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[Closed] Octavia vRS - Petrol or Diesel?

willard · 2010-10-04T14:58:45Z

The wife has finally managed to convince me to get rid of the [s]tank[/s] 4x4 and buy something a little [s]less sh1t[/s] more in keeping with our social status. Naturally my thoughts turned to the Octavia as it has a big boot for the dogs, nice seats, VW reliability (although that has taken a bit of a knock after my wife's Golf fiasco recently), and cheapness. I've seen an '06 petrol vRS with 90k on the clock on autotrader for 8k and I rally need to know from the Octavia experts here whether it's worth it, what to look out for, and how much I should try and convince them to take off during negotiations... It's apparently got a full service history and has had a single [company] owner for it's life, although it is due a service now apparently. So what bits should I be looking at when I go see it? Anything I should especially look out for? Oh yes, and given that I only do about 10k a year, should I bother looking at the diesel versions of the vRS, or just go with the cheaper fuel option. Cheers!

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I drove an old Avensis diesel as a works car one and it wasn't bad. A fair bit of go to it, but a little bland. Mind you, I was comparing it to my ex-police Omega MV6 at the time, so most cars were a little bland in comparison, even my Mk11 Golf GTi

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