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Wheel alignment after rear suspension arm change
T2000 replied to Fcoayuso's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk II (2004 - 2013)
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To be honest it will be the nut on the threaded bar of the inner rod on the balljoint end that will be seized as above and various ways of removing it, my preference would be remove track rod end nut and knock it out of hub and then undo inner rod, usually with mole grips or the like as the 'knuckle' has 2 flats on it or a hex shape, take off the whole rod with balljoint attached and assemble new rod and balljoint to the same length and refit, no special tools required. As you have a MK2 which is now a few years old it makes sense to do the whole lot as they may be some play on the inner anyway and for £37 odd for both TRE's and inner rods it isnt a bank breaker.
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Not really a myth, I've had 2 VAG cars throw a glowplug light and both times it was the brake light switch on the pedal, replacing them cleared the light, they are a one shot fit, although it was a 2003 Passat and a 2004 Golf so maybe they redesigned the brake light switch?
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Warning light for Light Bulbs, but no bulbs are out?
T2000 replied to RobSuf's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk II (2004 - 2013)
I see you have an estate, check the rear high level brake light, it may have some failed LED's in the cluster throwing the dash light, mine did this, I just lived with it as it was a ball ache to change. -
Issues with glow plugs - or something else?
T2000 replied to Richster's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk II (2004 - 2013)
Yeah my new one was Bosch, I suggest taking it off and put it on a condition charger, 12.1 is low -
Issues with glow plugs - or something else?
T2000 replied to Richster's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk II (2004 - 2013)
Only reason I say is that I had similar issues as yourself throwing all sorts of comm errors and dash lights, as you I didn't use mine a huge amount due to WFH, I bought a new battery and fitted it which cured the slow starting but it still threw errors, I took the new battery off and put it on an intelligent charger for 24 hours, when I connected it the battery was 11.9 volts (should be around 12.5), must have been sitting on a shelf a while, anyway it hit full charge put it back on and clear all faults and it was fine then. -
Issues with glow plugs - or something else?
T2000 replied to Richster's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk II (2004 - 2013)
How old is the battery? -
Failed CO emissions, 1.4 Petrol!
T2000 replied to cmcar08's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk II (2004 - 2013)
When you first mentioned smoke I thought of valve stem seals, a compression test would have possibly picked up the rings.- 15 replies
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Yeah all LE wheels are 18's, mine were also, I just used that link to show who makes them and that there are different sizes and offsets so one would assume different bore sizes also hence the reason you have spigot rings on 2 of them, I would guess that the stamps on the back of the wheels non spigot vs spigot ones are different.
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The LE wheels are made of chocolate so a lot got replaced due to bends and cracks, Team Dynamics made them I believe called Monza so you may have a couple of replacements on there with a slightly different centre bore http://www.kitcardirect.co.uk/team-dynamics-monza-r-wheel-7-x-17.html, incidentally I have a brand new centre cap for these sitting here if anyone needs it for free.
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Octavia 09 VRS Limited Edition
T2000 replied to Ratcatcher's topic in Skoda Octavia Mk II (2004 - 2013)
Got a brand new centre cap for these in a box if you need it.