Another newbie!!! Feeling quite smug. I'm taking delivery of my 4th Skoda on Tuesday but this will be my first vRS. A silver Octy Estate. I have 2 questions. Firstly what's the ride like in the estate with 17"s as I'm considering swapping them. Secondly, I have 2 young children who have trashed the covers on my current Octy, the vRS seats will not be child friendly and I'm wondering if anyone has any great ideas for seat covers. Argos do some nice Cow hide patterned seat covers but the Mrs threatened me with the bread knife at that suggestion. Thanks this is a great site!!

First of all a warm welcome to the site, loads on here for you to explore. In answer to first question, 17" alloys fine but ride does firm up a little and road noise is a little more intrusive but they look much better (see pic) and handling improves (I know coz I've done it to mine!). As for the seat business, please don't put seat covers on, uggghhhh!!.

Hatchbag seem to be one of the best around for seat covers for the VRS but dont forget it has a side airbag