Sixty7

Well yesterday was a sad day as we said our good bye's to the little Monty.....was a great nearly 3yrs...(turned me into a loonie again...lol) of fun in a great little car......but we have been fancying a different brand, so here's our 16 plate Volvo V40 R Design, in the best colour Rebel blue (or unofficially Polestar Blue)..... :sun:

Hi there does anyone know how the arch extensions are secured to the front bumper on the Monte Carlo, as I have scraped mine.....

We had to fit 120% brighter bulbs in our monte 2 weeks after taking delivery of it mk2 monte, there's loads of threads on the subject even when they are on high beam, so was just wondering if the new montes were the same

In what way, well let's see, the headlights on the original montes were how can I put this.....****e so I'm probably asking are they still ****e....???

Got a question for the new monte owners.......are the headights any better than the older montes...????? honest answers please....

For me and the mrs it's like skoda have dumbed down the outside (when compared to the mk2 monte) and gone nuts on the inside.....I can't get by the interior (it's bloody horrible..lol blackpool deckchair springs to mind......no offence to anyone who owns one or have just ordered one.) maybe we wil have a look at a se with a style pack (monte almost).....I've had lot of fun in our monte....driving on the back roads, it's a great little car and will be a tough act to follow....(not comparing it to a vrs) and the new monte.....well....someone said to me it might grow on u in time....but it's a long time 3 yrs to let something grow on u that u are not too keen on in the beginning.....we both like the look of the rapid sb se sport (I'll use the sport bit loosely...lol) looks lovely in the rallye green with the black accents and lovely interior as well.....will have to get a test drive and take it from there.....

If ur on about boot space it appears the spaceback has a bigger boot than the sportback.....audi has 380litres and the skoda has 415litres....I couldn't care less how sporty a car is suppose to be......it's not need in my life as I have a 1400cc motorcycle.....I was just saying for the money ur getting more car for ur money than the new monte.....as even our local dealer is saying it's over priced for wot it is......a fabia with a fancy dress....

Ahhh wrong rapid....it's the spaceback se sport we are looking at.....1.6 tdi as well.....the non spaceback does bugger all for me or the mrs....I'm guessing that the spaceback is based on a audi a3..????

No it's not sporty in nature......but does look sporty which is good enough for me....(biker... ) but the rapid sport is more car for less money....when compared to the monte tdi we'd need to replace ours mk2 monte tdi.....the mk3 monte is pants.....we looked at the fabia se estate.....but it still didn't workout for us that and the mrs fancied the rallye green rapid sport that was in the showroom......lol

Went to see the new monte a week ago.......well what a waste of my time......we have the older monte.....and can honestly say it's a better car......more aggressive looks and with a nicer more subdued interior....(wtf were skoda smoking when they did the new one)....also it's not cheap....don't think it's worth the extra cash......so we are going down the route of the Rapid spaceback se sport......rant over......

WTF have they done to the interior.......looks like a blackpool deckchair....lol and the price hike.....for the 105 tdi in one of the metallic colours is almost £19k.....for a fooking fabia.....ffs we got the 105 tdi in the older car and that was £15.5 a yr n half ago.....my mrs tried to tell me that, that's inflation....sorry skoda we won't be buying another monte from u.......fooking rip off....!!!!

Hows the red interior going to work if u buy a green monte......it could maybe work with say blue....but would rather have another choice.....come on skoda get ur act together,,,,,

I like it although I'd like it even more if it was in that funky blue like on the new fabia advert....

Just a bit of a update since adjusting the seat height the seat no longer creaks and we have done a couple hundred miles since we did this so happy days.....

No more creaks all quiet.....

No our's aren't heated

Any news on this..????

I tried this earlier on before I read ur post and there seems to be some truth in this as on the lowest position the seat belt section attached to the floor does sit very close if not touching when the seat is in it's lowest setting so I have raised it a little and all seems quiet so far but I will monitor it, even after it comes back from the dealership as the mrs wants it checked out.....

As the title states we have a 2014 monte carlo tdi and just before crimbo it went in for it's first service just a little background cars done 10,400miles and since we've had it back it's developed a creaking drivers seat my question is do they for any reason remove the drivers seat during the service only ask as it didn't have this problem before the service......anyone else have a creaking drivers seat..????

Here's ours up at Inverary on crimbo day (MC TDi)

Yep the monte horn is sh1te.....

I've lifted the beams slightly and they are a bit better but I have notice that the headlights are very focused on the curbs and even when on high beam they are not exactly giving me good distance (so not giving me full confidence when driving at night) has anyone else noticed this.....I think I'm going to change over to night breakers

That's the exact sound

Our monte seats have given a little over the 10k we've put into the car and I'm a fairly big chap.....

I got a slight knock when going over uneven roads only mine is on the left rear area, the car was in getting it's 10k service 9 days ago and the sound wasn't there before it went in....lol the only thing they did was swap the front and rear wheels around......mmmmmm