OCTAVIA III Owners discussion thread

[Jondalar]

Hi,

My Octavia is in for service today and they found one front wheel bearing needs replacing at only 45k, this seems pretty unusual to me. Has anyone else had a similar problem?

Cheers,
Karl

[99Reza]

Hi,

My Octavia is in for service today and they found one front wheel bearing needs replacing at only 45k, this seems pretty unusual to me. Has anyone else had a similar problem?

Cheers,
Karl

Seems fairly common, I replaced mine quite early but it may had something to do with some rock on the road. Having said that, I shredded a tyre on the way to Sydney thanks to a rather large pothole with a different car, no damage to the wheel bearing of that particular car (still going strong 9 years later, I've since sold that car). Perhaps a lower quality bearing was used to save cost on our car.

[woofy]

I'd be expecting that covered under warranty, there is a bit of that going on with these.

[Jondalar]

Yes it was covered under warranty and they let me have a loan car for the extra day so all good.

[Jondalar]

So I got a trade in valuation recently, my Octavia not quite 2yo with 45k km on it, paid 41.5k, was supposed to be normal price at least $46k and the offers were $12-14k. 70% loss in 2 years... Not happy at all. Skoda's are well built and designed but if the Australian motor industry don't see their value it makes ownership a much more expensive proposition.

[HPRS230]

So I got a trade in valuation recently, my Octavia not quite 2yo with 45k km on it, paid 41.5k, was supposed to be normal price at least $46k and the offers were $12-14k. 70% loss in 2 years... Not happy at all. Skoda's are well built and designed but if the Australian motor industry don't see their value it makes ownership a much more expensive proposition.

Ask them what a Golf in your spec is worth and see if the percentages line up...
Yea not looking forward to the day of selling it, going to be worst less

[Jondalar]

Well I managed to talk another dealer into a deal that was acceptable, will be changing to a Passat Alltrack Wolfsberg in about a week

[HPRS230]

Well I managed to talk another dealer into a deal that was acceptable, will be changing to a Passat Alltrack Wolfsberg in about a week

Part out on the trade in.....
Nice one mate!

[HPRS230]

Sad day for the 3 Pedal cars, the end is near
Skoda Octavia: 245 DSG to become sole RS for MY19 | CarAdvice

[TurboYodaSkoda]

I thought this may happen. The Golf Gti is going to be the 180kW with LSD performance spec only as well. I guess they had to now you can get a Hyundai i30 with over 200kW and a LSD. Keeping up with the 'Kims' ?