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wannabeeahack
 Post subject: taking a risk
PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:16 pm 
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on pug 508

1.6 or 2.0 undecided...

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 Post subject: Re: taking a risk
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wannabeeahack wrote:
on pug 508

1.6 or 2.0 undecided...

1.6.

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wannabeeahack
 Post subject: Re: taking a risk
PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2018 1:02 pm 
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Nige doesnt like Vauxhalls so i cant buy an Insignia

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wannabeeahack wrote:
Nige doesnt like Vauxhalls so i cant buy an Insignia



You'll be thanking me for not buying one.
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wannabeeahack
 Post subject: Re: taking a risk
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Nidge2 wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
Nige doesnt like Vauxhalls so i cant buy an Insignia



You'll be thanking me for not buying one.


theres a pint paid for in The Oddfellows mate

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 Post subject: Re: taking a risk
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bloody hard buying a garage sale car for cash as they arent ready to drive away and 2 visits to kilmarnock aint on the "to do list"

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 Post subject: Re: taking a risk
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Nidge2 wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
Nige doesnt like Vauxhalls so i cant buy an Insignia



You'll be thanking me for not buying one.


theres a pint paid for in The Oddfellows mate



About 200 yards from my house, when was you in there??
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Coopers
 Post subject: Re: taking a risk
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They say no substitute for cc, so ide get 2.0
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wannabeeahack
 Post subject: Re: taking a risk
PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:08 pm 
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Settled on an old (13 plate) Superb Greenline hatch

till august then ill get a Euro 6 saloon in white for hackney

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westgatelad
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So i havent logged in for about 4 years. But wannabehack. What happened to the skoda superb u had bought from cab direct?

Surely a new skoda with regular service and maintenance would of lasted you a good 8 years?
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sasha
 Post subject: Re: taking a risk
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Two of our drivers have had the Skoda 'emissions' update and it totally fu**ed their cars.
Both have had a full refund (the cars were nearly a year old and done 50k)- and bought Toyota hybrids - and are getting a shedload in compensation as well.
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wannabeeahack
 Post subject: Re: taking a risk
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sasha wrote:
Two of our drivers have had the Skoda 'emissions' update and it totally fu**ed their cars.
Both have had a full refund (the cars were nearly a year old and done 50k)- and bought Toyota hybrids - and are getting a shedload in compensation as well.


and yet...

my 2013 1.6 greenline purchased in December which had the fix 2 years/25,000 miles ago is fine

ive done 8000 miles in it without issue and it feels livelier than the 2015 unfixed 1.6 i had and does the same MPG

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 Post subject: Re: taking a risk
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westgatelad wrote:
So i havent logged in for about 4 years. But wannabehack. What happened to the skoda superb u had bought from cab direct?

Surely a new skoda with regular service and maintenance would of lasted you a good 8 years?


it went in favour of a Merc E250 estate

well that was a mistake...

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 Post subject: Re: taking a risk
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wannabeeahack wrote:
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1.6 or 2.0 undecided...


well we bought the 1.6hdi SW at 80k miles, its as good a taxi as locals deserve or need, and does 1 kid to school easy, its on 120K now having had services and cambelt/water pump but the DPF went tits up

so £3500 purchase plus £1000 DPF = £4500. it owes us nothing

but it does 800 miles on a tank of fuel and will go another 2 years before the Euro 6 rule writes it off

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 Post subject: Re: taking a risk
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wannabeeahack wrote:
sasha wrote:
Two of our drivers have had the Skoda 'emissions' update and it totally fu**ed their cars.
Both have had a full refund (the cars were nearly a year old and done 50k)- and bought Toyota hybrids - and are getting a shedload in compensation as well.


and yet...

my 2013 1.6 greenline purchased in December which had the fix 2 years/25,000 miles ago is fine

ive done 8000 miles in it without issue and it feels livelier than the 2015 unfixed 1.6 i had and does the same MPG
These were 2015/16 Octavias, maybe engines/components different.
Both had the update and they started running rough and getting loads of check engine warnings. In and out of garage having new injectors, different versions of software, ECU's and I think something to do with the DPF. Nothing worked so they rejected the vehicles (they'd only had them a few months from new before the update was applied so still covered by sales of goods and lemon laws).

They were offered brand new replacements but decided against it.
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