What did you do to your Octavia today?

[dArK5HaD0w]

It's the same on the mk2 - only 1 rear foglight works.
That's normal, not just on skodas either.

[MJKooLio]

Then why have the lights the same at the rear? Ie Polo have one Red and the opposite is White lens and bulb?

[brad]

Then why have the lights the same at the rear? Ie Polo have one Red and the opposite is White lens and bulb?

On the Octavia you can swap sides when you go from RHD to LHD. On the Polo you'd have to buy new tail light housings.

Depending on the model it can be done via the MFD or on the older ones by doing a quick headlight removal.

Some people enable both sides - I can't remember the name of the software tool but it isn't VCDS.

[daMama]

At the lights the other day I had a mini drag off with mk2 vrs... Needless to say, the vrs won, lol

[MJKooLio]

Ahhhhh.....

[Gerrycan]

At the lights the other day I had a mini drag off with mk2 vrs... Needless to say, the vrs won, lol

Take the kids seats out and leave them and the kids at home. They are holding you back

How did you go at the dealers the other day regarding the noises you mentioned earlier?

[Gerrycan]

Had to make a late impromptu 260 km out and back the other night.
Once the 110 kph dual carriageway section ended I just settled four seconds back from a truck who knew what he doing and enjoyed some music cruising at a true 100 kph
It's not worth the effort of overtaking at night as there is always another truck in front and it only saves you 5 minutes on such a short run. Case in point only one car overtook me and then spent 5 minutes right up the trucks clacker dodging in and out and then only passed when an overtaking lane became available. A 'P' plater of course and in dire need of some good training before he becomes a statistic.
I averaged 5.2 L/100 for the trip out.

Got a low pressure warning about my rear offside tyre, but handling did not seem affected so drove the next 10 km to the town and an open service station. As is the modern way you can buy milk, bread, coffee, a meal but there is no tyre service near midnight so on goes the Nexen 16 inch space saver tyre. Better there in a lighted area with hard surface than just off a dark one lane highway.
Got home at 4 am after restricting my speed to about 95 kph on the open sections (yes I know I should only do 80, but it was dry, windless and virtually traffic free by then).
Average consumption for the journey had dropped to 5.0 L/100 . Makes you wonder what I would have got if I had restricted my speed to 80.

Learnings:
Don't ignore tyre pressure warnings, I only had 10 lbs pressure left in it when I pulled over and would never have known from the handling on the straight.
Nexen tyre was really noisy compared to original Dunlops fitted but it did the job ok although I would have preferred the full size spare I had in my Mk 2.

[woofy]

Did you really have a full size spare in your Mk2, I have an 08 RS and it still has the steel spare with higher profile tyre. I meant to negotiate in a proper spare this time but didn't. In my experience if or when the TPS goes off, you are probably at least 15PSI lower than you should be. It has a lot of room in it.

[Gerrycan]

Did you really have a full size spare in your Mk2, I have an 08 RS and it still has the steel spare with higher profile tyre. I meant to negotiate in a proper spare this time but didn't. In my experience if or when the TPS goes off, you are probably at least 15PSI lower than you should be. It has a lot of room in it.

I only had the base Ambition 1.9d Mk2 with 15 inch wheels but the spare was a full size alloy.

[Martin]

Timing chain tensioner replaced - this has fixed the start up rattle which started at 81k

Walnut clean of the inlet - was dirty

Reduced front negative camber to avoid inner tyre wear - not happy with the feel, may undo this change

For those with an engine using a lot of oil, European Autotech advised me that they getting good results from the use of Liqui Molly "Visco Stabil Visco Plus" which increases the viscosity of hot oil without changing the cold viscosity - I'll give it a try