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Skoda badges

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  • 27-05-2008 10:10pm
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    tuxy
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    While driving around I notice many skodas with the badge removed.
    Does anyone know why this is?
    Has it fallen off/ worn away?
    Has the owner deliberately removed it?
    Does people like to pilfer them? (hardly)


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    Michael G
    Registered Users Posts: 797 ✭✭✭Michael G


    I don't know but they are great cars. Having had a Skoda vRS before (one of four Skodas), I am now driving a Seat Leon FR 200 bhp — just like the vRS but with a slightly nicer body (which when you get down to it is the reason why many of us make our choices).


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    Volvoboy
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    I always remember when i first started panel beating as a apprentice, one day i parked my car down the back of the work shop.

    One of the lads thought it was hillarious to take all the surplus badges out of the stores and decorate my car.

    It was a 1.8 turbo diesel, 2.0D, Nissan, Avensis, Micra, VW, Audi, Fiat, Ford, Camry, Ls400...

    ... I could go on, there was badges on the roof, windows, headlights and wheels.

    :mad:


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    kleefarr
    Registered Users Posts: 5,743 ✭✭✭kleefarr


    tuxy wrote: »
    While driving around I notice many skodas with the badge removed.
    Does anyone know why this is?
    Has it fallen off/ worn away?
    Has the owner deliberately removed it?
    Does people like to pilfer them? (hardly)


    Actually, now you mention it, I've seen a few about with the badges missing. I thought they were pilfered.


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    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Maybe it's all in my head but I see more Skoda badges missing then any other make.
    Why would thieves have a preference for Skoda badges?


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    Anan1
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    Perhaps Skoda owners are just less quick to replace them?


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    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,868 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Do they come off easier?

    The Alfa badges that swiveled over the bootlid were always being taken off when I was in school...


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    mondeo
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    Maybe the owners act in a deliberate manner and remove the badges themselves so people will think they bought the more favourable VW alternative.

    My friend has a theory that people buy the skoda because they cannot afford the vw. Is that true? I dont know because I have driven neither.


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    Anan1
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    mondeo wrote: »
    My friend has a theory that people buy the skoda because they cannot afford the vw. Is that true? I dont know because I have driven neither.
    The Skoda is the VW.


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    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Anan1 wrote: »
    Perhaps Skoda owners are just less quick to replace them?

    You could be right. My dad owns a Skoda(decent car) and he is very stingy. :)


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    mondeo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,666 ✭✭✭mondeo


    Anan1 wrote: »
    The Skoda is the VW.

    We all know that


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    Anan1
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    mondeo wrote: »
    My friend has a theory that people buy the skoda because they cannot afford the vw. Is that true? I dont know because I have driven neither.
    Anan1 wrote: »
    The Skoda is the VW.
    mondeo wrote: »
    We all know that
    :confused:


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    mondeo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,666 ✭✭✭mondeo


    Anan1 wrote: »
    :confused:

    The skoda represents value for money, underneath it's a fine
    car with all the audi/vw bits.


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,395 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    aren't skodas just crappier VWs?


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    mondeo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,666 ✭✭✭mondeo


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    aren't skodas just crappier VWs?

    In basic terms it's a vw on the cheap but still a vw all the same


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    colm_mcm
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    except it's made in the Czech republic instead of Mexico!


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    Anan1
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    mondeo wrote: »
    The skoda represents value for money, underneath it's a fine
    car with all the audi/vw bits.
    VolksWagen means 'Peoples Car'. The Skoda is the VW. Are you with me now?;)


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    Guy:Incognito
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    colm_mcm wrote: »
    aren't skodas just crappier VWs?

    Surely VW's are crappier Skodas if the reliability surveys are anything to go by?.


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    Max_Damage
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    colm_mcm wrote: »
    except it's made in the Czech republic instead of Mexico!

    Only the Jetta and Beetle are made in Mexico AFAIK.


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,395 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    just fishing TBH, everyone loves the Skoda vs. VW argument!


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    JHMEG
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    Max_Damage wrote: »
    Only the Jetta and Beetle are made in Mexico AFAIK.
    True. Tho the Passat is now assembled in Ukraine as well as Russia. Also out of the Russian factory are Skoda Octavias, Fabias and VW Jettas.


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    The Real B-man
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    colm_mcm wrote: »
    except it's made in the Czech republic instead of Mexico!

    Whos cares where there made? still come off state of the art production lines.


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    E92
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    Don't knock Skodas before you try them.

    What does a VW have that a Skoda doesn't? Nothing bar a "better badge" and much higher prices.


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    yellow012
    Registered Users Posts: 231 ✭✭yellow012


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    aren't skodas just crappier VWs?

    Surprise, surprise a Toyota car salesman slagging off a rival car manufacturer.
    BTW any luck finding gullible eejits to flog those paddy special petrol 1.6 Avensis to? Jeez you must cringe every time you hear that add on the radio?


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    #25
    WHITE_P
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    Ooh, Sooooo much anti VAG sentiment. :(


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    E92
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭E92


    What? Skodas are excellent cars for the money. Easily the best of any of the budget brands. And better than many of the not so budget brands too. They do everything a VW does but cost a whole pile less, and they seem to be more reliable too.


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    craichoe
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    E92 wrote: »
    What? Skodas are excellent cars for the money. Easily the best of any of the budget brands. And better than many of the not so budget brands too. They do everything a VW does but cost a whole pile less, and they seem to be more reliable too.

    They are indeed, i own a Skoda too.

    However the only thing i would say is that the perception of a skoda customer vs a vw customer is probably different.

    A VW customer would think that nothing should go wrong, a skoda customer would be if the opinion that he got a bargain and hence wouldnt be as annoyed when something plays up once its covered under warranty


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    E92
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    yellow012 wrote: »
    Surprise, surprise a Toyota car salesman slagging off a rival car manufacturer.
    BTW any luck finding gullible eejits to flog those paddy special petrol 1.6 Avensis to? Jeez you must cringe every time you hear that add on the radio?
    +1

    They must be really desperate, that ad has been going on for nearly 3 months at this stage. Why would anyone want an Irish special(only RHD country in the world that can have the 1.6) anyway?
    And the ironic thing is that their diesel is the most efficient out there bar the Mondeo ECOnetic and Laguna 1.5 dCi.

    Funny how there's no ads about the Corolla 1.4 though, which is also going up in VRT and road tax from July. But that car still has supply issues, what a "co-incidence"!


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    mkdon05
    Registered Users Posts: 766 ✭✭✭mkdon05


    If you took the badges of both the vw and skoda and test drove them, you could easily tell which was which and i'd have the vw every time.
    I was doing an advanced motorist course a few years back and was in a fabia, the guy that was conducting the course was the owner of it and he never shut up about how the skoda and vw were the exact same*,
    I wanted to punch him in the eye and rent him a golf for a week.

    *Always skoda drivers advocating that notion

    Just for clarity, I drive neither make of car, but have in the past.


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    E92
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    They are identical cars underneath, a few bits of nicer plastic here and there, a different badge and a higher price is not going to deceive me!

    And I'm not a Skoda driver, but when VAG start imprting the cars themselves, then they will be a very hard car to beat for the money.

    You only have to look at Mazda and BMW to see how much of a difference it makes to have the manufacturers importing the cars themselves!


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    ironictoaster
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    Today in Finglas, I saw a Skoda hatchback with VW alloys. The badge was removed as well.

    I'll look out for more of these imposters!!


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