http://www.cargiant.co.uk/Skoda/details-560214-Skoda.asp?viewtype=0

Handsome car with Pegasus alloys, MFSW and Maxidot!

Bargain!

wow that is a bargain!

Nice looking motor for the money!

just add a £400 blue fin remap et voila... a 200+ bhp Q car!

Reckon I could trade mine in for a straight swap?

I am itching for a 1.8TSI

Does look good. Maxidot, msfw, 17"s. Nice car at a good price.

Reckon I could trade mine in for a straight swap?

I am itching for a 1.8TSI

Give them a call.. they do part exchange

Its a very rare car in that spec almost a L& K without leather and ESP (which can give rise to ABS issues)

Looks like shes finished in "brilliant silver" too which is another extra,has an almost aluminium look and feel to it!

IMHO anyone who drove a 1.8 Tsi would be very happy with it and not bother with the vRS

Economy... well I get at least 160 miles per 4 gallons everytime

No timing belt to worry about

No DPF to worry about

The title says it all :love:

That's a bargain price! I was under the impression that those sort of car places were hard to buy a car from at the stated price if you for example turned up asa cash buyer as they like to arrange finance and make a killing on that offsetting the price of car?? A mate bought a 57 plate 1.9 PD TDi Octy II from them and after his finance is all paid off we worked out the 3.5 year car was going to cost him £19600 with 57000 miles! Was gutted for him tbh. But screen price was a lot lower on face of it.

The Pegasus alloys always finish the pre-FL Octavia off very well.

I also have a soft spot for the silver.

My first mod would be to colour code the black rubbing strips and add the small discreet lip spoiler found on Sport models.

After that it would be 100% sorted for me.

I notice the £7299 L&K is still coming soon, thats been a lot of weeks(>6) now, think it might be in the shop!

Almost gutted, if this 1.8 had been DSG would have been well anoyed, got a 1.9pd a couple of weeks back 3k more but only 29k on the clock.

they only have a few skoda tucked away at the back of one of the sheds when we visited end july the stock looked OK mostly superbs then..

Not a bad price I could get mine company one for around £4k mark and thats a 60 plate with 97,500 on the clock and its never missed a beat.

I dont see how this one is a rare car though as apart from the wheels and M/F steering wheel its preety much standard.

Do they operate from a central w/house or is it at the registered London address?

For a 2008 model that does seem pretty good.

Something funny about the reg number OU08XCL though - it does not come up from the data base. OU is Oxford

on DVLA and re taxed feb this year not in line with that late March registration

Vehicle enquiry

The enquiry is complete.The vehicle details for OU08 XCL are:

Date of Liability 01 02 2013

Date of First Registration 28 03 2008

Year of Manufacture 2008

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1784cc

CO2 Emissions 176g/Km

Fuel Type PETROL

Export Marker N

Vehicle Status Licence Not Due

Vehicle Colour SILVER

Vehicle Type Approval M1

Edited 28 August, 201213 yr by P&N

Paying a further £2,300 on top just for the L&K is madness...

I know where I would rather put my £2,300 .... in the bank ready for the next car!

Well after looking at a few cars over the last couple of weeks i'm becoming very accepting that everything for sale ive seen is a waste of time. Its overpriced and has too many problems. And I thought it was a buyers market!

I keep increasing my budget to try and find something half decent and test drove a FL cr vRS whicg drove great but it was a 2009 with over 84,000 miles. Price was under £10k and the potential deal was a fair price as the car was actually in very good condition and it drove spot on (a very tight drive with no rattles but I was expecting more from the cr engine).

More than I want to spend really. Anyway at the price of this car I think i'm going to have to start considering another petrol and a hatch instead of estate. This looks like a realistic price.

1. Is ESP standard on the Elegance? From the pictures it looks like this one has ESP??? Will this 08 model suffer from the tevez mk60 ESP issue?

2. Also when did the air compressor get changed so they arent going to cause a problem?

VED is £215 which is the only downside really. Urban mpg is reported at 28mpg but what is a real world figure for short journeys doing the school run and a short commute?

Keep your £10K and PCP it.

That car is a bargain for what you get, the best value Skoda there is.

Near VRS performance

No engine problems

The best toys

All for a paltry £4999!! what more could you ask for?

For better MPG around town you have to spend considerably more... so whats the point???

As far as I know ESP is on the L & K, the Elegance has only ASR and no such worries with the Teves issue, I have an Elegance.

Tax maybe £215 but there are no reported problems with a Tsi engine , its lovely free revving petrol, so quiet you forget its switched on!

If you do mainly short journeys any car will not be cheap, I get 30 around town...So I avoid these short runs if I can.

