The Skoda Thread

[Richard A Thackeray]

The old chestnut (to me, anyway) has arisen again
SWMBO is complaining about her Q3 being thirsty/expensive to run (2.0turbo-petrol, that I suggested not buying when she did)
She's once more, wanting (essentially);
1. Me to sell my Kodiaq/px it for an automatic, as she won’t drive due to it being a manual (I'd very seriously consider an Octavia Scout!)

2. Sell the Q3, & buy a smaller automatic, as a 'runabout', seeing as the Q3 is superfluous, as the 'van is on a site (Fabia??)

A neighbour has just got a Yeti, apparently to replace a FIAT 500, & SWMBO likes the look of it!! (the Yeti, not the 500)
Hmm, a nice Tdi, 4x4 model springs to my mind............

 

[Jameshow]

The old chestnut (to me, anyway) has arisen again
SWMBO is complaining about her Q3 being thirsty/expensive to run (2.0turbo-petrol, that I suggested not buying when she did)
She's once more, wanting (essentially);
1. Me to sell my Kodiaq/px it for an automatic (I'd very seriously consider an Octavia Scout!)
2. Sell the Q3, & buy a smaller automatic, as a 'runabout', seeing as the Q3 is superfluous, as the 'van is on a site (Fabia??)

A neighbour has just got a Yeti, apparently to replace a FIAT 500, & SWMBO likes the look of it!! (the Yeti, not the 500)
Hmm, a nice Tdi, 4x4 model springs to my mind............

Visited Freinds with a top of the range fabia dsg and it really was nice, wasn't small car like at all!!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Late last night (23:30?), l had a slightly disjointed phone-call, from my mother to say they’d had a crash
It seemed that my father had driven into the back of a parked car, for whatever reason
(later breathalysed, at ‘0’)

So once l knew where (not far away from their home), l drove over
They were being checked up in one Ambo, their rear-seat passenger was on a spinal-board, being examined
(as l know of this time, presumed whiplash, & leg pain due to ‘flailing’ & shins hitting seat back/frame?)

She went off to Hospital, YAS crew were happy for my parents to go home & visit a Walk In Centre this AM, as mum has a skin-tear on shoulder from seat-belt
(wife’s taken them, as the Q3 is a bit lower, & she’s an ex-Nurse, so wants to listen to advice given)

Somehow, my father thinks it’s repairable
It is (or was?) a ‘68’ Fabia estate

The 'crumple-zones' did their job, as did seat-belts & air-bags

Bottom line; metal & plastic, a guilty conscience for my father for injuring a family friend