Hi all,

I have been reading posts on this site for a while now, so thought i would register and say Hi!

I have a 2 month old Monte Carlo 1.2TSi 105bhp in white and it is such a great car, the only let downs are the horn and the lights (nighttime driving with dipped beam is poor on poorly lit roads) and the lack of poke when you need to overtake quickly, i was spoilt with power on my previous car Subaru GB270, which i sold as it was too costly to run & insure (Tax £445, fuel low 20's, insurance WOW) i now wish i had bought the vRS as it would be a happy medium between the 2 cars.

Good news, just part/exchanged my Monte Carlo today, for a 2010(10) vRS in Blue with White roof and some nice optional upgrades fitted, picking it up on Friday.

Cheers

Gaz

Hi all,

I have been reading posts on this site for a while now, so thought i would register and say Hi!

I have a 2 month old Monte Carlo 1.2TSi 105bhp in white and it is such a great car, the only let downs are the horn and the lights (nighttime driving with dipped beam is poor on poorly lit roads) and the lack of poke when you need to overtake quickly, i was spoilt with power on my previous car Subaru GB270, which i sold as it was too costly to run & insure (Tax £445, fuel low 20's, insurance WOW) i now wish i had bought the vRS as it would be a happy medium between the 2 cars.

Good news, just part/exchanged my Monte Carlo today, for a 2010(10) vRS in Blue with White roof and some nice optional upgrades fitted, picking it up on Friday.

Cheers

Gaz

Welcome and wow, 2 fabias in 2 months, thats some going and probably some hit in depreciation!

There is a thread on here for both the poor lights and a horn upgrade....

Welcome and congrats on the VRS! I quite like the monte 105 tsi I thought it was a cracking engine and quite pokey!

Welcome and wow, 2 fabias in 2 months, thats some going and probably some hit in depreciation!

There is a thread on here for both the poor lights and a horn upgrade....

It was a bit painful but my own fault for being fussy.

Welcome and congrats on the VRS! I quite like the monte 105 tsi I thought it was a cracking engine and quite pokey!

It is a cracking engine and for 90% of the time it does everything just fine, but even at 43 i am not ready to hang up my boy racing gloves just yet, lol.

well when the oppotunity presents itself it would be great to see some pics of your new purchase

Welcome to the club mate and in the best colour

well when the oppotunity presents itself it would be great to see some pics of your new purchase

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Nice exchange, i'm sure it hurt the wallet but you'll be alot happier as its got alot more power to boot and still fairly economical.

As said, pics be nice

Hi & welcome the vRS is very very good car you love it :yes: & it looks good in race blue have fun on friday

Thanks for the nice welcome and i will get a pic of it posted when i can.

Cheers

Welcome to the vRS club. Look foward to the pictures.

Here you go folks, a pic of my new car.

Looks good....but still odd, why do they look so tall? :S

Looks good....but still odd, why do they look so tall? :S

It's an optical illusion, because there so MEAN!

Nice looking motor mate

nearly identical to mine mate good choice

they look tall but parked next to the misses 308 its actually lower

Welcome to the vRS-owners club, a cracking engine in a chassi with great potential really!

Actually love all the colors on the Fabia!

Looks good....but still odd, why do they look so tall? :S

It's because they are tall!

But there is an solution to that too .

MY wifes fabia parked next to my mx5 it looks like a block of flats

Very nice looking vRS :p

I picked up the vRS yesterday and it is a superb drive a nice combination of power and economy, i say this as my Subaru GB270 i sold a few months ago went like stink when you wanted it too, but even taking it easy which is 95% of the time fuel economy was poor and car tax being £445 and expensive servicing costs coupled with very high insurance made it an impractical car to live with on a daily basis.

So i sold the Subaru and bought a Fabia Monte Carlo 1.2TSi 105 bhp, cheap tax, cheap insurance and quite good fuel economy for a petrol engine, i picked the 105bhp model as a car has to have some get up and go to keep me interested, but unfortunately it did not excite me and overtaking was quite scary as it took too long to get the maneuver done as quick as possible.

So i decided to try the Fabia vRS as this is still cheap to tax and insurance is not excessive and it can return fairly decent fuel economy for normal daily driving, it has only been 24hrs and i think i have found the happy medium i was looking for, as it is itching to drive quickly and overtaking is now swift and keeps you out of the death lane as little as possible.

Remap it and you'll not be missing the Hp of the suburu.

My mate has a blobeye impreza STI WR1 with 335hp, and apart from a flat out pull to redline in every gear ( where he mullers me) he can't keep with me on the in gear pulls in the midrange. His has to be in the power band to go anywhere due to lag, where mine pulls hard irrelvant of rpm.

I reckon next year at santa pod ill be able to match his best 0-60 of 4.8 seconds, I was only 0.8 seconds off earlier this year with std tyres in crap conditions. I reckon I can get within 0.5 seconds of his 1/4 mile time as well which will put me at about 13.4-13.5 seconds.

He gets about 15mpg, I easily hit 3× that amount.

Although id love his grip levels

Thinking about it, my car has almost the same power to weight ratio as the GB270 as well

Remap it and you'll not be missing the Hp of the suburu.

My mate has a blobeye impreza STI WR1 with 335hp, and apart from a flat out pull to redline in every gear ( where he mullers me) he can't keep with me on the in gear pulls in the midrange. His has to be in the power band to go anywhere due to lag, where mine pulls hard irrelvant of rpm.

I reckon next year at santa pod ill be able to match his best 0-60 of 4.8 seconds, I was only 0.8 seconds off earlier this year with std tyres in crap conditions. I reckon I can get within 0.5 seconds of his 1/4 mile time as well which will put me at about 13.4-13.5 seconds.

He gets about 15mpg, I easily hit 3× that amount.

Although id love his grip levels

Thinking about it, my car has almost the same power to weight ratio as the GB270 as well

Superb my friend do you have the 1.4TSi vRS? who did you use for the remap and what are you now getting?

I agree with you that a subaru has to be worked but when in the right band and with the 4WD it is an awesome tool, but the skoda is not to be underestimated.