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Hello fellow Skodians. I hought I would start this thread, as there seems to be quite a few either taken ownership, placed orders or just thinking about getting the best ev out there.
So, any questions that someone may be able to answer, any good or bad dealings with dealers, specs wanted or received, perhaps someone could help others in their quest
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Anyone know how to edit the route when sending a route plan to the car. I find the Skoda app can sometimes pick a weird route and always selects the wrong chargers, I prefer to use Tesla open to all but the app favours Ionity.
Here’s the thing, Tesla only have Tesla charging in their satnav. As VAG have an agreement with Ionity, it is only fair enough that they promote that and not the competition, right?!
Can you limit the charge speed for the charger? ie over 150kW? I don’t know.
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Well, can’t help but feel that I’m getting the runaround from Skoda. The live chat service told me that the order hadn’t been accepted but the dealer sent me the detailed order screenshot which clearly has it listed as the 6th of Feb but this has already moved from the 29th of Jan. Are order accepted dates usual to move around or is this due to the facelift? The dealer also said that it would definitely be a pre-facelift that would be delivered when it is but no clue on the dates. Goal posts seem to change constantly and seriously considering saying enough and move to get a Ioniq 5 but delivery on those is April / May
Hi everyone due to my BZ4X going to the scrapyard in the sky and also my other half needing a boot hoist now I had to apply for a grant. I just had a call and the offer was an Enyaq or a ID4 I checked spec and the Enyaq is far better. But my question is what if anything is does an ID4 have that’s better?
From April 2024 Toyota BZ4X now From april 2025 Skoda Enyaq 85 Edition due to BZ4x being written off
I found the id4 to be far inferior in every way to the Enyaq, inside was like something from a pound shop in comparison to the build, materials, layout and tech of the Enyaq
Nothing aside from different styling as far as I could tell when I was looking the id4 is a little smaller, not as well specced and has those AWFUL window switches where you only get 2 switches for the 4 windows.
To be fair the match pro for £999 seems to be fairly similar spec wise to the Enyaq. Personally the extra 40 odd litres boot space in the Enyaq definitely swings it ice had times I’ve used every square in mch of the boot so I’d miss that 40 odd litres.
After it’s just whether you like the design and features we’re all different. I think a year or so ago the difference was much greater but they seem much more fairly balanced now or maybe it’s just me.
Do love the awd on the Enyaq it’s been invaluable recently, with the farmers putting thick mud on the road they seem determined to kill someone 😉and Anglian Water where there’s been a leak they know about since 30th Dec and its not fixed so whole road is under water 24/7 anyway car as just driven beautifully thru the lot very very happy. What’s worse is this has been going on for nearly 20 years now they’re really rubbish. Sorry IT rant over.
It’s a lovely car to drive, no doubt about that but the long distance capabilities have finished this for me. Completed 4,000 miles in it and it’s averaging 2.6 which is poor. Tried taking it on our regular 280 mile round trip in eco mode and sat at 76mph. After 140 miles I was left with 60 miles remaining charge. 25 miles into journey home I charged at services and it cost £57. Our little Polo can do the journey with a full tank at £50 and still have between quarter and half a tank left when I get home. Enyaq is great for pottering round locally but for distance it’s no good, not helped by extortionate charging prices at services etc.
It’s a lovely car to drive, no doubt about that but the long distance capabilities have finished this for me. Completed 4,000 miles in it and it’s averaging 2.6 which is poor. Tried taking it on our regular 280 mile round trip in eco mode and sat at 76mph. After 140 miles I was left with 60 miles remaining charge. 25 miles into journey home I charged at services and it cost £57. Our little Polo can do the journey with a full tank at £50 and still have between quarter and half a tank left when I get home. Enyaq is great for pottering round locally but for distance it’s no good, not helped by extortionate charging prices at services etc.
Which model is it you have? Have an order in for an 85X Sportsline Plus but if this is the real world figures might have to look again.
Don’t forget it’s winter and temperatures are around 3c in the day.
