Just picked up my octavia today - inital thoughts.

[ed209]

Well i picked up the octavia today, I have christened it "the taxi". Its a diesel manual with the alcantara pack, reversing sensors, spare wheel, and variable boot floor.

Drove it the 60 miles from Carlisle and my initial thoughts are that i like it. Nice balance of firmness without too harsh a ride, a good bit of poke for overtaking, the build quality is spot on, stereo is ok and plenty of room for the dogs.

Best of all according to the computer even whilst playing a bit i averaged 47mpg, never got that from a car in my life!

Yup i knw its a crap pic, why i took it with the door open i have no idea

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Must say though I was impressed with the service of John Haynes from Telfords skoda. I ordered the car over the phone after ringing round a few dealers. He was spot on to deal with and havin9 asked for none of the usual sales BS i got no BS from him. His communication was great throughout and he was thoughtfull enough to get a spare rear reg plate done for me for my bike rack, this was without being asked and ecause he remembered that i had mentioned fitting a tow bar when on the phone. He also gave my dad a skoda cap free after he was cheeky enough to try and scrounge one.

A nice hassle free transaction without all the "i will just speak to my boss" rubbish!

[biggy7]

Congrats. Best colour by far

You going to tint the rear windows ?

[ed209]

Congrats. Best colour by far

You going to tint the rear windows ?

Probably not in the near future, maybe sometime.

[booke23]

Well i picked up the octavia today, I have christened it "the taxi".

You don't sound overly chuffed! Is this a company car?

[silver1011]

You weren't tempted with the Octavia MkIII behind yours then

[ed209]

You weren't tempted with the Octavia MkIII behind yours then

Nah, I recon the new vrs estate will be at least 6k more when it comes out. Then new one is nice but not 6k nicer.

It's not a company car, it's called taxi cos the lads at work call it that, let's face it there's thousands and thousands of Octavia taxis about.

I actually really like it so far

[mark1]

Its those taxi drivers who put skoda back on the map.

[BIG FERGI]

How true,one of my best pals has been a taxi driver for 15 years and he advised me to try an Octavia as my own car, & 2 1/2 years down the road have not regretted it.

[phillip]

Well i picked up the octavia today, I have christened it "the taxi". Its a diesel manual with the alcantara pack, reversing sensors, spare wheel, and variable boot floor.

Drove it the 60 miles from Carlisle and my initial thoughts are that i like it. Nice balance of firmness without too harsh a ride, a good bit of poke for overtaking, the build quality is spot on, stereo is ok and plenty of room for the dogs.

Best of all according to the computer even whilst playing a bit i averaged 47mpg, never got that from a car in my life!

Yup i knw its a crap pic, why i took it with the door open i have no idea

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Must say though I was impressed with the service of John Haynes from Telfords skoda. I ordered the car over the phone after ringing round a few dealers. He was spot on to deal with and havin9 asked for none of the usual sales BS i got no BS from him. His communication was great throughout and he was thoughtfull enough to get a spare rear reg plate done for me for my bike rack, this was without being asked and ecause he remembered that i had mentioned fitting a tow bar when on the phone. He also gave my dad a skoda cap free after he was cheeky enough to try and scrounge one.

A nice hassle free transaction without all the "i will just speak to my boss" rubbish!

Plenty of room for the dogs....???????.. :no: :no: ..if I had just bought that, they would be getting dragged behind on a very long lead !!!!!

Absolute stunner mate...enjoy !!!

Edited 28 March, 2013 by phillip

[silver1011]

Its those taxi drivers who put skoda back on the map.

I think it might have been Volkswagen

[greatdane]

nice choice mate.....I got the hatch bag for the rear so no hairs anywhere and it fits like a glove......................

perfect for the "thing" in our boot :giggle:its even got a piece what folds out so no marks on the bumper

[a_waugh]

That last picture looks photoshopped to make the dog appear massive. What a size.

Ed - Good stuff. Enjoy the new car.

[greatdane]

That last picture looks photoshopped to make the dog appear massive. What a size.

Ed - Good stuff. Enjoy the new car.

no he is massive here he is knocking crap out of the wife in garden

Edited 28 March, 2013 by greatdane

[littleade]

Plenty of room for the dogs....???????.. :no: :no: ..if I had just bought that, they would be getting dragged behind on a very long lead !!!!!

Absolute stunner mate...enjoy !!!

+1 -1 one of the last bargains by the looks of things. I begrudge allowing the family in mine, let alone doggie woggies.

Enjoy your new vRS- try not to bore your mates too much about how good it is

[R1 4GHA]

Nice motor, Exactly what im after but a few years older,

That dog is Huge!!

[knight_rider]

That is stunning! The octavia vrs is one of the very few estates that i would have!

[Chappers.]

The wife has just seen those pictures and was shocked at the size of your dog, in fact her remark was "Oh my god its a cow".

Makes our two Labradors look like lap dogs

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[FUBAR]

ed209 you have a quality name and a quality car in the (as said) best colour! Enjoy the heck out of it.

ps would you consider a colour coded grill surround like some of us have done? I was never happy with the big mirror on race blue on mine, personal thing though some like some not so much.

[ed209]

ed209 you have a quality name and a quality car in the (as said) best colour! Enjoy the heck out of it.

ps would you consider a colour coded grill surround like some of us have done? I was never happy with the big mirror on race blue on mine, personal thing though some like some not so much.

The woman has talked about this already, Im not sure personally. I will leave it standard for a while though.

Seeing as someone mentioned dogs, Here goes lol

Here is poppy our new pup we picked up on monday. She is just under 9 weeks now and is trouble with a capital T. We were not planning on getting her so soon after loosing our pup Lucy only 6 weeks ago at 4 months old but the right dog cropped up so the mrs went ahead and got her. We lost lucy to kidney failure, the cause of which remains to be seen.

Thing is every time she is naughty a keep calling her Lucy and sometimes when i look at her and think of Lucy it brings a tear to my eye. Poppy is a different dog and i am sure she will be loved to bits but I wish we still had Lucy.

And here is Poppy with Oscar our other lab.

[booke23]

no he is massive here he is knocking crap out of the wife in garden

Wow, I bet you know about it when he jumps on top of you in bed in the morning looking for his breakfast!

We lost lucy to kidney failure, the cause of which remains to be seen.

There have been a spate of dogs dying from kidney failure near where I live (south of the country). They had all been walked in a local forest beauty spot....they don't know what has been causing it, but it's definitely linked to that forest they were walked in.

[SkodAll]

Car looks great in the pictures. The colour is really nice! Enjoy it

[GrantS508]

ed209 you have a quality name and a quality car in the (as said) best colour! Enjoy the heck out of it.

And what you meant to type was that black is the best colour!

Ed that's a tidy looking car mate, glad to see you had no issues with Telfords!

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[Herschel]

no he is massive here he is knocking crap out of the wife in garden

LOL!

That's one of the funniest posts I've ever read.........on any forum.

[Eddie-NL]

Nice, enjoy

and the Oct2 vrs will be the last to have the exclusive Race blue paint

[ed209]

Well still loving the car, showing about 43mpg so far in its first tank.

Paid off the finance today so it worked out i paid £18122 for a brand new vrs cr manual estate with metallic, rear parking sensors, variable boot floor, alcantara pack, spare wheel and three years servicing (which vw confirmed i will still get) I am over the bloody moon with that! Thats against a full list price of £23400 so £5278 off list which isnt too shabby.

Lot of car for the money I think

(cue someone telling me i coulf have got it cheaper elsewhere lol)

Edited 9 April, 2013 by ed209