Hi Guys

what's this petrol 1.4 150ps motor like in the Octavia 3. Is it screwing the nuts off it developing this power. Does it have Turbo and supercharger ?

Interested in it with DSG box.

Regards

It's nearly as a diesel, lots of low end power... but with the ability to rev. 6000rpm

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I've got the 140 version, yes it is turbocharged. I gather the 150 ps version does not feel too much different. Certainly the 140 is brilliant for its size, and quite economical too.

No supercharger.

If you don't want either a diesel or the loony (but fun) 2 litre vRS, then this would be the best compromise since they no longer do the marvelous 1,8 TSi.

As ednmra said. And The Wanderer. An excellent motor and a vast improvement over your diesel. Very economical too, even with the DSG. And low road tax.

I have the 150ps 1.4 TSi and really like it. Quiet, smooth and plenty of power. Only £30 road tax too!

A very good engine.

I have not seen a bad review of it yet.

Test drive one and you will know straight away whether it suits you or not.

Does this model have the independent suspension setup? I wish Skoda would rectify this error with the mk3..

Personally I find the torsion bar suspension perfectly adequate for normal road driving and it copes with my version of faster driving, which is probably some else's 7/10.

Not as good as the mk2 on corrugated dirt roads though especially when loaded.

15 inch tyres on the mk2 probably helped

How about the 1.4 with 180ps :-)

http://www.diesel-performance.co.uk/vehicle-skoda_octavia_iii-1.4tsi-150ps

I've got the 140 and it is perfectly adequate. It has lots of torque (almost V6 like), can climb a mountain loaded in top gear, gets decent fuel consumption, and is quicker than many 4-cylinder mid-sizers. I've had mine run a 0-100kph in 8.2 (according to my phone so take that with a grain of salt). The big torque makes it surprisingly quick in the real world. And finally, it has a lot of very cool design features, from an engineering standpoint.

Really, it is all the engine the car needs.

I have the 150ps 1.4 TSi and really like it. Quiet, smooth and plenty of power. Only £30 road tax too!

 

I have the same engine, £110 tax, engine is great though.

When I traded in my Mk 2 1.8TSi and no 1.8 replacement was then available I thought I'd have to go away from Skoda. (I didn't want to go up to a vRS.)

The dealer suggested I drive their 1.4 and TBH I could hardly tell the difference from my 1.8

In practice I'd say I occasionally need to use a lower gear for a few seconds than I might have done on the 1.8 but that is all.

And as above it is much more economical, £30 road tax instead of about £230. Am averaging about 40 mpg - much more on long smooth runs.

On decent roads it is very smooth and quiet, but don't drive it in Brighton !!!

 

I know you are talking about the 150 ps version but it is not a lot different.

I have the same engine, £110 tax, engine is great though.

Shouldn't it be only £30 road tax?

Shouldn't it be only £30 road tax?

 

that's what Skoda said it would be in the brochure when I ordered, but when it arrived they had reclassified it to £110. Due to 17 inch wheels apparently.

that's what Skoda said it would be in the brochure when I ordered, but when it arrived they had reclassified it to £110. Due to 17 inch wheels apparently.

Crazy - like 17" wheels are going to add to (man made) global warming, which isn't happening anyway. Where do they find these people !?

Crazy - like 17" wheels are going to add to (man made) global warming, which isn't happening anyway. Where do they find these people !?

 

In the back of the brochure it shows what effect on co2 the bigger wheels suposedly have, and which tax bands it puts the car into. 

 

So it would be better to buy the car with 16" wheels, pay £30 road tax, and then fit some 17" or 18"....lol

As glosrich says. My old 1.4 SE had 16" wheels. £30 tax. It's in the small print.

 

Also the 1.4 DSG gave out less pollution than the manual, and fell the right side of the tax boundary, the manual cost more, £30 v £110. July 2014 brochure.

If the bigger wheels actually make the overall wheel + tyre diameter bigger, then in theory the wheel should be able to turn "less" for any given speed, so in theory the engine should be able to rev less, and in theory use less fuel, so in theory emissions should be lower.....in theory.

 

If the bigger wheel has a lower profile tyre, as is often the case, and its overall diameter is the same as a 16" wheel with fatter tyre, where does the difference come in? Apart from inside the head of some government official who uses a tricycle to go to work and eats Smarties for lunch. 

 

Also, as your tyres wear down you should go into a different diameter tax band - either up or down according to whether the official has an IQ of 3 or minus 3.

If the bigger wheel has a lower profile tyre, as is often the case, and its overall diameter is the same as a 16" wheel with fatter tyre, where does the difference come in? Apart from inside the head of some government official who uses a tricycle to go to work and eats Smarties for lunch.

Bigger rims are heavier. Its quite a weightdifference between my winters with 16" and my summers with 18" rims.

And bigger rims often has wider tires, so more rolling resistance.

Bigger rims are heavier. Its quite a weight difference between my winters with 16" and my summers with 18" rims.

And bigger rims often has wider tires, so more rolling resistance.

No doubt that is so. but considering the huge number of vehicles of all sorts, with every conceivable size (and number) of wheels and tyres, are the tiny differences supposed to be produced by these variations enough to suck another, say, £80 a year from somebody in road tax? And that is even if you believe all the junk spread about by green climate alarmists, ( which often proves to be somewhere between errors and lies. )

Okay, if you are talking about the difference between say a 1 litre light car and a 10 litre diesel truck, I guess you can justify variation in tax, but an inch in wheel size ?????

No doubt that is so. but considering the huge number of vehicles of all sorts, with every conceivable size (and number) of wheels and tyres, are the tiny differences supposed to be produced by these variations enough to suck another, say, £80 a year from somebody in road tax? And that is even if you believe all the junk spread about by green climate alarmists, ( which often proves to be somewhere between errors and lies. )

Okay, if you are talking about the difference between say a 1 litre light car and a 10 litre diesel truck, I guess you can justify variation in tax, but an inch in wheel size ?????

I guess they just had to draw the line somewhere. And the bigger wheels is just enough to push the car over that line...

I guess they just had to draw the line somewhere. And the bigger wheels is just enough to push the car over that line...

Perhaps if I fit 10" Mini wheels they will pay me each year instead of me paying them!!

that's what Skoda said it would be in the brochure when I ordered, but when it arrived they had reclassified it to £110. Due to 17 inch wheels apparently.

 

I've got 18" Golus alloys and was assured by the Sales rep that the car would still qualify for £30 road tax as that's how it was delivered off the production line. I'm not sure if the wheels were 'declared' or not though as the brochure clearly states the higher £110.00 bracket for the larger alloys... time will tell and I'll find out for sure in a years time.

 

The standard 16" wheels definitely take the car into the £30 tax bracket.