After 4 years of faithful service from my 1.8T 4x4 estate mk1, i set about looking for a 2.0 petrol VRS estate in February this year and am still looking! Are these cars really that rare?

 

Finding any VRS estate between £5000 and £8000 with reasonable mileage (say under 70,000) seems hard enough and invariably they are diesels, petrol ones seem to come up for sale once in a blue moon and any that do, seem to sell within 24 hours! Indeed one came up for sale locally to me at a skoda dealer, it was advertised as "coming soon", that was thursday just gone, i rang up this morning to find out the car had already been sold unseen before it has even arrived at the dealership...? Has anyone else had a similar experience, i really wish there was something else comparable with 200bhp, roomy and decent economy but there just doesn't seem to be.

 

For the past few months i have been searching Autotrader, Ebay, and Briskoda on a daily basis and pistonheads at least once a week but not much seems to come up on there.

 

Any suggestions welcome :think:

 

 

 

 

Up your budget a bit and there are a few about. I don't know why there is such a drought in your price bracket! Happy hunting.

I'm having the exact same problem, loads of Tdi vrs estates but no petrol models about

Diesels vastly outnumber the petrols, they hold their money alot better and are cheap to run by comparison. Not as fun granted but the head-led choice for most.

my dealer lent me a diesel vrs estate it was fast for a diesel but with the hard ride and 18s wheels  

so i whent for the 1.6 tdi cr se estate softer ride but i now sumone who drives cop cars and they say

the vrs are better than the bmw

I'm having a bit of the same problem and I am looking for a saloon! Budget is a little more (topping out at £11k) but there doesn't seem to be many about. maybe my criteria are too strict but I know what I want: FL pref a 10 plate, Petrol, Manual, FSH, Sub 60k - we will reduce it by 3k a year on average, Bluetooth (I assume this means maxidot unless it has been retrofitted?).

 

The only thing I wasn't bothered about was the colour. I like the blue but Wife insists that its the grey (and since we are getting this to be the arrival wagon I'm not arguing)!

 

Good luck in your search!

Just did a search on Autotrader

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/search/used/cars/skoda/octavia/postcode/me158hb/radius/1501/keywords/vrs/fuel-type/petrol/sort/default/price-to/8000/body-type/estate/onesearchad/used%2Cnearlynew%2Cnew/price-from/5000

Maybe we're all holding on to them because dealers give such shocking trade in figures for the petrol.

 

When mine was 4yr, old 2yr ago, I was only getting offered £4500 for my hatch. The few that were on the forecourt were for sale for anything up to £11.5 at the same time.

After 4 years of faithful service from my 1.8T 4x4 estate mk1, i set about looking for a 2.0 petrol VRS estate in February this year and am still looking! Are these cars really that rare?

 

Finding any VRS estate between £5000 and £8000 with reasonable mileage (say under 70,000) seems hard enough and invariably they are diesels, petrol ones seem to come up for sale once in a blue moon and any that do, seem to sell within 24 hours! Indeed one came up for sale locally to me at a skoda dealer, it was advertised as "coming soon", that was thursday just gone, i rang up this morning to find out the car had already been sold unseen before it has even arrived at the dealership...? Has anyone else had a similar experience, i really wish there was something else comparable with 200bhp, roomy and decent economy but there just doesn't seem to be.

 

For the past few months i have been searching Autotrader, Ebay, and Briskoda on a daily basis and pistonheads at least once a week but not much seems to come up on there.

 

Any suggestions welcome :think:

 

Be patient mate.

 

It took me 5 months to locate the right vRS. I was literally looking at Autotrader, Pistonheads, eBay, Parkers, Local Deadlers etc. every day for this period of time.

 

FYI -  I was looking for a Metallic Blue, 2l Petrol, Hatchback with low mileage and ~£6k. Got one in the end from a very decent guy, with 48k mileage, xenons etc for £5.9k, so was very happy. So glad I waited as it's everything I wanted

 

Edit: Also worth noting that there wasn't 1 vRS in that spec within 60miles for that whole time, so was very frustating!

Edited 23 July, 201312 yr by Wardy-

In a way nice to know I am not looking for something to out of the question just that they are hard to come by. Willing to travel to get mine so looking nationwide.

 

Shocked by the trade in value. £4.5 seems incredibly low for it to then to sit on a forecourt for more than double the price...

In a way nice to know I am not looking for something to out of the question just that they are hard to come by. Willing to travel to get mine so looking nationwide.

 

Shocked by the trade in value. £4.5 seems incredibly low for it to then to sit on a forecourt for more than double the price...

 

 

Yeh definitely worth not limiting yourself by location. I ended up travelling 1hour 30 each way to collect mine.

 

If it's the right car, make the journey

Shocked by the trade in value. £4.5 seems incredibly low for it to then to sit on a forecourt for more than double the price...

