Thinking of buying a Fabia 1.9TD vRS?

[NoPrisoners]

I am thinking of getting a Fabia vRS, need it for a ~30mile commute. I was looking at a 04/05 one with about 10kmile/year with a budget of up to £6500, what have people found them to be like? Any oppinons welcome, thanks

[DeanVRS]

had mine just over a year,decent acceleration,easy to upgrade ie remaps etc

Upholstery is light and a nightmare to keep clean...average about 42 mpg about town.

service costs good if youve got a local indy..interval every 10k miles.

let us know what else you need to know,if you in essex you can see mine before you jump in if you need to.

[Who me ?]

Best advice I can give is hop over to briskoda.net and find out the good and not so good .Things like leaky door seals and other trivia .There's a few stickies on the common problems .I've got the little one -1.4 tdi , and it's goodfun even with 70bhp and economical too -.If you're looking at a diesel one -cambelt at 60k/4 years ,most definately on a 04/05 model ( around £350+) and all services done at 10k+/- 1k with CORRECT oil-the PD don't take kindly in later years to the wrong oil .
No doubt TT has other things to memtion .

[ian2144]

The wife got an 07 plate vRS SE for her Christmas, so far average mpg has been around 55 going from Aberdeenshire to Lanark.

Interior is black leather, so no problem keeping clean. I've not had much chance to drive the car since it arived, other half very happy with it

So far so good.

[Podie]

The missus is on her second vRS, and they've both been fantastic cars.

First one (04 plate, silver) did 70k miles and she got more than 50% of her money back when she traded it in for an 07 SE in the rather nice Race blue which is fast approaching 50k miles!

First one had a rattle in the fan that was fixed under warranty, and the blue one had a door check strap bolt work loose - but that's been about it.

Cruise control is a bonus, and we've had heated seats retro fitted for those cold winter mornings, but other than that the "Super Skode" has been brilliant.

It's no hot hatch, but the torque makes up for that, and they do lift-off oversteer if provoked

When pushed hard you get about 45mpg out of ours, and I think the record we've had is 72mpg on an M1 run.

[Blue160]

I've had one for a year and a half now.

I do 25k miles a year and absolutely nothing has gone wrong. Decent performance, great fuel economy, not the sharpest handling but good ride comfort. It's the first car I've had that I've been completely happy with.

Highly recommended