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mondy1975

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  1. I'd take it back to whoever did the repair at first - it should have been put back to the condition that it was in before, i.e. with the the boot light working properly. It sounds like they might not have plugged a connector plug all the way in, meaning that the connection is intermittent. Not sure where the connectors are though (and I can't check for you as I haven't had mine for three years, I still miss it!)
  2. I sold my silver 04 Octy vRS with 120k on about six months ago. I was the third owner, it had full service history, an enormous file full of receipts, had options of electric sunroof, parking sensors and cruise control. I'd spent an absolute fortune on it in the six months that I owned it, it had new discs and pads all round, timing belt and waterpump done, air con regassed, new cv joint, new alloy wheel badges, new rear wiper motor, a set of (very rare) genuine Skoda plastic sill covers added, genuine Skoda boot net added, boot wiring sorted so that the boot light came on, gear linkage realigned, coolant changed, brake fluid changed and a full service. It was a proper sorted car by the time I'd done with it and it drove better than some with half the miles on - it felt like it would go on forever. The interior was in really good shape and it was in decent nick on the outside too, with just a bit of surface rust starting at the bottom of the arches. Wheels were in decent nick too. I put it up for a quick sale on here for £1700 after asking people on here for their opinion of its value and sold it to a guy on here for around £1625 with a full tank of super unleaded and six months tax if I remember rightly. They ain't worth much now unless they're absolutely mint with low mileage.
  3. Nice one and just in time too - I was starting to justify reasons for buying it myself!
  4. Might be worth advertising it on the Ford forums, it's the sort of thing that they might be interested in. Could be worth trying to get hold of the missing wheelnut cover and front towing eye cover then retake the pictures. It's the sort of thing that wouldn't put me off, but it might do others.
  5. This it? http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201403272856341/ If so, looks tidy, just needs the wheel centre covers and front towing eye cover. Not that people can complain at that price - it's the third cheapest Escort of any kind on Autotrader. Amusing (and refreshing) to see one with the original style pea shooter exhaust!
  6. Looks nice - I do like silver! A good, honest advert too, which is always a good sign. Enjoy it! Really good price too.
  7. Cruise control is the easiest thing on the list to retro-fit (and quite cheap ), so I wouldn't worry about whether any cars you look at have it or not as you can always add it. You might be better contacting a firm that fits aftermarket seat heating to see if they could connect up their kits to the OEM Skoda switches, most car alarm / car stereo places now do aftermarket heated seats and will have more experience in wiring than most mechanics (as mechanics normally hate wiring and contract such work out a lot of the time). One other modification that I'd be tempted to do to a vRS if I had one is to fit the electric rear windows from an Elegance model in the breakers yard. You'd need to find an Elegance with black trim and also fit a blanking plate to the hole where the window winder had been.
  8. Heated seats are very rare on the vRS - I've only seen a couple with them. Madness when you consider how cheap an option they were when new.
  9. Cruise control - about £200-£230 (details further back in the thread) Heated seats - would be easier (and possibly cheaper) to get a new aftermarket kit fitted, would cost around £400-£500. Trouble is, it wouldn't have the Skoda switches. Alternatively, you could scour the scrapyards for a facelift Elegance, which had heated seats as standard, and strip out the heated panels, wiring, switches etc. Parking sensors - aftermarket ones around £250 fitted and colour coded. Xenon lights and washers - would mean getting them from a breakers yard and may be a sod to do. New parts would be astronomical. You could always upgrade the bulbs in the standard headlights if you're unhappy with them. You can get Osram Night Breakers for about £16 and they're brilliant. There's also a Philips equivalent that people on here like. Leather re-trim - around £850-£1000 including the doorcards. Electric sunroof - would have to be aftermarket and would be at least £600. Better to either wait until a better specified one comes up, or bite the bullet and pay the extra for an SE. It will always be easier to sell though and be worth more than a normal vRS. Alternatively, you could get one that's already got the factory Xenon option (which would be the hardest option to retrofit) and just add the extras you want, eg cruise control and parking sensors would cost around £450. Trouble is, adding options won't increase its value, just its desirability; whereas an SE will hold its value because the fancy bits were a standard feature and thus the car's value is a known quantity.
  10. Imagine what they'd be like if you had a problem with it then! A vRS with that specification should have shifted quickly - the fact that it hasn't says it all, sadly.
  11. The cage sits right at the front of the stereo, so it sounds like it's catching on something as you push it in. Make sure you pull the cables through the cage before slotting the cage in, so they don't catch on the cage and stop it going in.
  12. Go for Alpine or Pioneer. Just comes down to what features you want then. Driveless ones don't have a CD player - beware! (if you're an old fogey like me that still uses CDs, that is).
  13. Looks similar to the single DIN Pioneer that I had, It had a very impressive sound quality and features galore. I reckon you'll be happy with it! Would be a great base to build a full-on upgraded system on too.
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