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@TheWanderer What ever then as you said it was several times a year. Some are doing that kind of journey more than once a week. It is good that you have choices,

Man maths means that charging while eating is quite well paid then as you were not buying the petrol needed to get 40 mpg for 350 + miles. It is very much about how you want to look at things. EV's do require a change of lifestyle or time management. HMRC are making it worth the effort if any effort is needed.

^^^ Not for you then. But hardly matters to Skoda UK or the VW Group as the demand will likely outstrip the supply that they can get into the UK. KIA have upped their imports as the waiting lists are too long. PS Look at your hourly rate of pay or how productive you are in 1 hour, and does that come out more than an hour sitting charging costs considering that you are not buying petrol or diesel, and as a business user the tax savings can be considerable. High mileage business users can be £600 a month better off driving an EV. Many are on their Tablets or Phones working in the hour spent charging.

@CJJE Have you actually looked at the number of filling stations and pumps at them and actual charging hubs and charging stations and how many vehicles can charge at charging hubs etc. Many use them maybe for 10 or 15 minutes and then continue and are not filling up from 20-80% or to 95 or 98%. In Falkirk there are 26 chargers now at the hub. Places people stop are installing chargers in quite big numbers and wanting customers. There are now filling stations in construction with EV's being catered for for a quick turnaround. You will not find a Rapid charger at Tesco's or Asda's. Lidl might well have Fast or Rapid chargers you pay to use. You will find 50kWh and 100 kWh rapid chargers near the main routes and more and more as 2020 / 2021 goes on. You will charge just fine over night where you take a 3 pin plug charger with you. You will find pubs and eateries in Scotland that have Rapid Chargers and more are putting them in. There is a choice between the Borders and the Trossachs. The Scots are not stupid and if there is free energy or very cheap they will seek it out. £40-£50 saved on fuel buys a nice meal and even pays for a room with breakfast and a EV charging point. Purple are Rapid Chargers and Blue Fast Chargers. A 10 meter charger with 3 pin plug.

? Do you drive for 7 hours or more without a stop? Several times a year while doing a 350+ plus run you would have to stop maybe once to charge and then charge again at the end of the run or sometime later.

It tells you about vehicles on transporters or ferries and leaving living things in the vehicles and inhibiting the interior sensors / alarm.

Welcome. Not sure on a Rapid but is the switch not low down on the drivers door. It tells you in the owners manual.

Members 1/4 mile times here from their daily drivers that had tuning boxes installed as many others did and no early demise of their engines. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/209657-14tsi-14-miles-leaderboard http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/209675-14tsi-14-miles-leaderboard The OP has TDI Tuning Box in the title. A Trade Name, but is asking about it on a 1,300 cc petrol turbo and supercharged engine. No questions regarding a TDI. I have run the TMC & Bluesparks on petrols, and driven others and my diesels with TDI Tuning boxes. Never to my knowledge experienced how the 'TDI Tuning' product works on a CAVE Twincharger. So really apples and pears and oranges and pips and seeds, best consume carefully as all can cause you to choke.

The up side is that cars converted to light goods vehicles are sometimes available in the RoI that are not imported when new to the UK.

Not unusual, as Tom Jones sang, that ROI vehicles do not have Standard or even Optional Equipment that UK vehicles have. Mk2 Fabia vRS in the UK had paddle shifters while the ones imported to the ROI did not.

No Dealership should be changing the cars service interval from the Variable / Flexible servicing that the cars leave the factory with and arrive at the dealership on without the permission of the Owner or person leasing. If a Service Plan is going to be used that maybe applies to a vehicle being on Fixed Service intervals, but then that should be explained to the people getting the vehicle and paying the bills. Too many Dealership employees seem to ignore that it is customers keeping them in a job and the Dealership is acting on behalf of Customers and they are not the Gate Keepers or those that own the vehicles or are the registered keepers. Too many dealership staff learn on the job from people that do not know their job or anything about that much other than some rubbish they learned on the job.

@widdershins The 50kWh chargers are available in Scotland, the issue is getting to them when others are there leaving their cars once the charging has completed. More and more EV's that can charge at 100kWh or the 125kWh etc. but no suitable chargers for that rate of charging. Also the Tesla drivers using ChargePlace Scotland chargers free while the Tesla chargers stand un-used. This week my issue has been Hybrid Edinburgh Cabs sitting charging to 95% when the speed of charging has dropped meaning they are tying the charger up for a long time. I have just passed on by at a few locations around Edinburgh and gone to were people are being sensible and taking the charge they need to continue for that day or journey. *People are not using PlugShare or ZapMap to 'check in or check out' at chargers, or even to report faults.* I have spoken to 'fleet users' at chargers that know nothing about the cars they are driving or the charging and just use the car they get given and never report faulty chargers other than to their Council Employer or whoever, and they certainly are not reporting the faulty ones. Card readers are often not working and there are 'Staff' using cars that never knew they can call ChargePlace Scotland and get them started. @Luckypants An issue that EV Manufacturers just as ICE vehicles ones need to address is people getting cars and the spec not being obvious new or used. There needs to be obvious Factory Specs, so that people know they just got in a FWD, RWD, AWD etc. Too often dealers do not even know what is what and what standard or optional spec vehicles have. With EV's some sales people seem to just to be totally clueless on charging and Slow, Fast, Rapid and actual Rapid / vary quick charging. The WLTP stuff is just a nonsense that is going to catch many drivers or buyers out. Even more fiction with cars empty or loaded than current ICE vehicles.

