I am thinking of buying a Skoda Octavia, new, and am looking for advice.  I have never previously owned and am uncertain about a Diesel.  I typically drive about 8000 miles per year, mostly around town but about once a week I will do ten mile to twenty runs on dual carriageways and motorways and I will do about eight 300 mile runs and two or four 600 mile runs a year.

 

The Octavia in which I am interested is a 2.0 TDI CR DSG Estate.

 

Hello

Edited 25 October, 201312 yr by Tramell

Welcome to the forum. How many miles you do isn't such a big deal because the diesels hold their value so much better than petrols. It's the type of journeys you do which is important. If most of your journeys are short stop start ones you may be better off with a petrol, though the regular longer trips you do will help if you prefer a diesel. Have you test driven any yet, if not I would suggest you test drive both and see which you prefer and discuss your driving patterns with the dealer and go from there. DPF issues are vastly overstated especially in the vRS and are mostly due to them being fitted to the earlier PD engines which were never designed to run on them. Any issues are normally sensor related rather than with the DPF. The petrol tsi engines are very smooth and the more powerful (than the 1.4 fitted to the mkII) 140ps 1.4 is a belter.

Ha you edited your post to say your interested in the 2.0 cr. As above try that and the 1.4 petrol both are nice engines so it'll be what floats your boat that counts. Enjoy which every you choose

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Welcome,

A petrol engined Octavia might be a better option if you do alot of short journeys, as this sort if driving can cause problems with the DPF.