Skoda Octavia Vrs 1.8t

Skoda Octavia Vrs 1.8t

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JFReturns

3,693 posts

170 months

Wednesday 12th August 2015
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Looks sooooo much better with standard rear lights!

sgtbash

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702 posts

135 months

Thursday 20th August 2015
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JFReturns said:
Looks sooooo much better with standard rear lights!
Thank you! It now just needs badges, and possibly the tints taken off?

I had the car on a 500 mile trip last weekend. it never missed a beat, and returned a nice 43mpg (Aircon off, mostly motorway miles).

Edited by sgtbash on Saturday 5th September 10:45

Ghost91

2,964 posts

109 months

Thursday 20th August 2015
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Very nice, what a good buy. And as said above, the lights look much better standard.

sgtbash

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702 posts

135 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
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Had it booked into Skoda for a recall on my coil packs, however they wouldn't touch it due to the mods! Seems a bit shady, but I wasn't very impressed with the dealers at all! The new VRS looks very nice though.

amusingduck

9,396 posts

135 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
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sgtbash said:
Had it booked into Skoda for a recall on my coil packs, however they wouldn't touch it due to the mods! Seems a bit shady, but I wasn't very impressed with the dealers at all! The new VRS looks very nice though.
What do the mods have to do with the coil pack recall?! confused

Emeye

9,773 posts

222 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
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OP - try swapping around the coil packs to see if the fault moves - if not it could be the coilpack wiring - I had this on my Mk1 TT with the 225 engine..

The official fix is an expensive loom, but if it's the cracked insulation on the wires under the metallic cloth shielding (held together with press-studs located at the back top of the engine) some electrical insulating tape may cure it - it did for me! smile

sgtbash

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702 posts

135 months

Friday 4th September 2015
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amusingduck said:
What do the mods have to do with the coil pack recall?! confused
Just an excuse to get out of doing it!

Emeye said:
OP - try swapping around the coil packs to see if the fault moves - if not it could be the coilpack wiring - I had this on my Mk1 TT with the 225 engine..

The official fix is an expensive loom, but if it's the cracked insulation on the wires under the metallic cloth shielding (held together with press-studs located at the back top of the engine) some electrical insulating tape may cure it - it did for me! smile
I don't even have a fault on them, but seen as they go all the time, i thought i might aswell get them done for free!

Emeye

9,773 posts

222 months

Friday 4th September 2015
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sgtbash said:
amusingduck said:
What do the mods have to do with the coil pack recall?! confused
Just an excuse to get out of doing it!

Emeye said:
OP - try swapping around the coil packs to see if the fault moves - if not it could be the coilpack wiring - I had this on my Mk1 TT with the 225 engine..

The official fix is an expensive loom, but if it's the cracked insulation on the wires under the metallic cloth shielding (held together with press-studs located at the back top of the engine) some electrical insulating tape may cure it - it did for me! smile
I don't even have a fault on them, but seen as they go all the time, i thought i might aswell get them done for free!
confused

In your original post you said:

The following day however when I decide to take it for a drive, the car does seem to misfiring when boosting from 3k RPM onwards. I took a look at VAGCOM that reports general misfire and Cyl1 misfire. Coil packs are on order for this ( I decided to replace all 4).

sgtbash

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702 posts

135 months

Friday 4th September 2015
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Emeye said:
confused

In your original post you said:

The following day however when I decide to take it for a drive, the car does seem to misfiring when boosting from 3k RPM onwards. I took a look at VAGCOM that reports general misfire and Cyl1 misfire. Coil packs are on order for this ( I decided to replace all 4).
Ah yes, I had actually replaced the coil packs myself, however, only after I replaced them I found out Skoda has an active recall on them!

I replaced my broken coils with second hand ones off eBay, it would have been nice to get some new ones smile

AM7

268 posts

128 months

Friday 4th September 2015
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Very underrated cars, you certainly get a lot for the money these days!

We have the same engine in the household A6 and after 191k it's finally given up - 4 coils, alternator, clutch and the infamous oil pump being replaced, not bad going for that mileage. Definitely want another 1.8t at some point, either in VRS form or in a B5 A4, both have aged well in my opinion. Yours is coming up very well with the tidy up thumbup

sgtbash

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702 posts

135 months

Saturday 5th September 2015
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AM7 said:
Very underrated cars, you certainly get a lot for the money these days!

We have the same engine in the household A6 and after 191k it's finally given up - 4 coils, alternator, clutch and the infamous oil pump being replaced, not bad going for that mileage. Definitely want another 1.8t at some point, either in VRS form or in a B5 A4, both have aged well in my opinion. Yours is coming up very well with the tidy up thumbup
If my mate hadn't of offered the swap, an Octavia certainly would never have crossed my mind. As you say, very underrated.

Well I hope mine holds true as good as yours, id be very happy if I got that much out of it! Not bad at all for a small displacement turbo motor.

Thanks for the comments!

I fit one of these today:



Seems to idle better, and rev freely in the high rpms now, mpg seems the same (poor!)

JakeT

5,406 posts

119 months

Saturday 5th September 2015
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sgtbash said:
If my mate hadn't of offered the swap, an Octavia certainly would never have crossed my mind. As you say, very underrated.

Well I hope mine holds true as good as yours, id be very happy if I got that much out of it! Not bad at all for a small displacement turbo motor.

Thanks for the comments!

I fit one of these today:



Seems to idle better, and rev freely in the high rpms now, mpg seems the same (poor!)
What sort of fuel economy does yours get? My Golf with the same engine will do 44 if driven at a steady 70 on motorways and 32-38 around town.

sgtbash

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702 posts

135 months

Saturday 5th September 2015
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JakeT said:
What sort of fuel economy does yours get? My Golf with the same engine will do 44 if driven at a steady 70 on motorways and 32-38 around town.
I managed 43 mpg on a 100 mile motorway journey the other day, but that was at 60mph average slipstreaming lorries!

Around town I get around 30, if I drive careful.

Will your gold have the 150 motor though?

Rick448

1,677 posts

223 months

Sunday 20th September 2015
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I had one of these a few years ago. As said, very underrated, I had mine remapped at Jabbasport. It was pretty quick and handled well enough for a fairly big car. I fitted an updated adjustable rear anti roll bar which improved things massively.