skoda pick up

[matty71]

im thinking about getting a skoda pick up, does anyone know how reliable they are, mpg etc?

 

will be looking at the 1.9 diesel

 

 

thanks matty

[slasherscot]

a bit low to the ground

[matty71]

its not for loads of work just something for small jobs every now and then and for getting my bike around really so not too much of an issue

[Head Ranger Pete]

they arent bad - essentially a copy of the caddy pick up. but like slasher says they are low to the ground - about like a usual van , and they are only 2wd so you dont want to be taking them off road

 

( I had one breifly a few years back - we killed it by taking it off road... lol )

[matty71]

they arent bad - essentially a copy of the caddy pick up. but like slasher says they are low to the ground - about like a usual van , and they are only 2wd so you dont want to be taking them off road

 

( I had one breifly a few years back - we killed it by taking it off road... lol )

 

 

 

lol fair do's wouldnt expect it to be amazing like but looks a good little work horse, was it any good on the fuel when you had it?

[spudulike]

Got the Octavia estate with 2.0TDI engine - MPG average 56, best I have ever got driving like an old woman 74mpg, pretty rapid if you push it, three figures faster than you may imagine - under the Skoda badge, you are buying VW design and reliabillity!

[geoff]

If it fits the remit it will be a good motor,nice little runaround.

[Head Ranger Pete]

IIRC it got about 35mpg but that wasnt really a fair test because it spent much of its (short) life with me being driven up fire trails etc ( I replaced it with a landrover 130 to give a picture of the sort of abuse it was getting)

 

our new caddy van gets about 50mpg on road if that helps

 

(btw seat make a pick up copy of the caddy as well, plus you can still get good examples of the actual caddy pickup - though good ones are pricey as they are a bit of a classic)

[NI Tree]

the felica is one of the best cars i have driven off road i would recomed them ours had been wased the day before it got called the purple quad by all the local farmers

[scottythepinetree]

A company I worked for 7 or 8 years ago had one purely for getting a couple of lads to work who didn't have their own motors. Did everything asked of it (which wasn't a lot) and never had a bit of trouble and was very easy on juice. Can't give MPGs as I only ever pay attention to fills at the pump. Could get close to 600 miles on a tank on the long haul.

 

Only trouble we had with it was when we killed the clutch using it to drag piles of branches out of a long garden to the chipper. Entirely our fault, as it isn't built for that kind of abuse.