Anybody know when the MY 2010 Octavia is due to go into production and what (if any) changes there are going to be over MY 2009?

Bored of the Vectra already?

Easy car to get bored with. I had a 3.2 gsi and I got fed up with it in 12 months!

Bored of the Vectra already?

Hillarious, don't know where you get 'em from!

................... back on on topic please, I would really like to know

Should be late June/July iirc.

You may have to wait a while till they bring it out in yellow..

Fancy a change already Steve ?

I think the facelift is the last upgrade until the Mk3 comes along (2011???)

There are a few changes to 2010 MY cars starting with the removal of the spare wheel in favour of a 'puncture repair kit' or tyre weld, leather gaitor to be replaced with non-leather variant and the removal of the 'dark grey' sun strip on the windscreen. All this penny pinching has enraged my father in-law who placed his order for one yesterday (which is why I was asking in the first place).

There are a few changes to 2010 MY cars starting with the removal of the spare wheel in favour of a 'puncture repair kit' or tyre weld, leather gaitor to be replaced with non-leather variant and the removal of the 'dark grey' sun strip on the windscreen.

Where did you get this info from?

Where did you get this info from?

SUK .......................... but indirectly. This information was/is based on an Elegance spec model btw.

Thanks Makefish. I hope these cost cutting measures dont include the facelifted vRS :rotz:

There are a few changes to 2010 MY cars starting with the removal of the spare wheel in favour of a 'puncture repair kit' or tyre weld, leather gaitor to be replaced with non-leather variant and the removal of the 'dark grey' sun strip on the windscreen. All this penny pinching has enraged my father in-law who placed his order for one yesterday (which is why I was asking in the first place).

thats pretty crap, that sunstrip is really handy and as to what I think of tyreweld instead of a spare :rotz: Wouldnt have helped me one ounce when I tore a 2 inch gash in the tyrewall at a water treatment works many miles from home last year

There are a few changes to 2010 MY cars starting with the removal of the spare wheel in favour of a 'puncture repair kit' or tyre weld, leather gaitor to be replaced with non-leather variant and the removal of the 'dark grey' sun strip on the windscreen. All this penny pinching has enraged my father in-law who placed his order for one yesterday (which is why I was asking in the first place).

Did you hear if the changes include the introduction of the 140 TDI common rail engine?

Thanks

There are a few changes to 2010 MY cars starting with the removal of the spare wheel in favour of a 'puncture repair kit' or tyre weld,

This is surprisingly non-standard on quite a few cars nowadays - Civic for a start.

Yup. everyone is ditching the spare. How much to get a spare? On the new fiesta it's £150+vat

And hasnt the gator always been faux leather? Always seemed to be in my Mk1, and seems the same in my Mk2 - complete with standard hole in bottom right of stick :(

The spare in my car never came out. And I've used it on and off road mostly in a country with 140 miles of dual carriage highway and lots of far crappier roads than you could ever dream of in the UK. When it was not used there, it's beem in 11 other countries across the EU and beyond.

Had 2 slow punctures over this time, and by slow I mean it lost about 1 bar every other week and i just kept reinflating it for a month before I could be bothered to fix it.

That being said.. can't think of anything else in the car that remained undisturbed for as much as the spare did.

Wheels pop up on ebay all the time. If you wanted a spare then you should be able to get one easy enough (I have 2 18" Zeniths as spares ).

The spare is IMHO essential.

Think, you're in a car with no spare only a repair kit, everywhere is closing or closed and you come back to your car to find a large egg on the tyre sidewall. You now have to drive 100 motorway miles and the only place that is open is a kwikfit that wants £100 to fit a £40 fitted tyre and you need to get to them in the next 10 minutes or they are closed. (It's probably 10 minutes drive away at the best of times)

Luckily in that situation there was an option for the person in question to stay at mine for the night, but if that option had not been there then what do you do?

We had tried calling the breakdown service to get them back but their answer was that the car had not broken down so a tyre was not covered.

The first car I had with the can of gunk including a compressor was the current model Honda Civic. It was sold on the so called bonus of an increased hidden boot storage compartment and less weight. Like most owners the spare wheel is mainly unused but the possibility always remains. It could be vital especially if you get the 'wrong kind of puncture' for the gunk to cope with. So I insisted that a spare wheel, albeit only a space saver, was included in the deal. At that time it was approx. a £100 option.

When car manufacturers take the gunk over spare wheel route, as most seem to now, I believe the customer should have the option to choose one or the other - spare wheel for me every time.

The spare is IMHO essential.

I agree totally.

The last time I had a puncture I spotted it when checking pressures, but the time before I discovered it at 70mph! Luckily a rear wheel so handling was still stable, but the tyre was pretty shredded by the time I stopped - a "can of gunk" kit would have been no use whatsoever.

A spare wheel and jack is a useless 18-20kg of weight that you carry around using up fuel, which the manufactures will ditch in the name of going 'green' ...........

..... until you need it 'cos you have a cut tyre that can't be repaired with a can of gunk! :eek:

I recently bought a jack and spare wheel off ebay and then the cheapest new tyre, for one of our company's FIAT Grande Punto having sustained two separate cut tyre sidewalls that put the car off the road; it didn't have a spare wheel, it now has.

The tyre gunk stuff FUBARs a tyre that may only have a repairable nail in it. A spare would enable you to limp to the garage and have a £6 repair done on what is probably otherwise a sound tyre.

There's also the issue of whether a recovery service would come out to you if you had an unrepairable (with gunk) tyre issue. Some policies dont cover it. Does skoda assist?

I contacted Skoda UK about when the 2.0 TDI 140 will be replaced with common rail. Apparently information will be available in a month or so and cars will be orderable in 2-3 months

FWIW, currently-ordered Octavias are already coming without the spare. I ordered my new car in late March, I think, and that will have a spare - a friend who ordered one a couple of weeks later will get a car with only the wheels on the corners and none in the boot.

It's a shame if they're dropping things like the sunstrip in the name of saving money when most Skoda buyers would pay an extra £50 on the price of the car and still know they've got a steal of a vehicle compared to most other manufacturers' offerings.