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What often matters is if someone has an old car or no car and gets a job & needs a vehicle for work / business and requires a reliable one. Buying or running a 'Bargain Banger' which is all they have enough cash to buy or maybe not even enough cash even for a deposit might well borrow. It is a tool of the trade, & a necessity and not an investment but will allow you to earn a living. Leasing and buying on the tick is the only way for many to get buy. There are those that spend as much on phones and data monthly than a car might cost them on the never never.

@Alex-W Not that common for someone to buy a home to live inwith cash they have though, unless they sold one they owned. I might have £15 - £25 grand in my hipper and still not pay cash on a new or pre-loved car when cash is not king. But if i can save money using a cash payment and not have the hassle of opening a carrier bag and putting the money on the table and then having to answer questions on money laundering i will do that. Mony a mickle maks a muckle in the car trade.

@wyx087 Yes, you just potter around in an empty car except for yourself at low power as though in a 80ps petrol and if you floor the accelerator you have 136ps / 260 Nm. Same in Normal. But on light throttle it is like a lower powered petrol. In Sport response is sharper at all speeds and just blipping the throttle. Steering sharper as well. Carry passengers and weight in the boot and 80ps / ECO feels like a 60ps N/A Fabia loaded because it is a heavy car. The Heavier Unladen Peugeot e-2008./ DS 3 E-Tense & likely the Mokka Electric even more so. These reviewers really need to put people or weight in these cars and try them. Fold the seats down and load 400kg in the car maybe. ** On back roads, hills and glens and driving like a warm hatch, in Sport, point and squirt and stick in B, or between Drive & back to B and you can get as good a range as in ECO. Much like driving a DSG quickly. Throttle to get a move on and gears to slow and no touching the brake pedal.** There is one reviewer on youtube that seems to be taking the huff at me questioning how he is reviewing EV cars and showing the dash with the car in ECO but he says he was not using it in ECO. They do need to check the cars weight, check the tyres, and comment on A/C on or not, heated seats / steering wheel etc as all they seem to do is go on about Motorways and talking in general terms. It is like when they pick up a ICE vehicle from a Manufacturer. They should run the tank empty, fill with a fuel like 95 unleaded or standard diesel, so that they know the car never came with Super Unleaded or Premium Diesel and higher pressure inflated tyres.

Jim Ratcliffe does not allow substandard facilities & constructions, or incompetent employees or contractors. He never got where he is in the Oil & Gas & Chemical industry by cutting corners, or starting out in IT and promising flights to the moon.

Welcome. No it does not have stop / start.

The idea is to take the Finance Deal and Service Package offered, then cancel & use your own loan money to settle ASAP while benefitting from what ever the deal included.

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Welcome. Why do they say it needs a new engine, do they know what is wrong with the one you have? You do not say how many k/m your car has done, or how long you have had it. What servicing has your car had other than oil and filter changes. & the Turbo changed. Has it had a new fuel filter fitted? Is the air filter clean? etc etc

Which Journalist will it be getting a poor range out of the same car while others do quite well. I do wonder if any of them have bothered checking what the tyre pressures are at, or taken the car to a weigh bridge. I find it so odd that reviewers talk about the change in throttle response when the mode has you getting different torque and ps equivalent. 80 / 110/136 ps As to the cost of a 3 pin charger. I paid £240 for a good one which was less than half what Vauxhall wanted, not that they had any in stock or knew when they would have any available.

@vrskeith I have one just now in orange. Loaned for a week and i am treating it with great care. Covered over 630 miles with it on 3 full to 100% charges and one to 80% and it has over 150 mile range just now. All charges have been free.

'Required to have a driving license'. 'A trial starts'. 'Across the UK.' I still doubt that Scotland are going to be OK with this unless Grant Shapps, the DVSA / DVLA & the DfT have the agreement of the Scottish Government to the trial.

Easy, Finger print start up to power the scooter, or swipe cards issued @ Local Bus pass / Oyster Card type establiblisments issuing, even velcro on patch with National Insurance number & photo ID that must be worn on an arm band or a hi-viz vest when scootering on roads. With a bar code that those renting must scan along with the renters ID and a bar code on the scooter. They are going to be at charge places / pickup points to just use and abuse, finger print needed is easy enough. (My phone is pretty crap though with finger print recognition when finger is wet.) Only issue is the UK has no ID cards, and the government has no idea who is in and out the country as no need to carry a passport or even have one. So the UK is a free for all and tracing people has not gone well. IT is not up to much with the UK Government or departments and the DVLA can not keep up to licensed drivers and illegals let alone scooterists.

