So Today i have bitten the bullet and traded in my 2010 FL MK2 octy L&K, for a 2014 octy MK3 1.4tsi DSG SE Elegance in quartz grey, so to see it go as i have loved the car, but time for change and to help my legs a bit, carrying 12 MOT's a day with 99% of cars being manual my left knee is starting to suffer.

 

Gave £9000 for it, cars has 35k on the clock so plenty of life left in it, i do like the fact i can now use bluetooth and listen to the music on my phone, and no more tom tom sat nav in the windscreen as it has it, also has the colour maxidot which i rather like.

 

I'm still gonna lurk in the MK2 subforum but will post more in the MK3 now.  

 

Any way good bye MK2 octy my old friend.

Good luck, you are a braver man than me.

 

Interesting the benefits that you point out, I know they are not why you chose the vehicle but they are what I so often see amongst younger people than I (= most people ) as the sole or most important criteria when changing vehicle, - will my phone connect to it?

 

I hope it gives you the comfort you need, whilst I cant put my finger on anything specific I dont feel that my MK2 is as comfortable as my MK1

Just recently got a FL 2, seems far more comfy than my old mk 1.

Having had 2 MK2's they are very comfy cars and yes i still love this one, i hope it gets another very caring owner. As i says such great cars.

Seats in my mk2 are definitely more comfy than my old mk1.. 

About a 600miles round trip to glasgow and back only interrupted by the ferry crossings an nights sleep and 2 " convenience stops" each direction and i wasnt tired, fatigued, and stiff when i got home. More than an hr in the work van or 2 hrs in the mk1 abd i was generally starting get stiff and shuffly in the seat.

Maybe its my tired old body then!

 

I like the solid plastic side of the seat which has the storage tray, it sits higher than the seat and protects the bolster from compression and wear when alighting, my MK1 wore through the original seat cover, I replaced it and the foam underneath and the same thing happened several years later.

 

Getting stiff and shuffly in the seat is a good description, where I notice it is getting out of the car after a few hours to have to put a bank card in the French péages, I walk like an old man now and didn't before but there is a fairly obvious explanation!

Edited 9 September, 20196 yr by J.R.

There has only been 3 cars i have owned the have been really comfortable on a long drive, my rover 45 ixl (loved that car and it was mint till i had an accident and wrote it off, would still have it now if i could) and my two Octy's, took my current one to west Yorkshire last November; 5 hour drive from south east London and did not feel stiff or tired what so ever. 

 

They are just such good cars (apart from the flawed 2.0 and 1.8 TSi engines)