What did you do to your Octavia today?

[egene]

Used Plasti Dip on my bonnet Skoda badge the other day. Did it twice to get the effect I wanted. Got it wrong the first time but I just peeled it off and started again.

[Mcsteve]

Hair dryer or heat gun

Fishing line or dental floss.

Eucalyptus oil or WD40

All modern cars are the same - google "how to debadge"

Thanks Brad.
Next weekend


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[brad]

Thanks Brad.
Next weekend

I love this age of search engine education.

I bought whole squid yesterday for a BBQ. I'd never prepped a squid in my life (just eaten them). 5 minutes watching YouTube & I was prepping them like I'd been doing it all my life.

[nickd]

I love this age of search engine education.

I bought whole squid yesterday for a BBQ. I'd never prepped a squid in my life (just eaten them). 5 minutes watching YouTube & I was prepping them like I'd been doing it all my life.

You bastard.. I'm hungry now!

[Skoda Soda]

Well, it wasn't exactly today, more like last Sunday, but finally picked up my moon white MY16 Octavia VRS wagon with 19inch black pack, pano roof, tech pack, leather and auto tail gate.

Coming from a tuned 2.0T Jetta, I feel absolutely at home and am completely surprised by the pull of the RS.

Have only driven it a number of times but with the long weekend ahead, I'm hoping to every moment in it.

[Skoda Soda]

Used Plasti Dip on my bonnet Skoda badge the other day. Did it twice to get the effect I wanted. Got it wrong the first time but I just peeled it off and started again.

Love the look of the badge! How did you manage to pry it out to plasti dip it?

[egene]

Love the look of the badge! How did you manage to pry it out to plasti dip it?

I didn't have to pry the badge off. You actually spray the Plasti Dip directly on the badge and peel the excess bits off. Google it and you'll understand what I mean.

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[MickeyB]

Fitted Whiteline rear sway bar, H&R 50mm lowering springs, hex lower front grille, and front splitter.

Handling difference is significant, visual difference is immense!

[Martin]

My wonderful HPA brakes had developed a noticeable vibration.



I took the rotors into the workshop for a skim, this took them close to the wear limit, will have to replace them next time.
I did 25k and a few track days using Ferodo DS2500 pads - these are truly wonderful pads but they took their toll on the rotors
The following 25k I used a street pad from HPA - much less dust and rotor friendly (also less bite)

The pads were well used, about 85%, I replaced them to get the pistons well back into caliper

I'm running the supaloy control arms - I had the camber/caster adjustment set to max out the neg camber
This provided incredible confidence turning in - it was happy to carry a lot of trail braking into the corner
But it reduced the car's ability to get off the mark and put the power down
The negative camber did not adversely wear the tyre tread during the ~50k,
while the tread wear is flat across the face of the tyre there is excessive inner edge wear (a little confusing)
So now I'm going to change the caster/camber on the supaloy control arms to max out caster
This will get the wheel more upright and help put power down in the straight line
the caster will give more negative camber when turning the steering wheel
Probably not as much camber as my current static setup but that's ok - you don't really need it for the street

I got 53k out of the Goodyear F1A2 tyres - fantastic tyre which is now cost effective - love them
I'm now fitting a pair of Michelin PSS tyres that I got from a Tire Rack sale when the exchange rate was 1:1

[MickeyB]

Had my first scrape since fitting the front splitter! Fortunately it was only light, and not visible- I've been so careful so far, but with lowered springs, I guess it was bound to happen.
Also carried 4 people in the car for the first time: happy to say that there was no scrubbing/bottoming out since fitting the H&R springs, which was a prior concern given that I retained the factory shocks.


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