Loopylil

Hi, welcome to the Forum, i too am a fisherman (sea) and i carry both my rods 13ft 6 ins long in a rod holdall plus a 6ft tripod in my 2013 octavia estate, i push down the ski/armrest and shove them through until resting on the front armrest then shut down the tailgate and push the rods back till they touch the inner tailgate, takes my four rods in equal halves in a daiwa holdall without a problem, hope this helps.

17" Teron from the elegance look good without going over the top.

Probably more unusual not to have it on used VW based vehicles (lol)🙂

Winter normally hammers batteries,with the constant use of lights,heater,wipers and so on especially as already said doing short journeys and this has been a long winter,my 2013 Elegance is still on it`s original battery but by saying this will probably give it the kiss of death...

A lot of the "stealers" take them out and sell them on E bay too.

My heated leather (Elegance) are starting to give way after 124000 mls but maybe it`s because i`m a big fat 😟🙁🙄😮🙂😀.

Skoda indie told me 5 years or 100000 as the water pump normally goes first,mine went about 96000 if i remember right.

I`m colour blind they all look silver to me.....

Similar happened to me on both my mk2 and mk 3 manual diesel,turned out to be the master cylinder,new kit/cylinder solved it but both happened after quite a high mileage.

Strangely my previous octavia had an advisory for 2 years running for a "misting" shocker which on the 3rd year test seemed to have cured it`s self,my current octavia 2013 with 120000 has now had it`s second MOT with the same problem and i`m wondering (hoping!!) if the same thing will happen,does lightning strike twice...watch this space.

I was taught always lock handbrake before deselecting gear just in case....

I think only the elegance and l&K had them as standard,not sure about the later sel.

Perhaps the sales manager should use it as a personal company car for driving his family around,maybe his attitude may change......

Strange not doing the water pump at the same time normally standard fare for VAG belt change at mileage.

2013 2.0 tdi Elegance 118000,few rattles and groans but i`ve always been like that 😀