johnjohnhealy

What he said! As has een said, if you work at a Ford garage, can you not expect to be working on Fords with problems???:confused: In the same way as if you worked in a Skoda garage you'd be working on broken Skodas all day:rolleyes: Again, what he said. The Mondeo is a far superior handling vehicle, much comfier (no stupid german style hard seats) and the interior is much better quality too, I can prove this to anyone by showing them the interiors of both a Skoda and a Ford of the same age and mileage that have been used as a taxi, the Ford wears much better. everything in the Skoda starts peeling/getting scratched and looking scabby. My experience of Ford vs Skoda reliability also shows the Ford to be ahead by quite some margin, and I own alot of cars so it's not just based on one individual experience of a particular car. The Skoda is faster however, but not by as much as you'd think, it's extra 15bhp is almost negated by it's extra weight, plus the Ford puts down it's power better and gets round the corners much more confidently. At the end of the day though, all cars have their problems, drive both and see what you prefer, I'm guessing your the same guy who asked the same question on ST Drivers? it seems strange that on the Skoda forum, alot of people are saying get the Mondeo, yet on the Mondeo forum, no one says get the Skoda!

It would also allow the diesel Vs Petrol debate to run for another few years, so diesel owners can continue to delude themselves about how important torque is;) Why not, both Ford and VW do Sport versions of the Transit and Transporter Van so Skoda could follow suit.

The reason we all stall our modern diesels is due to the dual mass flywheel which in effect becomes 'lighter' at low RPM increasing responses but losing inertia. So where you might have just got away with it on an older car with a heavy flywheel keeping the engine spinning, a modern dual mass equiped car will just stall.

The Superb is supposed to be the luxury barge of the fleet, does the octavia estate not fulfil anyones estate car requirements? I know Mercedes/BMW sell estate versions of the E and 5 but otherwise estates in that market segment cant be big sellers?

Or that it's a totally, erm, girly car?

Lol, Skoda Laura, great for kerb crawling and picking up prostitutes (apparently!). Wonder who'll be the first numpty to re-badge there Octavia as a Laura? Or more fittingly perhaps, replace the F on a Fabia with the L?

Hong Kong and the new territories, and I'm assuming the rest of China, use the UK 240 volts and even use the same 3 pin plugs, I lived in HK for a while a few years back.

I fly quite often, and was on a flight to Italy with my sister who was working (she's an air hostess) as we flew over the mountains we encountered quite simply the worst turbulence I've ever experienced (and I've been through some!). I was talking to my sister at the time, she was standing in the aisle and she just suddenly dissapeared! she shot up to the ceiling, bashed her head, then hit the floor so hard she broke her ankle, myself and the guy in the seat on the other side of the aisle had to physically hold her down for the next few minutes untill things settled. It was like something out of a film, there was stuff flying everywhere, all the oxygen masks fell down (through the force of the bumping not because they had been deployed), amazingly everyone remained perfectly calm and no one panicked. Several of the other hosteses were injured, and a some passengers by flying debris, we were all offered counseling after we made an emergency landing, and the pilot came to speak to us, he said that the plane had been "at it's structural limit" and "any worse and the wings would have literaly fallen off". Needless to say, the return flight was a rather nerve racking one!

To be honest, I'd doubt it's really worth anything, unless the 3 missing numbers make read differently?

My car is mechanically sound though. And thats what the insurance is for, but I'd expect them to sort me out with any loses incurred whoevers fault the accident might have been, thats the condition of using my car.

It's only a car, anyone can drive my ST so long as they fix it if they do anything to it.

Dont forget, it will cost you £125 to have the plate put on retention and pay the transfer fee (more likely to sell if transfer fee has been paid which accounts for about £25 of that total). So unless you've got a plate worth a decent amount of wedge, it's probably not worth the effort. Also I'm assuming it's on your Felicia and is the cars original reg, in which case they will want to inspect the car before granting the request (they inspect all plate retention requests on vehicles over a certain age), and this can take a number of months, depending how busy they are, and when the inspector is in your area.

I would suggest that 'people' who worry about things so trivial, just get on with there* lives and find more important things to worry about. *yes that was intentional just to annoy you;)

I agree with you and understand why the officer acted as he did initially, but a simple apology once the story had unfolded would have placated the situation with no loss of face to either party. I've got a couple of on-going situations involving the police being heavy handed and over zelous at the moment with regards to some of my tenants, It seems the police think they are above apologising even when they have made a blatent mistake. Conversely, when did the public lose their right to be obnoxious to a police officer (or anyone for that matter, police are no better than the rest of us) if they so choose? (when the section 5 public order rubbish came in thats when.) (not that I would condone being obnoxious of course, but it's a persons right to take whatever attitude they like)

And you seem to completely miss the point of what I'm saying too, so I suggest you also learn to read, or alternatively we just agree to disagree, you are obviously all worked up about it and clearly reading things to quickly and not taking it all in so I think it best we just leave it there. P.S. I'm not writing a letter to the queen, If I choose not to spell correctly or use correct punctuation or grammer on a bl**dy message board then thats up to me, I'm not anal enough to go through a post just to spot one mistake, it's a pretty pathetic attempt to get 'one up' on someone.

