Thanks all for all the help that I received on the forum in the last couple of years; I just sold my 2003 Octavia, 1.4 petrol. Maybe I bought a bad one; I was wondering what would go wrong next and lost my trust in it. In two years I had 2 coil pack failures, a leaking windscreen, (which my neighbour also had) a door that refused to open, (which again my neighbour had) a headlight motor failure, rear wiper not parking, and the day that I was to exchange it, the heater blower motor failed, which I had to repair before exchanging. So I went Japanese.

The car was little more than 4 year old when I bought it and I would have expected better, (my neighbours was a 06)

On the plus side, it was doing up to 47 mpg on a run, I liked the huge boot, and it handled well, the dealer was great and tried to keep my cost down.

Thanks all for all the help that I received on the forum in the last couple of years; I just sold my 2003 Octavia, 1.4 petrol. Maybe I bought a bad one; I was wondering what would go wrong next and lost my trust in it. In two years I had 2 coil pack failures, a leaking windscreen, (which my neighbour also had) a door that refused to open, (which again my neighbour had) a headlight motor failure, rear wiper not parking, and the day that I was to exchange it, the heater blower motor failed, which I had to repair before exchanging. So I went Japanese.

The car was little more than 4 year old when I bought it and I would have expected better, (my neighbours was a 06)

Yeah. My vRS has plenty of niggly faults and has been very expensive this year. I'm slightly regretting deciding that the extra money for an Accord was too much. OTOH, I never really looked into the practicalities of an Accord. I don't think I'll have another VAG car for a while. If I'm feeling flush when it's time to change it, I shall be seriously considering an Accord. If not, it will probably be a Mondeo.