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What Silver is your car then? I doubt it is the same as the wheels, so did the guy not tell you your cars paint code that he says they do not do a touch up for. (I was a car sprayer.)

There is a code and it is on the rear of the wheel. eg http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/480431-18-braga-wheels-what-is-the-silver-colour-code-please

It would be a mid life Face Lift would in not and not a Mk2 Kodiaq.

The Skoda i have seen without a ticket holder have usually had a windscreen replaced. New Cars can have that or Demonstrators can as windscreens can get broken anytime.

There is a famous case with BMW featured a few years back in the old Automotive chat section. Buyer has a BMW and BMW reject Warranty Claim as car was at Track Days. BMW make a U-Turn when pointed out their new cars are shown at Track Days with Journalists & others bigging them up. Sporting cars sold with sporting intensions. Then the fact they sell off the Press Fleet. Sell them with Warranty Voided according to them. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/342527-bmw-refuse-warranty-claim-after-trackday-ouch-update-claim-now-paid Same thing with Audi RS3's of the last models and some Golf R's. They were using oil, lots of oil, Vloggers and others invited to a nice location in the UK drove off with them with cold oil and then took them on long spirited drives and some even filled them up with 95 ron. They were using really quite a lot of oil. Not noticed at first by the Promotions / Launch people who were not VW Group employees. (Maybe from some part of the Haymarket Media Group, owners of Autocar, WhatCar, Pistonheads etc.... who do work for the VW Group.) The teams from the 'Company' doing the Launches had to start pre warming the cars for further launches, and Audi / VW had to address the issues and also some cars were exported from the UK and not put into trade. PS There are Youtube vids from Briskoda Member who had a Fabia Mk2 vRS that he kept having modified very badly. He posted a Youtube when selling his G/F's car. Then he appears with an Audi S3 and shows the mods on Youtube. Then he appears with a BMW and a new Youtube name as his Leased Audi S3 has been 'taken back' by the Finance Company. His story is the Nurburgring is a public road so he was not tracking it. Fair enough, but then the mods were there to clearly see by the owners of the car, in full colour & stereo sound on youtube... Clicking on makes him more money and more famous..... The next 2 vids good for a laugh. May 2020. So 2016 That is all of 4 years back in the real world, not a parallel universe. & 2013 Mk2's were £15,000 plus new, and Skoda certainly were not responsible for fixing them, and the first ones were still going wrong anyway late 2012 and early 2013, software updates needed and some even got engines replaced. Easy to forget which side the bonnet pull is at when you do so much mods on your own car.... (It is still a very low mile car now with 23,000 miles or so.)

It will be fine once opened if you keep it covered or in a cupboard and away from children or stupid adults. HGV's / Agticultural Vehicles get AdBlue in some cases from big caged cube containers that sit outside in all weathers and might not be all used up within months. Then the stuff in vehicles can have been there since filled at the factory, then while vehicles were bunkered before ever reaching a dealership and customers so a long time. Through Summer & Winter.

@old newbie2 So now no longer the case. I know someone that bought a SEAT Approved used Seat Cupra and the turbo went, and he got the story about they knew it was used by him for track days and the brakes were upgraded etc. It is just as well i was at a SEAT Launch @Knockhill and knew that the Motoring Journalists, Bloggers / Blaggers & invited guests like me were ragging them before sold on from the press fleet (Some Cars registered in Scotland and from Dealerships & he had bought one. SEAT took the car back and gave him back his money. A member from Briskoda bought this Ex Management red Skoda Fabia vRS not knowing its history. Never raced or rallied, just through many hands and maybe just ragged from cold for 3 months / 3,000 miles. I knew what it was as my car was one of the same batch first imported. Sadly he had to sell it for spares or repair as many had to do. Some person is driving the Fabia Mk2 vRS that Jonny Smith broke 7 under 1,400 cc speed records (1,390cc) with on track and that blew out a tyre. Never raced or rallied. Run in with care and attention. Both survive, maybe not on the original engines, but then more than 20% of the under 3,000 first registered in the UK are not still running with the original engine. If OEM Dunlop SportMaxx tyres used then tyre failure could be expected....

Did both oils get changed? No matter if they did as you need to have the fault diagnosed, is it the MCU, gear selector or something else. ? Did your car need and get service campaign recall action '34H5' carried out. A software update started in 2017 on DQ200's from 2013-2015.

The car being a Ex Skoda management car might well mean an Ex demonstrator / employee perk or even their relatives / courtesy car so 1st registered keeper VW finance and no idea how many drove it in the first 4,900 miles. Maybe even had a remap done by a dodgy borrower. Then now 2 previous keepers. Beautiful car presented as in A1 condition. Just goes to show buyers need to check history and ask sellers about a car they are interested in. And check you are OK getting a valid warranty, insurance and finance on the car you are placing deposits on. The book prices do not mean anything.

