[Couple Of Questions Before I Place My Order...]

Think the elegance comes with 16" wheels anyway.

[Couple Of Questions Before I Place My Order...]

Ok, cheers. Think I'll probably leave the front parking sensors and save myself the money.

Any views on the 1.4 vs 1.8 question?

Cheers.

[Couple Of Questions Before I Place My Order...]

Looking to buy a 1.4 TSI Elegance but have a couple of questions before I place the order. I'm putting options down as ESP, audio steering wheel with maxidot and steel spare. Wondering is the tyre pressure monitor worth the money or just another gadget? Does this mean that I then have to get tyres only changed at approved Skoda places in the future or will the old ATS still be able to change them?

Also, wondering about front parking sensors... My wife has a scout with rear sensors and I find them invaluable. Now I have the choice of specifying front sensors I wonder if I will actually find them useful, or if I can probably cope with knowing where the front of the car is!

Finally, I was also planning on getting the 1.8TSI until I test drove the 1.4TSI (my local dealer only has the 1.4 to test drive) - is it worth me trying to find a 1.8 to test drive or is it just overkill? The 1.4 is a cracking engine and I found it had plenty of poke (bearing in mind my current car is a 2.0TDCI focus). Anyone got the 1.8? Whats the view on it? What sort of mpg do you get?

Cheers all.

[Isofix locking eyes/funnels]

Thanks for the replies guys. That's kind of what I thought but I just thought I would check. I think we're going to purchase the Sunshine Kids grip cover and see if it makes any difference. Either way we're going to want some kind of cover on the seat so its not a wasted purchase. As it was all the indicators on the seat and base were green so there shouldn't really be a problem. I wonder if I just needed to be a bit more brutal with the base when putting it in to make sure it was as snug as possible.

I found the Recaro seats on line, but can't find a shop that sells them as they look to be a good option. I'll do a bit more digging as we might find that they have a better fit.

Cheers.

[Isofix locking eyes/funnels]

We have a baby on the way and so went to buy our baby seat today. We have a Octavia Scout with isofix so were looking at the Maxi-Cosi isofix base. It all fitted without problems but there was a lot of side to side movement in the seat. We tried the Britax base as well and had the same problem. Trying this on another cars seat in the shop didn't have this problem. I checked the Skoda manual and it mentioned you need to fit some "mounting funnels" on to the locking eye's (ie the actual isofix rings) before connecting the seat base (see ?koda Auto - The new ?koda Octavia Combi - Documentation for the page).

Are these something that should be included with the seat or with the car? Am I missing something obvious here? Anyone else noticed any problems with side to side movement of an isofix base? All the green indicators say that the base is fitted in place properly, but we had a good go at trying to lock it tighter on to the car seat but we still had the movement. Now we don't know whether to persist with the isofix base or look for a normal seat belt base.

Thanks in advance.