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Pollen filters have always been in the UK @ 2 years or sooner if you pay or do yourself. Spark Plugs at 4 years / 40,000 miles if they bothered doing or even checking. Same with Air Filters. 1st Major Services never have been supposed to be the same as a 2nd Major Service. It just so happened that people might pay the same to get less done at the first Major. As it is a car with FULL MAIN DEALER SERVICE HISTORY @ 3 years old does not guarantee a car serviced to Manufacturers guidelines or service schedule. There are now Bespoke Service Plans with different levels of Servicing.

Skoda Main Dealer Servicing on Fixed Price servicing has changed from Interim / minor & Major. Now Oil & Inspection Services and you pay for extras like pollen, air filters, and 'Extended Scope is at 3 years or when ever you want to pay for it.

How many refineries or cracking plants there are in the UK has nothing to do with it as Royal Dutch Shell or Greenergy can be bringing in base fuels from anyplace in the world. https://www.greenergy.com/uk Then the additive packages are added a depots. The cleaning / detergents might make a difference to cleaning a carboned up engine or not. Might reduce the emissions, which is all that many claim. I have seen the Super Unleaded various tests that Fifth Gear have done and others. As to the tests on Diesel in the UK not so. *Do your own.* For Premium Diesel from ESSO, BP, Shell or anyplace else it is dead easy, you have the car, you buy the fuel, so just try the regular Derv or the Premium Heavy Oil with more additives than the basic and see yourself. Just look at the Cetane rating for Regular or Premium Diesel where you are buying it and see if there is a difference. This is not like the octane (or Mon elsewhere ) of Unleaded petrol at 95, or 95 Minimum, and Super in the UK at 97 ron minimum or 99 ron minimum. (No longer is 98 ron min sold in the UK.)

@shyVRS245 Many can do it without needing fuel and at current prices pay £62 or so to do it. But if you have time and want to you can take stops and depending on where you are driving pay nothing for electric. Plenty people enjoy just going on drives and sightseeing. Even use your saved fuel money and have a nice B&B or D,B&D and the car can charge overnight.

The original scheme started in 2009 and then was extended a while in 2010. Not that facts matter to Autocar. Loads of Defeat Device fitted Diesels and others that had DPF issues were purchased thanks to the Scrappage Scheme, if Politicians or Journalists bothered to be interested. Some of those new cars from 2009 already scrapped. eg Kia Rio diesels https://autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/uk-government-launch-new-car-scrappage-scheme http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_scrappage_scheme

If Skoda UK are not going to do 5 year warranties as standard to get sales / first registrations moving then maybe 'Simply clever' dealerships can put the 2 year warranty extension on and get potential customers attention. As it is they are going to be offering incentives so this not very expensive to them '5 years' might just do the trick.

@DieselMonte So that is an issue when the car has had the new engine management and the flow device fitted. What now, are you getting another one to fit until you can get The fix rolled back?

@J.R. Others will remember the thread and the posts as i dont think many members here believed what was being posted to the new members annoyance. I can not link threads that were deleted or hidden. @Gmac983 will also remember it, the thread did not end well which is maybe why gone. EDIT. Appears not to have signed in since January. @Amin01 You never put your car to Skoda, you put it to an authorised repairer / franchised dealership. So were they part of a motor group?

A part and labour warranty should be what it says it is in the T&C's, small print and any print. There was a case on here a while back of someone that had a failure with Original parts not even fitted at a Main Dealer / Authorised Repairer and yet Skoda supposedly paid out on a failure. Strange one that. EDIT, i wish i knew where the thread is. Maybe hidden as i seem to remember the OP was a bit peed of by me and others that were poo pooing Skoda / VW taking any responsibility.

