Tacopowell

So I’m currently in the market for a new car and really keen on a Skoda, need something with space, and the Octavia crops up loads as a recommendation in my budget of around £3k, I live in deepest darkest mid wales and as you can imagine there’s not much choice, that is until now, spotted This Mk2 1.8tsi 4x4 I have two concerns, the work done on a notoriously (is that bad of an issue?) problematic engine, clearly spent the money to make good a wrong, move messaged the guy asking for more details on the what’s and whys. my other concern is the potentially low MPG, I was hoping to get above a 50mpg average of a week that comprises of mostly short school runs of 10 miles round trip and work which can vary from 10-40 miles, this car on paper ticks many of my boxes bar the low mpg but in reality is the previous work a huge red flag or actually a green flag, are the original engine problems likely to reoccur? would you consider it or not? the way I see it is a car at this budget is almost certainly going to have problems along the way… talk to me you beautiful Skoda lickers 👅