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An excellent, reliable great all round motorway cruiser. A lot of car for the money and the running costs aren't stupid.

Some of the dealers haven't been great.

Nothing major has gone wrong with the car, a couple of bulbs as you would expect. However, more annoyingly a tiny washer caused a diesel leak into the engine bay, this was fixed by the supplying Skoda dealer. I bought the Octavia as an approved used car from a Skoda dealer. I haven't been disappointed with the car, however, the supplying dealer wasn't brilliant. They made a meal of replacing an indicator lens, requiring the car to go back three times for such a small job. I found this somewhat unacceptable. The car's performance is very good, quite surprising for only 105bhp and a relatively large car. It is easy to 'chip' the 1.9PD TDi engine and this only adds to the performance. The handling is acceptable, nothing amazing, but OK. It does wallow through the corners somewhat when hurrying it a little. It is not as composed as, say a Mondeo. However, that is the only area where the Mondeo leads the Octavia.