Had a MkIII manual Octy estate for 14 months and like the car but need to change to an auto.

As part of that am considering going the PHEV route as 90% of my trips are <30 miles.

Would appreciate any views/experience on insurance/servicing costs and reliability vs petrol car please.

TFYH

Edited 8 January, 20251 yr by redddevil
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If you go by VW Group / Skoda service Recommendations on a PHEV which is Fixed Servicing at 12 months / 9,400 miles then you are not going to be cheaper than a non PHEV on Variable / Flexible servicing.

 

You need to decide if you will have the Oil & Filter changed every year, or go by miles the engine fires up, are you checking spark plugs and changing when needed and not just because the car has travel 40,000 miles or 4 years has passed.

 

eg

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/529258-spark-plug-replacement/replacementtyre-sealant

 

Edited 9 January, 20251 yr by Ootohere

Hi.

If you need any help with insurance at all then please feel free to drop me a line.

Regards,

Dan.

On 08/01/2025 at 15:40, redddevil said:

Had a MkIII manual Octy estate for 14 months and like the car but need to change to an auto.

As part of that am considering going the PHEV route as 90% of my trips are <30 miles.

Would appreciate any views/experience on insurance/servicing costs and reliability vs petrol car please.

TFYH

You might like to give this a watch.

 

2 hours ago, EnterName said:

You might like to give this a watch.

 

Interesting video even though it did rather morph into a Mobil advert in the later stages.

4 minutes ago, redddevil said:

Interesting video even though it did rather morph into a Mobil advert in the later stages.

He's a bit of a marmite personality, but he makes a valid point.

Hybrid cars seem to be a perfect storm of repeated cold start-ups and running below normal operating temperature for IC engines.

I was thinking that and posed the question on the XC40 forum but never got a reply. For those using the cars as designed i.e. doing daily journeys on electric only then the engine could potentially be hardly used which wouldnt do it any good and the fuel could even go stale.

 

Another of those things that sound OK in theory but in practise maybe not so much so.