There will be plenty used EV's around soon enough if you ever want a bargain. Motability is the biggest group buyer in the UK and they are purchasing plenty to lease for 3 years and there are ones coming into auction and the motor trade. Plus all the 2 or 3 year lease cars coming on the market and even newer ones. Local to me Angus Council is sitting with many EV's not even being used by employees and going back to dealerships as new with very few miles done by them.

Charge the battery before the car is being collected. If the car can start and can stop then just get the hand back inspection and hand the car back. There are the things that Stop / Start from functioning like ambient temps, temp difference required in the car and outside temp difference, low battery. So unless the person collecting the car is going for a long drive and trying or expecting the Stop / Start to be operating then that is that. The car is in the state of Wear & Tear and usage for the age and miles. You are not replacing wipers, tyres etc before hand back are you?

Yes but yours is a 2017. Best chill! You are in the sweet spot. Not one fitted to a 1.5TSI EVO that has some needing software updates. So not part of the World Wide Recall in 2012/13, European Service Campaign '34F7'. Or the Service Campaign 2017 on ones 2013-2015. '34H5' Or the Recall in Australia now on some from 2009-2016, and 17 on VW's. So best not stress if your DQ200 DSG is behaving perfectly well. Maybe not even worth getting an extended warranty.

If it is Skoda Specialist Cars Perth part of the John Clark Group or any other Dealership then they need to get the car sorted out because the Robert the Bruce way of trying, trying and trying again and not resolving a fault means the car can be rejected. Get everything in writing and deal with the Dealer Principal and not Service Desk Staff or the Workshop Manager. He can drive your car and you take his perk until he gets the matter resolved. They need to have the car fit for purpose and if they can not there are Auto Electricians that can at the Warranty Providers expense. There is Victoria Garage Maud which is a trek and means going further than Skoda Specialist Cars Dundee & Aberdeen, but then their there is all the gear and a Master Technician with more than ideas and excuses and happy to pee owners right off.

Your 7 speed twin dry clutch DSG is a DQ200.

@CJJEi thought you did have more than 1 vehicle on the road. If you buy keepers then really keeping them on the road is less costly than changing vehicles every few years even if just running the one vehicle. More recycling of materials is the solution with minerals and stuff that comes out of the ground or from under the sea. After all everything does come out of the ground unless arriving on planet earth from outer or inner space. If you were in Aberdeen and traveling up and down the east side of Scotland you would be fine for hydrogen as there as are filling stations and trained technicians to service your vehicle's be that cars, vans, busses or bin lorries. Electricity is plentiful to produce Hydrogen which can be stored. Just as electricity needs storing if not being used as it is generated now from renewables. Using Oil and Gas to produce electricity to produce Petrochemicals in refineries and cracking plants is very wasteful as the Diesel & Petrol producers know. INOS and others know where they need to invest in energy and materials to provide transport.

@CJJE Head for thinking and feet for dancing. You seem to just be anti at present and not seeing the bigger picture. Your paying near £6 for every 45 miles you drive in the UK. Paying for road tax, servicing and parking, and might pay congestion / low emission zone charges. Paying BIK if using for business and private. An open mind can help you see who and where people will use them, and plenty are doing long distance travel and going to be able to get into cities with their vehicle and not needing to park and ride. Which can actually be handy where charging stations are at the park and ride places. If you do not need or want an EV then nobody is making you get one for the next 20 years or so while ICE vehicles are for sale and then ones on the road can stay on the road. If you want an EV that you can tow with then chose one of those. Skoda are going to be building and selling them.

Yes people are buying and leasing cars at over £30,000 and £40,000 that they are getting a big tax break on, free or cheap charging, free parking etc with. Actually there are people all around the UK doing it. Using as a main car and working from them as they charge. I have done 2,200 miles in 3 weeks now charging about every 160 miles which is about 4 hours of driving and only used chargers that I paid for costing less than 2 gallons of diesel in total. Charging stations in Scotland can have cars from the council fleets charging, or the social care or NHS cars. Soon instead of the over £30,000 ones currently used the AWD ones will be arriving to suit winter use around the country. No Frunk in the front of PSA EV's. This is what you get under the bonnet in a e-Corsa, e-208.e-2008, DS3 e-Tense or a e-C4 Cactus.

There is some real guff in this thread about using a tuning box on a 1.4 TSI / 1.4 TFSI 132-135kW Twincharger. Loads of information on what not to have or do from those that never had one or did anything with them. Plenty members used the 3 wire TMC box or the BlueSpark box on CAVE & CTHE's before remaps were available and totally issue free. (The South American TMC was a problem.) A Stage 1 remap might have been preferable but many never went that way and then the REVO stage 1 map was crap.

Skoda are not aiming for those with short arms / reach. Not even short hand typists. 'Simply clever' marketing crap, with the Co-drivers or as internationally known when not taking part in motor sport events just front seat passengers. "Hands off and leave alone!"

@RicardoM I doubt the English managed that all on their own. Clue being in the name British Empire and not English Empire.