Barts

Hi, Currently running a Yeti Greenline as a lease car but it is up for renewal in a few months. I am thinking of going for an estate this time and was wondering if anyone has any experience of the following models: Octavia VRS tdi estate Octavia SE Business Greenline III estate Superb SE Business Greenline III estate Car will be used for journeys to and from Stafford and also Inverness (from Teesside). Specifically would welcome any opinions on driving experience/dynamics and actual mpg and also practicality. Car will also be used for an annual family holiday to South of France. Heart is saying VRS but head is saying either of the Greenlines - is the 110bhp unit in the Octavia better than the 105bhp unit in the Superb? (and yes I know its 5bhp better :p ) Cheers Barts

Will be heading to Paris on the 19th. Then onto Carcasonne on the 21st. Ah well it's all part of the adventure!

Folks Anyone know of any products for removing scratches from the black plastic bumper trim? Had a post bumper interface accident today and i now have a 6 inch scrape on the end of the bumper leading to the wheel arch. Cheers.

Unfortunately I don't have an elegance but my month old SE came with the third headrest as standard. Would expect that if it is std on teh SE then it would be on the Elegance too!

On our Greenline SE there is a flap in the jumbo box (the box under the armrest between the front seats) that has Aux written on it. Lift this up and there should be a hole to put a 3.5mm jack into. The owners manual says this links to the radio so you can link to an mp3 player. Hope this helps.

Thats the live mpg figure and as such is very sensitive to pedal position gradient etc etc. The --- that you will sometimes see indicates the pump has shutoff, so no fuel flow i think.

We got ours (Greenline SE) on Thursday after about the same wait. Impressed with it so far (although the start/stop is a bit unnerving at first). MPG on the maxidot is a combined 55.2mpg so far!

Member name: Barts Engine: 1.6 Model: SE Greenline Location: Teesside

Progress update! Problem sorted. Call to Knowles Associates (the leasing company) no one there so left an answer machine message describing the issue. 2hrs later a call from Melanie at Listers who took some more details and promised to call the Skoda site manager. 45 minutes later I get a call from Colin at Listers Skoda apologising and saying he will post out an English service book today. Then get a follow up call from Knowles just to ask if I was happy with the response. Having come from a Mondeo and having experienced what Ford jokingly call customer service I have to say this was a brilliant example of why so many comments have been made re Skoda customer care. Big thumbs up to Knowles and Listers.

Anyone any good at translations? As of Thursday we will be the proud owners of a Greenline SE in Cappuccino. I am getting it via the NHS leasing scheme and it is a cracking price as it includes servicing, tyres, insurance etc. Various conversations with the leasing company promised that documents would start to arrive soon. Well today they started to turn up. Insurance document, check. Leasing helpline docs, check. Service book and Job Card (from PDI) check, but the service book is in what i presume to be Czech! The Job card is from Listers in Coventry and it states on it that the service book is not in English. Call to the leasing company on Monday but would it be possible to take page 1 from this book (with the Barcode and spec codes on it) and stick it in an English version?

Totally with you there..thats why most of us ride bikes.for the loveof it......hope you get sorted and that your clients stick with you. Keep us posted!

It is indeed but also mucho extra money when i dont think it would make me any faster (cant really justify the bmw tbh). Nice work you have there. If I had the talent then bike/car photographyjournalism would been my choice of career bur not to be. Also know that it is a hard way to make a living.

Jet wash and not telling hire company what you are doinhg is your friend here.......which mag are you doing some things for?? Only asking as having seen your previous posts and v jealous of the s/bike shoot as my other toy is a S1000RR!

Any chance of hiring a car and trying to bill SUK/Dealer for cost? Surely the car is not as described so falls foul of the sale of goods act

Very understandable comments.....assuming a letter of complaint has been dspatched to SUK?

If your user name is an indication of where you live I would say go for the Yeti. We visited frigliana a couple of years ago and I wished I had been in something with a bit more roomy (but then we do have kids). The other thing to consider is the better driving position on the Yeti (more visibilty etc).

I have a delivery date...............04/05/12.

If you dont mind me asking how long did you wait? I have been qouted 26 weeks but when i test drove one at the weekend at our local dealers the salesman reckoned that it was 12 weeks for a greenline!! :no:

Thanks for all the replies folks. Looking forward to getting the car and seeing how it compares to our current 2003 tdci mondeo (130).

Morning BriSkoda members. New member from North Yorkshire currently awaiting a delivery date for my Yeti Greenline II SE. Getting it via work (NHS) as a lease vehicle. Be interested to know what other Greenline owners think of theirs. We have a family holiday to the South of France this summer so especially interested to know what they are like on long motorway journeys.