5 hours ago, EddGee said:

Well I’m the opposite to many folk I guess. 

 

My max mileage is about 5000 per year. 

 

I use the railway mainly for my commute and work. 

 

My car is detailed more often than required and sat on the drive gathering dust most days. 

 

I wish i could could buy a car off a guy like me. 

 

 

Mine does 15k a year and is also detailed more often than required...

 

...according to my wife 

13 hours ago, pist0nbr0ke said:

 

You might even see him...M60, M56, A55 and A483 is his daily route, I pity him TBH!

Probably haha, I’m also running up and down the A55 and A483.

17 hours ago, SkodaVRS1963 said:

 

Really?

 

My VRS was sold with 23k on the clock.

 

The first MOT shows 42k on the clock..........either the new owner has a fantastic commute to his (or her) office every day.  Or he (or she) is using it as a taxi.

 

It was sold in Rochdale........a taxi is my guess.

 

Taxi drivers don't buy VRS', there's no point in paying the extra money for no real benefit, in their mind. 

 

I know a guy who does over 20k miles every year, lives in Scotland but gets jobs all over England so drives on motorways all year long. His car had Iver 200k miles on it but was almost flawless. Know a woman who does 15 miles every year, car sits all week until she takes it the shops every Sunday. Never ending issues with emissions and misfires. 

 

Using mileage as a gauge of anything is pretty naive. 

^^^ Taxi Drivers and Airport Transport operators do buy vRS Octavia diesels hatch or estate.

Proof being that there are vRS Taxis about.  I know people that have them.

They are cheap as chips after all.  Not a premium motor but as good as those that use 'Premium' Audi's or VW's, Marc, Jags etc, 

eg, Aberdonian Taxi operators. Long pockets & short arms!

Edited 13 May, 20188 yr by Offski

Not a Skoda and not UK but....

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ctakSX8esI&t=

 

 

Edited 13 May, 20188 yr by logiclee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3o5L5Y1b3M 

4 hours ago, Saints92 said:

 

Taxi drivers don't buy VRS', there's no point in paying the extra money for no real benefit, in their mind. 

 

Ironically, when I went to collect my Focus ST, the taxi taking me from the train station to the dealer was a VRS 

 

So they are out there.

 

But I concede, my observation that anyone doing a high mileage must be a taxi driver / courier was a crude generalisation.

How about a 173 mile each way commute (Oxford to Liverpool) every work day,

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUR2HMmoIrU&t=563s

 

Lee

 

11 hours ago, kevberlin said:

Ha ha. That’s funny. My cars don’t get too much use and are always clean

I think exactly the same ......”I wish I could buy a car off me”.

Hows about making dreams come true.......you buy mine and I’ll buy yours.

I am with EddGee and yourself, I have washed and waxed mine 3 times since I last drove it. Mine is 65 plate with under 5000

miles

18 hours ago, EddGee said:

 

I wish i could could buy a car off a guy like me. 

 

I`ve often thought the same 

I haven't traded in a car for over 15 years. There's always a family member, friend or colleague waiting to buy it off me. 

I would quite happily buy a car that I have owned, just be aware that there will only be receipts in the folder for parts, as I do all the fitting myself. I let Skoda do the servicing as it is such a new car but I don’t know if I’ll let them do the next one or if I will. It’s due again at 97k miles. 

Sasha, looking at the skills you’ve got from the jobs you’ve been doing to your car, you may as well do the servicing yourself. Skoda’s are ridiculously easy to service, particularly the diesels. They don’t even give you a service book to pay for a stamp anymore !

Edited 14 May, 20188 yr by classic

I could, I always have in the past, it just still looks good to have the Skoda system show a full history. I’ll chnage the fuel filter myself shortly as I only had the small service done and I have no idea when that was last done!

And...

It's been sold (or it's been removed from sale, but I think it'll have had a quick dry out and then someone has bought it).