Hi People.

First off thought Id introduce myself before I lay in silence looking at what everybody has to say about the cars. I'm Mark and I currently drive a Fiat Punto 1.2 (60bhp :thumbdwn: also part of the Admin team over at Fiat-Scotland if anybody is interested)but this is for insurance reasons whilst I was at university. Now on the look out for something a bit more reliable and powerfull. Turn 22 in a few months and with my 2 years NCB insurance looks realistically avaliable on a VRS for about

not knocking the fabia but if you cn live with slightly higher fuel bills you can get an octavia vRS from about £4500 upwards if you check out the auto trader but thats if you don't mind a bigger car i suppose. both are good at what they do, one starts cheaper and the other costs less to run, ones a bit quicker and sounds better though

Cheers for the heads up man,

To be honest I am running the risk of being slated by my peers for getting the Fabia yet alone an Octavia. Now my present car is pretty nicely "modded" - in my opinion anyways - so I was planning on a Fabia as it still looks a bit stylish whereas I feel the Octavia appears to be an older mans car (bearing in mind I am only 21).

With regards to the Fuel bill thing - I am currently spending about £30 a month on my petrol 1.2 (****ty 34mpg) so anything diesel is realistically going to be better on the pocket.

Id just like to point out that I am not planning on doing anything spectacular to the car when I get it, lower and tint her and that would be about my lot.

Just noticed the nice yellow Vrs for sale, shame i wasnt looking to buy now and not April.

Cheers again anyways.

Mark

**Update** just checked insurance of the Octavia VRs and its an additional £500 due to the extra 50bhp.

both cars are well up for re-map/exhaust/intake type work with some good results but although you can easily double the power it takes quite a lot of money to do compared to the instant and relatively cheap gains from the above modifications

i don't think an octavia is an old mans car myself, i am recently 25 and have had mine for 3 years and mine isn't even a vRS

whichever you go for i think you will be happy as they are generally reliable good cars that are quite well spec'd and go well for the money

from those simple mods above a fabia vRS will normally hit 170-180bhp and about 300lbft normally according to RR days and the octavia will get around 220-240bhp and a little bit more torque. with big mods like new turbos/manifolds/injectors etc the fabia has so far been pushed to 260bhp and 475lbft(i think, according to one RR session) and the octavia to the 500bhp mark but the octavia needs a lot of work to get this like new rods/pistons and a full rebuild etc but the 1.8T is good for low to mid 300's reliably with a slightly bigger turbo

where in the country are you as there is probably someone near you with a modified vehicle willing to take you for a spin. if not then why not come down to the portsmouth RR day for a good variety of cars if its not too far.

Great cars the Fabia VRS':thumbup: ....I had one, several cars later and I've decided to go back to one so thats my recommendation sorted;) ...just need to sell the Beemer:rolleyes:

Cheers for the quick replies guys.

To be honest Id be happy to get 150-160 from the car (bearing in mind I am currently sitting on 60 lol). I was considering going to my local dealership and get a test drive but obviously when buying one Id rather buy it privately from somebody who has looked after the car rather than pot luck buying form a dealership.

Is it just me or are all the Fabias 5 doors?

And I live in Glasgow (Scotland) So Portsmouth is a bit out of the way - but thanks for the invite.

Mark

yeah, no 3 door fabia vRS. no 3 door fabia at all i think :confused:

yeah, no 3 door fabia vRS. no 3 door fabia at all i think :confused:

Cheers Bengie,

Been having a look about the site to be inspired but appear to be missing the members motors section - that is pressuming there is actually one - as I want to have a look at what everybodys Vrs look like to try and see if I can live with the looks of a Fabia Vrs.

Autotrader - 2004 04 20k Silver, from Skoda Dealer (as of today)

Hi & welcome aboard

The one thing to remember is that the Fabia vRS is a turbodiesel and as such you get some limits to how high you can tune it for sensible money. Beyond sensible money more can be done, but if you wanted to go down that route, I'd definitely go for the Octavia vRS, perhaps a Mk1 rather than Mk2 to keep cost down?

Can do some nice tuning on those

Welcome to Briskoda

£30 a month on petrol!?

I'm spending £30 a week on the stuff!

Hence why I've ordered a diesel....

mine takes over £50 to fill up from empty and that only happens once a month normally if that depending on how i've been feeling

£30 a week here if not more at times.

Paying £650 fully comp, 9 years no claims and protected to.

After doing some quotes on the Fabia Vrs it doesnt look too bad.

About

not knocking the fabia but if you cn live with slightly higher fuel bills you can get an octavia vRS from about

the cheapest at the monet is £4,995 along with another 15 under 6K

they are varying from 42k to 104k miles with most being around the 80k mark.

most are 2001 but theres a few 53 plates on there

My August 03 plate Octavia vRS cost me £7495 from a main dealer last week with 59k on the clock. Full one year warranty included so I'm happy enough. Viewed others with higher mileage, lower spec but same age for around the same price. Should collect on Saturday.

Timing belt change etc has already been completed during Oct 2006.

My 2004, 53 plate bought back in September cost me £7600. 37K on the clock.

With Zenons, cruise control, reverse parking sensors. Was advertised on the autotrader for £8500, a bit of hagling and mentioning it was coming up to a major service and i got a good price.

Got myself a bargain me thinks.

I agree, that was a great bargain