So it’s goodbye to my Skoda Octavia iV estate.

It going to be replaced in the next few days by a Renault Scenic which on the lease scheme I have available is way cheaper - I can get the top of the range one for the price of the cheapest Elroq.

I’ve had the car 4 years since new.

First there was the software issues but I have a good local dealer that completely reprogrammed the car for me and everything pretty much worked fine after that.

It’s been comfy for long journeys, it’s pretty fast and apart from the droopy nose looks decent too (I upgraded the alloys and got the nice green blue colour).

Interior has held up well but I do look after it.

It has been plagued by rattles and squeaks, some of which I never got to the bottom of (neither did the dealer) which was very annoying and also the fuel economy was dire unless I charged it up and even then it wasn’t great. Thing 30-35mpg round town if you haven’t charged it.

I’m glad I ordered it and it’s been good overall but I’m not bothered about getting another one - annoyed I can’t really get an estate car cheaply on my scheme so have had to go SUV but it’s cheap enough so it’s ok.

Anyway if anyone wants a full set of custom mats for free and can pick up from Huddersfield then they are all yours. Never been used, got them with the car and always used the Skoda ones. They are nice!

I am also selling some Yakima roof bars for the car too, they are the best ones you can get (better than Thule). I would join the site to sell stuff but it’s not worth it for one item being as I am moving away from Skoda!

Anyway thanks for the chat and banter and shoulders to cry on regarding the software, hope you are going to enjoy Skoda ownership for a lot longer!!

I'm thinking about jumping ship too. Something less powerful and smaller as I've no family left now.

I was thinking about staying with the Fabia 130, but boot too small.

35 minutes ago, TheWanderer said:

I'm thinking about jumping ship too. Something less powerful and smaller as I've no family left now.

I was thinking about staying with the Fabia 130, but boot too small.

Have you considered the Scala?

No, I had one of those on loan car with my last disastrous RS and I hated it, tinny and very underpowered. Although the RS does spoil you in that respect

I actually had an Elroq on test for a couple of days and was disappointed. Interior didn’t feel as nice as mine as far as materials go and design wise inside it was identical, I mean why? It’s a new car and it was just stuck in the past. Also the outside styling is super dumpy and dull.

Screen was tiny, they took away the USBc in the rear view mirror for a dashcam, everything just felt like costs were being cut.

Also having to pay extra for lots of things that are standard on the Renault I ordered seems penny pinching. Why on a 50k car do I have to pay another £1k for a heat pump???

This is what I’m getting next! Exact model and colour.

I note it's electric, I don't have the charging facility available or a good enough power supply to have one.

I don't want electric for the foreseeable future, not until they can charge in the same time it takes me to fill with petrol (3-4') and a decent range too.

Also that devious 🤬 we have as a CoEx in No11, is proposing a pay per mile charge for EVs + VED.

16 minutes ago, TheWanderer said:

I note it's electric, I don't have the charging facility available or a good enough power supply to have one.

I don't want electric for the foreseeable future, not until they can charge in the same time it takes me to fill with petrol (3-4') and a decent range too.

Also that devious 🤬 we have as a CoEx in No11, is proposing a pay per mile charge for EVs + VED.

To be fair I wouldn’t pay my own money to buy an electric car, but the time filling up is a nonsense. If you had a charger at home you never need to use a public charger so there is never any waiting. Plenty of colleagues have electric cars and they all say the same, they can count on one hand the amount of times they’ve had to use a public charger in a year.

Simple fact is that BIK makes it crazy expensive for me to get a hybrid (or it will be in a year or two) and this electric car will save me £1800 a year as a minimum. Even when the 3p tax comes in that’ll only knock the saving down by about £300 max to me to £1500. I get a £41k car for half the price my Octavia was costing.

If only Skoda was prepared to make an electric estate car and not rip consumers off with how much they charge for extras!

The colleagues are not doing return trips much more than 300 miles then. Plenty BEV drivers never need to use Public Chargers. Which really means their trips are just as far as the range of that cars battery from a Home or Workplace charge. As to time to Public Charge. That is not long using a Ul;tra Rapid Charger / Tesla Supercharger.

45 minutes ago, MiniNinjaRob said:

To be fair I wouldn’t pay my own money to buy an electric car, but the time filling up is a nonsense. If you had a charger at home you never need to use a public charger so there is never any waiting. Plenty of colleagues have electric cars and they all say the same, they can count on one hand the amount of times they’ve had to use a public charger in a year.

Simple fact is that BIK makes it crazy expensive for me to get a hybrid (or it will be in a year or two) and this electric car will save me £1800 a year as a minimum. Even when the 3p tax comes in that’ll only knock the saving down by about £300 max to me to £1500. I get a £41k car for half the price my Octavia was costing.

If only Skoda was prepared to make an electric estate car and not rip consumers off with how much they charge for extras!

Hmmm...

Not sure how I would do my 1500 - 3000 mile road trips without using a public charger; I have at least two of these a year plus elderly parents living 400 miles away. "Never need to use a public charger..." is just not true. I would need to give very serious consideration before switching to an EV for financial and practical reasons.

BIK is not relevant when retired so it would be all my own money.

EVs are horses for courses though. Swapping SWMBO's CitiGo for a relatively small EV does make a lot of sense and may well happen if the right deal pops up at a suitable time. I am preparing a spreadsheet to estimate the capital cost outlays, running cost savings, depreciation, which will influence timing of any change. Other factors are domestic heating update/upgrade and mains battery storage for our 10yo solar panels.

Could end up spending lots of £££££ and not recovering the investment.

Edited 16 February16 Feb by SteveTheElder

Still have the roof bars and the mats! Mats are free and new but the roof bars will cost some money. DM me.