I'm a member on a Skoda, Alfa Romeo and a VW forum. I rarely see anything bad about the quality of how any Skoda is built. The members there aren't bias, if something is wrong, they'll talk about it. They are from the UK and Europe.
Things forever seem to be going wrong in the VW forum and it's always the same things. You're reading this from a VW fan. So don't think of me as a Skoda fanatic and VW hater.
Infact, am I correct in thinking the Auto Express Driver Power Survey this year voted the Skoda Octavia the Number 1 car, put against 100 different cars on sale in the UK at that time. It beat a Lexus, every BMW, every VW and every Mercedes in the survey. As for top manufacturer? You should have guessed it by now, Skoda. Yet again beating Lexus who had been at No. 1 for God knows how many years.
I refuse to believe the quality of build in cars varies that much from country to country. Well, maybe it does and maybe it's time you wrote to good old Skoda and asked them to check their standards because your British counter parts aren't having all the problems you're having.
This whole topic seems like a dig at Skoda. I don't like it one bit.