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@Dale_Stevens Just ask the Sales Person you are dealing with to send you a copy of the Service & Warranty history for the car. If the full servicing has been done and they say it is done then the FDSH should tell all. Is the servicing as per Manufacturers Schedule and is the Brake Fluid change done. The DSG oil change is not due until 40,000 miles and that is the same for the Fuel Filter. The Air Filter might not be due until 40,000 miles and some now say 60,000, so at least it should be checked, so check yourself and see if clean & dry. The Pollen filter change was due at 2 years then again in 2 years.

@Dale_Stevens The Car can be a Skoda Approved Used car with FMDSH and a Skoda warranty for 12 months or 24 months with a current offer, but FMDSH (Full Main Dealer Service History.) does not mean Serviced to the Manufacturers Guidelines or Recommendations. As in it can be 3 year or older and not had the Brake Fluid changed. The Skoda Warranty is available when needed and without Skoda UK CS's coming with their offer. They often do though. http://www.insurewithskoda.co.uk/extended-warranty PS They drain the rear diff instead of the Haldex. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/437767-major-failure-soon-after-haldex-and-dsg-oil-changes

@John@C The 60,000 mile bit was and is rubbish. The 3 years / 36 months is correct, but going over 30,000 miles without servicing the Haldex is risky. The 40,000 miles is about the DSG oil change and nothing to do with the Haldex.

http://bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/54502162 Winning in conditions that many a rider in Scotland might well be used to. PS Coverage of the Men & Womens Elite finals in Downhill & Cross Country this weekend past is on the BBC Red Button all day today.

@JossyB Put it in writing to your Skoda Dealer for them to put in a report to Skoda and do the same with Skoda UK Customer Services. The more that do that the less likely they will be able to say, 'We have never heard of that before', or 'They all do that'. Both of those are the 'Simply Clever' things told to customers over many issues, snagging faults and Fundamental Design & Manufacturing faults that go from model to model and from the first generations to the next ones. Dealership have Demonstrators, perk cars that employees drive, and used cars come in and the cars get washed by the car washing staff you must see the issue if they work with their eyes open..

People that bother looking at roads will see that in their home area the surfaces might well be very different from other places in towns, villages and cities. The Tar / Asphalt & road chipped surfaces can be very very different. Some can be very good for grip when there are nice cold and dry temperatures, and then a patch bit of road like maybe in a shaded corner / bend in the road there can be a different surface. Cyclists might notice the difference more than motorised vehicle drivers. Basically, location location location. Like some hard wearing road surfaces on faster / busier roads have surfaces that do not give great traction for braking in colder temperatures while country roads can be giving much more grip, but might get less or no treatment with Salt / Grit, or if they do there is not enough traffic to crush the salt and moisture to turn it to brine. Mountain roads & routes can have lovely surfaces that suit summer and winter, not melting in the hottest days and giving grip on the cold days and nights. Great for a blast on winter tyres on balmy winter days or nights or spring or autumn ones ...

Winter tyres are fine into 20*oC plus in the UK where the road temp might get into the 30's. There is a 60 mph speed limit on the twisties and 70 on the wider roads with dual carrigeways. This parallel universe of British Drivers doing high speed driving on jelly like melting and wearing down winter or all season tyres in extreme temperatures is just so much fiction. If that is how you drive and were you drive then obviously you need your Performance High Speed & Load Rated summer or road legal track tyres on.

A nice wee parp is all pedestrians & cyclists need to let them know you are there without startling them, and Van / HGV / Bus drivers could not care less if someone blares their horn at them.

Welcome to the forum. Maybe it needs to run for a short time and only a short time if there is a regen happening & if this is a 1.6 TDI CR. Is the coolant level correct and the Anti Freeze / Summer Coolant / Corrosion Inhibitor strength correct. ie the Antifreeze.

The only emergency i know of that a Skoda needs a horn for is to let someone know you are there and the meter is running. Does the horn really not make enough noise that those not in the car can hear it?

Seems that far gone then that it will not matter what you use Fill your boots and keep topping up that oil.

Going 5w 40 FS can help with some TSI's that are not totally gubbed but with your TDI if using excessive oil you have an issue needing addressed. ? How many miles has the engine done?

Just why would you use VW502 with a TDI even if doing fixed servicing & not variable. VW 504 / 507 is cheap enough. Now if it was a TSI i would be using VW502.

No fumes would be coming through with my bodging. Duck tape is my friend. Loads an loads of it & often ice cream containers lids cut up & silicone sealer. (not with induction kits though...)

@JamieH86 Have you inspected them and is there an issue that is not wear and tear? Your eyesight is likely as good as whoever the Dealership would have scope them out. Lots of old posts online about maybe 10 year warranty, and how VW would have to replace faulty seat belts. Maybe because of issues in the USA and the fact they could get torn a new one if belts were faulty in the USA. As it is seemingly many of the possibly faulty seat belts in VW & SEAT's from the recent past have never been checked or replaced even though there is a Full DVLA RECALL. Why not ask Skoda / VW Customer Services and see if the Call Handler who should talk to VW Technical takes the question seriously.

@John@C ? What does your invoice have referring to the Servicing of the Haldex. Was it listed separate for labour from the other servicing done. Is there the part no. & units for the oil used?

OK, so this kind of stuff comes from 'The horses mouth'. Ignore the man he has no say in anything obviously...

So back to the OP. Skoda is not seen as that important to VW for some reason, as spotted by Ex Politicians & even the deaf dumb or blind. Hyundai seem to put more investment into the Czech Republic and get better employees and management that pay more attention to quality control.

Covid 19 might change many things yet, then the UK is out of the EU now, & changes are coming in 2021 as far as exports and imports. Even though Skoda only first register under 90,000 new cars a year in the UK and many are not sold new to customers just to VW Finance and Dealerships for sale as used. So Skoda is a low volume seller in the UK and there is the need for Skoda to get lower average emissions in the UK & the EU. Just as well they might get more Kamiq & Scalla sold and that again you can get Fabia with a DSG and as an estate because they have been losing sales there, just as they have lost with the Citigo / Citigo EV. (Lighter / lower / less polluting vehicles than some of the bigger / heavier / higher models trucking about with 1 or 2 people in that only produce less emissions under the WLTP and not in the actual real world on real roads.)

I did not posted the New Defender vids from the USA, but there are new owners having issues as some UK owners are reporting. As with most JLR products, over a year of them being privately owned and driven is needed to really see if JLR are getting any better with new models that they test all over the world and spin the media all about for yearafter year but that new owners then discover where the snagging faults are. eg

@skomaz Loving driving mine. Just handles so well other than at the absolute max speed on some corners but then that would be at 35 mph higher than the NSL for that type of road, then it can skip sideways a bit. Tyre pressures are important. There is a lot of weight down low and the car corners almost flat without body roll and the Michelin Primacy 4 are quite a hard tyre. (I have winter tyres and wheels to put on but not quite ready for those yet while there can still be nice sunny warm days and nice roads to drive.) It has a few characteristics and it was cold early this morning and i just happened to choose rear heated windscreen and mirrors and front demist and heated seat and steering wheel. The car decided i could not have all of them as likely too much load on the battery so until i put off the screens / mirrors i could not have the Seat and steering wheel heated. The interior glass & mirrors were clear anyway. As to the brakes, i hardly ever touch them other than coming to a complete halt and if i do because needs must they are fantastic as are they in the other PSA EV vehicles i have driven. Maybe some Demonstrators / Media cars need some driving in of the brakes.