In October when temperatures were around 14c we got over 300 miles range on a long trip to the Southwest.We do around 5 or 6 long 800 mile holiday trips a year, we try to charge at Tesla open to all which is around 36p per kWh. For the rest of the year we charge very cheaply at home. It’s still far cheaper for us to run an EV than an ICE car.
It’s a lovely car to drive, no doubt about that but the long distance capabilities have finished this for me. Completed 4,000 miles in it and it’s averaging 2.6 which is poor. Tried taking it on our regular 280 mile round trip in eco mode and sat at 76mph. After 140 miles I was left with 60 miles remaining charge. 25 miles into journey home I charged at services and it cost £57. Our little Polo can do the journey with a full tank at £50 and still have between quarter and half a tank left when I get home. Enyaq is great for pottering round locally but for distance it’s no good, not helped by extortionate charging prices at services etc.
Thats not right, i just did 160 miles today in my ioniq 5 and returned home with 47 percent, set cruise control to 67 then let the car drive itself, my dad is getting 300 motorway miles out of his audi q4 etron which is identical motors and battery to the enyaq.
Try driver 10 mph slower and use cruise control
Don’t forget it’s winter and temperatures are around 3c in the day. In October when temperatures were around 14c we got over 300 miles range on a long trip to the Southwest. We do around 5 or 6 long 800 mile holiday trips a year, we try to charge at Tesla open to all which is around 36p per kWh. For the rest of the year we charge very cheaply at home. It’s still far cheaper for us to run an EV than an ICE car.
How do i find the trsla chargers available to all ?
Do you need an adapter to connect?
It’s a lovely car to drive, no doubt about that but the long distance capabilities have finished this for me. Completed 4,000 miles in it and it’s averaging 2.6 which is poor. Tried taking it on our regular 280 mile round trip in eco mode and sat at 76mph. After 140 miles I was left with 60 miles remaining charge. 25 miles into journey home I charged at services and it cost £57. Our little Polo can do the journey with a full tank at £50 and still have between quarter and half a tank left when I get home. Enyaq is great for pottering round locally but for distance it’s no good, not helped by extortionate charging prices at services etc.
Which model is it you have? Have an order in for an 85X Sportsline Plus but if this is the real world figures might have to look again.
We have the 85x Sportline mate.
Would never go back to ICE, had a Kona for 3 years then a Scenic for five months and even the Kona without a heat pump got at worst 3.4 and that was on a 480 mile journey from Lincoln to Peterhead in November and around 76mph. Ugh this car choice is doing my head in 🙂
Don’t forget it’s winter and temperatures are around 3c in the day. In October when temperatures were around 14c we got over 300 miles range on a long trip to the Southwest. We do around 5 or 6 long 800 mile holiday trips a year, we try to charge at Tesla open to all which is around 36p per kWh. For the rest of the year we charge very cheaply at home. It’s still far cheaper for us to run an EV than an ICE car.
How do i find the trsla chargers available to all ? Do you need an adapter to connect?
Download the Tesla app, register and it shows you all the open to all chargers. I think there’s around 80 locations.
has anyone purchased rubber mats for their Enyaq?
I ordered a full set from Skoda in CZ much cheaper than buying the same in this country either from a dealer or Ebay.
https://www.skoda-parts.com/spare-part/5la061500a-rubber-rugs-skoda-43343.html
Eco mode isn’t some magic setting you still have to drive carefully too and I’m not convinced it’s much more than throttle mapping and turning AC power down think the rest is placebo.
Sport mode seems the better to use imho you get both motors in play working together so they don’t work as hard? Aside from lower aircon output everything else you can achieve manually yourself.
Always use journey timings esp this time of the year to preheat the car and battery
Driving anywhere at 76mph is going to eat any fuel unless you’re slipstreaming other traffic. Reduce your speed to 66mph and see if you notice a difference. Fact is over a decade of driving hundreds of miles a day as a field engineer has taught me, driving around fast, accelerating hard and speeding does not get you there quicker. It’s a cliche but slow and steady wins the race, not dangerously slow of course but sticking to speed limits, driving a little under, time junctions to maximise regen, using right regen level, all these eco driving tactics all add up. Gotta say I’ve lost count if the times I’ve been doing 60 on a B road and some numpty comes flying past and when you get to the next roundabout they’re right in front of you they got there seconds earlier. I wish I could go back and slap myself when I was in my 20s LOL
I’m no expert and I still drive like a fool from time to time but tbh I rarely speed anymore because it’s not worth the effort and worry of getting caught. Got a nice clean driving licence I’m quite proud of that.
