As a car for the parents, and not for me, what do we think as a used buy ?

My reckoning is all the benefits of the normal 1.4 Fabia plus a bit more relaxed / torquier to drive, and a bit heavier on fuel ?

Rob

Only ever seen a couple, driven one and it made quite a pleasant drive.

and alot more tunable

Suprisingly the old 2.0 8V isnt all that tuneable, to much emission gubbins these days, remaps offer very little. They can be tuned but you need to change things like cylinder head and cam, gets expensive.

I think they're past the tuning stage but am I right in thinking that its pretty much like the 1.4 only you don't need to rev it as much ?

Rob

As a car for the parents' date=' and not for me, what do we think as a used buy ?

My reckoning is all the benefits of the normal 1.4 Fabia plus a bit more relaxed / torquier to drive, and a bit heavier on fuel ?[/quote']

Sounds about right. I'd imagine that they're not going to be thrashing the nuts off it, so you might find that it's pretty good on fuel and nice and relaxed on motorways. Have they driven each?

Chris

Chris

They're sold on the idea of the Fabia (looks, interior, build, ease of driving etc) and have been used to pretty quick cars with sub 8 second 0-60's and (more importantly) a decent mid-range.

They're not doing the mileage to justify the 100PD (my choice) over the 1.4 (roughly

Chris

They're sold on the idea of the Fabia (looks, interior, build, ease of driving etc) and have been used to pretty quick cars with sub 8 second 0-60's and (more importantly) a decent mid-range.

They're not doing the mileage to justify the 100PD (my choice) over the 1.4 (roughly

They're not doing the mileage to justify the 100PD (my choice) over the 1.4 (roughly

As mentioned Chris, my choice would be the 100PD - I nearly went to one myself straight from the Impreza, but went for a 4x4 Octy instead.

The very low mileage they are going to be doing (3000m p.a) plus the fact that the TDi (rightly) holds its value means that I reckon the 2.0 is a bit of a bargain used - especially as they aren't in demand at all.

Snag is finding one, just looked on autotrader, only 7 showing nationally!

And only five on Skoda's web site! :(

Already bagged one Negligible miles and a big reduction on the advertised price.

Fingers crossed!

I know what the 2.0 feels like - my father-in-law has it in his Octy... You're right on the money with your guess that it feels very torquey. It does. From low revs it goes like mad, betraying its GTI roots but it starts feeling exhausted over 4000 rpm. None of this multi-valve top-of-the-rev-range-hp stuff, it's bit like driving a diesel engine on petrol.

I test drove a 2.0l estate, I was rather impressed by it.

Are you after a hatch or estate ?

I know what the 2.0 feels like - it's bit like driving a diesel engine on petrol.

I think that should suit their driving style fine then, unless you mean its like driving a diesel car that you have put petrol in it !

First impressions are really good. A mini-Octavia or what !?

The engine is very refined, perky enough and the ride is typical (good) Fabia.

Also surprised at how economical it can be - in 100miles back home made up of M25 stop-start and a few 90mph blasts, its averaged 43mpg. I reckon that high 30's is going to be on the cards for my parents as an average, which is better than I expected. Pretty good in 4th on the motorway as well.

poor fuel econonmy and higher emissions are what let the 2.0 fabia down.

a 1.9TDI will give you around 21MPG more and cheaper road tax because its VED is A compared to the 2.0s C band.

0-62 times aren't much to bother about either. 9.9sec for the 2.0 compared to 11.6 for a 1.9TDI.

I've had my 1.9TDI return 72MPG and get to 60 in around 10.2 so there we go, I don't consider it a poor choice to the 2.0 despite some 15bhp deficit - if whoever is buying the car considers the cost of fuel important then consider the 1.9TDI, also servicing maybe more on a 2.0. Someone else may know that though..

Regards,

I've not driven the 2.0' date=' but the 1.4 feels very slow compared to the PD100, especially when overtaking. I guess that's down to not having a big surge of torque when the turbo kicks in. I guess it's down to which they prefer to drive

Chris[/quote']

Do you mean the 8v 1.4 or the 16v 1.4?

the 16v is quite nippy when between 3-4000 rpm. I'd agree the 8v is a bit glacial.

The downsides to the 2.0 would be slightly higher road fund license, fuel consumption and Insurance.

Does anyone know if the 2.0 8v is the same lump VW use in the 2.0 VW Passat?

I would stay away from the 1.4, unless they've improved it since I test drove one. You'd press the accelerator and there was like a delay of about .25 to .5 seconds between the car actually moving. All Skodas are fly-by-wire on the throttle that we know, but for some reason, the time it takes to register that fact on the 1.4s seems quite an age compared to the other higher spec'd engine models.

Regards,

Does anyone know if the 2.0 8v is the same lump VW use in the 2.0 VW Passat?

I would assume that it is the same engine as used in the Golf, Beetle and Passat etc.

I would probably concur with that - they seem to migrate a lot of engines across the fleet..

Regards,

Do you mean the 8v 1.4 or the 16v 1.4?

the 16v is quite nippy when between 3-4000 rpm. I'd agree the 8v is a bit glacial.

It was the 16v one :sofahide:

Chris

SkodaTDI - Please refer to my earlier comments - the choice for my own car would be the 100PD because I do the mileage to (almost) justify the extra outlay year for year, spec for spec that a TDI costs over a 1.4 16v, irrespective of its far better mid-range.

Is the 2.0 you bought for your parents an estate or a hatch ?.

I test drove an 02 estate a few weeks back and was very impressed by it, it was also very clean and only 8500 miles on it.

I would have liked an estate but have just bought a 2.0 hatch, same year but lower miles for

The hatch is also banded in tax band 'c' as apposed to 'd' for the estate, not sure why that is really ?

The CO2 emissions figure for the 2.0 Hatch is 185g/km and that for the Estate is 187g/km - probably due to the engine needing to work a bit harder because of the extra 55kg of vehicle weight. Band C covers the range 166 - 185 g/km and D is over 185 g/km.