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A new baby <3

Solly
in Skoda Octavia Mk1 (1996-2004)

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Just wanted to express joy that i'm back in the mk1 club.  I 'upgraded' to a mk2 (1.6 tho) and it earnt the nickname 'the sh**mobile', being towed by the RAC twice in a year a 3x the price of a mk1 on parts!!!?  Agonised for months on what to replace it with and in the end went back to mk1 :D my aim is to totally do it up and have my first half a million miles car!! 

 

(Everyone i know is mortified at what i've done lol) 

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    @Solly They clearly don’t know!

     

    What did you get in the end?

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    @Solly I know how you feel. My mk2 has cost so much more than the mk1 to look after. So much stuff as gone wrong and I deeply regret ditching my mk1!

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    1 hour ago, DeanVRS20VT said:

    @Solly They clearly don’t know!

     

    What did you get in the end?

     

    1.9tdi estate, laurin n klement tho! Heated seats!? 

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    20 hours ago, Solly said:

     

    1.9tdi estate, laurin n klement tho! Heated seats!? 


    Ah! The same as me with my recent purchase. Welcome to the TDi L&K club. 😍

    Never had a diesel before, what's your average MPG? I get between 58-62MPG (and that's with a hole in the exhaust haha), so I'm wondering what others get in the estate.

    On 22/08/2020 at 11:16, DeanVRS20VT said:


    Ah! The same as me with my recent purchase. Welcome to the TDi L&K club. 😍

    Never had a diesel before, what's your average MPG? I get between 58-62MPG (and that's with a hole in the exhaust haha), so I'm wondering what others get in the estate.

     

    On the motorway, exactly the same as you :)

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    I actually ended up buying the VRS-but-not-labelled-VRS version they only made for a year.  It says 1.9 on it, but it's the 2l GTI engine and will stick you to the seat.  I'm amazed as it will trip along at 80 and not even break a sweat, just a shade slower than our Jag XF, but almost double the MPG ....my opinion remains; the mk1 octy = best car ever built.  Others may be faster, bigger etc etc but when you balance it all with economy, reliability, price and sheer usefulness, theres no contest! 

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    All my mk1s (diesel estates) have comfortably done 50mpg btw 

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