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I wish ! When you work all day and look after your young daughters in the evening (wife at work as soon as I get home), you get very little time on your hands. Appreciate you're only jesting =) I will try fuelly but putting the post on here in the first place took me longer than actually calculating it. Much as I love my Citigo, I went out in a work's pool car yesterday (Ford Focus) and it was nice to be able to accelerate away quickly.

No I am not using fuelly to monitor anything. Just keep records of it myself and calculate it.

Had my Citigo SE for a year now. Have faithfully kept all the petrol receipts and totted them up. My figures are :- 13,625 miles. Mpg of 59.6 Cost £1333 in fuel. plus £20 tax plus £150 insurance. plus £1452 in monthly payments and the deposit of course. In terms of running costs once bought, the monthly fuel saving over my old Seat Leon 1.6 pays at least half of the monthly payment on the 3 year finance plan. At 10 years old I was spending alot annually on the Seat for mechanical repairs and upkeep. The Citigo has made the exact same typical weekly journeys to and from work with some minor use at the weekend i.e. circa 50% motorway; 40% country road; 10% town driving, which is reflected in the Mpg. The Mpg has steadily increased throughout the year as follows :- @ 3 months / 3450 miles - 52.9 mpg to date @ 5 months / 5958 miles - 55.46 mpg to date @ 7 months / 8103 miles - 56.86 mpg to date @ 12 months / 13,625 miles - 59.6 mpg to date. Overall I am well happy with the economy although have to say I drive in an economical way. Thought this might be interest.

I found the sales dept at Blade Skoda terrible. The service side are fine.

Would appreciate help in where to easily purchase engine coolant for the Citigo. The manual of course says it has to be the type that is marked on the reservoir, which is G13. Pink colour. Thanks

Result !

Hi Owens. It would be nice if I had cruise control but I don't (standard SE). I've just taken a look for the first time and the 'switch' is just a tiny (3cm or so) piece of blue plastic that sits neatly right at the top of the clutch pedal stalk. You have to literally shove your head right down in the footwell and shine a torch up and you can just see it. There isn't one on the brake pedal stalk.

It is a complete load of tosh, you're right.

I've had my Citigo SE for almost a year now and done virtually 14k miles. The clicking kicked in permanently at 2k miles. I have reported to the dealership (Blade in Gloucester) and to Skoda UK. The responses consisted of variations on the same general platitudes that others on this forum have received :- - "its a characteristic". - but despite the above the issue is "under investigation". - "unable to do anything about it". - "it's a feature of the model". - "it's not a safety issue". Then a new unexpected opinion was provided when I took my car into Blade for its first service. The technician came out to greet me and said he knew what it was and he would show me. He said it was a fuel saving feature and if I looked down in the drivers side footwell (behind and just above the pedals) I would see a blue lever which moves with each clutch press/release. Depress the clutch and it cuts off fuel to the engine. Release and the opposite happens. Sounded to me like he was describing something similar to stop/start (I know very little about car mechanics) but my car is not the Greentech. When I asked how many other Citigos he had seen with this "characteristic" (not his quote") he said "one". So why did my car have this amazing blue lever ? He did not know but he was "99.9%" certain that was what was causing the noise. He was on his hands and knees demonstrating this by pushing the clutch up and down with one hand and touching the blue lever with the other. Why did I only start to get the noise after 2k miles ? He did not know. Lovely bloke but none of it stacked up for me. My invoice states "Checked for clutch clicking and found to be Clutch Switch". Case not closed for me and I will raise it as an issue at every service but continue to live with it. On every other count (bar a jarring noise from rear seat if you go over a bump, where it connects into the metal bar - resolved if you put the rear seats down) I love the car !

Apparently Skoda Assist in now in partnership with the AA, not RAC. I rang the number on a leaflet I had from Skoda/RAC re: adding another car to Skoda Assist at a 50% discount on the 2nd car and they told me it is no longer available as they now provide breakdown via the AA. Not a problem but it would have been nice to have been informed. They offered to put me through to Skoda Customer Services and they said there was no need to advise those on Skoda Assist as nothing had essentially changed (contact number etc)but still seems to me the professional thing would be to let people know of the change in writing and of those offers that are no longer applicable because of the change.

You'll get used to the parcel shelf and after a while you automatically remember to put it down after you've used the boot. It does hum along well on the motorway doesn't it. Enjoy your new car !

Very smart. Bet you keep looking back at it as you walk away ?

Most definitely go to your dealer Owens and don't leave until they have told you why you haven't got the clutch click and added it to your vehicles repertoire of noises. Or better still write to Skoda UK and state your case clearly, that you are feeling short-changed without this essential characteristic ! :'(

I get it regularly and have hsd it since picking up car from new (done over 7000 miles now). Rather like the sound actually. Citigo has many characteristic little sounds including the faint whistle. Don't believe however that the Citigo 'Clutch Click' is a feature of the model, as SkodaUK continue to claim. I raised the issue of mine earlier this week (just to log it with them really) and got the standard blurb ....... Not a safety issue and a feature of the vehicle, so nothing they can do. So a clutch pedal that creaks/jumps back against your foot and feels like its on a car that's done 150k miles is apparently an inherent feature of ALL Citigos from NEW ...... utter tosh ! Despite above the Citigo is a beaut ..... Enjoy your car !!!

82 mpg. Impressive ! Achievable if over the 15 mile journey you spend most of it on an A-road/motorway but travelling along at a steady 50-55mph.