New Octavia ....when? How Much?

[woofy]

The Warranty is certainly better priced than it used to be. Still more than it should for something that I still think in this age should be standard.

[daMama]

When I spoke to the dealer about extended warranty all they wanted to sell me was the 3 year $2000 option which had nothing to do with skoda, I think it was through lennock. They didnt know what I was talking about when I said 2 year for 1600. Anyway, I told them they were silly.

WTF?!?! I don't know if you should laugh or cry at that response!

[vEnOm_oz]

It's on the Skoda AU website, show them that. That's either an ignorant response or they are trying to sell you their own extended warranty. There are people here who have even got a discount on the extended warranty.

When I spoke to the dealer about extended warranty all they wanted to sell me was the 3 year $2000 option which had nothing to do with skoda, I think it was through lennock. They didnt know what I was talking about when I said 2 year for 1600. Anyway, I told them they were silly.

[thommo]

Pick up next week. Can't wait.
Selling the wheels if any one interested. Thread in the for sales.

[GTR27]

Nice. If they were 19" extremes I would have been interested

[furiousgibbon]

You can pre programme the auto tailgate in one of 3 positions with #2 being about 2/3rds of the fully up position.

could someone please clarify this? I read the manual and this section is poorly worded. I have a very low garage roof and with the garage door open I need to be able to set a fairly low maximum opening position or it will hit the door. Currently with our Golf we have to chuck something in between the hatch and the garage door to stop it from damaging the car, which is the reason I ordered the auto tailgate! I assumed you could set any maximum height on the Skoda, which the manual seems to indicate, rather than pre-set positions.

Just to keep things on topic for the thread, I've ordered an RS wagon in candy white, DSG, tech, comfort and 18" black pack, panoramic sunroof, auto tailgate, extended warranty (i.e. just about everything) $48.5k driveaway with 12 months rego. Happy with that! As for when...

[brad]

I had a similar issue with the hatch on the MK2. The answer was to reverse into the garage so the hatch opens into the high part of the room

[furiousgibbon]

yeah that was my suggestion too, unfortunately my wife (who's car it'll be) has some kind of aversion to reversing into the garage even with a camera... I might have to work on that. If someone could chip in with whether the maximum height could be set to any height that would make it a non issue.

[woofy]

No doubt reversing is a pain. My current car can open the boot but it sticks out under the roller door....paranoid that someone will forget to shut one and shut the other. My wife will be the culprit she hits the inside garage button all the time without looking out the window to check first. My first ever brand new car was a Mazda 6 hatch, I'd never had a hatch before and opened the boot straight into the door opener in a previous house and damaged the spoiler on it. My current car has now got a cracked rear LED light strip which doesn't go higher than the antenna so I was scratching my head trying to figure out who did that one. It sat for a week at the dealer for battery testing recently, so gonna assume they parked it somewhere with a very low clearance as we never do.

I can see the use for you with the auto door, but it would make me nervous making sure you hit the right button for the setting you want.

[brad]

yeah that was my suggestion too, unfortunately my wife (who's car it'll be) has some kind of aversion to reversing into the garage even with a camera... I might have to work on that. If someone could chip in with whether the maximum height could be set to any height that would make it a non issue.

What is it with reversing into garages?
I'd rate my wife as an excelant parallel & 90 degree parker but she refuses to reverse into the garage - even after I showed her my line-up point.

I asked her:
"Why is it that it's hard to reverse in but easy to reverse out into a narrow driveway?" - Couldn't answer

"Why do you drive into a garage & at the last moment turn the steering wheel 20 degrees to one side and still manage to reverse out?" - Couldn't answer.

I actually find it harder to reverse out of our garage because the driveway is up hill & has a brick wall on one side so you can't see the cars & pedestrians.