Ender

Sounds like you fixed a boost leak and now have full power

It's in the headlight thread I think

In the old days when I had my first octavia vrs I used to throw money at it with regards to mods and I loved that car so much, no expense was spared and the better the name of a product the more I had to have it, I would even place the company's stickers on it just in case a person didn't know it was the best of the best, I would roll into a tuners and hang around working on more ways to spend my hard earned cash and then a very old and tired looking person would hand me my keys and I would revel in the transformation of it, I would love showing up other cars and revel in being able to keep pace with much more expensive cars, life was great, I saw my wife, I looked young and fresh and the car was a little beasty. Then it got stolen and written off and two years of yearning and missing my baby ensued until finally I found another vrs of the same colour and year. So I thought to myself do you know what I am going to do as much as I can myself and bargain hunt and enjoy the satisfaction of doing it. So I began getting parts together on the cheap, still good brands mind you just second hand or haggled for, I was very pleased with myself and fitting the parts was pretty easy for me and the said satisfaction was great I was very pleased, now with cars you get used to things and a once smiles per miles stage one car was getting boring and felt slow and sluggish so you have to go stage two, you spend hours researching what's needed and then weeks buying it all at super prices and then further hours looking through guides and triple checking you have everything needed to do the job. Once satisfied you place said car in your work shop and begin stripping things off and cutting parts off of your car and it's easy and then you begin to fit your new parts and it's going great and then you start on the fmic and in your work shop world war three begins, it's you vs your car, all of your weeks of shopping and preparation fly out of the window and you begin to develop two bold patches on each side of your head, your nails become none existent and you begin to curse so called professionals and ops of guides and what's needed lists, you turn off the radio and replace it with evil voices in your head, you attain six stitches from a sharp edge on your modified crash bumper, nothing fits and you relise the parts lists are no complete, weeks go by and finally you win the war, you open the workshop doors start the car and reverse out onto the road you proceed to drive off up the road and twelve feet later a Taliban road side bomb goes off along with the most difficult joint on your hoses, you trundle back to the workshop and spend hours sorting it all and your ready again. This time all is fine and you have done it, you go for a drive and nothing bad happens however your now old and tired and dirty and the satisfaction is none existent, you drive home to show the wife your fruit and discover she has left you for a forge mechanic, this happend at some stage in the past two months, hell even the dog left you so you can't even kick it. In short my guide for fmic installing is this, spend money on a big brand have it fitted for you and attain smiles per miles. I'm off to burn my car and buy a g-wizz and then I'm going to holiday in the new forest alone old and maimed still taking pills for the evil voices in my head.

Nothing the octavia head lights have the worst performance of any car ever lol maybe night vision would be a better option

Front and rear are clip ons and sides are glue

Fitted forge cai Cleaned throttle body Full service Polished to within an inch of its life Gathering pipe work for welly cooler

Looks like an old French Citroen lol, smoked would be better IMO

Whilst fitting my CAI today when I removed the passenger side head light to put the filter in I discovered what I thought May of been a catch can down behind the grill, I didn't pay to much attention to it and it had wiring going to it aswell, I'll get a photo tomorra if nobody knows from my description. I have ruled out car bomb lol

On the starter motor their is a black plastic clip on the top with wires running over it, does this just pop off? I have to change mine and don't want to break it. Secondly does anybody know of a welly cooler pipe kit or a tuner that sells one, or is the only option to make your own. Thanks in advance

Another green here

Very nice mate.

Ok, so I went to GSF and brought a coil pack, went home and popped the 1st one out and replaced perfect runs like a dream again. Thanks to all above for A diagnosing and B saving me pounds by telling me to do it myself..

Cheers, the only reason I wanna drive it is to goto my garage and get it sorted

nah its not a pipe been over it with a fine tooth comb, im just worried driving it will make it worse, i suspect a coil pack but can i drive it 5 miles to a my garage

I thought so, i unplugged 1 at a time the three i could get at no differance, can i drive it to the garage? its 5 miles

Thanks, where are tho coil packs located within the engine?

Hey, i was driving yesterday in traffic at about 20 mph in second the traffic eased up to 30 and as i accelerated and changed to third the car shudderd and then sounded like a tracter, the engine management light flashe's now also... their is no smoke, it still drives and runs but sounds aweful and has lossed power and coughs Any ideas on this? cheers

I was travalling down the A316 in london And the rain was monsoon like, I had my wipers on full but they where not touching it, then from nowhere white van man comes crashing through a lake on the inside lane, the very lake i was avoiding due not wishing to suck water into the ingine from my CAI, the lake was on the inside of a bend and their was no standing water in the outside lane, the van smashed through to lake and it was like being hit by a tidal wave, with that i suddenly relise im aqua-plaining on the water he waved over me and im going straight on across two lanes of on coming traffic into the lake on their side of the road and into the kirb at about 30 massive crash bang wallop I head butt my window and smack on the hazards get out and see my front alloy is broken i mean inly the nuts are left the rest of the wheel is under the car, phew i think the wheel took the punishment not the running gear, I change to the spare and take it to my mate, the car feels terrible, turns out the little accident has smashed the brake disk, bearing, arbs, the whole lot basicaly, to make it worse as the car hit the kerb it smacked the back end round and into the kerb bending the rear trans axle all in all about 2k to fix.So now i have choices do i sell the car, scrap it, break it and sell it for parts, i only had the car back 3 days after having a brand new turbo fitted :(. i woulda been more ****ed off if i breaked but i applied lock and floored the loud pedal but it was to late and was slow motion from then on.I can get the car fixed under insurance but is it worth it, they would prolly right it off, im well ****ed off and to make matters worse the R33 is crap in the winter so its not like im happy driving that.....

Hi I started my vrs the other day and the fuel gauge worked then died when I drove off I noticed the speedo was not working either... Any ideas welcome cheers.

My turbo blew a week ago utterly blew aswell no blades left lol, I just got it sorted, brand new turbo and fitting 500 pounds from my main stealer!!!!!, good price eh?

I'll be their.

sweet, they awesome eh.. Let me know about the panel!

Make me one aswell mate!

Awesome

when I had mine done it made the steering wheel go left by and inch due to how bad the bush's where when i had it alighned prior. its a must