Apologies if not allowed.

Could I ask the knowledgeable folks of this forum - is this a Mk 3 Facelift? I pick it up on Wednesday and am a bit confused as it is right on the changeover year - I think! 2020 Octavia Estate.

It's an SE L model, would it be fitted with LED headlights? I didn't check at test drive.

Thanks for any advice offered.

Hello, welcome to the forum.

2020 registration would definitely be a FL - I think the change from Mk3 to 3.5 was 2017.

Facelift with LED

A question, a review I was reading referred to the return of the 1.4TSI for the 2017 FL - was the 1.5 dropped then?

1.5Tsi is the newer engine with ACT but the cambelt change is almost £1k. Nothing wrong with the 1.4Tsi and cambelt changes are much cheaper as it doesn't have complexity of ACT. I think earlier 1.5tsi had kangaroo issues when the engine was cold, so 1.4tsi probably more reliable option as any issues would have already been resolved on the facelifted model.

I believe that some versions of the 1.4 also had ACT - but not used in Skoda's.

Both are the EA211 - the 1.5 is the newer Evo version, compared to the older 1.4. Some of the later 1.4 engines had ACT/CoD (SEAT called it an EcoTSI), which was a brilliant little engine - I had a 150ps version in my Leon.

I had a 2016 Leon, which was one of the last 1.4 models, yet my car had a kangarooing issue with the clutch (it was a manual too). I never got to the bottom of it.

FWIW @Terrierist the split headlights give it away.