2011 skoda Fabia reviews

Skoda Fabia Monte Carlo 1.2 TSI 105 2011

What can I say about this car? Sadly it hasn’t been the best experience. It was my first new car and things went wrong from day one. The dealership delivered the car to me (after a 3 month wait) with the wrong specification, wrong alloy wheels on one side of the vehicle (that’s right, my car had 2 different sets!) and over the past 3 months a catalogue of faults that cannot be rectified. Skoda UK have been useless, the finance company haven’t been helpful and the supplying dealer just told me to go away as the car is "fine". The car rattles like a bag of nails, pulls to the left, leaks, squeaks, creaks, loud noises appear from the engine bay when idling etc. Such a shame, I expected more from the VAG group. I guess I’m just unlucky as reports suggest the car should be decent. The car inside is quite nice though, comfy seats, quite spacious (I’m 6’3), but just seems the dealerships cannot provide decent service and with all the issues I’ve had I’ll be selling it to go back to a Japanese manufacturer. Such a shame, it’s a very nice looking car! Needs to be a bit more than that though.