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my alarm only went off once when i accidentally locked my son in the car and then the alarm triggered, but my last car a 57 plate mk1 octavia TDI, its alarm went off all the time, the street i live on has buses going up from 06:00-23:30 and if i left the octavia in the street the alarm would always be going off so had to park it far up the driveway to getaway from the vibrations, but the superb can be left in the street (i don't do it regularly) and its alarm does not go off

Last year it was a wash out and this year there is a heat wave, my son goes to it every year but its not really my scene

I went brought 2 on my last poctavia, first was on a dirt road on abey warms day and next thing the coolant warning light came on, so pulled straight over turned the car off, popped the bonnet and the rad had burst due to a large stone, had to get it recovered, next time was last winter, driving back home and this lorry goes past me doing well over the limit and chucked a big bit of ice right into the bottom vents and pierced the radiator, but I was only a 10 min drive from the garage and it was -2c out so the coolant wasn't too vital and just drove it too the garage

I too seen this the other day, was thinking of buying it but I already have seat covers on all the seats so Didn't bother buying it

Lovely

I got some for my superb out of halfords, £20 for the front pair and I already had a spare pair for the rear, every car I have owned I have had seat covers on, they save wear and tear and any spillages don't harm the seats, I am a taxi driver and i especially need them

I got a new bottle recently as the old one I had ran out, I went to halfords and it was a litre bottle again, different packaging but same oil code, and not had to open the new one yet, with 21000 mile on the clock

Well, if the car is still running okay, why change? If the good lady is not happy with the seats in the Fabia try and get some heavily padded seat covers and that might do the trick, but if getting a new car in the long run will help, why not

i came from a mk1 Octavia 57 plate and now have a mk11 superb, and the legroom changes are CRAZY!!!, I am not that tall so need the seat quite far forwards so in the octy there was no probs for rear passengers, but if you are tall in an mk1 octy the space behind the seat is 0, but in the superb people can't believe the amount of space, it's a limo!

I was sitting in tescos today and another driver in a 61 plate Octavia reversed in beside me while he birrlied round to revers ini noticed his left brake light was out I jumped out and said to him so he went to the back of his car and I pushed the brake pedal for him he jiggled some of the cables and it was coming on, must be a bad earth and it was common on the sierra's too

i think they need to drop it down at least a £1000

All the sales figures are looking generous, octy not doing as good as I would have hoped though, the mk3 prices are to high, but all n all not bad

Old boy in a Fabia, trying to do a hill start and nearly rolling into the front of me

I've got a 1.6 TDI at 21000 and its used as a taxi, no troubles and don't expect Any, and one of the other drivers has a 1.6 TDI Octavia with 156000 miles and he says he has only had 1 DPF light took it for a 15 minute jont on the motorway went out and with regular service it is purring like a kitten

well she and alot of other drivers think it is just a bit of bad luck, she said she always sits at really low revs 24/7 max 2000 RPM and this might have causes the probs,and she didn't take it straight to the dealer when the 2 lights came on, i told her if it happend to me i would have had the car recovered than risking causing any more damage, but we up here love our skoda taxis, the rapid is really coming on, and one of the other firms just got a few new superbs too, there are a few berlingos and avensis's and passats but in this area skoda's are the backbone of the trade

I have one on my s spec, ESP

lies, I have a 1.6 TDI superb and if you put the foot down it will shift alright

Many years ago my brother was driving my ford sierra taxi, he went into his house locked the car, came out later and all my taxi equipment was gone, radio, meter and the barstewards even unbolted and took my taxi roof sign, there was no evidence of forced entry so must have picked the lock, luckily the police where very helpful and 2 days later I got all my equipment back

oh yeah, 1.9 was bulletproof, 500,000 miles + was light work for it, I had three, one 1.9 SDI and 2 1.9 TDI's. and all went faultless with regular servicing, best Diesel engine made hands down, we'll done VW

its a march 2010 so over 3 years old

60k

I hate those keyless starts, what is the matter with a good old key, very flawed system, my nephew has a focus RS with keyless and it has broke 2 times and has been luckily fixed by ford under warranty, key will do me

My son in law is a courier and his 2012 jumbo transit got the valuables in the back stolen, was at night and he forgot to lock his house front door and the thieves just walked grabbed the keys to the van unlocked it knocked every thing inside and left the house door open the vans doors open and the keys inside the van, crazy!

One of the other taxi drivers in the area had a very bad few weeks when her 10 plate Octavia 1.6TDI really mucked up, Octavia and superbs are widely used in the trade up here and very rarely go wrong, but recently her octavia's DPF light came on, so she took it on the motorway and drove on the appropriate manor, the light went out but the next morning it came back on along with the EML and then the turbo went, so it went into the garage, took two weeks to repair and the DPF turbo and 2 egr valves costing her ££££'s, she nearly went out the game if it wasn't for her son and daughter financially helping her out, very unusal and the 1st I have heard of such prob, she is getting rid of it next month for a new rapid

Oh, not good, I would think it would be easier to get a whole new boot cupboard door