That is the issue really, same with Auto Lights and drivers not knowing if they have rear lights on. The DSG you had in the Tiguan made no difference as any DSG might be in a car with Autohold & an e-Brake. Skoda now have the Scala & Kamiq produced with Hand / Parking Brakes. Back to the future. Once the DSG's only come in 1.0 & 1.5 TSI's with Mild Hybrids there will be fitted with e-Brakes and Autohold.

@Dale_Stevens ? Did your Tiguan have the brake lights on when 'Autohold' was functioning or not? Some do and some do not and some drivers have no idea what theirs does. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/432645-vw-group-vehicles-auto-hold-do-the-rear-brake-lights-come-on http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/433302-auto-hold-brake-lights

@linni The difference with your engine is that it is built to suit being used in light commercials and used in the likes of courier vans doing lots of short drop trips. The non Bi-turbo TSI's these days are really not suitable for taxi type driving.

@MrMorm Do you know if your car has the same Co2 g/km emissions as a Kamiq in the EU?

@Dale_Stevens The choice is what and when you do that then, as in do you want to sit with rear brake lights on or not. Many could not care less about doing that. If others doing it does not bother you then maybe you just do that at extended stops.

VW / Skoda confuse with their poor choice of names. ASR / TC is the same thing. Anti Slip Regulation / Traction Control. Maybe a button, maybe not. ESP / ESC , Electronic Stability Programme / Electronic Stability Control. Different thing from ASR / TC, but at times they mix the whole thing up. Before ESP because a EU requirement on all cars, Skoda even had ESP as an option on some models right up to when they had to have it as standard like on MK2 face Lift Fabias.

If renting a TDI with SCR (Adblue used) then go with one if you like how they drive. If buying a keeper that you might have 4 or 5 years then be sure to purchase the extended warranty at time of ordering, especially if in the UK and not doing longer journeys or higher annual milage. Yes there is the SCR system, but regens soon lower the fuel efficiency / average MPG.

There are many reliable DQ200 newer boxes for the reason they are newer. Lets see how a 5 year old ones is when 5 years old. What a pity that the DQ200 DSG that needs no servicing can not have a 7 or even 10 year warranty on it. What a pity that more than 20 years since the first ones were introduced that even though Skoda produce over 2,200 a day they still put them together with new engines and still need to introduce Software Updates months after refusing to believe drivers of cars are having issues and failures. Skoda / VW are soon to discontinue DQ200's with 1.0 & 1.5 TSI's unless they are Mild Hybrids, so start off under electric power.

Welcome. Not sure that everyone has been finding issues with their cars, or maybe they just do not care. I have never heard of any software changes since Bob Flavin did his review of a 1.5 TSI Scala that would change things from how he found the car. VW / Skoda probably never accepted his and others opinions and if they did are unlikely to admit to have acted on them. The best thing is to try and get a test drive of the very latest version of the car that you can and see how it is. That would need to be a MY21 car that is WLTP certificated and tested for RDE2 i would have thought. Are the other roadtesters just not finding issues, or not reporting them incase VW Group black list them, as seemed to be the case with the 'Kangarooing' with 1.5 tsi Manuals and DSG's. Or some of them.

Welcome. Just call / email other Main Dealerships in your area or as far as you are prepared to travel. Or find out about purchasing the parts and have VW Independent or maybe a Mobility / Vehicle Conversion Specialist fit it.

So many beauties.

If you can not clean it and remove so you do not see with household products you might have like vinegar, nail varnish remover or white spirits then have the dealership you got it from do it to your satisfaction.

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@TonyTonic @italian job posted it, clear as the nose on someones face as not correct, just not to Skoda UK.

VW would be ripped a new one by courts if they tried to take actions as you talk about in the last paragraph. @newskodadriver Did you own a VW Group TDI before the last quarter 2015 or 2016 that would allow you to join a Class action'? http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/481865-vw-compensation-claim-diesel-gate

Skoda UK are about the worst company for websites and configurators, it is like they do not check them. Year after year it is error after error.

US fuels are different, and maps, and high altitudes, as in South Africa, Australia etc etc. Cars are mapped differently.