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I forgot to mention I've owned the car since new and this was the original exhaust, 2011 and 155k so not bad. The rear section cost me £170 delivered and mid section £200 delivered, fitment and my local high Street centre £70 total £450, alot better than the 1k I was quoted for custom exhaust. I will add some pictures soon.

A few weeks ago I noticed a blow coming from exhaust so a quick trip down to my local centre, it needs a new mid and rear sections 1z0253609ah and 1k0253209eg but they cant source either part, turns out both are heavily lacking aftermarket support and zero stock of oem in the UK. I even had a exhaust parts specialist on the case and nothing. So the last 2 weeks I've delved deep into info about fitment. The ccza and bga 2.0 tfsi petrol vrs octavia does share the same exhaust from the cat back. You can still buy rare rear box but mid section no chance. So I ended up fitting a aftermarket rear with muffler and a muffler delete mid section stainless Steel 2.5" and they made me a coupler to join them together, problem solved and sound quite nice I must say.

Thanks for the reply. Sounds feasible and worth plugging in vcds to see if any codes appear. Something to do over the weekend along with its annual oil change.

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I bought this because I changed all the gaskets. You just need the 1 gasket, get a oem maybe from skoda dealer or a trusted supplier. That gasket you need should be less than a fiver.

Bingo.. the one I used supplied by Garrett is like a hard thin black plastic not metal.. I will send a picture of the old one taken off

Also was the new turbine garrett or an import from China? A new garrett is 150 China 50 and they will fail rapid. So many turbo recon companies and rebuilders now use cheap import to save costs. The garrett gaskets and the one from ebay are like chalk and cheese

I done a turbo change on my Sons bkd last month. It's an audi A3 2005 but the same. I found the turbo gasket kit my boy got was not great, it included oil return gasket aswell. After fitting 2 days later under boost and engine light. Thought straight away those gaskets are poor. I bought a gasket kit from Garrett and changed them, boom problem solved and running a dream

Hi, where did you buy the recon turbo from and more importantly what gasket set did you fit?

Good evening all skoda octavia drivers, I want to share a circumstantial outcome driving my octavia 2011 petrol vrs which I've had since new and well looked after. Driving home 5pm today on a A road dual carriage way outside lane 75mph overtaking vehicles when a skoda estate decided to pull out into my lane giving me a split second to decide hard brake and stear right as much as allowed before I hit the central. In braking I hit the curb at 2 o'clock, fully locked up, smoke bellowing from all 4 tyres, smell of burning rubber but ovaided contact, hazards on, lights on the dash like a Xmas tree.. but that's not my concern.. the car conked out even though I dropped the clutch, she took 2 starts to get going and everything felt still locked up. Luckily the cars around me managed to stop in time with hazards but it hairy when I have my son in the car. The driving who pulled out nearly swipping me just drove off. Has anyone experienced the same outcome or know what the hell happened? All I have luckily is a scuffed tyre.

Thank you so much for your reply. I will take a look and try and understand what you mean. I am a novice and vcds is new to me and only know the basics. When I done my throttle body I followed a tutorial which helped me thanks to people like you who help. Thanks again

ok so i recently done a throttle body position calibration after removing the throttle body and my Son watched me do it. He then done the same on his car and he went into what he thought was the same module window as me and typed in 060 into a box (not the throttle body sensor cal) but he cant remember what window and it done something and now his radio and central locking don't work. he must of changed of coding or unticked something.. please any help would be helpful

Hi all hope you can help. I recently done some VCDS work on the car and I don't know what i've done but the radio won't power up and the central locking doesn't work. Please can someone point me in the right direction what i've done wrong and get me fixed?