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Does it change when you rev it? If I was you I would just stick it in for the mot and see what happens. From experience I have only ever seen 1.8T engined cars fail emissions test when the front probe is completely knackered or the coolant temp sensor is reading the wrong way.

Good work. What paint did you use on your calipers?

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I think I may have the same issue, I get a blow that sounds like a kid blowing raspberries between 2 and 3000 rpm under acceleration, I was hoping it was the flexi down pipe but that is fine.

My 2000 Octavia SLXi Turbo is on 204,000miles but is currently sat parked up with a knackered gearbox!

Can anyone explain what fuse 15 is for and does? My instruments stopped working and I pulled fuse 15 and they started working again?

I spotted a White Octavia VRS today, driving down the A331 at Aldershot, FJ54 *** Does it belong to anyone on the forum, Is it a genuine WRC, It had white alloys, and all the bumper mouldings were colour matched too but had no WRC stickers.

As said above, it could be a MAF problem, I had a problem that I thought was the turbo going or a split hose, it seemed like it wasn't boosting and was a little bit juddey at low revs when cold, it didnt show anything up on the VCDS so I put a new MAF on and all was fine.

wow, I haven't checked this thread for a while and realised my mileage is alot more than that now, rolled onto 182,000 after a 600mile round trip yesterday!

My SLXI 1.8T clocked 158200 last night! now due its 3rd service in 14 months.

I live near guildford, south east, but willing to travel a bit.

After working non-stop for 3 weeks I have this weekend off and trying to find something good to do with it, the only events I can find this weekend are pugfest and the goodwood breakfast club? Does anybody know of any other events especially any rally action or old skool ford escort action?? Cheers

Opened up a letter from ASDA car insurance this morning expecting to find my insurance had dropped now i'm a year older and have 2 years NCB, what do i get?? A letter explaining they will not renew my insurance because they will no longer insure drivers under 21!!! So i started hunting around the cheapest quote i have had is

My Octavia SLXi Turbo (AGU engine) has just rolled onto 152000 miles, clutch went last month but it was the original clutch. And before that i had a 205 1.6 GTi that at 125000 miles started using more oil than petrol so it had to go. Does anybody know if merc found a car that had clocked a million miles??

I found with 55 profile at 32psi bit too mich tyre roll and wear to outside edges, but they had exceptional wet grip!!

That black one is always out and about, i see it on the M3 and A331 regualy, the mk1 silver octavia is reg CX54 BAO. While were on the subject they also have an unmarked blue saab 95 and a black jag x-type around the M3/M25 area

Every time i see a police car its going like stink, doesn't mean its chipped. I know of 2 unmarked mk1 octavias (silver and black) and 2 new octavias (marked and unmarked) in the Farnborough, Hampshire area

Apparently the driver walked away from this, how do you think he explained how it happened? Maybe that mystery fox ran out!?!? http://www.type-r-owners.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=42755&page=2

and i thought my car being on 150000 miles for 6 years use was high!!

I think i need to take a look at my driving, i've killed a set of front toyos in 7000 miles but i must say they are by far the best tyre i've used, exceptional wet grip!!

I had 195/65/15 but I'm now running a set of toyo proxes in 205/55/15 on my Octavia SLXi and it handles much better, less tyre roll but according to the snooper the speedo is reading about 5mph over between 30 and 60 and when the speedo gets to 100 i'm actuly doing 90 but I can live with that.

I'll start of by saying i'm 19, been driving 2 years now and drive an octy slxi turbo, i've got a clean license and only had 1 minor ding (reversed out of parking space into some idiot who reversed down a one way street- no damage done!) If they introduced a curfew i wouldn't be able to get to and from work, i'm a chef so i have no choice but to drive to and from work at silly hours of the night/morning. the major round i drive down every day is a well known accident hot spot (known as Pirbright bends). When i passed my test the it felt very scary to go out in the car on my own for the first time,For months i had my instructor or my mum sat next to me then you pass and your out on your own, i'd never driven at night, on the motorway or in bad weather and its a steep learning curve for the first few months. I was lucky enough to get given a day on a skid pan course for my birthday and i learnt so much from that day and i think that every person who passes thier test would benefit from some advanced training rather than a curfew. Young people don't only drive like dicks at night and its not just young people that drive like dicks, when bmw and merc drivers learn to use thier indicators the roads will be a better place!!

Did anyone go to the Tempest rally yesterday in surrey/hampshire border area? I spent most of day on the Yately stage, it was a pretty good day loads of scoobys, evos but i was more impressed by the mk1 and mk2 escorts and a metro 6R4!! I was gutted not to see a skoda come round as there was a few last year but it was not part of the british champs this year so the big teams didn't attend. did anyone get any pics?