WHY, as a dealer, would you put something like that on YouTube? 🙄

 

Title edited because my definition of "thrashed" might be different to others 😀

Edited 8 June, 20197 yr by SkodaVRS1963

Seems pretty unprofessional, guess they are trying to be hip and attract a certain element in the market.

One place to avoid taking your car to, to be serviced.

VW dropped Das Auto and went for honesty.

 

Many vehicles will get thrashed to transporters,

thrashed at a PDI to get fuel, thrashed as a Demonstrator, and as a 'Management car' before being sold used at 3,000 miles / 3 months or more.

 

Vorsprung Durch Technik.

8 minutes ago, Jfhuk said:

One place to avoid taking your car to, to be serviced.

Sure Briskodians have criticised Simpsons Preston before or just Simpsons in general for their poor service.

Interesting responses, many thanks.

 

I edited my original post for no other reason than repeatedly redlining a car with 12 miles on the clock at a temperature of 4C with a cold engine whilst, to me, is thrashing it, I do understand that others mileage might vary.

 

I'm guessing that particular car was sold as new and some poor mug punter parted with £40k and was totally oblivious to what had happened to it 😟

Edited 8 June, 20197 yr by SkodaVRS1963

'Simpsons Skoda'  their reputation goes before them and with a director with success in rallying and a failure on this forum of trying to defend work one of his Dealerships did and got a hard time for on here.

Ah, I didn't know they had "form"?

This thread will be good for Simpsons Skoda.

Any publicity is good publicity and all that.   Rod McLeod will no doubt be getting in touch praising them on their advert. 

 

Motorsport Heritage and success and drive them like you stole them...

 

 

 

27 minutes ago, Skoffski said:

VW dropped Das Auto and went for honesty.

 

Many vehicles will get thrashed to transporters,

thrashed at a PDI to get fuel, thrashed as a Demonstrator, and as a 'Management car' before being sold used at 3,000 miles / 3 months or more.

 

Vorsprung Durch Technik.

 

My Focus ST has something called "valet mode" that I can set, using a passcode, and it restricts what third parties who have access to my car (airport parking lots, MOT garages etc) can do with it......I can limit the max speed, the rpm, even the stereo volume.

 

Are Skodas not factory shipped with this functionality (so that vehicles can't be thrashed before they reach the dealership)?

Transit Mode. 

Then fill your boots. 

 

PS 

Delivery drivers never got the job not knowing a little about driving and OBD's.

Edited 8 June, 20197 yr by Skoffski

2 minutes ago, SkodaVRS1963 said:

Are Skodas not factory shipped with this functionality (so that vehicles can't be thrashed before they reach the dealership)?

My thoughts were that the PDI unlocks the full set of features. (I haven’t the videos yet so may well be wrong)

They do ave transit mode yes, technically illegal to drive it on the road with it activated though.

 

Not to stop it being thrashed though, they don't have enough fuel in them for that. It's to stop the battery going flat mainly.

Edited 8 June, 20197 yr by Tech1e

There was a Dealership group or more than one that might have vehicles delivered on the East of Central Scotland and PDI'd and then they were driven to the West Coast 55 miles away and delivered at hand over with 15 miles on the clock.

Transit mode is just that, and then some Workshop Employees or Contractors are doing what some do as told by management.

Edited 8 June, 20197 yr by Skoffski

Transit mode doesn't stop mileage being accumulated on the dash, that was outlawed many moons ago as effectively clocking the vehicle.

 

You used to be able to reset the dash twice up to 100 miles with the dealer equipment but that feature was removed for the same reason.

18 minutes ago, john999boy said:

My thoughts were that the PDI unlocks the full set of features. (I haven’t the videos yet so may well be wrong)

 

I'm guessing I'm naive 😀

 

Skoda CZ implement "valet mode" on every vehicle leaving the factory; OBDs can't unlock it because it's encrypted (or whatever).

 

Car turns up at the dealership unthrashed; dealer pumps in his code, the vehicle VIN and is given access to break the valet mode in readiness for the customer handover.

 

Everyone's a winner, surely?

