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Welcome to the forum. It is a 'Simply Clever' characteristic that Skoda / VW Group have featured in various models over the years. It is just there to keep you on the ball. If you ask at a Dealership likely they have 'Never heard of it before', or 'They all do that.' Best put in writing to Skoda UK or whoever that you have this 'factory fit feature'.

They are quite sensitive to needing a clean air filter in that the fuel consumption can increase. As to the spark plugs it is the gap and plug type i check in what comes out and to what the gap should be. (Incase someone cleaned and gaped them, or not.) Someone will be along that knows about your engine as i do not, just generally 1,390 cc TSI Twinchargers.

@stevob21 What has Skoda Servicing actually involved? Probably not much in 4 years. Have you looked in the Air Box at the Air Filters condition? The Spark Plugs might well require replacing as i imagine that any Dealership Staff will say they are special long life plugs and good for 60,000 miles but might get replaced at 40,000 miles. It used to be at the 2nd Major Service / 4 years, so that is about now.

The rear spring is a common issue As are the others including 'misting', even on pretty new cars. A Full Service History showing that not much servicing gets done from year to year is common as well. As long as getting a MOT that is enough for many. ? Was this the Dealer / Traders wife's car?

Welcome. Sorry no help, but be sure to find a trusted Auto Specialist with experience of DSG's. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/481783-clutch-problems-on-55000-miles-who-to-turn-to

More important is what Dealers / Trader / Private sales are asking in Autotrader and other sites and are those cars selling at the 'Wish & Dream asking prices' or are they sitting unsold. 'What Car' & Parkers are on the side of the Motor Trade / SMMT, and not really in the buyers side of the road IMO. Sometimes ridiculous prices compiled by whatever means. Yeti are in demand though, especially good ones. Check the Full Service History, look & Invoices / receipts & look for rust / paint work / repairs. Zinc Inclusion. Doors front / rear / bottoms.

Here you are. http://insurewithskoda.co.uk/extended-warranty http://insurewithskoda.co.uk Brake Fluid is recommended at 3 years. Or it could get checked for water content at the 'Free Brake Check'. As to Major and Minor / Interim Services Skoda have changed that again. Pay for the Service, pay extra for parts used. Rather Expensive charge for the parts.

@pumpkinpilot Welcome to the forum. ? What is showing when you look at the Full Service History? Good that there is that, if serviced to Manufacturers Schedule / Guidelines and not a History of not much being done. Has it been an annual Oil & Filter Service so 8 of those so far, or has it been variable / flexible servicing? Has the brake fluid been changed once or twice already? A Fuel Filter changed, Air Filters, Cabin Filters, A/C service? The water pump changed?

Honda e Advance now available on Motability. Very high Advance Payment required. Smart, Vauxhall, MG and Nissan must be doing Motability very good deals on some EV's.

@wyx087150 miles what it did yesterday, well 144. It had 6 miles when i collected it. 180 miles the range showing. Doing 400 miles or so in the next 2 days so i will see how it does at NSL's / Average Speed Cameras as most of my route has them covering all the distance. I have used the charging places already where i am going so know the alternatives if not available. 'Plug Share' is hopeless i now know. 'Zap Map' OK'ish. ChargePlace Scotland call handlers 'Not Fit For Purpose' In my limited experience of calling them. 'Polar Plus' just a total waste of space, not that they are taking up much space in Scotland other than at Asda and Hybrids plugged in at them for hours @lol-lol Counting on a safe no worry 150 miles with Motorways, might be disappointed & go my preferred non Motorway routes, sometimes just as quick. I got over 200 miles easy in the e-208's both on 195/16 tyres and 205's, but they were ridiculously over inflated as handed over. That was around the Borders and North of England in good weather. I really think the Peugeot & Vauxhall are running different software. I will be doing some Draggy Times with my own car. I never abuse 'demonstrators'.. 100% battery showing 192 miles. Boot is Compact & Bijou.

@KingAlfred I once bought a 2010 Mk2 Fabia that had been Imported into and registered in the Ireland and was surprised to discover it had no Factory Fit Alarm.

Nobody is trying to sell anything to anyone or asking for their cash money other than maybe vehicle sellers. Many know what it is and how it works and it is what it is and does what it might do. Some drivers hypermile and stress over it while others just drive and can get better economy and get places just as quickly and effortlessly. Anyone paying for their fuel and paying attention or making physical effort to propel themselves know what can be efficient and economic or not.

'My Vauxhall' App all set up and on my phone now. Also the SOS button in the car that has a call going to 999. Disabled that again incase of any grandchild or friend that might want to press that. They can call Vauxhall Connect if they want to press that and chat about a Service Appointment or Breakdown / Recovery services.

@KingAlfred Does the car actually have an alarm? Has it ever gone off? Leave a window open, lock the car and set the alarm, shake the car, put your arm or something in the car and wave it all about. EDIT. Doh i see you could not de-activate it on the ferry. Does that mean that it was sounding?

