Evening All

When I bought my 2005 Octavia 1.9 Tdi PD this summer, I had spent much time and effort on research.

One of the things that attracted me about the Octavia with the 1.9 TDi PD engine was its low taxation class, ie Class D, £100 per year, 121 - 130 cO2 group. Today I got my tax notification and it has been classified as having 138 g/km and charged as a class E vehicle, £120 per year.

Now in the summer I remember checking this on the government site and you had to input your reg number, and it did indeed confirm it was class D - though on the cusp at 130 g/Km.

Today I again checked it on the gov site. It seems to have changed. You no longer input your registration, but vehicle details.

Under Skoda it gives a choice of: "Octavia" or "New Octavia" and under diesel it gives 1.9 TDi 90 bhp for the former and 1.9 TDi 105 bhp for the latter - but note no mention of PD - and now says that the latter is 143 g/km. More confusion - this would make the 105 bhp engine a class F and £135 per year.

WHat the hell is going on !!? Have they screwed up. Can anyone shed light on this? It strikes me they have made some changes and got the data mixed up.

Can anyone tell me what they have been paying for their mK2 1.9 PD Tdi in the last year or so ?

What does your V5C state the g/km as ?

Your tax will go on what your V5C states.

You can check it at the link below. Click Vehicle Enquiry

https://www.taxdisc.direct.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/app/home/intro

Your tax will go on what your V5C states.

This is correct as each car is different, optional extras effect the final figure. I used to have a PD140 Elegance Octavia with standard equipment and it was taxed just into the upper end of band it was in (lower level) whereas most were in the next band up. Reg number for lookup was AE55 BTU.

So the PD140 2.0 I Had, came in at 149g/Km making it £135 to tax now.

Well indeed the V5C does say 138 g/km - which is obviously the value stored in the government database and reflected in my taxation notice.

However, I am certain when doing my research, that I obtained a value from the database of 130 g/km - I specifically made a note of it. Still perhaps I was dreaming, so there we are. Its the same class as my previous Rover 75 CDT.

Also Mr Holroyd concurs with his, so its correct, however I'm not sure luck comes into it. I specifically checked automatic gearboxes and I also found out from memory, that a Manuel gearbox but with the 4 wheel drive arrangement is also in a higher taxation class. Can anyone explain why an automatic gearbox or 4 wheel drive gearbox causes an identical engine to produce more carbon dioxide in its combustion products?