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Looking on my Skoda app I only had one battery charge.
That charge run out in less than 48 hours. But most of my driving so far been stuck in heavy traffic as I live around The Queen Elizabeth bridge between Essex and Kent.
My average fuel is sitting 57.1 mpg my average speed is only 17 miles so you can tell how bad the road condition are.
Under the circumstances I think that is excellent. Unfortunately I have not had the opportunity to take it on a run yet.
My wife and I do not drive fast but the car can accelerate fast enough when needed but I am unsure what you are used too, so it’s hard to judge. I do not feel I need the extra power of the electric motor although it would be very welcoming if I was able to have a home charger.
Currently waiting on a couple of different cards to use my electric away from the home. BP Pulse and Octopus Energy.
BigDan I asked my dealer they only have one Kodiaq 7 seater Diesel and it’s full of extras sitting at the docks.
They have two that are due to be shipped from factory but they said they will not be available for two months roughly.
They said most of the 30 showing on the system around 2 weeks ago are now sold..
Sorry Bud.
I originally wanted the diesel too in a SEL.
But the PHEV was in the colour I wanted.
But the fuel to MPG is really good on all models. If you can have the Phev with wall charger you get great milage.
Yeah I did notice plenty with extras on the stock finder . I’m limited by my grant unfortunately after inclusion of Se L upgrade I’m limited to another 550 so not really any other options on extras 😅 Also I’m not sure what port would be shipped my way I’m literally round the corner from group 1 skoda in essex/southend
Bro The Dartford one is a large group.
That’s is not that far from you.
I had to pay for the wheels up grade. Personally I don’t even like them but they were a cheap extra at £115 , the paint would of been a extra too but we get the metallic free of charge on MB.
So just ask to see the list and what extra’s they have and go from there.
The Guy I dealt with is Deliz. He might be off on Maternity. Or just back at work now..
Another nice guy there is James.
I be happy to enquire for you if you like me too. I would need your model your looking for Se Or Sel and what fuel model you want..
BigDan I did email them first and they just said it be a factory order. So I would recommend going in directly. As Christos has said if you don’t mind paying for a few extras you might get lucky.
I would also say go through the bigger dealerships those that have many Skodas dealerships in their group, they can pull from each other’s stock.
But mine came from the port…
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- Really lovely car and amazing quality All sorted in 10 days
again very lucky I just got my build date …. week 3 2025. So I’ll be lucky to have mine without the new new plate 😂
I did Order a Hyundai in May 2nd but the service from Hyundia was very very poor. In fact I will never order another Hyundai.
So I was very lucky with my Skoda. All I can say is when you do get it you will find the car amazing…
@monty I didn’t realise that you lived in a flat. I had assumed because you had got a PHEV that you could charge at home. As @Abercol and I have both said, PHEVs only make sense if you can charge at home. They don’t charge at the same speed as BEVs and the very limited electric range that you put in doesn’t make charging on public chargers cost effective or worthwhile. It’s a shame that you weren’t aware of this prior to ordering a PHEV, but now that you have one you would be far better off just using it as a self charging hybrid. In other words, don’t fret over charging it as it’s pointless in your scenario. Just fill it up with petrol and you will still get a small degree of electric driving, as the petrol engine will charge the battery as well as propelling the car. You won’t get as good fuel economy as a self charging hybrid as PHEVs are heavier and you will be lugging around a heavy battery that you are mostly not using, but given that you have ordered the car you might as well just enjoy it rather than waste time and effort fretting over how and where to charge it when, in reality, it’s a complete waste of time, as you can drive the car cheaper on petrol. To illustrate the point, I don’t have a smart meter and don’t have cheap electricity, yet my PHEV costs me £2.60 to fully charge, to get about the same electric range that you paid £15 for. To work out running costs with PHEVs you have to convert total running costs (charging costs plus petrol) into a pence per mile driven and then divide that into the cost of a gallon of petrol to get a fair comparison with a petrol or diesel car. Using this method, my PHEV, when driven solely on electric, works out at about 80 mpg equivalent (what the car computer says is nonsense as it takes no account of charging costs). Your £15 charge cost to get 40 miles works out at the equivalent of 16 mpg had you driven those miles on petrol. You would probably need to be able to buy a full charge for no more than £5 to even match what it would cost you to run those miles on petrol. Even then, what’s the point? All the faff and time of charging when it’s still no cheaper than petrol which you are putting in anyway! So, in summary, unless you can find incredibly cheap public charging at no more than it would cost to charge at home (others can advise if such things exist) then my advice is forget that it’s a PHEV and just use it as you would a petrol car. Hopefully you will still get half decent mpg.
Thank you so much for that info…
To be fair I am really happy with the car even using just fuel it’s great mpg.
Yes it be nice to top up using a bit of electric but to be fair I really don’t mind.
The wife loving the Skoda so happy wife happy life 😃
Yes we went to our very local Bluewater shopping center to try use there Tesla charger but it did not work. Do I need to join Tesla to use there charger as there did not seem to be any info just a number of chargers available?
