MarkyMarkD

I think the Mrs was lucky in that she realised about 100 yards up the road and stopped - surprisingly sensible for a woman (on that occasion and given that she'd already been ridiculously stupid) - and got it drained out before she'd actually sucked any petrol into the fuel pump etc. It's a painful consquence of having one petrol and one diesel car but it's a situation which will continue when (oh when?) we replace the AX diesel with the long dreamt of Fabia vRS!

Those prices are pretty ridiculous. My wife did it on her car and she had change out of

I didn't know he drove a vRS too?

I think you mean that you failed to remove that section when you handed the V5 to the dealer. It's your responsibility to notify DVLA of the transfer exactly to avoid this happening to you.

The company you are referring to is Autofinders - www.autofinders.ltd.uk - who have had them at

They are not mentioned on the service schedule and, like you say, apply more to Euro IV engines. I think NO is the answer

WTG Alan!

Austin Allegro (orange, had been imported from Belgium and converted from LHD to RHD, death-trap) Skoda S110L (orange again - hugely prone to spinning as tail-heavy) - ate engines Morris Ital Renault 5 (original shape) Renault 5 (newer shape) - then passed on to her indoors Renault 19 RSI TD VW Golf TDI (company car) Citroen Xantia TD SX Vauxhall Vectra (company car - urgh!) - driven into by drunk lorry driver in hit and run when 5 weeks old but unfortunately survived Skoda Favorit - for her indoors - written off by pensioner (female) on A40 near Goodrich Renault Laguna (old shape) Citroen AX 1.5D - for her indoors ... (and her indoors had a Yamaha Passola moped - urgh - and then an MZ Simson 50cc motorbike style moped - nice! - before she passed her car test). We still have the Laguna and the AX but the AX should be replaced by the (almost definitely black) Fabia vRS sometime this year. Then her indoors can have the Laguna.

Is that going to be just a Euro IV version of the exact same engine - which in nearly all cases seems to mean less economical and no more powerful - 'cos if so I might as well get in before then?

Absolutely right, clv. If diesel isn't cost-saving for the first owner who does less than (say) 30k or 40k, then it must by definition be cost-saving for the next owner who is getting it at less of a price premium. Or if not that owner, the one after. Insurance costs are normally very similar but there are cases when the diesel model is quite a few groups lower. Servicing costs do vary quite significantly, though, although again it depends on the model. Skoda's site includes a maintenance cost calculator, which suggests (at

I've been on the cusp between black and silver ever since I decided I would order a vRS. I really love black, but I can understand all the points about keeping it clean being a pain. And the Mrs prefers silver. Every time I see each one I change my mind back again - d'oh!

The same seller has got loads of reasonably priced tyres on their eBay shop if anyone's interested in different sizes.

I got offered a 2 hour drive (but didn't actually have it quite that long) by our local dealer with no hassle at all. Unfortunately I'm not quite 18 or 19 any more - lucky young boys being able to have such nice cars at that age eh?

Well done vRS - hopefully I won't be more than 6 months after you ...

The best website for a laugh is http://www.arnoldsucks.com/ which includes absolutely 1000s of consumer complaints about Arnold Clark's shoddy service. If you haven't already decided this for yourself, I would advising steering well clear.

I would be really unimpressed if a dealer put my brand new car through an automatic car wash - they are ALWAYS more violent to the paintwork than washing it by hand, and that's the way I would expect my car to be treated.

I don't think so! I wasn't speeding - it is a derestricted dual carriageway (or was then - there's a 50 mph limit in the vicinity of there now) and it was about 0800 on a Saturday morning with no traffic about (elderly dodderers excepted). I liked giving the old Fav a burn which it didn't really get from my wife.

Cor, you are all such recent Skoda drivers! My first was a 1976 (P suffix reg PYA 617P) Skoda S110L which I bought for

"Mating face" ???

Good spot, Dave. Compared to drivethedeal.com they are a bit cheaper - but DtD include delivery in their prices whereas Autofinders don't. Given that Bakewell isn't too far away, that isn't necessarily a bad thing, though! Would be quite a nice run back in the new vRS.

I saw the end of it too ... the Telegraph yesterday said that Skoda were moving away from the self-deprecating style of ads and moving to these ones with "living" trouser presses etc. Hm. Just noticed there's already another thread on this subject: http://www.briskoda.net/forums/t23826-tv-ad-for-fabia-vrs.html

If your car is on HP and you are in negative equity, you can just return it to the finance company if you've paid over a certain percentage. Honest John (www.honestjohn.co.uk) is always going on about this. Good way of eliminating a loss on a duff car.

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