You guys are from UK?

Let us know your feelings on the Skoda, particularly the ride and seat
comfort.
One of the things putting me n the missus off the whole VW experience is the
tuetonic ride.

djimbo.

I'd have to agree with the sentiments about the main dealers: I bought
my 406 2nd hand from a main dealer and had a years warranty. It started
losing coolant at 11 months; put it in for them to have a look and
guess what, they couldn't id the fault. Given that there were no
external leaks my guess was that it's a leaking head gasket - but the
delaers response was that although it probably was this, they wouldn't
proceed under the warranty, I'd have to go ahead at risk. That risk
equals maybe £1200. Not an option for me, too expensive. Two things
here - 1) the 2nd hand warranty is shite 2) the diagnostic service is
shite.

However - my wife bought a vw polo from new a few years back and this
was infiitely worse than my pug; endless major, costly problems and the
main dealer service was truly appalling. Within 3 years we were
replacing things like ABS computer, electronic fuel management computer
and so on, things that should last the life of the car. The central
locking has recently packed up and if you look around a breakers yard
you'll soon realise that this is extremely common - these parts are
always gone from the vehicles, like gold-dust. Bottom line for me is
that whilst my pug is currently a pain, I can get my head round a blown
HG, and once fixed am sure the car will plod along for years and years,
whereas the VW will probably be in the breakers by the time it's 7 or 8
years old.