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AdBlue is messy full stop, so do not get it on anything, so do not spill. PITA with cars with the filler in the boot. Paintwork is easy to get it off, water does that, but then it is on the ground. As to AdBlue deteriorating in light, that is simple, you put a cover over the container as you might with Birds in a cage.

There is no need to buy top quality or over the odds, but no point buying rubbish if there are ones at value / Dacia type prices & not much more and someone or someplace that you can deal with. It is horrible when a bike arrives with wheels that need truing and rubbish tubes used & no bike shop wants to touch them. It can be false economy buying the cheapest. I see almost new and only used a few times e-bikes for sale at bargain prices and others asking a crazy price. Usually his and hers.

@Vinsa69 Sorry no idea where i got Australia from. Did your car ever have the 'Recall / Service Campaign Action and the synthetic oil changed to mineral and a software update. '34F7' ? You are going to have to find a mechanic that does know the DQ200 DSG's and what you are going to require doing.

@Vinsa69 Welcome. A VW / Skoda dealership Master Tech or a VW Independent garage mechanic should understand things. Your car was part of the World Wide Recall which was a Recall Action in Australia. Maybe part of the latest Recall in Australia started last year. Best check with VW Australia if your car should be going in to be checked again. At no cost to you. While checking what they are checking they can check out your issue.

They can be just terrible. What comes out the box can be scary. The wiring and connectors. They surely are not all a rip off, but i have yet to see ones that are not.

You are braking from the same speed if you usually go about 12-15 mph or even 20mph + down hills. The assistance is only up to about 15.5 mph. (If UK legal...) A bike might be heavier and if the brakes are poor when going down hills without assistance or in the wet they will still be poor / dangerous. The e-Bikes in Halfords are actually OK these days. There are e-Bikes in Decathlon worth giving a look. Full Sus cheap e-Bikes might well be a big mistake to land yourself with. Folding and Full Suspension and e-Bike are few and far between and if advertised and cheap then buyer beware. Then that would be cable disc brakes, another thing to be aware, there are good ones and terrible ones and ones inbetween.. Front Suspension and a suspension seat post or sprung saddle works for some. As to folding bikes or cheaper e-Bikes the weight to put in cars need considered. Bikes the batteries easily come off are the solution to lifting them easier or going on bike racks.

Usually drops in 500 miles per time, but then you are driving in a way that AdBlue is not being gulped only sipped so your range of AdBlue is not dropping yet. Next time your AdBlue gets topped up the Range might show 5,500 or even 6,000, and the time after that maybe more again. Buy 10 litres and if all is not required you have it safely stored someplace to use. Or use a Filling Station with an AdBlue pump and if the Filling Station Operative says only for Commercials tell them you are a Commercial Traveller. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/478858-2019-20-tdi-adblue-usage

@Colin170CR

Shelter / bird watching / drinking / romancing place.....

@Lady Elanore Looks very much like the Celtic Sea. Just right for the colour.

It must be slipping 2 clutches then as it is a dual clutch gearbox, or just choosing a gear and trying to get you economy as you re using a soft accelerator. 6-7 gears is a lot to get through if just picking up speed and you are going to be in D7 by 100kph.

@Colin170CR All that stuff in not necessary. The front hub conversion is fine. People are putting them on all sorts of bikes and trikes now. £500 as was is cheaper now and very good. There are good folding e-Bikes now without needing to spend thousands. My tow ball mount e-Bike carrier is a real PITA just because of the weight to put on and take off so it stays on now. It and 2 e-Bikes carried really is quite heavy. Hence i got the latest bike i did for being easy to take places when not in a big car. Only issue was is just how unused i am to a rigid bike with road bike wheels and tyres. So i was home after 8 miles and fitted my 30 odd year old Brookes saddle and a flexistem is on order. So it is sorted now for taking to use when charging my car up at charging places. Heading for grub etc as now that i save on fuel i spend more on eating where usually i don't while travelling about by car. PS On the camper van subject from the other section. I have one leg so need auto's. My last van for camping was a Transit Semi hi roof MWB that i fitted out as a tin tent. A 51 Plate. The lady that had it bought an Ex Demonstrator before she should have been allowed to as Ford scrapped these Durashifts. She was disabled and had hand controls and had side windows fitted and had cages in the back and slept on top of the cages, this was to carry huskies for sledge racing. It cost her thousands trying to fix the gearbox and i got a bargain then it cost me a couple of thousands and i sold it to a guy that hired out wigwams. He found a brand new gearbox, she and me had paid for acctuators. (Ford found the issue with the Durashifts and scrapped the demonstrators and never admitted for years which was tough on the owners of the ones not scrapped.) He had no issues with the new gearbox which cost only £850 i believe and he drove the van for years. Anyway i left it looking like a works van, put on the orange beacon and parked in pub carparks at harbours etc and with a Blue Badge showing on streets and never once was moved on. A bike or bikes went in the back, tinted windows, cork tiles floor, portapoti, camper sink etc. No insulation meant i could wipe down the condensation on the roof. It took power washing and sand blasting and painting inside to try and get rid of the smell of tripe or whatever the huskies got as food. I had a Captain Cabin pullout bed with drawers below, and that was about it. I toured Scotland with that and towed a trailer with motorbikes.

@sepulchrave That would be because i do not drive it, it is happily in waiting for when i will drive it again. So could you mind your own business and not bother trolling me. My name changes are nowt to do with you.

I have a photographic memory, i remember posts and those that arrive knowing not that much but learn quick.

@sepulchrave You need to get with the pace. You know nothing about what i drive. It has nothing to do with me, or you popping in with no answer to the actual subject and sometimes totally duff gen. I own a Mk2 Fabia vRS and others before this one. @thomasaspin Changed days now that you are an engine builder / tuner from when you thanked me.

