Alastair84

Oops please can move to octavia mk4 forums thanks

Hello all. New to the forum and new to skoda. I've just upgraded my car that I had since 2017 which was a 2002 1.8 vauxhall astra Sri 16v petrol manual. To this, a 2021 octavia Estate 1.5 petrol manual. Let's just say these past few days since owning it has been mind blowing......the 6 gears...(i only had 5 before).... The resulting fuel economy, the infotainment system, having a turbo wow, and almost everything controlled and automated by the computer..... - and I thought my astras cruise control was clever - coming from a vauxhall nova with manual choke (but that's a different story). Anyhow I did notice handling and the feel of going round corners worse....the car is stock with 16 inch wheels.... Should I buy 17 inch or even 18 inch wheels to improve this? I haven't messed around with the ride settings yet I don't even know what mode it's in currently. I could literally feel everything on the steering wheel even going over a stone on the ground I could detect this on my astra.... But now with the skoda it feels as if I'm just using an arcade machine steering wheel..... Thanks in advance cheers