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3 hours ago, Warrior193 said:
Was it a time trial/reliability rally - combined with a treasure hunt?
No timing involved so you can spend as little or long as you want seeing what you want to see on route. Reliability wise, that'll depend on how good your car is. If you do have an issue, there's plenty of people who'll help out to get you going again if needs be.
The basic concept is buy a car for £750 or less, decorate it and drive a route. There were various challenges for us to complete which were designed to send us all in roughly the same direction. The more challenges you completed, the more points you acquired but it's entirely optional as to how many challenges you wanted to do.
We had such a good time that we've already booked our place for next year.
Event website here:
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1 hour ago, Warrior193 said:
Congratulations, what's the plan for The Meowdi now - other rallies on the horizon?
Thanks. Original intention was to just use it for this event but we've had such a brilliant time and become quite attached to the car so it'll be staying. We've already signed up for next year's NC500 event and we'll hopefully take it to others too. It appears we have a new hobby 😄
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Back home now after a fantastic event. The Meowdi performed faultlessly over the 5 days and 1629 miles we covered.
We even won the award for best decorated car, as voted for by our fellow competitors.
It's not too late to make a donation, the just giving page will remain live for a while yet.
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Greetings Briskodians,
My wife and I are currently participating in the Rustbox Rallies NC500 Banger Rally where the aim is to buy a car for £750 or less, decorate it and drive it around the NC500 route in Scotland, completing various challenges on the way.
We've chosen to raise money for Cats Protection so we are Team Puss Puss Puss and with the extensive use of fur, have created the Meowdi from a £495 ebay Audi A4.
We've successfully completed day one so far and made it up to Thurso with no problems so hopeful the car will carry on behaving for the rest of the route over the next two days and hopefully get us back home again to Aylesbury on Sunday.
As it's a charity event, we'd love it if the Briskoda community could help us out with a bit of sponsorship. If you are able to support us, please do so via our Just Giving page:
www.justgiving.com/page/teampusspusspuss
Many thanks for taking the time to read and hopefully help us with our fundraising quest.
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22 hours ago, Crasher said:
But it must be a four door PQ34 platform seat.
Incorrect. I've got a full set of S3 3 door seats in my Octavia. Bolted straight in no problem.
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On 17/10/2023 at 18:40, lassemal said:
I want to change the driver seat in my octavia mk1. What other seat than original fit bolt on?
Vw,audi,seat models perhaps?
Pretty much everything on the MK4 Golf platform is a direct bolt in so,
MK4 Golf
Audi A3 8L
Audi S3 8L (Need wiring putting in too for electric adjustment)
Seat Leon MK1
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1 hour ago, SkodaOcty said:
I’ve managed to sort it, the person who I bought the seats of said he forgot to put the subframes back on and he’s shipping them to me.
Also I’m putting the seats in a Octavia vrs mk1
I put them in my Octavia a little while go. See page 2 on my project thread for a bit of a write up on what I did:
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1 hour ago, EnterName said:
Do you know what the compatibility between the various vehicles and their seats is?
Pretty much everything on the MK4 Golf platform is a straight swap so Golf, Bora, Leon, A3/S3. Audi TT seats don't fit though as the mountings are very different.
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13 minutes ago, SkodaOcty said:
Right thank you now I get it. My seats are missing their subframe that’s why they wouldn’t fit.
Sometimes people sell the subframes separately as they can go for strong money when you find them. There is a set on Ebay asking £240.
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Got quite a few Otto models so the Octavia was definitely going to be added to the collection.
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On 01/10/2023 at 17:31, SkodaOcty said:
Hello could anyone tell me if you need to buy an adapting bracket for s3 seats to fit in Skoda Octavia vrs mk1 can’t find any answers anywhere.
As long as the S3 seats have still got their original subframes on, they bolt straight in.
See pic below, cream seat has it's original subframe, black one is missing it's subframe.
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Well, a suitable replacement gearbox came up for sale fairly locally a little while ago, so I actually got the car back on the road at the end of November last year.

Whilst it was all apart, on went a new rad and I did the cam belt and water pump. All went back together and was running fine. Haven't really used it much since as I've been too busy with work and my side hustle of breaking mk1 Audi TTs for spares.
