AlwynMike

Do they have different size wheels front/rear? - plenty with different sized tyres front/rear though. In this case the front and rear have the same circumference (or "rolling radius"), so a spare wheel can be used either end. A lot of cars with chocolate button space savers which are a different size again to the wheels/tyres on the rest of the car. Indeed, just look close to home, with the vRS "full size" spare - that actually isn't. It is a 15" wheel and tyre set-up - with a tyre that isn't even the same MAKE as those on the rest of the car! The BMW 5 series (E60/61) - the first one to have runflat tyres, but still had a spare wheel well. It came with any number of wheel size options from 16" to 19", but there was only one spare wheel for the whole range - a 17" chocolate button one. Call me old fashioned if you like, but a spare wheel is a must for me. Mike

I'll see what the Dealer comes back with. I would have expected that when it says in the Fabia brochure that front fogs are standard, then it would have them fitted. Perhaps a little naiive of me to think that what is written in the brochure may actually be true From your picture George, my lights seem to be a bit different - the blue bulb is central to the non-lens on the inside - yours seems to be up to one side, but maybe its the camera angle. Mike

Picked up the new vRS last night - so far SWMBO seems pleased with it. Questions that may have been answered before: Fog lights. In the brochure, it says that front fog lights are standard on the vRS. Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to be the case on our car - there's no switch, and indeed no fog lights, as they are the DRL's. Dealership salesmen are scratching thier collective heads about this one, and are calling Skoda about it. Blue lights. I know that the vRS headlights are different to the rest. They have projector lights, but there are also what look like blue bulbs inboard of the headlights too. Anyone know what these are for? Anyone know how you turn them on? Thanks Mike

Official Briskoda Fabia II vRS Register Date of registration: 5th June 2013 Colour: Corrida Red Options fitted: Black Roof and wheels. Climate. Heated seats. Reverse Sensors. The All-Important Glasses Holder! Photo

And it's here - or it was! She's filled it up with petrol and she's away with it. I expect she'll be back when it's empty!!

But maybe first week in June after all. Got a call yesterday to say car had arrived at Dealership. Needs PDI but hoping to pick it up thursday if it's ready SWMBO is excited!

Don't want to take the shine off the Ibiza, but the ride on 17's is utter, utter garbage, particularly on urban roads. Just sold ours - for a smooth riding vRS!!

So much for the first week in June Latest from $tealer is week beginning 10th June. Ho Hum

Got an e-mail from the $tealers this afternoon: Build week 20 Delivery 1st week June Still Hopeful?!?!?

I have a white car. A pig to keep looking clean. For a Monte? Yellow all the way. Stunning looking.

Ordered mid-February. Delivery approx 12 weeks Skoda Factory "accepted" the order 3rd March. According to the dealer, no build week yet - will update us towards the end of the month, but says delivery in May. Hopeful?!?!?

The wife tested a new 125bhp Fiesta S Ecoboost, just after testing a 105bhp Monte. She preferred the Monte dynamically. She said it was (seat of the pants dyno) sluggish compared to the Monte. Hence the vRS order, rather than one of Henry's. Don't really know how I got to order the vRS instead of the Monte. Mike

I can always get another wife (why!?!?!??) I can always have more kids (if I had the surgery reversed). Again, why?!?!?!? I can get another car, or bike Getting another mutt like mine? Impossible

Am I the only one out of step here?? My dog, of course

Try Chris at CMWheels or Mark at BMAutosport. They have both been very helpful to me on the search for wheels on another car. I'll be going down to 16's for next winter Mike

If you like that sort of thing, buy a new one, in green, with all the extra's, then spend a few hundred on a wrap to get the visuals. And still have a lot of change from that asking price - and a new car too Mike

Yes, I'd seen that one previously. Tyres make a big difference off road!!! Be warned - green laning is not like riding on the road. You WILL fall off FREQUENTLY at first. I started with a couple of green laning novices. One was a VERY accomplished road rider and car racer. He still falls off more often than the rest of us, but maybe he's just a little too competitive. In 2 years of falling off, our crowd have suffered no injury worse than muddy humiliation, and I have had some spectacular falls. A couple of weeks ago we had a green lane Newbie with us - and he had a history of motocrossing. He didn't manage much more than half a mile at a time without being spat off. After a morning of this, he calmed down and started enjoying himself. On top of this, you can get a decent bike for 2 grand to do it on - because it will get scratched. There's a good bunch of lads doing it - regardless of ability (and I'm crpa!). The quick lads will wait for the slower ones, or just do the trail twice. Tremendous fun Mike

Born Again Biker, me. Not a patch on some of the lovely metal in the previous 30 pages, but I love to ride this thing! Started out on a Honda PC50, when the world was still in black-and-white. "Progressed" to more powerful machines (there weren't any LESS powerful!!), ending with a '78 GS1000 Suzuki, which I still have in the back of a garage somewhere. A couple of years ago, some guys from work asked me if I wanted to go to Spain on an off-roading weekend. Answer: YES. Thinks: Haven't ridden a bike in 30 years. Out came the MCN and I bought the little Honda. Road legal Motocrosser - and doesn't it show it's pedigree at times! Got in some Green Laning practice in Wales and South Shropshire with some TRF guys. Thought I'd sell the bike after the Spanish trip, but NO WAY. So much fun to ride, and you're not going too fast. No lorries or lampposts, just the odd sheep and barbed wire. So now I'm not a fair weather biker like I used to be. I love the mud and slippy stuff, and even a bit of snow and ice occasionally. The bike is far better than I'll ever be, and it red-lines at 70 in top, power wheelies in the first 3 gears, even with fat bloke on it A full days off-roading - about 150 miles - on less than a tenner's worth of petrol. Cheap thrills indeed. And yes, this is a fully legal road! Mike

Twin of one I've ordered for the OH. Nice plate!! Don't like the wheels though, or rather the shiny bit round the rim. Told my dealer to replace the ones on my car when it comes, for the Monte Carlo ones - don't know if he will though! Mike

. . . Not forgetting the squirt of Tomato Ketchup in one of his meals - stops the wee burning the grass!!

Took the plunge last week and ordered a Fabia vRS for the Good Lady. She's currently in a 1.4 Ibiza, which, even at her driving speeds, is sluggish. Very sluggish. I was loooking for economy (she does mostly short runs, so Dirty Diesel is out), with more poke than the Ibiza. A nice-to-have would have been an Auto box. She MUST have heated seats, and has been spoiled in the past with other toys that she doesn't want to give up. Her Ibiza is a Sport, with optional 17" wheels, so it corners well, but the ride is awful. No, worse than awful. She liked the 105bhp Monte, but no Auto available, and we thought the other models rolled more than she liked - and she prefers the sports seats. So, decisions - Monte, with adequate performace. No Auto. 17" wheels for worse ride, and worse snow grip. vRS with more performance than she'll ever use, thirstier, big wheels. Elegance for economy, Auto, winter grip, but not as good round the twisties. Ibiza FR - good performace, but too like her current car Polo - seats not good for her back (she is VERY fussy about seats!) Jazz - good on most counts, but slow. Corsa - seats again New Fiesta - on paper, ticks most of the boxes - 125bhp from a 1 litre, but her seat-of-the-pants dyno declared it sluggish too. So with heart ruling head (again), a red Fabia vRS was ordered from Faintree Telford. Said a 12 week wait for it (her extra's again!), so she's looking forward to that. Only thing is - what on earth does she get in 3 years time?!?!?!? Especially when I may not have as much money then as I have at the moment . . . Mike