I traded it in for an 11 plate Octavia vRS TDI. It had 198,950 on the clock and had the traction control failure warning and something else I think.

I was sad to see it go in the end as when it was working it was great fun and it had a stupid amount of extras.

Id have kept it a bit longer just to get it to 200,000 miles on the clock... 

I'm not sure you would've; it was vibrating at what seemed like random speeds / revs and I couldn't tell the issue. Originally I thought it was a tyre balance problem but I had them all checked and re-balanced and it didn't go away. We barely made it back from our France trip and I just thought that the inconvenience of it going wrong wasn't worth it any longer (even for the 200k smug factor). The current Octy is on 110k and I have no intention of changing it anytime soon.

Warm , more likely very hot hatch- try a Corsa.