Hello all
I am new to the forum, I own a Skoda Fabia TSi estate 2010 with the DSG gearbox, I have owned the car for about a month so far, its got full service history 49.000 miles on the clock, it drives lovely! I did pay over the going price for it, on account for the such nice condition the car is in, and ha ha, its bright red paintwork , before I bought this Skoda , I test drove two Honda jazzes and two Honda civics , they all had around 20000 miles on their clocks, so they weren't what I would call worn out clunkers , because of the low mileage I cover in a year, and a cousin in the second hand van sales business, I have owned a lot of worn out clunkers that I never give more that 1200 hundred quid for, The Hondas I drove were priced at around the £6 £7000 mark , all had horrid steering, notchy and heavy, I was told by various people that this is the nature of these cars , Before I got the Skoda , I had one of the Jazzes for around a month, I got fed up with looking for a car , so I bought one of the Honda jazzes that I test drove, from a car dealership, Nice car real good condition , but I couldn't get used to the feel of that dodgy steering problem these cars seem to have , So I returned back to the car sales I bought it from, to have a look around, and just came in the day before was this Bright red Skoda Fabia TSi Estate, which the salesman made a point that the car has has a new timing chain fitted with the last full service, a year ago.
But now having been reading various articles and post on these forums, I am starting to think that my Skoda Fabia is a ticking time bomb so to speak, these cars are plagued with potential gearbox repairs costing over a thousands of pounds to put right , The other problem was the timing chain crashing your engine , got to mess around with the DSG gearbox oil , people on this forum seem to be obsessed with manufacturer recalls , trashing post about how bad the Skoda company looks after their customers.
So, like I stated in the heading of this post , is my buyers remorse justified , will I put my key in the ignition and Bang! that's the end of that, 49000 miles on the clock, which I think is quite low mileage nowadays , should be good for over double that, but some forum members seem to think makes no difference, these cars don't just gracefully wear out , they just stop working at any time, and you have to bribe them with high cost garage bills and repairs with high value parts and faults
Thanks
lee