I've been idly looking at getting a facelift 1.4tsi DSG, found one that is very leggy for a just over three year old car - but I'm not going to be sticking huge mileages on it (6-8k a year at most) and it otherwise ticks all the boxes and looks good to me albeit on line as the trader is well across the country from me.  I'm happy enough with a car that has barrelled up and down the motorway (for around 2000 miles a month!).  I guess the tyres will probably need replacing and need to make sure the seat isn't knackered and I might need to replace the steering wheel but the rest of the car ought to be fine.  But they don't mention any service history in the ad and, when the reg plate is run on Regit, it says there are 4 outstanding recalls.  😬

Is this a worry?  I presume the original warranty will have run out back in May, 36 months after it was registered?  Is there anyway I can find this out?  Only got a registration number.

 

So 72000 miles then?

 

Thats nothing, I bought a 3 year old Octavia that had done 188000 miles (my pal was a chauffeur) and over 13 years took it up to 325000 miles with zero problems, and I really mean zero.

Traded in my 14 plate Octavia 1.6 tdi DSG in June after 165,000 miles without any major problems. Warranty is 3 years or 60,000 miles whichever comes first. Condition and service history and HPI checks should be made before purchase. Skoda service is electronic, but I don't know how you can view it.  

18 minutes ago, J.R. said:

So 72000 miles then?

 

Thats nothing, I bought a 3 year old Octavia that had done 188000 miles (my pal was a chauffeur) and over 13 years took it up to 325000 miles with zero problems, and I really mean zero.

It's on 85k! 

Good to hear, I think the 1.4tsi is supposed to be sound and the DSG not one of the funny ones chances are any costs will be the same as any other used car. 

5 minutes ago, moley said:

Warranty is 3 years or 60,000 miles whichever comes first. Condition and service history and HPI checks should be made before purchase. Skoda service is electronic, but I don't know how you can view it.  

Will certainly do an HPI check but wonder how to find out the service history and recall information?

9 minutes ago, Mintee said:

Will certainly do an HPI check but wonder how to find out the service history and recall information?

Don't know if this works or not

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If you get the MySkoda app then you can print off the Skoda  dealer service record.

 

7 hours ago, Mintee said:

recall information

 

If you put the Reg in here it will show  ( not all ) any outstanding ones:-

 

https://www.check-mot.service.gov.uk/?_ga=2.210664592.467493691.1598728257-1053247475.1598728257

 

Thanks AG Falco