Wardth can laugh , but back then when you had your Tipo, did you ever for one minute think you'd be driving a Skoda in the future????????? Believe me, 4 years ago, just weeks before I bought my 54 plate Octy, I would have either laughed at you or smacked you one if you'd dared to suggest my next car was a Skoda! (not that I'm in any way a violent person -- I just love my Skodas now!)

Mike

Mike

I have to confess I was a Fiat boy for years - small, yellow Cinquecento Sports (2 of them), Uno 1.1, Uno Turbo (hilarious - very little touched that especially with my "bleed valve" wound out!). My Dad still has a Panda Sporting 1.3 Multijet remapped to 95bhp etc etc. I love Fiats but the dealers have seriously let the brand down over the years. This is changing but so is the pricing and they are not necessarily cheap cars anymore.........hmm, ring any bells?!

Changed mine all round this year so just a little under 60k for both sets. I drive on country roads so they do get used.

Quite happy with the longevity but surprised they seemed to wear out at the same rate. Plenty of pad left on the front it was the disks that were worn.

Skoda wanted silly prices for OEM parts. Got Pagids all round from Euro Car Parts and fitted by an indy for less than a third that Skoda wanted.

IMHO the Pagids are better than the originals.

Used to go through two sets of front disks to a pair of front tyres on my old Clio. 20k for the disks 45k for the tyres.

Edited 18 June, 201214 yr by Aspman

Discs and pads all round replaced this week on mine, 2010 vRS with 71k miles.

SWMBO's mini needed them at 30k miles, must be made of chocolate.

The mini ones are quite soft, but since they are set ot put a service light on at mileage, then I'd caution on just changing them on the mini.

37k for the rears and 34k for the front IIRC are the intervals.

I replaced a front set of pads, while doing the rears too and while the rears were gone, then fronts had loads of meat in them and could easily have done another 5-10k miles.

Rear pads seem to ware as fast as front on Octavia ll.

This normally happens on cars with HILL HOLD

..........and there's your problem as to why they didn't last as they should -- putting Skoda Superb brakes on an Alfa!

Sorry, couldn't resist!

Mike

Yery good

I had 3 ! a 1.4 a 1.6 DGT a 1.9TD ,that was the fastest TD at the time, never had a problem apart from thermostat on the last one , which was cheap as chips to fix my self

My mate had a Tipo 1.6 which i used for delivering Chinese takeaway when i was young! Great car, loved the dash lights-it seemed so ahead of the times when your 17! I must say that it never really skipped a beat considering it was driven like it was stolen wherever it went. It was air bourne on many occasions going over speed bumps far too quickly at 11pm at night with a bag of sweet and sour and egg foo yung next to me! One quirk was that i could get in and start it with only a flat blade screw driver leaving no marks or signs of damage. I used to carry one in my pocket so that if i saw his car parked up i could move it round the corner or turn the car round etc to wind him up. Happy days!