Skoda Octavia I test drive - 2010 -

Stepdaughter

We bought this skeleton for testing tires of a foreign car dimension 195/65R15. Of course, she will also have other concerns because she was created on the folkvagen-golf platform of the fifth generation, one of the most modern models in the market.
 
The car from the first days had to be included in the real work. The rearrangement alone loads the suspension and the body so that it is time to equally equate the test kilometer to three in normal operation. In order not to make our trials too intense, we decided to dilute the tire extreme with a vacation mileage. The trip is ordinary: four people plus baggage, mileage of 6 thousand kilometers. It is enough that a steady impression has developed about the car.
 
Skoda Octavia Skoda pleases with a spacious salon and many containers for small things. For each there is its place, only the chocolate (driver reserve) was determined in the glove compartment there, it does not melt even in severe heat. Unless, of course, the air conditioner is included in the climate installation with a clothing box by a separate channel.
 
The driver's seat is enough to adjust the adjustments, but it was not possible to choose an ideal landing at the wheel. The rigid edge of a long pillow unpleasantly presses under the knees.
 
The rear seat seems to be wide, for three, but the middle is so hard that you can sit on it for no more than half an hour. In addition, the designers, apparently taking care that the heads of passengers do not rest against the ceiling, lower the pillow very low. As a result, thoughts are spacious, but you are sitting as if squatting.
 
Heating and ventilation are quite effective, but it is not possible to cope with foggy glass during the rain, especially if the rain is protracted. But it is worth turning on the air conditioner and add heat, as transparency returns to the glasses.
 
The threshold is easily crushed by a overturner, now we use only a jack. It is believed that the high threshold will protect passengers with a lateral blow only by its outer panels are so thin that when trying to use the overseer during the tire tests, the threshold was crumpled, as if cardboard.
 
The trunk is simply huge, and the net (sold separately for 900 rubles) will help to fix small things. The trunk is huge 560 liters! Value luggage, including sleeping bags, provisions and inevitable purchases on the trip, could not fill out its volume to failure. And if you fold the seat, then, perhaps, the refrigerator will come in. However, there is a remark when you open the trunk in the rain, a fair portion of water flows from the rear window.

Music with two additional speakers for the rear doors cost 3,500 rubles, but its installation at the proprietary station cost almost twice as much as 6400. Why? Only the full -time receiver of Skoda is placed in the panel nest. I had to put a new panel with Euro.
 
Silence delights in a leisurely movement! The motors are not heard at all until the revolutions are exceeded for 3,000. However, the sillys of the modest 1600 cubes for a heavy car are only enough for a measured, calm ride. Confident, even bottoms allow you to move at small speeds, only the clutch smoothly release. Acceleration is sedentary, somewhat reviving from four thousand. However, do not wait for silence from the motor, and therefore I do not want to twist it to the permitted 6500 rpm. By the way, these numbers on the tachometer are not entirely logical, since the maximum power (according to the passport) is 5600.
 
But up to 100 km/h, it seems that you are silently floating over the road and only a few hundred kilometers of the ear captivate the sniffing of the hydraulic power steering.
 
The hood blocking hook jumps out of the radiator grille. We replaced the wheels of wheels when testing tires is more convenient. Weak link of the car Suspension package for bad roads. Of course, thanks to him, the European Skoda has a Russian road clearance, but the noise with which such a suspension works is alarming. From the first kilometers it seems that the good half of the fasteners in it is simply not tightened even on small bumps, it makes knocks and clangs. The suspension and other Skod owners are complained of noisiness. There are complaints to handling and smoothness. The latter, for example, is good only at full load, and an empty car is perceived as excessively hard. The same effect with controllability to a loaded car does not have comments, but empty can present a surprise. If on an arc of a fast bend, you realized that the speed is high and just dropped Skoda gas actively shifting the stern even on dry asphalt, demanding immediate and clear actions by the steering wheel. Processing or a small mistake leads to deep skidding, and then you need to be a master to stay on the road.
 
The VIN-code of the machine is located in the lower left corner of the windshield, for checking it is not required to open the hood. Apparently, serious arguments with this suspension were not carried out simply raised the body over the road. As a result, the compression course became great, and the end of the end, so that the rear wheels sometimes break away from the road.
 
The bottom of Skoda is closed by a plastic aerodynamic screen. On good roads, this, of course, saves fuel, but will plastic survive after our winter with its uncleaned roads?
 
The capacity of the gas tank 55 liters at first seems solid, but at a flow of about 9 l/100 km, you understand that there is no lice here. The course of the course of a little over 600 km is almost like the front-wheel drive frets with a 43-liter tank.
 
Definitely, the new Skoda Octavia family car. For daily business trips in the city bustle, perhaps, they are too big, especially if you ride alone.
 
The costs of buying and preparing expenses for expenses in many respects the car is good, but almost everywhere there is roughness. It seems that these are not design miscalculations, but the company's strategy for Skoda in everything at least a little, but inferior to a more noble relative named Golf. In a word, stepdaughter.
 
Skoda Octavia A5
Manufacturer: Skoda Auto, Czech Republic
Year of release: 2005
In operation while driving: since June 2005
Mileage at the time of the report: 12 600 km
 
Sergey Mishin
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 

A source: The magazine "Driving"