It's also still had a really horrible knocking/banging from the front suspension that I've never gotten to the bottom of. I decided this weekend that I'd take off the Audi TT cast lower arms and hubs and swap in some standard items as the hubs are the only thing that hasn't been changed in pursuit of the annoying noise. No idea why, as everything was tight with no unwanted movement, but this has finally solved the problem.
Juat as well, because it was quite honestly spoiling the car to the point of if this last ditch attempt didn't work, i was giving very serious consideration to stripping it and moving on to something else.
Done 150 miles in it since the swap and no more bad noises so it can stay on the standard stuff.
Just got to wait til spring now so the better weather can allow a bit of a spruce up as it's looking a bit neglected. Might even get a few interior upgrades for it that I've thought about for a while.
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On 12/12/2022 at 17:31, Camvrs said:
hi
how did i mange to fit these i mate i'm looking at a seat. easy to fit without any serious modifcations?
Physically a direct bolt in. Electrics for the fronts was just a case of running a live feed from the buzz bar under the dash and earthed to a convinient bolt on the chassis under the seats. I sorted the heating by buying a ready made Kufatec wiring loom and mounted some mk4 Golf switches in the dash.
Few pictures on my project thread https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/443848-niceyellow-vrs-nice-red-vrs/page/2/
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Garages are expensive but at the end of the day, they are a business with employees trying to make a living by using their, premises, tools, skills and experience. Ultimately there are two options when it comes to repairing cars, either save money by doing the work yourself or pay the money to someone else to do it for you.
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If you're looking at changing the knuckles you may aswel do the TT front end setup so swap to the cast lower arms and knuckles. Also worthwhile changing the steering rack for the quicker 2.5 turns TT rack too. The TT knuckles will then allow you to bolt the 312mm brake set up straight on, which with decent pads should be more than ample.
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I put S3 heated and electrically operated Recaros in mine. Mega comfy and look real sweet too.
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The rear spoiler needs to go black too. Trust me.
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I've been around a while, will be 15 years this December.
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Looks like I need to park it up for a bit. Gearbox has started to make really displeasing noises, typically right after I'd filled it with over £100 worth of liquid gold. Considering it's just a pure toy for me, as I have a company supplied van for work and my Volvo for most other car related duties, it just doesn't make sense for me at the moment to keep it on the road. A substantial impending vet's bill for both my cats, upcoming wedding, general living expenses and I'd quite like to be able to put the heating on for a couple of days this winter means fixing the Skoda isn't even coming close to the list of priorities at the moment. I've sucked the fuel back out and put it in the Volvo and the Skoda will be going on SORN, probably until sometime next year I reckon.
As much as I love the car, gotta think with my head at the mo so replacing the gearbox and running a 2nd car can definitely wait. Let's call it enforced hibernation.
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I've done many track days but only one in my Octavia. It went really well on track but I'm not looking at turning tracking it into a habit. Was it yourself that sold me the Federal RSR tyres for it earlier this year? The ramp in your garage looks familiar
Snetterton in March
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Something that leaves me baffled is why when it comes to renewal time, insurers don't just give you their best price to begin with. You're always quoted something rediculous which is nowhere near to what can be achieved by going on a comparison site. Then, if you can be bothered, you have to go through the hassle of phoning up your current insuerer and see if the better price can be matched which it then normally can so why not just give that in the first place?
Personal example of this is the policy on my standard Volvo V50 is due to expire next week. My current insurer sent me a renwal quote of £368 (£71 more than last year). Had a look on compare the market and the best like for like quote was £248. Needless to say, with that substantial price difference I won't be renewing with the current insurer.
Are insurers just not bothered about keeping customers?
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Essentially it will unbolt from the car, but it's not just the bolts that hold the subframe itself on. There's suspension arms, steering rack, anti roll bar and lower engine mount (dog bone) all attached to it.
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You need a new dook lock mechanism:
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SPONSORSHIP PLEA - Rustbox Rallies NC500 - Team Puss Puss Puss
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That particular challenge was to take a picture at Dunrobin Castle looking "regal as f***"
Bonus points on offer if you were wearing a crown 😄