Felly owner profile change

[muckyduck]

Dunno if anyone else has noticed but the remaining Felicias seem to be getting a new lease of life. When the Fabias were unleashed the next three years saw a lot of old school Skoda fans changing over which meant Fellys began to look a bit worse for wear. The ones still around seem to be enjoying an Indian summer under a more enthusiastic and youthful (that's me out) ownership with some real minters in West Yorks.

First spotted the phenomenon a coupla years ago in Devon and Cornwall with Felicias carrying surf boards. Surely not a cult car? True or my imagination?

[TeflonTom]

i love felicia's, and they're knocking out quite cheap on ebay now too

excellent first car for learner etc

[muckyduck]

Well I'm sentimentally attached to my estate. I paid 3 and a half grand for it with twenty thousand on the clock from a dealer quite a few years ago and it has helped me completely renovate three houses as a side line and make enough dosh to afford much 'better' things, should I ever desire them.
It's carried everything from kids to cement, slithered sideways down ungritted roads and carries my boat on the roof along squashy river banks and been to most parts of the country. It will be a dark day when it finally goes bang. If ever a car earned its keep that has.

[WoodieGuthrie]

I wasnt a big fan of them TBH when I first drove them- handling takes some getting used to. but after 3 years and 40k miles at the hand of my bro

carrying drumkits all day, and 4x large lads out on the town, various trips to the dump with all manner of heavy stuff in the back and of course the imfamous "cannonball runs" (manchester in 2hrs 50 mins from Glasgow)

I cant help but say i'm impressed.

£18 to service it, easy to adjust tappets and all its needed were brakes, tyres and a thermostat.

awesome. My bro is 22, and i'm 25. hardly "stereotypical " felicia owners. but we'd have another one in a flash.

Looks nice when its valeted too

[pinkskud]

Originally Posted by WoodieGuthrie

awesome. My bro is 22, and i'm 25. hardly "stereotypical " felicia owners.

i duno about that. i'm 21, and 3 of my mates have felicias, there all under 21.

[WoodieGuthrie]

Originally Posted by pinkskud

i duno about that. i'm 21, and 3 of my mates have felicias, there all under 21.

fair do's but up here, most felicia owners eat their brekfast through a straw and wear flat caps

[tefal1]

my last car was a laguna 3.0v6 but i can honestly say its a hoot having my felicia now and a big bit cheaper to run! great cars

[tefal1]

Im up in scotland also and i still eat my dinner wae a knife and fork i save the straws for my irnbru

[WoodieGuthrie]

Originally Posted by tefal1

Im up in scotland also and i still eat my dinner wae a knife and fork i save the straws for my irnbru

Where abouts in Scotland?

Where I stay, most of the neds over 14 have 3 weans and no teeth,mind you they wouldnt steal a Felicia as its no a good "brief"

[tefal1]

Im in falkirk, there are plenty of fabias and octavias but noy so many felicias around these parts.

[WoodieGuthrie]

Originally Posted by tefal1

Im in falkirk, there are plenty of fabias and octavias but noy so many felicias around these parts.

I'll be over in Alloa on fri night getting prepared () to do an engine swap on a bmw on sat and sunday

[pinkskud]

beemer to what. please say felicia

[muckyduck]

Before the Fleece I had a Rover 200 (200% dog), a Micra (nice in a sardine can sort of way) and an Astra (not a bad car and it was dirt cheap). Prior to that a mini van, and a Hillman Minx, etc, etc. My wife's job gives her use of various Honda's and Nissan's as and when.
Thing is whereas Felicias used to be the vehicle of choice for those about to be Gathered to God, hereabouts they're getting a more youthful driver who seem to be looking after them. I'd like to say our's get cared for but in reality if they're cleaned three times a year they are doing well.

Mine are a pair of face lifters but I have a soft spot for the early ones. The diesels are like hens teeth now and the Klements unheard of. If I saw a good 'un I'd have to buy it.

[tefal1]

I was in alloa on sunday night there are 24hr supermarkets on every corner now

[muckyduck]

Doh, I also had an Estelle. Mind you it was a lemon. Damper than an Amazonian rain forest and the wheels were alloy in the same way that Wensleydale is tungsten carbine. Basically you cut a new thread each time you changed the wheel. Which was often. My back street mechanic was taken with it tho' and bought one of his own for a laugh. Last time I saw him back in the 80s he'd found a way of shoe-horning a crashed Lotus block into one, or so he said.
I'd like to think he did.

[WoodieGuthrie]

Originally Posted by pinkskud

beemer to what. please say felicia

taking out an asthmatic 1.816v (136bhp) and putting in a 2.5 24v 6cyl (192bhp)

[FUNSKODA]

Originally Posted by pinkskud

i duno about that. i'm 21, and 3 of my mates have felicias, there all under 21.

I'm 19 and I own a Felicia, am I leagally to young to own one?

[GeoffStone]

im 29 with a Felicia, now I though I was young but the realisation that Im 30 this year has just brought home the fact that Im not young anymore..........

Midlife crisis over, still love my Felicia. It just works too well. My daughter is only 18 months so by the time she is old enough to comprehend it I reckon the Skoda jokes will finnally have dissapeared.

Im not tailoring mine or doing much work on it as i bought it with 20k on the clock, i do 20k a year so I am going to drive this into the ground (with all the reasonable services and fixes required), but I reckon that may be sometime away

[brian1.9diesel]

Im 27 have a diesel Felicia hatch and im in no rush to get rid!!
Befour i had a Volvo 850 2.0 20v, absoulute mint!! A old lady had it and put only 55K in 13 years.............but it was a P ISS artist on petrol, filling a 70l tank every 4 days pinched alot!
The Felicia is great on fuel, i get 480 miles to the tank and i proberly would get more if i sorted out the smoking problem " at 60-65 mph it gently flutters - turnes out the smoke, kick in the over speed and it clears up" charter forming i call it!!
Felicia diesel

[pinkskud]

Originally Posted by FUNSKODA

I'm 19 and I own a Felicia, am I leagally to young to own one?

at 19 i had a faverit and then a felicia. the faverit went bang so i went up in the world with a mk1 spi felicia.

now at 21 and on my 3rd felicia, a 1.6 mk2 glxi.