I was reading this months What Car magazine and they had a table showing how many cars of a given make per 100 need repaired in a year and how much on average it costs. The table shows the top 27 makes. of VAG, Seat scores best at number 7, with 27/100 Seats needing a repair at an average cost of

Guess it depends a lot on how they get their data...

Rob.

also depends exactly how many Skoda owners wrote or sent in data.

they would have made an average of the data they got and calculated it from that, not exactly the most accurate way of doing it.

unless of course they had 100 owners write in.

funny how they came second as a brand only to lexus !

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/showthread.php?t=9717

So does this start to sound familiar?

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/showthread.php?t=9283

Anyway, going by the German figures I'd say the Favorit would have a large part in Skoda's lowly position in the report William mentions.

What Car ususally only survey owners of car 2-3 years old. These surveys are never scientific, and I feel that Skoda usually scores so well, not because the cars are really the second best but because Skoda owners tend to be very enthusiatic about their cars as a responce to the negative feelings most people have about the make.

Yeah, definitely. So whether a survey says the car is reliable or it's not, chances are it's not actually saying anything of use anyway...

Rob.

in my short experiance im not surprised at all!!

I was reading this months What Car magazine and they had a table showing how many cars of a given make per 100 need repaired in a year and how much on average it costs. The table shows the top 27 makes. of VAG, Seat scores best at number 7, with 27/100 Seats needing a repair at an average cost of

but in the latest JD power Skoda came seond,with the Octavia coming in joint forth,and JD power is a bigger survey than WC

The way I look at that, if Skoda aren't even on there, does that mean that they are MORE RELIABLE than the rest of the VW group and would not want to be on this type of list.

If the figures are 27/100, 33/100 and 44/100, youre looking at a fault rate of 27%, 33% and 44% of cars needing warranty repair. :(

This looks very bad for Audi if you stand a 44% chance of you care needing warranty work done on it :(

ive had 4 warranty things already on my octy! only 19k gone!

Kenny,

that sounds bad, but then again, what was the nature of the work?

I've had about 8 things done to mine, all put through as warranty work, although some of it was due to my careless ham-fisted driving (air vents x2, electric mirror knobs x2, 1 set of front discs etc) and then some of it hardly essential but nice (lights behind heating controls died one night, although everything else fine)

If it was serious stuff, then i think you;ve been a bit unlucky.

EDIT to drag myself back on topic: Reliability - my Octavia has spent less time in Garage than a new Passat.......I kow it's not representative, but just shows the random nature of even VW's Quality process......

the obvious-ignition coils!! elec windows, pressure valve(engine), centre exhaust and now the central locking control unit has gone! ive only owned it just over a year!

My first year of ownership has just been completed and I can't report any failure whatsoever, not even the tiniest.

So if Skodas have an average reliability, someone somewhere must have the bad end of the deal...