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'Little' John

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  2. I got a quote off them last year when I was getting rid of my vRS. For a mint condition SE they were prepared to offer £6500 (before admin fees and haggling you down once you get there). For comparison my local Mazda dealer offered my £6,500 in part ex, and the place I actually got my new car only gave me £6,000 (but a much better deal overall). It depends on what you want. I reckon that it may be one of the best ways to get a good deal on a new car. If you sell them your old car and trawl the internet for the best price on a new one you will get a better deal than having a part exchange. On the other hand if you love that hassle associated with selling your car privately, nobody's stopping you....
  3. Leaky doors, prematurely wearing suspension parts, terrible dealer service... ...need I say more.
  4. I e-mailed yesterday evening after getting home to say I was going to take today off as holiday as I felt the roads were too dangerous. Got a reply this morning telling me that I needed to get in. If it was going to be a problem get a lift with a colleague (didn't read the e-mail till gone nine so there wouldn't have been anyone to contact anyway). Like getting killed in someone elses car makes it any better. 'Phoned up work to check if it was really necessary and got told that if I had made it home before 11.00pm the night before the roads couldn't be that bad! Drove on slush at temperatures of -11C to get to work. Okay, the roads were actually better than I expected them to be, but surely this is irresponsible...
  5. I thought the ood were a race of mythical beings from Dr Who...
  6. Depends how you are going to use the car. I'm 6'5" and in normal everyday use I didn't have a problem. The two types of driving that do give problems: i) Rear seat passengers. They do tend to moan. I did manage to trap one in totally with their feet stuck under the drivers seat... ii) Carrying large amounts in the boot. If you just drop the seat backs they don't lie flat. If you flip the seat bases to get a flat load area you can't have the drivers seat very far back and end up driving with your knees around your ears.
  7. £150 sounds a bit steep, but it depends on the service. They seem to alternate minor and major. I think I paid about £80-£90 for some of my services, and about £120-£130 for the others.
  8. It does seem a bit hit and miss. I've just got rid of a 2007 vRS with a BLT engine (obviously) and the tax on that was £110 - according to the registration document the emissions are 140g/km.
  9. I'm SAD too! My figures would pretty much agree with yours, although I did manage to to 60mpg on one particularly boring journey from Yorkshire to Surrey and back! Over three years and 32K miles I averaged 49.7mpg before getting rid of the car.
  10. Do a search - you'll find that it doesn't! Hence the restriction on using calculated figures.
  11. To settle a raging argument going on in another thread, could we have a poll of the real economy that Fabia vRS drivers are getting. The figure that we are interested in is the calculated economy not any taken from the trip computer.
  12. I think it's to do with the way that the engine picks up. As far as I know there seemed to be issues with not pulling well when people wanted to speed up to overtake but couldn't be bothered to use the gearbox. Skoda felt this didn't fit in with the 'sporty' character of the car and packed the gear ratios closer together so that it revved higher which means it's in a better place in the powerband at that sort of speed. It probably also helps the 0-60 time marginally. There's not a massive difference - I think you're looking at about 200-300 rpm at seventy in 6th. However, that is enough to have a negative effect on your economy.
  13. They all have six speed boxes, but the earlier one's have longer gear ratios which mean they rev lower at a given speed. I don't know exactly when they changed them, but I'm sure somebody will be along to tell you soon.
  14. Haven't done enough miles to do a calculated figure yet, but the figures on paper compare favourably with the Fabia. Mixed driving over the moors to Whitby on saturday and back via the coast road gave a trip computer figure of 55.8mpg, which if accurate is probably better than the Furby would have done on the same run driven in the same way. It probably helps that it has a sensible gearbox unlike the later vRSs. Revs at slightly less than 2000rpm at 70mph in 6th. Anyway I'm not expecting the same level of economy in a car which has twice the space of the Fabia and 180bhp as standard.
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