I am new to this forum so hi everyone!

After many hours of searching for my new estate car I reckon I've found the perfect one. The skoda octavia vrs mk1. I have read lots of reviews on this car and I hear its faily cheap to run, reliable, and fast. Ticks all my box's !!.

The only problem is the size of the boot. I regularly move big bits of furniture and from the pictures I have seen the width between the wheel arches looks very narrow compared to my mondeo estate. Can anybody tell me the exact measurements. One other question is do the rear seats fold flat ?

Many Thanks

The rear seats do fold away nicely, BUT, there's a little raised ridge in the floor behind the seats, about an inch and a half, so the floor is not as flat. Access isn't as good as a MkIII Mondeo either, as there is a lip, and it is higher.

I'll have to measure later... bootful of cr@p, you see.

You can get the false floor for the boot to give you a level loading area. It means you can slide items in and out without having to lift them up to get over the boot lip.

Sounds promising. Did you make the false floor yourself ?

If I get time at the weekend I hope to have a look at a few that are on ebay.

Cheers guys.

The faulse floor is an optional extra i have one in mine my dog likes it she can see out of the windows now you cant go wrong with a vrs estate it ticks every box.

It would be greatly appreciated if somebody could tell me the measurements as the car I'm going to look at is 75 miles away and I don't want it to be a wasted trip. I have emailed a few of the garages but none have got back too me yet.

I know I need about 100 cm between the wheel arches and 200 cm length with the rear seats folded down. In the past I have had to take the back seats out to get stuff in. Thanks in advance.

Well, there's room for a Marshall 1960TV 4X12 and a Marshall JMP head side by side? Does that help?

Sorry, I'll go grab a tape measure.

Okay, you've got spot on 100mm max between the wheelarches, but the best you're going to get out of the depth is about 185mm, and that having taken OUT the rear seat bases (not the backs) and measuring to the back of the drivers seat. AND I have short legs, so anybody else driving will have less room.

Personally, given the trouble I've had with my vRS, I'd rather have another Mondeo, despite how easily they rust. And be careful with the back doors. If the window regulators are original to the car, they'll be quite weak by now. My bass case is often between the back doors (in the footwell) with not much space to spare (it's an awkward fit in the boot and I can't be bothered to put the seats up and down all the time) and it is very easy to break those dried up hardened bits of plastic. Within the space of two months, I broke both mine. And then one of the broke again as I had fitted an ebay repair kit, and one of the cables let go. For about three days I was driving around with both rear doors palletwrapped. It looked quality.

Don't get me wrong, I love my motor, and I'm sticking with it (mostly because I've plowed far too much money into it), but the reliability of these things isn't all it's cracked up to be. I'd rather go back to a Volvo and forego the power.

Thanks demonufo for the dimensions. Looks like certain things will be a squeeze then. Shame skoda didn't make it a bit bigger !

I did look at the T5 Volvo and the st mondeo but they both drink petrol. Does the vrs really average 35 mpg ?

When researching the car I did find lots of people complaining about the windows but that's about it. When you read up on mondeos they seem to have loads of problems. Touch wood I haven't had any yet, but I have only owned it for 3 months. Its just to slow. I need something faster.

If you're carrying large things regularly why not get a trailer and not mess the boot up?

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I had a mk2 octavia 4x4 estate im sure it was slightly bigger width and length (different floor pan)than my mk1 estate other options are audi a6 avant or vw passat or bmw 5 series these have big boots or maybe a vw t4 transporter .

Thanks demonufo for the dimensions. Looks like certain things will be a squeeze then. Shame skoda didn't make it a bit bigger !

To be fair to it though, it's only a MkIV Golf. They already made it a lot bigger. You're comparing it to a T5 and a Mondeo which are getting on for a foot wider on the outside.

MkII Octy (MKV) Golf is a little bigger on the floor pan, but still a medium sized family car.

Audi A6/Passat are expensive when it comes to suspension problems, and certain Passats were riddled with electrical problems and mapping problems from new.

5 Series can be serious tools. A lot of money, yes, but often not too much when you actually begin to appreciate how much better than the competition they actually are.