My girlfriend has the fabia vrs and now im after the octavia vrs mk1.

The closest one to me that is for sale is 30 miles away.

I was wondering if anyone in the Doncaster area has one that i may be able to test drive.

I dont fancy travelling 30 miles to find out i dnt like them.

Im driving a mondeo tdci zetec s at the min and looking to do a swap for an early mk1 octavia vrs... added that little bit of info just incase anyone fancied swapping.

Help would be very much appreciated

30 miles, you skinflint. :wonder:

Depends what side of donny you live, my parents live askern side of doncaster

Go and drive it yourself you may not like it plus it may have issues.

I would consider 30 miles to look at a car as 'local' / 'round-the-corner'

Having driven a mondeo td, if the Octavia in question feels worse, there must be something wrong with it

The first octy I test drove was in Manchester, the second in Durham, filter in the other makes inbetween which were in Leeds, Sheffield and hull I did quite a few miles hunting for the right Car, and that turned out to be the first one I saw in Manchester! lol

Im buyin a house so every penny counts at the min. iv have travelled to brighton to get a car but them days are gone now :( i live in bessacarr.

If every penny counts dont buy a vrs then

Edited 4 December, 201114 yr by Liverpool-Lad

I'm in Donny mate, I can take you out in mine if you like, mines standard apart from a shark stage 1 map. I'm over in Conisbrough

If every penny counts dont buy a vrs then

Yeah agree, madness selling a diesel for a vrs! Running costs are much higher!

+3. Not the most sensible choice of car. Regretting having bought mine, especially with the amount of money I've had to spend on putting it right. Even after replacing all shocks and bushes though on the vRS (standard shox, superpro bushes), I still have a feeling that the Mondeo TDCi Ghia X I test drove before I bought the vRS was much nicer handling and better balanced. It's just that the doors were rotting from the inside out, so I passed it over.

And then there's the fact that the petrol costs are okay if you drive reasonably steady on the vRS, but I've never managed to hold my foot away from the firewall long enough to find out. Idiots promptly get left standing when you've got the power to get past them, I find. Amazing how that happens, really. Was perfectly happy to sit behind them when I had the Volvo (or was I just fooling myself...)

So far, in 9 months, mine has proven to be a right money pit. :(

+4 dont buy a vrs if every penny counts, as said above they are expensive cars to run, admitted not as expensive as Impreza or evo but still not as cheap as a diesel,

I bought house with girlfriend couple of years ago and had a diesel and waited till we were in and settled before i got vrs as i knew what it would cost to run as i had a volvo 2.0t before i had diesel

Think ill leave it 4 a bit then :/ especially over xmas. lets see what the new yr brings

cheers guuys

I dunno if i'm in the minority here but my VRS has barely cost anything to run. Just needs the consumable service items that any other car would need.

Had the usual stuff done like Cambelt and water pump and even that didn't cost that much.

Admitedly petrol is around 70 quid every 2 weeks but petrol/diesel is expensive no matter what! I realise a diesel does better mpg but its all expensive in the long term.

I'm in Sheffield an all fella so if you do want a passenger ride feel free to come over this way. I also drove 2 Mondeo's of that age and they were both utterly ****. Knocks bangs and handling wise felt like a soggy boat.

I had a BMW 325i M sport before the vRS and before that a BMW 528i auto so the vRS is super economical to what I'm used to. Driving steady I can get very high 30s and sometimes low 40s to the gallon. I'm lucky enough to have a work van so only use the car on weekends , if it's dry lol

30 miles! Is that it? I was looking at going to birmingham and scotland! I live in dorset!

I think that the majority here are wrong, my vrs is very cheap to run.it will do 40mpg and after 4000 mile cost me nothing. Performance over mpg is a good balance I think, and a Mondeo tdci (130) I think yours is? There not that good on fuel if you drive anything over than boringly, plus there injector faults are shocking . They seem to nail there dmf all the time too. IMHO the decision is yours but buy the right car and all will be well

Mine has not been cheap to run, I am lucky that I don't do many miles.

I think that the majority here are wrong, my vrs is very cheap to run.it will do 40mpg and after 4000 mile cost me nothing. Performance over mpg is a good balance I think, and a Mondeo tdci (130) I think yours is? There not that good on fuel if you drive anything over than boringly, plus there injector faults are shocking . They seem to nail there dmf all the time too. IMHO the decision is yours but buy the right car and all will be well

40 surely must be all motorway cruising as my average is 31.5 i think at the mo.

40 surely must be all motorway cruising as my average is 31.5 i think at the mo.

Not all motorway, a lot of a roads though and I don't drive it like a fairy either

I got 56.8mpg out of my VRS over a 10 mile trip once. Admitedly that was the trip comp but that was fairly impressive.

Average around 35mpg. So its not awful.

I got 56.8mpg out of my VRS over a 10 mile trip once. Admitedly that was the trip comp but that was fairly impressive.

Average around 35mpg. So its not awful.

I get 39 on the trip mostly 14 mile a road trip to work (only last mile in built up areas) I use wifes lupo gti round town

I took a 3 hour train ride to buy my vRS, without even test driving one first.

Managed 42 mpg on a 180 mile trip but that is being extremely careful and hovering around 65-70 mph. Its really not that practical(and insanely dull) to drive like that constantly and there's no way you would get anyway near that on B roads or around town. Not a car to buy for economy.

try it buy it your love it all cars have there problems nothing a good service history and a few bits wont sort im spending money on mine but when its done it will be spot on i had an impreza and them buggers will cost you i know

Mine wasn't that cheap to run but that was mainly due to the age of it and parts wearing out, spent over £1000 on repairs before I got rid, it had to have new suspension all round, new front wheel bearings, new fuel lines, tyres etc etc all because I was racking up silly mileage on it. Like you I had to change cars because having my own place had to take priority over a car.

TBH the fuel consumption was very good for a 1.8 turbo petrol, I averaged about 34mpg while I owned it and while that's nowhere near the realms of diesels my 1.3 Felicia only gets 37mpg and I've had 1 litre cars before that have only got 40mpg. I could live quite easily with the fuel costs. Insurance and tax were a bit dear though.

I wouldn't be too fussed about driving 30 miles to test drive a car, especially if you drive a diesel at the moment, what is it going to cost you maybe £9 in diesel for the round trip?