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  1. I had a rattle in my drivers side door for quite some time and Skoda couldn't find the cause.

    On day I randomly placed my hand on the power window buttons, and it disappeared. Turned out the buttons were loose in the housing and made a rattle that was enhanced in the door. Skoda switched the power window button unit - thingie and the rattle disappeared.  

  2. As I under stand it the chrome trim is attached to the rear side windows. Therefore you would need to cut these windows out to change the trim. 

     

    I was planning to go the other way around because the black pack wasn't available in Denmark and I don't like chrome. But just seems to be too much hassle with risk of leaks afterwards. Might end up dipping my chrome black or wrapping the trim. But that doesn't help you as you want to convert it the other way. :-)

     

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  3. I'm having problems with my TPMS too, random false alarms and Skoda says everything is fine!

     

    I've started to record every alarm i get!

     

    Quote

    5/2 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    9/2 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    18/2 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    23/2 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    24/2 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    3/3 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    9/3 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    25/3 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    27/3 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    29/3 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    2/4 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    3/4 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    4/4 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    6/4 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    8/4 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    12/4 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    21/4 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    31/5 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    12/5 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    24/6 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    4/7 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    8/7 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    19/7 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    21/7 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    31/7 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    4/8 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    6/8 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    12/8 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    17/8 2017 - Tire Pressure OK
    18/8 2017 - Tire Pressure OK

     

    Sure, everything is fine!

  4. Finally got the summer wheels mounted. Bright silver Bentleys with polished faces for the rest of the year, but will be back to titanium grey for next summer - This is a bit too bright for my taste, but I just can’t be bothered changing color on the wheels for the few months left of Danish summer 2017

     

    Next on the list is mounting the SRS-Tec Wide fenders. 

     

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  5. 21 hours ago, Ryandel said:

    Ok new question and set possibilities. 

     

    18" 8j et 35?

     

    will this be to close to the arch??? 

     

     

    you can play around with wheel sizes here: http://www.willtheyfit.com

     

    Insert a size you know works as your "existing setup", and use that as a guide (for example 225/35 19 on 8.5X19)

     

     

    You can see the original Skoda wheel sizes here: https://www.wheel-size.com/size/skoda/octavia/

     

     Skoda's wheel setups are very conservative and hiding in the arches

  6. Front. 18" x 8.5 et42 (Will work)

    Rear. 18" x 9.5 et40 (will not work)

     

    I run 19x9 et41 225/35 19 in the rear on mine and it's a close fit. I had to add -2 deg of camber in order to avoid rubbing with full booth and people in the back.

     

    https://www.briskoda.net/forums/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8624/28591013470_1ead0f8aa7_h.jpg&key=d4e55a724fa6865bb708b2e656c49df950ff1100c4341699a67918d53e3dd274

  7. On 11/03/2017 at 09:51, Synkronized said:

     

    Oxboll, your car looks fantastic !

    I was trying to find some pictures of Bentley wheels on a Skoda Octavia 3 and discovered your car and Briskoda.net.

    I searched a lot on the forum but didn't find an answer to my question.

    Regarding your RS front bumper, which parts did you changed ? Are the mounting points the same on RS and non RS O3 ? Did you had to adapt something in order to fit it on the car ?

    Thanks in advance.

    Hi 

     

    Thank you for the kind words, I'm pretty stoked about how it turned out. 

     

    The RS bumper is plug and play. Everything fits except you need to redo a little wirering at the fog lights - the standard 5E only has one bulp in the fog lights and the RS has two 

     

    I have a complete list of parts needed to do the conversion somewhere. Let me dig it out for you in the next couple of days. 

     

    As with the Bentley wheels, you will need to adjust the camber for it to fit if you want to lower the car.

        

     

  8. I'm having problems with my TPMS too, and Skoda says everything is fine!

     

    I've started to record every alarm i get!

     

     

    Quote

    TPMS ALARM triggered:

    5/2 2017 - Checked tire pressure, tire pressure ok
    9/2 2017 - Checked tire pressure, tire pressure ok
    18/2 2017 - Checked tire pressure, tire pressure ok
    23/2 2017 - Checked tire pressure, tire pressure ok
    24/2 2017 - Checked tire pressure, tire pressure ok

     

     

     

    Sure, everything is fine!

  9. The Skoda's are notoriously known for being on stilts from the factory. 

     

    The interesting thing is that on all the marketing materials and official photos, the car is often lowered what looks to be around 40mm. And theres even photos from car fairs that show the suspension being compressed by tie downs. So obviously its not the designers and marketing department that wants the high car :biggrin:

     

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  10. well that sucks.

     

    I just had a brand new wheel (new tire and rim) loose 5 psi every single day. They couldn't figure out what was causing it, since there was no puncture, and the valve was ok too.

     

    It turned out to be one of the small rubber overflow strings you see on new tires being wedged between the tire and the rim, causing it not to seal a 100% tight. 

     

     

    These  (just for illustration - not my wheel)

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