Hello everyone, I am looking to get a new car and really like the look of a skoda octavia vrs 2.0 diesel. I have seen one for £15,500 in my local skoda garage its a 61 plate. My husband is not so keen one because of the price and because its a skoda!

Is there any well known problems with these cars? Are they generally good cars and is there anything to look out for?

I have fallen in love with it but its going to have to do us for the next 10 years hopefully.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Welcome to Briskoda.

Your husband needs to drag his perception about Skoda into the 21st century!

The Octavia is a VW Golf with a bigger boot and for about two thirds of the price.

I hope it wasn't him who chose your current Vauxhall Vectra, the Octavia is a worlds away!

There are very few (if any) issues with the latest CR170 diesel Octavia.

Have you any more details on the car you are looking at, mileage, specification etc.

There are some fantastic deals on the vRS right now (Blackline Special Edition), also Drive The Deal are about as cheap as it gets.

Test drove an Audi A4, BMW 320D and the Skoda CR VRS. The beamer was super to drive and the dealer very accommodating, I have to say but the car had no folding seat, a smaller boot space, and was more expensive than a new Skoda.

The Skoda's steering was exceptional, the car friendly to drive through the rush hour in Ipswich (it does have one and the roads all have roadworks stopping traffic) and it was great fun, when away from the traffic. Couldn't get to a dual carriageway but was assured it would come into its own there.

So, pound for pound the Skoda was the better allrounder, so I ordered a new VRS Blackiline, even tho' I should be old enough to know better.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201230479849009/sort/default/usedcars/fuel-type/diesel/price-from/500/model/octavia/make/skoda/onesearchad/used/onesearchad/nearlynew/onesearchad/new/postcode/iv137yt/page/2/radius/40/advert-type/standard-listing?logcode=ucnnp

Here is the link for it. What do you think?

Thank You for all your advise. I really love these cars and You never really see them about!

It's a great car. Your husband needs to drive one and get over his skoda hang ups.

Others better in the know but your actually not far off brand new VRS Blackline cost

As above for a little more you could get a brand new Blackline vRS which gets black alloys, parking sensors, sat nav and full leather.

They are also doing great finance deals with 3 years free servicing.

The dealer has a good chunk of cash in the used vRS you've linked so if you have your heart set on it make sure you bargain hard.

It is also factory standard, I'd want at least rear parking sensors, the vRS is bigger than you might expect!

Check this out:

http://www.skoda.co.uk/GBR/newcars/octaviavrshatch/vRSBlackLine/Pages/default.aspx

Price one up here too to give you an idea how cheap they can be had for...

http://drivethedeal.com/

If you are willing to pay that much it would be worth you looking at the deals coming up as they start to run out the Octavia II as you could probably get a new one for not much more.

I had a CR vRS before my last tsi vRS and was generally pleased with it although it lacked the sort of performance I really wanted and I just didn't get on with diesel but that was hardly the car's fault.

I've had three Octavia vRS's over 6 years and would recommend them to anyone. It's basically a Golf GTi / GTD with a massive boot for about 6/7k less.

There are people who won't buy one because it's a Skoda but I genuinely think these are people who lack the self confidence to carry it off.

I've recently changed to a VW Golf and I have to say the difference in terms of interior cabin quality is minimal.

I'm going to watch what I say here, I looked at the link and that's as far as I went. The octavia is a good car with some faults just like other cars. The problem I see is who is selling the car, that's all I'm going to say.

Looks a nice vehicle but as others have said it is not far off a new blackline in Candy White by the time you account for the upgrades. Interestingly I toyed with the idea of the petrol vRS, the dealer offered me a new one for £16 795 but in the end the vRS diesel was the better deal so I never actually got to test drive a petrol vRS.

I'm going to watch what I say here, I looked at the link and that's as far as I went. The octavia is a good car with some faults just like other cars. The problem I see is who is selling the car, that's all I'm going to say.

I'll say it, Arnold Clark don't have the best reputation.

There are lots of used vRS's out there.

Be sure to shop around.

I love the new blackline. If I wanted to take this out over 5 years finance its not possible apparently on brand new cars. Only on used cars. Great price for all you get.

£15,988 Gross VAT Qualifying

What does this mean? £16k before tax?

What does this mean? £16k before tax?

Nope it's inclusive. Just stating you could claim tax back if your vat registered I think.

I love the new blackline. If I wanted to take this out over 5 years finance its not possible apparently on brand new cars. Only on used cars. Great price for all you get.

Can you not arrange your own loan over 5 years?

I love the new blackline. If I wanted to take this out over 5 years finance its not possible apparently on brand new cars. Only on used cars. Great price for all you get.

Utter rubbish, I work in the trade. You can get 5 year finance on new cars easily. Just try a proper car deal, anyone that isn't Arnold Clark.

Get your husband down to drive that VRS (even to humour you) then show him the additional spec and price of the blackline. If Arnold Clarke won't put it on five years finance either get a loan elsewhere or find another dealer that will.

As has been said above skodas are very much part of the VAG family and share many parts. In the lower specced skodas I'll admit that it's a little easier to see where the cash has been saved but at the higher end of the range they are a lot more comparable and with 'free' leather and sat nav on te blackline there really is little or no difference.

To add to that, I took an Audi tech with me to help check out my ltd edition VRS. He was impressed with the carpet on the jumbo box as he had worked on so many Audis with an annoying rattle and it was because this carpet wasn't there, leaving the plastic of the seat belt catch to knock against the plastic of the arm rest. The official audi fix is to tape a piece of velvet to the back of the seat belt catch.......

yeah Alice i was told the same as you,cant get terms for 5 years, can't get the deal over 3 on the new octavia. All they mean by this is you dont get the £500 towards the deposit that Skoda are offering. have a shop around try comparison websites for car fianance or loans and you will find that you can get better fianance deals if you arrange your own over 5 years. best i found being a Halifax customer was 6.2%apr on a personal car loan. I will agree with Jonno though, i too had a diesel after owning a modified mk1 vrs and only kept it just over a year. performance from petrol to me anyway is better and not that far behind the diesel on mpg( only around 10miles more from the diesel) and remember you pay 4- 5 pence a litre more for diesel. i guess what im saying is if your heart is set on an octavia vrs test drive both before deciding. get your husband to get his head out the clouds and join the crowd, 5 vrs cars have been sold to friends and family off the back of me having one once they had a drive in mine they were sold too.