Having mainly owned Honda's the last 5 years Im used to having near impeccable reliability. How does an Octy VRS stand up against a Honda in your opinions.

I can't say as I have never had a Honda

As with ALL the vag range and not just the vrs the main things that go are bushes and arbs.

Turbo are ok on the petrol vrs but a few newer diesel vrs's have had some turbo problems.

What car/year are you looking for?

3 years in, 45,000 ~ miles and apart from arb bushes and relay (indicators) which was all replaced under warranty I have not had any issues

i have had a few problems with mine, but nothing major, all have been common faults and easily sorted with help from the forum, saving a few quid.

I have had a Toyota before and that only needed servicing, no work ever doing in the 2 years I owned it.

I'd say you get fewer niggles with Honda. I had a Civic for 8 years before buying my Octavia. In the first year the Honda had a new airbag controller under warranty, but apart from that it only saw the dealer for routine servicing.

The Octavia actually failed to start shortly after I bought it, which was down to a duff battery and it went back to the dealer a number of times in the first 6 months for niggly faults. After that it has settled down, although there's one problem that's come back.

Overall I'd say that you can rely on either, but the Honda was definitely better.

it's an audi engine on a Golf chassis and it goes like a rocket.

off course it is reliable!

id always put Jap ahead of anyone in terms of reliability, but i wouldnt imagine you having many problems after reading about on here, im currently a Renault owner

Electrics are quite poor in my opinion, had a few problems with central locking as have MANY others. I still love it tho! It tends to be lots of little things and not the kind of fault that will leave you with your head in your hands at the side of a motorway!

I've never owned a Honda so can't comment on them, I've had a vrs for over 2 years and the only faults I had were

* rear wash wipe pipe popped off (common fault but easy to put back)

* Indicator relay stopped working

both were really simple to fix and cost wise as the car was out of warranty.

When I went to the Nurburgring last year there was my Octavia, an Alfa 147 GTA and a Honda Integra type R. Everyone expected the Alfa to be the most likely to break down followed by me because of the level of tune i'm running plus the fact it was not the first time my car had been subject to the Nurburgring .

Anyway the Honda went bang on the motorway on the way there and only just limped to dusseldorf!. The honda guy told us the 2 litre V-tec engines fail a lot and suffer from oil starvation.

I think with any car you can be lucky or unlucky. Cost my freind 3 grand for an engine rebuild as the bottom end called last orders

Honda used to claim only one failure from 2,000,000 engines, but this is the V-tech system and not the engine itself!

Went to the Ring in July and mine was one of only a few in our group that had no problems at all.

Celica GT4 - broke a suspension arm

Skyline R32 - radiator blocked, headgasket was on its way out, overheated on track and cost 200 euros to be recovered

Omega MV6 - water pump drive sprocket disintegrated on way to Germany and ancillary belt got shredded. Spent 3 days going round Opel dealerships to buy replacement parts

Honda Civic Type-R - Lost third gear on penultimate day at the Ring. On final day whole gearbox gave up the ghost and car had to be shipped home two weeks later :eek:

Quite satisfying when I had pulled up in the services to meet everyone and was greeted by the "oh it's a Skoda, you'll be needing the trailer to get you back then...?" gags