Skoda Octavia Estate - Chatting with a taxi driver

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Thu 17 Oct 2013 11:52
Skoda Octavia Estate - Chatting with a taxi driver - craig-pd130

I had a lengthy chat with a private hire taxi driver last night, he does around 50K miles per year and had just sold his 09-plate Octavia 115bhp diesel with DSG.

He sold it with 230,000 on the clock, having bought it with 60K up, and run it for three years. In that time, he'd replaced the DMF twice (he was getting around 80K per flywheel) but apart from that, had only replaced service items and consumables.

He's now running a Seat Exeo estate, and has done around 30K in it.

Interestingly, he never had a DPF problem in the Skoda, and has had no DPF troubles in the Seat either -- I would guess because the car is used fully warmed up for extended periods, giving regenerations plenty of time to finish properly.

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Thu 17 Oct 2013 15:12
Skoda Octavia Estate - Chatting with a taxi driver - oldroverboy.

when we were in Wales, local taxi driver with Skoda superb... 193,000 miles still on original clutch, but he is the only driver. service parts only + belts at correct intervals. Lucky man!

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Sat 19 Oct 2013 18:00
Skoda Octavia Estate - Chatting with a taxi driver - Avant

Good to know also that the DSG was up to that mileage. It seems that the problems have been with the dry clutch version: this Octavia, like mine, has the wet clutch.

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Sat 19 Oct 2013 21:16
Skoda Octavia Estate - Chatting with a taxi driver - craig-pd130

Good to know also that the DSG was up to that mileage. It seems that the problems have been with the dry clutch version: this Octavia, like mine, has the wet clutch.

He said he never had any problems with the gearbox or selector mechanism itself, just that the flywheel started clunking and rattling every 80 - 85K miles. I didn't ask specifically, but I presume the clutch plate was changed at the same time.

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