Kind of obvious that range matters to those that need a vehicle that can do longer distances. That is not everyone. Of those that do not need to do long distances or higher annual mileages or have to buy or lease cars and not get assistance with tax breaks then cost matters, and charging infrastructure and maybe just not being interested in what they drive, or changing vehicles. As it is many that want EV's can not yet because the supply is not there, or they are waiting on the new models and then ordering when they are out there and proving reliable. So that will be a few more years possibly with VW Group cars in the £25,000 - £45,000 range. I would not want Bjorn as my driver or even road trip buddy. Pricey, fat cars with no one but the driver in, wide tyres and this is what you get, fill the seats with people and put stuff in the boot and it can only get worse... Seems only sensible to me to have a bike or e-bike in the car to look around an area while the car charges. Especially since there is room with only one or even 2 in the car.

@shyVRS245 It is not difficult, if the EV's do not suit your needs and the price new is too much or the price used then people just do not need to get one. If they cost £10,000 more to buy if you do buy, but saves you £10,000 or more over 3 or 4 years of running an EV then some might run an EV. How many are buying over leasing is a figure that the SMMT might have published somewhere. If leasing and not paying for Petrol / Diesel , parking, congestion charges means you get a vehicle for what you usually spend on buying the liquid fuel & the other stuff then there are those that get an EV, or more than one as many do like taxi, delivery companies and other business's.

& those reviews are often from a journalist / reviewer that was in some sunny climate driving a left hand drive media vehicle that they never even bothered to check the tyre pressures of. At least with a demonstrator or used car you can go try driving them yourself, check the tyre pressures and see what you think. Or Bob Flavin will drive the left hand ones then right hand models when they get to the Irish Republic and give his impressions and not just repeat what is in the media pack.

@Euan6911 Welcome to the forum. You said the ASR light comes on. Anti Slip Regulation. So is that what comes on and not an 'engine check light' ?

@shyVRS245 Get on your bike and stop going back in time and who can pee the highest. You have a Skoda Superb now. You posted what you should get when assessing what is getting good value then it went all strange.... PS Trouble is that you do not think or check. Losing a leg might not get you PIP. No idea what a Mobility or a Motability Discount is, as there is no such thing. There is a Charity that buys cars and which you can lease if you qualify. 'Some manufacturers used to offer discounts to disabled that did not get Mobility allowance or PIP but could qualify in the old days for an Orange Badge, then Blue Badges when they came in.

@shyVRS245 Yes, and a Elite Nav is even more. But then i will pay £945 advance payment, no charging for electric & £62.25 a week, no insurance, no servicing and hand it back in 3 years. & still have a car that has over 300 bhp and cost under £20,000 but £40,000 plus new.

^^^ Hardly relevant if you are looking at not paying to buy Petrol or Diesel, get free electric charging and parking and a break with HMRC on taxes. & you might already have a ICE vehicle that meets your criteria. @shyVRS245 Did £30,000 new get you a 300bhp car with a full manufacturers warranty, or did you go used and remap and void the warranty?

Ask someone that does Remaps in your area if they can.

Not Arnold Clarke, but 'Arnold Clark', those that put on bright yellow stickers and number plates on squint quite often.

No idea on getting on-line as easy to pop into a Motor Factor that makes up plates and just looks at the V5 and ID i take along.

I like, including the NHS hearing aid type colour. (Doh, sorry, Grey not Beige..) Could not live with those wheels though. Skoda Citigo iV driver needs a slap for pathetic parking / charging position... ? Is that Factory equipment running the software for that car which is taken to a public charging point to give a VW employee an opportunity to get it filmed?

The last reports i looked at in the UK were £180 plus VAT. But then Skoda had to pay that as the reports supported the car owners. & as it was Skoda had told the owners if they had and inspection and report done and it showed that 'bad repairs' had been done it would cost the owners £260.

If a Skoda dealer supplied it to you and you know no paint repairs were done when you have owned it then it is time for a test of the paint on the car. That is to see if it is factory paint and done at the factory after the car was built, or maybe by the dealership or transporters. The paint spec can be tested not just the thickness. Worth commissioning having that Paint Inspection and report done by an independent expert. if it is a Factory paint then Skoda Poland can pay for the report.

Was this all there were registered in the UK, or did they maybe get listed as some other name?

Yes. Are there none advertised on BRISKODA?