Kaj

The front end is worse than the MkIII facelift. Only 30 mile range on electric power. Wouldn't be my £25K.

IMHO the face lift MKIII looks garbage! The lights are clumsy looking and the solid piece in the middle of the grille does nothing to improve it. The lines of the lights and grille look so much of an imbalance. The MKIII pre-face list vRS looks great from the front with the lines of the headlights flowing nicely into the grille but the face lift just looks like some f*****d up design proposal that unexplainably got signed off! If I was trading in I would go for the Superb Sportline which is the best looking saloon in the Skoda range. 280bhp & 4x4 is getting into Impreza territory (but with the price to match).

All the manufacturers are up to this trick now. Never tried the can of goo and compressor but I guess it's how severe the damage is. A full size 18" wheel & tyre fits in the wheel well. I just picked up a VW scissor jack to be safe.

When I look at the front of the FL MkIII it just looks so completely bad. Can't believe they would sign that off at the design stage. They have ruined the lines on the front of the car. Guess I will be keeping my MkIII for a little longer as I would never buy that model.

Shame on you! Some fat burd will have to walk 50yds to the shop.

Take up 2 spaces. There is always some **** that parks next to a cherished car. Don't know why car park lining is still based on Ford Anglia size cars. Just another general annoyance like the state of our 'roads'.

I have a Meteor Grey vRS and it's a very individual colour, however just like Subaru rally blue it's not long before they all start copying. Audi use it and Ford & Mini have similar grey colours in their range. Colour choices are not great IMHO. The problem is the 18" wheels/tyres are tooooooooooooo skinny. The Audi alloys would look superb on the vRS.

Buy a tin a panel wipe from your local automotive paint supplier. It will remove sticker adhesive in minutes and is not harmful to trim, paint etc.

Looks like a non-descript boring american saloon rather than a euro taxi! Subaru did the same with the Impreza, every facelift was more hideous and sales figures dropped. It's change for changes sake not to improve the model. Wish they would improve the narrow wheel/tyre stance on the vRS. Looks great on a photoshop brochure but in reality it's a different beast. Why does Skoda not put facelift mock-ups on owners forums like this and gauge what the reaction is? Owners forums are the perfect place to see what the paying owners are liking and disliking about their cars. Do the manufacturers read them? Who knows. Don't think I'll be changing my MKIII for this facelift any time soon.

Always said that a Superb estate would be the perfect hire car in the States for getting all your luggage in and 4 passengers with plenty of room. Would be streets ahead of the SUV type gas guzzling crap I've had on every holiday. One day the penny will drop.

My vRS has just touched 12K miles and is 2 yr old, however the OEM fitted Bridgestones are ALL showing small cracks on the shoulders. Due in for it's 2yr service this week so I will be raising the point. Wouldn't touch these tyres again. Continental every time. They always come out top in the EVO mag tyre tests.

I've fitted the Superskoda lifters and they work perfectly, however they don't come supplied with any washers so some s/steel penny washers for the wing bolts and 2 thin washers on each bonnet fitting do the job perfectly. I'll post up some photos. Bolt thread size are the same so they are relatively easy to install. £40 is good value as they look decent quality.

With VW diesels now becoming the devils chariot will this model be a viable launch? With the increased weight I would say that 184bhp is not enough to light the fire. A tuned tFSI would be a more desirable option but the price is creeping up & up toward £30K. Glad i bought a petrol vRS.

I asked the dealer in Glasgow where I bought my Vrs from to do this at the weekend when they were resetting the oil change warning. Over an hour later they came back saying that the couldn't do it as they used different software! Is this not standard VagCom software? I even took in a printout of what the required code setting is. They said they would have to charge me for it as they had never done it before. I said, don't bother. I'm not paying for incompetance and I'll go elsewhere. Surely this is an easy software change?

My Mk III is my third vRS Octy and I love it. Done 2K miles now and I think the engine is starting to loosen up a bit now. Really nice to drive and feels like a great quality car. Love the Meteor Grey colour and have yet to see another one on the road so they must be pretty rare. Lots of hatchbacks, however! Still think the 18" wheels are too weedy for the body though.