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[briskgava]

Hey Guys. Not Sure If Anyone Will Be Able To Answer This Question But Im Gunna Ask Anyway! Ive Owned My Octy Vrs(rally Ed) 02 Plate(40000 Miles) For 2 Month Now And I Love Her, I Even Talk To Her(elenor) Lol. The Only Thing That As Gone Wrong With Her While Ive Bin The Owner Is The No 2 Coil Which I Belive Is A Common Problem And Was Quite Cheap To Put Rite. As A Matter Of Intrest I Contacted Skoda Just To See What Things Had Bin Done To My Elenor In The Past, And Got The Shock Of My Life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. New Turbo & Turbo Pipe.
2. Central Locking Fault.
3. 1&3 Coil Pack Failier.
4. Anti-roll Bar Bushes And Links Replaced.
5. Cd Auto Changer Fault.
6. Clicking Engine Light.

All This Was Replaced By The Previous Owner To Me, And Cost 2500 Quid, Expensive Ey?

Now Comes The Question, Should I Be Worried That This Car Is Gunna Be Unreliable And Costly??????????? I Was Under The Impresion That The Skoda Octavia Was 1 Of The Most Reliable Cars On The Market, Am I Wrong?????
Thanks For Listenin To Me Guys Hope I Avnt Bored You To Much? Any Advise Will Be Appreciated.

Praise The Turbo Gods.

[Gilaz]

Let's just hope you've had all it's teething probs put to bed before you got her.....

[fatty5000]

Originally Posted by briskgava

Hey Guys. Not Sure If Anyone Will Be Able To Answer This Question But Im Gunna Ask Anyway! Ive Owned My Octy Vrs(rally Ed) 02 Plate(40000 Miles) For 2 Month Now And I Love Her, I Even Talk To Her(elenor) Lol. The Only Thing That As Gone Wrong With Her While Ive Bin The Owner Is The No 2 Coil Which I Belive Is A Common Problem And Was Quite Cheap To Put Rite. As A Matter Of Intrest I Contacted Skoda Just To See What Things Had Bin Done To My Elenor In The Past, And Got The Shock Of My Life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. New Turbo & Turbo Pipe.
2. Central Locking Fault.
3. 1&3 Coil Pack Failier.
4. Anti-roll Bar Bushes And Links Replaced.
5. Cd Auto Changer Fault.
6. Clicking Engine Light.

All This Was Replaced By The Previous Owner To Me, And Cost 2500 Quid, Expensive Ey?

Now Comes The Question, Should I Be Worried That This Car Is Gunna Be Unreliable And Costly??????????? I Was Under The Impresion That The Skoda Octavia Was 1 Of The Most Reliable Cars On The Market, Am I Wrong?????
Thanks For Listenin To Me Guys Hope I Avnt Bored You To Much? Any Advise Will Be Appreciated.

Praise The Turbo Gods.

Surely Its Easier Not To Use Shift Before Each Word When You Type. you know like this ...................

[fatty5000]

Most of those thing are the usual suspects though so don't worry about them as they've been done. New turbo is always a bonus as well

[Babs]

^ what I was gonna post when I first opened this thread

[gathy]

mines done 108k now and never had owt other than discs and pads and tyres according to the dealers and the service printout i got of leaseplan

so not bad,supposed to be the most reliable based on the floorplan i.e golf.bora.audi,seat,etc

imoa they crap, as usual overrated german engineering just do a search ! oil pump failures common, coil packs, dv,.the list goes on

but 2 milllion taxi drivers have one so cant be that much of a lemon, but a new taxi spec octavia was 8k from my dealers

id never buy german again thats for sure cannot wait to get my bottom back in a volvo seat
thats another to banned list ;
vauxhall,french,italian,german,some japs,germans in drag(skoda,seat)

[briskgava]

he he fair comment, im not the best typer. thanx for the posts guys, so no need to worry then yea???

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[briskgava]

Gathy What You Saying? You Saying Based On Your Car They Are Reliable Mate

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[gathy]

Originally Posted by briskgava

Gathy What You Saying? You Saying Based On Your Car They Are Reliable Mate

Praise The Turbo Gods

not in my opinion even though nothings gone pop yet in 8 months of ownership
its more of a case of waiting for it to die which im sure it will if this forums anything to go by lol

[daverapid]

You guys all need an Estelle. Nice, easy carb, points ect., and everything is adjustable! Fun too!

[fatty5000]

You purist you

[briskgava]

just keeping my fingers crossed that my elenor dont go pop lol thanks again guys

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[martziniuk]

My cars cambelt snapped with previous owner at 70000mile.New cylinder head, turbo, piston rings,conrod shells,thermostat,oil pump etc etc
Just clicked past 100000 now with no probs at all.
The way i look at it is most of my engines now almost new. I wouldn't like the previous owners bill though....£4341.28

[briskgava]

bludy hell mart thank god ive just had elenors cambelt replaced. so you rate skoda vrs then.
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[mattbeef]

mate there is so many different things in a car and they are mass produced so what do you expect in all honesty.

If all that work had been done under warranty then the garage will have had a good look round it so honestly your car will be fine

[martziniuk]

Originally Posted by briskgava

bludy hell mart thank god ive just had elenors cambelt replaced. so you rate skoda vrs then.
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I highly rate my vrs,If you get the belt done at the correct mileage/age then you will be ok.Unfortunately the previous owner never and paid the price,it was just out of warranty too...ouch

[Taxi 219]

"2 million taxi drivers have them"
We don,t drive VRs models(wish we could)LOL
All ours are diesels so yeah they are 100% reliable.It seems that more goes wrong with petrol models(just my thought maybe wrong).