Hi! I'm Ali from somewhere around the Southampton/Portsmouth Hampshire coast (not saying which as it's neither... )

I've been lurking for a while as My wife picked up a Fabia Mk III SE in Rallaye Green (Kermit!) last summer and it's been one of the most surprising cars I've ever been custodian of (lets face it, we never own these things, they are like cats... they let you look after them on their terms!)

it's a 1.2 4 pot 90BHP and I never thought I'd say such great things about such a 'small' engine. It's essentially been pulling double duty as our main car as my car was supposed to be able to fill in the role of doing bigger drives etc but it's not had a great year with a catalogue of issues that sprung up since october taking it off the road and losing confidence until the final nail in it's coffin came when on the way to the garage to check out a few issues it started a new "whine" which ended up being the alternator lunching itself... so the combo of things all cropping up at the same time has relegated it to the status of "project car" and as I don't have space, time, funds or energy for a project car right now, it's going to be someone else's project car... :'(

However that leads me to the second reason I've joined and that's due to acquiring a very low mileage ( 38K i.e. pensioner owned - gulp!) late '12 Octavia Mk2 Elegance in Dark Blue (Dynamic Blue?) and since it's missing a few options I'd have liked it to have had, I decided it was finally time to actually sign up - now that we're a 2-Skoda family...

Welcome to Briskoda @Ali-B My old neck of the woods (Bishopstoke/ Hedge End etc) and now I'm in a town in Germany twinned with Waterlooville

Nice @Lee01 ! which part of Germany is that? I'm not familiar enough with Waterlooville to know its twin towns... Wikipedia suggests Henstedt-Ulzburg which is not far at all from my favourite place in Germany: Hamburg (I did a year there on an Erasmus exchange)

30 minutes ago, Ali-B said:

Nice @Lee01 ! which part of Germany is that? I'm not familiar enough with Waterlooville to know its twin towns... Wikipedia suggests Henstedt-Ulzburg which is not far at all from my favourite place in Germany: Hamburg (I did a year there on an Erasmus exchange)

Schleswig-Holstein about 25Km or so from the centre of HH though I rarely go to the centre as it's a PITA unless you take the U-Bahn!