The New Pasty Wagon

[PastyBoy]

Hi 

 

Having had the settlement from my written off red Fabia burning a hole in my pocket for a few weeks the search for a replacement had gone down (and back up) almost every available avenue.

 

In the end head ruled heart and a "sensible" plan was hatched to get back on the road.

 

Those of you swiched on may have noticed the section this thread is in and the subtle clues in the title and first couple of lines, so without further ado I present the new PastyWagon

 

 

 

 

 

2010 Seat Ibiza FR TDI CR140

49,000 miles on the clock

All main dealer service stamps and purchased from a main dealer so all the benefits that come with that (warranty etc)

 

I actually drove a 2013 model the day after the accident at the Gloucester main dealer as it was the natural progression in my eyes from the PD130.

It drove nicely and was clearly the next generation of car than the Fabia or mk4 Ibiza but seemed a bit restrained on the styling wise.

This one was available at their sister dealership in Bristol and being an earlier car is much more aggressive looking but at that point is was a bit over priced.

Since then while investigating all the options I monitored it and the price dropped and dropped and eventually a deal was done.

 

I know it's the "safe choice" and that the Skdoa heads here we deride my decision to move from Czech to Espanol but I like to think it's driven by nothing more than the engine.
If Skoda put the 2 litre CR140 engine in a mk2 Fabia Monte Carlo we'd have bought one of those instead. But they didn't. So we couldn't.

 

Car has already performed admirably running from Bristol down to Bridgewater in convoy on the M5 to meet the inlaws and hand back their Caddy van.

Cruising at 70mph brings up less than 2000rpm and the road noise - despite the biger wheels and winter tyres - is much much improved over the Fabia.

 

 

 

 

Mrs Pasty is adamant that it is larger then the Fabia but being based on the same floorpan i can't see how it can be that much bigger.

I reckon the lighter, airier, more modern cabin design probably has a lot to do with it.

 

 

 

 

Standard kit is obviously up on the Fabia with cruise, aux in slot for the stereo, ESP, and full climate.

Also comes with a mental gear knob; which having test driven a '57 Leon FR 170; seems to be where the Spanish concenrate their design flair - a la this one

 

 

The wheels add an extra bit of punch to the styling although do look horrendously easy to kerb

 

 

although being 17s they do make the rear brakes look ridiculously small - the unpainted calipers also make me a little sad

 

 

While the rears are wrapped in dealer standard fit budgets (Accelera A1?) the fronts are fitted with Vredestein Wintrac Xtreme winters.

Not sure how they are going to hold up now the weather has got a bit warmer so might have an immediate bill for a pair of tyres (although i guess they'll last twice as long as on previous cars)

 

 

So there you have it.

While this is a "project" section i can't see this progressing too far.

The calipers will probably get hammerited in due course.

I may try to source some colour coded wing mirror covers as the silver ones on the car are a bit garish.

Other than that the car shall be remaining standard and used for not a lot more than ferrying me to work and back.

Idea is to keep this low mileage for as long as possible (I do less than 5k a year commuting) with Mrs Pasty piling another 50k on the Fabia over the next 3 or so years and then swapping over.

That said maybe when the warranty is up a Revo remap to 185bhp will be on the cards

[PastyBoy]

They say once you go black you never go back

 

 

I'd have actually been happy to buy any other colour Ibiza but it just so happened this one was black.

Better grow to love washing cars otherwise this will become the norm on our driveway

 

Mrs Pasty's car 1 week after a wash!

 

 

[vrsRob]

VERY nice Cliff!!

 

However "Mrs Pasty is adamant that it is larger then the Fabia but being based on the same floorpan i can't see how it can be that much bigger." the Octavia and Golf share the same floorpan and there is a fair difference there...I know THIS is a little different but you get the idea!

[jgraf94]

Very nice! certainly the better option of any fabia's in the particular age range!

[softscoop]

Looks great Cliff. The logical next step from the Fabia

 

I don't think I could live with that dashboard though, and where's the fuel and temp gauges?

[PastyBoy]

VERY nice Cliff!!

 

However "Mrs Pasty is adamant that it is larger then the Fabia but being based on the same floorpan i can't see how it can be that much bigger." the Octavia and Golf share the same floorpan and there is a fair difference there...I know THIS is a little different but you get the idea!

 

yeah i all honesty i wasn't 100% sure about reversing it into the garage which is already pretty tight for the Fabia

 

Parkers says

 

Fabia

3970mm Long - 1890mm Wide -1451mm High - 1315kg weight

Ibiza

4082mm Long - 1693mm Wide - 1441mm High - 1245kg weight

 

so not much in it.

Like i said the interior is clearly better designed and less "oppressive" than the all black mk1 Fabia VRS cabin

Also good to know that not only have i gained 10bhp from the factory but it's also a considerable chunk lighter.