 

Dealers outright said they did not want a large capacity petrol car that wasn't an Audi, BMW, Merc or GTI/R32.

 

They sit on the forecourt for too long apparently.

It's almost enough to put me off on resale but you get so much for your money in the first place. I think selling privately would be the way to go if I wanted to move it on in the future then!

I guess it depends on how long you want the car for?

 

My intentions when buying this year, were to keep the car for as long as possible. Obviously wouldn't make much sense buying one soon, if you were considering shipping it out in the near future, mainly because of the arrival of the new vRS.

In praise of the car it's pretty much shrugged off 70k miles.

 

Suspect the bodywork will go long before the engine gives up.

I guess it depends on how long you want the car for?

 

Well I have had my last car for near enough 6 years so I'm going to say I'll be holding onto it for a good while 

Right we went and test drove this at the weekend. 

Octavia MkII VRS

 

We are now 100% set on a vRS. Initially I was put off this one by the fact that it had a DSG box and I had all but convinced myself that we needed a manual. That has now been totally blown out of the water.  My wife preferred the DSG box and if I'm honest that would put my mind at rest for when she drives it.

 

I understand that this will have an impact on the MPG (anyone know how much?) But to be honest it just felt so well put together and the changes so smooth. They have come along way from the jerky, laggy changes of old.

 

Had a look round the car which if I am honest was pretty immaculate (Wife loved the red though I'm still not sure) and talked figures with the dealer but had to walk away in the end as the wife pointed out that the spoiler was showing signs of serious sun bleaching!!! Has anyone else had this issue with solid colours? Is this something that can be remedied? With some rubbing the original colour was visible underneath (almost as though the paint had dried out?) Initially I thought it was a bad detailing job but I'm not sure. This wasn't showing anywhere else on the car...

 

Dealer seemed to think that it had a cambelt that would need changing at some point (rather than a chain) so wasn't going to trust the service interval he was recommending. Anyone know what the actual figure should be? Just trying to scope out immediate costs.

Cheers

 

That's a TSI so chain driven. I believe DSG is around 2 MPG less than manual.

Edited 30 July, 201312 yr by Mr G 76

Right we went and test drove this at the weekend. 

Octavia MkII VRS

 

We are now 100% set on a vRS. Initially I was put off this one by the fact that it had a DSG box and I had all but convinced myself that we needed a manual. That has now been totally blown out of the water.  My wife preferred the DSG box and if I'm honest that would put my mind at rest for when she drives it.

 

I understand that this will have an impact on the MPG (anyone know how much?) But to be honest it just felt so well put together and the changes so smooth. They have come along way from the jerky, laggy changes of old.

 

Had a look round the car which if I am honest was pretty immaculate (Wife loved the red though I'm still not sure) and talked figures with the dealer but had to walk away in the end as the wife pointed out that the spoiler was showing signs of serious sun bleaching!!! Has anyone else had this issue with solid colours? Is this something that can be remedied? With some rubbing the original colour was visible underneath (almost as though the paint had dried out?) Initially I thought it was a bad detailing job but I'm not sure. This wasn't showing anywhere else on the car...

 

Dealer seemed to think that it had a cambelt that would need changing at some point (rather than a chain) so wasn't going to trust the service interval he was recommending. Anyone know what the actual figure should be? Just trying to scope out immediate costs.

Cheers

 

 

The DSG will lose you a few MPG from what I've read, but nothing to concern you too much. Good shout on going for a red one, which apart from Blue (bias opinion ), they look great.

 

Looks like it has a good spec with the xenons, sensors and maxi dot so all good there.

 

When was the cambelt last changed?

 

 

1 other thing I noticed from the advert, is that you should invest in some new tyres. Those SP Sport Maxx tyres are pretty poor and you should be looking at some Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2 / Conti Sport 5's, otherwise it degrades the performance a lot. Also worth noting the MPG figure will be slightly reduced because of the 18" profile, but again, it's not going to be significant.

Thanks to both on that. I can manage to lose 2 - 3 mpg on an auto. 

 

As Mr G 76 points out - it is chain driven so wouldn't have a cam belt to change. (Also with only 14k miles on the clock it wouldn't need a cambelt change - 4 years or 40k miles I think)

 

It was the fact that he was talking about a cambelt as a cambelt (rather than in the generic way) that put me off him. Car seems well specced and cheap at that price which is why I am worried about the paint issue. Could this be a sign of a bigger problem?

Right - we took the plunge and put a deposit down yesterday ready to pick it up Tuesday!! So excited to get my hands on it!

Right - we took the plunge and put a deposit down yesterday ready to pick it up Tuesday!! So excited to get my hands on it! ImageUploadedByTapatalk1375603985.335834.jpg

Looks well! Get it lowered, tint the rears and black gloss the alloys, that would be the biz!