Loads of Skodas in SA

[Tick]

Apologies if my post lead you to believe I thought you were a sucker. Definitely not the case. All I was trying to say was it is a shame you need to spend so much money on maintenance/repairs for your car. Good luck with the repairs.

Cheers

[wombatoutofhell]

PS. Just my opinion but I think the updated Octavia is not quite as good looking as the current model, it just seems a bit more "fussy". It's lines don't seem as clean as the current model.

All the best

My opinion too!

[gregozedobe]

I'm reserving my final opinion until I see the new cars "in the flesh", but my first impression (from photos) is that the new headlight shape doesn't fit very well with the restrained styling of the rest of the car, and I prefer the old steering wheel too.

[wombatoutofhell]

I see some of these cars are now appearing for sale-this one was on carsales and it's not the only one I've seen.

[indulis]

Apologies if my post lead you to believe I thought you were a sucker. Definitely not the case. All I was trying to say was it is a shame you need to spend so much money on maintenance/repairs for your car. Good luck with the repairs.

Cheers

Didn't worry about your comments just thought my situation did sound a bit odd, and if you don't understand the piratical nature of Renault spare parts it *might* sound like I had been a total sucker.

Probably the thing I learnt from this was to *always* get a written quote on repairs, even if you think it "couldn't be very much". And to make sure you get the replaced parts afterwards.

Actually, only this weekend did it occur to me that the dual mass flywheel (or whatever the Renault equivalent is, some sort of flexibly coupled dual mass) which got replaced because it was "perished" might explain the 2 years of incredibly rough running on cold mornings, to the point of the engine stalling itself after sounding like it was running on 2 cylinders (in a 6 cylinder car). Might go back and try to get the $400+ for the flywheel back from Renault.

[neil]

Wow, thats a lot of Octavias. I wonder if they will take them away from Oz, or if they get sold second hand down under

I`d trade the Audi for a blue or yellow RS wagon.

Had my car serviced a few weeks before this event and walked across the road to the Skoda dealer,
was talking to the truck driver picking up 3 Skoda's which were demo's, he said they were going to
the be the officials transport vehicles for the tour down under, he had been picking them up from all
skoda dealers and will also be returning them when the event finishes..

[indulis]

I spoke to a dealer asking about buying one, he said that they had passed on taking some of the the ex-tour vehicles as they have not been treated very well (in his opinion). They had taken some last year- his comment was that the bike people are after "speed, speed, speed" so thrash the cars as well as their bikes. Don't know how true this is.

As the cars would be under (almost) 3 year warranty, the risk in taking one would probably be minimised. IMHO.

[greasykitchen]

Saw a yellow wagon with promo stickers or the like on it on North Tce Kent Town one arvo last week. Kind of looked like an ex-tour car but I think the stickers were different.

[DanSA]

I spoke to a dealer asking about buying one, he said that they had passed on taking some of the the ex-tour vehicles as they have not been treated very well (in his opinion). They had taken some last year- his comment was that the bike people are after "speed, speed, speed" so thrash the cars as well as their bikes. Don't know how true this is.

As the cars would be under (almost) 3 year warranty, the risk in taking one would probably be minimised. IMHO.

Nothing wrong with using the car as it was intended, as long as it was always brought up to operating temp, using quality oil and driven with mechanical sympathy - which unfortunately, i would doubt in this instance..