JimmyR

This is the bottle of oil that was supplied with my Citigo.

Hi scgf! This is the spare wheel/tyre as supplied by Skoda UK with my brand new Citigo Greentech 75PS. It came as part of the Style Pack 2 upgrade to 15" Auriga alloy wheels fitted with 185/55 R15 82T Bridgestone Ecopia EP25 tyres. As you can see, it's exactly the same as the one you've bought even though you may have the 14" Apus alloy wheels with 175/65 R14 82T tyres as Allicia8 has above. Enjoy your new car when it arrives!

Part of the lure to buy on finance used to be free servicing for 3 years but I think this offer has now ceased and been replaced by a different deal. The ŠKODA Citigo available from £69 a month* With 0% APR† representative and optional 3 years’ servicing, maintenance and tyres** You can upgrade to a plan with Servicing which covers all routine servicing, including any engine oils required, as well as a brake fluid change.

On June 10th last year I had quotes of £107.83 for the first (Oil Change) service, £227.67 for the second (Inspection) service (with £23.29 for a pollen filter and £44.23 for brake shoes, both under a heading entitled Extras) and £169.51 for the third (Oil Change) service but this price included £61.68 for changing the brake fluid. All prices include VAT but as the pollen filter and brake shoes were just added to the typed, headed-notepaper quote in Biro, I don't know if those prices include fitting or VAT or both. I expect that these prices have already shot up though because it also stated that the quote was only valid for 30 days. I've only done 1,450 miles since May 3rd 2013 (when the car was new) so hopefully I won't be needing the new "brake shoes" in just over a year's time. Are Citigos renowned for wearing out rear brake shoes?? It was just an odd item to see on the estimate. As Owens says £157 is outrageous for an oil/filter change especially as any competent DIY owner could do this for around £30-£35 using the correct Skoda recommended oil and filter. Still, that Skoda stamp in the serivce book is important althogh a cheaper, independent garage using the correct service items would be just as valuable in the service book. However, having said that, the independent garage (most likely) wouldn't be able to do the software modification for the cooling fan that people are having done?

Ah, it's a bit like my eBay coloured stars then, like watching paint dry? Thank you for the explanation and all speed with attaining the top accolade in the coming months/years.

Slightly off topic!! Why do you only have two Staff stars, damo? What do you actually have to do to achieve a 5-star Staff rating?

It looks like the front splitter is there to me and it certainly also seems that the supsension is lower than a normal Citigo i.e. the usual 15mm like the Sport is. I wonder if the pictured car has a painted black roof or if it's a sunroof. I appears to have white piping round the front seats.

The Citigo Sport has vanished from the Skoda UK Configurator.

I received this on April 27th 2013 before I collected my car from the dealer on May 3rd 2013. Status code: 40 was obviously good!

With many thanks to Chris T Gill from the VW forum who has solved the mystery for us:- "This Sunday's programme (16th February) is the one featuring the Volkswagen up! The following is taken from the Radio Times - "This time the presenters set out to show they’re not only interested in the top end of the market by taking a trip to Chernobyl in three cheap superminis, the VW up!, the Ford Fiesta and for James May (“Good news!”) it’s the Dacia Sandero – Britain’s cheapest car.""

BTW the pictures enlarge considerably on the iPad too. If I've chosen the correct 185/55 x 15" 82T Bridgestone Ecopia EP25 tyres from the Brigestone website, they have a pretty poor rating indeed. High rolling resitance, bad in the wet and quite noisy too according to the (flawed) EU labelling system! Luckily, Simonj won't be choosing these for his 16" Serpens because fortunately, Bridgestone don't appear to make 185/50 x 16" Ecopia 25's, as far as I can see. http://auto.bridgestone.eu/passenger-tyres/ranges/ecopia/ep25/?width=185&aspectratio=55&rim=15&loadindex=82&speedindex=T

Oh, they do on my Windows 8.1PC so I just (wrongly) assumed that they would do the same for everyone. Apologies because they are virtually useless at the standard size shown. At least my text gives the info that Ryn wanted.

Sadly, my Citigo Greentech 75PS with the 15" Auriga alloy wheels came fitted with 185/55 Bridgestone Ecopia EP25 tyres. I took the second and third photos on the day I collected the car so the tyres are still covered in the shiny stuff that the dealer painted on. It makes the markings difficult to read. The first photo was taken just after the car had arrived at the dealer's whilst it was still in their compound and before the pre-delivery inspection. The tyres are OK in the dry but I haven't had to try them in the wet yet, thank goodness! . If you click on the pics below, they will enlarge considerably.

It's definitely not a Skoda Citigo or a Seat Mii because (fortunately!) neither of those cars has that horrible sloping up rear side window on the 3-door version.