We live in Norfolk and was doing long journeys to Birmingham and back I’d stop for 15 minute charge on the way home for comfort barrier spending under £20
You’re not really supposed to charge up like you would petrol on rapid chargers just charge what you need to complete the journey. Some people make the mistake fully charging at a rapid when they could save by just getting what you need.
Even on long journeys I rarely spend more than £30 on rapids, if an overnight stop you can often find cheaper 7/11kw chargers too or even sneak a granny charger pms
Even this time of year sport mode, preheat etc I’m still getting very reasonable mileage. Have you adapted your driving style for EV use?
Pottering around locally? What do you class as local? I’m happily doing journeys over 100 miles quite frequently, without worry.
Here to Alton Towers is about 160 miles we do that journey then back to Derby where we stay at Airbnb and charge overnight on 7kw charger at 50p/kwh was cheaper last year. Then back to Alton Towers then home no further charging.
Same with Thorpe Park oddly enough similar miles all the way there, day out then home stop at Royston McDonald’s to put about 20% charge in more than enough to get home.
We had an MG ZS last time with max range of 163 miles now THAT is tight lol. On that Alton Towers trip we had to stop at Grantham to top up.
Planning on going to Port Meirion in the spring i reckon that can be done without charging but I’ll probably stop for small comfort charge. 272 miles door to door
Sorry if I sound like a stuck record on here but the freedom this car has given me over even the MG we had before blows me away. We charge at home at 7p/kwh which gives all our home energy that price too which we wouldn’t have without an EV. The ZS was a good car but that range was hurting now the Enyaq I’ve got zero worries. I no longer worry about the cost of a journey I just go do it and enjoy myself. We also benefit from solar panels. Our electricity bill us £150 a month which includes
Car, heat pump (hot water and heating) general electricity, cooking.
We were spending in 2019 £200 a month on diesel. So between that saving the charging at 7p etc that all goes to subsidise the journeys where you might use a rapid. Remember true cost statistics are long term, picking out a few journeys in winter isn’t representative of the overall cost.
The way I look at it is all the dirt cheap charging at home subsidised the few times you need a rapid charge. Even adding those on over the course of a full year I’m betting the EV will beat that Polo like for like even if for certain journeys in certain conditions work out more than the Polo
Sorry for the lengthy post, tired, sleepy rambling. No offense intended to anyone if I cause any.
My Number one tip for using rapid chargers. Figure out what you need and only charge that don’t be like ICE at a fuel station filling the tank to the top.
Say on your way home and you need another 15% to top up so just top up enough to finish the journey. Yes it takes more planning but whacking it up to 80% if you don’t need to is the difference between say a £20 charge and a £60 one (figures just plucked outta my bottom).
Other tip use offers like Octopus where you can get discounted rapid charging at certain times or just discounted for using Octopus. Same as Ovo was Bonnet and others.
As has been mentioned shop about Tesla chargers can be very cheap too
Oh you can setup Plug and Charge with Electroverse now so no cards or apps just plug in and charge
Intelligent Octopus customers get an 8% discount on rapid charging too as well as doing plunge charging when the price drops at certain times sometimes by quite a lot my last charge was 20% discount plus the 8% intelligent octopus customer discount too
It’s really not this is absolute worst case scenario in the middle of winter. We know nothing about driving style either plus batting about an EV at 76mph for any length of time possibly with the heat on, maybe didn’t preheat the battery, who knows.
Rapid charging is expensive but it’s offset by how much you save at home. Way to look at it would be imagine putting a years worth of charging into a spreadsheet and look at the average you pay. Sure you pay more at rapids but how often would you use them. I’m getting at least 250 miles to a charge at home right now and most of my journeys this time if the year are under 20 miles.
