Hi folks.im currently the owner of a mk1 octy vrs which iv loved! But looking to get a mk2 Vrs shortly. The question is petrol or diesel? I do around 8-10k a year so not too much. I wanted to try go diesel for (remaped torque and fuel economy) but from what iv read if not doing great mileage the petrol is great? Which 1 do yous guys prefer???? Cheers

if you're only doing like 8k a year id go petrol plus with the upcoming risk of the toxic tax

At that mileage per year I'd go for petrol

 

The MKII VRS diesel was the first Octavia to get a DPF and early implementations were poor especially on pd versions

Edited 31 July, 20178 yr by bigjohn

Stick cr rather than pd if going for diesel vrs due to dpf issues.

 

As for petrol watch out for timing chain issues on tsi engines

No contest,get the petrol vrs,i had one for 6 years....loved it...great car...unless you are driving a massive mileage a year there is no point having a diesel.

I had a Mk1 vRS back in the day and loved it as it was a great all rounder.  I now have a MK2 pre fl petrol Octavia and again, I'm impressed by it as a car that can fulfill so many roles.  As for economy you might be surprised at how good they are on fuel.  On my last three journeys I have seen an indicated 47mpg for two of them and 46mpg for the last journey.  Admittedly I was taking it easy and staying below 65mph on the motorway but even so, for a remapped petrol car I am very impressed with the running costs.

Fuelly showed my last tank as 37.4mpg overall but a lot of that was my 7 mile commute to work & back so the car doesn't really get a chance to get going.  

Edited 1 August, 20178 yr by skinnyman

Go for petrol, you wont look back!

 

I love mine, I only do 9-10k miles a year and average about 34mpg but i drive with a bit of spirit shall we say  

Petrol all the way for low miles. My TSI costs the same to run and my old Fiesta TDCI around town, plus the added fun factor and giant boot.

Cheers guys, had a few folk mention the timing chain ussue on petrols?? Anyone shine light on that? Thanx

If you look at the top of the mk2 octavia page there is a thread all about it,the timing chain tensioner can fail on facelift models,it seems to affect the earlier models but thats not always true,the pre face lift vrs has a cambelt.What year of car are you looking at buying?.

MK1 & 2 be it 1.6 or 2 litre Hatch Estate or 4 x 4 have all been petrol, never an issue.

5 hours ago, mikey vrs said:

If you look at the top of the mk2 octavia page there is a thread all about it,the timing chain tensioner can fail on facelift models,it seems to affect the earlier models but thats not always true,the pre face lift vrs has a cambelt.What year of car are you looking at buying?.

 Hi mate thinkin roughly 06'ish around that kind of year.

Just now, richbogle said:

 Hi mate thinkin roughly 06'ish around that kind of year.

I know the prefacelift have cambelt but it there also not a chain which runs 2nd cam or so?

No.1 - Petrol

No.2 - Diesel (Common Rail (CR170), available from 2008 on)

No.3 - Diesel (Pumpe Duse (PD170) with DPF professionally removed)

No.4 - Diesel (PD170 with DPF but a portion of the budget set aside for DPF removal - £500).

 

Oh, and Race Blue paint, nothing else will do on the vRS 

CR diesel, will pull like a train and save you £150-200 a year in fuel. Just to put a cat amongst the petrol mad pigeons ;-)

I had a cr diesel vrs with dsg

It was an excellent car and didn't give one second of trouble.

If you find a properly maintained TFSI VRS Pre-FL, 06-07 then it should have had 2 cam belt/water pump changes, hopefully a new air con compressor and new wheel hubs, G60 sensor and if body and engine are sound then buy it, as it should have had the silly faults repaired. It's a great car and you won't regret it. I parked near a 06 black example yesterday with modified grill and wheels with an immaculate interior, it looked great. 

Have no experience of the petrol but my wife's '09 diesel (CR) is great to drive even if the suspension is a bit crashy!

I vote for Petrol as I have one. On long distance 35 - 40 MPG is not problem if I keep speed in limit. mostly time I drive in the city and short distance and my avarage mpg is 25-30.