Oh I'm not really taking his side (he was without doubt a complete ****** and just trying to look 'hard' infront of his mates/camera), I'm just saying if he wants to make himself look like a ******, thats his business, not the policemans.

I'm not aware that I've put anyone down? I haven't started throwing around insults because I dont like someone elses opinion that they are fully entitled to hold and express? (unlike you). I never once said that anyone has the right to abuse your car or to speed in it when out on a test drive? I said people are entitled to criticize it, you said "of course my car is the best on the planet" well i'm afraid it's not even close, but that doesn't stop you from loving it though does it? I never said you couldn't love your car, just that you shouldn't be delusional about it. I didn't say you had said anything about people criticizing your car, I said "your the sort of person" it's a generalisation. It's the whole defensive attitude by owners of certain brands/models of car I'm on about, with Skoda it seems to be Fabia drivers, with other brands it is also prevalent and predominantly with the lower end of the market, i.e. small 'warm' hatches driven by teenagers, it would seem that these are the people with the inadequacy issues as they just cant accept that there car isn't the best/fastest on the planet, that bares no relation to how they feel personally about their car though. I'd be interested to hear exactly what you think my inadequacy issues are though? I could do with a laugh.

So the car is longer, but the wheelbase is shorter? Good for pedestrian impacts, but cr*p for handling or parking, not a good sign then really.

Apparently I look the spitting image of that bloke from xXx (Vin diesel I think), when I shave my head. But wasn't he called Xander Cage in the film? Lol.

I'm comparing new to new obviously, it would be rather pointless comparing a new car to something thats is essentialy 15 years old. Again, obviously, you'd compare similar models, if you wanted to buy a BMW 5 series size car you wouldn't be looking at Fabia's or Ceed's would you, those two I'd say are a valid comparison, and I personally think the Ceed is better, I'm not stupid enough to think that other people wont egree with me though, otherwise there would only be one car on the market in one trim level and we'd all have it.

Your exactly the sort of person I'm talking about, It's got nothing to do with how much money you have or what you can afford, it's the attitude that no-one can criticize your car and that it's the best car on the planet and they never go wrong blah blah blah. No ones saying you cant love your car or want to look after it, but you have to accept there are better cars out there, it doesnt matter if you spend 1k or 50K on a car, there is always something better. It always seems to be the Fabia drivers too for some reason, It's obvious a diesel engined small hatch thats riddled with faults is the fastest most reliable best handling car on the road:rolleyes: If you cannot accept the inherant faults of the car you chose to buy then surely it is you that is the brainless moron? (I would suggest it is anyway, due to you not being able to construct a reply without insults in it). This is a public forum, people are just as entitled to point out the bad aspects of a car as you are the good ones.

Different programme, it was a Civic Type-R. Whilst I respect the hard job the police do, and wouldn't want to do it myself, it's not their job to tell someone what attitude to take, if someone decides to have what they consider 'attitude' thats up to them and none of the cops business. All the cop had to do was apologise for being heavy handed when he explained why he was, that would have resolved the situation, it seems some cops think they are better than everyone else and that they can police peoples morals and feelings as well as the law, thats not their job, they are just people like the rest of us, but they throw around the section 5 thing whenever they get out of their depth. Obviously i'm (hopefully) referring to a minority of officers here, and the majority are fine, in my experience it seems to be the younger officers who completely lack any people skills whatsoever, both older officers and female ones, seem much more capable of placating a disgruntled punter.

Well we obviously have different opinions then dont we:rolleyes: That has always been my main problem with Skoda, Obviously at some point I thought the Superb looked and seemed like a decent enough car to part with nearly 20 grand of my own money, literaly from the minute I left the forecourt, they didn't want to know, I got the distinct impression that they were doing me a favour by even allowing me to pay for a bl**dy service, let alone fix anything under warranty, apparently I must be one of those 'pain in the ar*e' customers for daring to politely ask that my car be fixed when it repeatedly fell to pieces. This was not limited to one dealership either, the same attitude was recieved from every dealer in the south east.

If it is, I'd be tempted to sneak a peak at one, I'd have to go in disguise though, as I always said I'd never buy another Skoda.

Am I wrong? I dont think so, I'm just not one of those people who thinks that because they own a car, it must be the best thing on the planet.