Maybe Skoda can get the software updates done before the vehicles get to dealers or to the new keepers instead of unfortunates getting landed with duff vehicles. 

42 minutes ago, Ootohere said:

Maybe Skoda can get the software updates done before the vehicles get to dealers or to the new keepers instead of unfortunates getting landed with duff vehicles. 

What software update is this? 

The ones required with Mk2 Kodiaq & Mk4 Superbs that are causing grief to the owners / drivers, quite likely will be on the new Karoq and Enyaq, Octavia,Scala, Kamiq & Fabia with the newest tech. 

 

 

Edited 27 October, 20241 yr by Ootohere

links would be more useful than just screengrabs #justsaying ;o)

^^^ #Tough titty. 

You posted in the Superb thread anyway so you know where it is, and anyone can look in the section if they are interested.

@Graham Butcher Has hundreds of miles to drive without filling up, and those with EV,s have hours to sit queuing for chargers.

Has anyone else complained about this software issue? 

Edited 27 October, 20241 yr by Graham Butcher

Of course not. 

They just collected new cars, had issues and posted on social media and never brought it up with Dealership staff or Skoda Customer services.

16 minutes ago, Ootohere said:

Of course not. 

They just collected new cars, had issues and posted on social media and never brought it up with Dealership staff or Skoda Customer services.

The point is, as I see it, it remains odd that the cars sitting over at North Weald only seem to be ICE versions and surely if the software problems is why they are sitting there waiting for the updated software, surely the same issues would be effecting to PHEVs and EVs? If so then why are there none of this on the airfield?

Edited 27 October, 20241 yr by Graham Butcher

They have brought them in (Skoda / VW UK), paid the duty, maybe just nobody actually wants them yet. 

If they have first registered them then they must have met the 22% of Zero Emission vehicles that the VW Group need to without being penalised. 

7 minutes ago, Ootohere said:

They have brought them in (Skoda / VW UK), paid the duty, maybe just nobody actually wants them yet. 

If they have first registered them then they must have met the 22% of Zero Emission vehicles that the VW Group need to without being penalised. 

Hmm, or is it a case of killing 2 birds with the same stone? I mean, if the software bug is only on ICE models, then by squirrelling them off to an airfield away from most peoples eyes, they are then able to help hide the software issue and when people request a ICE car, they can try and plead that they just cannot get them and instead sell an EV that helps them get over the 22%. Then these cars will be made available again as ex demonstrators next year when hopefully the new software has been released? 

 

 

12 hours ago, Ootohere said:

^^^ #Tough titty. 

You posted in the Superb thread anyway so you know where it is, and anyone can look in the section if they are interested.

I've always put your insistence on posting screenshots only  as a quaint idiosyncrasy/quirk however that response (when it's suggested/asked that links may be more useful)  has revised my opinion.

Edited 28 October, 20241 yr by Winston_Woof

10 minutes ago, Winston_Woof said:

I've always put your insistence on posting screenshots only  as a quaint idiosyncrasy/quirk however that response (when it's suggested/asked that links may be more useful)  has revised my opinion.

Links are far better for those using phones, however screenshots are good for honing in on a certain point in the text which may otherwise be missed. 

 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, Graham Butcher said:

Links are far better for those using phones, however screenshots are good for honing in on a certain point in the text which may otherwise be missed. 

which is why I suggested using both would be better

On 21/10/2024 at 09:25, EnterName said:

Hello! Well let's look at that, shall we?

Hello! This per-capita doesn't tell the story you want, so you choose a different number. Let's look at your number because your number is bigger, therefore worse. It's the definition of moving the goal post: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts

 

Of course total country emission will be bigger for a 21 times bigger country by population, 39 times bigger by land mass (using Google data). By simply comparing absolute total emission of a nation, are you also expecting numbers from Vatican to be comparable and useful here?

 

Fact of the matter is, your initial post was done by manipulating the graph to get your favourable numbers. I showed the default graph with widely recognised comparable numbers (CO2 per capita).

 

On 21/10/2024 at 09:25, EnterName said:

I don't care about that, and I don't think you should be trying to muddy the water with that sort of Marxist waffle. What next, CO2 reparations?

Carbon tax should be a thing. Too long humans have been digging up previously stored carbon and emit without consequences.

 

There are real consequences widely recognised by scientific consensus. I think every single bit of emission need to be accounted and built into price of goods and services.

 

Also, the fossil fuel industry talks big about carbon capture. Here's a perfect way to fund it right now.

Did anyone see this news 2 weeks ago? Could be our saviour with the growing trade war with China.

 

 

23 minutes ago, Graham Butcher said:

Did anyone see this news 2 weeks ago? Could be our saviour with the growing trade war with China.

 

 

 

Great to see this.

Lots in Cornwall and some materials in South Devon too I think.

 

12 months ago

 

 

There is Government support available for this sector. For example all of the
above companies have secured funding from the Automotive Transformation
Fund, operated by the UK Advanced Propulsion Centre. The fund aims to
establish a competitive and sustainable UK supply chain with a share of up to
£1 billion of funding. However, the market for these industries remains highly
competitive globally with other countries also seeking to support a domestic
supply chain.15

 

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CDP-2024-0080/CDP-2024-0080.pdf

10 hours ago, Stonekeeper said:

12 months ago

 

 

 

The giant clay mining areas of Cornwall and South Devon are a site to behold.  We regularly would get the Dr Who film crew down there when they wanted an alien landscape.

 

There is too much joy about.

Here is the Reverend I.M. Jolly to stop that dead.

 

Those struggling to pay the rent, heat or eat best not go buy a New High Emissions car with a First Year Road Tax costing Thousands of the GBP then. 

Lay off getting those new big gas guzzling SUV,s and such for your trips to golf & sailing club, livery stables and going to the races.

 

'Buy him a coffee.'

 

 

 

Edited 1 November, 20241 yr by Ootohere

12 minutes ago, Ootohere said:

There is too much joy about.

Here is the Reverend I.M. Jolly to stop that dead.

 

Those struggling to pay the rent, heat or eat best not go buy a New High Emissions car with a First Year Road Tax costing Thousands of the GBP then. 

Lay off getting those new big gas guzzling SUV,s and such for your trips to golf & sailing club, livery stables and going to the races.

 

'Buy him a coffee.'

 

 

 

If you buy a pre-registered car, then this will not apply, and as we all know, they are effectively new cars and the first years tax is being paid by the dealer pre-registering it?

The Prestige Car Showrooms and Online Dealers / Suppliers are not going to be closing down in the UK from Spring next year.

 

Just this week on here i read of someone trying to keep their new vehicle to under £40,000 and saying that had not been necessary really because the VED was included in the monthly for the lease / rent of the vehicle.

Real world stuff.