The last 7,000 miles I have averaged 41 mpg and that is excellent for such a car and price!

I have thought about that and was even discussing in general with my dad today.

On pcp for example lets say the monthly payments are £250.

£250 x 12 months = £3,000 a year

£3,000 x 3 years = £9,000

+ what ever deposit you put down £1-£2k.

That cant be good economics?

Yes on a new car it looks better as you lose a fair amount in depreciation anyway (lets say on a Octavia CR vRS approx £5-£6K on full purchase price over 3 years).

My business head just says whats the point of that financial outlay if you dont have an asset at the end of it?

That car is a bargain for what you get, the best value Skoda there is.

Near VRS performance

No engine problems

The best toys

All for a paltry £4999!! what more could you ask for?

For better MPG around town you have to spend considerably more... so whats the point???

As far as I know ESP is on the L & K, the Elegance has only ASR and no such worries with the Teves issue, I have an Elegance.

Tax maybe £215 but there are no reported problems with a Tsi engine , its lovely free revving petrol, so quiet you forget its switched on!

If you do mainly short journeys any car will not be cheap, I get 30 around town...So I avoid these short runs if I can.

The last 7,000 miles I have averaged 41 mpg and that is excellent for such a car and price!

Thanks for the reply.

The car will be my wifes who will be using it daily for the school run and her commute to work. I would say a maximum of 20 miles a day made up of 4 x journeys. Around 3-4,000 miles a year which mainly consists of a full tank of diesel per month.

I understand the diesel v petrol arguement and I can sit down and visually explain it to her but at the end of the day her main concern is about daily fuel running costs and she cant afford to fill a petrol car every week (which she has to do with mine ). I will buy the car, tax and insure it and generally pay the maintenance costs to so all she has to do is fill it with fuel but she cant afford to do that every week :think:

What is the point of owning a depreciating asset anyway?

Well its simple then.... pay more for a car that is slightly cheaper per week to run!

20 miles a day is 80 miles a week

I do 160 miles a week and put £25 in mine,so she will be filling only twice a month?

Don`t be fooled into the diesel is always cheaper....

They cost more in the first place

So you shell out more initially to save a few quid each week

All cars depreciate

My maths are telling me this: -

My wife and I have debt. (As do we all, well ok, MOST people)

Option 1 - save for 3 years to buy a new car. Problems with this approach - I have 3 years where my car could cost me a big repair bill. By the time I have saved up the £11K i'd need to buy this vRS for £16K - it would be long gone as the "new" vRS would be out by then and I'd have to save more to buy a brand new one. (I'm comparing having a new car on PCP here, so this is fair game). My car will also have suffered another 3 years of depreciation, thus I'd have to save even more. Suddenly, paying cash for a vRS now looks like it'll take me 4-5 years if I were to only put aside £300 a month (I don't think I could get away with saving up for one year and paying for a new car despite the fact that I could do so. All must be done over same period to make it fair imo)

Option 2 - take out another loan. This would add another £339 a month to our outgoings, on top of the current debt that we have. This would take our debt up another £11K as well. OK it would be unsecured so if there were to be any problems then I could easily sell the car and at least cover the loan in the first two years (just) if the depreciation doesn't take the mickey. By the time I get to the end of the three years, I would have effectively outlay nearly £17K if you include the cost of the credit, and come trade in time (3 years) I'd be laughed at by a dealer and wonder why my £17K asset is now £9K

Or

Option 3 - Chop in both cars. Free up £15K of cash in the equity of the two cars my wife and I own. Use £4K of this to pay for two deposits. I have £11K left over. This pays ALL debt for us - so our outgoings would now be £500 a month for two PCPs. We can then save the rest of our disposable income (~£1300 a month) and enjoy two brand new, worry free cars. After three years, hand both back, find another £4K (which we would have *easily* saved over the 36 months) and enjoy two brand new cars again.

I've worked out the savings for each option, and after Option 3 - We would be £1000 *better off* than option 1 and 2 - and we have been using two new cars during those 3 years.

Edited 1 September, 201213 yr by g_tee

Well its simple then.... pay more for a car that is slightly cheaper per week to run!

20 miles a day is 80 miles a week

I do 160 miles a week and put £25 in mine,so she will be filling only twice a month?

Don`t be fooled into the diesel is always cheaper....

They cost more in the first place

So you shell out more initially to save a few quid each week

Definitely - I worked this out - it would take you 18,000 miles a year over 3 years to break even now.

I would say that Diesel vs Petrol is now a preference, not a money saving method. What with DPF worries etc - I'd prefer a petrol.

Unless of course I was doing 25K-30K per year or more then obviously diesel makes sense. For short distances, I don't agree.