 

The performance does feel different. The punch isn't as large as the 177bhp of my old remapped mk1 VRS but feel totally different to the peaky tiny powerbanded 130bhp of the standard black VRS.

Much wider spread of useable torque and nothing more than the tiniest hint of diesel clatter.

 

 

Looks great Cliff. The logical next step from the Fabia

 

I don't think I could live with that dashboard though, and where's the fuel and temp gauges?

 

That was the decision we came to Sam.

We couldn't really justify the extra purchase cost, tax, and insurance of buying a Leon FR nor do we really need anything that big

And i'm sure even if there is the patter of teeny tiny feet in the near future kids'd fit in - i mean it's got Isofix points which is a good indicator!

 

The built in radio is wierd. The red LCD is sooo bright i need to dig the manual out and find out if you can dim it a bit.

There is also nothing in the speedo/rev counter than what you can see.

The fuel is the collection of vertical bars up the left hand side of the central display.

I hadn't noticed the lack of temp gauge. You can flick through all the norm OBD stuff on the central screen and theres a temperature in there but didn't pay attention to if it was engine fluids or outside temp.

I did notice that when driving you can't see the overall mileage as it get replaced with out data in that central screen.

Probably all changeable but haven't yet done much investigation (was too busy driving it - on the motorway not in a fun way :()

[vrsRob]

and where's the fuel and temp gauges?

 

The fuel gauge is digital up the side and iirc, the temp gauge is blue when cold, disappears when normal temp and comes back red if overheating...

[@Lee]

Looks good, Cliff. Very nice indeed

[DanGum]

Nice one Cliff ! 

[vRS19TD]

Good choice Cliff. I was always a bit anti-Seat until i had one as a hire car in France last year and even being a bit on the basic side, i actually enjoyed the ride and comfort of it, especially having cruise control for the long motorway miles i did on one of the days.

[Wardy]

Nice choice. As you say, if Skoda had managed to fit this engine into the Fabia......  :wonder:

[XLBaconDoubleCheese]

I like it! Certainly the natural progression form a Fabia without going up a size. The 140 goes nice in a golf so must go eve better in a ibiza. Is it a CR? *Cough* Remap, 312's, coilovers, colour coded grille etc etc *cough*. Black and gold? Mini brimma? 

[Sparkly]

Congrats Pasty.  Just think, now you'll be able to get lots of helpful advice and meet some new friends on SCN

[Titanium_Man]

As stated already, great and natural choice for replacing the now old Pasty Wagon. 

[mdk1]

Looks very nice Cliff.

[grr666]

I like that Cliff.... 

Very nice to see you settled in a car again mate.

[PastyBoy]

Apparently it did over 50mpg on both drives in and out of work today.

Admittedly they were pretty traffic free but i had to really try to get that in the Fabia.

 

Have played with the menu option and OBD in car and read the entire handbook but i simply cannot find anything about engine temperature gauge

 

Our friends over on SCN seem to concur It would appear that maybe that site does have its uses - other than providing us with people to look down on.

http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=231468.

Although the best answers actually come from our own Tech1e!

[Coops]

 

although being 17s they do make the rear brakes look ridiculously small - the unpainted calipers also make me a little sad

 

 

 

 

Are you sure there are discs in there?

 

 

Nice choice of car BTW.

[grr666]

Give us a shout if you want a set of brand new OEM Volkswagen

nut covers for a tenner posted Paellaboy.

[PastyBoy]

The missing wheels nut covers are on my agenda of things to take up with the dealer in the very near future.

Are yours black or grey Garry?

[grr666]

Black mate, embossed with 'volkswagen'

they are the flush fit type complete with hand grenade pin removal tool. 

My set have never even been on a car. For 17mm wheel nuts iirc so should 

fit on your car snugly. 

I never realised they came in different colours, I thought those

in the pic were just a bit faded for some reason or had loads of wax/polish

residue on them. 

[PastyBoy]

I assumed that as they were ALL consistently grey that Seat must have had a grey option.

It could be that they could all black and all scabby!

[PastyBoy]

Grey nut covers right?

 

 

uh no

 

 

tried a bit of light persuasion to ease off whatever grey cleaning gunk it is but nothing doing.

 

might have to give them a proper scrubbing in due course.

 

i did spot some left over gold sprat from my wheels on the shelf should it refuse to shift

 

in other news the car is properly quick. and drives very undiesel like.

the power deliver seems strong, smooth and consistent with none of the "wait for it....wait for it.....boooooost" of the PD engine.

[BossFox]

Welcome to world of CR engines.

They really show their character with just a remap.

[grr666]

Grey nut covers right?

 

Spanky newness