Setup vehicle ready plans so the car is hot inside and battery will maximise your chances.
There are ways of getting cheaper rapd charging too. Honestly since getting the car in July think I’ve rapid charged it maybe 10 times. Like I said previously at a rapid charger you just take what you really need yo minimise the cost don’t chill out and fill the car up like you’re at a petrol station
Put it this way treat rapid chargers like that really expensive petrol station that’s extortionate but really convenient. You just pop a tenners worth in to tide you over till you can fill up at Tesco instead.
It’s no ones fault if people aren’t getting what they expect from a car, there’s not really any instructions on how to maximise your miles, savings, how to use regen etc etc it’s all very new to most people and there’s a learning curve and experience
Even accounting for rapids etc the financial freedom these EVs has given me has blown me away I’m thrilled with how stupid cheap they are to run
Driving anywhere at 76mph is going to eat any fuel unless you’re slipstreaming other traffic. Reduce your speed to 66mph and see if you notice a difference. Fact is over a decade of driving hundreds of miles a day as a field engineer has taught me, driving around fast, accelerating hard and speeding does not get you there quicker. It’s a cliche but slow and steady wins the race, not dangerously slow of course but sticking to speed limits, driving a little under, time junctions to maximise regen, using right regen level, all these eco driving tactics all add up. Gotta say I’ve lost count if the times I’ve been doing 60 on a B road and some numpty comes flying past and when you get to the next roundabout they’re right in front of you they got there seconds earlier. I wish I could go back and slap myself when I was in my 20s LOL I’m no expert and I still drive like a fool from time to time but tbh I rarely speed anymore because it’s not worth the effort and worry of getting caught.
I’ll second that!
I used to be a 70+ driver until my wife went on a speed awareness course.
On the motorway I now tend to set the cruise control to drive at 64-66mph and I’ve found that my journey times are identical (or better sometimes) than when I drove like a loon. And yes – now I’m a bit slower on the minor roads you do seem to catch up with those who put their foot down.Well I think I’ve figured out the “since last charge” not updating issue. My charging is controlled by the octopus app and it must not be sending the indication too the car it’s plugged in and charging. I’m now at over 800 miles since last charge. It was fine when I had the charger set up but find it often would charge outside of non peak times and not reduce the price.
The economy im still on the fence about, averaging 2.4 which is mostly A 6 mile round trip between 30, 40, and 60 roads, and the occasional 60 mile trip on dual carriage way and windy b roads, does seem a bit better in sport but usually have the AC turned off so it’s just using heating set at 20 degrees. Charged it to 100 Sunday night and it’s already at 36%, bring on the spring temperatures.
My biggest bug bear is the ride, it doesn’t take uneven poor roads well at all, I even had the back end slide last night at 30 on a gentle country road, granted it was 0.4 degrees out, but it did make something tighten in a little panic at the thought of wrestling a 3t car ha.
Thinking of booking a Kwik fit visit, I was getting a lovely grind noise when breaking after leaving the house the other day and these Hancock tyres definitely rub something at weird steering angles.
I have the 85x Sportline plus and I can guarantee you that driving in sport mode definitely does use more battery. I certainly don’t use it as often now as I used to. Currently getting around 230 miles on a full charge at mainly motorway speeds.
I drive in sport mode everywhere IF you control yourself it DEFINITELY can use less. I have literally tried all of these things. Sure Eco mode can be more efficient if you’re not careful but driver aware Sport mode is easily as efficient as Eco mode and way more fun to drive the throttle lag in eco mode is infuriating.
99% of our driving is on wild C roads and I don’t find the ride particularly harsh at all
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It could just be the extra regen in sport but in my comparisons it certainly gives better kWh, mines the 85x coupe as well on the 20 inch, it could just be the difference from saloon to a taller ride but the in-laws certainly made it vocal now they felt every bump and dip in the road. It certainly felt a lot more grounded on our test drives.
Well I think I’ve figured out the “since last charge” not updating issue. My charging is controlled by the octopus app and it must not be sending the indication too the car it’s plugged in and charging. I’m now at over 800 miles since last charge.
I understand now as I have the same ‘issue’!
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