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Just a little update, after much chasing, stamping of feet, throwing toys around my room and the insurance company swearing blind they were meant to be quoting for repair on a Fabia (my old car which was also insured with them managed to find its way onto the claim in their system!)... they have decided the Octy is to be rebuilt and put back on the road! All good! Thanks for all the input back in Dec, just got to get my lower back sorted out now

I told them £5k value as thats what I'd need to get equivalent if they pay out instead of repair (know I won't get £5k but its a target!) However what car says: Skoda Octavia Hatchback 1.8 20v vRS 5dr 2003 (53) 37,000 miles Dealer £4,370 Private £3,935 Part exchange £3,865 Trade £3,595 Cost new £15,150 hmmmmm, will see what the new year brings!

Well - I thought i'd give the garage who has the car a call.. the bill so far is £3,233 for repairs, but not quite finalised. Now garage closed until 4th of Jan before quote goes of to the insurance but they think the insurance might ask for a repair on it, which is cool.. Looks like i have my uber-cool (?) corsa 1.2 hire car for a few more weeks then! Thanks for all your thoughts, Merry Christmas all.

just found out my mate's fiance just walked out on him so I am certainly glad my only worries are a bit of whiplash and some bent metal... I was pretty cross at first but the woman who hit me was distraught, very apologetic and clearly shaken (airbags deployed in her car etc), has also made it easy on the claim by admitting full liability, hard to stay cross in those circumstances.

many thks - i'll bear that in mind for sure, 1.9's more widely available but generally higher milage (reflecting popularity i guess!) on autotrader.. will have a closer look when the garage/insurance get in touch with the verdict!

Hi, thks - what is bad about the 2.5 - i want something suitably torquey (and automatic as i'm feeling lazy / do some town driving) so felt the 1.9 might be a bit legless.. am i completely niave on this?

What car values mine just over £4k from a dealer, so i'm guessing won't take much to make mine write off from reading your thread. glad you were ok after that, sounded like a nasty shunt.. going to be a fun arguement over valuation i think!

yeah, now i re-read it sounds like it was crushed in half.. the boot floor wasn't flat thats for sure..

must admit i didn't try to get the wheel out, the boot was wedged shut, had to empty it via the rear seats..

I thought so, thanks for your opinion got my eye on a 2002 V6 TDI Passat if this one is confirmed as a total loss...

for context, one taken not long after i purchased it

ok, links, doesn't look so bad in the pics as does in the flesh (metal) ... side view of back: (rear side panel bends don't show up) from the back: rear door on good side of car: rear door on bad side of car: stupidly didn't get any from the inside but the floor pan was rippled in the boot..

Yeah, agree with you, can repair metal and all that... i've tried to up load the pictures but new briskoda isn't working in my favour and i'm struggling with pics.. will have a go again shortly..

Minding my own business stopped at a set of lights coming off the M1 the other day when suddenly ended up 1.5 car lengths into the roundabout! Needless to say got hit quite hard by a Pug 206 up the backside and left me working at home for a week with whiplash etc.. now car (2003 Mk1 Octy vRS) is at the garage and being assessed for repair, I had a look at it before it went and its got reasonable damage - the boot lid was staved into as far as the CD multichanger in the boot (about 5-6 inchs), rear bumper flattened so that parking sensors pointing skywards, rear lights smashed, rear side panels (both sides) bent, on the drivers side body work pushed up to rear door so no gap round the door and crease in corner of sill when opening door (so in effect drivers side is about 1cm shorter than passenger side) It was drivable but juddered round corners slightly and gears were not right.. when put £10 quids worth of petrol into tank to limp it home had to point the nozzle the opposite way to normal to get the petrol in! So the question is, do you think it will be a write off? (I'm guessing bent chassis) and if not, shall I just part ex it anyway as I'm not convinced its going to be the same car again? ... most gutting thing is I only bought it 8 months ago for a shade over £5k with 34,000 miles on the clock, i've put 2,600 miles on it (its my weekend car) and I doubt I'll get much of a payout on it if it is written off :'(

when you say no power under 2000rpm, how severe? mine has slight (what i thought was) turbo lag until 2000rpm when it gets going nicely.. thought this was normal to be honest

Welcome to Briskoda

Sensational result, believe equal to the highest opening day scoreline in prem history (so said BBC and they know everything don't they! ) its a little early to be rolling out the 'we will win it' but certainly a confidence booster! just can't believe i had to give up my season ticket this year (so damn expensive) :mad::mad::mad:

could add in the peculiar section about the cars that have moo'ing brakes in reverse? (i still can't take that sentence seriously but is best way to describe the noise ) solutions seem to have ranged from stripping cleaning and rebuilding the rear brakes, using chamferred pads (not sure if correct spelling) to completely new brake kits inc upgrades.. appreciate not major issue but could be suprise to the unsuspecting buyer (like me when i got mine!)

seems boot size is important, the octavia is very impressive even in hatch format (not far off twice the size of my mates mk iv golf gti), suspect carrying ability would be superior to the accord type-r (though not seen one up close to confirm..)

As someone who has owned an '99 ST24 Estate and now run around in a '03 vRS Hatch my personal favourite is the vRS.. I loved the Mondeo but it was very very thirsty - 60 litres would get me around 280 miles in town, I understand the ST200's were even more thirsty. 220's will be even worse than that with that 3.0 V6.. My vRS will return 300 miles in town for 45 litres (or is it 50, can never remember...) - goes up to 350+ miles on motorway runs. Handling wise (and I know I am comparing estate to hatch) but the vRS wins hands down even as standard - believe you can change rear ARB to make it even better - has never misbehaved on me on the twisty A roads.. Spec wise they were quite similar, though you get climate in the vRS. Running costs, my mondeo haemorraged money (£2k bill on it just 6 weeks before the engine went in spectacular fashion on the M25) so may not be the best person to ask for a comparison, the skoda (thus far) has been very reasonable. Anyhow, enough incoherant ramblings , i suspect you'd be happy with either car but personally would take the vRS

The dealer I got my vRS from told me that he had heard of it on polo's... :confused: not sure if he was winding me up..

:D:D:D:D:D:D nice one, just placed my order!

I'm a little greedy and have both (i like both gran turismo series and forza series )...graphically the ps3 is superior but gameplay wise you can get just as good titles on xbox as you can ps3 - also wider choice of games on xbox due to it being out longer and i prefer xbox live to ps3 equivalent... so guess what i am saying is xbox wins for me at the moment.

I've had my rear brakes stripped and rebuilt twice by the dealer and in the short term it sorts the noise out but long term it comes back. i've given up going back as don't reverse all that much there are a number of mk1 vrs owners who seem to experience this - i was advised that chamfered (spelling?) brake pads has sorted it for a number of people when i posted on here a while back (search for mooing brakes) personally I have taken to stamping briefly on the brakes hard when the noise starts in reverse (at slow/walking speed!) and then continuing to reverse - seems to do the trick, however hardly an ideal solution let us know if you manage to sort it with a recon

very nice indeed, do like the look when its running that low although i have to say those pic's do make me embarresed by how dirty mine is right now though, currently covered in about a million dead bugs with brake dust all over the alloys, think i will be getting the cleaning kit out asap :rolleyes: