WelshSkoda93

Are those tyres you borrowed balanced properly? Does it hapen on all speeds or just at some speeds?

Its the top hole covered by a rubber grommet its hidden inside the hole and kind of hard to see. It takes about 12 turns to release it.

When I was taking out my door locks i Kept the window up and loosened the 'scissor' mechanism screws as i needed to wiggle the lock out. Remember to put the door handle cable anchor things exacty where they were as you may end up with a door that doesn lock/unlock properly. The striker plate bolts are threaded into the body so nothing will fall down

Its in!! thank you very much for your help!

Welshskoda - Cardiff/Thornhill

could you show me the diagrams you have please? this would clear up so much for me.. :)

I do have the 5 pin ring everything is connected as per instructions from kufatec (which is where i got the relay loom) but still horn doesn't work the rest of the buttons do.

What about the yellow cancelling ring connector, I had to remove the +12v horn cable and replace it with 2 others for the buttons on steering wheel to work which they do, but now I have no horn and can't seem to figure out what to do with that leftover cable. As soon as it touches something metal the horn blasts so i know its working properly but there's nothing to connect it to..

In that case you should be able to properly connect the loom and open the door as usual? With these old looms they work fine untill you move them (aka disconnect the cable) and then they crack and split and you can't even tell. I did a continuity test from each pin of the door lock connector to the big wiper motor connector and then from there to the door connector. If that doesn't work try giving the area underneath the external door handle a good thump while pulling on the handle at the same time. If that doesn't work theres a few screws on the door lock you can see from inside the door. Undo as many as you can and then just wedge a big flathead screwdriver in and pry it all apart. It will damage the lock but at least you will have an open door that you can fix properly.

The stalk i have Is a stalk with just the one/off button for the CC there is no other buttons on it. This is what originally came with those MFSW's: Its the middle one: are you saying you wired the standard top one to work with mfsw?

The only way to do it is to force the door card off. remove the big screws behind the door handles and just pull up as hard as you can. The clips that door card screws into will come off but you can put them back as long as your carefull. in the worst case door card will be damaged and you can get a new one for £20-30 on ebay

Hello I've retrofitted a multi function steering wheel with CC to my 2001 ALH Octavia. I activated it in vagcom. When I test all the steering wheel buttons in vagcom they work fine but the CC on/off switch on the stalk doesn't activate the cruise control even though reset, cancel and set test fine in vag com. I used code 11463 to activate CC and now there is a G in the component field meaning that CC is activated in ECU. I've double checked the wiring for the stalk and its ok. I've tested stalk's CC on/off button with a multimeter and it beeps in 'on' and doesn't in off position. Any ideas?

On my octavia the rubber door seal is old and 'sucks in' to the metal especially once its sunny and sometimes takes a very strong push to open the door. You can get door seal oil to prevent this.

Ive had this issue on all 4 doors of my octavia over the space of a year. The door loom especially where it passes through the rubber duct gets old and cables crack. Sometimes the cables look ok but are also rotten inside. Re-do the loom or buy a new one and the door will start working perfectly.

There's two old threads on other forums wherer people have tried this and succeded: http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=36555 http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=130196 these links may be of help to you