The only car which which should be seen in green is a Jaguar - go for a different colour, you'll pay come trade in time.

Many years ago I was looking for a used Audi A2 - a pine green one was £1,000 less than any other colour with a similar mileage.

Skoda also use bright green branding which they insist on using inside the car - awful.

Limited experience but the whole Skoda 'happy drivers' thing is a myth. I've owned exactly one Skoda and the dealers were, frankly, a pretty hopeless bunch - nice people mainly but not a single clue about why having to go back two, three or even four times for a fix was not acceptable.

Skoda UK customer services are also a pretty complacent bunch with no sense of urgency at all.

Also met a lazy salesman who tried to claim that he had arranged with my finance director for me to change my car, but I guess you get that type anywhere.

I became an ex-Skoda customer after only 10 months.

I couldn't disagree more. When I used the 'contact us' form on the Skoda web site they got back to me quickly by telephone and were very helpful. I have used 2 dealers for a couple of intermittent electrical faults. Both of them provided me with a courtesy car and kept my car until it was fixed even though the fault was difficult to find. The dealers were much, much better than my 2 local VW dealers.

After the earlier referred to dealer troubles whilst ordering the car it was delivered but a sales person forged my signature to a service contract and to a bank standing order mandate.

The dealer fired the salesperson and offered to compensate me with 3 years free servicing and MOT - a fair offer - but the dealer, unable to fit forward parking sensors immediately, had a fitter come to my house on three occasions to fit sensors. After the third attempt the sensors worked a couple of days and then the interior lights came on as I was driving, the battery warning light came on and the radio started hopping channels. Skoda had the vehicle picked up on a transporter and taken to another dealer who found the supplying dealer had incorrectly refitted the radio. I told Skoda that the dealer who could not fit parking sensors first time and could not correctly reinstall a Skoda radio was not safe to provide servicing and MOT on my new vehicle. Oh yes I am very pleased with the Superb, excellent vehicle to drive, bags of room. Skoda have offered me reduced compensation by excluding parts, consumables and the MOT on the basis it was not Skoda's own sales and engineering staff at fault and neither had Skoda forged my signatures to the documents. Skoda told me the VAG part of the dealer's company has servicing complaints from one in every ten customers, but no survey had been made on Skoda customer’s servicing experiences.

Edited by Avant on 22/02/2012 at 21:39

Skoda UK customer services are also a pretty complacent bunch with no sense of urgency at all.

Maybe you were talking to the rejects from the VW part of the business !!

Its well known within the trade that green is the most unpopular colour and as such would not recommend a green car, when you come to PX you will suffer on a value because its green.

As already mentioned and quite rightly Jaguar British Racing green on a jaguar is the only green you can get away with !

If Skoda cant supply you with the colour you want then buy elsewhere ! your the customer and its your money