HI All

 

Looking at getting the Octavia Elegance / SE L DSG maybe a year or two old.

 

Can I draw on your experience and ask you what options you have found the most useful and recommend to look out for.

 

Secondly I am torn between the 2.0 tdi or 1.4 TSi both 150bhp .... mainly do local driving but do weekends away etc  Diesel seems to be more plentiful and cheaper than the petrol.  Was thinking the petrol but with the approx £2k price difference was thinking Diesel.

 

Many Thanks in Advance ... any help appreciated.

Edited 15 March, 20188 yr by RajaStyle
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Full winter pack (heated seats, washer jets and windscreen). Spare wheel. They - for me personally - are the must haves.   I seem to remember looking at the SEL spec and thinking there wasn’t that much I’d option given what’s standard. 

Edited 15 March, 20188 yr by SC03OTT

Definitively Adaptive Cruise Control - oh man its a must have!

17 minutes ago, BGB said:

Definitively Adaptive Cruise Control - oh man its a must have!

 

This.

 

I really miss this and Lane Assist on my Octavia.

18 minutes ago, GoneToBeemer said:

 

This.

 

I really miss this and Lane Assist on my Octavia.

 

Which car did you have these on before out of curiosity ? Another Octavia ?

 

Edited 15 March, 20188 yr by RajaStyle
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Just now, RajaStyle said:

 

Which car did you have these on before out of curiosity ? Another Octavia ?

 

 

Yeah I had a 15 plate Octavia L&K. Had it’s faults as a car (low speed ride and noise mainly, and a pish poor infotainment system), but SO much kit and generally well made. 

Canton sound if you like music in the car. Stock stereo is very average according to many comments on here.

Winter Pack and Xenons are very nice to have.

 

Columbus Nav too,

 

Lee

1 minute ago, TeebsVRS said:

Canton sound if you like music in the car. Stock stereo is very average according to many comments on here.

Thanks saw a few posts on people not really impressed with Canton but you found the sound decent ?

Canton system was very good. 

 

It needs to be fed a good source to get the best out of it, and don’t expect chav-style bass from it, but the quality is there.

For me; Winter pack, Canton sound and front parking sensors have all been utterly fantastic. I think I'd also miss KESSY too even though it wasn't something I specifically looked for when buying.

Deffo winter pack, If it's an Elegance/SE-L you want, get one that doesn't have the full leather upgrade; the alcantara is a much nicer material. Honestly, the spec is pretty decent otherwise. Anything above that is a nice addition, only thing I would say is do try and get an SE-L for the newer infotainment system as it is much better and it sounds better, particularly in Bolero or Amundsen flavour. Stuff like the pano roof, KESSY, front assist, ACC, is nice, but none are 'must have' features IMO. I found a car that had an option I really wanted, the power bootlid, but I hear of lots of failed struts and leaks, and it's very slow, so I was happy to leave it. Would be nice to have until it broke (knowing my luck, it would!). I'm surprised at how much I like the lane assist on the vRS, it's very good and I have noticed that it really takes the stress out of my big commute, so that's another one to look for, as that was an option on the Elegance/SE-L.

 

The whole diesel thing has been massive lately with lots of negative press for diesel and several manufacturers pulling diesels earlier than expected. This means that residuals for petrol cars are staying strong. I couldn't find a petrol Octy vRS with the spec I wanted in December, but there were a few to choose from with similar mileage to my diesel one for about the £12-13k mark. Now the same cars are stretching to the £14-16k, with the equivalent diesel at £10-12k. I don't really mind as I do so many miles that any difference in depreciation will be negligible on a car with over 200k on it so I went diesel as I was cheaper to buy and will still have 10-12 MPG on a petrol vRS. If my mileage was more like 15kpa or I had a little extra to spend than what I did, I'd have gone petrol and that would be the same if I were considering an Elegance/SE-L, as indeed I originally was.

46 minutes ago, RajaStyle said:

Thanks saw a few posts on people not really impressed with Canton but you found the sound decent ?

