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@Loofer What PHEV have you? The MPG with a Kodiaq might well be better than a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV.

3 year old ex lease cars and ones on Motability are getting handed back in numbers and going to auction now and in the next few months so cars going out of Manufacturers Warranty will be appearing in great numbers and dealers / traders will be keen to shift current stock and the new stock of 3 year old cars arriving.

Whoever at Skoda or a dealership told @JamiePvrs lied about 1 litre in 1,200 miles being OK after a cars first 5,000km. Just because every owners manual says may use 0.5litre in 1,000 km (621 miles) that is not acceptable as Skoda / VW knows. @Dillaz_k If your Ibiza Cupra was a 1.4TSI 132kW Twincharger there is no mystery why one of those might use far too much oil. If it was a Leon Cupra then there would be reason to question why.

Leave in place and tell the Dealership to carry out no diagnosis and carry out no software updates.

@Loofer No idea where you get the idea that a car with Haldex will go through rear tyres quicker. They are mainly in front wheel drive and you can change tyre front to rear to get life out of them. You will need to service the Haldex every 3 years or sooner though.

@Loofer The last of the 1.4TSI's are issue free and there were issues with 1.5TSI's and the need for software updates and some unhappy owners that went as far as getting shot of their vehicles with 1.5TSI's. There is a good search function on Briskoda. Maybe look in the Karoq section and the last 2 pages and you will see threads.

"'Cool officers!" 'They're his guys'. Arsenal.

@Highlander19 No doubt some Dealer / Trader would be more than happy to take your car in as a trade in, or someone would buy it. I can see no reason for you to get rid of it to get a petrol manual or DSG Yeti unless it is to get cash money and a cheaper Yeti.

Citigo are not old cars, and the op's 1.0 MPI is a 3 year old car if that.

Plenty UK Dacia owners have replaced Dacia with Dacia and plenty have them as 2nd vehicles or 3rd in a household rather than running the Prestige Family car as a daily driver. Look at some as you go about and see the kind of owner that have them and look after them, many look just like a Yeti owner type. KISS is rather a good principle when it is just transport that is needed and you are leasing cheaply or just buying a keeper. Dacia's somehow manage to be able to keep H20 out of cars and in the engines, and no steamy windows and freezing up glass inside also fuel flaps not freezing closed, that is 'Simply Clever' or maybe Vorsprung Durch Technik. Learn through the years and don't keep building in faults. Romania and Czechia are not so very different, or Slovakia, Hungary etc. Workers in the car plants can be from any of those countries. Probably the best car manufacturer in Czechia and Slovakia are Hyundai & Kia, the ones that can give longer warranties.

@Fabcol There are 10 year old Nissan Leafs on the road now and still going. Then rust buckets like this and it is not batteries that are needed. You and everyone else pay so much for your electricity because you are paying for the past and the nuclear that is no longer producing electricity and the waste is going to get buried someplace, but no longer just stored in Scotland. You are paying to clean up the coal fired places and still paying to have coal on stand-by, and gas and oil, and diesel farms that have contracts to be on standby. You are paying for the very expensive Nuclear under construction and the very high contract price to import electric and gas from continental Europe. Then you are paying towards the Green Energy and the wind farms. Through all that the customers north of Perth pay higher tariffs than you. So where there is so much renewables produced and where the decommissioned Nuclear is and the plants due to close the electricity costs most, and that applies around Newcastle as well. Good that there are 6 year interest free loans in Scotland to by EV's, and lots of Free EV charging points still. The future is clearly seen in Dundee the EV capital of the UK. Dundee Council are knocking the free charging on the head now.

8 years ago was 2012. Diesel was an average 137 pence a litre then in the UK and the government never reduced the price. The UK can produce so much electricity from renewables and does not have enough storage capacity for what is produced or customers to buy / use it and those generating the electricity want it to be stored in vehicles and home and available to the grid. Also the electricity used to produce hydrogen. Those generating electricity can cope very well with supplying the 4 nations needs, but the UK governments are the problem in not assisting with super connectors but more than happy to encourage the import of energy in the way of oil, gas and electricity at very high prices and throwing billions to the French and Chinese to build the nuclear facilities. http://gridwatch.co.uk

Do not buy tyres that are 5 years old, or 4 or even 3 then. Buy tyres from someplace that does not sell old stock, tell the seller / supplier you are wanting tyres no ore than one year old. and check the date code on the tyres you buy.

It is certainly not Fraud Free in the UK or the Irish Republic, but then if you drive to a Farm or Industrial Site to buy you fuel with cash money and get not receipt you buy many fuels. LPG is quite a good one as used in grain dryers / & heating, no markers there. UK / Multinational fuel retailers or the Independent Operators selling hooky fuel at road side filling stations in this day and age is something that there are plenty that are going to be aware of.

^^^ That is nonsense. HMRC would be who is involved. Just as they are with short measures of fuel or alcohol. Lots of Tax and VAT paid on fuel and fuel is traceable and nobody in the UK is refining fuel and distributing any that does not meet the required spec. As it is 95, 97 & 99 ron are the minimum octane rating of those fuels and the 97 minimum and 99 might well exceed that ron but it will not be lower than that. 'On vehicles using prescribed unleaded petrol of min 95 RON, the use of petrol with a higher octane number than 95 RON can increase the power and reduce fuel consumption'. Worth anyone going and reading the Owners Manual that their Citigo came with and look in the fuel flap at you prescribed fuel and the Min RON that you can use. Does it show 95 / (91) or just 95 ?? A00_Citigo_OwnersManual (1).pdf

An important thread for those with issues / failures. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/475102-dq200-dsg-mechatronic-tear-down-repair-changes-in-body Beware of what the professionals at dealerships say, or those on Service Desks that are professional receptionists or learning on the job and getting told the same old crap by those passing down info. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/483018-gearbox-issue

@domhnall My car is still sitting at the dealers 1 mile away not registered, it came off a transporter last Tuesday after being 'Lost in space' since it was caught in transit at the day lock down happened and nobody released it after lock down was lifted. I have had the use of a demonstrator and have been treating it with great care.

@Phil-E Sorry but someplace you are not getting very accurate info, maybe on here or someplace else on social media, or maybe duff gen from Skoda Dealerships. The oil leaking out is exactly why '34H5' came about. Cracked housings, leaking MCU's etc. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/432730-oil-leak http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/422718-rapid-recall-dsg http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/425424-2017-another-dq200-7-speed-dsg-service-campaign There was no 'Recall'. Recalls require VW Group / Skoda to contact Registered Keepers and flag a 'Recall'. There was a Service Campaign which they call a 'Recall Action'. If the car was not into a Dealership you were not told. The VIN Checker never showed '34H5' until last year after the 'Australian RECALL' started. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/473213-another-dsg-recall-today-sorry-if-already-posted

What a great Vid. My favourite ever. Tesla fanboy absolutely devastated.

She will just have made an error with the 0-30 which should be 2.9 seconds and not 3.9

OK, not me as there are 2 dealerships within 20 miles owned by the same company and Subarus are available world wide and very reliable.

@BRUN Have you checked out Subaru Outbacks?

@BRUN Some consideration to the wheels is needed if you are going to be fitting suitable All Terrain tyres or whatever to get you into and out of campsites and up and down steep muddy fields. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/470122-off-road-tyres