Slightly different slant courtesy of Auto Express. "The real advances are under the bonnet, where VW has updated the entire engine range, improving economy by 21 per cent in some cases. Gone are the old 74bhp 1.2 TDI and 89bhp and 104bhp 1.6-litre TDI diesels, replaced by a trio of three-cylinder 1.4-litre TDIs with identical outputs. Most impressive is the 74bhp Polo TDI BlueMotion. Its economy is up from 83mpg to 88mpg, and CO2 falls by 6g/km to 82g/km. Even the regular 89bhp Polo TDI with a DSG auto now emits just 89g/km. VW still offers its 89bhp and 108bhp 1.2 TSI petrol engines, but has replaced the old naturally aspirated 1.2-litre engine with the 1.0-litre three-cylinder from the up!, offering 59bhp or 74bhp. An 89bhp turbo version of the same three-cylinder powers the 1.0 TSI BlueMotion, and claims 69mpg and 94g/km. Topping the range is an updated Polo GTI, with a 12bhp power hike to 189bhp."

Hooray for the 2012 Skoda Citigo which came out (just!) ahead of the brand new for 2015 Hyundai i10 in today's Auto Express test. Both cars achieved 5 stars with the Fiat Panda gaining 4 stars.

VAG has a very large range of both petol and diesel, 3 cylinder engines to be available for the facelifted VW Polo's UK launch in May this year. Perhaps some/all of these will be based on the Citigo/Mii/up! engines now rather than the older 3 cylinder Polo engines which were of a different design, I believe. They seem to be very fuel efficient with low CO2 emissions and of course these figures would only improve if fitted to the Citigo/Mii/up! trio. Virtually nothing has changed since the launch of the Citigo/Mii/up! so the 2015 versions could just move things on. "The biggest changes, however, centre around the Polo’s three- and four-cylinder engines, which have been significantly updated or replaced by more contemporary units boasting improved performance and economy. New to the petrol line-up is an 89bhp 1.0-litre three-cylinder engine in the Polo TSI BlueMotion. It is claimed to return 68.9mpg and 94g/km on the combined EU test cycle, improving significantly on the 57.7mpg and 113g/km of its predecessor. It is the first petrol-powered VW to wear the BlueMotion badge. Reworked petrol engines include the base naturally aspirated 59bhp 1.2-litre three-cylinder multi-point injected unit. It is claimed to have a 21 per cent reduction in consumption over the existing engine at 61.4mpg and 106g/km, thanks to the inclusion of a stop/start function and brake-energy recuperation. The same engine is now also offered in 74bhp guise, which is up by 5bhp on its predecessor. Positioned above them are two updated turbocharged 1.2-litre three-cylinder TSI units with 89bhp and 108bhp. It is all change on the diesel side, with a trio of 1.4-litre three-cylinder units with a respective 74bhp, 89bhp and 104bhp replacing today’s 90bhp 1.2-litre three-cylinder and the 89bhp and 104bhp 1.6-litre four-cylinder oilburners. Described as significantly smoother and more flexible than predecessor engines, the 74bhp unit in the TDI BlueMotion model is claimed to develop peak torque of 155lb ft at 1500rpm for improved standing start and in-gear acceleration along with a combined 88.3mpg and 82g/km. Even bigger fuel savings are made with the new 89bhp unit, which is claimed to have a 21 per cent reduction in consumption at 83.1mpg and 89g/km against the 65.7mpg and 112g/km of the earlier 89bhp 1.6-litre four-cylinder diesel it replaces." Text courtesy of Autocar.

Good on the track?? I'm assuming this isn't a motor racing track??

Won't you also need the Citigo Sport tailgate spoiler to complete the look? "Sport styling kit (front spoiler, rear diffuser, spoiler on 3rd/5th door)"

The Elegance ASG is only available as a non-Greentech 75ps model so doesn't have the 15mm lowered sport suspension. The Elegance 5-speed manual, Greentech with 15mm lowered, sport suspension is available either with the 60PS or 75PS engine. All Citigo Elegance models are Greentech except the ASG versions. No Greentech ASG Elegance model is available. I'm sure that's roughly the same as BossFox stated above.

Aha, it's all changed for the rears when I also followed MickA's very helpful guide for fitting the mudflaps to my Citigo in May 2013. There were no dedicated Skoda Citigo rear mudflaps then. At least the new rears should be a perfect fit, unlike the VW ones.

I'll second that!

I didn't remove the wheels to fit the front ones or the back ones. The VW up! ones aren't that great a fit at the rear but better than nothing and look OK unless one is very fussy. I just blot out the bad fit between rear bumper and flap which isn't ideal but then again the VW up! bumper is a different shape to the Citigo one. Presumably you had to buy VW up! rear mudflaps unless Skoda have now started to supply dedicated ones for the Citigo? The dealer had to source VW up! ones for my Citigo back in May. They had agreed to give me the 4x mudflaps but when push came to shove they said that Skoda didn't make them for the Citigo. Thanks to this forum I was able to say that I knew that and that they'd have to buy them from VW. Once you've fitted all four, you'll be an expert because trial and error (or error and error) makes perfect.

Briskoda stickers, front and rear!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, how annoying! Bad enough but luckily not a whole replacement mirror to pay for. It will be interesting to hear how much the genuine Skoda parts cost. Was there any glass or parts from the Civic's mirror assembly or did he/she appear to get off scot-free?