Hi all

Previous owner of a Superb 2 and 2 Fabia 2s. Ordered one of the special offer Roomsters a fortnight ago and expecting it to arrive within the next fortnight

Hi,

I hope you like your new Roomster.

Welcome to the fold

Enjoy your Roomster 

Thanks. I'm really looking forward to it

It's got to Grimsby...

It's like when you were a kid waiting for Christmas Day isn't it!

I had to wait 8 weeks for mine and when I got the news "It's in Grimsby" it was like trying to fall asleep on Christmas Eve.

Then "It's here, need a day or so to prep it, when do you want to pick it up?"  I went down to see it parked up with all the wrappers on.  It was like Christmas morning but you can't open your pressies until everyone is together....  AAGH

Don't worry.  Santa is on his way and if you are REALLY good...

 

Hope you enjoy yours as much as I enjoy mine!  10months and 10k miles on and I still look forward to days out in the Roomy!

I have had maybe 100 cars and sold my BMW Z4 Coupe last week. I shouldn't be excited by the Roomster...

I picked up my Roomster yesterday

Now named Arfur or Cut n Shut (as it looks like half a Fabia, half of something else)

 

The good:

It feels very, very refined

Very roomy. I only had to fold the middle seat down to get my road bike in (front wheel removed)

Rear PDC with graphic on the radio display

The room. Did I mention that?

The airiness.
The ease of driving

 

The bad (well not that bad):

It feels glacially slow after my last car

That rear parcel shelf gap

The sweep up on the front doors

Congratulations on joining the Special Edition club!

It took me about six weeks to get used to the sweep up on the front doors, I used to catch it out the corner of my eye. Haven't had much of a problem with the parcel shelf gap with the seats back and seat backs slightly reclined.

7 months and 8k later glad I am still very pleased with mine, particularly for the price.

Congratulations!

 

I'm happy to put up with that parcel shelf gap as a consequence of the flexibility of the rear seats.  There is a cover available to fill the gap, which (I believe) clips to the rear headrests but it does look an afterthought.  I prefer to throw a black sheet over the contents of the boot.  The sheet is almost impossible to see through the sunset glass.

I think the most confusing thing is how much it looks like a Fabia SE from the driver's seat (I had one).
That an 86PS car has traction control makes me chuckle. Is the handling monumentally bad without it on?

 

I seem to want to go and sit in the back with a cuppa, look through the glass roof, with the middle seat folded down as a little table. I work from home so I could go somewhere nice and as long as it has 3g could work there

 

In the 3 weeks I was waiting for the car to arrive it struck me how (comparatively) old a design it is, how relatively poor the CO2 emissions figure is etc. etc. but early impressions are that the car is more than the some of its parts, and its price. I had a Fiat Doblo and it is as handy but far nicer

 

Wish it wasn't silver though!

Hello, can't help you with the colour, can offer help with the parcel-shelf gap. I happened to be mooching around a garden centre, and in amongst the big rolls of geo-textiles, pond-liner etc, was a roll of soft-feel, light-weight matt-black fabric. Bought a piece (recall it was 2m wide and I got 1m linear, used some for a work project, used the remainder for this.)

Minimal cost, and have attached it to the downward-sloping front lip of the parcel shelf via two strips of (c 2inch wide) double-sided carpet tape; as the fabric is 2m long, I've split the extra so there's a bit at each side, and it just hangs forward over the top of the rear seats, as and when the seats and shelf are actually in the car!

........as and when the seats and shelf are actually in the car!

 

Yes!  When I bought mine, I suddenly discovered I had loads of friends who would otherwise have hired a van.

Is the handling monumentally bad without it on?

Nope. Mine coped just fine at Castle Combe today sans traction control

Hello, can't help you with the colour

I think the car looks bland in silver but it doesn't offend. I don't like modded cars much, I hate tattoos, so I am puzzed that I have been pondering some graphics on it. I can't believe I am even considering getting a new car tattooed!

Glad your liking the Roomster...I`ve got one in Silver and I know what you mean..it is bland.Mrs P`s choice and she wouldnt budge so we are stuck with it, but otherwise a great little bus

My car has done 1500 miles so far now and about to do another 300 in the next 24 hours for work.

I have added a spare wheel as I hate the idea of getting caught out.

 

 

 

Nothing really has gone wrong so far (touch wood). I got stuck in a muddy field last week, a small piece of rubber has come out of the n/s/f runner of the sun blind and there is an occasional squeak from the region of the instrument binnacle. Should I complain about the last two?

 

It is loosening up nicely and cruises at amazingly high speeds given the size of car/engine. However, the fuel consumption has dropped as low as 37mpg when I have been less careful which is a disappointment.

 

Overall I am still very happy with it

Glad you are still enjoying your car.

I have just had the first, free, service on mine, with no problems.

Had a Roomster Greenline as a courtesy car I am glad I paid 6K less for a car which drives much better and is better equipped.