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3-doors don't have a memory mechanism on the front seats so you need to reset the back rest recliner every time you have tipped them forward. The 5-door does not have drop glass on the rear doors, the glass just pops out on a hinge on the leading edge. If you are planning to carry back seat passengers regularly then the 5-door might be a better option for you. Being quite tall and having back problems I find the B-pillar quite intrusive on smaller 5-door cars and our Citigo is normally one or two up so I opted for a 3-door. Personally, I also prefer the look of the 3-door. The story from the supplying dealer was that my nearly-new low-mileage Elegance was traded in by the original owner for a 5-door because they found the 5-door more practical. Definitely a case of each to their own. I find the PID quite useful. My stand alone Garmin is a better sat-nav per-se but the PID does not have trailing cables and has a useful trip computer function. Fog lights on the Citigo are quite good (same lamp units as on the Scirocco and Amarok) but are hardly ever used. Heated seats and electric door mirrors on the Elegance are something I would not be without now. With cruise control and rear parking sensors it would be just about perfect.

Welcome! Look for: Poor radio reception (water damage to aerial base amplifier) Grumbling transmission Windscreen delamination (milky white around the edge of the glass) Don't fret too much about the 75PS motor. Both the 60 and the 75 have the same torque and the extra 15PS only comes on tap above 4,000rpm.

Just out of interest, were new Citigos supplied with 2 remote keyfobs in 2014? I bought my 2014 model used in 2015 and it came with one remote keyfob and a normal key.

56mm, AFAIK. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4x-new-genuine-OEM-Skoda-alloy-wheel-centre-caps-56mm-5JA601151-/122534338386?hash=item1c879d9f52:g:ZtgAAOSw2xRYlvP2

The door pulls in my 64 plate Elegance are brushed steel effect, not chrome. This seems to be the norm nowadays. If you can find an unregistered PID then you should be able register it with Garmin and purchase 2 years of map updates for £20. Doesn't have to be a Skoda branded PID, SEAT or VW will do. They will rebrand themselves when first connected to the car after a factory reset. Avod the early Navigon branded PIDs, they are painfully slow.

Very short primary exhaust runners are usually very bad for low end torque, which is a particular problem when you don't have forced induction to compensate. I don't think the CHY engine has variable valve timing either so can't help wondering if we are losing a useful chunk of torque in the quest for lower emissions. Also

The Garmin Fresh app provides a function to update the PID's own software but there haven't been any firmware updates for a while now so it could well be that your PID is up to date in this respect. Worth checking, nonetheless. I have never had Bluetooth issues with my phones but I have had issues with the PID failing to start up properly from cold and failure to charge the battery. Both were cured by performing a full factory reset using the Fresh app. You will lose all of your settings when you do a full reset so use Fresh to make a backup and restore after the reset. Even then there is the possibility that corrupted settings may be causing the weird behaviour so restoring them after a reset might just cause the problem to return.

Take a look at Honest John's Real MPG website, there are some real eye openers on there. Particularly the Fiesta 1.0 EcoBoost and the FIAT 500 TwinAir. The Citigo fares pretty well with 89% of the manufacturer's claimed MPG and the Porsche Cayman is pretty much spot on.

Gents, can we draw a line under this now, please? This thread has turned into a diatribe about supermarket brand premium fuels and as such is way off topic. None of this helps any current or potential new Citigo owners looking for wisdom on which engine to go for.

Impressive! What is the terrain like where you typically do your mileage? Is it fairly flat or hilly?

Not entirely correct. The wheelbase is the same so almost certainly no floorpan changes that affect the length of the car. The front bumper is larger to accommodate a larger cooling system for the TSI engine and this increases the overall length.

Pretty much same here. I was looking for a good, used Elegance 3-door and a Skoda dealer happened to have a very low mileage, 11-month old example that they needed to liquidate. As it happened the car was a 75PS GreenTech and it has rarely exceeded 4,000rpm in the almost two years that I have owned it.

Yep, made in the same factory as the Bentayga, Cayenne and Q7.

Mine sometimes takes a couple of attempts to select reverse when completely cold. No worse than some other cars that I have owned and certainly better than the 5-speed Getrag gearbox on the 2004 MINI Cooper that this Citigo replaced. Sure, "cheap and nasty" is somewhat subjective but the Up!/Mii/Citigo manual transmission is certainly not over-engineered. It is engineered for "lightness" weighing in at only 20kg (dry), I believe. I'm not convinced that VW have advanced much in this regard since the notorious gearbox woes that affected the 1.0L Polo 6N/Lupo/Arosa models. The issue that I do have with the Citigo is that it is often noisy when driving in reverse. Not the usual reverse gear whine - it sounds like either a driveshaft is catching on something or it is trying to jump out of mesh. I asked for this to be investigated and rectified at the last service but the response from the dealer was the usual "they all do that, Sir". Such a shame as for me it is the only significant issue that diminishes my respect and admiration for what is otherwise a remarkably good little car. If I keep the car beyond the expiration of the factory 3-year warranty then an aftermarket driveline warranty will be a must-have.

Do you ever exceed 4,000rpm? If not you are not getting the best out of your 75PS engine. The torque and power curves of the 60PS and 75PS engines are pretty much identical up to 4,000rpm.

That does not surprise me. The higher the boost pressure the more critical ignition timing becomes and consequently fuels with greater anti-knock properties are going to be more beneficial. I would expect to see more benefit in absolute terms from higher RON fuel in a Lancer Evo FQ400 than I would in a 122PS Golf 1.4TSI

Petrol engined cars have had knock sensors and adaptive ignition systems for years now. The ECU will constantly attempt to optimise the ignition timing so will certainly adapt itself after one fill up. I am surprised that you can tell the difference on a 75PS normally aspirated engine though. Turbocharged cars respond well to ignition timing optimisation and super unleaded can be worth about 10hp in a 200hp 2 litre turbocharged engine.

You need to get busy with the E-Sys coding cable and add individual tyre temperatures as well.

I have seen several reviews that suggest that the DSG is not a good pairing with the smaller engines. Having driven Leon Mk3s with the 1.8TSi and 1.2TSi engine paired with the same 7-speed DQ200 transmission I would say that with the 1.8 it is almost perfect but my experience with the 1.2 left much to be desired. If I had driven the 1.2 first I would almost certainly not have considered speccing my Leon 1.8 with DSG.

My dad's Polo got tapped by a delivery van that only just ran out of braking distance. No broken bracketry or splits/cracks in the bumper skin. The scrape on the paint was not huge after a bit of polishing but the bumper moulding was stretched and deformed in a way that could not be rectified. Cracked bumpers can be knitted back together with reinforcing mesh and advanced 2-part adhesive filler compounds or even plastic welded but it's fairly labour intensive. With the cost of a new bumper moulding coming in at less than £200 the overall cost of the repair would not be significantly cheaper but with potentially inferior results in the long term. I would insist upon a new bumper on a car that is still within the manufacturer's warranty period.

Replacing the rear bumper moulding on my Dad's Polo cost just under £500. I would budget for at least as much for your Citigo, possibly a little bit more as labour rates may be a little bit higher in your neck of the woods. New, unpainted bumper was £170, paint and materials was £105. You need to add labour and VAT to these prices.

My reference point is the current Polo GTI at £15.5K OTR with a realistic discount. I would fork out an extra £1K and have the DSG version.

Not at £17K it doesn't. That's Polo GTI money.

In that case you are definitely going to struggle with an off the shelf solution and TBH it is not going to look great poking out from under the lower edge of the bumper, the tailpipe would be practically scraping the floor.

Are you going to cut a hole in the rear bumper as well?