Hi Everyone,

 

After a long history with SEAT, I might finally be making my way into the Skoda club!

 

Due to a change in circumstances, my Ibiza FR Sport DSG will be going and I need something small and nippy for a very short (but not walkable) commute.

 

I've narrowed it down to a 5dr 2016 Citigo Colour Edition. I was hoping that you good people could steer me in the direction of any potential faults or known problems to look out for on these cars.

I'm hoping to get a test drive tomorrow so should be able to check for anything in detail there. The car has about 20,000 miles on the clock and one previous owner. It's a facelift model so it has the new Swing radio and the LED DRL's. I understand this head unit has Bluetooth built in, unlike the pre-FL cars which relied on the Garmin unit for Bluetooth (had one of these in my 2013 Ibiza....awful device!). I'm also not entirely sure from spec sheets whether it has DAB built in, which isn't a deal breaker but would be nice. Are there any other differences between pre/post FL cars?

 

Hope someone can help and point me in the right direction!

 

Something to add to ask you guys about - I've checked a few of these Facelift cars MOT records and notice a common theme with 'Front windscreen washer provides insufficient washer liquid' or 'Windscreen washer not working', whats the deal here?

 

I have the same model. No problems so far done 20k miles in mine also. No DAB as standard I'm afraid and the actual unit is rather clunky to operate, even if using your own smartphone in the cradle provided. And coming from an Ibiza FR its going to feel slow.....

 

As for the washer thing, thats something that crops up on every car ever built on an MOT test sooner or later.

 

Thanks for the reply! Yeah I completely understand coming from 115bhp to 59bhp is going to be a bit of a shock, even though 115bhp is not particularly quick, the DSG helped massively with that feeling! However, I have driven about 4 SEAT Mii's when mine has been in for service over the years and I've been impressed. Nice and comfy (spongy!) and I think the engine suits the car well. I will literally only be city travelling so no 'need for speed!'

 

Thanks for your advice!

One great thing the about Up/Citigo/Mii is that they are all built on the same production line in Bratislava.

This mitigates the sometimes variable quality of design and assembly that has been true in the past from Seat's Spanish and Portuguese plants, compared with Skoda and VW.

 

Any problems with washers are usually down to using poor screen washer products in the washer tank - they can clog the jets, annoying as this sounds. This was a common problem on Octavias, and they ended up issuing a notice to get users to always use Skoda approved fluids - well they would, wouldn't they? I had two Octavias in the past, but I got handy with sewing needles to clean the jets!

 

The facelift cars seem to be  pretty good with lots of things fixed. One of my best friends was interested, and I did suggest to him that he should only look at post-facelift models for all sorts of reasons.

 

Mine has BT and DAB which I have to say both work brilliantly, but the latter feature depends on which model you buy (the radios vary between models, and I think DAB is a software option no matter what, but my SE-L  came with it anyway, as it was a dealer demonstrator/courtesy car, hence, also, the nice 16" alloys).

 

 

Edited 13 August, 20205 yr by freemansteve