Why not look at the pressures shown in the fuel filler flap then try the pressure at the lower end of the range for how the car is loaded and see what you think feels most comfortable?

The thing is you have the car serviced and the brake fluid has been changed, but unless you are paying for the brakes to be serviced they are not being done. Your car might be using the original brake pads or not, but your car has been through Scottish Winters of salted roads and deserves a cleaning and greasing of the brakes if tht has never been done in the past 70,000 miles, or since last winter even. Main Dealer Servicing with Skoda advertises as 'Free Brake Checks', and Major Services or the Extended Scope now has remove wheels and *check brakes.* This is only a visual check, *Check brakes* means something different from Visually Inspect Brakes.* but then since the car has been MOT'd as well there was the Brake Test carried out. Not Henry's but AC this February failed my car on a Broken Spring and an advisory on the hand brake binding. The thing is that the year before it failed on a Broken Spring and hand brake operation and weakened brake discs and they fitted both before i bought the car and MOT'd it, just at another of their dealership. After 2 days of messing about they could not show me the broken spring that they had replaced at no cost to me to get the car passed this year.

I would think you paid a fair amount of money for what you have just had done and they will have a damn cheek if they want £60 for half an hour's diagnosis of your brakes or rear wheel bearing.

The car had a brake test at the MOT, so that was a pass. One of the things you list is the issue, so start with checking the rear wheel with that corner jacked up and spinning it. Check that wheel bolts for tightness and also check your tyre pressures. Were was the car, at one of the Henrys?

@shyVRS245 So it was £23,840 when bought back at the start of the year before being 'Never raced or rallied' , how many miles on it now?

With a 1.4 TSI Twincharger @ over 200 ps with 5w 30 FS oil & 99 ron minimum petrol i could do a few hundred miles including Dual Carriageways & Motorway at NSL when the ambient temp was below freezing and the indicated oil temp would not get above 88*oC. The oil capacity is given as 3.6 litres, i would have 3.9- 4 litres in. That was when i got the very best MPG as long as driving more than 30 miles. Cold dry roads & cold dry air and it loved that conditions. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/282056-at-what-oil-temperature-in-a-vrs-or-other-fab2-do-you-back-off

Simplified with a TSI. The Coolant is when up to temp around the low 90*oC's, and the oil which is also a coolant gets to the efficient temp of around 90's C, and get hotter and the coolant system of the radiator, cooling fans at lower speeds are trying to bring the oil temp back down to a lower temp when it can. So the oil can get hot, but you do now want it staying there when the engine is not under load. You also do not want it going low, so in very cold weather there might be grill blinds, pieces of board etc used to stop the flow of very cold air to the radiator and engine department.

It is clear so how can it be coloured?, No not Pigs wee. Just AdBlue as used by Mercedes & licenced to VW Group and then they cheated because they did not want big AdBlue tanks in cars in the USA. Don't spill it, and know how to clean it up and once open just store in a dark place or covered up. There is plenty warning before a car gets to being not able to start and each time like the OP's 1,300 miles, you fill it up or just top up the range might show greater than the last time. VW Group still managed to have the cars sip AdBlue even after the scandal.

Not to my knowledge. ? Why not put AdBlue in and top it up?

Never raced or rallied so all good. The issue is the past or present modifications that might be an issue for a Dealership Warranty or a Warranty Claim. There were Skoda Dealers that used to be REVO Dealers and did remaps and said they did not invalidate the Warranty, they lied. They just Guaranteed their work / product and Skoda / VW did not recognise what they has said and the Manufactures Warranty was Void on the Engine or Drivetrain if there was a claim.

I imagine the car will go off to Auction or maybe just to WBAC or some Trader with Car Supermarkets, maybe a specialist will want it. If the Salesperson knows of the non standard / factory options they surely got a value for it before doing the deal. ie Called someone and already has a buyer for it.

@old newbie2 They are not for you then. As to charging points i think the majority of EV's on the road in the UK are at the front of the car, as some of the new ones are, then there are ones with points on ether front wing or ether rear quarter. It is a PITA actually with some regardless of where they are other than at the front if the available public chargers does not suit your charge port location. I do not have a Home Charge Point so just sit leave the car charging for up to an hour 1 mile from home when it needs it if i am not on a trip. I can go for a bike ride and get a txt when the car is charged or someone needs on the charger. I have a home 3 pin lead for using when the old weather hits to have the car ice / frost free ready to go.

The Dealership must surely be able to find a Skoda Approved Warranty that allows for non Factory approved Hardware Components or Engine Management, as the Skoda / VW warranties exclude that.. They maybe make exceptions for themselves since they never carried out the modifications / remapping.