 

Unless you're the mug punter buying the vehicle in my original post, of course 🙄

It is just a Light Commercial Diesel engine in the Kodiaq vRS, being treated as many vans and pickups get from the keys being handed over. 

Just as well you are buying something built to work and not some highly strung sporty engine.

 

PS

Are you buying one or leasing one and handing it back in a few years?

Edited 8 June, 20197 yr by Skoffski

2 minutes ago, SkodaVRS1963 said:

OBDs can't unlock it because it's encrypted (or whatever).

 

VCDS can do it, think it's a single button operation too.

28 minutes ago, Skoffski said:

It is just a Light Commercial Diesel engine in the Kodiaq vRS, being treated as many vans and pickups get from the keys being handed over. 

Just as well you are buying something built to work and not some highly strung sporty engine.

 

PS

Are you buying one or leasing one and handing it back in a few years?

Not sure I agree with you about it being a light commercial diesel engine 😀

 

My company buy quite bulky Ford Transits (they can shift a hell of a load of weight effectively) and they're only rated at 170PS.

 

5 year PCP on my VRS but at that point I'll be thinking of retiring so will probably keep the thing until somebody puts my lifeless corpse into a furnace!

I was a passenger in a demo new model Volvo S60 T5 2 weeks ago with 180 miles on the  clock, repeatedly redlined. I told the driver to slow down as it was safe on the dual carriageway but still licence losing stuff. Not helped by the salesman bragging that the driver would run out of bottle before the car ran out of steam. Stupid suggestion and false  As nice as it was, my old VRS had more power and urge. 

There are a few Kodiaq vRS sitting around the UK waiting for an owner after VW Finance. 

Never raced or rallied and run / driven in as per the Owners Manual no doubt.

Feed 'Premium Diesel'  or maybe not, just what the nearest supermarket filling station sells from the Black pump for 3 months or more.

 

 

20 minutes ago, SkodaVRS1963 said:

Not sure I agree with you about it being a light commercial diesel engine

 

 

Pretty sure it's in the VW Transporter.

2 minutes ago, Skoffski said:

There are a few Kodiaq vRS sitting around the UK waiting for an owner after VW Finance. 

Never raced or rallied and run / driven in as per the Owners Manual no doubt.

Feed 'Premium Diesel'  or maybe not, just what the nearest supermarket filling station sells from the Black pump for 3 months or more.

 

 

AutoTrader have 53 used for sale......on the basis that Skoda have said they're only shipping 300 units to the UK, that's a hell of a load of demonstrators?

I think there was around 60 first registered in the UK in the first quarter 2019.

It will be a while before 300 are in the UK if ever.

VW will always make sure there are enough First Registrations so that they never look like they have a flop, as they did with various VW, Audi , Skoda, SEAT Halo models over the years.

They just sell them to themselves so that they can not be called a depreciation disaster and put customers off actually buying rather than those getting a good lease / fleet deal.

 

http://howmanyleft.co.uk

 

EDIT, doh, sorry,   So 13 in last year.

no idea where i got the number first registered this year, will have to wait till next month to see.

Edited 8 June, 20197 yr by Skoffski

5 minutes ago, Skoffski said:

I think there was around 60 first registered in the UK in the first quarter 2019.

It will be a while before 300 are in the UK if ever.

VW will always make sure there are First Registrations so that they never look like they have a flop, as they did with various VW, Audi , Skoda, SEAT Halo models over the years.

 

http://howmanyleft.co.uk

 

EDIT, doh, sorry,

no idea where i got the number first registered this year, will have to wait till next month to see.

Aaagh, don't get me started on that site.

 

I bought a Ford Orion GLX diesel in 1991........that site says there were only 461 manufactured (so, by definition, limited edition although I obviously didn't know that at the time).

 

The thing was built like a tank and put out about 90bhp FFS.....no power steering either!

 

My brother-in-law persuaded me to sell it to him (he loved it) and then the numpty promptly managed to roll it into a ditch.

 

Given the weight to power ratio, he must have been seriously moving (with two kids onboard) when he swerved to avoid an old dear who'd pulled out in front of him and caused the roll.

 

I think he ker-chingged on the compo as well FFS.