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portland2000

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Well, with the arrival of the second small person, the missus chopped her S2000 in for a MkII Octy Petrol VRS Estate with flappy paddles just shy of 3 years back. It's been a great car - comfy, roomy for the kids, insane boot and somewhat chuckable, with respectable overtaking poke and even able to tow. We've also been lucky in that it's not been a major oil drinker.

 

Sadly, the time has come for a change. Next week, she's swapping out for a  TD Freelander 2. Will be slower, but have even more room and will tow easier (and more economically - mpg isn't pretty with the Octy when towing) and as we do live out in the boonies a bit and do pop to various parks and the like pretty often, the 4wd will come in handy here and there (we keep cheapie Ikea bathmats to hand for wet grass/mud traction at the moment. Although we've had no issues, there's a hint of nervousness about long term towing effects on the DSG (it had a tow bar when we bought it) plus brakes and tyres are coming up along with major service and MOT, so perfect time to change from our point of view. Backup car remains my Clio Trophy, pushing 100k (all our milage) not so good for towing (lots of torque, not much weight!) but insane throwability fround back roads and over the bumpy stuff.

 

Would like to thank people for help on various topics in the past few years, hopefully we've been able to put the odd useful insight on here too. Octy ownership would have been a lot more hassle without this place, where else will you get VAG coolant compatibility through the years, oil codes and general interesting chat? Pleasant to know that there's an owners forum that has very few (if any) trolls and malcontents, very nice place to browse and I'll continue to point people both to the brand and this forum.

 

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

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