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My Mk1 Fabia SE

If your doing the cams you jight as well fit larger injectors and pd150 head bolts at the same time

By wilsonian · 1 minute ago1 min
What have you done to your Superb III today?

Well today I removed the up shift paddle extension in quite a dramatic fashion.

It would appear that the windscreen wiper stalk when pulled to wash the windows is closer to the wheel that the top of the paddle extension. So if you wash the windows during a right turn, the paddle extension hooks behind the stalk and you can’t turn left or stop washing the windscreen! Luckily it was down a relatively wide and quiet country lane. And the 3M tape gave way just at the moment I had realised what had happened. Unfortunately the wife was in the car so I got somewhat of an ear bashing and a few “I told you so” about buying cheap parts from AliExpress!

Safe to say the other extension will be removed in due course and I shall return to OEM paddles only!

By Binx1310 · 3 minutes ago3 min
remove the engine splash shield underneath the front bumper

I found the 3 Torx bolts that need to be removed, but they aren't T40's. Since the car is a 2015 not a 2016, they must have changed the size. Could someone tell me the correct size >T40 (T43, T45)?

thanks

By Rickssokda · 3 minutes ago3 min
3V0827566N pinout DIY wiring mistake. Burned rear camera by sending 12V to CAN High

Hello everyone

I decided to update my 2014 Skoda Octavia to a newer age. First changed the MIB1 to MIB2, and then decided to add a rear view camera (there are other projects on the way like MFK1 to MFK2). I want to tell the story so someone else does not make the same mistakes I did.

My Skoda never had a camera, so I bought one from a scrapyard, a 3V0827566N without the wiring harness, it scrapped with the body. But since I had no wiring I needed a harness, contacted Skoda Parts, got no concrete info, lost trust. Local dealer offered a part that cost 103€ with extra cables I did not need. So like any capable guy I decided to make one myself. My MIB2 unit was off a RS that had a camera, but a low line one. So I went to the scrapyard and spent a day, dismantling the RS to get the wiring loom for the low line, took me about 5h. Then I bought white and yellow automotive wire, 10m. I used a cordless drill to spin it into a CAN bus data line and used a whole roll of TESA fabric tape to wrap the whole harness into a neat looking one. I routed the cables from back to front, but there was a problem.

The 3V0827566N had an 8 pin connector with 5 populated pins, while the RS camera used a 4 pin connector with 2 populated pins. The 3V0827566N uses:

pin 1 red
pin 4 red
pin 5 black
pin 6 brown
pin 8 blue

I searched but could not find a pinout for that socket. Looking at it I did see that pin 4 and pin 8 are kind of twisted around each other. But red cant be high line, can it? Well, no info found in the internet, I turned to ChatGPT, left that fast and turned to Gemini. Long story short, I got a pin out:

pin 1 Terminal 15
pin 4 Terminal 30
pin 5 CAN low
pin 6 GND
pin 8 CAN HIgh
Amazing, lets freaking go and finish this!

I trusted the info, made sense and I had no other info to prove it wrong. Hindsight zooming in on the actual wires from Skoda Parts could have helped a ton. So the rest is history, I hooked up the camera, coded the values using OBDeleven 3 PRO. So I put the car in reverse, black picture and no Control Unit for the camera, but 55 errors related to communication. I unhook the CAN lines and measure 8V between the lines. Turns out:

pin 4 and 8, red and blue are the CAN lines, red High and blue Low
pin 1, red is Terminal 15
pin 5, black is ground.

So the camera is not working any more, I do not know if it worked before, but I`m sure sending 12V down the CAN high line did not help it work any better.

After about 1000€ if you count the time and food and fuel, I`m here to tell you, order the damn harness (3V0 054 634 C) or learn form my mistakes and DIY.

Peace!

By Raiko84 · 17 minutes ago17 min
Prepping to do 2.0TSi clutch in future, rear main seal ?

Prepping to do 2.0TSi clutch in future - plenty of time and opportunity as I mentioned recently I have a 1.8T L&K Octy also !

I'd seen a comment at some point someone recommending to change rear main seal whilst you are in there.

Something to watch for? Also as below

By vRSAnt · 1 hour ago1 hr

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My Mk1 Fabia SE

What have you done to your Superb III today?

remove the engine splash shield underneath the front bumper

3V0827566N pinout DIY wiring mistake. Burned rear camera by sending 12V to CAN High

Prepping to do 2.0TSi clutch in future, rear main seal ?

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