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Another load of green rubbish.....................

That's exactly what I do on my present Octy. On the odd time I forget to, and leave stop/start in action, I soon realise why I turn it off !!

Can't a dealer do it at a service? (Or any time!?)

I'm likely to be changing, later this year, to the current Fabia hatch 1.2 SE (110 hp manual). Can anyone tell me if it has a button to cancel the stop/start function (like my present Octavia has) or something similar?

Can only tell you what they told me! If I'd wanted to pay up now and keep the car it would have been about £8800. If I kept paying monthly at about £169 till next April, the settlement figure to keep the car would have been about £6600. I didn't "borrow" anything. I traded in my Mk. 2, added some cash at that point, and they worked out the scheme (interest free). The trade in, my cash, all the monthly payments, and the final lump sum, added up to the exact cost price of the car.

Part of the deposit was, of course, my traded-in Mk. 2 - can't remember what they allowed on it but I added a bit and that was the deposit. If I had gone the full 42 months I would have had to then pay something over £6K to keep the car, or else start some other deal

All very interesting. In effect, they are going to simply collect my car, I get no cash nor do I pay any more. At the end of my 6 month "holiday" , assuming I am ok to drive again, I will simply look for a deal on either a new car, or nearly new second-hand one, see what discounts and/or deals are around, and kind of go from scratch. I've never lacked a trade in before so don't know quite what to argue in the way of purchase discount. All new territory to me. Might go for Fabia 1.2 [110 hp] but it sounds a bit weedy and anyway it is still early days.

When it started I traded in my Mk. 2 and had to add about £2K if I remember rightly.

Heard from Skoda finance and I can end the pcp any time now. Give it back or buy it for about £8800

Due to cardiac medical treatment I have to stop driving for 6 months. I'm on a 42 month PCP and am currently about 30 months into it. There seems no point in my having the car on the driveway doing nothing, while still paying nearly £170 a month. So I'm going to contact the dealer and get it taken back. Then when the 6 months is up I'll see what new deals are around. Shame, because I like the car and it hasn't even done 12000 miles yet! The point is, what should I expect from the PCP if I do this? Will I simply have to stop monthly payments, or pay some cash towards it, or what? Advice appreciated.

Maybe, but not a lot different to my previous 1.8 TSi

Mine is an October 2014 1.4 TSi manual on regular 16" wheels. Road tax £30. So far no hint of any mechanical trouble. Feels like a MUCH bigger engine. Gets well over 40 mpg on a reasonably long run, cruising say in the 60s. So far all I have replaced is wiper blades. I haven't yet heard of any built-in reliability problems, certainly not with timing chains.

My 1.4 TSi manual is about £160 p.a. but with high NCB etc. A lot depends on postcode and of course your own history, also I only do about 6000 miles a year. But as mentioned before my renewal quotes have often been cheaper than the previous year (this is with eSure) and also cheaper than getting a new quote off compare sites, which I find very unusual.

Mine is £30, (applied up to the 120 emission figure) with original 16" wheels. But apparently the whole system is changing from this April, and going up again - not sure what it is going up to though, possibly the £110 mark?

Mine is the quietest engine I've ever had. When idling at traffic lights I often think the engine has stopped (and, no, I do NOT use stop/start!!!)

Feels much more powerful than a 1.4, very economical, gearchange a little on the clunky side but okay really. Rear suspension a bit hard, but not a problem except on lousy roads of course. Happy with mine so far.

What road tax bracket will it fit into? My 1.4 TSi is currently only £30 p.a.

Some years ago I was having a (non Skoda) car sorted by the AA, and in conversation with the mechanic he said "don't touch a French car" (i.e. he was forever having to fix them.) But to be fair that was a few years back!!

Dunno, I think I'd buy a reasonable car for £9 !! (So long as it was a 1/24th, not 1/32nd)

Yes it is. Noun "The quality of being new or original"

Same as me

I find the 1.4 TSi warms up so quickly you don't need to do any kind of external defrost unless you are in a real hurry. I've have used aerosol defrost spray but it isn't really necessary, or much good! (For unheated side windows I just use the good old scraper!)

My first and second year services were £0 (PCP !!!!)

I agree, when I'm pottering about town I usually go first, second, third, top. When I'm in top and need a bit of oomph I go down to third or fourth. But I agree that DSG in effect does all this for you. I still prefer manual by a long way but if I lived in somewhere like central London I'd certainly have an automatic rather than have all those zillion gear changes at lights and junctions and everywhere else!!

True to some extent in the 1.4 TSi but my Mk.2 1.8 TSi was quite different - much less gear dropping, and felt like its engine was a litre bigger than it actually was!!