@Wino OK. So it is easy enough to actually do the route and see. Cyclists now have 'power meters' and all the stats needed when doing routes or stages and it is easily enough to see how doing the same route in different directions can use different amounts of energy, it is how it has always been. Do it on an Electric Bike that can regenerate on descents and again it is easy to see when more or less electricity is used from the battery or physical input is required from rider.

Not what i reckon. Driving from the North on the long slow uphil and descending to the south on the short steep down hill uses more fuel in a ICE vehicle or takes more out of you than doing in the opposite direction. Cycle it and you will see, Hydro Electric is an interesting concept. Use energy to pump water uphill when cheap electricity is required and then let the water come down and run the turbine generators to produce electricity, and that is Hydro as a storage system. That has losses no doubt. As to EV's generating Electricity, they start out with so much stored and what ever cost, and use so much but you can reduce the loss by generating energy in certain situations. Running on the flat is not necessarily going to be efficient. Driving from the North to descend on the South side. Doing the trip over 4 decades in all sorts of transport lets you know which uses most fuel. Coasting Function with DSG's really made a difference with ICE Vehicles.

Yes how impossible it is. But if you climb the likes of Cairn O Mount on the steep side and then go many more miles downhill and not do that as your return journey then you can generate electricity. So in the real world as drivers of EV's will be able to tell you, go try it. The impossible is possible.

There is something on it in every manual. You need to deactivate the alarm if you were to be leaving 'pets' or other moving / living things locked in the car, or it is on a transporter etc. Deactivate Alarm will be near the Locking and setting the alarm bit.

It is worth some trying an EV. You can actually go further up hill and dale and around the bens and glen and get regen & energy greater than the energy used to get up hills when coming down than say doing a coastal route which is pretty horizontal / level. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/447572-ev-sub-£30k-comparison-group-tests/page/18

Cracked it finally. Right there at my left hand finger tips on the end of the stalk. Various Choices and available for different drivers info / stats. That will make a huge difference. On the e-208 there was too much going on for me and a Heads Up would be perfect. I can cope with this though.

EDIT. That is pretty crap. Not found yet what the 1 next to the range actually is for. Read everything and tried everything. The Side Bezel does have things that light up in them. The Percentage Battery is Bottom Left next to the miles left and counting down to 0 miles in the red segment. The Sat Nav does have a big Circle that shows how far you might be able to travel as a crow flies. LOL. It showed mostly 4 or 4.1. Best was 4.3. Up the Cairn O Mount that climb had it at 3.1 & it lost 15 miles of range in 7 miles and than had gained 30 miles going down hill and keeping up with a BMW and some bikes. In Sport the difference is lots and the B gains you charge by quite a bit. Big downer is that there are no paddles for more re-gen as you need to use the brakes quite a bit. Not going to be that good in the wet or cold. In a car with a DSG the brakes hardly ever need touched if using the box for down shifts. A Kia e-Niro can do better / safer 'spirited driving' because of the paddles IMO, but can not stick to a dry road as well or go round bends as neatly. An e-Niro or e-Soul would be my choice to drive in winter out of the various EV's i have tried. The Primacy 3 Tyres on the Kia's are pathetic IMO, and the Primacy 4 are fine in the dry on the e-Corsa but getting changed as no way will suit my use. CrossClimates are going on.

65% of Battery capacity used starting with 98% when charged at home (showed 45% left on car when charger plugged in) Started as showing 180 miles range (35 Miles driven before that went to 160 miles then 155 miles for a fair few miles) so 120 miles of driving a circuit including Fettercairn to the Cairn O Mount & then Ballater, Braemar & A93 over Glenshee to Glen Isla & Kirriemuir is fine using a combination of ECO & Sport & B with AC on and 20*oC Temp. 4 hours driving (travelling) including a few picture stops and then 40 mins to charge and ready to go again. (When i stopped to charge after 120 miles it showed 80 miles range.) Now showing 180 mile range. Free charging to bring back up to 98% in that 40 minutes. Sadly the 50kWh charger 1/2 from home has been out of order for weeks now. So basically much as in ICE Cars or Bikes but without the £20 or so usually for fuel. I will try the InstaVolt charger that is nearest to me and that will be under a Fiver to charge i think. * No trip to set on the car. WTF. so a Garmin Watch is dead handy to look at miles and not the Milometer. Speedo dead on by GPS.* 0-30, 0-60 & 0-62 all nonsense from official figures and 0-70 or plus quite surprising.

Various priced / range Skoda Enyaq will be arriving sometime and might well be not much more expensive than the most expensive ICE Skodas. There is a Briskoda section for those where the distance they can go while hypermiling might feature.

@Scot5 I post just the same as you do and i have had some cheek off you over the past few months. Yes i have access to a Skoda, one i still own but have put away for now. I have sometimes posted after you actually gave duff gen that was going to mislead. Not that you seem to notice that you did give the wrong info. ? What solution to a high brake pedal is using the other foot. Removing the rubber cover reduces the height with some pedals. One can glue sand paper to the pedal or skateboard decking tape if a slippy pedal is a concern.