TDIMachoMan

Wow! I love those lines! For sure the future classic

I believe so, I will absolutely do it on my car edit: I think the only thing you need is t20 or t25, perhaps socket 10.

So thankful for your information I checked my car this morning and you were right about everything. There is a lot of gunk behind the front mudflaps, same for rear panel, where body and bumper meets in the wheelhouse. It already started to rust i will lift up the car and get the closer look with the wheels removed and uptade here with the images.

I believe the water gets trapped somewhere and it starts the whole process:(

Thank you! do you have any guide to rust protection? What tools do I need, how to get into sills, how to prepare for the rust protection, how to maintain? thank you again! This was very helpful.

Didn’t even know that we got the “rust warranty “ hahah lol I know how fast VAG cars rust, it’s a common thing. They are so bad that we use to joke “vag cars decay faster than bananas “

True that but I was more concerned about panel rust (wheelhouse, trunk, etc) I did not specify that in my description…:( underbody rust looks bad but it is not structural, wirebrush wheel , some elbow grease and some paint and underbody coating will make it better than new

Hello! I recently purchased the Octavia mk3 facelift. I wonder do you guys know what are the “faulty spots” where corrosion most likely occurs and how would you fix the issue in advance? Since I live in Sweden, rust is kinda big problem on all VAG cars here, Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Hello there! My wife and I recently bought our first Skoda. Since we got a baby we started looking for something with the big boot and relatively nightmare free (high service costs, constant breaking down, expensive parts, etc). So we decided to buy the Octavia mk3 2018 TDI (150hp) FWD with a 6-speed dual clutch transmission. we hope that we did the right choice… until recently we had a Lexus IS300h so we traded in Lexus for the Skoda and got around 7000€ over the Skoda value, pretty nice deal, isn’t it? The Octavia was valued around 17.000€ with 111.000 km on the dash. Since I am working as a mechanic at VAG workshop I could check the history of the car I purchased. It turned out that every single service was done before the due, even the DSG was serviced at 56.000km which people tend to forget. Recently we flushed the DSG with a LIQUI MOLY Gear Tronic machine and replaced the filter. So that’s about it what we did with the car so far. I purchased all other filters and motor oil which I will be replacing soon.