The charger fitted my car but did not charge.
Not sure how Telsa works with free or charging chargers?
But we can’t have a charger at home.
Sorry to keep nagging, is it because you don’t have a drive, as there are options available if this is the case.
I live in a flat with allocated parking.
Our allocated parking space is probably the furthest away from our flat.
Would love to have opportunity to charge at home but it seems very unlikely?
No mate we did not..
Thats a shame mate, considering the rather large battery. It takes 5-6hrs to charge my Tucson PHEV 13.8kW battery from a 10A granny charger, so not particularly practical for you. However, if you can charge at home, I highly recommend you get a 32A (7kW) interlocked commando socket (CEE) installed for £250 – £300. Your charging costs would then plummet even on your standard electricity rate but, if you wanted you could even join the standard Octopus Go tariff at 8p/kWh or similar available tariffs. If you need any more info on commando sockets, let me know.
Thank you for that info…
I will continue trying to bring those electric cost down.
But we can’t have a charger at home.
We are waiting on a couple of different discount EV cards so things will improve on that £15.
The car itself is a lovely quality car to drive.
£15 for 60-70 miles for electric charging? Is that not shockingly bad? Thats roughly what Im getting for petrol
What do you drive? Most decent petrol cars would get over 100 miles out of £15 of petrol.
Tarraco FR4, 30mpg
Gosh. That’s poor. We’ve recently handed back a BMW X1 2.0i 4WD auto that averaged 42.2 mpg over the 3 years that we had it.
Yes it is shocking, how ever on top of that you get a regeneration on breaking so the mileage will shot up.
Maybe because I am new to Electric I have chosen a expensive option without any discounts.
I have applied for discounted options that I am hoping will make a big dent on the £15
Monty, did you get charger installed at home, from when you ordered i5?
No mate we did not..
So far..
I filled the petrol tank and that cost £57..
I also had to add electric that was on a fast charger.
Recommend to only go to 80% charge this took less than half a hour but it only gave about 40 miles range were as a full 100% would of been around 60 to 70 miles. This was around £15 I thought that was a little more than I thought it would be,
But with Petrol and Electric it gives over 600 miles range.
I think this will raise as I get a true figure on my mile to a litre.
Car say I get nearly 60 but that was without electric so that figure could be up to around 80. Impressive.
Skoda give you live traffic alerts free of charge for the first year.
The Infotainment system is a lovely large screen and is very clear and bright and acts to your instruction very quickly.
Seats are very comfortable, only negative is the passenger seat is manual, the driver is very good with three separate settings.
Gear lever is on a stork just behind the steering wheel. It does take a couple of hours just to get used to.
Kodiaq came with car mats
The model I have is the SEL Plug in Hybrid.
For those that don’t know you do not need to top up your electric on these you can if you wish just drive on petrol.
The car is extremely quiet even on petrol.
Also keep in mind this car come in Petrol and Diesel you can have them in Seven seaters but the hybrid is only available in a five seater version. Also because the battery’s are under the boot it’s not such a big boot as the petrol and diesel version.
It’s a big car and it can take 6 foot plus rear passengers.
All models have huge boots maybe the biggest in vehicles available on the MB options list under SUVs.
I would say all models car can take a winch and wheel chair with ease. But please have this confirmed by the dealer or company that fits them.
I moved from a Tiguan R line and Skoda is in my opinion a much better car.
If anyone has a further question I will try to answer.
Sorry for the long post.
I just been informed my car will be ready on Monday for Collection.
Glad to be able to put the issue of Hyundia behind me. Hyundia has no customer service.
The opposite is Skoda have been amazing 👏
My order was confirmed as being placed with MB but MB does Not show order placed under my status.
This I think is either 1 because it’s at the docks or 2 because it’s just not got onto the system.
My new car I expect anytime this month, any time from next week.
They also said my four days will be from when the car collected from the port so I get it a few days early.
Only negative is the guy due of on maternity leave any day now..
Hope your have 3 years of enjoyable motoring.
I am still waiting to find out what happening with my car but I want the 25 model year.
Hope the rest of us waiting can soon be in our cars before to long..
Spoke with my Dealer today my car was ordered 1st May he said that he would expect it maybe October.
I then asked him would it be the 24 year model or the latest spec 2025 he felt it is more likely going to be 24 model as he not heard yet that they are ramped up to make the 25 yet.
My current car expires at the end of July but can order my replacement from end of April.
What is the situation if the car I looking to get is in stock.
Will I be able to change anytime after the 30 April or would they have to hold the order to July 30th?
Thanks guys.
Congratulations on the arrival of your X Trail.
I Really love to also get the x trail but I am hoping that Big Dave or someone else can find me a deal.
Did you get any deals over and above when you placed your order?
This is one of my car choices..
Enjoy your new car…
Colin I am with you..Someone will get burnt and its going to be us as the losses on EVs over three years has to be passed on to someone.
I have the old Tiguan too it would be nice if the new one came out with lower APs this time or I might have to look else where.
APs are getting so high now. ?
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