 

Not tried a stock system, but the Canton sounds good and I'm quite fussy when it comes to music. I haven't yet put all my music onto an SD card yet but CD's sound good. However I like mostly guitar bands, so the sub setup might be too subtle for other music styles.

I’ve had Royal Blood and QOTSA on at decent volume on my stock system today and couldn’t fault it. Downloaded to iPhone 8+ from Spotify. 

2 hours ago, RajaStyle said:

Secondly I am torn between the 2.0 tdi or 1.4 TSi both 150bhp

Octavia 3 2.0 tdi was my shortest ever period of ownership for a car - constant active regens. Took a modest financial hit to quickly change for the 1.4 I have now, probably the right choice for me but can't say I don't seriously miss diesel torque. Economy from the 1.4 can be good but you really need to make a conscious effort unlike diesel which tends to be fairly economical regardless.

6 minutes ago, Octy0GG said:

Octavia 3 2.0 tdi was my shortest ever period of ownership for a car - constant active regens. Took a modest financial hit to quickly change for the 1.4 I have now, probably the right choice for me but can't say I don't seriously miss diesel torque. Economy from the 1.4 can be good but you really need to make a conscious effort unlike diesel which tends to be fairly economical regardless.

Thanks was the active regens down to more local / city driving ? Rather than motorway

Get whichever model has the Full LED AFS headlights - personally my choice would be the 1.5TSi SEL if you are not doing many miles per drive.

 

Seriously consider DSG

2 minutes ago, YMe said:

Get whichever model has the Full LED AFS headlights - personally my choice would be the 1.5TSi SEL if you are not doing many miles per drive.

 

Seriously consider DSG

 

It’ll be Xenons rather than LED’s with the age of the car the OP is looking at.

 

Both have their advantages / disadvantages (LED vs. Xenon), but either far better than halogen. 

 

Rare to find on Octavias that didn’t have them standard though, as they were an expensive option. 

My bad - didn't the the year or two old in OP's post.

 

Having realised that I would go for the 1.4 TSi DSG

Edited 15 March, 20188 yr by YMe

17 minutes ago, RajaStyle said:

Thanks was the active regens down to more local / city driving ? Rather than motorway

Journey to work 6 miles on  open country roads most of the way, fairly regular longer drives in addition to this, also mostly on reasonably open country roads. Car did not see a traffic jam, stop start driving or a motorway in my period of ownership. So probably not ideal for a DPF but far from the worst set of journey conditions. 

 

Should add that in this cold weather the quick working heater in the petrol is great - even if it is a constant reminder of it's lower thermal efficiency.

If I was in your circs as detailed above, I would be looking at...

 

1.4 TSI

Xenons

Heated screen

Spare wheel

Leather

Sunroof

Sunset glass

 

...in that order. I have kids though, so my priorities may differ from others. Leather, sunset glass and pano roof makes life easier for us 

 

2.0 TDI if you do more than 25k per year.

8 minutes ago, pist0nbr0ke said:

If I was in your circs as detailed above, I would be looking at...

 

1.4 TSI

Xenons

Heated screen

Spare wheel

Leather

Sunroof

Sunset glass

 

...in that order. I have kids though, so my priorities may differ from others. Leather, sunset glass and pano roof makes life easier for us 

 

2.0 TDI if you do more than 25k per year.

 I have kids too :-)  Is the privacy / sunset glass not standard in SE L / Elegance ?

2 minutes ago, RajaStyle said:

 I have kids too :-)  Is the privacy / sunset glass not standard in SE L / Elegance ?

 

I'm not actually sure, sorry.

 

Not a deal breaker anyway, as they can be tinted afterwards, and potentially darker than the factory tints.

5 minutes ago, pist0nbr0ke said:

 

I'm not actually sure, sorry.

 

Not a deal breaker anyway, as they can be tinted afterwards, and potentially darker than the factory tints.

 

It’s not standard, and the sunset glass hardly has much tint to it at all. Far better to go to a reputable tinting company and get it done. 

any votes on the electric memory driver seat ?  to get seat in position quickly after the other half has been driving.