Not a question and I am not looking in particular for any answers, just needing to vent really.
I hankered after a Fabia VRs for about 5 years until I could afford to run two cars. Got mine a few years ago and it had been a bit neglected, so first and foremost, as with any second hand car that anyone buys, a service, a mooch about, and fix anything that needs fixing, find out any common faults, see if a fix has been applied and if not, then do it. If it breaks, get it fixed asap before it gets worse and causes other parts to break. Standard stuff.
Since joining Facebook to track my university student daughters whereabouts and doings, and joining several skoda and VRs owners groups(wtf is that about its almost the exact same list of members) including the Briskoda one(which,btw, seems to have members who aren't members as someone actually asked last night what Briskoda was!). I have noticed a rather upsetting trend of new owners, who say they've always wanted one, and have great plans for doing all sorts of magical and fantastical things to the car, then bin them as soon as it bursts a vacuum pipe, or the head gasket goes. And when I say bin, I don't just mean sell them on, I mean break them as in their current state they are possibly worth more money in bits than as a whole. Wtf is that about, if you love the car look after the fecking thing, if you have big plans for 'improvements' have big plans for repairs too ffs.
No patience and too feckin lazy to put in the effort to get it fixed. Willing to spend money on a front mount and a remap, but when the turbo goes pop, says it's cheap crap and bags the bloody thing. If they aren't going to look after the bloody thing don't buy it in the first place, or at least sell it, someone else will look after it ffs. I don't mind written off ones(one on eBay which was totalled and had the roof cut off it to get them out, for example) being broken and sold, but there are people out there who are breaking these cars with nothing wrong with them. Owning a 12 year old car like the VRs is not like owning a 1.0 corsa. Just gets right on my nips that's all.
Lennie
I hankered after a Fabia VRs for about 5 years until I could afford to run two cars. Got mine a few years ago and it had been a bit neglected, so first and foremost, as with any second hand car that anyone buys, a service, a mooch about, and fix anything that needs fixing, find out any common faults, see if a fix has been applied and if not, then do it. If it breaks, get it fixed asap before it gets worse and causes other parts to break. Standard stuff.
Since joining Facebook to track my university student daughters whereabouts and doings, and joining several skoda and VRs owners groups(wtf is that about its almost the exact same list of members) including the Briskoda one(which,btw, seems to have members who aren't members as someone actually asked last night what Briskoda was!). I have noticed a rather upsetting trend of new owners, who say they've always wanted one, and have great plans for doing all sorts of magical and fantastical things to the car, then bin them as soon as it bursts a vacuum pipe, or the head gasket goes. And when I say bin, I don't just mean sell them on, I mean break them as in their current state they are possibly worth more money in bits than as a whole. Wtf is that about, if you love the car look after the fecking thing, if you have big plans for 'improvements' have big plans for repairs too ffs.
No patience and too feckin lazy to put in the effort to get it fixed. Willing to spend money on a front mount and a remap, but when the turbo goes pop, says it's cheap crap and bags the bloody thing. If they aren't going to look after the bloody thing don't buy it in the first place, or at least sell it, someone else will look after it ffs. I don't mind written off ones(one on eBay which was totalled and had the roof cut off it to get them out, for example) being broken and sold, but there are people out there who are breaking these cars with nothing wrong with them. Owning a 12 year old car like the VRs is not like owning a 1.0 corsa. Just gets right on my nips that's all.
Lennie