@thomasaspin Give the answer then wise boy. It is hard to know. You can look at the build date, you can look where manufactured or you can ask Skoda / VW UK what parts the engine was built using. You can investigate the ECU, look at the code on the label. You can look a long time mister. All night long.

The whole Cornering Fog light thing is ridiculous in some applications, like maybe much of the time. The situation that i was first aware of is at the likes of traffic works in the night time. You have the lights at green to let you drive on where the road has been put to a single lane and you are driving towards traffic stopped and a car at the front of the traffic and as you approach they turn the steering wheel to anticipate the light changing to green and they shine a fog light at you where just a moment before there was just 2 sidelights and dipped beam. Plonker might not even be aware they do it. The Original Yeti Fog lights are at what can be an annoying height IMO. There are cars with Cornering lights that can be at an even more annoying height if you are driving something low or maybe cycling. Those are usually 4x4's /SUV's or Pickup Trucks.

If anyone is interested in what happened. With the first Mk2 Fabia vRS introduced from April / May 2010 then by late 2010 and early 2011 some had a engine rebuild. (The SEAT Ibiza Twinchargers were on sale from 2009 and VW Group already knew of the issues.) Then Skoda / VW started approving Short Unit's undr warranty , then eventually it went to a Base Unit being delivered to the Dealerships. After the demise of the CAVE in mid 2012 and the CTHE introduced the engine being imported to use had changed and had the upgraded parts. So there was quite a lot that went on with replacing CAVE and then CTHE engines from 2010-2012/13, and then 2013 til now as engines are still failing. Funnily Skoda UK / VW UK like to tell owners that ask what their car had in the way of a Warranty replaced engine to ask the Dealership that fitted them, but they have no knowledge. Odd really as they imported the units and paid for the work. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/421365-links-to-lucifers-ultimate-guide-to-14-tsi-twincharger-engines

All were not fitted without modification. Some had new breathers, the first upgrade or the 2nd upgrade that was tried out first in Australia, some got a new Cat, because the original was gubbed, some a new water pump and belts, the Software was updated, some got a new ECU and the engine was a 1.4 TSI / TFSI 132 kW Twincharger and then some had the performance of a 1.4TSI / TFSI 132-136kW twin charger after replacement. So the like for like is not actually like for like.

3rd link might help. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/421889-cornering-fogs-light-up-in-reverse http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/416231-front-fogs-on-for-no-reason-when-reversing http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/446209-multiple-adaptions-for-front-fog lights

@Beaves85 Any update on this?

There is no doubt that DQ200 DSG are fan dabby dozzy and marvalous. No doubt that Skoda have built millions of them for 48 applications in different VW Group models nd since production was ramped up in 2015 by Skoda and again in 2017 many more millions have been produced. So WTF do Skoda / VW keep co-cking up some? They had to get the 1.5TSI's ready for the WLTP which caused the issue with manuals and DSG's. The DSG software was messed up in some as well while trying to cover up the engines issues. If Skoda / VW just admitted to the odd failure and stop making out it is Driver Error that would be Simply Clever. The is a reason that in some world regions that VW are building and selling 1.4 TSI's without ACT / COD and with 8 speed TQ engines. That includes parts of North America, Canada & Australia. The DQ200's life is nearing it's end as they will be e-DQ200's and fitted to 1.0TSI's and 1.5TSI's with Mild Hybrid. eg Recent and the latest Skoda model. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/484873-dsg-noise http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/483020-kamiq-automatic-gearbox-problems-at-hendy-skoda-bournemouth

They did just replace like for like. But when a CAVE engine was replaced some say they got a CTHE engine. Some have requested the Spec of the engine that arrived. They did not get a CTHE engine as built after mid / late 2012, they got a CAVE engine new in a Crate from the Refurbishing Plant quite often, or from th3 stock built with the newer pistons and rings and scrapers and the Oil Spray Jets. (Squirters.) Some required a new ECU when they failed to run. Some arrived with the new ECU and some were trouble for the Techs to get to run and had to wait a while to until one arrived from Germany. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/324108-replacement-engines-engine-numbers-v5-dvla-skoda-uk-what-happened A member is currently hunting for answers on a 1.8TSI and the replacement his car is fitted with in India. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/452890-yeti-18tsi-brand-new-engine-a-success-story PS A Briskoda Member had 2 replacement engines and this is down to when Skoda / VW were replacing CAVE engines with other identical CAVE engines and they had not actually got a fix on what the issue was because they were still farting about with Software updates and Breather mods and fitting the crap plugs. Vorsprung Durch Technik. Well not really! http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/353149-fabia-mk2-vrs-14tsi-replacement-engines-replaced-how-many Remember that after the CTHE engines were introduced there were still issue, cars stil got Software Updates and even the breather mod and new Oil Squirtters. Usually because Skoda Employees never knew their arse from their elbow. Or the details of what they were working on and being supplied with. It was the usual VWGroup denial, overblown on the Internet even though there was a 20% plus failure rate.

The thing with the cars that have the Front Fog Lights coming on when Reverse is selected regardless of the circumstances or location is they can be disabled. It is ridiculous the the EU Construction and use allowed this which is really against the UK Highway code were the use of Fog Lights are when the Visibility is reduced by Fog. If someone goes to reverse say off a road and into a driveway there should not be Fog Lights just automatically coming on, 2 if the wheels as straight and then to one as the steering angle changes. If a driver needs extra front lights as they reverse the 'Fog Light switch' is there at the end of their finger. They are selecting reverse, maybe putting on an indicator, they could put on both front fogs if needed and nobody coming towards them, or even put on Full Beam to the front if there is the need to see where the front of the car is while swinging in someplace in reverse.