Hi guys, I’m Drew and I’m new to Skoda ownership, but I’ve always had VAG cars.

 

I recently bought this: 

 

 

Its got 53k miles and is absolutely minty fresh, with the much nicer dark alcantara interior (in my opinion). 
No real modifications as yet, I don’t pick it up until Monday, but I’ve never been able to keep a car standard so I imagine it won’t be long… 

 

I’m hoping to get along to some meet-ups in the coming better weather as well if anyone can recommend some near the Kent/Medway area.

 

look forward to meeting people in the future 😁👍🏻

Picked the car up today, and had to go straight from the dealer to work for my night shift, so the only photo I managed was in the dark work carpark…

 

super happy with the car it’s so clean and tight to drive it feels brand new 😁

 

 

Looks smart!

These respond well to tuning, so definitely worth looking into a remap  

 

14 hours ago, MATT0693 said:

Looks smart!

These respond well to tuning, so definitely worth looking into a remap  

 

I’ve made a promise to myself that I wont be messing with the mechanicals for the first year of ownership, mainly because my justification for getting it was I needed a reliable car for work duties, once the first year is up I fully intend on getting an apr map and some other bits and pieces, although and apr intake and a turbo muffler delete are already on my list as soon as funds allow, it’s just far too quiet for me… I’m used to a straight-piped PD engined golf with hybrid turbo etc, so the lack of noise is definitely an issue for me.. not fussed about exhaust noise, I want to hear induction/turbo noise when I drive it 

So, unfortunately after only 3 weeks of ownership my beautiful car was assaulted by a rogue London bus and has been written off as a category s total loss, and so comes the end of my short membership to this amazing forum community 😩 

 

I would post photographs but I’m honestly devastated at the moment, I’ve been waiting since the 31st of march for a judgement on the repair viability through my insurance and they say it was over £8000 in costs on a £10000 car, so she is no more…

 

 

Gutted for you on this - you don't think you'll sort yourself out another with the payout?

I’ve already bought a replacement, I couldn’t find a Skoda even close to the same mileage or spec as my old one so I decided to go completely different and got a 2014 Mini Cooper S instead 

 

 

Well - that's a shame but I'm sure it'll bring on the smiles again and looks an intriguing colour; got a reddish brown tinge to it in the light? Or is that just my eyes playing tricks? I like that, if so - interesting leftfield colours are always good to see. Best of luck with it and sorry it didn't work out in VAG. And obvs hope you weren't injured in the foray!

39 minutes ago, N888DRS said:

I’ve already bought a replacement, I couldn’t find a Skoda even close to the same mileage or spec as my old one so I decided to go completely different and got a 2014 Mini Cooper S instead 

 

 

 

This needs a project thread of it's own in the 'Non-Skoda Projects' section.

Thanks 😊 it’s down as brown on the log book - it’s purple and grey in different lights I really liked the colour when I first saw the car and that’s the reason I went for it to be honest, I’ve already been given a nickname for the car by my dad because of the colour, so it’s now officially called the ‘Pooper S’ 😂

 

13 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

 

This needs a project thread of it's own in the 'Non-Skoda Projects' section.

Hadn’t thought of that to be fair - I’ll get one started later on today 👍🏻