You buy a replacement unit for left or right. After checking the connections as these do tend to get rusty or have a poor connection.

Boris, Grant, Alok & cronies & Conservative backers will have their investments into the rental companies. It will end up in courts because of lack of a genuine free market and competition. As it is there are going to have to be lights & reflectors fitted and the laws passed not just for England and Wales but Scotland & Northern Ireland before they can actually say 'Legal in the UK'. Then the age thing and minimum age to be able to rent on the 4 nations that make up the UK.

Sadly as good as the waterproof camera could take and as near the shore as i could get to.

They certainly are not sticky. & they put them on £30,000-£40,000 plus KIA, PSA Group etc Hybrids and EV's. So not so little cars. Cars with plenty Nm going to front wheels, or soon to the rear of VW Group EV's.

@Schtum 210bhp is lovely. But not unusual in the Fabia section for members to drive similar or more. It is just a car forum, and people have cars and driving experiences and tyre fitting stories to tell. Tyres are something i have a fetish for and i have tried plenty over the years, often take offs from Skoda approving new tyres because the Dealerships can not sort the alignment and the pulling to the left that is so common with right hand drive cars they build. Pirelli Zero Nero the favored tyre with hard sidewalls to hide the issue rather than resolve it. We did in another section and the Michelin Primacy on my new car are still poo. Since you do not have just Primacy from 2019/20 and Primacy 4 or what ever maybe best you try them on something like a 1.0TSI DSG or a Hybrid or an EV. ECO crap to give MPG or Range and sod the grip / traction / friction. ? Is it Primacy 4 you have on? A set off inexpensive tyres from TIGAR in Serbia, a Michelin owned company are a far better purchase then some of the OEM tyres fitted by the VW Group.

We will see what the Grenadier costs. Plenty people will pay whatever they feel they want to. Maybe NGO,s or charities needing capable vehicles.

That is untill there is a problem with stop / start, lane assist or some other system and the dealership or the manufacturer has no fix available and they will readily disable them and send you out on public roads. So remember if that ever happens we can quote the post above and demand a courtesy car. You might get one if there is a blue moon and pigs flying by.

Not all inexpensive tyres are ditchfinders or crap, and Michelin , Continental, Pirelli and other premium brands turn out horror show tyres as the world's biggest car manufacturer fit as OEM. Eg in the past 4 years Continental premium contact 2 Contiseal. Or Bridgestone duelers. All that has a good reputation is not a guarantee of being worth the inflated price. Michelin Primacy as another example.

Not private ones, and by Saturday. Helmets not even mandatory. Scary stuff...

Narrow with good water dispersal great and good in reducing aqua planing. Wider with good design and water dispersal properties and you are sorted. None of it is rocket science really as most here are drivers and know the theory and the practice. Actually most here will be Mk3 Fabia owners or drivers on a regular basis. Some maybe that old that they remember when a 195 tyre was considered wide. Narrow with good water dispersal great and good in reducing aqua planing. Wider with good design and water dispersal properties and you are sorted. None of it is rocket science really as most here are drivers and know the theory and the practice.

Ist job, or equal first. Check what pressure the fitter sent the car out of McConacheys with. Fronts and rears. & maybe see if you can loosen the wheel nuts / bolts with the tools in the car. PS Weather in the Sunny South West of Scotland and points further east west north and south has been terrible after high temperatures and junctions and roundabouts are letting out grease / diesel etc etc. Treacherous conditions even with the best of tyres and AWD if not driving with care.

& you can buy stuff from BRISKODA for sales or swap or do lots of things, but if you bought your Mk3 Fabia Monte Carlo for looks because you were never getting one because of the performance on offer straight from the factory. Rally Inspired and DNA, and connectivity was the selling point from Skoda. Show and no go, so maybe just as well have it look like an old buddies shopper mobile. Or like a Care Worker / NHS / Social Work / Council Fleet car with Steel Wheels and no wheel trims. PS Lighter by 60 kg average was another Skoda spin story and wider with more width of track was another. the Mk3 got 215's where the Mk1 & Mk2 only ever was offered with 205's.