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Got to agree. I'm coming up to a month of owning mine and my wife loves the DSG gearbox, as do I. It is so smooth (if you drive it right) although the only time I've felt it shunt a bit is moving from D to R and then pressing the accelerator (probably a bit too hard!).

According to page 34 of the brochure that I've got, HHC (Hill Hold Control) comes as part of the ESP package. ESP is fitted to the vRS, however it's not mentioned as a specific within the brochure for the vRS. My DSG vRS does hold on gentle hills but not on steeper ones. HHC is only mentioned in one place in the brochure, and that's in the glossary at the end, oddly.

If it's second hand then make sure you give it a good test drive. Another topic on here is about someone who has picked one up and the DSG is faulty which is giving a less than smooth ride. I've had my new vRS DSG diesel for just under 3 weeks and absolutely love it. They are fantastic cars and I'm sure you'l love it too! Here's the other topic: http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/250898-dsg-problem-on-octavia-ii/

I'd agree with what's been written here on the normal operation of a DSG. I've had mine for nearly 3 weeks now and have not experienced any of the same problems that you've described. Get it back to them and don't let them fob you off with any excuses. Something's wrong and they need to fix it.

Thanks swany. The DRLs dimming made sense, it was just the fact that no other front lights came on as well, but as long as it's normal, I'm happy!

Hi all, silly question time again. I've noticed on my vRS that the sidelights don't appear to do anything. Is this normal? When the switch is set to no lights, the DRLs are bright. When I switch to sidelights, the DRLs dim, but no additional lights come on at the front (obviously rear lights come on). Is this how they should work or is there something wrong? Thanks

All, just a quick one as I'm still getting used to my new car (so don't shout at me if I'm being daft or unrealistic). A very vague question to start and then I'll fill in some details. At what point, and under what circumstances should the TC kick in on my TDI vRS? The reason that I ask is that it's caught me out a couple of times in the 2 weeks that I've had the car. Latest time was this evening. Was at a set of lights. Dropped the DSG into Sport and put my foot down (admittedly fairly hard). TC kicked in as I was pulling away. Perhaps not unusual you say. The reasons that it caught me out were: 1) it was dry 2) I was on a piece of road that has had the high grip surface coating applied to it Prior to driving the vRS I wouldn't of expected the car to do this as I thought the TC was more for when the car was being thrown into corners and the wheels started to lose grip. I've also seen the TC light flash on on a dual carriageway when the car was in D4 gear and I accelerated to pull out and overtake. Road was wet but still didn't expect that much torque going through the wheels in 4th. As I say I might be being daft about it (and probably need to tame my driving down a bit!!) but thought I'd ask the question anyway! Thanks

I've got the Bolero unit in my nearly 2 week old vRS and that has a 6 disc multichanger built in. As well as the SD slot and Aux in.

I'm certainly not discounting it! Like I say I think I'll go with the factory fit tyres and see how they go. We also tend to have fairly mild winters, and I tend to avoid the B roads when the weather gets colder anyway (I'm fortunate that I can - the main roads are always a lot busier during the summer due to the close proximity to a big tourist attraction so B roads are a must then - obviously not so in the winter). I'll see how it goes, but thanks for the reply.

Yep I completely agree. People have to decide if it's the right strategy for them. For me I think the risk was quite well balanced against what I was getting out of it (the car). I'm happy enough that, even with the mileage, I will have the size of deposit that I want for my next car at the end of my PCP. It is another option, and obviously brings the monthly price of the car down compared to financing a loan on it to buy the car outright, but the cost of that lower price is the risk of the value of the car at the end of the term.

You beat me to it!! The balloon payment at the end of the term is a shade over £9k on my deal, but I don't intend to invoke that as I will be changing the car then anyway. I'm reckoning on about 50k on the clock when I hand the car back, and looking around now I know what a 3 year old vRS with that on it will cost (ok so it will be the previous version of the car by then) and so have worked the figures and it looked good enough for me to sign up. It's horses for courses and you need to look at what you're happy with, but the GFV wasn't a consideration in this one for me.

I've had my new Octy vRS DSG for just over a week now and love it. As some others have said, it's one of those things that you just have to take the plunge on when the timing is right for you. Yes there is a new model coming out next year, and so the MkII prices will start to drop, but if everyone always waited for the next big thing, nobody would ever buy anything. I absolutely love mine, and I can safely say it's the best car I've ever owned (as long as I haven't just jinxed it of course!). I'd say go for it, but look at either a long ownership or PCP (that's how I've got mine) as you get the guaranteed value, as previously mentioned. If your dealer is anything like mine, they will put you on the lowest mileage (5k), but the only time you pay mileage penalties is if you hand the car back at the end and walk away. If you P/X it (either with Skoda or anywhere else) then there is no penalty to pay, so you get lower monthly payments, and no restriction on mileage (although of course the higher mileage at the end of the contract will reduce the value of the car - may affect your next P/X value).

Thanks for all the replies. I don't necessarily want winter tyres, but I have been offered some, although not at a great price compared to new. It's not something I've put on a car before so thought I would gauge opinion. If many of you had come back and said "the vRS is a nightmare without them in the winter, too much torque, traction control stops you going anywhere" then I probably would have made them a necessity. Given that nobody has actually come out and said that then I might see how I get on. Living in the Midlands, we never seem to get the extremes of winter weather that the rest of the country gets (we'll often watch news articles of snow about 20 miles away but never get the worst of it ourselves), although we have had a couple of bad spells over the last couple of years (last year neither my wife nor I could get the 2.0 TDCi Focus Estate up the road to our house - it was parked round the corner overnight and collected the next morning when the roads were just wet rather than snowy). I guess my question was driven from the fact that I've never used them in the past, and I change my driving style to suit the conditions on the road at the time, and therefore wondered what people's experiences are. I can see that they reduce stopping distances and increase grip, as I expected, but haven't seen any points that make me think I absolutely have to spend the cash on them. Thanks again all.

Yeah that was my thinking. I live in the Midlands and we don't get snow on the ground for weeks at a time. We get the odd day here and there, maybe a few together and that's about it. Hmm, the decision doesn't get any easier!

Thanks Aspman. The other problem I have is storing them as I don't really have the room to, although if they do become a necessity then I'm sure I could find room somewhere.